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  1. Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv

    • Stockholms Stadsarkiv
    • Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv
    • English
    • 1866-1955
    • 22 linear meters of mostly textual material.

    Olof Lamm's archive includes documents concerning his involvement in refugee aid, and relief activities for Jews in Nazi Germany. There are also correspondence between Lamm and other Jews in Sweden, and abroad, about the situation for Jews in countries under German control. The correspondence includes negotiations with Swedish and foreign state representatives and relief organizations about refugee aid, relief and rescue initiatives.

  2. Selected records of the First Instance Court in Łódź Sąd Grodzki w Łodzi (Sygn. 184) : Wybrane materialy

    Records of the Civil Department of the Sąd Grodzki in Łódź. The records relate to various private cases: estates (e.g. cases concerning portioning out family property), payments of rent and expulsion from apartments, cases concerning dues of different kinds, drafts, and the like. There are files of writ cases and tutelary cases in the Civil Department (e.g. applications for guardianship of a minor).

  3. Susan M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan M., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. She describes her happy childhood as a performer in a successful children's theatre; her parent's divorce; her rejection from the art academy due to the Jewish quota; the nonchalant attitude of the Jewish community until the German occupation in 1944; anti-Semitic legislation; hiding with her father with the aid of his non-Jewish fiancee; the establishment of the ghetto; and the reign of the Hungarian Gestapo. She relates working as a nurse while hiding on false papers; being recognized by a non-Jewish friend who tu...

  4. Marianne S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marianne S., who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1933 and raised in Steinsfurt, where all the Jews were her relatives. She recalls her uncle's emigration to St. Louis in 1936; her father's reluctance to leave; the wanton destruction of their home on Kristallnacht; her father's arrest and imprisonment in Dachau; the remaining Jews moving into her family's house for safety; receiving food from a non-Jewish tradesman; her father's release from Dachau; harassment by officials as they traveled through Germany in 1940 to leave for the United States; Italian soldiers harass...

  5. Delegation for Commerce, Shipping and Trade II 371-8 II Deputation für Handel, Schiffahrt und Gewerbe II

    Selected records of the Deputation für Handel, Schiffahrt und Gewerbe (Delegation for Commerce, Shipping and Trade) relating to overall management of trade and shipping. Consists of files of rental and purchase of land, installation of shipyards, communications with the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, business operations of emigrants and agents (1903-1937), a concession of the HH-America line and the Norddt.Lloyd and other transatlantic shipping companies, statistical reports from the Reich Migration Office (1918-1939), monthly reports of the Reichskommissare for the emigration in Hamburg and ...

  6. Landrat (District Councillor) of Ústí nad Labem

    The fonds contains the documents of the state and municipal administration within the scope of the Ústí nad Labem district. It is a valuable source of information for the history of the occupied border region and the persecution of the population between 1938 and 1945. Information on the lives of the Jewish population is found in following documents: the ban on residence of Polish Jews 1939 (box 17), the implementing regulation of the Reich Civil Code – exclusion of Jews from trade 1939-1942 (box 81), the confiscation of Jewish and Czech property 1939 (box 156), the sale of Czech and Jewish...

  7. Kan family vacations in Switzerland

    "Sint Moritz 1934" Family vacations to St. Moritz, Switzerland during the winter. Women getting off a train. Scenic views of the town. Mountain with snow (shot from a ski lift?). 01:00:55 Three people stand in front of a sign pointing to the "Corviglia Huette Resturant". People hiking up the mountain and views of the landscape with mountains, trees, and snow. 01:01:54 Some women and a man are shown relaxing on chairs in the sun and eating near the ski lodge. Shots of the lodge. 01:03:05 A woman ice skating. The camera shows the same people walking up towards the camera with the mountains an...

  8. Rabbi Noah Golinkin papers

    The Rabbi Noah Golinkin papers consist of correspondence, memoranda, and programs documenting the efforts of the Seminary Student Committee to Save European Jewry to work with likeminded organizations such as the Synagogue Council of America to help European Jews during the Holocaust. The papers also include annotations provided by the donor as well as the donor's correspondence with Haskel Lookstein about his book "Were We Our Brothers' Keepers?"

  9. Nuremberg War Crimes Trial: documents

    This collection comprises authenticated copies and translations into English of Nuremberg War Crimes trial documents which specifically pertain to the fate of European Jewry. The collection contains both contemporary documentation (eg correspondence, directives and orders between Nazi authorities) and post war affidavits from witnesses. Section A: "Racism and Antisemitic Propaganda" (Including: Anti-Jewish research. Indoctrination. Promotion of anti-Semitism abroad. Denial of anti-Jewish activities. Reactions to the foregoing.) 1655/1-286.Section B: “Discrimination” (Inc...

  10. Mayerson family papers

    The Mayerson family papers consist of identification and immigration papers documenting the family of Polish Holocaust survivors Jose and Felicia Mayerson and their migration from Zeilsheim Displaced Persons Camp, to France, Bolivia, and Chile.

  11. Eva Fisher collection

    The collection consists of typescript and handwritten miscellaneous correspondence and other materials (originals and annotated copies) in German from circa 1933 to 1978. Includes, but is not limited to: postcards, children's story in rhyme with color drawings, notes, receipts, ration cards, letters, regulations, scrapbook with lithography, etc., which relate to Dr. Helmut Cohen and his family who were German Jews. The Cohen family spent World War II in the Jüdisches Krankenhaus (Jewish Hospital) in Berlin where Dr. Cohen was a physician, specializing in internal medicine. Some materials c...

  12. Harvesting hay and potatoes

    MS, church, cows in FG. VAR shots of farm scene, possibly in Bavaria; people pitching hay onto wagon while train passes in BG. CU bearded old man pitching hay up to woman atop haystack. CU of ox. Man smoking pipe with workers in BG. Picking potatoes. Woman with bicycle. Silhouette of man sowing seeds.

  13. Lucy F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucy F., who was born in Odesa, Russia (presently Ukraine) in 1916. She recounts her mother's death during her birth; moving to Estonia with her father; his remarriage; living in Berlin; attending school in Switzerland; her father's death; living in France with her stepmother who had remarried; her conversion to Catholicism; the outbreak of war; visiting relatives in Estonia; attending university in London; traveling to France; expulsion for sheltering German Jewish refugees; moving to Portugal where her step-parents lived; working for a Portuguese Jewish organization...

  14. Selected records of the Prison in Sieradz Więzienie w Sieradzu (Sygn.199) : Wybrane materialy

    A daily calendar from January 17, 1923 to November 7, 1928 with the names and surnames of prisoners admitted and released, a list of prisoners (prisoner category and penalties); personal files with information related to an admission order, a prisoner's description, a visit permit, an exemption order, petitions and complaints, reasons for conviction, like as: propagating communism, pedophilia, pimping, theft.

  15. Selected records of the Offices and institutions of Galicia District Urzędy i Instytucje Okręgu Galicja (Sygn.119)

    Files of 10 gendarmes from the Galicia District. Includes personal documents of the gendarmes.

  16. Copy correspondence and papers re Möbelaktion

    This collection of copy documents deals with every aspect of the expropriation of Europe's Jewish population by the Nazis, in what was described as the MöbelaktionUnited Restitution Organisation report outlining the Nazi confiscation of Jewish property between 1940 and 1944 in France, Belgium and Holland, 22 July 19585 pagesCopy correspondence and papers from various Nazi authorities detailing the expropriation of Jewish communities147 pages

  17. Records of the Gemilas Chesed Credit Union in Lwów, Poland (Fond 456, Opis 1)

    The collection consists of records of the Gemilas ChesedTax-Free Credit Union branch in Lwow, Poland (now L'viv, Ukraine). The union rendered financial assistance to craftsmen and small business owners and served as the central office for all of Eastern Galicia (Malopolska). Documents include financial reports prepared for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Joint) in Warsaw (a sponsor of the union), correspondence with local banks and government agencies, and the other materials. The Gemilas Chesed Tax Free credit union opened its branch in Lwow to provide financial assistanc...

  18. Records of the Association of Jewish cooperatives in Poland, Lwów branch

    The collections includes bylaws and other documents of the association, minutes of the meetings of the board of the organization, correspondence with cooperatives and Jewish organizations in Poland and abroad, financial and bank records, various reports, and records related to the activities of the agricultural coops in Eastern Galicia.

  19. Landsarkivet for Sjælland, Lolland-Falster & Bornholm

    • Provincial archives of Sealand, Provincial archives of Sealand, Lolland-Falster & Bornholm
    • Rigsarkivet
    • Landsarkivet for Sjælland, Lolland-Falster & Bornholm
    • English
    • records and files from local and regional authorities and institutions in Sealand, Lolland-Falster, Moen and Bornholm. The collections date back to the 12th century, and today there are more than 140 kilometres of shelving.

    Landsarkivet for Sjælland collected and stored mainly archival material from local government authorities (e.g., police, courts and ecclesiastical authorities), but some collections also passed from the Zealand estates and from private individuals. In the archive database Daisy one can find tables of contents of the files that are found in provincial archives of Zealand's collection. The collection filled 50,000 linear metres in 2008.

  20. "Das Krematorium in Dachau"

    Consists of a copy of "Das Krematorium in Dachau," an eyewitness report given by Willy Furlan-Horst shortly after the liberation of Dachau. The report describes the interior of the crematoria, the gas chambers, the procedures for torture and execution of prisoners, the duties of the crematoria Kommandos, and the facilities for housing the SS attack dogs. Also included are copies of four photographs of death scenes in Dachau after liberation, and an English translation prepared by USHMM Archives volunteers.