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Language of Description: Italian
Language of Description: Lithuanian

  1. The Society for the Protection of Majdanek (since 1945)

    The fund numbers 993 units and includes the materials documenting the activities of the Society for the Protection of Majdanek.

  2. Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission to Examine Crimes in the Area of the Concentration Camp at Majdanek (1944)

    Part of the materials collected in connection with the activities of the Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission, mainly reports documenting the work of the commission (like the inspection of the area of the former camp and witness interrogation reports).

  3. NKVD camp

    The materials, most of which are photocopies, are connected with the NKVD camp functioning in the area of Majdanek from autumn 1944.

  4. Women’s Auxiliary Army Service (1942-1944)

    The records of the Women’s Auxiliary Army Service, the organization which operated from 1942 at the Headquarters of the Home Army in the Lublin District. Most documents are connected with the organizational issues of the Women’s Auxiliary Army Service.

  5. OPUS - Central Underground Care (1943-1944)

    The records of OPUS Central Underground Care include the reports from the Lublin district of the Home Army concerning the activity of the occupational authorities, such as reports from arrests of the Home Army soldiers and the financial situations of their families. This fund also includes the reports drawn up on the basis of the information about the situation in the camp provided by the Home Army soldiers imprisoned at Majdanek, and lists of prisoners’ names. The OPUS documents arrived at the Archives of the State Museum at Majdanek in 1971.

  6. Polish Red Cross – Lublin District (1939-1946)

    The records of the Polish Red Cross handed over to the Archives of the State Museum at Majdanek in 1957. The materials are connected with the activity of the Polish Red Cross in the Lublin district in the years 1939-1946. They include: the personal records of the prisoners of Majdanek and the Lublin Castle, who received parcels from their families by hand of the Polish Red Cross; postcards confirming the receipt of the parcels; lists of Polish soldiers who were wounded or killed in 1939; and a register of former forced labourers, people coming back from the camps, refugees and foreigners lo...

  7. Einsatz Reinhardt – Materiallager Chopinstr. 27

    The fund numbers 13 units, most of which contain the books of the warehouses at 27 Chopin Street, where stolen Jewish property was stored as well as the lists of valuables and money taken away from the Jews imprisoned at Majdanek. Apart from the books, the fund includes the orders placed by occupational offices and individual people for different things stored in the warehouses as well as the receipts.

  8. KL Lublin Administration 1941-1944

    Records created by the offices of the concentration camp at Majdanek in the years 1941-1944. The fund numbers 318 units, in which 17700 various documents are stored, such as: personal records of the prisoners and crew members, orders of release, reports of incoming transports, lists, prisoners’ sickness cards and work cards, cloths and money registers, and death books.

  9. Kherson Regional Extraordinary Commission to Investigate the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders in the Territory of the Kherson Region at the Executive Committee of the Kherson Regional Council of Toilers’ Deputies, City of Kherson (Kherson Region)

    The fond includes a single inventory systematized chronologically. Documents held in the fond include a report of the Regional Extraordinary State Commission summing up the assessment of damages caused by and the investigation of crimes committed by the occupiers in the Kherson region, which contains, among other things, information on murders of Jews (including 10,000 persons in the city of Kherson) and on the functioning of the Kherson ghetto; proceedings of the Commission from 1944-45 on the investigation of the mass execution of 8,780 Jews in anti-tank ditches near the village of Zeleno...

  10. Zbirka matičnih knjiga

    • Births registry collection

    Two books provide the lists of Jews living in Sisak (a list of Jewish families from the 19th century, and a registry books with births from each year)

  11. Ministarstvo vanjskih poslova Nezavisne Države Hrvatske

    • The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Independent State of Croatia

    Some files from the Minister's cabinet have been saved, on the most important issues of foreign policy, as well as his correspondence and reports admitted from the Croatian embassies in other countries. A significant portion of the collection consists of the writings of the Political Department, relations with the Croatia's allied countries: Italy and Germany, as well as countries in the neighborhood. Usually the Ministry followed the Italians relationship with Serbian Chetniks and the Serbian population and exceeding of the Italian authorities on the ground of ISC; follow the realization o...

  12. Hrvatski državni sabor (Nezavisne države Hrvatske)

    • The Parliament of the Independent State of Croatia

    Although the majority of the collection deals with the most general level of policy-making, and various parts of the creation of everyday life in the newly proclaimed ISC, some parts of the collection might be interesting to Holocaust scholars (passing of the laws; reports on how laws will be implemented, general religious affairs, school system, etc.).

  13. Kupoprodajni ugovori „Ponove“, Ispostava Sisak

    • Sales contracts of the Jewish nationalized property (the office of 'Ponova')

  14. Ostavština Lavoslava Schicka - trezor

    • The Lavoslav Schick Collection - Treasury (protected area for especially valuable material)
    • Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica
    • ŠIK - Schick - R 7883-7888
    • English
    • 1932-1938
    • The collection does not have a unified code, but the archivists will know what it refers to, as all of the documents left to the lIbrary by Shick's widow after WW2 are stored together, each documents with its own refrence code. There are several hundred of his speeches, letters, articles, etc.

  15. Državno ravnateljstvo za Ponovu Osijek

    • The Osijek State Directorate for Nationalised Property

  16. Костопільський гебітскомісаріат, м. Костопіль Рівненської області

    • Gebietskommissariat Kostopol

    The copies of documents from this collection are stored in USHMM and described as follows: Opis 1 Folder 13, Census of the Jewish Population in Berezna. (undated). 31 pp. Folder 3, Information on confiscated property. 1941-1943. 48 pp.

  17. NIOD Library Collection

    The NIOD library is the only library in the Netherlands specialising in the Second World War. Its acquisition policy focuses on studies of war and conflict in the 20th and 21st century in their political,cultural and social contexts. The heart of the library collection consists of publications on the Netherlands and the former Dutch East Indies at the time of the Second World War. Local and regional studies, together with memoirs, form an important part of this collection. The aim is to make the core collection as comprehensive as possible. The library also holds publications about the Seco...

  18. Općina Rijeka

    • Comune di Fiume -Rijeka
    • The municipality of the town of Rijeka

  19. Riječka prefektura

    • Prefettura di Fiume
    • The prefecture of Rijeka

    The collection is important for the study of the state policy/politics of the Kingdom of Italy in the area of ​​Rijeka (Kvarner province) from 1941 to 1945 and the neighboring areas annexed beginning of World War II . Most of it consists of cabinet and general files whose content is similar , with the cabinet records documenting more political , administrative and general and administrative jurisdiction of the creator. Cabinet and general files are archived from 1924 to 1945 according to three classification systems , and the names of their individual components best reflect the content of ...

  20. Općina Opatija

    • Comune di Abbazia
    • The municipality of the town of Opatija