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  1. Tartu protsess sõjaroimarite Ervin Viksi. Karl Linnase, Juhan Jüriste üle (16.-20. 01. 1962)

    • Process in Tartu against war criminals Ervin Viks, Karl Linnas and Juhan Jüriste (January 16.-20, 1962)
    • Filmiarhiiv
    • EFA.319.79
    • English
    • 1962
    • Record number 79 contains 16 audiotapes, with total duration ca. 21 hours, (EFA.319.79, parts I-XVI).

    Contains audio recorded show trial (January 16-20, 1962) in Tartu against war criminals Ervin Viks, Karl Linnas and Juhan Jüriste, who were accused in the massacre of local people (including local Jews) in Tartu 1941-1942.

  2. Fašistliku saksa okupatsiooni aegne koonduslaager Kloogal, kollektsioon

    • The Nazi German concentration camp at Klooga, collection
    • Eesti Ajaloomuuseum
    • AM, D 150
    • English
    • 1943-1947
    • 4 records, alphabetical card files, book, original paper documents

    The fonds contains 4 sub-fonds: - AM, D 150.1.1: A file of prisoner cards (original file delivered to Estonian State Archive (ERA.R-170.1.1, ERA.R-170.1.2, ERA.R-170.1.3); the museum retained duplicates and an incomplete copy of the card file. - AM, D 150.1.2: Card file of persons who attempted to escape and were shot (original card file delivered to Estonian State Archives), and an incomplete copy of the card file (ERA.R-170.1.5). - AM, D 150.1.7: Prayer book, in Hebrew. - AM, D 150.1.9: Statistical table about camps in Estonia, compiled by Extraordinary State Commission of the Estonian So...

  3. Narva Koonduslaager

    • Narva Concentration Camp
    • Rahvusarchiiv
    • ERA.R-966
    • English
    • 1943
    • This fonds contains 1 record

    The only record contains lists of Jewish inmates detained in Narva Concentration Camp in 1943. For further information, see here.

  4. Eesti Julgeolekupolitsei Tallinna Töö- ja Kasvatuslaager (Tallinna Keskvangimaja)

    • Tallinn Work and Education Camp of Estonian Security Police (Central prison in Tallinn)
    • Arbeits- und Erziehungslager Tallinn (No. 1)
    • Rahvusarchiiv
    • ERA.R-294
    • English
    • 1941-1944
    • 192 records in 9 series; original bounded paper documents.

    This fonds contains different kinds of documentation of Central Prison in Tallinn (official named Work and Education Camp, German: Arbeitserziehungslager), which was subordinated to the German Security Police in Estonia (Sicherheitspolizei und SD Estland). Documentation includes curriculas, orders, circulars, correspondence and reports, personal lists and statistics. Relevant materials contain: - personal files of inmates - personal lists and statistics of inmates - lists of inmates sent to forced labour - materials concerning fate of Jews from Estonia; Jews from Germany and Czech territory...

  5. SD Klooga koonduslaager

    • Klooga Concentration Camp
    • Arbeitslager Klooga

    The fonds contains 5 records: - ERA.R-170.1.1 - Juudisoost kinnipeetavate nimekirjad koos arstlike ülevaatuslehtedega / Register lists of the Jewish prisoners with medical certificates - ERA.R-170.1.2 - Laagris kinnipeetud isikute kartoteek / Prisoner cards - A-H; ERA.R-170.1.3 - Laagris kinnipeetud isikute kartoteek / Prisoner cards - I-O; ERA.R-170.1.4 - Laagris kinnipeetud isikute kartoteek / Prisoner cards - P-Z; ERA.R-170.1.5 - Klooga koonduslaagris tuleriidalt põgeneda katsetanud ja mahalastud isikute kartoteek / Card files about persons who attempted to escape and were shot. The find...

  6. Gdynia-Ameryka. Linie Żeglugowe S.A

    • Gdynia-America Shipping Lines

    The surviving files include i.a. contracts for transport of Jewish passengers on the Palestine line, official correspondence regarding people of Jewish birth being smuggled on the MS Piłsudski in the years 1935-1937, collective lists of passengers and named lists (e.g. of those travelling to Buenos Aires), passenger traffic statistics, and personal files of some passengers, including Jews from Poland and Germany.

  7. Eesti Julgeoleku Politsei (Julgeolekupolitsei ja SD Eestis grupp B, Tallinn-Harju Prefektuuri Poliitilne Politsei)

    • German Security Police and SD in Estonia, Group B (Estonian Security Police); Political Police of Tallinn-Harju Prefecture
    • Sicherheitspolizei und SD in Estland, Gruppe B (Estnische Sicherheitspolizei); Präfektur Reval-Harrien/Politische Polizei
    • Rahvusarchiiv
    • ERA.R-64
    • English
    • 1941-1944
    • 2,122 records in 9 series; original bounded paper documents.

    The fonds contains different kinds of documentation from the German Security Police, including circulars, correspondence, reports, staff documentation, and investigation materials. Relevant materials contain mainly data concerning repressions against Estonian residents, including Roma, the executions of Estonian Jews, and places of imprisonment (unofficially named "Concentration Camps"). For example: circulars from Security police, reports (e.g. list of Jews, executed before 6.10.1941), investigation files of arrested Jews, see [here](http://ais.ra.ee/index.php?module=202&op=4&tyyp=...

  8. Koncentrációs táborokkal kapcsolatos gyűjtemény

    • Collection Pertaining to Concentration Camps

    The collection includes various types of private documents, including identification papers, passports, inventories, letters and postcards, diaries and notebooks, birth, death and marriage certificates, work and travel permits, protective documents and other personal documents as well as administrative and legal documents that were in the custody of families and individuals. Personal files also include about 2500 photographs and more than one thousand of objects and artifacts.

  9. Áldozati nevekkel kapcsolatos gyűjtemény

    • Recording the Names Collection

    The collection consists of two sub-collections: 1. Locality name lists, including the lists of Jews prepared by the Jewish communities and the Hungarian public administration upon the orders of the Nazi authorities and the pro-Nazi Hungarian government in April and May 1944, ghetto name lists prepared in May-June 1944 as well as lists of victims created after the war by survivor organizations, memorial committees and individuals; 1732 files in total 2. Concentration camp name lists, including lists of victims, transport and infirmary lists, registry cards and other personal documents from c...

  10. Személyes gyűjtemények (1848-1956)

    • Collection of Miscellaneous Private Documents (1848-1956)
    • Holokauszt Emlékközpont
    • Személyes gyűjtemények (1848-1956)
    • English
    • 1848-1956
    • cr. 6 linear metres, cr. 10,000 items

    The collection includes various types of private documents, including identification papers, passports, inventories, letters and postcards, diaries and notebooks, birth, death and marriage certificates, work and travel permits, protective documents and other personal documents as well as administrative and legal documents that were in the custody of families and individuals. Personal files also include about 2500 photographs and more than one thousand of objects and artifacts.

  11. Aprónyomtatványok gyűjteménye

    • Collection of Placards and Other Small Printed Material

    The collection holds placards, leaflets, fliers and other kinds of printed material created by various organizations and institutions, mostly by Hungarian right-wing and extreme right-wing parties and movements before and during World War II, including the Arrow Cross Party and several national socialist and race protectionist organizations. Besides, the publications and various kinds of printed material, including placards and brochures issued by the Holocaust Memorial Center and its predecessors between 1990 and 2010 are also held in this collection.

  12. Visszaemlékezések gyűjteménye (1945-2010)

    • Collection of Testimonies (1945-2010)
    • Holokauszt Emlékközpont
    • Visszaemlékezések gyűjteménye (1945-2010)
    • English
    • 1945-2010
    • ca. 850 files, 4 linear metres

    The collection includes about 850 handwritten or typed testimonies, mostly from the years between the early 1960s and the late 1980s. The size of the testimonies varies between one page to hundreds of pages. Most of them focus on the years of persecution between 1938 and 1945, with special emphasis on the concentration camps and labor service units. However, they also contain valuable information on the pre-war history of the Hungarian Jewish communities and reflections on their post-war fate.

  13. Munkaszolgálatos gyűjtemény 1939-1945

    • Labour Service Collection 1939-1945

    The labour service collection contain documents produced by state or municipal agencies, such as identification cards, ration cards, travel permits and various types of certificates as well as private documents of the labour servicemen including diaries, notebooks, photos and thousands of postcards

  14. Baltische Öl Gesellschaft mit beschänkter Haftung

    • Baltische Öl limited liability company
    • Rahvusarchiiv
    • ERA.R-187
    • English
    • 1941-1944
    • 74 records in 5 series

    The fonds contains original management and economical documents from the oil company Balt. Öl GmbH. Holocaust-related materials in this fonds concern data about forced labour of Jews from Vaivara Concentration Camp in the oil-shale industry in north-eastern Estonia. For example: statistics of forced labour implemented Jews in 1943-1944; reports about working conditions.

  15. Dokumenty niemieckie z okresu okupacji hitlerowskiej

    • German documents from the Nazi occupation period

    The documents of special importance to the history of the Holocaust are those gathered in Section I, among them: call no. 200 – Traktowanie Polaków i Żydów w tzw. Kraju Warty (różne zarządzenia) oraz sprawy wysiedleń z lat 1939-1943 (Treatment of Poles and Jews in the “Wartheland” [various orders], and resettlements in the years 1939-1943) call no. 398 – Przesiedlanie Polaków i Żydów do GG (Resettlement of Poles and Jews to the GG), call no. 699 – “Judentransportliste nr 1” (Jewish transport list) dated 13 December 1939; a list of 768 people deported from the camp at Główna Street in Poznań...

  16. Akta miasta Piotrkowa

    • Files of the town of Piotrków Trybunalski

    The subcollection "Commissar and Administration of the town of Piotrków 1919-1945" in addition to documents generated by the German administration, also contains files of the Rada Starszych Gminy Żydowskiej (Committee of Elders of the Jewish Community). The documentation contained in this collection is extremely extensive and concerns all aspects of the daily life of the Jews under the German occupation of the town, their internal organization, and their attrition and exploitation through forced labour.

  17. Akta miasta Skierniewic

    • Files of the town of Skierniewice

    The collection contains i.a. the materials on forced labour; correspondence with the Rada Żydowska (Judenrat, Jewish Council) regarding the establishment of the ghetto (1940); a list of names of wealthier Jews; postwar documents on issues including property rights cases;

  18. Ubezpieczalnia Społeczna w Zamościu

    • Social Insurance Institution in Zamość

    The insurance institution documents rare in Polish collections providing evidence of employment of Jews: named notifications and labour record cards for the area covered by a given Arbeitsamt (Labour Office), as well as a range of circulars and correspondence on Jewish-related matters dating from 1940-1942.

  19. Zbiór akt dra Janusza Petera 1891-1963, lekarza i regionalisty

    • Collection of files of Dr Janusz Peter

    Above all, this collection includes reminiscences and accounts about the partisan and resistance movements in the Zamość region

  20. Zarząd Policji w Polanicy Zdroju

    • Amtsbezirk Altheide Bad,Kreis Glatz
    • Police Board in Polanica Zdrój

    The collection contains i.a. orders issued by the authorities regarding foreigners and Jews, issue of passports to Jews, orders, and lists of Jews issued with Kennkarten, correspondence in various matters affecting and concerning Jews;