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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Dutch

  1. DPs at Bremerhaven port

    Boat dock, Bremerhaven port. "Meet the first DPs" "Ship to Freedom" Numbers on tags pinned to coats of refugees. Suitcases, boarding ship, shots on board ship, ship leaves port.

  2. Propaganda posters and flyers produced by the German authorities on the occupied territory of the former USSR

    Contains various German propaganda posters and flyers created and produced by the German authorities during the occupation of Ukraine and other territories of the former USSR.

  3. Algemene Documentatie – Limburg: provinciaal bestuur en gemeentebesturen.

    In dit bestand vinden we o.a. circulaires van het provinciebestuur van Limburg aan de burgemeesters, over de uit Antwerpen uitgewezen (niet-Belgische) Joden die zich verplicht in Limburg moesten vestigen (r.497/tr.142.546, periode 1940-1956). R.497/tr.150.172 (1941) bevat onder meer formulieren met berichten van verblijfsverandering van (Joodse) vreemdelingen van Antwerpen, Genk en andere Limburgse gemeenten, lijsten van uitwijkelingen in het kamp van Overpelt (1941) en Jodenregisters van enkele Limburgse gemeenten. Onder r.497/tr.150.635 (periode 1940-1958) vinden we registers van uitgewez...

  4. Fünfbrunnen (Cinqfontaines)

    Records related to the Fünfbrunnen concentration camp: name lists of Jews deported from Luxembourg to occupied Poland, SiPo reports on arrested Jews and resistance members, Correspondence and documents relating to the occupants of the Jewish elder people's home Fünfbrunnen close to Ulflingen. General inquiries of the Consistory of the Jewish community in Luxembourg at the Task force of the Security Police (Einsatzkommando der Sicherheitspolizei), the Chief of Civil Administration (Chef der Zivilverwaltung) and the Gestapo. Further the fonds contains documents relating to emigration and depo...

  5. General State Prosecutors Office of the State Court of Berlin records (Fond A Rep. 358)

    Contains the trial records of over 150,000 criminal cases processed in the vicinity of Berlin during the Nazi era. It includes many “routine” types of ordinary crime, as well as cases where the crime involves being Jewish, homosexual, or “asocial.”

  6. Musia Gershenman testimony

    Contains a photocopy of handwritten testimony in Yiddish by Musia Gershenman, who, along with several other Jews from the Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania) ghetto, was rescued by Antonina and Jonas Paulavicius. Included with the testimony is an English translation provided by the USHMM. The collection also includes a videocassette of the ceremony at Yad Vashem recognizing Antonina Paulavicius as a "Righteous Among the Nations."

  7. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  8. Czuczka family correspondence

    Consists of letters written by members of the Czuczka family of Vienna, Austria, between 1939-1941. The majority of the letters were written by Artur Czuczka and detail his attempts to emigrate from Austria and join his brother's family in the United States. The letters were written from Vienna and, after Artur's February 1941 deportation to Opole, from Poland.

  9. Walter F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1919. He recalls his close family; deciding to leave Austria immediately after the Anschluss; antisemitic harassment by brown-shirted boys; traveling to Italy with a cousin; working in Albanian oil fields; moving to Tirana before receiving their visas; a brief reunion with his father (he was waiting to leave for England to join his wife); emigration to the United States; enlisting in the army; and visiting his parents in London when he was stationed in England. He discusses his desire to forget everything prior to emigrati...

  10. Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Leova Police Station

    • Inspectoratul Regional de Poliție al Basarabiei. Poliţia centrelor de plasǎ. Leova
    • Бессарабский областной инспекториат полиции. Леовский комиссариат полиции
    • Bessarabskii oblastnoi inspektoriat politsii. Leovskii кomissariat politsii

    The census of the young people and the lists of Jews who are supposed to be enrolled in the army in 1941; the lists of individuals whose livestock and wagons were confiscated in 1944; the lists of Jews who were being searched for arrest; records of suspects and individuals under police survaillance; data about the attitude and activities of the Leova population; copies of the Bessarabia Regional Police Inspectorate's orders on measures to combat suspect elements, deserters and those escaped from the camps; orders on verification of the activities of suspect elements; orders on counteracting...

  11. Selected records related to the history of Jews and Jewish communities from the State Archives of Kyiv region of Ukraine

    The collection contains records of the Jewish organizations and Government and Communist Party organizations pertaining to the history of Jews and Jewish communities in the Kyiv region before and immediately after WWII, i.e, during Soviet power.

  12. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  13. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 10 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  14. Records of Israel police, Bureau 06, in charge of the investigation and interrogation of Adolf Eichmann

    Contains evidentiary material and the audio recordings of the interrogation of Adolf Eichmann conducted by Captain Avner Less of the Israeli Police. The interrogation took place during a period of nine months in a fortified police station in Yagur, near Haifa in northern Israel. The audio recordings of the interrogation cover the period from May 29, 1960 to February 02, 1961. This collection is a sub-collection of the larger RG 79 Israeli Police, 1948-1985.

  15. Algemene Documentatie – Fonds Majestic.

    In dit bestand zitten (hoofdzakelijk afdrukken van gemicrofilmeerde) stukken uit het archief van de Militärverwaltung in Belgien und Nordfrankreich. De ordner “inventaire archives Majestic” (Nefors nr. 1332) bevat nota’s van het DGOS/DGVG evenals overzichten van de documenten van dit bestand. R.184/tr.77.146 beslaat 12 ordners en handelt onder andere over anti-Joodse maatregelen, de Belgische economie (vb. de lederindustrie), gedwongen tewerkstelling in Frankrijk en Duitsland (o.a. voor de Organisation Todt), verdrijving van vreemdelingen uit de kuststreek, opsporing van verdachte personen,...

  16. Celia Rothstein Elbaum collection

    Contains a handwritten memoir (apparently written by the donor's niece whose name is unknown) and handwritten interview notes describing the experiences of Celia (Cesia) Rothstein Elbaum in the ghetto in Lask, Poland, until it was liquidated; her transfer to the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, where she stayed from 1941 to August 1944; her transfer, along with her sisters and brother, first to Birkenau concentration camp, where one sister was selected for extermination, and then with her surviving sisters and brother to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they volunteered for work in hopes of...

  17. Sipo und SD Kommandant Kaunas (Fond R-1399/1)

    Contains reports, instructions, correspondence, clippings, underground publications, registration cards, notes, name indexes, office documents, photographs, administrative maps, and investigation files. The documents pertain to the activities of partisans and persons suspected of being Communists or Soviet paratroopers.

  18. Collection NSDAP Auslandsorganisation Chile

    The NSDAP-Auslandsorganisation Chile was founded in 1931 and existed until 1945. The NSDAP-Auslandsorganisation Chile was one of the foreign organizations of the National Socialist Party, the NSDAP/AO. Citizens of the German Reich living in foreign countries organized themselves in the NSDAP/AO. The organization was especially occupied with the ideological indoctrination of its members. The collection's provenance is unclear. A document accompanying the collection attests that the records were purchased in the region around Valdivia in 1989 or 1990. The previous owner apparently disposed of...

  19. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 10 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  20. Relli Glowinski Robinson collection

    Contains a letter, dated April 30, 1938 on letterhead of M. Glowinski company, addressed to Mrs. Glowinski in Palestine, notifying her of sending a check for £12 and describing the situation in Danzig as “not rosy”; a photograph depicting Beniek Fersztendik (donor’s maternal uncle), dated April 20, 1930; a letter written by the donor’s parents in Warsaw ghetto to friends in Vilna thanking them for a food parcel and asking them to convey to family in Palestine to arrange for foreign documents and not to forget them; a photograph of Relli Glowinski, dated January 28, 1941; a letter, dated Nov...