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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Judenrat in Bochnia Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Bochnia (Sygn. 257)

    Records of the Judenrat in Bochnia, Poland. Consists of two certificates issued by the German Criminal Police to Ms. Grubner and Mr. Leib Strum, Argentinian citizens, to allow them to live outside of the Jewish ghetto, July 3, 1943. Both documents have the attached person's photographs.

  2. Fred S. Gichner correspondence

    The Fred S. Gichner correspondence contains letters and telegrams documenting Gichner’s help in supporting the American immigration of the families of his European cousins, Maurice (Moritz) and David Bronner, largely facilitated by the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS).

  3. Reich Ministry for Food Supply and Agriculture Reichsministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (R 14)

    Contains records relating to the Reichsministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft activities, 1933-1945.

  4. From Bialystok to Brooklyn

    Describes Sara Lew's childhood in Poland; her internment in the ghetto in Bialystok, Poland, and many concentration camps including Majdanek, Blizyn, Auschwitz, and Krakow (Kratzau); the death of family members; and her post-Holocaust experiences as a displaced person in Europe and after her immigration to the United States in 1950. It also includes poems and vignettes in English and Hebrew about Auschwitz, her parents and their values, liberation, and people Sara knew.

  5. Nuremberg war crimes trials: Reports and other papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital content This collection consists of mostly original documents relating to the Nuremberg Trial of the major German war crminals. The papers in this collection are those which she had worked on and which had been in her desk when she left.The bulk of the material appears to be a case for the indictment broken down into 6 parts covering such offences as war crimes, crimes against Jews, and the plunder of art treasures. Each case is supported by argument and reference to documentary evidence. The names of the individ...

  6. Wendy Lefort family papers

  7. Bequest Hanns Großmann

    Hanns Großmann (1912-1999) was born in Kamenz on October 28, 1912. After studying law, he earned his doctorate. He subsequently held the position of senior prosecutor at the Landgericht Frankfurt (Main). There, he oversaw the so called "political division" (Politische Abteilung). Later, he worked for the Hessian Ministry of Justice and as a senior prosecutor in Wiesbaden. Hanns Großmann died in 1999. The bequest is constituted of records originating from Großmann's time as senior prosecutor at the Landgericht Frankfurt (Main). The documents mainly concern his contribution to the proceedings...

  8. German Condor Legion in Spain

    Onscreen titles: "Deutsche Freiwillige in Spanien" [German volunteers in Spain]. And: "Der erste Filmbericht vom Kampf der Legion Condor" [First film report about fighting of the Condor Legion]. Views of a city (or cities) in Spain. Beautiful landmarks and churches, interrupted by a shot of a bomb-damaged building. The narrator states that in 1936 began a wave of senseless terror, whose barbaric hate knew no bounds. Spanish Republicans are shown taking target practice at a statue, riding in the back of a truck through the streets, and otherwise exhibiting their barbaric natures. Spanish civ...

  9. Dachau: Report by former inmate, and prisoners' possessions list

    This collection comprises two separate deposits: a copy report by a former inmate, Eric Walters, of Dachau and Buchenwald, on conditions in those camps and a microfilm collection of proforma lists of Dachau inmates' possessions.According to a note at the beginning of the report, Eric Walters, the author, mentions that it was written between March and October 1939, after he was released from Buchenwald. The report entitled Tiere bewachen Menschen has been published in English under the title Monsters and Men.The provenance of the microfilm lists of Dachau prisoners' possessions is unknown. T...

  10. Deutsche Arbeitsfront-Splitterbestande (NS 5-I)

    Contains records of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) related to Jewish property, aryanization, the Jewish economic situation, economic value of forced labor, and antisemitic discourses.

  11. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Tarn-et-Garonne

    Correspondence, reports, lists of internees, police instructions on visas and reports on foreigners, and files on individual internees of the internment camps in France, primarily the Septfonds camp, 1939-1945.

  12. Bulgarian Red Cross (Fond 156)

    Contains correspondence with various Red Cross organizations abroad, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, regarding prisoners of war (POWs ), and missing in action (MIAs), etc.

  13. Шпиківська районна управа (періоду німецько-фашистської окупації)

    • Shpykivska raionna uprava
    • Shpykiv district administration

    Some cases contain information about anti-Jewish actions: Inventory 3, file 1, p. 332. Orders of Prefect concerning the resettlement of the Jews into ghettos of Tulchyn, Bratslav, Shpykiv, Ladyzhin. Inventory 3, file 1, pp. 104-108, 447-461, 466-494. Information about the prisoners of ghettos located on the territory of Tulchyn district - lists of inhabitants of Shpykiv and Pechersk ghettos. Inventory 3, file 25, pp. 779-780. The correspondence of the Prefect of Tulchin district with the praetor of Shpikov in 1943, contains information on the life of Jews in the county (the creation of Jewi...

  14. Nurses at field hospital

    The 51st Field Hospital at a campsite (in France?). Beatrice takes of her helmet and glasses and poses for the camera near other corps members and a cluster of tents. Pan of tentsite, corps members, and an ambulance. 01:08:13 Man in glasses exits a tent and smiles for the camera. Laundry hanging to dry outside. 01:08:22 Large group of military personnel sit in the grass for a meeting. Beatrice (on the right) and two women sunbathe. 01:08:34 Beatrice sits on a jeep and poses for the camera before helping another nurse sort laundry items in the grass.

  15. American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France

    An American anti-war propaganda film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information to educate US soldiers before going to France. Some scenes are staged. Reel 4: Shows French POWs in a German camp, the Free French fleet and air squadrons, scuttled French warships in Toulon, and advancing Allied troops. French troops are reviewed by de Gaulle and in Great Britain, and Russian and French underground fighters kill German sentries, blow up bridges, and ambush German motorcycle columns. Germans seize and execute French hostages.

  16. Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Soroca Police Station

    • Inspectoratul regional de poliţie al Basarabiei. Poliția oraşului Soroca
    • Бессарабский областной инспекторат полиции. Полиция города Сорока
    • Bessarabskoi oblastnoi inspektorat politsii. Politsia goroda Soroca

    The Jews in District Soroca; lists of Jews who were active in various Bolshevik organizations (on 11 August, 1941 all Jews were evacuated to a camp. Only 51 Jews, men and women, were left in town working for the Germans and under their control); nominal lists of Jews for year 1941 in Soroca: in the camps, working for the Germans, by occupation etc. Interrogation of Jews suspected of collaboration with the Soviets; situation of Jews in Soroca; problem of mixed marriages and conversions; situations of Jews from West of Dnjestr working in labor brigades in Bessarabia; copies of ordinances from...

  18. Walzel Brothers Limited Partnership, Poříčí (near Trutnov)

    The extant records are important sources for the history of the flax industry in the Trutnov region. Meeting minutes of the company's general meetings are primary sources for its history, even though the records from 1935–1943 are incomplete and fragmentary. Section two contains important, albeit modest, reports on the work of prisoners of war and of female Jewish labourers at the firm.

  19. Julien Bryan Collection compilation

    Compilation of newly preserved footage from the Julien Bryan Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shown during a presentation given by Raye Farr and Regina Longo for the New York Film and Video Council in March 2005.

  20. Ewa Karpinska papers

    The papers consist of a portrait photograph of the Szotland family and a 7-page, typewritten biography which is probably a transcript of an interview conducted on August 16, 1995, with two letters to Minna Wosk, subject of the interview. These letters are from Dr. Thomas Lange, are written on "Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt" letterhead, and are dated September 12, 1997, and January 26, 1998.