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Language of Description: Polish

  1. Nachum family papers

    Photographic album of family history; two (2) German passports illustrating travel to Shanghai; documents relating to the family's emigration. Identification documents, passports, and immigration documents, related to the emigration of Siegfried (later Fred) and Rosa Nachum, and their sone Uri (later Ronald) from Germany to the United States, via Shanghai, 1939-1947. Includes school records from Shanghai for Uri Nachum (1943-1946), U.S. naturalization certificates for each member of family, and photographs. Also includes records related to the family of Mozes Wrubel (also Wrobel) of Wilkes-...

  2. Ernst Kamm personal papers

    The collection contains personal papers and photographs.

  3. Panevėžio apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreischef des Kreises Ponewesch
    • Regional Administration of Panevėžys County

    Various kinds of documentation concerning the situation in the town and district; orders, reports, and circulars of the head of the district; lists of residents, lists of confiscated private property of local Jews throughout the district; applications of residents to obtain private property and houses of Jews; reports of the chief of Panevėžys County to the Gebietskommissar about lists of people who had received private property of Jews for free or had bought them; lists of people (295 names) who had purchased private property of Jews made up by the liquidation commission of the head of the...

  4. Atrinkti duomenys iš Flossenburgo koncentracijos stovyklos memorialo

    • Selected Records from the Flossenburg Concentration Camp Memorial
    • Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
    • HE-Flossenburg
    • English
    • 1943-1945
    • 12 pages of copies from the Flossenburg Concentration Camp Memorial database; 14 pages of copies of lists of prisoners with Jewish names from Lithuania from the Flossenburg Concentration Camp Memorial archives. All copies are printed.

    There are 12 pages of the paper copies from the Flossenburg Concentration Camp Memorial database. The information of the database is based on jpeg copies made from the microfilm in Federal Archives Berlin, which microfilmed it from the National Archives in Washington, DC, in 1967. The copies consist of names of 207 Jews deported from Lithuania. There are also 14 pages (of 17) of the paper copies of a digital file (Tiff) of a transport list (Kaufering-Leitmeritz) of prisoners with Jewish names from Lithuania (compiled 7 January 1945) from the Flossenburg archives. A digital (Tiff) file was m...

  5. Global Structures Convocation panel discussion on ICC

    Panel Discussion: "Permanent International Criminal Court" Global Structures Convocation, Crystal City, VA. February 3-6,1994. (tape 10 in conference series) Panelists include: Michael Scharf (law professor at New England College of Law), Walter Hoffmann (president of the Center for UN Reform Education), Melinda Borrell (activist, lobbyist), Diane Orentlicher (law professor at American University), David Kreeger (president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation), and Benjamin Ferencz. The moderator is John McDonald. Ferencz explains the precedent of an international military tribunal set up at...

  6. General Hospital Bermbek 352-8/5 Allgemeines Krankenhaus Barmbek

    Selected records of the Allgemeines Krankenhaus Barmbek (General Hospital Barmbek) relating to the hospital administration, medical practices and care of civilians, education of nurses, and employment of Jewish medical staff, Consists of regulations, orders, statistics of medical procedures, registers, guidelines for the hospital library, and orders of medical books.

  7. Gorodetsky family letters

    Contains six photocopied personal letters from the Gorodetsky family during the Second World War. Included are five letters from S. B. Gorodetsky to his wife Zinaida (Zina), and one letter to his sister, Nina Borisovna, in Kazan.

  8. 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, Regina Longo, Russ Suniewick, and Sam Bryan for the Orphan 5 Film Symposium at the University of South Carolina in March 2006.

  9. Jewish Religious Community of Pardubice

    This fonds contains lists of Jews living in the Pardubice domain at the end of the 18th century, the community's statutes including amendments (1874, 1977, 1896, 1936), meeting minutes, election records, personnel records, a list of war refugees (1914–1918), construction records (including for the construction of a synagogue), burial society records, and draft texts on the history of the Jews in Pardubice. The burial society registers, particularly grave records, were kept until 1942. The fonds also includes files from the Pardubice Arbeitsamt (labour office) with records of work assignment...

  10. Papers re Maritz Trial, South Africa; papers re prosecution of Einar Aberg trial, Sweden

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection contains papers relating to two separate trials.The first concerns the trial of Salomon Gerhardus Maritz, who went on trial in his native South Africa for the sale and distribution of his anti-Semitic book, My Life and Struggle, in 1939.The second concerns the prosecution of Einar Åberg, a Swedish anti-semite, who was convicted on a number of occasions under the Sweish constitution's 'Press Law' for distributing racist and anti-Semitic publications. He treated the proceeding...

  11. Tauragės apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreischef in Tauroggen
    • Chief of Tauragė County

    "The collections of the heads of the counties contain important documents concerning the Holocaust in the Lithuanian provinces" (Galina Žirikova, Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fondai: holokausto Lietuvoje tyrimo šaltinis (The Collections of the State Archive of Lithuania: a Source of Research on the Holocaust in Lithuania), Vilnius: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydų Muziejus, p. 12. The fonds contains the documents on the confiscation of the Jewish property, also there are lists of the war prisoners, correspondence on food supplying, documentation about taking local people for the...

  12. Julien Bryan footage of Warsaw

    Warsaw, forced labor, Polish POWs, Royal Castle in flames. People walking past dead horses in the street, general destruction, fires (including a church), people running in the streets.

  13. Hedi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hedi S., who was born in Mainz, Germany in 1904. She recalls her sheltered life as the only child of a prosperous, assimilated family; attending a Jewish elementary school; traveling with her parents; marriage and divorce; and cordial relations with non-Jews. Mrs. S. recalls the anti-Jewish boycott in Berlin; her father's death in 1935; deciding to emigrate for her son's sake; obtaining a visa through American relatives; being searched when leaving in 1937; and learning of her former parents-in-law's suicide. She describes several jobs after arriving in New York; her ...

  14. Видавництво українсько-фашистської газети "Золотоніські вісті", м. Золотоноша Полтавської області

    • Editorial board of the Ukrainian-Fascist newspaper "Zolotonosha Herald," town of Zolotonosha, Poltava region
    • Vydavnytstvo ukrainsko-fashistskoi gazety "Zolotoniski visti", m. Zolotonosha Poltavskoi oblasti

    As an occupation media, the newspaper contained orders and instructions addressed to the local population, as well as materials of propaganda nature, and thus can be related to the history of the Holocaust. File 1. Copies of the newspaper of 1943 (incomplete set), 34 pages. File 2. Issues No. 5 (117), 38 (150), 39 (151) of 1943, 5 pages. File 3. Issues from December 17, 1942 to May 2, 1943, No. 91 (110) – 35 (147), 9 pages. File 4. Issues from June 20, 1943 to July 4, 1943, No. 49-53, 10 pages. File 5. Issues from February 4 to April 29, 1943, 10 pages. File 6. Issues from May 9 to June 6, ...

  15. Zvi Terlo papers

    Collection consists of selected papers of Zvi Terlo (1932-2010), who served on the prosecution team at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961-1962. Includes correspondence, printed trial testimony, pamphlets, and photographs, mostly relating to particular phases of the trial, but also including papers from Shabtai Rosen, legal advisor for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from Foreign Minister Golda Meir. Most of the material relates to arguments about the legality of trying Eichmann in an Israeli court rather than an international court, as well as the legality of his ...

  16. Damaged planes; corpses at Dachau; Berchtesgaden

    Tank. Train. Damaged plane at edge of road and forest, tanks going by. 11:03:32 LS enormous pile of naked corpses at Dachau. Damaged planes. 11:05:38 Beautiful vistas of alpine countryside and mountains, Hitler's Mountain Retreat. Bombed out mountain houses, villages. CU, (bust size) of colored portrait of Hitler. View into train of stolen art, rugs; soldiers display the items of loot delivered to Berchtesgaden. CU (dark), religious artworks in train. 11:11:08 Alpine views. Four hikers, CUs. Tent damage. More mountain views. Destruction of village homes.

  17. United States of America v. Josef Altstoetter et al., February 17, 1947 - December 4, 1947

    Contains proceedings, exhibits, and other court documents from the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, United States v. Josef Altstoetter et al., (Case III, the "Justice Case"), February 1947 to December 1947, prosecuting Altstoetter and others for crimes against humanity during World War II. The proceedings contain information about Jews, Roma, Poles, and nationals of the eastern territories subjected to brutal treatment and death; deportation of civilians under the "Night and Fog Decree"; sterilization of "racially impure"; and euthanasia. A detailed list of defendants' names is provided in NARA ...

  18. Marianna B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marianna B., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1934. She recounts her family's Hungarian and Czech background; disbelief that events in Poland could occur in Hungary; German invasion in March 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions; her trauma when a Hungarian soldier shot their dog; her parents' deportations; wandering the streets and stealing food; reunion with her parents after their escape; hiding with them in her uncle's cellar; assistance from a non-Jewish family friend; liberation by Soviet troops; and emigrating to the United States in 1957. Mrs. B. notes her hostil...

  19. Leon Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon Z., who was born in Poland. He speaks of the German takeover in 1941; daily incidents in the ghetto such as a massacre of fifty people in the town center while an orchestra was playing; and his escape from the ghetto and hiding in the woods with his brother to avoid a round-up for deportation. He relates his later transfer to a labor camp, where he was reunited with his brother; avoiding a selection in the camp by hiding in a barrel and being spared by the Nazi who found him there; his escape from the camp back to the ghetto; and his escape from the ghetto to joi...

  20. Główny Urząd Celny w Płońsku Main Customs Office in Płońsk Hauptzollamt Ploehnen (Sygn.1058/II)

    Reports and correspondence of custom officials on confiscation of foodstuffs of Poles and Jews and investigations against smuggling.