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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. The Dutch Village of the Widows The Story of the Hostages and God Will Dry the Tears

    Contains a memoir, 320 pages, about the Holocaust in the Dutch village of Putten.

  2. Souvenirs of a 17-Year Old Jewish High School Pupil in Bucharest, 1943

    Contains a speech delivered in Berlin during a meeting on the Holocaust in Romania, organized by the Zentrum fur Antisemitismusforschung der Technischen Universitaet. The speech was delivered in German.

  3. Selected records from the International Committee of the Red Cross. Division Assistance Spéciale

    Series B SEC DAS pertains to the institutional and administrative history of the International Committee of the Red Cross. It concerns relief provided to civilians of all nationalities imprisoned or deported by the Nazi regime during the Second World War. Viewed from this angle, the archives of the DAS can inform the public of the significance of the humanitarian actions implemented under difficult political circumstances and aimed at people completely deprived of judicial and ethical protection. Series B SEC DAS includes general files, accounting and administrative records, receipt acknowl...

  4. Hrvatski Povijesni Muzej Zagreb. Arhivska Grada o Zidovima

    Collection consists primarily of published material pertaining to the Holocaust in Croatia. There are a few antisemitic and anti-Masonic brochures or propaganda pamphlets that were published in Croatia in 1941, and one that was published in German-occupied Serbia in the same year. There is also some material from the 1942 antisemitic exhibition entitled “The Jews,” which was organized by the Ustaša government’s propaganda office. The collection also contains some documents dealing with the arrest and deportation of Jews in Croatia in 1941-42, and copies of placards announcing that Jews had ...

  5. Ministry of the State Treasury, Office for Nationalized Property. Register of debt claims from Jewish firms Ministarstvo Državne Riznice, Ured za Podržavljeni imetak. Reg Potraživanja od Židovskih Tvrtki

    Records relate to the Aryanization and disposition of Jewish property. Collection deals with the outstanding credits and debts of confiscated Jewish-owned businesses. The name and address of the business is listed together with the name and address of the non-Jewish creditor/debtor, the date when the credit/debt was incurred, and the total debt owed.

  6. Ministry of the State Treasury, Office for Nationalized Property. Registers of confiscated properties Ministarstvo Državne Riznice, Ured za Podržavljeni imetak. Imenici i registri dosjea konfiscirane mase

    Records relate to the Aryanization and disposition of Jewish property. Collection contains registers or lists of Jewish businesses and/or self-employed Jews in various towns, cities and districts of the Independent State of Croatia. They were presumably compiled by the State Directorate for Renewal in 1941, or in 1942 by its successor, the Office for Nationalized Property of the State Treasury.

  7. Ministry of the State Treasury, Office for Nationalized Property, Registers of debt claims from Jews Ministarstvo Državne Riznice. Ured za Podržavljeni imetak, Reg Potraživanja od Židova

    Contains materials relating to the Aryanization and disposition of Jewish property. Included are biographical, business, and property-related forms.Collection deals with Jewish credit and debt, that is, debts owed by and to individual Jews whose property was confiscated. Each entry lists a Jewish name and any outstanding debts owed by that individual or claims against other businesses or individuals, together with the name of the non-Jewish (in some cases, Jewish) creditor or debtor, and the total debt owed.

  8. Ministry of the State Treasury, Office for Nationalized Property, Jewish section Ministarstvo Državne Riznice, Ured za Podržavljeni Imetak, Židovski Odjel

    Records relate to the Aryanization and disposition of Jewish property. Included are biographical, business, and property-related forms.

  9. Ministry of the State Treasury, Office for Nationalized Property. Series of "P" reports Ministarstvo Državne Riznice. Ponova. Ured za Podržavljeni Imetak, Serija prijava "P"

    Contains records relating to the Aryanization and disposition of Jewish property. Collection contains property registration forms that were filed by the Jewish population of the Independent State of Croatia in June and July 1941. The collection is organized alphabetically by administrative commune and town. Reels 1 through 54 contain registrations from Antunovac to Varazdin, and Reels 55 through 110 from Varazdin to Zupanja. Registration forms from the city of Osijek, which had the third largest Jewish community in wartime Croatia, can be found on Reels 26 to 40. Registrations from the city...

  10. Ministry of State Treasury. Revision. Office for Nationalized Property : Catalogue of Financial Card Pertaining to Jewish Property. Ministarstvo Drzavne Riznice. Ponova. Ured za Podrzavljeni Imetak : Kartoteka Financijskih Kartica Zidovske Imovine

    Contains card files for confiscated Jewish properties, from the Office for Nationalized Property, a department of the State Treasury, which in 1941 was known as the State Directorate for Economic Renewal. The collection is organized alphabetically by town. Each card file contains either the name of a Jewish-owned business that was confiscated, along with the name of the owner, or the name of a Jewish individual or family, in those instances involving personal property. There are multiple cards for individual families; real estate, cash, and moveable property are normally recorded on separat...

  11. Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea records

    Legislative documents, police decrees, publications, propaganda, statistics, lists, declarations, maps, and legal documents related to Fascist ideology, Italian Jews, foreign affairs, resistance, deportations, massacres, survivors, relief, the Roman Catholic Church, Zionism, and other matters.

  12. Records of the Estonian State Archive, Tallinn

    Contains selected records that include personal prison files of Estonian Jews who were later transported out of Estonia; records of the Estonian Sicherheitspolizei und der SD in Tallinn (Reval) and in the towns of Paide, Haapsalu, Parnu (Pernau), Valga, Narva, Tartu (Dorpat), Viljandi, and Petseri; records of der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Estland; court decisions of the town of Viljandi; and information about Parnu jail, Baltische-Öl Gesellschaft, and the Polizeikommissar of Türi station.

  13. "Determination, courage, destiny"

    Contains several stories, totaling 179 pages, compiled by Esther Gastwirth about the fate of Holocaust survivors and their families in Eastern Europe.

  14. Farming, church service, soccer, orchestra, theater at Camp Westerbork

    MS, horse, pasture. CU, feeding horse. Little boy sitting on horse without saddle. WS, horse running through field. CU, sheep. 02:30:11 Moving train, shot from inside, piles of bricks in open wagons. Farming: young man plowing by hand. Horse-pulled plower. Pan of group of young men and women in black uniforms preparing soil for seeds, using cylindrical wooden tool. Women with yutta bags around their necks, filled with flower bulbs, throwing bulbs into pepared holes. CU, slow motion of working with wooden rower. 02:36:02: WS, same group of people resting, laying down in meadow. Pan, people r...

  15. Ida Ney letters

    Contains correspondence sent by Ida Ney from Brno, Czechoslovakia, to her son Paul Ney, who was able to travel through Dublin and Rio de Janeiro before ultimately emigrating to the United States. The bulk of the correspondence describes Ida Ney's failed efforts to obtain a visa first to the United States and then to Cuba.

  16. Fira Zhornitskaya memoir

    Contains a memoir about Fira Zhornitskaya's Holocaust experiences.

  17. Selma Engel papers

    The Selma Engel papers consist of a diary, biographical materials, and photographs. The diary (1943-1944) was written by Selma while hiding on a farm in German occupied Poland. It describes Selma’s arrival at Sobibór, the uprising and her escape with Chaim, the farming couple hiding them (Adam and Stefka Nowak), conditions of the farm, and Chaim and Selma’s health issues and Selma’s pregnancy. The diary also includes handwritten dictionary pages translating German into Polish, messages to Selma from Chaim, and sketches of the Hotel Wijnberg in Zwolle. Biographical materials include repatria...

  18. Halina Hershkowitz papers

    Contains two Bescheinigung, one black and white photograph from Foehrenwald, and one copy of a Ketubah.

  19. Diary of Hans Frank

    Contains the diary (day book) of Hans Frank, governor of occupied Poland during World War II. The journal is in typed format, in chronological order, covering all aspect of Generalgouvernment (GG) administration from its seat in the royal Wawel castle in Krakau (Kraków). The entries reflect careful, thoughtful consideration of administrative matters, rather than the spontaneous thoughts or feelings usually found in a diary.

  20. Records of the Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of the German Police Einsatzgruppen reports

    Contains the complete Einsatzgruppen reports ("Erignismeldung UdSSR" and "Meldungen aus den besetzten Ostgebieten") dating from 23 June 1941 to 1944. Copies of reels 233, 234, 235, and 236, from NARA microfilm publication T175. Virtually complete; only number 158, 21 January 1942 is missing.