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  1. Linton (Liebermann) family: papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Louis Alexander Linton (formerly Ludwig Alexander Liebermann) and Susan Maria Linton (née Susanne Marie Friedmann), Jewish refugees from Berlin. Louis Linton was advised not to return from a business trip to England due to the anti-Semitic climate in Nazi Germany. His wife and children followed him a few months later in 1937. Susan Linton's father, Leopold Friedmann, died on the journey to Argentina when he and his wife Maria Friedmann fled Nazi-Germany in 1940.Records documenting the Linton family's emigration, internment and new life in Engl...

  2. Max Wolf: correspondence

  3. Ruth Heidemann collection

    This collection contains the papers (photocopies) of the Heidemanns, a Jewish family from Hamburg. Only their daughter Ruth managed to emigrate to England shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. Her parents decided not to join her as they were waiting for visas to emigrate to the United States. They were later deported and perished at Riga concentration camp.

  4. Lasker family: papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Lasker family, a Jewish family from Breslau. The parents, Alfons and Edith Lasker, were deported in 1942 leaving their two daughters Anita and Renate behind. Both sisters survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps but their parents perished.

  6. Wegrzyn family: papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Wegrzyn family who originally came from Galicia, Poland, but had moved to Berlin by the 1920s. The family fled Nazi persecution against Jews by emigrating to Shanghai shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.Wegrzyn family papers including are marriage and birth certificates, tax clearance certificate, driving licences, family register and an album of family photographs. Also included is correspondence from Chaja Wegrzyn's sister Grete Harpuder from Berlin and from relatives in Galicia concerning their constant hopes and efforts for emig...

  9. Concentration camp correspondence from various prisoners

    This collection mainly contains correspondence relating to Jewish inmates of concentration camps in Nazi Germany, such as a letter sent by Boleslaus Deja from Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp (1940); censored postcard sent by Emil Gans from Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto (1941); postcard sent by Bernhard Steckowski from Buchenwald concentration camp (1942) and his receipts of postings of money ('Einlieferungsschein') received at Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg (July 1940), Dachau (October 1940) and Buchenwald (September 1941) concentration camps; and letter from Konstanya Nowakowska at R...

  10. Ludwig Steiner: Dachau concentration camp release permit

    This collection contains a photocopy of Ludwig Steiner's release permit ('Entlassungsschein') from Dachau concentration camp. Due to his Jewish background Steiner was arrested and spent one year at Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg and later Dachau concentration camp before being released mortally ill in September 1940.

  11. Черкаська народна районна поліція, м. Черкаси

    • District People's Police, city of Cherkasy
    • Cherkaska narodna raionna politsiia, m. Cherkasy

    Local auxiliary police documentation can contain information connected to the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the selected files potentially related to the subject: File 1. Lists of policemen and other employees of the district police; lists of employees and workers of establishments and enterprises in Cherkasy that were eligible to use electricity, 1942-43, 43 pages. File 2. Lists of policemen; receipts they obtained for arrested persons and confiscated money, statements and certificates regarding bicycles registered; report for the administrative and economic expenses, etc. Not dated. 40 p...

  12. Адресне бюро Черкаської української охоронної поліції, м. Черкаси

    • Address Bureau of Cherkasy Ukrainian Schutzpolizei, city of Cherkasy
    • Adresne biuro Cherkaskoi ukrainskoi okhoronnoi politsii, m. Cherkasy

    Local administration documentation can contain information connected to the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the selected files potentially related to the subject: Inventory 1. Selected file titles: File 2. Correspondence with district police, district board and other bodies of the German occupation authorities about issuance of passports to the city and district population. January-July 1942, 106 pages. File 3. Lists of the plenipotentiaries of the district board, correspondence with the police about people who had fled from the labour camp and those who had violated passport regulations. Pe...

  13. Черкаська біржа праці, м. Черкаси

    • Cherkasy Labour Registry Office, city of Cherkasy
    • Cherkaska birzha pratsi, m. Cherkasy

    Local administration documentation can contain information connected to the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the selected files potentially related to the subject: File 1. List of employees and workers of the occupation bodies, establishments and organizations in Cherkasy. List of graduates from Cherkasy school for medical assistants. April-November 1942, 74 pages. File 2. List of employees and workers of the occupation bodies, establishments and organizations in Cherkasy. May 1942 – March 1943, 79 pages. File 3. List of employees and workers of the occupation bodies, establishments and organ...

  14. Колекція. Листи громадян, які служили в німецько-фашистських військових частинах

    • Collection. Letters of persons who served in German-Fascist military units.
    • Kolektsiia. Lysty hromadian, yaki sluzhyly v nimetsko-fashystskykh viiskovykh chastynakh

    File 1. Letters of persons who served in German-Fascist military and police units, 52 pages.

  15. Колекція. Історичні довідки про найважливіші події Великої Вітчизняної війни 1941–1945 рр. у м. Черкаси та Черкаському районі, м. Черкаси Київської області

    • Collection. Historical information about the most important events in Cherkasy and Cherkasy district during the Great Patriotic War of the USSR in 1941-1945 against the German-Fascist invaders
    • Kolektsiia. Istorychni dovidky pro naivazhlyvishi podii Velykoi Vitchyznianoi viiny 1941–1945 rr. u m. Cherkasy ta Cherkaskomu raioni, m. Cherkasy Kyivskoi oblasti

    The collection contains historical information about the events of the German occupation in Cherkasy and Cherkasy district; some files selected below may be relevant to the Holocaust history. File 3. Historical information about the most important events of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 in the villages of Cherkasy district, April-August 1944, 88 pages. File 4. Profiles, recollections and references about Nazi atrocities and about recruitment and deportations to Germany for forced labour; copies of letters sent from Germany; information about those deported. List of Cherkasy dwellers rep...

  16. Управління Служби безпеки України в Черкаській області м. Черкаси Черкаської області

    • Cherkasy Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine, city of Cherkasy, Cherkasy region
    • Upravlinnia Sluzhby Bezpeky Ukrainy v Cherkaskii oblasti, m. Cherkasy Cherkaskoi oblasti

    Collection contains personal criminal investigation files on Soviet citizens accused of political or criminal crimes (Inventory 1), and on Soviet citizens who returned to the USSR from German captivity or from being Ostarbeiter (Inventory 2). Some of these persons may have been of Jewish background. Inventory 1. 10916 files; 1918–1995. Extrajudicial and aborted criminal files. Inventory 2. 30642 files; 1941–1945. Filtration files.

  17. 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, ...

  18. Редакція газети "Українське Полісся", м. Чернігів Чернігівської області

    • Editorial board of "Ukrainian Polissia" newspaper, city of Chernihiv, Chernihiv region
    • Redaktsiia hazety "Ukrainske Polissia", m. Chernihiv Chernihivskoi 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 relates to the history of the Holocaust. Inventory 1. File 1-18. Copies of “Ukrainian Polissia” newspaper and concomitant materials. Each file is approx. 40 pages on average. File 19. Report on newspaper publication from November 1 – December 31, 1943, 1 page. File 21. Informational newsletter by Ortskommandantur from December 1941, 3 pages. File 23. Reports on expenses on economic issues, 8 pages. File 24. Invoices and receipts for t...

  19. Portfolio

    Reproductions of sixteen lithographs by Stefan Horsky, with two accompanying pages of text of Oranienburg

  20. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg