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  1. Eve Lasch Whyte Drazen photograph collection

    Collection of photographs of Eve Lasch (later Eve Whyte and Eve Drazen) [donor's mother] before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes photo of her as a child in Czechoslovakia (c. 1938), and as a teenager after the war. Eve, who was Jewish, was imprisoned in the Liebenau concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  2. Еврейская тематика в Государственном архиве Ровенской области Records of the Jewish community of the Rivne Region, Ukraine

    Contains records of the regional court related to Jewish-owned property in Rivne, including issues of land ownership and testaments, as well as lists of the owners of real property, listed by street. Also includes records from the regional district prosecutor's office consisting of criminal files and correspondence with local administration and police regarding the political activities of Jews in Rivne. Records from the years of the German occupation include correspondence with German officials about matters pertaining to the local population.

  3. Selected files from the collection: "Preussische Bau- und Finanzdirection" (A Pr. Br. Rep. 042)

    Records include the following topics: communist sub organizations; status and retirement of Jewish civil servants; taxes for Jewish properties and other Jewish property matters; inquiries concerning Jewish companies; employment of war prisoners; antisemitic books; mail service for the Gestapo and the “Ostgebiete” (Eastern regions); requirements for Jewish students in foreign countries; and proof of Aryan origin.

  4. Collection of the Commissie-Clevering committee, which examined the attitude toward refugees by the authorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1950

    Collection of the Commissie-Clevering committee, which examined the attitude toward refugees by the authorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1950 Official documentation of the Commissie-Clevering committee, established by the Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands in 1946 for the purpose of examining the attitude of the embassies toward Dutch citizens who escaped to Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal and other countries during the war period: Included in the collection: Testimonies of: A. Cohen E. Elzas L. Flesseman M.H. Gans A.J. Goedkoop E.H. van Hasselt M.H.J. Hedeman-Joosten J.M. Kijzer J. P...

  5. Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland. Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland. Records from Yad Vashem collection

    Contains samples of Main Commission documents relating to war crimes and war crimes investigations from file 2848 in the collections of Yad Vashem.

  6. Fred Reitler papers

    Consists of the press pass card used by Fred Reitler during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, the "Last words of the ten Nazi main war criminals, executed on 16 October 1946" recorded by Fred Reitler, and the personal notebook (some segments in shorthand) kept by Fred Reitler during the IMT and subsequent US-administered war crimes trials. The notebook contains the "Last word..." of the ten main war criminals written in German shorthand.

  7. Walter and Helene Simon: family papers

    This collection contains the personal papers and correspondence of members of the extended family of Alice Burgar née Rockwell: mainly correspondence between her mother and father and her paternal grandparents in Berlin, Walter and Helene Simon. Also contained are personal documents of Alice's paternal grandfather and his mother, Clara Simon. In addition there is a folder of correspondence and papers from Alice's uncle, Stefan Helmut Simon, dated immediate post war.

  8. M.1.D - Documentation of the Dachau concentration camp

    M.1.D - Documentation of the Dachau concentration camp In the collection there are files from the Dachau concentration camp which were transferred to Yad Vashem by the Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied zone. In the collection there is administrational documentation including a few files kept by the camp administration. In many of the files there are forms for payment and insurance of the inmates. In other files there is personal documentation such as passports and photographs of inmates as well as the central card index file of...

  9. SS Sonderlager Hinzert in 1946

    Collection du Film Scolaire no. 204 SS Sonderlager Hinsert Sign: "SS-Sonderlager-Hinzert." LS camp, barbed wire, snowy grounds, destroyed camp buildings, debris. Some dark shots and interior shots of graffiti on walls. Gravesite 164 in forest, pan. 00:02:58 Cart with corpses. Int, barracks with bodies.

  10. Angela Schwartz diary

    The collection includes a booklet created in Sömmerda, a subcamp of Buchenwald, by Angela Schwartz from 1944-1945. The booklet was made from materials in the munitions factory such as paint and paper and includes poems.

  11. P.48 - Aryeh Kubovy Personal Collection

    P.48 - Aryeh Kubovy Personal Collection The Collection includes mainly documentation from 1951-1952, the years when Dr. Aryeh Kubovy served as the Legate for Israel in Czechoslovakia and Poland. Aryeh Leon Kubovy (Kubovitzki) was born in Kursenai, Lithuania, in 1896. In 1906 his family emigrated to Belgium, where he acquired the rest of his education. He completed his studies for a Doctorate in Classical Philology and Law at the University of Brussels and Liége University. In 1926 he became a Belgian citizen. He worked as a lawyer from 1926-1940, first in Antwerp and afterwards in Brussels....

  12. Landrat (District Councillor) of Jablonec nad Nisou

    The fonds contains records of the state authority and of the self-government of the Jablonec nad Nisou district (1938–1945). Jews are referred to directly in inventory records relating to the following: Jewish property – debts (Inv. No. 246) and Jewish and pro-Jewish charity foundations (Inv. No. 247). Also worthy of attention are records in the following groups: district and Landrat – situation reports (Inv. No. 9); communities – matters concerning individual communities (Inv. No. 23) and planning – housing censuses by minicipality (Inv. No. 222). The construction-related records include c...

  13. Rafal Malec collection

    The collection consists of photographs documenting the pre-war lives of Rafal Malec and his family in Grodno, Poland (Hrodna, Belarus).

  14. Archives of the service for war victims Archives du service des victims de la guerre : Series R

    Contains records relating to the fate of Jewish and non-Jewish Belgians throughout Europe during the period of 1933 to 1948. Includes name lists from a wide variety of sources such as concentration and prisoner of war camps, relief and charity organizations, hospitals, prisons, and similar institutions. See also Parts A, Mi, and P ( RG-65.001M; Rg- RG-65.002M and Rg-65.003M).

  15. Selected records of the Shanghai Municipal Archives

    Contains records from the Shanghai Municipal Government, International Settlement, Education Department, Finance Department, Public Works Department, Public Health Department, and French Concession. Topics include: Jewish schools, Jewish journal, school fees, grants to schools for foreign children, the Jewish refugee kitchen, health facilities, the Jewish cemetery, registration of Jewish aid organizations, and annual reports of aid organizations. Also contains documents relating to Polish, Czechoslovak, and other European refugees.

  16. Mining in Upper Silesia

    CU of molten zinc ore and metal engraving blocks. Scenes inside the zinc refinery in Katowice, the largest industrial town of Upper Silesia, Poland. CUs of men putting materials into the furnaces. Cut back to the countryside.

  17. DPs boarding truck with luggage

    Displaced persons boarding truck with luggage. Men kissing. More boarding/luggage.

  18. William S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1937. He recounts his parents sending him to Brussels after the Germans came (he never saw them again); being hidden by a non-Jewish family; severe food shortages; liberation; living in orphanages; studying Judaism and Hebrew for the first time; a sparse diet; difficulty learning; visits from his mother's best friend; emigration to the United States when he was fifteen to join his father's sister; attending a yeshiva; continuing learning difficulties; working as a messenger; and marriage in 1973. Mr. S. discusses emotiona...

  20. Children in Dahlem, 1934; Baby Oda

    Boy outfitted with a feathered headdress rides in a toy car and plays in a teepee in the yard in Dahlem. His older sister with braids takes a turn in the car. Father pushes the youngest child in a wheelbarrow. The family walks through a park in Dahlem by the pond. Man with hat and glasses holds a camera case. The youngest child plays in the sandbox and gets ready for another ride in the wheelbarrow. CU of newborn Oda Lindemann (born 1934) in crib. Family members take turns looking at and holding baby Oda.