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  1. The Ruth Maier Archive (1933-1942)

    Ruth Maier kept a diary throughout her life. During her stay in Norway, she corresponded with her sister in England. The archive consist of 69 letters and eight diaries, covering both her time in Vienna and her time in Norway as well as correspondence between her and other family members. The Ruth Maier Archive documents the thoughts and life of a young Jewish woman facing the Nazi occupation in Austria and Norway. At the same time, several of her writings are marked by normality and everyday life. In addition to her remarkable language and writings she left beautiful drawings, sketches and...

  2. The Else Mendel Archive

    The archive is divided into three groups: letters, personal documents and copies. The letters include Mendel’s correspondence with her family expressing fear and concern about their deported family members.

  3. The Karl Peter and Victor Federer Archive (1937-1950)

    The archive does mainly consist of the letters from the Federer family to the Meyer couple during 1940-1945, both during their sons stay, his travel back to Prague and their deportation. Some of the later letters are also written by Karl Peter himself. After the war, the letters are written from Victor Federer, among other things to tell the Meyers about his wife and sons fate. There are also some photographs of the family, dating prewar and pre-deportation. The archive gives insight to the fate of one family, and a clear picture into the evacuation of Jewish children, the Norwegian foster ...

  4. SS un vietējās policijas priekšnieks Liepājā

    • The SS and Police Leader of Libau
    • Der SS–und Polizeistandartenführer Libau

    Guideline for treatment of Jews, including information about interdiction against communication with Jews, mixed marriages, forms to be completed for declarations of Jewish property, record keeping of Jewish property used in barracks, belongings left after executions. Attitude of German soldiers to Jews; the mood of Libau inhabitants after executions of Jews. Arrests of Jews because of violations of the restriction rules; black trade; escaped Jews from ghetto and camps; hidden Jews; arrests of Latvians who helped Jews to hide and issued false papers. Arresting of group of Jews intending to ...

  5. Tukuma-Talsu apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Tukums-Talsi District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden des Kreises Tukums-Talsen

    The fonds contains extensive information about activities of the Police institutions in the district since 1919. The wartime documents include information about the Jewish property and the acquisition and registration of Jewish belongings; confiscation of Jewish books; hiding of Jews; Jews who escaped from Kaltene camp (August 1941) and from the Salaspils pit factory; Jews and Poles who escaped from Częstochowa prison; list of Jews in Talsen; manhunting of Roma; Roma living in Kandava (1942); Russian prisoners of war who escaped from Grobina camp; and a list of prisoners of war.

  6. Latvijas vēstures dokumenti ārzemju arhīvos

    • Foreign archive documents about Latvian history

    Registration cards of Latvian inmates of Stutthof and Buchenwald Concentration camps.

  7. Képviselőház és nemzetgyűlés, 1861-1944: Elnöki és általános iratok

    • Lower House of Parliament and National Assembly, 1861-1944: Presidential and General Records

    The Lower House of the Hungarian Parliament was a centrally important stage for debates about the political behaviour, socioeconomic position and legal status of Jews in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The Hungarian Parliament was responsible for worsening anti-Semitic legislation in these years that gradually withdrew Jewish emancipation. The opinion that gained the upper hand in the parliamentary debates viewed Jews as a group opposed to the interests Hungariandom and was to define Jewry as a racial entity. The laws enacted gravely restricted the opportunities of Jewish citizens and incre...

  8. Halla Aurél államtitkár iratai

    • Records of State Secretary Aurél Halla

    The overwhelming majority of the records of the Ministry of Trade and Transportation were destroyed during the siege of Budapest in 1944-45, when the main building of the ministry was destroyed by bomb attack. Therefore, the records of the ministry survived in other collections have special relevance for the study of the economic anti-Jewish policies in Hungary. State Secretary Aurél Halla was one of the key persons in the Ministry of Trade and Transportation responsible for the planning and implementation anti-Jewish legislation. Halla also worked for various companies, and he was an activ...

  9. Akta gminy Rydzyna

    • Files of the commune of Rydzyna

    The collection contains i.a. cases concerning forced labourers, a list of residents of Rydzyna by nationality (1941 and 1943), various statistical information, lists of Jews from the camp in Kłoda (Judenarbeitslager Roden b. Reisen) dating from 1942, and copies of entries in the land register concerning the Jewish synagogue and cemetery.

  10. Akta miasta Przemyśla

    • Files of the town of Przemyśl

    The collection contains i.a. materials on the establishment of the ghettos and Jewish community assets, correspondence regarding the Jews, German orders, and a list of administrators of the assets of the Jewish community in Przemyśl.

  11. Akta miasta Rzeszowa

    • Files of the town of Rzeszów

    The collection contains i.a. items including German bills and public announcements; information on the establishment of the ghetto and forced labour for Jews; confiscations of property and its administration; death sentences; lists of deceased Jews for the years 1935-1942; an incomplete list of the Jews of Mielec (1941); lists of licences issued and tribute payments by residents in the years 1941-1943; registers of houses and lists of names of the tenants of various real properties; records of personal identity documents issued; alphabetical card files on population movements ; and the orig...

  12. Więzienie Karne Warszawa - Mokotów

    • Penitential Prison in Warsaw - Mokotów

    The collection contains i.a.contains several thousand personal files of Jews convicted of various occupation crimes, such as being outside the ghetto illegally, not wearing the armband with the Star of David, illegal trade and smuggling, theft, forgery, and similar cases. This record group is of unparalleled significance in view of the excellent state of preservation of the files, and their completeness.

  13. Akta miasta Radomska

    • Files of the town of Radomsko

    The collection contains i.a. lists of the personal identification documents issued to Jews in the years 1939-1940, as well as registration and residence registration documents from specific properties, house residence registration ledgers for the years 1931-1943, and registers of houses by street.

  14. Urząd Metrykalny Izraelicki w Rzeszowie

    • Israelite Registry Office in Rzeszów

    The collection contains i.a. records and registry files from the years of the occupation: marriage certificates (Trauungsscheine), birth certificates, death certificates, as well as various other certificates, personal identity documents, residence registration documents, etc.

  15. Akta miasta Wrocławia

    • Files of the city of Wrocław

    The collection contains i.a. mayoral speeches, propaganda materials, matters connected with Jewish schools and the seizure of museum holdings from the foundation administrating the home of Prof. Niesser, a professor of medicine (“Haus Niesser Verwaltung”), and the matters of the creation of a Jewish museum in the years 1928-1935 (“Jüdisches Museum”), the removal of the commemorative plaque from the house of Ferdinand Lassalle, and others;

  16. Párizsi Főkonzulátus

    • Records of the Hungarian Chief Consulate in Paris

    Records of the Hungarian Chief Consulate in Paris, in Nazi-occupied France that are relevant for the study of the history of the Holocaust mostly concern issues of citizenship. There are documents related to hundreds of such cases, several of which even have photos of the individuals concerned. Moreover, there are birth, marriage, baptism and death certificates of Hungarian Jews (the former also serving as proofs of origin), matters related to their passports (including certificates of the return of one’s town of residence to Hungary) and entry permits. There are more general reports on Hun...

  17. Starosta Powiatowy w Sanoku

    • Der Kreishauptmann in Sanok
    • Sanok County Governor

    The collection contains anti-Jewish orders, propaganda pamphlets and public announcements regarding confiscation of property, and lists of Jewish registry books from several locations (Lesko, Sanok, Ustrzyki Dolne).

  18. Akta miasta Przeworska

    • Files of the town of Przeworsk

    The collection contains i.a. materials on the establishment of the ghettos and Jewish community assets, population records, correspondence regarding the Jews, German orders, as well as a summary list of the Jews in Przeworsk from 1940 to February 1942. There is also a file entitled “Administracja majątkiem pożydowskim” (Administration of former Jewish assets), which contains lists of large numbers of businesses, houses and other real estate.

  19. Külügyminisztérium, Külföldön élő magyar állampolgárok gondozását ellátó osztály

    • Foreign Ministry, Department for Attending Hungarian Citizens Abroad

    A moot question in the study of the Holocaust in Hungary is how the Hungarian state related to its Jewish citizens who resided in other European countries either occupied by or allied to the Nazis during the implementation of the Holocaust starting in 1941-1942 but before the mass deportations from Hungary in 1944. Two central questions concern how far the Hungarian state aimed to protect them and how it related to their property. The records of the Foreign Ministry’s Department for Attending Hungarian Citizens Abroad contain documents regarding the tackling of social and cultural issues of...

  20. Nyilas Külügyminisztérium

    • Records of the Arrow-Cross Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    A main but failed ambition of the Arrow Cross government of Hungary that acquired power through a German-backed putsch in mid-October 1944 was to gain diplomatic recognition. Even though the Arrow Cross government pursued a pro-German policy in the war, its ambition to acquire international recognition influenced a number of its policy choices and this included the treatment of Hungary's remaining Jewish population. Hungarian Jews were murdered in thousands in Budapest and tens of thousands of them were forced on deadly marched westwards but they who were no longer systematically deported a...