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  4. Helen H. Waterford manuscripts

    Consists of the original manuscript of "Commitment to the Dead: One Woman's Journey Towards Understanding" (251 pages) and a revised first draft (139 pages) of the same by Helen H. Waterford. The manuscript is Helen Waterford's personal testimony of persecution and suffering during her imprisonment in Auschwitz and Kratzau (a.k.a. Chrastava). Inserted into the text are questions and comments for Waterford's many lectures. Both the original manuscript and first draft are marked heavily with notations by an editor.

  5. Records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General (Army) French war crimes cases

    Consists of microfilm reels containing depositions, photographs, and descriptions of incidents relating to alleged war crimes committed in France by German troops, the SS, and the Gestapo given to War Crimes Group, United States Forces, European Command (EUCOM). The incidents described involve episodes of murder, torture, and arson directed at French civilians during the Holocaust.

  8. Lwów files Teka Lwowska (Sygn. 229)

    This collection contains reports, articles, clippings, and various other documents relating to the persecution and execution of Jews in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine); the activities of the Jewish council (Judenrat) in the Lwów ghetto; the confiscation of Jewish property; the eviction of Jews from their homes; various "actions" in the ghetto, some specifically targeting elderly Jews; the mistreatment of Jews by Ukrainians; the burning of synagogues; the extortion of money from Jews in the ghetto; the activities of the German police and Gestapo; Jews taken to forced labor camps near Lwów; ...

  9. Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Contemporary History records relating to Jewish partisan resistance in the Soviet Union

    Contains name lists, case files, photographs, interrogations, reports, memoranda, and various other documents relating to both Jewish and non-Jewish partisan resistance movements in all areas of the occupied Soviet Union during World War II; biographical information on individual partisans, their promotions, awards, and activities; persecutions of Soviet Jews during the German occupation; atrocities committed against Soviet Jews during the German occupation; the establishment of ghettos in the Soviet Union; counter-intelligence by the Gestapo to combat partisan activity; and the role of the...

  14. Susan M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan M., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. She describes her happy childhood as a performer in a successful children's theatre; her parent's divorce; her rejection from the art academy due to the Jewish quota; the nonchalant attitude of the Jewish community until the German occupation in 1944; anti-Semitic legislation; hiding with her father with the aid of his non-Jewish fiancee; the establishment of the ghetto; and the reign of the Hungarian Gestapo. She relates working as a nurse while hiding on false papers; being recognized by a non-Jewish friend who tu...

  15. Renate K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Renate K., a non-Jew, who was born in Stargard in Pommern, Germany (Stargard Szczecin?ski, Poland after 1945) in 1922. She recalls the important contributions of Jews to the community; cordial relations with the local Jews; her father helping a fellow Jewish physician emigrate in 1935; Gestapo threats against her father for his efforts on behalf of Jews and other victims of the Gestapo; and his succesful efforts to hide another Jewish family and arrange for the escape of their child to South America. Mrs. K. recalls replacement of local officials by Nazis; her marriag...

  16. Komendant Policji Bezpieczeństwa i Służby Bezpieczeństwa dla Okręgu Warszawskiego (GK 106) Selected records of the Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD für den Distrikt Warschau Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD fur den Distrikt Warschau (GK 106)

    Anonimous denunciations to Gestapo mostly related to Jews in Warsaw, training of Jewish policemen in Warsaw ghetto and lists of policemen, various ordinances and reports, daily orders of Der Kommandeur der Sipo und SD for 1940, files on illegal trade carried out by Jews, files of investigations against Germans suspected of accepting a bribe, maintaining contacts with Polish women, illegal trade and other.

  17. Dresner family collection

  18. Městský národní výbor Strakonice

    • Town National Committee of Strakonice / NAD 310

    The fonds contains documents of the town people's administration and delegated state administration, deeds, official books, file material and accounting material. Jewish issues can be found in the following areas: assistance to repatriates 1945, victims of the Gestapo 1942, renouncing Czechoslovak citizenship - A. Zucker 1948, national administration 1945-1949, Jews declared dead 1946-1948.

  19. Jüdischer Kulturbund Hamburg

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a correspondence between the Gestapo, Hans Hinkel and the Behörde für Volkstum, Kirche und Kust (Authority for folklore, church and art) in Hamburg. The exchange of letters between the Kulturbund and Hans Hinkel, Reich Ministry for the People's Enlightenment and Propaganda, is regarding the approval for activities and personalities. Furthermore letters revealing the delayed approval of the Kulturbund in Hamburg can be seen, as the Gestapo had to check and approve the chairmen of the Kulturbund Hamburg in order of Hinkel. Also programs of the Jüdische Gesellschaft für Kunst...

  20. Records relating to Jews and Roma in Berlin Oberfinanzdirektion file concerning Roma property

    Includes information about the confiscation of property of Roma deported to concentration camps from Berlin. The bulk of the records are dated 1943 with others dating as late as 1961.