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  1. District Court in Siedlce, branch Biała Podlaska Sąd Okręgowy w Siedlcach. Wydział Zamiejscowy w Białej Podlaskiej (Sygn. GK 284)

    The collection contains selected files of the trials from the District Court in Siedlce-Biała Podlaska during the years 1945-1956. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Most of the investigation was discontinued. Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. “Sierpniówka” was one o...

  2. District Court in Zamość Selected records from the Sąd Okręgowy w Zamościu (Sygn. GK 299)

    Records from trials at the District Court in Zamość, 1945‒1966, for crimes committed by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Stalinist propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

  3. Prosecutor's Office of the Lublin Province Prokuratura Wojewódzka w Lublinie (Sygn. GK 464)

    Records from trials at the provincial court in Lublin, 1945‒1966, for crimes committed by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Communist propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

  4. Prosecutor's Office of a Special Appeal Court in Lublin Prokurator Specjalnego Sądu Apelacyjnego w Lublinie (Sygn.GK 377)

    The collection contains selected files of the prosecutor’s investigations from the Prosecutor’s Office of Special Appeal Court in Lublin during the years 1945-1956. These investigations pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Most of the investigation was discontinued. These investigations were based on the decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment o...

  5. Selected records from the State Archives in Poznań

    Contains selected records of the district Starosties (Landraturen) in Konin, Ostrów, Śrem, municipal files of Czerniejewo, Gołańcz, Kłecko, Buk, Dolsk, Kostrzyń, records of the Umwandererzentralstelle (Central Office of Migration) in Poznań, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (NSDAP) in Poznań, the collection of announcements, posters, and leaflets as well as records of the Bodenamt SS (Land Office) in Poznań. Includes records relating to displacements of people, the relationship of Germans towards Poles and Jews, registration of Jews occupied in medical service, statistics of ...

  6. Selected records from the State Archives in Poznań, Branch Archives in Piła

    Contains records relating to Jewish communities in the cities of Chodzież, Piła, Szamocin, and Trzcianka, in Poland. Included are mainly correspondence, regulations relating to marriages, schools, cultural institutions, and religious objects for Jews. Also contains a name lists of the French prisoners of war and Polish and German workers working in German factories.

  7. KL Lublin-Majdanek, Private documents of camp personnel Dokumenty Prywatne Personelu Obozowego (Sygn. III)

    Contains various documents from concentration camp KL Lublin-Majdanek, e.g. identification cards (Personalasweis), soldier’s identification cards (Soldbuch), private and official correspondence, certificates and calendars.

  8. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP). Personnel Department Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Personaly (Sygn. 303/III)

    This collection includes the records of the Personnel Department of the Centralny Komitet Żydὀw Polskich (CKŻP). Contains documentation relating to employees of CKŻP, e.g. job applications, questionnaires (comprising of resumes and photographs), cards of the staff, insurance papers, certificates and statements, holiday leave, roll cards, sick leave, reports concerning the current number of employees, etc.

  9. Maurice Laserson collection

    This collection includes personal papers of Maurice Laserson, a social worker involved with the resettlement of Jewish refugees. The papers reflect his work with the Obshchestvo remeslennogo i zemledelʹcheskogo truda sredi evreev (Soviet Union) (ORT) and his connections with the Australian Jewish colleagues. Includes reports, newspaper clippings, writings and publications by J.M. Machover, Walter Lippmann, Rabbi Schenk and his articles from 1937-57, as well as correspondence on the plight of German Jewish refugees, including James McDonald's correspondence about the Jews in Europe,1933-1934.

  10. Cyril Pearl collection

    Contains the research papers and original sources used by Cyril Pearl in writing his book on the Dunera ship ("The Dunera Scandal: Deported by Mistake") and the records on the internment camps in Australia. In 1940 German refugees seeking asylum in England were sent to Australia as an enemy alien aboard the Dunera ship and interned in Australia at the Hay internment camp for a year and a half. In 1942, England realized their mistake in holding these refugees and they were released. Records include ephemera from the Hay camp, newspaper clippings about the Dunera affair,1941-1983, hansard ext...

  11. Dr. Wolf (Bill) Matsdorf collection

    This collection contains the papers of Wolf (Bill) Matsdorf, a social worker and one of the originators of the Australian Jewish Welfare Society Sheltered Workshop, established in 1955. He was also involved in other activities within the Jewish community including the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism and the Society for the Rescue of European Jewry. Papers include: documents of the Australian Jewish Welfare Society, the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism, the Australia-Israel Society for Cultural Exchange; the Kimberley plan; personal records and papers on ...

  12. Magen David Adom and Ben Zion Patkin records

    Contains records of the Magen David Adom (a "Jewish Red Cross" founded in Tel Aviv in 1930 as a First Aid Society) collected by Benzion Patkin. Includes annual reports, correspondence, newspapers, and photographs and relates to the Magen David Adom assistance to Palestine, and to Jews in Europe and Shanghai.

  13. Records from the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and anti-Semitism

    Contains records of the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism, including correspondence, minutes, annual reports, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and magazines.

  14. Max and Fritzi Adler collection

    Consists of correspondence and photographs related to the family of Max and Fritzi Lustig Adler, who were able to emigrate from Prague to England and later to Canada in 1939. Includes pre-war photographs of the Adler and Lustig families, and wartime and post-war photos of Max, Fritzi, and daughter Doris, who was born in 1940 in Canada. Also includes correspondence from 1939-1940 from Max's sister, Marianne, and mother, Emma, both of whom later perished in the Holocaust.

  15. Robert Marchik collection

    Consist of approximately 16 photographs taken of the Gardelegen atrocity by Robert Marchik, a member of the United States Army. The photographs depict the burial of corpses and of the Gardelegen cemetery.

  16. Veidlinger family collection

    Consists of seven photographs of the Weidlinger (now Veidlinger) family, originally of Hungary. Includes wartime photographs of the family, including images in which the members are wearing Magen David (Stars of David). Also includes Andor (Andrew) Weidlinger's Red Cross identity card in Hungary, dated October 10, 1944; the card was altered into a Russian identity card in 1945. The family received Salvadorean citizenship papers via George Mantello.

  17. Brüsseler Treuhandgesellschaft collection from the National Archives of Belgium

    Contains records of the Brusseler Treuhandgesellschaft. This organization was founded by the German occupiers in October 1940 as an "anonymous corporation" that seized control of enemy goods, including bank accounts and real estate. These documents provide an account of how the Jews residing in Belgium were looted by the German regime.

  18. Selected records from the Archivo di Stato Torino

    Contains records relating to the racial laws and their implementation in Turin, Italy. Includes a census of Jews of Turin from 1938-1943, and other records relating to internment in concentration camps, and arrests of Jews. Also includes lists of Italian workers in Germany between 1940-1945 and lists of concentration camps.

  19. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Gironde in Bordeaux

    This collection contains selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Gironde assembled for use in the trial of the former Secretary General of the department of the Gironde, Maurice Papon, for complicity in crimes against humanity. This is a new collection created after the judicial authorities no longer needed the documents and returned them to the Archives, although in some cases, the photocopies were returned, because the originals were retained. Several series of records are included in this collection: Series 44 W 1-63, containing a register of all Jews in the département (a...

  20. "Memoirs of my Life"

    Consists of a photocopy of one typed memoir, 65 pages, entitled "Memoirs of my Life" by Louis Suskin. In the memoir, Suskin describes his childhood in Belgium and the Netherlands, his apprenticeship in the diamond trade in Antwerp, his marriage to Sonia Schwerner and his family's escape from Belgium to southern France in 1940 and their immigration to Cuba, experiences in Cuba during the war years, their life in New York following the war, Suskin's return to Belgium to adopt his niece, Raymonde, the growth of the Suskins two children, the family's immigration to Israel and return to New York...