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  1. Records on prisoners camps of the Reich Ministry of Justice (Reichsjustizministerium), R 3001 (R 22)

    Contains records of Reichsjustizministerium (Reich Ministry of Justice) on Emsland camps which document the fate of individual prisoners and holds biographical information and detailed reports about the conditions of camp life and slave labor. Files contain personal information; lists of prisoners of the camps; and transport lists, including name, profession, and duration of sentence. Prisoners included criminal prisoners, homosexuals, Jews and political opponents of the National Socialist regime. German soldiers who were sentenced under military laws also were deported to these camps, maki...

  2. Collection of documents from the German Consulates in Palestine (RG-67)

    Documents of German consulates in Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Haifa, including records of relations with the Ottoman authorities, tax matters, the acquisition of property, Jewish immigration, civil and criminal cases, representation of German interests by the Spanish Consulate (1917-1926), and a variety of other subjects. Collection reflects Germany’s takeover of the Austrian Consulate in 1938. The collection also documents the Haavara Agreement between Nazi Germany, the Zionist Federation of Germany, the Anglo-Palestine Bank, and the Jewish Agency.

  3. Selected records from collections of the Tulcea branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the District of Tulcea, Commission of Romanization (CNR) consisting of lists of Germans repatriated from the district of Tulcea, payments to guards to protect expropriated Jewish goods, goods from repatriated Germans, tables of Bulgarian and Italian citizens, renting of real estate and goods belonging to Jews and Bulgarians, selling of German goods, instructions and tables of goods confiscated from Jews taken from Tulcea, Sulina, and Babadag, administration of the Ruth Gottlieb Mill.

  4. Simon Slivka collection

    The Simon Slivka collection consists of one document, 3 pages, in Polish, written on February 12, 1937, unsigned. The document talks about the author's philosophy on life and reflections on training for hachshara. Also includes a photograph of a young man.

  5. John Daniel Morgan collection

    The John Daniel Morgan collection consists of one CD containing scans of material retrieved at the Dachau concentration camp by John Daniel Morgan (Dan Morgan), a member of the United States Army. The collection includes digital images of two binders of alphabetical correspondence with Nazi party members in the Munich area between 1938-1942; one binder of formal and informal photographs of SS officers mounted on notebook paper, including photographs of drills, ceremonies, portraits (including one of Theodor Eicke), groups of children, German airplanes, and meetings with Japanese officers; a...

  6. Portfolio

    Signed portfolio of rotogravure prints, number 0004 of 1000, of 24 drawings by George (Jerzy) Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed of daily life and death as a prisoner in German concentration camps from 1943-1945. The set includes a portfolio cover, a folded introductory insert discussing the prints signed by Zielezinski, and 24 individual reproductions. These sets were sold in the US for $10 by the American Friends Service Committee to raise funds for Zielezinski, then working as a dish washer in New York City. Zielezinski, a Polish Catholic, was arrested in Warsaw by the Germans for...

  7. Selected records from the collections of the Arad branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Pretura (police unit) of Chişineu-Criş and includes records relating to: lists of registered Iron Guard, Jewish shops, Jewish enterprises, correspondence regarding Iron Guards and Jews, the situation of Jewish goods, indexes of Jewish addresses, and CNR goods (Aryanization) (Microfilm Reel 1-8). Includes records from the Legion of gendarmes Arad including various files regarding to the Iron Guard rebellion in Arad district, surveillance of religious groups, and the history of religious groups in Arad district (Microfilm Reel 9-12). Also includes records from the Je...

  8. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  9. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  10. Borge and Tove Siebern scrapbooks

    Consists of five scrapbooks assembled while Bjorn Siebern, former Danish policeman and member of the resistance, and his wife, sometime between 1964 and 1973. They contain a combination of wartime photographs, documents, and three-dimensional objects documenting all aspects of the German occupation of Denmark. Some documents relate directly to Mr. Siebern's work, including ID cards, false IDs and forgery stamps. He assumed multiple identities during the war. There are also leaflets dropped over Denmark, Nazi propaganda and anti-Nazi cartoons. The photos include photos of German officials, D...

  11. Schatz family photograph

    Consists of a photograph of the Schatz family taken in April 1939 in Tisza-Ujlak, Hungary (currently Vylok, Ukraine).

  12. Javorkovsky family photographs

    Collection of photographs documenting the Yavarkovsky family in pre-war Riga, Latvia.

  13. Star of David badge with Juif printed in the center

    Star of David patch of the type worn to identify a Jew in German occupied France. Germany occupied France in the early summer of 1940. A decree was issued on March 27, 1942, making it mandatory for Jews to wear the Judenstern badges at all times. The badges marked the Jews as outsiders and made them easy to identify. The German occupation of France ended on August 25, 1944, when German forces surrendered to the Allies.

  14. Michael Spillias collection

    Consists of six photographs taken by Michael Spillias, a member of the 11th Armored Division, after the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp. The photographs depict the collection and reburial of corpses as well as of survivors who were liberated at the camp.

  15. Hoffman family collection

    The Hoffman family collection consists of identification documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the Markus Hoffman and Rachela Brande Hoffman, who emigrated from Poland to the Dominican Republic, and their children Leon Hoffman and Berte Hoffman, who were both born in the Dominican Republic. The correspondence, 1939-1941, includes letters from their mothers, Rosa Brande in Czortków, Poland (now Ukraine) and Clara Hoffman in Tłumacz, Poland (now Ukraine), and other extended family members. All family members are presumed to have perished in the Holocaust. Also included are pre...

  16. Transport EK document

    Consists of one post-war document, undated, containing a description of the experiences of the men in Transport "EK." On September 28, 1944, almost 2500 people were deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz. In October, the group of men who survived the initial selection were divided into transports for forced labor. Transport "EK" was sent to the Taucha concentration camp, where they spend the rest of the war assembling German weaponry in the Hasag factory. The document also gives a description of the route the men took during a forced march in April and May 1945, before they were liberate...

  17. Testimony regarding Kristallnacht and Dachau

    Consists of one typed testimony, 10 pages, unsigned, written most likely in late 1938 or 1939, by an anonymous author, regarding the experiences of the author after being arrested on Kristallnacht and imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. The author describes the Gestapo search of his apartment, his arrest, and gives extensive detail about life in Dachau at this time. Wendy Wallace [donor] found this testimony in the home of Miss Mundell Doolittle.

  18. Rabbi Barry Friedman photograph collection

    Collection of photographs documenting the aftermath of the Dachau and Ohrdruf concentration camps after liberation; images show American soldiers in the camp, burial of victims in mass graves, and camp views; dated April-May 1945

  19. Charles Neil Starr collection

    Letter: typed and handwritten on the back of a proof sheet of photographs documenting the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp and printed by the US Army Signal Corps; written by Cpl. Charles Neil Starr (donor's friend) to his wife Vivienne in Akron, Ohio; dated August 17, 1945; in English.

  20. Asher and Sara Laor photograph collection

    Contains eleven photographs of Asher and Sara Laor in the displaced persons camp at Landsberg am Lech, circa 1945.