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  2. Selected records from collections of the Hunedoara branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains prewar and wartime records of various local police organizations, including reports on Jews and other minorities, treatment of Jews, Ayranization, and deportations to Transnistria. It also includes postwar material on emigration to Palestine, measures to prevent further killing of Jews, Jews under forced labor, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the Deva Jewish Democratic Committee’s (CDE) correspondence with Jews, with the Joint, and with central Jewish authorities.

  3. Selected records from collections of the Braşov branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains postwar records of the Jewish Democratic Committee (CDE) of Braşov (a.k.a. Stalin), containing reports of meetings, name lists of members of the CDE, and name lists of Jews who returned from Transnistria. Also contains wartime records of local Braşov governmental organizations such as the prefecture, police, and the Legion of Jandarmerie. These include correspondence about the Iron Guard rebellion, name lists of Jews forbidden to return to Romania during the war, and correspondence concerning control of Jews and Roma, for example, case such as the confiscation of a radio. Also cont...

  4. Census of Jews in Arad, Romania, 20 May 1942

    Contains two series: 1. List of Jews christened or considered to be Christian per the law of 9 August 1941; 2. List of Jews of mixed marriage.

  5. Leo Bach collection

    The Leo Bach collection consists of an untitled memoir (326 pages) and copies of photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of Leo Bach (born Leo Silberbach), originally of Krakow, Poland. In his memoir, Leo Bach gives extensive descriptions of the history of Poland, his family, his memories of pre-war antisemitism, and the German invasion of Poland. He describes life under the German occupation, his experiences in the Krakow ghetto, Płaszów concentration camp, Starachowice, Auschwitz concentration camp, a death march to Buchenwald concentration, and his liberation from Dachau concent...

  6. Eugene Shelton collection

    Consists of materials related to the experiences of Corporal Eugene Shelton, who participated in the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. Includes a photograph of corpses, a one-page testimony written by Cpl. Shelton about his experiences, and a large hand-drawn map of the movements of the 355th Infantry Regiment, which participated in the liberation of Ohrdruf.

  7. Selected documents and photos from the private collection of Raoul Cohen-Addad

    This collection comprises the records of Raoul Cohen-Addad (1916-2003), an Algerian-born Jew. Conscripted into the French army in 1939, he worked with the resistance to liberate Algeria in 1942. He was then deported to a forced labor camp under the Vichy regime. The collection includes personal and family papers, photos, documents pertaining to the judicial procedures Cohen-Addad instigated in an attempt to receive reparations for damage to his career, documents concerning the association of former North African resistance fighters from 1947-1949, the activities of the “Association of Frenc...

  8. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Cher

    Contains documents concerning the internment of Jews and foreigners, as well as border crossings between the free and occupied zones by Jews and foreigners in the Cher.

  9. Selected documents from the Departmental Archives of the Belfort Territory

    Contains documents pertaining to the expropriation of Jewish property in The Belfort Territory during the war and restitution and indemnification issues after the war. Also contains the diary of Henriette Bloch, a Jewish school teacher whose son, Julien, was captured as the Bloch family attempted to escape into the Jura.

  10. Oral history interview with Hildegard Lee

  11. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Gers

    Contains material concerning measures taken against Jews, foreigners, and Freemasons in the Gers. Includes files on expropriated property, name lists of refugees and prisoners, antisemitic legislation, and Monsignor Saliège, the Archbishop of Toulose.

  12. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Hautes-Pyrénées

    Contains material related to the use of forced labor, expropriation of Jewish property, exclusions preventing Jews from practicing medicine or dentistry, antisemitic legislation, and measures taken against Freemasons in the Hautes-Pyrénées.

  13. Selected documents from the Departmental Archives of the Indre

    Contains records from local offices including the Prefect’s office and the Police Department dealing with foreigners, the “Jewish question”, the demarcation line between the occupied and unoccupied zones, and refugees, including those from Alsace-Lorraine. Documents from the sub-prefecture of La Châtre (3 Z) are also included, as well as the “Internernent Administratif” section dealing with the camps of Pellevoisin and Douadic. Also contains information on an OSE-created clandestine center to place Jewish children in non-Jewish families in the “chef-lieu, Châteauroux,” lists of arrests and ...

  14. Selected records from the French Diplomatic Archives in Nantes concerning Palestine

    Contains a collection of diplomatic dispatches sent to all French diplomats during the period 1938-1949 concerning Palestine. Various subjects discussed include: illicit immigration to Palestine in 1939 (the exodus of Polish Jews toward the Levant); surveillance of the activities of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in October, 1939 and his "escape"; Zionist politics; a letter from the French Ambassador to Turkey in 1942 to the Admiral of the Fleet under Vichy in 1942 on the "Strouma Affair" [Struma]; "Jewish Terrorism in Palestine," dated November 9, 1944; the evolution of the Palestinian econo...

  15. Circulo Israelita in Bolivia records

    Contains photocopies of various documents and newspaper clippings related to immigration of Jewish people to Bolivia and creation of Jewish community in La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz.

  16. "The Silent Story of Those Children"

    Consists of a memoir entitled "The Silent Story of Those Children" by Rosette Kleinmann Lissek, who was born in Paris in 1940 and survived the war in hiding in various places. Rosette's father was interned in a number of French internment camps, while Rosette, her mother, and her younger sister Jeanine (born 1942) hid in France and Belgium with the help of OSE. After the war, the family immigrated briefly to Israel, then back to Europe before leaving for Bolivia, and ultimately, to Argentina in 1951. Also includes copies of family photographs and documents. Copies of the memoir exist in Eng...

  17. Selected records from the Bologna State Archive

    Contains records from the Prefettura and Questura di Bologna, 1938-46 relating to the 1938 racial laws and their implementation in Bologna, as well as the deportation of the Jews of Bologna and their efforts after 1945 to reclaim their property and rebuild their community. This collection also includes 2,000 individual files with personal data.

  18. Selected records from the Perguia Regional State Archive

    Contains records from the Prefettura and Questura di Perugia, 1938-46 relating to the racial laws of 1938 and their implementation in Perugia, the deportation of the Jews of Perugia and their efforts after 1945 to reclaim their property and rebuild their community. Also included are 200 files containing personal materials on individuals. The collection also contains records from the province of Perugia and include records from smaller cities, such as Assisi documenting their reaction to the racial laws.

  19. Frederick B. Lea collection

    Consists of material related to the experiences of Frederick B. Lea, Company Commander of the 46th Armored Medical Battalion, Fourth Armored Division of the United States Army, who participated in the liberations of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps in April 1945. Includes Mr. Lea's written testimony, entitled "Recollections of a Liberator," photographic prints and slides taken at Ohrdruf and at Buchenwald, which Mr. Lea described, a copy of a map of the movement of the Fourth Armored Division, and photocopies of the photographs taken by Mr. Lea.

  20. Collection of documents from ghettos and camps in Eastern Europe. Jewish Council Łachwa Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Rada Żydowska w Łachwie (Sygn. 216)

    Contains a single document dated on August 25, 1941. Its content relates to confirmation of delivery of the Jewish workers by the Judenrat to Łachwa authorities.