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  1. Reichsorganisationsleiter der NSDAP selected records (NS 22)

    Contains selected records from the group NS 22, Reichs Organization Leader of the Nazi Party.

  2. Dienststellen Rosenberg-Überwachung der geistigen und weltanschaulichen Schulung der NSDAP selected records (NS 15)

    This collection contains selected German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) records from the office of Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), which concerned itself with the training, political education, and motivation of Nazi Party members. The collection includes staff personnel forms; correspondence from the ERR’s cultural-political archives; and records of the Science Office and the Music Office. Also included is material pertaining to the creation of a “Jews in Music” dictionary.

  3. Dienststellen Rosenberg-Aussenpolitisches Amt (NS 43)

    Contains materials from the branch or department of the Alfred Rosenberg organization that dealt with foreign affairs.

  4. Enemy property office in occupied Netherlands Feindvermögensverwaltung in den besetzten Niederlanden (R 177)

    Contains materials on confiscated Jewish property in the Netherlands.

  5. SS-Personalhauptamt selected records (NS 34)

    Contains internal reports from the main SS personnel office, including lists of promotions and transfers; lists of SS officers stationed in Eastern Europe; recommendations and guidelines for personnel actions; and other SS-related administrative matters.

  6. Hitler-Jugend/Reichsjugendführung selected records (NS 28)

    The collection features official correspondence and reports about the Hitler Youth movement, such as the ideological indoctrination and instruction of its members, the elimination of Jews from the national economy; the participation of Hitler Youth in the relocation of ethnic Germans in Poland; and the use of forced labor.

  7. Selected records of Jewish political refugees from the Schweizerisches Arbeiterhilfswerk Archives

    This collection contains materials on Jewish refugees in Switzerland who were helped by the Swiss Labor Assistance. It also contains a 1260-card registry of persons who were in contact with the Swiss Labor Office from 1933 to 1945.

  8. Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg selected records (NS 30)

    Contains selected records from the group NS 30.

  9. Reichspressechef selected records (NS 42)

    Records from the group NS 42. Contains the office files of the "House of the Press," Munich, mostly correspondence with other countries, free subscriptions to the German propaganda periodical "News from Germany", German requests for press items or publications from abroad, publications concerning Jews, news clippings, letters from foreign citizens, and miscellaneous documents.

  10. Benjamin Gerow papers

    Contains an IMT International Military Tribual identification card, one letter, ten black and white photographs, thirteen signatures of defendants, IMT International Military Tribunal publication, "These 21" compliments of Stars and Stripes.

  11. Ruth Berkowicz Segal collection

    Consists of one permit to stay in Japan issued to "Rys Berkowicz" (donor), one postcard, sent to the donor in Vilnius from Warsaw, with Nazi censorship stamp; two postcards sent to the donor in Kobe from family and friend; and four envelopes with Nazi censorship stamps sent to the donor in Vilnius from friends in Warsaw who perished in the Holocaust.

  12. Alexander White collection

    Collection of seven black-and-white images of members of Jewish community in Krosno, Poland, before the Holocaust.

  13. Property administration of the DAF Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF). Vermoegensverwaltung der DAF GmbH (NS 5 II)

    Records NS-5 II (formerly NS 3498). Contains documents relating to real properties (the sale or rental) in various locations and the erection and administration of forced labor camps including those using POWs.

  14. Horn-Ermann collection

    Collection consisting of passports, identification cards, postcards, and documents relating to Irmgard Horn donor's aunt, her first husband Max Ermann and her second husband Walter Horn, and their families' experiences in Berlin, Hamburg, and Shanghai during the Holocaust.

  15. Betty Drury collection regarding the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars

    The Betty Drury collection regarding the Emergency Committee consists of documentation on individuals who successfully or unsuccessfully sought the Committee’s aid. In all, some 6,000 displaced scholars and professional persons from Europe appealed to the Committee. Of that number 335 were granted assistance through the Committee. Series 3 is particularly notable and contains biographical information about Emergency Committee grantees and account ledgers detailing payments to the grantees’ employers. Series 1: Subject files contains a variety of administrative records generated by the Emerg...

  16. Dezsone Bernath collection

    Two postcards sent from labor battalions to Dezsone Bernath (donor's mother) from father, dated September 24, 1942 and October 12, 1942, Budapest , Hungary, in Hungarian and one document handwritten in graphite on paper, not dated, in Hungarian.

  17. Rose Abrams papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Roza Margolis (later Rose Abrams) and her sister Estera Margolis (later Edith Adlam), both of whom grew up in Łódź, Poland. Included are two postcards written by Roza and Estera to relatives in the United States, 1944-1945; a postcard received by the same relatives by Roza’s uncle, Zundel Bagielman, writing from the Łódź ghetto, 1940; and a certificate issued to Roza upon her release from Camp de Gurs, France in April 1943.

  18. Edith M. Adlam papers

    Consists of an identification card (Carte d’Identite d’Etranger), a census card, (Fiche de Recensement), and a certificate of liberation (Certificat de Libération) issued by the Centre d’Hébergement de Gurs/le Chef de Camp on 10 April 1943. The documents were all issued Estera Margolis.

  19. Ada Feingold papers

    The Ada Feingold papers include two drafts of her memoirs describing the Warsaw ghetto and uprising, correspondence with Ada’s mother in the United States, a photograph labeled “W-wa ghetto 1942 Ala I Alek Młynek (Skotnicki),” a list of surviving Jews in Warsaw as of June 5, 1945 compiled by the Central Jewish Committee in Poland, a 1945 Berlin train ticket, registration certificates documenting Ada’s postwar presence in Łódź, Warsaw, Białystok, and Göteborg and her petition for naturalization in the United States, acknowledgements documenting Ada’s efforts to receive restitution, and a boo...

  20. Raya Mazin oral history transcript

    Contains a transcript of an oral history interview with Raya Mazin.