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  1. Documentation of the Landratsamt (District authority) of the Wittgenstein district in Berleburg, Westphalia

    Documentation of the Landratsamt (District authority) of the Wittgenstein district in Berleburg, Westphalia

  2. Walka Wiery Gran z Cieniami

    Consists of a Polish translation of an affidavit given in Tel Aviv in 1971 regarding Polish singer Wiera Gran. In the affidavit, the unidentified claimant accuses Ms. Gran of collaborating with the Gestapo responsible for the Warsaw ghetto.

  3. Von Tohathy affidavit

    Contains an affidavit dated Sep. 8, 1943, written by Ludwig Victor von Tohathy. The affidavit indicates that Mr. von Tohathy was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in October 1941 by the Gestapo.

  4. Ernest Kaufman papers

    1. Ernest Kaufman collection

    Photostats of "Kennkarte" for Ernst Kaufmann, and photocopy of his certificate of release from Gestapo prison in Aachen, November 1938. Also, photocopy of typescript translation of an article by Nobel laureate Heinrich Boell, titled "The Jews of Drove."

  5. Correspondence with Asociación Austria Cultural

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding Robert Otto Gerö, an Austrian Jew living in Argentina. As former member of the Judenpolizei in Vienna Gerö had reportedly helped the Gestapo to detect Jews in hiding in order to avoid his own deportation.

  6. OSMANOV Nuri Ablyaziz

    1. Кримінальні справи на нереабілітованих осіб

    The case against OSMANOV Nuri Ablyaziz - from October 1943, private in a Gestapo security company in Simferopol. He participated in searches and executions of Soviet citizens and citizens of Jewish nationality, and participated in raids on partisans.

  7. Collection of H. G. Adler, 1937-1959

    Collection of H. G. Adler, 1937-1959 H. G. Adler was born in Prague in 1910; he was a poet, historian, sociologist and multidisciplinary researcher; he was an inmate in Niederorschel, Langenstein-Zwieberge, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz camps; after the war he wrote important books regarding Theresienstadt and regarding totalitarian regimes; he died in London in 1988; Included in the collection: List of senior officials who served in Nazi organizations and institutions; Subjects related to the handling of the "Jewish Problem" that were discussed by Nazi organizations, including among others ...

  8. Documentation from the Trial against Bovensiepen and others

    The Record Group contains files from the trial conducted against the heads of the Gestapo Headquarters in Berlin during the final years of the war, as well as files prepared during the collection of evidence for the trial, including information regarding Nazi crimes which took place in other locations in and out of Germany. The files also contain testimonies and much information regarding the Jews of Berlin during the final stage of the persecutions against them and their destruction. There is information concerning deportations, the many detention camps in the city, Jewish community activi...

  9. Evakuierung der Juden aus Wien - Sonderbehandlung (Deportation of the Jews of Vienna -special handling) to the Generalgouvernement in Poland

    1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

    Evakuierung der Juden aus Wien - Sonderbehandlung (Deportation of the Jews of Vienna -special handling) to the Generalgouvernement in Poland - Decisions made by the Gestapo at a joint meeting of Dr. Karl Ebner, Anton Brunner, Laube and Herbert Mueller on the question of the special handling and the special treatment of the Jews destined for deportation to the Generalgouvernement: disabled World War I veterans, Mischlinge, former government officials, Jews with emigration papers, those with foreign citizenship, those suffering from incurable diseases, the elderly, 12 February 1941; - Gestapo...

  10. Polizeipräsident in Stettin Prezydium Policji w Szczecinie (Sygn. 93)

    Records created by the General Department and Department on Foreigners of the Police President in the province of Pomerania (Stettin), which supervised lower level entities: including regencies and counties. This collection contains orders and correspondence of the Gestapo related to foreigners, and records of the Department on Foreigners with the card files of foreigners, mainly Polish and Jewish people. Includes regulation for Germans how to behave towards Polish workers, name lists of Polish workers, indexes of private firms employed Polish workers, a list of foreigners sought by the Ges...

  11. Kommandeur der SIPO und SD für den Distrikt Radom records (Sygn.184)

    Contains information about the activities of the police and Gestapo in the area of Radom, including investigations of members of various underground movements, the organization of the Gestapo, the investigation of Communists, and prisoners found guilty of resistance who were sentenced to concentration camps.

  12. Komendant policji bezpieczeństwa i służby bezpieczeństwa Dystryktu Krakowskiego Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienst für den Distrikt Krakau (Sygn. GK 678)

    Contains personnel files of the officers of KdS Distrikt Krakau (Commander for the Cracow region of the Security Police [Sicherheits­polizeiand] and the Intelligence Service [Sicherheits­dienst]). Including are a general list of officers, a list of telephone numbers, and orders of admission to the Montelupich prison, as well as the files of Gestapo officers Eric Wüstenhagen and Wilhelm Klüger.

  13. Eva W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1937. She recalls her parents' comfortable, bohemian life; her father's residency at the Jewish hospital; moving into the hospital with the families of other staff members in October 1941; friendship with two girls (Eva and Rita); the Gestapo presence; monthly deportations; food shortages; her parents' strained marriage; remaining underground during the Battle of Berlin; spending a summer recuperating in Switzerland; her father's death in 1947 after delaying surgery, which she believes was a form of suicide; living in the hos...

  14. Reichs Prosecutor’s Office in Trutnov

    The fund contains well-preserved documents of justice administration from the occupation period and sorted in accordance with the individual cases that the court addressed; it is possible to have a clear look into the functioning of the period administration of justice. Jewish history is involved in the following documents: the death sentence fordental technician Weber, member of the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), who in 1943 declared that no one believes in victory anymore and that the concentration camps are ruled by medieval methods and many Jews die there and th...

  15. Organization of SS and German police presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 457) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 20, 1945. Maj. Warren Farr of the US prosecution explains the subdivisions of the SS organization. CU, rear view, Maj. Farr. LS, side view of the Tribunal in the courtroom. "The personal staff. ... First, when the question is asked, how many persons in the SS had something to do with the concentration camp program... you may find out how many people were in the Deaths Head ..." CU, SS organization chart. "I shall read only the Himmler directive appearing on Page 2 of the translation. The Tribunal will note that it is addressed to e...

  16. Peter Rosen papers

    The Peter Rosen papers contain training materials from the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie; drafts, correspondence, and research created during the production of a 1945 handbook titled The German Police prepared by MIRS (London Branch) and SHAEF’s Evaluation and Dissemination Section (EDS); two Gestapo files; and a Sicherheitsdienst (SD) file. Camp Ritchie training materials include handouts on the organization and tactics of the French and German armed forces; recognizing the uniforms of allies and enemies; technical instruction in aerial photography, signal communica...

  17. Barbie Trial -- Day 12 -- A witness and a civil party testify

    16:07 The next witness, Mrs. Raymonde Guyon, presents herself to the court and is sworn in; the witness describes her participation in the dissemination of clandestine Resistance newspapers during the war, while in high school and then university; her fiancé at that time met law professors who were involved in the Resistance and they both became formally involved through these professors; she describes creating false papers, with which entire families of Jews were able to escape to Switzerland, and outlines the challenges involved in writing, printing, and distributing the newspaper 'Témoig...

  18. Управління боротьби з бандитизмом МВД, Управління 2-Н та 4-те Управління МГБ–КГБ УРСР

    • Directorate on fight against banditism at the Ministry of Internal Affairs

    Materials relevant to history of occupation regime and the Holocaust: File 24. References about employees of the Ukrainian Police in Kharkiv. 1943. 87 pp. File 26. Search for agents of foreign intelligence, traitors of Motherland, occupants’ auxiliaries. 1942. 300 pp. File 27. Investigation of foreign intelligence agents, traitors of the Motherland, occupants’ auxiliaries. 1942. 315 pp. File 28. List No. 2 (Attachment to file No. 9 “Investigation of foreign intelligence agents and their helpers”). 1942. 286 pp. File 29. List No. 1 (Attachment to file No. 9 “Investigation of foreign intellig...

  19. Hugo Nothmann: Printed letters

  20. Two documents issued by the Jewish community in Linz to Rudolf Gans-Schiller, including certification of his appointment as Director of the Emigration Bureau in Linz, 1938

    1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

    Two documents issued by the Jewish community in Linz to Rudolf Gans-Schiller, including certification of his appointment as Director of the Emigration Bureau in Linz, 1938 - Thank-you letter to Rudolf Gans-Schiller from the Jewish community in Linz for the donation of 4,000 Reichsmark in support of needy Jews and assistance to the emigration of needy Jews; - Certificate from the Jewish community in Linz that Rudolf Gans-Schiller was appointed by Max Hirschfeld, Chairman of the Jewish community, as Director of the Emigration Bureau in Linz, and responsible for the entire Oberdonau area, and ...