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  1. Lili Kingstone collection

    Consists three passports as well as miscellaneous documents and correspondence related to the family's emigration from Austria in 1938. Also includes two pre-war photographs: one of Luise Koenigstein working in a Jewish owned textile mill in Vienna, 1935; and one of Artur and Luise Koenigstein posing with their children on the beach, also in Austria, 1935.

  2. Searching for food at Belsen after liberation

    Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation. More shots of camp: smoke, tents, cooking fires, people wandering. MS through barbed wire fence where bin full of potato peelings is tipped over, two women look through waste for scraps. One Hungarian and one British sentry observe as female internees reach through fence for scraps; guards kick remnants towards them.

  3. Delegacy of Government for a Country Poland, Department of Information and Press, Eastern Section Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj. Departament Informacji i Prasy. Sekcja Wschodnia (Sygn. 202/II/117-134)

    Contains information about German, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian terrorism in occupied Poland; resistance movements; and conditions of the Polish population during occupation.

  4. Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj. Departament Informacji i Prasy (Sygn. 202/III/174-213)

    Contains information about activities of the Department of Information and Press; occupation policies of the Nazis; the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; radio broadcast monitoring in Europe; conditions in various regions of Poland during the occupation; relations between Poles and Ukrainians; propaganda; and communist activities in Poland.

  5. Delegacy of Government for a Country Poland, Department of Information and Press, Western Section Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj. Departament Informacji i Prasy. Sekcja Wschodnia (Sygn.202/III/135-173)

    Contains reports, surveys, decrees, a thesis, essays, and various other documents relating to the activities of the Department Information and Press and its gathering of materials relating to the reorganization of the Polish government and programs planned for territory to be recovered at the end of World War II. Includes information about reorganization of industry, economic systems, education, school systems, and real estate and property in recovered territories. Also contains information about Polish public opinion during the German occupation, Germanization of Poles, surveys of the Germ...

  6. Kommandeur der Gendarmerie Lublin records (Sygn.104)

    Contains reports, decrees, radiograms, orders, and various other documents relating to resistance activities in the Lublin area; establishment and administration of aerial patrols; police activities; and escapes of and searches for prisoners of war and prisoners of forced labor.

  7. Lawrence and Irene Koenigsberger correspondence relating to the rescue of Manfred Loewin

    Contains information about the efforts of Lawrence and Irene Koenigsberger to rescue members of the Loewin and Neumann families of Berlin, Germany.

  8. Heinrich Himmler order to establish a special court for relatives of SS and German police personnel

    Consists of a 1940 order signed by Heinrich Himmler establishing a special court in Munich for the relatives of SS and German police personnel.

  9. Ivano-Frankovsky Regional Museum records

    Contains statements, reports, photographs, and articles relating to the German and Hungarian occupation of Ukraine; atrocities committed against Jews and Soviet citizens in the region; statistics for executions; names of Gestapo leaders suspected of crimes; and the Tabor Smertii "death camp" at Stanislav, Ukraine (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine).

  10. United States of America v. Karl Brandt et al., Nov. 21, 1946 - Aug. 20, 1947

    Contains proceedings, exhibits, and other court documents from the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, United States v. Karl Brandt et al., the "Medical Case" (Case I), November 1946 to August 1947, prosecuting Karl Brandt and others for crimes against humanity during World War II. The proceedings contain information about medical experiments conducted on concentration camp prisoners; euthanasia programs carried out on the mentally ill and others; and killing of camp inmates for the express purpose of collecting skeletons for medical research. A list of defendants' names is provided in NARA pamphle...

  11. United States of America v. Josef Altstoetter et al., February 17, 1947 - December 4, 1947

    Contains proceedings, exhibits, and other court documents from the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, United States v. Josef Altstoetter et al., (Case III, the "Justice Case"), February 1947 to December 1947, prosecuting Altstoetter and others for crimes against humanity during World War II. The proceedings contain information about Jews, Roma, Poles, and nationals of the eastern territories subjected to brutal treatment and death; deportation of civilians under the "Night and Fog Decree"; sterilization of "racially impure"; and euthanasia. A detailed list of defendants' names is provided in NARA ...

  12. Records relating to Auschwitz and other camps from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense, Podolsk

    Contains information about Soviet prisoners of war in Romanian camps; atrocities against Soviet citizens; liberation of Auschwitz and its various subcamps; inspection of the various Auschwitz camps after liberation; prisoners liberated from Auschwitz camps; liberation ofRavensbrück; atrocities in Stutthof; and activities of "bandit groups" (resistance fighters) in Lithuania and Belorussia.

  13. Records of der Kreishauptmann Radom-Land (Sygn.157)

    Contains applications, death notices, petitions, and various other documents relating to general administration matters in Radom, Poland, handled by the Kreishauptmann including applications of businessmen to serve German military personnel, permission for telephone lines, and petitions to send money to prisoners in Auschwitz; death notice for Józef Deugoszek, a partisan shot by the SS; death notice for Kasimir Jaslan, prisoners of Oranienburg.

  14. Gouverneur des Distrikts Radom records (Sygn.158)

    Contains correspondence, reports, criminal case records, and various other documents relating to water management in Radom, Poland; economic matters in the Radom district; the military and political situation in Radom; the defense of Lublin; regulation of work time for General Gouvernement offices; the criminal case of Wladyslaw Stefanski; police protection of prisons; and leaflets prepared by the German Army to entice Poles to fight the "Jewish Bolsheviks."

  15. Kreishauptmann Jedrzejów records (Sygn.159)

    Contains information about administrative, economic, and propaganda matters in Jedrzejów, Poland. Also contains situation reports and monthly reports (Lageberichte and Monatberichte), submitted to the General Gouverner's office in Kraków, concerning the political and economic situation in Jedrzejów. The reports range in date from December 1940 to October 1941.

  16. Records of the Feldkommandantur Radom (Sygn.161)

    Contains correspondence, reports, orders and various other documents relating to administrative matters handled by the Feldkommandantur in Radom, Poland, from circa December 1944 to circa March 1945. Includes promotions for military personnel; special operations for German military formation Korük 532; distribution of weapons; building of trenches and defenses; dismantling of businesses in Radom; and report of "bandit" or partisan attacks on German soldiers.

  17. Sidney Stecher collection of restitution claim files

    Contains restitution case files for clients of Sidney Stecher. The case files contain personal information about Holocaust survivors including: place of birth, occupation, ghetto and concentration camp experiences, place of liberation, medical information, and attempts to receive restitution from the German government. Files also contain various documents dating from the 1930s and 1940s used as evidence in the claims process.

  18. Henry L. Cohen collection relating to Nuremberg Case No. 11, the Ministries Case

    Contains transcripts of interrogations of defendants and witnesses in the "Ministries Case" (Nuremberg Case No. 11); general administrative records from the case concerning the interrogations of defendants and witnesses; translations of pre-World War II and World War II-period German documents collected as background information and as evidence in the Ministries case. The bulk of the materials in the collection relate to the participation of Richard Walter Darré in crimes against humanity while serving as Reichsbauernführer and Reichsernärungsminister from June 1933 to May 1942.

  19. Edna McFarland Maloy papers

    Contains photographs and typescripts relating to Edna McFarland Maloy's time in Allied-occupied Germany after World War II and her work with the Office of the Secretary General and the Chief of Defendants' Information Center from October to December 1946. Materials appear to be written during or shortly after Maloy's arrival in Germany, circa 1946. Also included is a biography of Mary Baum and United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter.

  20. Shoshannah Gallowski Fine papers

    The Shoshannah Gallowski Fine papers consist of Allied Expeditionary Forces Displaced Persons (A.E.F D.P.) registration records, administrative records, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Fine's work with orphaned Jewish children and displaced persons at Kloster Indersdorf (Kibbutz Dror) and in Great Britain after the Holocaust. The papers also contain addresses given by Leonard G. Montefiore relating to Jewish orphans; a book of drawings by Moshe Barash entitled "Figures from the haze" (in Hebrew); and a book of songs entitled "Songs from the Vilna ghetto" (in Y...