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  1. "Süssholz Siblings: The War"

    Consists of one memoir, 50 pages, entitled "Süssholz Siblings: The War" by Friedl Süssholz-Wolfstein, originally of Trier, Germany. She describes her childhood, her father and brother's deportation from Germany as stateless persons in 1938, and her own escape as a child into Belgium, where her family was slowly reunited. After various attempts to escape after the outbreak of war, Friedl and her brothers were arrested in France, and Friedl was deported to Auschwitz, where she worked sorting victim belongings in the "Canada" section of the camp. After Auschwitz was evacuated, Friedl was sent ...

  2. Rene and Raya Karschon papers

    The papers document the experiences of Rene and Raya Karschon during the Holocaust. Includes documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to Rene's imprisonment in Camp de Gurs in France and his subsequent escape to Switzerland (dated 1941-1942) and letters and postcards written to Raya Levin, Rene Karschon's wife, in Switzerland from her relatives in Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) (dated 1938-1941). Also includes postcards and correspondence written by Rene Karschon while in Le Chambon, France, between 1941-1942.

  3. Kaltenbrunner pleads not guilty, Shawcross speaking at Nuremberg Trial

    01:28:18 (Paris 427) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 7, 1945. Ernst Kaltenbrunner enters courtroom for the first time and is seated in the dock between Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Rosenberg. LS, Kaltenbrunner stands and pleads not guilty. Rear LS, Asst. Prosecutor Sydney Alderman (US) addresses the tribunal. 01:34:27 (Paris 418) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 1, 1945. Rear view, address by British prosecutor Sir Hartly Shawcross. Rear view, von Ribbentrop's counsel, wearing black cap, questioning Gen. Lahousen. Shawcross concluding his speech, quotes Hitler, "...

  4. Letter from Janusz Schwieger to Leopold Infeld

    The collection consists of a 15 August 1945 letter from Janusz Schwieger in France to Leopold Infeld. The letter regards persecution, deportation, and conditions of Polish Jews and their families (Infeld, Schwieger, and others) in 1943 at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and to transports being sent to Auschwitz from Bergen-Belsen.

  5. German Occupying Forces 1941-1945

    The fund of German Occupying Forces has in total 315 boxes of the materials of a war period from 1941-1945, arranged and processed in archival manner. The aforementioned archival material applies mainly to combat operations of the German units on Yugoslav territories, various combat reports, checklists of units staffing and documentation of German military and civilian authorities. The fund of German Occupying Forces also has 51 boxes of disorganized archival materials with the reports on operational section work, promotional material and German card files manuscripts. The fund of German Oc...

  6. Selected records of the Municipal Government in Końskie Zarząd Miejski w Końskich (Sygn. 778)

    Records of the Municipal Government in Końskie: administrative files, registers of minutes of meetings (1945), abandoned real estate in Końskie region (1946), and factories, questionnaires related to German war crimes, and correspondence relating to reporting of new born children (1945-1946.)

  7. Atrinkti dokumentai iš Gosudarstvennij Archiv Rossijskoj Federacii (GARF)

    • Selected Documents from the State Archive of the Russian Federation
    • Atrinkti dokumentai iš Valstybinio Rusijos Federacijos archyvo

    Protocols of the witnesses of the mass killings in the Vilnius and Suvalkai area, in the Vilnius ghetto, Paneriai mass killing site. Memoirs of the Jewish survivors (members of the corpses burning brigade in Paneriai) and IX Fort in Kaunas. Protocols, acts, and other documentation compiled by the Extraordinary Soviet Commission (1944). First list of Jews living in Lithuania (compiled on September 1944). Total 1195 persons (data includes names, names of both parents, birth date). Second list of Jewish residents in Lithuania (27 September 1944). Total 468 persons (name, surname, place of birth).

  8. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Horní Planá

    The files relating to persons of Jewish origin have survived in fragments: the recovery of debts from Jews who had to flee from the border regions, 1939-1941 (call No. K, inv. No. 20, box 9; call No. M, inv. No. 21, box 9). If the name is not known, searching is difficult. Files concerning Jewish inhabitants may sometimes be found in other parts of the fonds, too.

  9. Selected files from the collection : "Bezirksamt Wilmersdorf" (B Rep. 209)

    Contains records relating to evaluation and treatment of Jewish property (addresses, type of property and ownership status); renaming of streets; denazification and Aryanization, and protesting against Jewish businesses. Includes also name lists of “foreigners” and forced laborers.

  10. Association of Jewish landlords in Wilno and Wilno district (Fond 342)

    The collection contains correspondence files with the Ministry of Public Work, Ministry of Finances, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Wilno Magistrate, Wilno Treasury and other local and central government offices of the Polish government as well as Jewish community. Includes also minutes of the meetings of board of the organization, membership lists, list of Jewish owners of the real estate properties in Wilno, personal files of the Jewish real estate agents, card catalogue of members of the association.

  11. Military Historical collections Militaergeschichtliche Sammlungen

    Contains mainly personal papers, correspondence, diaries, and similar materials written by German officers and soldiers during World War II.

  12. Reconciliation: displaced persons and emigration

    Contains selected files from the War Office, Foreign Office, and Home Office relating to Jewish immigration to Palestine, displaced persons, including administration and policy records, reports on movements of DPs, nominal rolls and statistics, as well as the post war situation in Europe and restitution.

  13. Редакція газети "Іванівські вісті", м. Іванків Київської області.

    • Редакция газеты «Иванковские вести», г. Иванков Киевской области

    Среди документов фонда гранки статей антисемитского характера: о «засилье евреев в мировом масштабе» и, в частности, трактующие революционные преобразования в России как еврейский переворот, осуществленный при финансовой поддержке американского капитала; обвиняющие евреев в преступлениях НКВД (массовых расстрелах украинцев в Виннице) и изображающие Вторую мировую войну как затеянную евреями, чтобы эксплуатировать немецкий и другие европейские народы, как борьбу Германии против «жидо:большевизма» и т.п. Имеются также извещения и распоряжения городского комиссара Умани о запрете евреям доступ...

  14. Paternity suit; genetic testing

    Dramatized propaganda film with actors explaining a paternity suit and testing. Reel 2: The boy, "der kleine Georg" [Little George]. Blood test on slide under microscope. Microscopic view of slides and explanation by doctor. Blood is not the only factor analyzed. Eye color. Illustrates eye colors of both boys (in disputed baby case) and their parents. 01:18:39 Hair color. The doctor knows from the analysis the mother is really a dark blond, though her hair is bleached. Hair form and texture. 01:20:23 Ears. CU photos. Nose holes. CU : 'Are you beginning to trust us now?' Hand prints. 'Frau W...

  15. Bert Yost letter

    The Bert Yost letter was sent by Bert Yost, an American soldier, to Lt. Dorothy Mosely, a nurse serving in United States military hospitals in Britain and France during World War II. The letter , dated May 10, 1945, describes the military hospital where Yost was stationed in occupied Germany. He also described the former prisoners-of-war and concentration camp inmates who had been admitted as patients to his hospital, the refugees he had seen in the area, and stories he had heard about atrocities committed in the concentration camps include a probably reference to Ilse Koch.

  16. German Trades Unions in Great Britain: Miscellaneous material

    This collection comprises newsletters, activity reports and and other material relating to the activities of the TUCGWGB.

  17. Deutsch-Griechische Warenausgleichsgesellschaft mbH

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Nach Beendigung der Liquidation gelangten die Unterlagen ins Geheime Staatsarchiv Berlin-Dahlem und wurden 1969 im Zuge der Flurbereinigung mit dem Geheimen Staatsarchiv an das Bundesarchiv abgegeben. Bestandsbeschreibung Die Akten betreffen die Regelung des deutsch-griechischen bzw. deutsch-albanischen Warenverkehrs sowie die Durchführung der Ein- und Ausfuhr. Erschliessungszustand Findbuch (1971) Zitierweise BArch R 127/...

  18. "Buchenwald children" collection

    Consists of one card identifying Josek Szwarcberg as a civilian internee of Buchenwald and two photographs of the Buchenwald children, who were internees in Buchenwald at the time of liberation. The Buchenwald children, including Josek Szwarcberg, were placed in the care of the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) in Geneva, who placed them in France, England, and Switzerland. One photograph shows the younger children in Hitler Youth uniforms, as the OSE could not find enough civilian clothing.

  19. Oral history interviews of the Leonard and Edith Ehrlich collection

    Oral history interviews of the Leonard and Edith Ehrlich collection, created in the late 1970s during the Ehrlichs' research for the book "Choices Under Duress of the Holocaust," about the fate of the Jewish Community of Vienna during the Holocaust era. Contents include interviews related to key figures in the Jewish Community of Vienna during the Nazi era, including Benjamin Murmelstein, rabbi and member of the Jewish Council of Theresienstadt and Josef Löwenherz, leader of the Jewish Community of Vienna under Nazi rule and subsequently the Jewish Council of Theresienstadt. Other intervie...

  20. Chester Harrison collection

    The laminated mimeographed copy of James Cannon's article, "We weren't to blame, they said, when slaves died," which originally appeared in the April 10, 1945 issue of "Stars and Stripes" and describes what American soldiers discovered when they liberated the Ohrdruf concentration camp and the feelings expressed by Germans who lived nearby as American soldiers forced them to examine the camp. "The Holocaust did happen," from the June 17, 1993 issue of the "Hollis News" provides some biographical information about the war-time activities of Chester Harrison and also reprints the above "Stars...