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  1. Judenrat in Wilno Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Wilno (Sygn. 269)

    Records of the Judenrat in Wilno. Contains private documents of Szlam Prener: a proof of payment, a registration certificate, and a request to pay the tax applicable to the Jewish population in Vilnius.

  2. Soviets deported to Germany

    Soviets citizens* (see Notes field) deported to Germany (Lemnitz). Scenes of river boats with Nazi flags on them, heading down river, full of mainly children. People are smiling, waving. Children run alongside the banks of the river smiling and waving as the boats head downstream. VS, children along the banks of river, waving, cut to LS of people in the boats waving back at them. MCU, children on the boat, singing with accordion accompaniment. Pans of countryside along the river banks. MCU of young girl taking photographs of the countryside from the window of the boat. Translation of Ukrain...

  3. Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien: various papers

    The original papers in this collection document the activities of the representative organization of the Jewish cultural community in Vienna in 1939. Also included in the deposit and now housed in the Wiener Library 'Special Collections' are an original Jewish tram pass issued to Berta Brand and 2 pieces of 'Jude' badges.Correspondence and papers of the head office of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Wien including correspondence and statements from the housing and emigration departments of the IKW, which provide biographical details of Jews who have suffered persecution under the Nazis an...

  4. Adolf Frankl: papers re art exhibition

    This collection of papers relating to an art exhibition of Adolf Frankl's works consists of correspondence, opening addresses, newspaper reviews and catalogues.

  5. Ilse Salomon collection

    The papers consist of documents relating to Adolf Kaufmann's and Kurt Wolfgang Ruppel's experiences during and after the Holocaust, including a form from the Red Cross International Tracing Service, a document of exclusion from the Wehrmacht, and an identification certificate from the British Home Office.

  6. Emmy Rosenstock Dornhelm papers, ca. 1925-1939.

    Contains a postcard addressed to Mrs. Hermine Rothmüller in Vienna, Austria and sent by Franz Otto Rothmüller in the Dachau concentration camp. In the postcard, Franz asks his mother to go to the authorities to get him released, 1938 December The papers also include an envelope addressed to Justin Rosenstock in New York, sent by Friedl Rosenstock, the sister of Justin Rosenstock and and Emmy Dornhelm in Schweinfurt, Germany, a Deutsches Reich Reisepass belonging to Franz Otto Rothmüller (1939), and a Heimatschein for Franz Otto Rothmüller issued in Vienna in 1925.

  7. March of Dimes drive; War Crimes Trials: Buchenwald

    16:10:46 The March of Dimes Drive in the 88th Infantry Div, Italy, February 7 (6?), 1947. MS, enlisted man and officer counting money received for drive. CU, Major's hand handling script. Thermometer showing Division progress in drive. Group at American Red Cross: One enlisted man drops money into wishing well. Maj Gen Bryant E. Moore, Commanding General, 88th Inf Div, receiving check from Maj Chirico. CU, sign: "Blue Devils" showing March of Dimes campaign. 16:13:48 (Munich 541) Buchenwald Trial, Dachau, Germany, April 12 (11?), 1947. LS, MS, war crimes courthouse at Dachau. CU, sign: "War...

  8. Ustaška nadzorna služba (UNS), Jewish section

    Questionnaires completed by Jews: name, date and place of birth, citizenship, profession, employment history, data on children, property, memberships; records (e.g., receipts for supplies) of the Đakovo camp.

  9. Orpo Kommando Kaunas, Fond R-1018/1

    Contains information on police personnel and orders, the rights and duties of police in occupied areas, and the Kaunas concentration camp.

  10. The Diary of a Survivor

    The memoir details the separate lives of Herbert R. Ert and that of his father, Samson Reichstein. In addition to describing Ert's life in the United States, the memoir also describes Reichstein's simultaneous experiences in Nazi-occupied Europe. The author has indicated that, contrary to the text of the memoir, his mother died in Belzec, and not Bergen-Belsen, and that the Anne Frank which he mentions in his memoir was not the diarist. He mistook her for an adolescent of the same name.

  11. Reichsverwertungsstelle GmbH

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Die Akten wurden 1936 an das Reichsarchiv abgegeben und dort nach Ablauf der handelsgesetzlich vorgeschriebenen Frist 1941 zum großen Teil kassiert. Von den kriegsbedingt ursprünglich ausgelagerten ca. 580 Akten gelangten lediglich 5 ins Zentrale Staatsarchiv Potsdam zurück. Bestandsbeschreibung Richtlinien für die Einrichtung der Buchführung und Rechnungslegung 1929-1930 und Reiseberichte und Schreiben 1929-1931 Erschliessungszustand Findbuch (1938) Zitierweise BArch R 2108/...

  12. Pamphlet

    Booklet, Story of Belsen, that documents the liberation and post-liberation experiences of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp and the British Royal Army, published in English in 1945. The book was owned by Major Philip Sharp. Sharp was one of four British soldiers detailed to enter Bergen Belsen on April 15, 1945. Their first task was to arrest the commandant, Kramer. Sharp was tasked with counting the number of dead and arranging the daily burials of nearly 10,000 inmates. The men doing this post-liberation work were picked because they had been immunized against typhus which continued t...

  13. Albert Craig Levinson collection

    Consists of one typed testimony, three pages, dictated by Dr. Kurt Grunwald, a Czech physician, related to his Holocaust experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Ohrdruf. The testimony was typed by Albert Craig Levinson, a member of the 8th Infantry Division, after the liberation of Ohrdruf. Dr. Grunwald later reunited with his surviving son, Misa (Frank), whom he mourns in the testimony, believing Misa to have been killed at Auschwitz. Also includes a copyprint photograph of Albert Craig Levinson.

  14. Records of the American Jewish Committee Paris Office (FAD-41) Files.

    The “Series I: Geographic Files” contains interesting material on the Belgian Jewish community. Firstly we point out the reports on visits to Belgium and the situation of the Jews there (1947-1950, 1955); see box 5, folder nr. 41. Box 5, folders nrs. 37, 39, 42 and 43 contain monthly reports and correspondence by AJC correspondents (i.a. Regine Orfinger-Karlin and Joseph Lehrer) in Belgium, resp. for 1956-1957, 1945-1951, 1946-1948 and 1949-1951. Correspondence, various reports, press clippings etc. on general subjects (the Jewish population, refugees, anti-Semitism, contacts with Jewish co...

  15. A. Werber Collection (Poale Zion Left Party in Belgium).

    In this fonds we find the following material: documents related to Linke Poale Zion in Belgium and Jewish associations during the war [JM/1038]; the newspaper Unzer Vort (1941-1944) and other newspapers published during the war [JM/1039]; personal documents, biographies and photographs of members of Linke Poale Zion [JM/1040]; documents on the situation of Jews in Belgium during the war, lists of communists and members of Poale Zion, documents on the resistance in Belgium, correspondence on the relations between Christians and Jews [JM/1041]; documents concerning Jewish life in Belgium afte...

  16. "Naki's Story"

    Consists of one typed story, 8 pages, written by Jack Samarias in the voice of his aunt, Naki (Esther) Touron-Fais, and describing her Holocaust experiences. In the story, "Naki" describes the wartime bombing of her hometown of Larissa, Greece; the family's decision to leave Larissa for Vizitsa, Greece, where they felt they would be safer; her visit to Larissa in March 1944, where she was arrested and taken to an internment camp outside of Larissa. She and a friend, Julie, lied about being Christians and convinced the German guards to release them as long as they could provide proof. Julie ...

  17. Zaro Calabrese testimony of the liberation of Ohrdruf

    Contains information about the liberation experiences of Zaro Calabrese at Ohrdruf concentration camp in April 1945.

  18. Processo de pedido de visto para Joyce Barnes, filho de Joyce Barnes, Gillespie, Alcock, Wynnipp, Willett e Addington

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Malta para Joyce Barnes, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino ao Reino Unido. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Malta para filho de Joyce Barnes, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino ao Reino Unido. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Malta para Gillespie, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino ao Reino Unido. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Malta para Alcock, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino ao Reino Un...

  19. Joniškio miesto savivaldybė

    • The Municipality of the City of Joniškis

    The subfonds consist of the files from the interwar period until the end of Second World War, including correspondence between the mayor of the city with the chief of the police and the chiefs of the local rural districts on various questions; registers of residents; applications from residents for passports; lists of residents who were given passports; registers of traders; registers of owners of the private property. The subfonds include documents from the period of the Nazi occupation and documents of the collaborating authorities, as well as circulars, reports, and orders of the Gebitsc...

  20. Sąd Obwodowy w Pszczynie

    • Amtsgericht in Pless
    • Local Court in Pszczyna

    Akta zbiorcze do ksiąg USC, testamenty, akta personalne