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  1. Bookburning, German civilians

    US propaganda/documentary film about World War II. A post-war U.S. narrative of intentions in Germany. Includes images of Goering at a press conference, war crimes trials, animated question marks, people around a pile of burning books in street, CU of "Mein Kampf" going into flames. "We will abolish all Nazi laws in which these ideas are fixed - all laws of discrimination by race, creed, or political opinion. It is not our intention to enslave the German people, but to re-educate them toward a democratic way of life." German civilians gathered looking at posters describing atrocities of war...

  2. Dr. Hans Stück collection

    Consists of post-war letters by Dr. Hans Stück, testimonies by Allied military personnel and Holocaust survivors about Dr. Stück's pre-war and wartime activities, and photographs of the Stück family. The letters and testimonies describe how Dr. Stück, though nominally a member of the Nazi Party, defended Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses in court, arranged for the removal of Jews from Buchenwald to places which were relatively safer, and facilitated correspondence between concentration camp prisoners and the outside world. The letters and testimonies were written while Stück was interned as a pr...

  3. Antisemitic graffiti on Jewish shops

    Building sign for a university health clinic. Pedestrians walk past the opera house with an antisemitic sign "Judentum ist Verbrechertum, Stuermer Sondernummer" ["To be Jewish is to be criminal. Read the special edition of Der Stuermer."] with a caricature of Jewish man. More graffiti on Jewish-owned shops as pedestrians walk by, including a red-painted "Jude" with X's, stars of David, and profile caricatures.

  4. Oral testimony of Eric Otto Sonneman

  5. Proces zaloga Chełmna nad Nerem, I (Sygn. Ob.217)

    Contains investigation files, evidence, and court documents relating to the war crimes trial of certain Chełmno extermination center staff.

  6. Ministry of the State Treasury, Office for Nationalized Property. Register of debt claims from Jewish firms Ministarstvo Državne Riznice, Ured za Podržavljeni imetak. Reg Potraživanja od Židovskih Tvrtki

    Records relate to the Aryanization and disposition of Jewish property. Collection deals with the outstanding credits and debts of confiscated Jewish-owned businesses. The name and address of the business is listed together with the name and address of the non-Jewish creditor/debtor, the date when the credit/debt was incurred, and the total debt owed.

  7. Processo de pedido de visto para Kurt Max Israel Neu, Ruth sara Neu (nascida Warburg), Eva Renate Elly Neu, Waldemar Chotzen e Sofie Chotzen

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Londres para Kurt Max Israel Neu, de nacionalidade alemã e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Londres para Ruth sara Neu (nascida Warburg), de nacionalidade alemã e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Londres para Eva Renate Elly Neu, de nacionalidade alemã e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino a Portugal. Sem...

  8. [Camera di Commercio, Industria e Agricoltura di Cuneo]

    Il fondo è pervenuto fortunosamente in possesso dell'Istituto ai primi anni Settanta E' costotuito da 8 serie, suddivise in 28 buste e 340 fascicoli. La quasi totalità dei documenti ricopre un arco di tempo che va dal 1924 agli anni del secondo dopoguerra, con un'estensione al 1968 dell'ultimo fascicolo. I documenti, in originale, riguardano in modo particolare programmi, bilanci relazioni del consiglio provinciale dell'Economia corporativa; dati statistici forniti da enti vari al Cpec; raccolte di circolari ministeriali. Di sicuro interesse sono le relazioni sulle condizioni agrarie della ...

  9. Ehmann, Günter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Abgabe durch das Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der Medizin/Universitätsmedizin Charite, Herr Dr. Schagen und Frau Prof. Schleiermacher, am 19.7.2022 Bestandsbeschreibung Persönliches und Arbeitsmaterialien aus seiner Tätigkeit auf dem Gebiet der ärztlichen Aus-, Weiter- und Fortbildung Vorarchivische Ordnung einfaches Verzeichnis der Ordnertitel (19) Zitierweise BArch N 2850/...

  10. Wasservogel Wellerson families collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence relating to Dorrit Wasservogel Wellerson (donor’s late wife), born in Vienna, Austria in 1923, and her parents Marcel and Klara Wasservogel. The Wasservogel family left Austria on August 20, 1939 for India. On September 1, 1939 the war broke out and they were trapped in Naples, Italy not being able to proceed. They later moved to Rome, but in 1940 they were placed in internment camp in Atripalda in Forino, Italy, not far from Naples. From October 1943 Forino was under Allied control. In July 1944 the Wasservogel family joined approxim...

  11. Friedrich and Hertha Lewinski: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Jewish couple Hertha neé Zacharias and Friedrich Lewinski from East Prussia who emigrated to the UK in the late 1930s. The rather fragmented documents focus on the time before their emigration and provide insights into Friedrich’s medical training and military service, his sports activities, certain insurance matters, and the couple’s wedding. Also contained are photographs of the main protagonists and numerous of their relatives and friends.

  12. Управління Служби безпеки України в Черкаській області м. Черкаси Черкаської області

    • Cherkasy Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine, city of Cherkasy, Cherkasy region
    • Upravlinnia Sluzhby Bezpeky Ukrainy v Cherkaskii oblasti, m. Cherkasy Cherkaskoi oblasti

    Collection contains personal criminal investigation files on Soviet citizens accused of political or criminal crimes (Inventory 1), and on Soviet citizens who returned to the USSR from German captivity or from being Ostarbeiter (Inventory 2). Some of these persons may have been of Jewish background. Inventory 1. 10916 files; 1918–1995. Extrajudicial and aborted criminal files. Inventory 2. 30642 files; 1941–1945. Filtration files.

  13. Generalstab der Luftwaffe / Chef des Generalstabes

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Akten stammen aus Rückführungen aus den USA und Großbritannien an die Dokumentenzentrale des Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes. Von dort wurden die Akten 1968 an das Bundesarchiv, Abteilung Militärarchiv abgegeben. Bestandsbeschreibung Der Bestand enthält nur wenige Schriftgutsplittern, vor allem zur Kriegsführung auf den verschiedenen Kriegsschauplätzen. Zitierweise BArch RL 2-I/...

  14. Collection of Nazi Occupation Documents of Various Provenance

    Only individual items have been preserved with regards to the history of the Jews within the territory of the Sudetenland region. The file Private legal requirements towards emigrated Jews contains a letter from the Office of the Government President of 22.2.1940 (inv. № 78). The file Jews, 1941–1943 holds materials regarding pertinence of Protectorate Jews under the Reich Association of Jews, use of means of transport by Jews, introduction of the obligation of Jews to be labelled as such and requests for waiving of this (inv. № 96). The file Anti-Semitic acts and measures, 1939 contains in...

  15. Molotov visits US; Sec. Hull; FDR at White House; women war workers

    Part 1, Soviet Commissar Molotov boards a plane at the Washington, DC airport (his secret visit to the US) Shows Secretary of State Hull. Part 2, Sec. Hull and Ambassador Litvinov sign a lend-lease agreement. Part 3, Grand Coulee dam is opened. Part 4, President and Mrs. Roosevelt greet King George II of Greece at the White House. Part 5, women war workers leave their children in nursery schools. Shows scenes at the schools and in industry. Part 6, U.S. bombers are ferried to Canada. Part 7, shows tin cans saved in scrap metal drives. Includes shots of aluminum being processed. Part 8, alli...

  16. Ahronheim and Less family papers

    Consists of a typed copy of "The Legacy Project: A History of the Ahronheim/Less Family, Lüneburg, Germany" by Margaret McQuillan. The manuscript incorporates family history, archival documents, and photographs to describe the experiences of the Ahronheim and Less families, focusing on the experiences of Leopold Less, who was arrested and sent to Sachsenhausen after Kristallnacht, his wife Anna, and his son Walter. Walter emigrated to the United States in 1934; his parents joined him in 1941. Also includes a copy of the family tree and a bound set of copies of primary source documents relat...

  17. Josef Broniatowski correspondence

    The Josef Broniatowski papers include two typewritten letters from Plauen, dated July 1938, documenting Broniatowski’s efforts to immigrate to the United States and two handwritten letters Broniatowski wrote from Częstochowa in November 1938 to his sons in the United States describing his family’s expulsion from Germany during the so-called Polenaktion and the news of Kristallnacht.

  18. Processo de pedido de visto para Marian Dabrowski, mulher de Marian Dabrowski, Srª. Mchalian Dabrowska, filha de Srª. Mchalian Dabrowska e Jan Budzinsky

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Marian Dabrowski, de nacionalidade polaca, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para mulher de Marian Dabrowski, de nacionalidade polaca, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Srª. Mchalian Dabrowska, de nacionalidade polaca, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Sem informação de autor...

  19. Documentation of the Jewish community in Cernauti, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Jewish community in Cernauti, 1941-1944 Included in the collection is documentation of the Centrala Evreilor din Romania (Jewish Center in Romania) in Cernauti, including: - List of names of Jews; - Request by the Jewish community to cancel the transfer of Jews to forced labor and to receive work permits; - Information regarding sending help to the Transnistria area; - Lists with names of senders and receivers of banking securities from cities in the region of Balta and Mogilev Podolski; - Request to receive help by the Jew, Alfred Sigal, referred to the administration ...

  20. Documentation of the Reichskanzlei (Reich Chancellery) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1934-1944

    Documentation of the Reichskanzlei (Reich Chancellery) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1934-1944 The material includes, among other items, a file dealing with the activities of Goering who was responsible for the Four-year Plan; proposals for promoting police and SD personnel (the proposals were sent from Himmler's headquarters to Lammers, the Reichskanzlei Executive Secretary. In the early years, there were personally signed by Himmler); file from 1934 containing official announcements of fealty oaths of the police chiefs to Hitler; Gestapo reports regarding opposition bodies to the Nazi...