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  1. Collection of A. Flesche, Trustee of the Lippmann, Rosenthal & Company in Amsterdam, 1940-1945

    Collection of A. Flesche, Trustee of the Lippmann, Rosenthal & Company in Amsterdam, 1940-1945 Correspondence between the Wirtschaft abd Alfred Flesche, a German banker and Abwehr employee, who was appointed as the Trustee of the Lippmann, Rosenthal & Company in 1940 for the purpose of the Aryanization of Jewish property; most of the correspondence is from the Sarphatistraat Collection, including documentation of the policies of the Nazi leadership regarding the confiscation of Jewish property in the Netherlands; the correspondence demonstrates the cooperation between various Nazi o...

  2. Documentation of the Soviet government authorities, regarding war crimes by the Nazis and their collaborators in the Zaporozhye region, 1944

    Documentation of the Soviet government authorities, regarding war crimes by the Nazis and their collaborators in the Zaporozhye region, 1944 Included in the collection: - Survey report of the regional commission for the investigation of war crimes by the Nazis and their collaborators in the Zaporozhye region, regarding the German occupation period; - Exhumation report prepared by the regional commission for the investigation of war crimes by the Nazis and their collaborators in the Zaporozhye region and the surrounding area; - Testimony of members of the Komunar Kolkhoz, regarding the murde...

  3. Julius Rothschild Papers

    Official correspondence from Julius and Carry Ruth Rothschild (1957); Financial correspondence of Julius Rothschild (1955 - 1956): Passport applications (N.d.); Will of Carry Ruth Rothschild (1956); Various official papers relating to Carry Ruth Rothschild and Julius Rothschild (1939 - 1954); Death certificates (1955 - 1966).

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- pre-war Prague; Sudetenland

    Air raid rehearsal in Prague. Tear gas released, soldiers, journalists, and cameraman wearing gas masks. Soldier on ground pretending to be dead. Nurses tend "injured." 01:17:52 Czech president Benes horseback riding near Prague. 01:18:53 Views of Prague. Konrad Henlein speaking to crowds in Hohenelbe in the Sudetenland. Parade. People wearing German national costumes.

  5. Lists of deported persons of Judeo-Spanish ancestry deported from France

    Contains digital reproductions of lists of deported persons of Judeo-Spanish ancestry who were deported from France. These are provisional lists and include information forms, some with photographs, on individuals, as well as people names found on lists at the Spanish Consulate in Paris, 1940.

  7. Carrol Walsh letter

    The Carrol Walsh letter was written by World War II veteran and liberator Carrol Walsh to Holocaust survivor Stephen Barry on April 10, 2008. Walsh, who liberated Barry from a train on the outskirts of Magdeburg, Germany, on April 13, 1945, writes about their friendship. Walsh also describes how unworthy he feels when survivors express their gratitude to him. He believes that the liberating soldiers were doing what they were morally obligated to do.

  8. Centraal Afwikkelingsbureau Duitse Schadeuitkeringen (CADSU) 1959-1966

    • Nationaal archief
    • 2.08.46
    • Dutch
    • 1959-1966
    • 183,2 meter; 2937 inventarisnummers

    De minister van Financiën stelde in 1959 het Centraal Afwikkelingsbureau Duitse Schade-uitkeringen in. Het Cadsu hield zich bezig met het afwikkelen van schadeclaims van joden en anderen die hadden geleden onder de nationaal-socialistische vervolging in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Het bureau vergoedde materiële schade op grond van Bundesrückerstattungsgesetz (de zgn. BRüG-claims) en immateriële schade op basis van de Bundesentschädigungsgesetz (BEG-uitkeringen). Het archief bevat persoonsdossiers betreffende de immateriële schade, zoals bijvoorbeeld het dragen van een Jodenster. Voor nadere inf...

  9. Stuart and Martha Bindeman photograph collection

    The collection consists of nine film negatives of bombed and ruined buildings in Warsaw, Poland, and two film negatives of Majdanek concentration camp.

  10. Flescher family correspondence

    Correspondence sent by Kalman and Sala Flescher of Stanisławów, Poland (modern-day Ivano-Frankivsʹk, Ukraine), to their son, Joachim Flescher, who was living in Italy, during the period 1936-1942. Also includes correspondence from Flescher's sisters, Zofia Flescher Uhrman and Gusta Flescher. Joachim Flescher attended medical school in Italy and remained in close contact with his family and with his girlfriend Klara, who apparently visited him in Italy. All the plans of rescuing the family through Costa Rica didn't materialize and Dr. Flescher had to hide in Italy with the help of his futur...

  11. Document

    The Jewish Communities of Shanghai collection comprises photocopies of a sample of archival materials about the Jewish communities of Shanghai from archival and private sources in Taipei, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Materials include records from the Kuomintang Archives and Shanghai Municipal Archives and from individuals Regina Strubreiter, Annemarie Pordes, and Tess Johnston. Records from the Kuomintang Archives include catalogs, foreign ministry records, Shanghai city government announcements, Shanghai Kuomintang Party records, newspapers, and clippings. Records from the Shanghai Municipal ...

  12. Not a moment too soon

    Describes the author's (b. 1926) childhood in Vienna, Austria; the Anschluss; Kristallnacht; author's emigration to Belgium and his subsequent escape to France; author's return to Austria in hopes of getting a transport to Sweden; author's arrest and his experiences in Terezin (a.k.a. Theresienstadt), Auschwitz, Dachau, Erpfting, and Kaufering; his liberation; the death of members of his family; his attempts to rebuild his life in Vienna; and his immigration to and experiences in the United States.

  13. Processo de pedido de visto para Julia Ledebour (Condessa Davico di Quittengo), Carlo, Sonia e Marisa

    Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação de Itália ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Julia Ledebour (Condessa Davico di Quittengo), de nacionalidade italiana e residente na Rodésia, com destino a Itália. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação de Itália ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Carlo, de nacionalidade italiana e residente na Rodésia, com destino a Itália. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação de Itália ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Sonia, de nacionalidade italian...

  14. Processo de pedido de visto para Barão Rotschild, mulher do Barão Rotschild, Etienne, Louise e Ruppert

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Barão Rotschild, de nacionalidade francesa, com destino não identificado. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para mulher do Barão Rotschild, de nacionalidade americana, com destino não identificado. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Etienne, de nacionalidade húngara, com destino não identificado. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal...

  15. MFS 3 Bezirksverwaltung für Staatssicherheit Cottbus

    Fund von Skeletten auf dem Gelände des Arbeitserziehungslager Wunscha der Staatspolizeileitstelle Breslau; Hinweise zum Überfall auf eine im jüdischen Besitz befindliche Gaststätte 1935; Denunziation eines jüdischen Arztes in Bernsdorf.

  16. Reichskommissare bei den Prisengerichten der Kaiserlichen Marine

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsbeschreibung Aus dem 1. Weltkrieg sind nur Teile von Handakten (4 Nrn) der Reichskommissare beim Oberprisengericht Berlin und beim Prisengericht Hamburg überliefert. Zitierweise BArch RM 127/...

  17. Mackensen, August von (Generalfeldmarschall)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 06.12.1849 - 08.11.1945, Generalfeldmarschall Bestandsbeschreibung geb. 6. Dez. 1849 in Haus Leipnitz, Kreis Wittenberg, als Anton Ludwig Friedrich August Mackensen; gest. 8. Nov. 1945; Private Tagebücher 1865-1942, Korrespondenzen Wilhelm II. und Angehörigen seines Hauses, mit Hindenburg und Hitler, Ministern und Offizieren; Papiere aus der militärischen Dienstzeit und der Tätigkeit als preußischer Staatsrat; politische Unterlagen, u.a. über Monarchismus, "Fememörder", Reichspräsidentenwahl 1932, Nationalsozialismus, Kirchenkampf im "Dritten Reich" und Aussc...

  18. Program on nuclear weapons

    Host: Carl Sagan. Guest: George Kistiakowsky (1900-1982), designed and built the chemical charge that triggered the first nuclear explosion. Sagan interviews Kistiakowsky about his involvement in nuclear weapons. Program discusses the history of the nuclear arms race and the "grave threat" of the human future. Kistiakowsky says that a nuclear war is probable and that only our efforts will help stop it.

  19. Germans push thru France; Hitler meets w/ Mussolini

    LS, tanks spread out over fields, waiting for artillery barrage to lift. Shells burst in distance. LS tank advances. VCU, tanks. Shell bursts close by; burning French tanks. CU, showing shell holes, dead. Tank crews eating after battle. Hitler visits front, looking over map with staff officers, including Raeder and Goering. Receiving news of French capitulation. Boarding train for Munich to meet Mussolini. Pan, Berchtesgaden. Hitler meets officials in train station, German children and Mussolini giving Nazi salute. CUs, Hitler and Mussolini in car, crowd in BG.

  20. Poster of Schuschnigg

    March (probably very early after the Anschluss). Single shot of a sign with Chancellor Schuschnigg portrait and "JA" (etched or stencil-painted?) and partially scratched off. All the Staendestaat propaganda was removed (often by forcing Jews) after March 12.