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  1. Wiener family photographs

    1. Jacob G. Wiener collection

    Consists of 23 pre-war and wartime photographs of members of the family of Rabbi Jacob Wiener [Gerd Zwienicki] in Germany. Included are class photographs of the yeshiva of Rabbi Breuer in Frankfurt in the 1930s.

  2. Jacob Wiener papers

    1. Jacob G. Wiener collection

    Consists of a blank business form and envelope from the business of Josef Swinizki.

  3. Rabbi Jacob G. Wiener papers

    1. Jacob G. Wiener collection

    Collection of documents including war ration books and identification papers issued to Gerd Zwienicki (previous name of Rabbi Jacob G. Wiener) by the United States Government after his arrival in the United States after his escape from Nazi occupied Europe.

  4. Rabbi Jacob G. Wiener papers

    1. Jacob G. Wiener collection

    Collection consists of documents, photographs, a wallet, and photocopies of documents pertaining to donor and family during and after the war.

  5. Zwienicki family papers

    1. Jacob G. Wiener collection

    The papers consist of letters received by the Zwienicki family [donor's family] in Nazi Germany and following the Holocaust.

  6. Gerd Zwienicki papers

    1. Jacob G. Wiener collection

    The papers relate to Gerd Zwienicki [donor], his father, Josef Zwienicki, and his life in Germany before the Holocaust. Included in the collection are documents, correspondence, term papers, notebooks and a speech relating to a Jewish school in Bremen, Germany, where Gerd Zwienicki was the principal and director.

  7. Walter Rudy Horenstein papers

    1. Walt Rudy Horenstein collection

    The Walter Rudy Horenstein collection includes false identification documents, postwar identification documentation, immigration documents, restitution applications and correspondence, and photographs documenting the wartime experiences of Walter Rudy Horenstein, who survived on false identification papers under the name Rudolf Budkis, and was sent to prison and forced labor camps before liberation in 1945. The collection also documents Walt’s postwar attempts to reestablish his identity and immigrate to the United States. False identification documents under the name Rudolf Budkis include ...

  8. M. 51 - Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of the Jews in Germany)

    M. 51 - Documantation of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of the Jews in Germany) History of the Organization The organization was apparently founded in early 1939 by representatives of the Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden (Reich's Deputation of the German Jews). In July 1939, an ordinance was published by the authorities concerning the establishment of the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany, which replaced the Reich's Deputation of the German Jews. In the words of its Chairman, "... [it will serve as] a new organizational basis for the dwindling p...

  9. Чернігівська міська управа, м. Чернігів Чернігівської області

    • Chernihiv city board, city of Chernihiv, Chernihiv region
    • Chernihivska miska uprava, m. Chernihiv Chernihivskoi oblasti

    Local administration documentation can contain information connected to the Holocaust in the area. Titles and sizes of the selected files potentially related to the subject: File 1. Printed orders, decrees and announcements of the Ortskommandantur and city board about organizing of district boards, village elders and their tasks, tax payments, and other issues, 33 pages. File 2. Orders within city board about list of staff members, hiring and dismissal of servants. Memo from Baran-Butovych regarding releasing POWs from the camps, dwellers of Chernihiv and nearby villages, 43 pages. File 3. ...

  10. Matriky židovských náboženských obcí v českých krajích

    • Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Jewish Communities in the Czech Lands
    • HBMa
    • NAD 167
    • Národní archiv
    • 167
    • English
    • 1784-1949
    • The collection consists of 93,8 linear meters of documents, all processed and inventoried.

    Holocaust-related material was categorised into classes as follows: death certificates from Theresienstadt (1941-12-03 to 1943-09-05), recorded deaths in Theresienstadt (in alphabetical order by the names A - Z) and alphabetical card index lists of persons. Requests for additional entries to the registers of death in Theresienstadt were prepared on the basis of death certificates and kept in two series. The first series in alphabetic order consists of actual death records in the register of deaths of Theresienstadt. The second series is arranged numerically and consists of the applications ...

  11. Lenneberg and Brünell families papers

    The Lenneberg and Brünell families papers consists of a diary, photographs, and documents relating to Ursula Lenneberg and Siegmund Brünell’s families' pre-war life in Germany and their wartime and post-war experiences in various concentration camps and DP camps. The diary was written by Ursula while in the Deggendorf DP camp. In the diary she describes her experiences interned in several camps including Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kudowa, and Merzdorf. The diary also includes post-war images of Ursula and her mother, Caroline “Lina” Lenneberg, as well as a note inscribed by her f...

  12. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate

    1. Ursula Lenneberg Pawel and Siegmund Brünell family collection

    Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, obtained by 17 year old Ursula Lenneberg in 1943 while an inmate of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia. Ursula considered this fake money produced to fool the Red Cross that camp conditions were decent and healthy. Ursula received a deportation notice in July 1942 in Dusseldorf, Germany, where she lived with her family. They insisted on going with her to the camp. Her father Otto and brother Walter, 12, were allowed, but her mother, Lina, born a Christian, was not. In Theresienstadt in summer 1944, Otto received a deportation notice and Ursula insi...

  13. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate

    1. Ursula Lenneberg Pawel and Siegmund Brünell family collection

    Scrip, valued at 10 kronen, obtained by 17 year old Ursula Lenneberg in 1943 while an inmate of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia. Ursula considered this fake money produced to fool the Red Cross that camp conditions were decent and healthy. Ursula received a deportation notice in July 1942 in Dusseldorf, Germany, where she lived with her family. They insisted on going with her to the camp. Her father Otto and brother Walter, 12, were allowed, but her mother, Lina, born a Christian, was not. In Theresienstadt in summer 1944, Otto received a deportation notice and Ursula ins...

  14. Silver pin with floral engraving found by a German Jewish survivor while imprisoned by the Soviet Army

    1. Evelyn Goldstein Woods family collection

    Engraved silver brooch found by Herta Goldstein in a drawer at a displaced persons prison camp in February 1945 in Nemmersdorf, East Prussia. She and her 7 year old daughter Evy were held in the camp by the Soviet Army after the defeat of Germany at the Battle of Koenigsberg. Herta and Evy were German Jews living in hiding under assumed identities. Because they spoke German the Soviets assumed they were spies; they did not believe the women were Jews because they thought all the Jews had been killed. Herta later had her Evy's initials, EG, engraved on the brooch. Herta, her husband Ernst, a...

  15. Star of David badge with Jude worn by Austrian Jewish woman

    1. Friedrich and Edith Löw Taussig collection

    Star of David badge worn by Edith Löw in Vienna, Austria, from September 1, 1941, until her liberation in April 1945. Austrian Jews were required to wear Judenstern (Jewish Stars) at all times to humiliate and mark them as Jews. Edith and her mother Friedericke got their patches at the Jewish community center and hemmed them to look nicer. After Germany annexed Austria in March 1938, Edith’s father Otto lost his job and fled to Yugoslavia. At age 14, Edith stopped attending school and worked at the Jewish community daycare. By late summer 1942, the center closed because of mass deportations...

  16. White badge with an inverted red triangle and number 1896 worn by a gay concentration camp inmate

    1. Josef Kohout/Wilhelm Kroepfl collection

    White patch with an inverted red triangle and black inked prisoner number 1896 worn by Josef Kohout while incarcerated from May 1940-April 1945 in Flossenbürg concentration camp for violating statute 175, which punished indecent acts between men. After being liberated during a death march, Josef replaced his filthy, tattered uniform with civilian clothing. Before destroying the uniform, he removed this badge to keep as a memento of his ordeal. Josef was from Vienna, Austria. After it was annexed by Germany in March 1938, German laws were aggressively enforced. The Nazi regime viewed homosex...

  17. Remains of Lidice in June 1942

    Lidice, June 10-24, 1942. This film was made by Czech filmmakers for the newsreel "Aktualita" and discovered in a secret German archive in Prague in 1945. It documents the immediate aftermath of the Lidice tragedy, where 173 men were murdered and the town was set on fire by members of the Gestapo from Kladno and Prague. Section 6 of the RAD was summoned to remove all external evidence of this Nazi crime and was housed in nearby barracks. SS officers and the leader of the Kladno Gestapo, Wiesmann, can be seen in the footage. Two Czech filmmakers were already in Lidice on June 10, 1942. The m...

  18. Reichskriminalpolizeiamt

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Polizei und SS
    4. SS-Führungshauptamt

    I. Kripostelle Karlsruhe/ Außendienststelle Konstanz/ Außenposten Singen am Hohentwiel: Rundschreiben, 1938-1944; Rundschreiben Staatspolizeileitstelle Karlsruhe, Landrat Konstanz, u.a. (EAP 173-b-18-05/9), 3019-3103: 1) Rundschreiben Landrat Konstanz vom 20. Oktober 1944: Absetzung von Sabotagetrupps durch Sowjets über Danzig und Ost- und Westpreußen (unter Führung deutscher Überläufer); Abwurf von "Brandstiftungsmitteln" im westlichen Reichsgebiet, 3021; 2) Rundschreiben Landrat Konstanz vom 07. Mai 1943: Überweisung straffällig gewordener sowjetrussischer Kriegsgefangener in Konzentratio...

  19. MA 198 / 2

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Provenienzen der Länder
    4. Preußen

    I. Preußisches Ministerium des Innern/ II G: Bericht des preußischen Regierungspräsidenten Berlin, März-August 1933: Maßnahmen zur Durchführung der Verordnung zum Schutze von Volk und Staat vom 28. Februar 1933 gemäß Runderlass Preußisches Ministerium des Innern vom 03. März 1933, unter anderem: 1) Bericht Polizeipräsident/ Landeskriminalamt Berlin (gezeichnet Diels) vom 20. März, 04. April, 21. April 1933: Verzeichnis der bis zum 19. März 1933 nach Verordnung zum Schutze von Volk und Staat verbotenen kommunistischen und sozialdemokratischen Druckschriften und geschlossenen Räumlichkeiten, ...

  20. Leo Haas watercolor of a concentration camp prisoner in a blue striped uniform

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Watercolor by Leo Haas of an inmate in a bright blue and white striped uniform walking through Ebensee concentration camp based on his experiences as a prisoner in the camp. Haas, a Czech Jewish artist, was arrested in 1939 in Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia for being a Communist. He was deported to Nisko labor camp in German occupied Poland, returned in April 1940, and assigned to forced labor. In August 1942, he was arrested for smuggling and, with his family, sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. He and a few other artists secretly documented the horrendous conditions of ca...