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  1. Records from the Archives of the Jewish Community of Iannina, Greece

    Records of the Jewish Community of Ioannina (1947-2014), one of the oldest Jewish communities in Greece, whose members are predominantly Romaniot Jews. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence files of the Community Council as well as documentation related to the restitution of Jewish property after the Holocaust. Among the records are the minutes of the Community Council’s meetings; notes, memoranda, reports, correspondence with other Greek Jewish Communities, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, institutions inside and outside the country; financial documents: l...

  2. Kirchliche Hilfsstelle München

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • Z 18
    • German
    • 1945-1950
    • Schriftgut 224 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 4,3 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 1. Gründung und Aufgaben „Die Kirchliche Hilfsstelle war bereits im Jahre 1943 als Nebenorganisation des Reichsverbandes für das katholische Deutschtum im Ausland und Sekretariat des Bistums Osnabrück gegründet und mit der Betreuung des katholischen Klerus in den besetzten Ostgebieten beauftragt worden. Um den veränderten Nachkriegsverhältnissen Rechnung zu tragen, wurde durch den Auftrag der Fuldaer Bischofskonferenz 1945 am 6.10.1945 die Kirchliche Hilfsstelle München als Zweigstelle der Zentrale der Kirchlichen Hilfsstelle in Frankfurt/Main unter dem Prote...

  3. Eichmann Trial -- Session 93 -- Transports to Trawniki, Sobibor; Einsatzgruppen; discussion of the Fuehrerprinzip

    Footage begins in the middle of Session 93 during cross-examination of the accused by Attorney General Gideon Hausner concerning the Trawniki labor camp. Eichmann is questioned about the date of transfer of the camp to the Economic-Administrative Head Office and whether in 1942 the Jews arriving at the camp were immediately sent for extermination. The opening segment is repeated after a break in the footage. Hausner presents a document to Eichmann and asks him if Odilo Globocnik was Oswald Pohl's representative in charge of implementing extermination in Poland. [Globocnik oversaw the camp i...

  4. Hans Rosenblatt. Collection

    This collection contains: a digital copy of the Rosenblatt-Ginsberg family photo album, including photos of Hans Rosenblatt, his parents Adolf Rosenblatt and Lea Ginsberg, his uncle Samuel Rosenblatt and his adoptive parents David Dorn and Hanna alias Fanny Dorn taken before, during and after the war ; Samuel Rosenblatt’s American immigrant identification card from 1939 ; an album with handwritten messages of friends of Lea Ginsberg which she took with her when she migrated from Poland to Vienna to marry Adolf Rosenblatt ; postcards received by Lea Ginsberg in France in 1941 from her family...

  5. Jakub Gutenbaum collection

    Consists of nine photographs depicting the donor and his family before the war in Warsaw and Rytro, Poland; a registration certification, issued in Prague, Czechoslovakia on 12 June 1945, by the Czechoslovak Repatriation Office, stating that the bearer, Jakub Gutenbaum, born 7 Aug.1929 is returning to Warsaw, Poland, traveling from the Buchenwald Concentration camp; and a certificate, issued by a hospital in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on 6 June 1945, stating that Jakub Gutenbaum was free of infectious disease and lice.

  6. Hauptamt für Kommunalpolitik

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Im Dezember 1962 erhielt das Bundesarchiv im Zuge von Schriftgutrückgaben des amerikanischen Berlin Document Centers auch Akten des Hauptamtes für Kommunalpolitik der NSDAP (Zugang I 190/62), die zusammen mit Akten gleicher Provenienz aus verschiedenen anderen Zugängen - den Bestand NS 25 bilden. Der Bestand lagerte im Bundesarchiv vorerst unverzeichnet und war für die Benutzung nicht zugänglich. Forderungen nach Erschließung des Bestandes und die auf Grund der personellen Gegebenheiten bestehende Möglichkeit führten 1967 zunächst zu dem Ko...

  7. Hermann Landau

    Hermann Landau talks about the rescue work of Rabbi Weissmandel, as well as rescue efforts based in Switzerland and the U.S. He describes Weissmandel as an increasingly desperate man who would not hesitate to bribe the Nazis or commit violence if it would help the Jews. FILM ID 3144 -- Camera Rolls #143-146 Lanzmann asks Landau about his first meeting with Rabbi Weissmandel in Switzerland immediately after the war. Weissmandel was enraged with those who did not do more to help the Jews, including Landau, whom he physically attacked when they met. They discuss how Weissmandel jumped from the...

  8. Umwandererzentralstelle Posen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Nach 1945 gelangte das Schriftgut der UWZ überwiegend in polnische Archive. Ein Teil der Akten (ca. 3 lfm) ist im Staatsarchiv Lodz überliefert. Daraus wurden Teile veröffentlicht (1949: Documenta occupationis Teutonicae, Bd. 4; 1960: Biuletyn Glownej Komisji Bandania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce, Bd. 12).  Die in das Bundesarchiv gelangten wenigen Akten der UWZ Posen verdanken ihre Erhaltung dem Vorhaben des Deutschen Auslands-Instituts (DAI), eine Umsiedlungsdokumentation zu erstellen. Mit Erlass vom 25. Febr. 1941 hatte Himmler dem DAI den „Auftrag ...

  9. Anti-Jewish propaganda film: banking; government leaders

    A propaganda film declared as a "documentary film contribution about the problem of world Judaism," in which antisemitic stereotypes are disseminated by the Nazis, including scenes showing: Poland as a nesting place for Judaism; the comparison of Jews with rats; the difference between Jews and Aryans; "international crime"; "financial Judaism"; "assimilated Jews"; the Jewish influence on economics, culture, and politics; and Jewish religious practice with a portrayal of haggling and misused sacred Jewish texts. REEL 4 Another extract from the feature film "The House of Rothschild" showing R...

  10. Dr. Douglas M. Kelley papers

    The collection documents Dr. Douglas M. Kelley’s role as a United States Army psychiatrist examining 22 high-ranking Nazi defendants awaiting trial in the Nuremberg War Trials. Included are case files for each defendant; war trial documents, memorandums, and clippings; Rorschach test results; Nazi Rorschach research papers and correspondence; and manuscript drafts of his book 22 Cells in Nuremberg. Nuremberg War Trials papers include administrative documents and memorandums, a diary and ledger with handwritten notes by Kelley, clippings regarding the trial defendants, and copy prints of pho...

  11. Wydział Samorządowy Prowincji Śląskiej we Wrocławiu

    • Provinzialverwaltung von Schlesien in Breslau
    • Provincial Government Department in Silesia

    Układ akt według struktury organizacyjnej Urzędu: I. Biuro Centralne (Central Büro) /1873-1945/ 1-1558: Sprawy organizacyjne ogólne, finanse, osuszanie gruntów, ochrona przyrody, opieka społeczna, muzea, zabytki, wykopaliska, polityka wschodnia, "Bund Deutscher Osten", Nordische Gesellschaft, Reichsbund der Deutschen Beamten i podobne organizacje, powodzie, susze i inne klęski żywiołowe, oświata, kultura, sztuka, ubezpieczenia, podział prowincji, podział Górnego Śląska, sprawy socjalne. II. Biuro personalne (Personal Büro) /1925-1939/ 1559-1560: Sprawy personalne urzędników. III. Urząd Stat...

  12. Collection about the Gottfried family

    The collection consists of vital records, administrative documents, trade certificates, travel papers, correspondence, letters of reference, liturgical materials, and photographs relating to the lives of members of the Gottfried family and the families of Gerda and Lori Gottfried's husbands (the Kraus and Seemann families, respectively). Records detail the vital statistics, career history, educational attainment, travels and emigration efforts of the family from the early twentieth century until the beginning of the twenty-first century. Collection has been arranged into the following serie...

  13. Reichspressekammer

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Die Akten der Reichspressekammer haben den Zweiten Weltkrieg so gut wie nicht überdauert. Bereits im November 1943 sind sie durch Luftangriffe weitgehend vernichtet worden. Der Teil des hier vorliegenden Bestands R 56 IV, den das Berlin Document Center 1959 an das Bundesarchiv in Koblenz abgab, wurde bereits im Publikationsfindbuch "Reichskulturkammer und ihre Einzelkammern" (Findbücher zu Beständen des Bundesarchivs, Nr. 31) veröffentlicht. Hinzugekommen sind nunmehr 20 personenbezogene Akten aus dem NS-Archiv des Ministeriums für Staatssi...

  14. Rząd Generalnego Gubernatorstwa General Government Regierung des Generalgouvernements (Sygn. 111)

    Selected records from the following departments of the Regierung des Generalgouvernements (General Government) in Poland: 1. The Department of Internal Administration (Haubtabteilung Innere Verwaltung), which includes records relating to matters such as the organization of the Sonderdienst and Baudienst; religious denominations and national minorities; registry books of the Jewish population in the districts of Krakow, Radom, Warsaw, and Lublin; and the list of books owned by Jews and transferred to the National Library in Krakow, 1939-1944, (File 422/1-573), 2. The Department of Labor (Hau...

  15. Selected records from the State Archives of the Republic of Cyprus related to the Jewish emigration

    Selected records of the British colonial administration of Cyprus related to the Jewish legal and illegal emigration to Cyprus, internment camps for Jews who had immigrated or attempted to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine in violation of British policy as well as other matters related to Jews, Polish and other refugees in Cyprus before, during and immediately after WWII. Includes passenger’s lists divided by particular SS ships (1934); a list of illegal Jewish emigrants on board of the Bulgarian SS Rudnichar (1940); registers and correspondence relating to acquisition of properties in Cypru...

  16. Rachel Rottersman correspondence with Grace Cohen Grossman

    Correspondence from Rachel Rottersman, a social worker who had worked with UNRRA at displaced persons camps in Germany following World War II, and Dr. Grace Cohen Grossman, curator at the Spertus Museum in Chicago, dating from 1979-1980. The correspondence largely deals with requests from Rottersman regarding research about a mass grave near Baumholder, Germany; efforts to recognize a Polish couple, Victor and Ludmila Gromadski, as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem; and proposals to interview people who Rottersman knew from the displaced persons camps where she had worked.

  17. Eichmann Trial -- Session 100 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    Footage begins early in the Session 100. Attorney General Gideon Hausner asks the accused whether he read Friedel's report on the Bialystok matter and notes that Friedel stated that the order to liquidate the ghettos came directly from department IVB4 (00:00:45). Eichmann testifies that Bialystok was part of the incorporated Eastern Territories and his section merely had to carry out the deportations ordered by Heinrich Himmler (00:00:58). Hausner asks Eichmann to indicate on a map (hung on the wall to the left of the accused's booth) the territories incorporated into the Reich (00:02:21). ...

  18. Documentation from archives in Belorussia, 1930-1960

    In the record group there are files selected from the State Archive of Belorussia and the Archive of the Public Associations (the archives of the former Communist Party) of Belorussia, the State Archive of the Grodno Region, the State Archive of Belorussia which was attached to the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia, the State Archive of the Public Associations of the Grodno Region, the State Archive of the Gomel Region, the State Archive of the Public Associations of the Mogilev Region; the Historical Museum of the Great War for the Motherland (the Great Patriotic War - World W...

  19. Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers

    The Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers include correspondence, writings, genealogical materials, newspaper clippings, cardboard tags, and photographs documenting Joseph and Margaret Weiss’s immigration to the United States from Vienna via Czechoslovakia, France, and England in 1939 and their efforts to help their mothers emigrate from Prague and Vienna. Most of the correspondence is between the Weisses and their mothers Mathilde Goldstein in Vienna and Olga Weiss in Prague. Correspondence with Mathilde Goldstein sometimes includes Mathilde’s niece Bertha Reichmann, and correspondence w...

  20. Signet ring with an engraving of the Łódź ghetto bridge owned by a ghetto resident

    Ring with his initials given to Jerzyk Wajnberg for his 18th birthday in the Łódź ghetto. It is engraved with an image of one of the two bridges that joined the three sections of the ghetto. The sections were created by the fenced intersection of two major roads that crossed through the ghetto. The bridges were needed for the inhabitants to travel between sections, as they were not permitted on the roads. Jerzyk,his parents, Julian and Regina, and his sister, Joanna, became residents of the ghetto in December 1939, when the Germans, who occupied Poland in September, evicted them from their ...