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  1. Digitale kopie van het archief van de International Tracing Service te Bad Arolsen.

    Dit indrukwekkende geheel is in feite een conglomeraat van archieven van heel wat verschillende organisaties en instellingen, samengebracht en/of gekopieerd door de ITS om opzoekingen naar personen mogelijk te maken. De focus van dit complexe archief ligt dan ook op de voornaamste groepen slachtoffers – vervolgde personen, dwangarbeiders en displaced persons. De Centrale Naamindex is met meer dan 42 miljoen digitale beelden de meest uitgebreide reeks. Dit steekkaartensysteem fungeert als het globale zoekinstrument voor de identificatie van personen. De verschillende types steekkaarten dekke...

  2. Scellé constitué par la 3e section de la direction des renseignements généraux et des jeux : des tracts saisis dans le dépôt clandestin de la rue de la Folie Méricourt

    1. Section spéciale de la cour d'appel de Paris
    2. Scellés
    3. Scellés du dossier 399
    4. dossier 399

    Titre : Auteur : [Parti communiste français] Publication : 9 août 1941 Numérotation : n°48 Dimensions : 31 x 21 cm Langue : Français Note(s) : 2 exemplaires Périodicité : Bi-mensuel Titre : Tract clandestin, "Les vieux veulent qu'on augmente leur ration de pain" Auteur : Les Amicales des vieux travailleurs de la région parisienne Publication : s.d., s.l. Dimensions : 27 x 21 cm Langue : Français Titre : Tract clandestin, "Oui Monsieur Berthelot. En exigeant l'augmentation de leurs salaires. En luttant pour l'indépendance de la France. En aidant l'Union Soviétique à triompher des armées d'Hi...

  3. Eva Weinberger Cohen collection

    Consists of photographs, postcards, a photograph album, photographic negatives, documents, and postcards from the collection of Eva Weinberger Cohen, originally of Kusnice, Czechoslovakia [now Ukraine]. Though her family remained in Kusnice and was deported to Auschwitz, where only two sisters survived, Eva obtained false papers and posed as a Catholic in Budapest. She was able to obtain a spot on the Kastzner train and was deported to Bergen-Belsen in July 1944; she was released in December 1944 and sent to Switzerland. Includes pre-war family photographs; post-war photographs of Eva's sur...

  4. Ghetto Theresienstadt

    Die Sammlung enthält u.a.: Korrespondenz des Roten Kreuzes u.a. betr. Zustellung von Medikamenten ins Ghetto Theresienstadt, Plan der kleinen Festung und des Ghettos, Statistiken über Einlieferungen und Verstorbene, Häftlingslisten, Transportlisten, Deportationslisten (nach versch. Nationalitäten), Listen befreiter Personen, Liste von Personen, die nach der Befreiung verstorben sind; Totenlisten, Sterbebuch, Sterbeurkunden, Karteikarten des Ghettos Theresienstadt, Karteikarten deportierter Personen aus der Tschechoslowakei 1941 – 1945, Sparkarte der Bank der Jüd. Selbstverwaltung Theresiens...

  5. Колекція друкованих видань КГБ УРСР

    • Collection of printed publications of KGB of UkrSSR

    The following cases contain information about the history of the Jews, the occupation regime and the Holocaust: File 252. Collection of reference materials on the German intelligence agencies acting against the USSR during the Second World War. 1952 Vol. 1-2-3-4-1. File 306. List of Romanians who committed crimes against the USSR during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. 1945 Vol. 1-7. File 319. List of persons working in Romanian police and intelligence agencies. 1942. Tom 1-5. File 322. List of employees of the German gendarmerie and the police and persons who were persecuted by these ...

  6. Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia, Station for Province of Moravia, Brno

    The fonds contains documents of the supreme political administration of Moravia documenting the Germanisation intentions of the Nazis, their penetration into and attempt to gradually control all areas of life. Materials have been preserved concerning Germanisation, the determination of domicile and citizenship and race, occupation, price economics and also Aryanization. In the fonds we can find much material relating to the history of the Jews in Moravia during the Protectorate and Second World War. For example, these materials are kept here: Report of NSDAP in Brno from September 1941 abou...

  7. Eichmann Trial -- Session 99 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    Footage begins near the opening of Session 99. Hausner continues with cross examination asking the accused about meeting Heinrich Müller, head of Section IV (Gestapo) of the Reich Main Security Office, after witnessing the Einsatzgruppen units in action and telling him that their method was making them into sadists suggesting that another method for executions had to be found. When Eichmann replies that he is not familiar with the last phrase, Hausner notes that during his interrogation he was shown an excerpt from the LIFE article and did not comment on its contents (00:01:38). An excerpt ...

  8. Selected files from the UK National Archives

    Selected files from the UK National Archives relating to the British investigation and prosecution of war crimes immediately after World War II (WO 309: War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office, British Army of the Rhine War Crimes Group (North West Europe) and predecessors: Registered Files (BAOR and other series) & WO 311: Judge Advocate General's Office, Military Deputy's Department, and War Office, Directorates of Army Legal Services and Personal Services: War Crimes Files (MO/JAG/FS and other series) and WO 310: War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office, War Crimes Group (Sout...

  9. Felicia Bryn collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Felicia Bryn (born Felicja Braun) who survived the war as a hidden child. Included are photographs depicting Felicia, her father Dawid Braun, her younger brother Jurek Braun, and Kazimierz and Leokadia Sroka, whom hid her during the Holocaust; a postcard written while in the Warsaw ghetto from her aunt Frajdla Frania Gliksmanher to Frania’s brother in Nusyn Gliksman in the United States; and two identification documents issued to Nusyn Gliksman when he lived in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1934-1935.

  10. Edward Haven collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Edward Haven (born Edward Rechtszafen), who survived the Holocaust as a hidden child in Warsaw and Krakow, Poland. Included are pre-war and wartime photographs of the donor’s family; postcards depicting images of Warsaw, circa 1956; the donor’s 6th grade school notebook, 1946; correspondence between the donor and his father, who was in Los Angeles, CA, 1946; and correspondence, 1946, including with the Machaczeks, who had hidden the donor during the war, relating to arranging for Edward to immigrate travel to the United States in ord...

  11. Marga Lakritz photographs

    1. Marga Lakritz collection

    Contains two photographs. One from pre-1933 Berlin, Germany, showing an outdoor scene with six adults and one infant, seated on blankets, in grassy, wooded area having a picnic; written on the verso: "Grunewald/picknic [sic]/Berlin/Germany/shortly/before Holocaust/to the right/my mother,/sister myself/(dark hair)." The second image taken 1945-1946, La Bourboule displaced persons camp, in France, image showing two women, dresssed in winter coats, walking toward camera, buildings visible in background; written on verso: "After liberation [underlined]/D.P. Camp 'La Bourboule'/France/My sister/...

  12. Marga Lakritz photograph

    1. Marga Lakritz collection

    The photograph depicts a group of women posing on the street outside of a bookbinding factory, "Bunge Reichsnahrstand Bucherei," in Germany. Pictured from left to right are: Marga Lakritz, Erica Drenske, an unknown woman, and Ruth Walter.

  13. Herbst family papers

    The papers consist of nine photographs depicting the experiences of the Herbst family in the Ansbach displaced persons camp, two photographs depicting the experiences of the Herbst family before World War II, two identification cards issued to Sabina Herbst [donor's mother] and Ziunia Herbst [donor] in Ansbach, three documents relating to Sabina and Ziunia Herbst's emigration to the United States in 1948, and two letters (with envelopes) written to Sabina Herbst while she was living in New York, N.Y.

  14. Over a distant, quiet jiord Nad dalekim, cichym fiordem [Book]

    1. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    The book was given to the donor by her school friend, Basia Knap, in Busko-Zdrój, Poland; signed, "Zofia Tymejko" and dated Jan. 28, 1948.

  15. Eclaireurs Israélites de France badge with Judean lions and tablets

    1. Alain Morley collection

    Bronze insignia badge of the Eclaireurs Israélites de France, the Jewish division of the Boy Scouts in France. Founded in 1923 to attract boys to Judaism, by the 1930s, EIF was very involved with Zionism. After France surrendered to Germany in June 1940, EIF could operate openly only in unoccupied southern France. EIF ran children's homes which were soon crowded by the children of Jews held in internment camps. In March 1942, when the Germans began large scale deportations of Jews, EIF formed a resistance unit, La Sixieme. They developed a rescue network for Jewish children, placing them i...

  16. Identification card

    This "National Registration Identity Card" for children under the age of 16 was issued to Zofia Tymejko [donor] after she emigrated to London, England.

  17. Larry Rosenbach papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Larry Rosenbach (born Eliezer Lajziu Rosenbach) and his family, originally of Leżajsk, Poland. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs depicting the Föhrenwald and Zeilsheim displaced persons camps in Germany, the Bielski partisans, and passengers on board the "Champollion" en route to Palestine. Also included are three postcards from Larry’s mother, Ewa Rosenbach, written in Zaklikov (Zaklików), Poland to cousins in Przemyśl, Poland describing the first deportation that occurred in her town and begging her cousins to t...

  18. Medal of Deportation and Resistance for Acts of Resistance awarded to a French doctor

    1. Gaston and Robert Crouzet collection

    Medaille de la Deportation et de L’Internement Pour Faits de Resistance [Medal of Deportation and Resistance for Acts of Resistance] issued to Dr. Gaston Crouzet, a member of the French resistance in Marseille. The medal was awarded to those who were imprisoned in German concentration camps for their resistance activity. It is missing its ribbon. After Nazi Germany invaded France in May 1940, Gaston and his son Robert joined the resistance. They gathered information about German troop transports and supplied it to the British. In May 1943, Gaston and Robert were betrayed by another resistan...

  19. Hessy Levinsons Taft collection

    The collection consists of eight black and white photographs and one modern color photograph depicting members of the Levinsons family, a postcard addressed to "Sascha Lenssen, Opernsänger" (opera singer), a birthday card, and a magazine titled "Sonne ins Haus," which depicts a photograph of Hessy Levinsons Taft as an infant on the front cover because she won a contest to select the most beautiful "Aryan" baby in Germany.

  20. Fay Nadaner papers

    The papers consist of two school certificates issued to Fela Friedmann (later Fay Nadaner) and her twin sister, Celina, in Poland around 1944 using the false Christian names that they adopted in hiding and ten pre-war photographic negatives of the Friedmann family.