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  1. Oran. Sobre a concessão de passaportes a portugueses que urge repatriar

    Correspondência entre o Consulado de Portugal em Orã e o Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros referente à repatriação de cidadãos portugueses na Argélia.

  2. Oranienburg Camp

    Scenes of concentration camp in its early days. Group shot of inmates, who wear civilian clothes. Hilfspolizei with armband guards them. Inmates work at outdoor tables, scrubbing clothing. They participate in forced exercise. Eat meals, etc.

  3. Orbach family papers

    The collection primarily consists of Holocaust-era photographs of the Orbach family, originally of Częstochowa, Poland. Includes depictions of Elias and Dobra Orbach, their sons Heniek (in the center) and Cadok. The photograph of Cadok (on the left) was taken in France shortly after he was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp. Also included is Zeev Orbach’s Association des Anciens Prisonniers Hitleriens Israel card which lists him as a prisoner of the Tschenstochau (Częstochowa) and Buchenwald camps.

  4. Orban Wales Peters, Jr. collection

    The collection consists of military items of Orban Wales Peters, Jr. including uniform jacket, two hats, a helmet; “After Action Report” of the 914th artillery; Eighty-Ninth Division album; photographs of his unit on march into Germany and at Camp Phillip Morris; Correspondence; miscellaneous Army passes; selected copies of “The Rolling.” Correspondence from Margarete Lang Schweidler, from Germany, to her daughter Gretel Schweidler Holzer in the U.S. Her daughter, Anna Margarete Holzer married Orban Wales Peters, Jr. They are the parents of the donor.

  5. Orden "Pour le merite"

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 238
    • German
    • Schriftgut 507 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 18,8 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 1842 stiftete König Friedrich Wilhelm IV. von Preußen den Orden Pour le mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste; er sollte als "Friedensklasse" den von Friedrich II. hundert Jahre früher begründeten "Militärorden" ergänzen. Erster Kanzler und Berater bei der Gründung des Ordens war Alexander von Humboldt. Das Ende der Monarchie 1918 bedeutete auch das Ende beider Ordensklassen, doch während der Militärorden endgültig erloschen blieb (letzter Ordensträger war Ernst Jünger, 1895 -1998) konstituierte sich die "Friedensklasse" 1922 als "freie Vereinigung von hervorr...

  6. Ordensgemeinschaft der Ritterkreuzträger e.V.

    Bestandsbeschreibung Die Ordensgemeinschaft der Ritterkreuzträger wurde 1955 in Köln gegründet. Sie bestand aus rund 1000 Mitgliedern. Auf dem 33. Bundestreffen der Ritterkreuzträger in Wetzlar bezeichnete der 2. Vorsitzende der Ordensgemeinschaft, Brigadegeneral a. D. Johann Codné, die originäre Aufgabe der Gemeinschaft als "Pflege der Kameradschaft", woraus die "Pflege soldatischer Werte und der Tradition" resultiere. Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurde das von Hitler im September 1939 neugestaltete Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes als die höchste militärische Auszeichnung der Wehrmacht...

  7. Order of the German Eagle medal

    Presentation box with two medals and a sash: Nazi German "Adlerorden" medals; circa 1939-1945. The box is red leather with a gold Nazi emblem. The first medal is gold-colored metal with a white enamel iron cross on a sunburst and 4 Nazi emblems and clasp pin on back. The second medal has a white enamel iron cross, 4 Nazi emblems and a loop on top. The sash is red ribbon with black and white borders. Medal: "a", Medal: "b", Sash: "c", Box: "d"

  8. Order re measures against Jews, Vienna

    Order from the Führer des SS Oberabschnittes österreich, Vienna, to all SS units referring to an order of Gauleiter Buerckel that all section leaders were to be responsible for preventing actions by the SS against Jews and that if measures have to be taken against Jews these would be carried out by the authorities and the Gestapo.It bears a stamp (in French) of the U.S. 3rd Army, which suggests it became a captured document probably during the occupation of Austria by the allies at the end of the war.

  9. Orders

    with regard to measures taken to warrant internal peace and security. Lists of military units in charge of guarding main objectives.

  10. Orders and correspondence

    Orders and correspondence re the forced labor brigades located out of town.

  11. Orders and correspondence

    Orders and correspondence re the forced labor brigades located out of town.

  12. Orders and correspondence

    Orders and correspondence re the forced labor brigades located out of town. Lists of work proposed to be done and of the necessary manpower required by number and specialty.

  13. Orders and correspondence

    Orders and correspondence for Jewish labor brigades located out of town.

  14. Orders and instructions

    for evacuation of Jews from Odessa. Horror stories about the Jews evacuated in district Balta, reported by a Romanian officer.

  15. Orders and requests.

    Orders of permanent nature, for military personnel and organization. Colonization of Bessarabia. Request to settle there, from a number of NC officers. Officers’ wives requested to perform duties at social services. Instructions regulating the duties of Jews in the working brigades. Order from Antonescu to limit the body weight of the officers to 75 Kg. Obligatory physical exercises are instituted. Casa Ostirii (Army Club): description, history, functions.

  16. Orders of operations

    Organizing of fighting and defense positions on the Eastern border, on the rivers Siret, Ceremus-Prut, Dniester and on the territory between these two rivers.

  17. Orders of repartition and dispositions

    Orders of repartition and dispositions regarding the forced labor of the Jews. German Military Section in Iasi requests 20 Jews to unload war material from 120 railroad cars and load them with fuel for the allied armies on the front. Also a request for 40 Jews to dig trenches, and another for several craftsmen.

  18. Orders of repartition and dispositions

    Orders of repartition and dispositions regarding the forced labor of the Jews.

  19. Orders of repartition and dispositions

    Orders of repartition and dispositions regarding the forced labor of the Jews. A number of architects and engineers are sent for 90 days to the Government of Transnistria for forced labor. The German Mission in Bucharest requests 20 Jews for forced labor in Botosani. Jewish physicians working in prisoner camps. The Building Center of the German Marine requests 150 Jews for forced labor.

  20. Orders of repartition and dispositions

    Orders of repartition and dispositions regarding the forced labor of the Jews. Following the orders of Maresal Antonescu, the City Hall (Primaria) of Iassy requests two detachments of Jews needed to disinter the remaining five thousand bodies in the Jewish cemetery in the suburb Tatarasi. Remarkable increase in requests for Jews for various tasks, Even the Metropolit asks for three tinsmiths.