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  2. Брестское городское управление, г.Брест

    Распоряжения городского комиссара и бургомистра, протоколы о выдаче паспортов жителям г.Бреста еврейской национальности, штатные расписания, отчеты, списки жителей г.Бреста, учителей, членов русского, украинского и местных комитетов, работников фирм г.Бреста, пенсионеров и переселенцев из Польши, жителей г.Бреста, получивших паспорта, акты о поступлении налогов, дела по обложению налогами владельцев мастерских и лавок, дела о выдаче пособий семьям лиц, которые находились на службе в немецкой армии, карточки немецких воинских частей и граждан, работавших в этих частях, переписка. Документы п...

  3. First report of the Nuremberg Trials

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. First report of the Nuremberg Trials. Long establishing SEQ on court building (interiors and exteriors, security precautions, etc.). Entry of judges. The accused prisoner in the dock, identified by commentary. Court President (Geoffrey Lawrence) opens proceedings. The indictment is read. Defense lawyers confer with the accused, reading copies of the indictment.

  4. Lorenzen family collection

    Contains documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Hans and Berta Lorenzen and their daughters Ruth [donor] and Anne Marie, a Jewish family who remained in Feudenheim and Mannheim, Germany through the Nazi era. Hans Lorenzen converted to Judaism; his wife and daughters evaded deportation, and Berta labored in a brush factory while Hans continued to work for Daimler-Benz until 1946, when the family immigrated to the United States.

  5. Lehmann, Helmut

    Bestandsbeschreibung Biographische Angaben: Gewerkschafter und SPD-Funktionär; Mitbegründer und Vors. des Vereins der Lehrlinge und jugendlichen Arbeiter Berlins (1904); Geschäftsführender Vors. des Hauptverbandes der Deutschen Krankenkassen (1914-1933); Inhaftierung (1933, 1944-1945); Mitglied des ZA der SPD (1945/1946); Mitglied des ZS bzw. des PB des PV der SED (1949/1950); Präs. der Volkssolidarität (1946) Bestandsbeschreibung: Glückwunschschreiben zum 70. Geburtstag; Kondolenzen Ittershagen 07-2001 Umfang, Erläuterung 2 AE Zitierweise BArch NY 4473/...

  6. Sąd Rejonowy dla Warszawy-Pragi w Warszawie

    • akta sądowe dotyczące osób represjonowanych z motywów politycznych

  7. Jane Friedberg photograph collection

    The collection consists of two photographs of corpses at Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation in 1945.

  8. Adam and Helen Gawara collection

    Collection of certificates, correspondence and photographs documenting the experiences of Holocaust survivors Adam Gawara and Helen Hercberg Gawara along with their friends and family in the years following their liberation. Primarily comprised of materials from the Loheide, Feldafing and Bergen Belsen displaced persons camps as well as correspondence regarding their applications for compensation of victims of National Socialism; dates 1945-1954; in German and English. Adam Gawara was persecuted as a Pole. He met Helen Hercberg while in the displaced persons camp, and they were married afte...

  9. Sofia Auguston memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 14 pages, in English, written by Sofia Auguston, originally of Riga, Latvia. In the memoir, she describes life in the Riga ghetto, escaping several mass shootings, hiding her family's tallit, and being sent to Germany by boat in 1944. She witnessed the sinking of a barge of deportees, but her boat arrived in Stutthof. From there, she was forced to march to Totenhof in Sofienwald, and, in the spring of 1945, was sent on another forced march, from which she was liberated by the Russian Army. After the war, she reunited with her son, who also survived the war.

  10. Propagandaamt Lettland photograph collection

    Consists of approximately 45 photographs of atrocities at Nemmersdorf, Katyn, Fellin (Viljandi), Birzai, and elsewhere. Original German and Latvian inscriptions are included on the versos of select images. One of the images includes two stamps, "Propagandaamt Lettland, Bildstellle, Riga, Palaststr. 10" and "Foto Ernst Weber, Riga." The photographs where acquired by Eldred Erdman while serving as a medic in the European theater.

  11. Hans Kroker: papers re law suit

    This collection contains papers concerning a threatened law suit which arose out of an assertion made in the famous TV programme Holocaust, which was broadcast in Germany in 1979. In particular, Hans Kroker, a former SS member, refutes the assertion made by one of the programme's participants that the family of this person was murdered in gas chambers, claiming that, without proof, it amounted to a vicious slur on the SS. The papers include a news magazine cutting with details of the story; a copy letter from Hans Kroker's lawyer, Eberhard Engelhardt, to the person who uttered the alleged s...

  12. Processo de pedido de visto para Mendel Stern vel Hofler e Frieda Rosa Herschkowitz

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Antuérpia para Mendel Stern vel Hofler, de nacionalidade polaca e residente na Bélgica, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Antuérpia para Frieda Rosa Herschkowitz, de nacionalidade belga e residente na Bélgica, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto.

  13. Processo de pedido de visto para Gijsbert Carel Duco Hooft Graafland e Jacob van de Graaf

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Roterdão para Gijsbert Carel Duco Hooft Graafland, de nacionalidade holandesa e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Roterdão para Jacob van de Graaf, de nacionalidade holandesa e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino a Curaçau. Visto autorizado.

  14. Documentation of the Communist Party committees in the Baranovichi region, 1940-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party committees in the Baranovichi region, 1940-1941 In the Collection: List of school prinicipals in Slonim; list of Communists in the Gorodishche district; documentation of the Communist Party committees in the various districts; documentation by the NKVD of the activities of the Jewish education system and the Jewish communities in the region.

  15. Announcements and placards regarding various cultural events held in the Vilna Ghetto, 1941 - 1943

    Announcements and placards regarding various cultural events held in the Vilna Ghetto, 1941 - 1943 The various cultural events include: plays, concerts, sport competitions, lectures, and other events; most of the announcements include the names of the artists who implemented the events.

  17. Статистический отдел при Генеральном комиссариате Белоруссии, г. Минск.

    • Statistische Abteilung am Generalkommissariat Weissruthenien

    Структура Центрального статбюро. План и отчет о работе статбюро. Статданные о промышленности Генерального округа Белоруссии. Сведения о количестве и списки населения, по округам Белоруссии и количестве рабочих на отдельных предприятиях и в учреждениях. Списки округов и районов Белоруссии

  18. Intelligence report: "A review of German activities in the field of Biological Warfare"

    One report, mimeographed, 131 pages, titled "A Review of German Activities in the Field of Biological Warfare," compiled by staff in the ALSOS Mission of the Military Intelligence Section of the U.S. Department of War, 12 September 1945. The report, originally classified as secret, reviewed the history, development and activities of research and development of biological weapons by the German military between 1940 and 1945. One of the four authors of the report was Jesse W. Hofer, U.S.N.R., who was the father of the donor.

  19. Chaim Posner photograph collection

    The Chaim Posner photograph collection contains ten photographs of the Glas and Posner families from Jaworzno and Chrzanow in Poland before the war.

  20. German Atrocities

    Issue 153, Part 3: Assisting survivors of Ohrdruf. Inspected by Gens. Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley. Exhumations at Arnstadt. Assistance given at Nordhausen, German townspeople required to view and assist in burial of dead.