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  1. Memories of Occupation in Greece

    The Archive "Memories of the Occupation in Greece" contains 93 testimonies of witnesses of the German occupation of Greece during WW2. The interviews are biographical interviews with witnesses of various experiences such as: Resistance fighters, victims of the massacres, survivors of bombings, Jews in Hiding, Shoah survivors, as well as people who were arrested during raids in Athens and other places and deported to Germany. The archive preserves these testimonies for the future and makes them available for education and research. Register to view the interviews in the archive. The archive ...

  2. Ohrdruf liberation photograph

    Photograph taken at Ohrdruf concentration camp in 1945. Photograph shows four men with arms raised surrounded by United States Army soldiers. In the foreground is a pile of charred wood and what appears to be skulls. One camp inmate is shown talking to the soldiers on the left-hand side of the photograph. In script on the back of the photograph: "Ordroff [sic] Concentration Camp 30 min. after capture."

  4. Laurel Terry collection

    Consists of a small book entitled "Mitglieder=Grundbuch" consisting of the handwritten names and membership numbers of members of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (League of German Girls) from an unknown town. Also includes a Russian postcard sent to Lemberg in 1943 depicting a drawing of frontier men discovering a Russian town, and a photograph of a group of young men in uniform standing with Nazi flags in Neuburg an der Donau, Germany.

  5. Agro-Joint colony of Politodielec

    Electrical lines leading to an electrical water pump. LS of water pouring from a pipe. CU of pipe and water pouring into irrigation channel. Pan over cotton field, CU of cotton plants.

  6. Archives de Drancy

    Contains documentation about the administration of the camp, the condition and treatment of the inmates, lists of inmates, a list of those liberated from the camp, information about provisions for Christmas 1943, memoranda from the camp commandant, personal papers of the inmates, and other information.

  7. Andrew Kapochunas collection

    Contains an air mail envelope written while Kaunas was under occupation; five original Vilna Ghetto arrest documents; and an original signed receipt for 18,837 Litai received from the American Joint Distribution Committee, Vilnius, intended for "the Jewish Section for War-Sufferers, Lithuanian Red Cross."

  8. Rudolf Heilborn postcards from Buchenwald

    Contains two postcards written by Rudolf Heilborn from Buchenwald to Ruth Heilborn in Gleiwitz, Germany, in November and December of 1938. Rudolf Heilborn was among the Jews of Gleiwitz who were arrested by the Gestapo during Kristallnacht then deported to Buchenwald.

  10. Documentation of the Ukrainian authorities in the Rivne region, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the Ukrainian authorities in the Rivne region, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Documentation regarding the Radziwillow area, including statistical data regarding the area's residents, names of Jews in the area, and the location of the ghettos in the area, 1941-1942; - Statistical data regarding the population in the villages in the Klevan district; - List of Jewish residents from Tuchin.

  11. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The documents were collected by Dr. Wiener and his assistants from the early 1930s, during the war and its aftermath, until the late 1970s. As they constitute the library’s core, these documents were the first to be digitized and accessible online. They include the correspondence and decrees of various Nazi agencies, documents from concentration camps, and documentation of the activities, the life and the fate of Jewish associations, communities, and individuals before, during and after the Holocaust.

  12. Processo de pedido de visto para Príncipe da Noruega (Dahl) e Coronel Ostgaard (Sorensen)

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Londres para Príncipe da Noruega (Dahl), de nacionalidade norueguesa, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Londres para Coronel Ostgaard (Sorensen), de nacionalidade norueguesa, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Sem informação de autorização de visto.

  13. Processo de pedido de visto para George Francis Warre e mulher

    Processo de pedido de visto pela Embaixada Britânica ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para George Francis Warre, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto pela Embaixada Britânica ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para mulher de George Francis Warre, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de autorização de visto.

  14. Processo de pedido de visto para Erich Berthold Kahn e Gertrude Kahn

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Antuérpia para Erich Berthold Kahn, de nacionalidade alemã e residente na Bélgica, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado com condicionantes. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Antuérpia para Gertrude Kahn, de nacionalidade alemã e residente na Bélgica, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado com condicionantes. Processo da Repartição de Negócios Políticos.

  15. Processo de pedido de visto para Otis Petty, Nancy e Lois

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Nova Iorque para Otis Petty, de nacionalidade americana, com destino à Libéria. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Nova Iorque para Nancy, de nacionalidade americana, com destino à Libéria. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Nova Iorque para Lois, de nacionalidade americana, com destino à Libéria. Visto autorizado.

  16. Entrada de refugiados judeus

    Pedido do World Jewish Congress à Embaixada de Portugal em Londres para intervir junto do governo português relativamente à autorização de entrada em Portugal de refugiados judeus provenientes de países ocupados pela Alemanha. Inclui: vários comunicados do World Jewish Congress sobre a perseguição e extermínio de judeus nos países ocupados pela Alemanha; parecer da Polícia de Vigilância e Defesa do Estado (PVDE) para a não alteração das regras vigentes relativamente a refugiados judeus.

  17. Italie : Turin, Archives d'Etat (Registri detenuti)

    Cette collection comporte 104 rapports d'arrestation concernant des détenus politiques Juifs entre 1942 et 1945.

  18. Fred Oestreicher collection

    Consists of one passport, "Deutsches Reich Reisepass," issued to "Ferdinand Israel Oestericher," with a red ink "J" stamped on the first page, cover detached, issued on 2 Mar. 1939; one black and white photograph, dated Nov. 1939, hand colored, taken by the donor, of the interior of a synagogue in Landau, Germany; and one clipping of the images, including the one that the donor took, above, of three synagogues in Landau, Glogau, and Beuthen, Germany.

  19. Liberator clips

    Video clips compiled for screening at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Days of Remembrance activities in April 2010 commemorating the role of liberators. The videos were displayed in the classrooms on the concourse level of the Museum during the Collections Open House activities. Contents include: Zabin Collection - Omaha Beach in color, b/w (USHMM Film ID 2612, 01:04:49 to 01:12:45) Zabin Collection - Liberation of Dachau; medical unit in color, b/w (USHMM Film ID 2460, 01:00:00 to 01:09:30)

  20. Posterunek Żandarmerii w Niałku Wielkim, powiat Wolsztyn [Gendarmerie Posten Grossnelke, Kreis Wollstein]

    • akta administracyjne (akta dochodzeniowe, protokoły przesłuchań osób oskarżonych o popeł nienie wykroczeń gospodarczych)