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  1. Akkerman district prefecture and its subordinated preturas and town hall

    • Аккерманская уездная префектура и подчиненные ей претуры и примарии
    • Akkermanskaya uyezdnaya prefektura i podchinennyye yey pretury i primarii
    • Judeţul Akkerman: prefecturile judeţene, subprefecturile plaselor/preturilor şi comunele subordinate

    Orders of the pretura of Volontiri district. Minutes of meetings of the committees coordinating the work of city (town) halls. Orders of the Bessarabian governor on administrative matters. Correspondence on administrative issues, on the number and composition of the population, on agriculture. Minutes of meetings of commune’s councils. Minutes of meetings of the magistrates. Information on issues of education and cults, on sanitation, on road construction. Requests from residents to issue various certificates. Documents on the requisition of food, cattle and horse-drawn transport from the p...

  2. Salomon Berenholc papers

    The Salomon Berenholc papers concern Salomon Berenholc, a young French Jew who was arrested with his family after fleeing France and illegally crossing the border into Spain in 1942. After a brief internment in a Spanish prison, the family was released and ultimately immigrated to the United States in 1943 by way of Lisbon, Portugal. These papers are comprised of a diary Salomon kept during his efforts to flee France between 1942 and 1943 and documents from the post-war era regarding his and his brother, Victor’s education. The diary details their journey and the conditions of Salomon's cel...

  3. William A. Spiegler collection related to Josiah E. DuBois, Jr.

    This collection contains material collected by the late historian William A. Spiegler, who was preparing to write a biography of Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. Though much of the collection consists of copies from various archival sources and publications, it is an excellent resource for historians studying DuBois and his work with the War Refugee Board and on the I.G. Farben trial. The collection includes original and copied drafts, with handwritten changes, corrections, and notes, of “The Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of this Government in the Murder of the Jews,” “Personal Report to...

  4. Angermann, Erich

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1443
    • German
    • 1978-1989
    • Nachlässe 56 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 1,1 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Professor für Anglo-Amerikanische Geschichte an der Universität Köln, Täti gkeit für das Deutsche Historische Institut Washington, DC Bestandsbeschreibung Deutsches Historisches Institut, Washington DC. - Gründung und Tätigkeit als Vorsitzender des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats Erich Angermann Dr. phil., Historiker, Professor, Hochschullehrer Schwerpunkt: Neuere Geschichte mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Anglo-Ameri‧kanischen Geschichte 2. März 1927 geb. in Chemnitz 1952 Promotion in München wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Redaktion Neue Deutsche Biogr...

  5. Ellen Kaufmann Boucher papers

    The Ellen Kaufmann Boucher papers include Holocaust-era and postwar correspondence addressed to Ellen in the United States from family and friends in Europe, the memoir Ellen drafted between 1988 and her death, prewar and wartime photographs of her family in Mainz, Germany, and a transcript of an interview she gave in 1995. Holocaust-era letters are addressed to Ellen primarily from her parents and sister Marianne in Mainz and relates family news and good wishes. A letter from a friend of Marianne’s in Montevideo describes an opportunity for Marianne to immigrate to Uruguay. A letter from a...

  6. Jagdverbände

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Jagdgeschwader 71 „Richthofen", Wittmund Das Jagdgeschwader 71 wurde mit Luftwaffenaufstellungsbefehl Nr. 110 vom 28. Januar 1959 zum 6. Juni auf dem Fliegerhorst Ahlhorn in Dienst gestellt. Zur Erstausstattung des Verbandes gehörte das Jagdflugzeug Sabre Mk. Mit Wirkung vom 21. April 1961 verlieh der damalige Inspekteur der Luftwaffe, Generalleutnant Josef Kammhuber, dem Verband die Traditionsbezeichnung „Richthofen" (Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen war ein erfolgreicher Kampfflieger im 1. Weltkrieg). Mit Befehl für die Verlegung vom 24. Januar 1963 zog d...

  7. Prüfungsstelle Feinmechanik und Optik

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das Schriftgut der Prüfungsstelle Feinmechanik und Optik gelangte 1967 als US-Rückgabe aus Alexandria ins Bundesarchiv. Bestandsbeschreibung Das im Bundesarchiv verwahrte Registraturgut der Prüfungsstelle Feinmechanik und Optik setzt 1941 ein und enthält im Wesentlichen Unterlagen über die Ausfuhr feinmechanischer und optischer Erzeugnisse ins Ausland. Die lückenhafte Überlieferung erschwert Angaben zur Aufgabenverwaltung und zur Tätigkeit der Prüfungsstelle, die aber in jedem Fall sehr eng verzahnt war mit den Aufgaben der Wirtschaftsgruppe Feinmechanik und ...

  8. Manek and Ilona Werdiger papers

    The Manek and Ilona Werdiger papers contain primarily identification and photographs of the Springut family prior to and during their incarceration in the Jewish ghettos in Krakow, Poland. The identification papers are from the Jewish Community of Krakow, and identify his mother Malka and brother Henryk, and his cousins as Jewish. The photographs are family portraits and group photos of the Springut family and Manek’s wife, Ilona Mandel.

  9. Adam and Roma Zandel papers

    The Adam and Roma Zandel papers contain personal items and documents relating to the immigration of Adolf Adam Zandel and Roma Kleczewska to the United States. Adam’s documents contain documents such as his birth certificate, visa information, documentation of health, travel permits, proof of identity, and his diplomas. Also included are two photographs of his parents, and a memoir he wrote for his daughter, Susan. The papers of Roma Kleczewska contain primarily correspondence, written from Roma’s parents (Maurycy and Karola) and grandparents (Teofila and Salomon Kupczyk) while they lived i...

  10. Luftgaukommando V (Stuttgart)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Akten stammen aus Rückführungen aus den USA und Großbritannien an die Dokumentenzentrale des Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes. Von dort wurden die Akten 1968 an das Bundesarchiv, Abteilung Militärarchiv abgegeben. Diese Akten waren bisher im Sammelbestand RL 19 (Luftgaukommandos und Luftgaustäbe) zusammengefasst. Zur besseren Darstellung der einzelnen Provenienzen wurden Nebenbestände zu RL 19 angelegt. Luftgaukommando V (1) 10.37 Umbenennung des bisherigen Luftgaukommando 15 inLuftgaukommando V.Standort: Stuttgart, Befehlsbereich: Land Württemberg,...

  11. George Schwab photograph collection

    The George Schwab photograph collection consists of twenty photographs relating to the experiences of George Schwab during the Holocaust. Seventeen photographs are images from Blankensee displaced persons camp near Hamburg, Germany; images on board the "Marine Perch" to the United States; and images from Bremen and Berlin, Germany. Three photographs depict images from Rīga, Latvia.

  12. Kutschmann file from Moskovits Office Legajo Walter Kutschmann

    Records from the the office of Mr. José Moskovits, a Holocaust survivor and attorney in Buenos Aires. Consist of correspondence, memorandums, photographs and newspaper clippings relating to Nazi war criminal Walter Kutschmann who lived in Argentina after World War II under the false name Pedro Ricardo Olmo.

  13. Reichsstelle für Industrielle Fette und Waschmittel

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Von den umfangreichen Kassationen zur Papiergewinnung seit Kriegsbeginn, insbesondere nach dem Erlass des Reichswirtschaftsminisnteriums vom 13.05.1941 wurden auch die Akten der Reichsstelle für industrielle Fette und Waschmittel stark betroffen. So stammen auch die hier überlieferten Akten offensichtlich nicht aus einer zentralen Registratur der Reichsstelle, sofern eine solche überhaupt bestand, sondern wurden von einem Hauptabteilungsleiter namens Erich Ahlmann, über den sich keine weiteren Personalangaben ermitteln ließen, gesammelt. Na...

  14. Okresný úrad v Žiline

    • District Office in Žilina

    Fonds of the District Office in Liptovský Mikuláš, as the state administration body at the regional level, contains the documents concerning political, economic and social situation in this district during the period 1923 – 1945. Fonds contains various partial information about the history of Jews before 1938 and mainly during the period of the Hlinka Slovak People´s Party regime (1938 – 1945) when the anti-Semitic measures came in force and Jewish community was systematically persecuted. District Office in Žilina has created a special Department for Jewish Affairs (Odbor pre židovské zálež...

  15. Zahraniční tiskový archiv, New York

    • Foreign Press Archive, New York / NAD 1066
    • Národní archiv
    • 1066
    • English
    • 1939-1946
    • Textual material 588,62 linear meters

    The Clippings Archive of the Second Resistance, known since 1942 as the Czechoslovak Archives in New York, was part of the Czechoslovak Information Center in New York and is associated with the name of its founder, Arne Laurin. Thanks to him, a unique archive of clippings was created, gathering clippings mainly on foreign political and military events during the Second World War, on the situation in the Protectorate and also on the Second Czechoslovak Foreign Resistance. The fonds also contains newspaper clippings on the Jewish community in Czechoslovakia and anti-Jewish measures in the lat...

  16. Barbie Trial -- Day 7 -- The prosecution questions expert witnesses

    17:16 Witness Holtfort continues his testimony, explaining that there is written documentation coming from the January 20, 1942 conference about the decision to use Jews for forced labor, forcing them to create roads toward the East. Those who survived the labor needed a 'special treatment' (i.e. extermination). 17:20 Discussion of a document from 1942 in which Dannecker, the Paris head of the BDS-SIPO-SD, communicates to the head of the transport division in France the plan to exterminate French Jews.This information was disseminated from Paris to the regional offices, and the head of the ...

  17. Akta gminy Milanów

    • Files of the commune of Milanów

    Okres zaborów: Dział administracyjny z lat 1900-1918 (13 j.a.): księgi konroli ruchu ludności, spisy ludności wsi Cichostów, skorowidz do ksiąg ludności stałejOkres miedzywojenny: Dział finansowo-podatkowy z lat 1937-1939 (1 j.a.): księga biercza podatku gruntowego Dział administracyjny z lat 1925-1939[1943] (3 j.a.): księga inwentarza gminnego, rejestr mieszkańców gminy, skorowidz do rejestru mieszkańców gminyOkres okupacji: Dział finansowo-podatkowy z lat 1940-1944 (7 j.a.): budżet gminy, roczne sprawozdania rachunkowe, księgi biercze na państwowy podatek gruntowyOkres PRL: Dział ogólno-o...

  18. Deutscher Minenräumdienst (German Minesweeping Administration)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Am 21. Juli 1945 wurde durch Anweisung des Britischen Marineoberkommandierenden in Deutschland Admiral Harold Martin Burrough an den deutschen Konteradmiral Fritz Krauss "The German Minesweeping Administration (G.M.S.A.)", die Deutsche Minenräumdienstleitung (D.M.R.L.), gegründet, "um die Leitung der deutschen Minenräumverbände zu übernehmen, die für die Säuberung der Gewässer Nordwesteuropas von Minen eingesetzt werden sollen." Diese war dem Britischen Marineoberbefehlshaber in Deutschland unmittelbar unterstellt, überwacht von der "Dienststelle des Britisch...

  19. Archiv města Poděbrady

    • Archives of the Town of Poděbrady / NAD 196

    The fonds contains documents arising from the administration of the town of Poděbrady: deeds, official books, file material and accounting material. It also includes census sheets, important for the research of Jewish history. The following documents are relevant for the first half of the 19th century: files of the political department of the Poděbrady municipality office, group VIII. Judaism, tolerance patent (1826 -1850). Specific mentions of Jews can be found in the documents of individual groups (Group I. Regulations, circulars by the regional office and reports on them by the municipal...

  20. Betty Sklow papers

    The Betty Sklow papers contain correspondence written by Betty Sklow and her daughters Charlotte Rosenthal and Helene Sklow. The letters contain detailed description of Betty Sklow’s experiences aboard the MS St. Louis in 1939, her disembarkation in the Netherlands, her experiences negotiating travel to the United States, and her journey to the United States aboard the SS Pennland in 1940. The papers also include photographs of Betty Sklow and her husband Hermann Sklow, as well as a printed cabin plan for the MS St. Louis, February 1939. Betty Sklow’s letters written aboard the MS St. Louis...