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  1. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate

    1. Margret Hantman collection

    Scrip, valued at fifty kronen, issued to Margret Simon Hantman in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia between May 1943 and October 1944. Currency was confiscated from new inmates and replaced with scrip like this, which could only be used in the camp. Prior to the war, Margret and her family lived in Berlin, Germany, where her father owned a grocery store. In 1935, his store was taken by the authorities after the Nuremberg Laws were passed and he was forced to work as a laborer on the outskirts of the city. In October 1942, her sister Eva was sent on a transport to Rīga, Lat...

  2. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate

    1. Margret Hantman collection

    Scrip, valued at twenty kronen, issued to Margret Simon Hantman in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia between May 1943 and October 1944. Currency was confiscated from new inmates and replaced with scrip like this, which could only be used in the camp. Prior to the war, Margret and her family lived in Berlin, Germany, where her father owned a grocery store. In 1935, his store was taken by the authorities after the Nuremberg Laws were passed and he was forced to work as a laborer on the outskirts of the city. In October 1942, her sister Eva was sent on a transport to Rīga, La...

  3. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate

    1. Margret Hantman collection

    Scrip, valued at ten kronen, issued to Margret Simon Hantman in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia between May 1943 and October 1944. Currency was confiscated from new inmates and replaced with scrip like this, which could only be used in the camp. Prior to the war, Margret and her family lived in Berlin, Germany, where her father owned a grocery store. In 1935, his store was taken by the authorities after the Nuremberg Laws were passed and he was forced to work as a laborer on the outskirts of the city. In October 1942, her sister Eva was sent on a transport to Rīga, Latvi...

  4. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate

    1. Margret Hantman collection

    Scrip, valued at two kronen, issued to Margret Simon Hantman in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia between May 1943 and October 1944. Currency was confiscated from new inmates and replaced with scrip like this, which could only be used in the camp. Prior to the war, Margret and her family lived in Berlin, Germany, where her father owned a grocery store. In 1935, his store was taken by the authorities after the Nuremberg Laws were passed and he was forced to work as a laborer on the outskirts of the city. In October 1942, her sister Eva was sent on a transport to Rīga, Latvi...

  5. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate

    1. Margret Hantman collection

    Scrip, valued at one hundred kronen, issued to Margret Simon Hantman in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia between May 1943 and October 1944. Currency was confiscated from new inmates and replaced with scrip like this, which could only be used in the camp. Prior to the war, Margret and her family lived in Berlin, Germany, where her father owned a grocery store. In 1935, his store was taken by the authorities after the Nuremberg Laws were passed and he was forced to work as a laborer on the outskirts of the city. In October 1942, her sister Eva was sent on a transport to Rīg...

  6. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate

    1. Margret Hantman collection

    Scrip, valued at five kronen, issued to Margret Simon Hantman in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia between May 1943 and October 1944. Currency was confiscated from new inmates and replaced with scrip like this, which could only be used in the camp. Prior to the war, Margret and her family lived in Berlin, Germany, where her father owned a grocery store. In 1935, his store was taken by the authorities after the Nuremberg Laws were passed and he was forced to work as a laborer on the outskirts of the city. In October 1942, her sister Eva was sent on a transport to Rīga, Latv...

  7. Prosperity sure Pamphlet

    1. Franz Wohlfahrt family collection

    Jehovah's Witness pamphlet, Wohlfahrt Sicher, used by Gregor Wohlfahrt and then his son, Franz, to preach and recruit members for the Jehovah's Witness in Austria. After Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938, the literature was banned by the Nazis. The Watchtower Society, the administrative arm for the Jehovah Witnesses, had been banned in Germany since 1935. The religion was not banned but members were arrested for their refusal to be drafted or participate in any military work. Members in Austria knew that they would be persecuted for their refusal to accept the authority of any temporal p...

  8. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection

    1. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection

    The Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection focuses on the wartime experiences of Leon Ilultovich in Poland, Lithuania, Japan, and Shanghai, China. Materials in the collection include correspondence, visas, travel documents, medical records, identification records, newspapers, printed notices, ephemera, photographs, and photograph albums. The collection also includes photographs of the Ilutovich, Lindenbaum, and Landau families in Poland. The collection contains extensive biographical materials relating to Leon Ilutovich. These materials include identification documents, school records, medica...

  9. Large plastic doll named Marlene brought by a young Jewish girl to the Theresienstadt ghetto

    1. Inge Auerbacher collection

    Large, celluloid baby doll with several broken pieces that 7 year old Inge Auerbacher took with her when she and her parents, Berthold and Regina, were deported from Goppingen, Germany, in August 1942 to Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia. In the collection center, the SS took the doll's head off and searched it, then let her keep it. When the family arrived at the camp all of their belongings were taken away, except Inge's doll, named Marlene after the actress Marlene Dietrich. Inge promised her doll that she would protect it and the doll comforted Inge when...

  10. Book Hazkára |Gyaszimak es elmelkedesek halottemlekezteto unnepekre, evfordulora es sirlatogatasok alkalmara

    1. George Pick family collection

    Memorial book, Emlékezések könyve, with an inscription of future Yahrzeit or anniversary dates from 1935 through 1982 for Samu Kornhauser, the maternal grandfather of Gyorgy Pick. The book was used by Malvina Kornhauser to press flowers (1999.282.3.1) from the July 1935 funeral of her husband Samu. She pressed the blossoms between pages 35 and 35. The book was preserved during the war by Malvina, her daughter Margit Pick, Margit's husband Istvan and son Gyorgy. Malvina, ten year old Gyorgy, and his parents lived in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, from November 1944-January 1945. Hungary was...

  11. Außenpolitisches Amt

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. NSDAP und angeschlossene Verbände
    4. Reichsleitung
    5. Außenpolitisches Amt

    I. NSDAP/ Außenpolitisches Amt (APA)/ Abteilung Schulungshaus [EAP 250-d-18-05/1-2]: 1) Streng vertrauliche Aktennotiz über Sitzung im APA-Schulungshaus am 15. Juni 1938, mit Anwesendenliste: Aufgaben und Tätigkeit des APA-Schulungshauses, 4 S.; 2) Verschiedene Schriftstücke betreffend Aufnahme, Prüfung und Beurteilung des Lehrgangsteilnehmers Karl Schilling, 12. Oktober 1937-20. Juni 1938, circa 180 S.; II. Slowenische Nationalfibel (Übersetzung), 29 Bl. mit Anschreiben SD-Abschnitt Graz an Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) VI, 09. Januar 1940 [EAP 250-d-18-05/3]; III. APA/ Abteilung Osten ...

  12. Monogrammed napkin owned by Otto and Edith Frank

    1. Ryan M. Cooper collection

    Cotton napkin, embroidered with the initials of Otto and Edith Frank, gifted to them for their wedding on May 8, 1925. Otto and Edith had two daughters, Margot and Anne, and lived in Frankfurt, Germany. After Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in January 1933, authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews, and boycotting their businesses. Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, and under occupation, the Netherlands became subject to the Nuremburg laws. As restrictions continued to tighten, and antisemitism grew, Otto set up a hiding pl...

  13. Monogrammed tablecloth owned by Otto and Edith Frank

    1. Ryan M. Cooper collection

    Cotton tablecloth, embroidered with the initials of Otto and Edith Frank, gifted to them for their wedding on May 8, 1925. Otto and Edith had two daughters, Margot and Anne, and lived in Frankfurt, Germany. After Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in January 1933, authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews, and boycotting their businesses. Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, and under occupation, the Netherlands became subject to the Nuremburg laws. As restrictions continued to tighten, and antisemitism grew, Otto set up a hidin...

  14. Deutsche Polizeidienststellen in Polen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte : Der Bestand setzt sich aus Akten, die bei Kriegsende von der US-amerikanischen Besatzungsmacht beschlagnahmt und später an die Bundesrepublik Deutschland zurückgegeben worden waren, sowie aus kopierten Unterlagen nach Vorlagen aus den Instytut Zachodny Posen, teilweise kopierten Unterlagen aus dem Staatsarchiv Danzig, Kopien aus der Zentralen Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen zur Aufklärung national-sozialistischer Verbrechen, Kopien nach Vorlagen aus dem Staatsarchiv Lublin, Kopien nach Vorlagen aus dem Yivo-Institut New-York, aus Unte...

  15. Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte In das Bundesarchiv gelangten in den 60er Jahren, mit diversen Schriftgutrückgaben aus den USA und vorwiegend im Verband mit anderen Provenienzen aus dem Geschäftsbereich Rosenberg sowie mit einzelnen Abgaben aus der Sammlung Rehse, versprengte Akten des ERR, die dort zu einem Bestand formiert wurden. Es handelt sich bei diesen Akten ganz überwiegend um Schriftgut, das sich zuletzt in der Ausweichstelle des ERR in Ratibor befunden hat. Dorthin wurden aus Berlin ein Teil der Stabsführung sowie die Leitung der Ostbücherei mit großen Buchbestä...

  16. Więzienie w Łowiczu

    • Więzienie Karno-Śledcze w Łowiczu
    • Prison in Łowicz

    Dokumentacja więzienia w Łowiczu w miarę pełny ilustruje zadania i działalność zakładu penitencjarnego w okresie międzywojennym i w latach okupacji niemieckiej w Polsce. W materiale aktowym odnaleźć można charakterystyczne przykłady dokumentacji związanej z funkcjonowaniem instytucji więzienia: od okólników Ministerstwa Sprawiedliwości i korespondencję urzędową z władzami, księgi raportów i rozkłady służby wartowniczej, sprawy personalne i organizacyjne zakładu aż po wykazy, kwestionariusze i teczki osobowe uwięzionych. Z zarządzeń Ministerstwa Sprawiedliwości zachowało się kilkanaście okól...

  17. NSDAP

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. NSDAP und angeschlossene Verbände
    4. Reichsleitung
    5. Parteikanzlei

    I. SD-Abschnitt Linz 1942-1944: Berichte über "Allgemeine Stimmung und Lage", 25. Januar 1943-18. Juli 1944 betreffend Frontlage, Luftkrieg, U-Bootkrieg: Bericht, 25. Januar 1943, Bl. 1364-13266; Bericht, 30. Januar 1943, Bl. 13287-13291; Bericht, 08. Februar 1943, Bl. 13319-13322; Bericht, 20. Februar 1943, Bl. 13343-13345; Bericht, 01. März 1943, Bl. 13361-13362; Bericht, 08. März 1943, Bl. 13375-13377; Bericht, 13. März 1943, Bl. 13383; Bericht, 15. März 1943, Bl. 13384-13385; Bericht, 29. März 1943, Bl. 13398-13400; Bericht, 07. April 1943, Bl. 13411-13413; Bericht, 23. April 1943, Bl. ...

  18. RFSS

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Polizei und SS
    4. Persönlicher Stab

    I. Reichsführer-SS (RFSS)/ Persönlicher Stab: Varia, Februar 1941-Dezember 1944 [Original-Akten Nr. 71/2-15, 71/18-25], Bl. 2949-3188, unter anderem: 1) Aktennotiz SS-Sturmbannführer Ullmann, Februar 1941: Schwierigkeiten betreffend Sektlieferung für die Dienststelle RFSS aus Reims, Bl. 2950-2952; 2) RFSS an General Zeitzler, Februar 1943: Nichtbeachtung der Sicherheitsvorschriften bei Militärsendern an der Ostfront führt zu Informationen des russischen Nachrichtendienstes, Bl. 2953; 3) RFSS an SS-Obergruppenführer Heissmeyer, Dezember 1942: Auf Wunsch Hitler, Errichtung einer Adolf-Hitler-...

  19. Schriftgutverwaltung

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Polizei und SS
    4. Persönlicher Stab

    I. Reichsführer SS/ Persönlicher Stab (RFSS/ Pers. Stab): SS-Division ‚Horst Wessel', Januar-März 1944 [Originalakte Nr. geh. 328], 2 591 507-1 518, darin: 1.) "Führerbefehl", 30. Januar 1944: Errichtung der 18. SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadierdivision "Horst Wessel" aus Freiwilligen der SA, 1 510; 2) Geheime Korrespondenz SA-Stabschef Schepmann, RFSS, 28. Januar und 31. Januar 1944: Aufruf Schepmann an SA, Freiwillige für Waffen-SS zu stellen, 1 515, 1 518; II. RFSS/ Pers. Stab: Geheimhaltung, März 1940-Januar 1944 [Originalakte Nr. Geh. 329], 1 519-1 597, darin: 1) Befehlsentwurf SS-Haupta...

  20. RSHA

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Polizei und SS
    4. Reichssicherheitshauptamt

    I. Bestand: 1) Meldung wichtiger staatspolizeilicher Ereignisse, Herausgeber von Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)/ Amt IV streng vertraulich, 1941 August-September; 8983-9259 2) Dasselbe, 1941 Oktober-Dezember; 9260-9677 3) Dasselbe 1942 Januar-März; 9680-0043; 4) Dasselbe 1942 April-Mai; 0044- 0272; II. Register: 1) ausländischer Sender (Abhören): 1941 August und September: 1941 Oktober-Dezember: 1942 Januar-März: 1942 April-Mai 2) Einsatzgruppen und -kommandos (Aktionen Oktober-Dezember 1941) Einsatzgruppe Belgrad, November-Dezember 1941: Verhaftungen jugoslawischer Kommunisten, 9523, 963...