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  1. O.8 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Germany, mainly during the Holocaust

    O.8 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Germany, mainly during the Holocaust Most of the documentation is from Jewish sources. The first 106 files are remnants from the archives of Jewish institutions, organizations and communities in Germany. Some of this Record Group consists of documentation photocopied from municipal archives in Germany regarding the Jews and including personal documents, surveys and articles regarding the destruction of the communities in Germany and more. There is also documentation included in the Collection regarding the Jewish school in Harlingen, 1933-1939, subm...

  2. Documentation regarding Jews, from Courts of Law in Westphalia

    Documentation regarding Jews, from Courts of Law in Westphalia Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files i...

  3. Documentation of Der Oberpräsident der Provinz Oberschesien (Senior President of the District of Upper Silesia) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1943

    Documentation of Der Oberpräsident der Provinz Oberschesien (President of the District of Upper Silesia) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1943 In the collection there is a file which contains laws and regulations regarding the strengthening of Deutschtum ("Germanness") and differentiating between Aryans and Poles, including preparation of the deutsche Volksliste [that categorized Poles according to the measure of their relativity to the Aryan race and the possibilities of Deutschfaehigkeit, making them over as Germans]; there is also a file dealing with the authority of the Oberpräsid...

  4. Files from the Landratsaemter (District financial offices) in the Unterfranken region, Bavaria

    Files from the Landratsaemter (District financial offices) in the Unterfranken region, Bavaria Alzennau JM/22199 Aschaffenburg Abgabe 1972, 1976, 1986 - JM/22200 Bad Brückenau Abgabe 1949/1953 – JM/ 22201 (Frames 1-1907) Bad Brückenau Abgabe 1972 ff - JM/ 22201 (Frames 1908ff) – JM/ 22204 Bad Kissingen – JM/ 22205 - JM/ 22207 Bad Neustadt a.d. Saale Abgabe 1976-1984 – JM/ 22208 - JM/ 22209 Ebern – JM/ 22210 Gemünden Abgabe 1952 – JM/ 22211 (Frames 1-1557) Gemünden Abgabe 1975 bis 1988 – JM/ 22211 (Frames 1558ff) Gerolzhofen Abgabe 1950-1973 – JM/ 22212 Hammelburg Abgabe 1978/79 – JM/ 22213 ...

  5. O.15 H - Collection about Hungary

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019156
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1938-1956
    • Diary Letter List of deportees List of murdered persons Lists Original Poster Questionnaire Record of murdered persons Survey report Telegram

    O.15 H - Collection about Hungary Copies of original material - in the possession of Yad Vashem - from Hungarian governmental offices pertaining to Jews and the Holocaust. Additionally, original documents from communities, the Church, institutions such as the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, and from private collections, such as the Laszlo Szekulesz Collection, the Sara Friedmann Collection and files submitted by Moor Zoltan Yehuda have been included. The original files located in Record Group O.15 have been photocopied and divided according to subj...

  7. John Kaufmann album "Deutschland, England, Australien"

    Album entitled "Deutschland, England, Australien" created by John Kaufmann (born Hans Werner Kaufmann), originally of Heidelberg, Germany. The album includes writings, drawings, and photographs chronicling his family and his Holocaust experiences as a German refugee who fled to England in August 1939, was sent to Australia in July 1940 aboard the HMT Dunera as an enemy alien, and interned in the Hay internment camp in New South Wales.

  8. Documentation regarding Jews, from local archives in the State of Schleswig-Holstein

    Documentation regarding Jews, from local archives in the State of Schleswig-Holstein

  9. Estate of Ilse von Twardowski-Conrat, in the Archive of the City of Munich, 1898-1942

    Estate of Ilse von Twardowski-Conrat, in the Archive of the City of Munich, 1898-1942 Painter Ilse Beate von Twardowski was born in Vienna on 20/01/1880. Her parents, who converted to Christianity in 1852, had her baptized to Christianity (Evangelist) when she was a baby. She received her art training in Brussels. She married Ernst von Twardowski in 1910 and moved in his footsteps from Rome to Munich in 1914. During the Nazi regime, she was forbidden to work in her profession due to her Jewish origin, and in 1936 she was expelled from the Reichskammer für bildende Künste. She committed suic...

  10. Documentation from the Stadtarchiv in Leipzig

    Documentation from the Stadtarchiv in Leipzig

  11. Documentation of the Todt Organization in Minsk, 1942-1944

    Documentation of the Todt Organization in Minsk, 1942-1944

  12. Documentation of the regional Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Szczecin, dated 1964-1981

    Documentation of the regional Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Szczecin, dated 1964-1981 Included in the collection: Information booklets of the State Museum of Auschwitz Camp, 1976-1981; list of places of Nazi crimes in Police; documentation regarding crimes by Nazis suspected of murdering inmates in the Police labor camp (a sub-camp of the Stutthof concentration camp); list of labor camps in the area of the Szczecin region; documentation regarding German camps in Poland during 1939-1945, including documentation regarding ghettos, POW camps, prisons and detention plac...

  13. Correspondence between the Insel-Verlag publishing company in Leipzig and the writer Stefan Zweig regarding the publication of his books, 1912-1937

    Correspondence between the Insel-Verlag publishing company in Leipzig and the writer Stefan Zweig regarding the publication of his books, 1912-1937 Diverse correspondence by the publisher with the writer (and during the later years, also with Stefan Zweig's wife, Friederike Maria Zweig) in Vienna and later on in Salzburg. The correspondence relates to the publication, proofreading and translation to other languages of the works of Stefan Zweig, and likewise to the articles and series of books that Zweig edited for the publisher. Included in the files, among other matters, are the publisher'...

  14. M.52 - Documentation from Regional Archives in Ukraine, 1934-1966

    M.52 - Documentation from Regional Archives in Ukraine, 1934-1966 In the Record Group there are files from the following regional archives in Ukraine: the State Archive in the Lvov region, the State Archive in the Ivano-Frankovsk region, the State Archive in the Chervovtsy region, the State Archive in the Khmelnitskiy region, the State Archive in the Vinnitsa region, the State Archive in the Kiev region, the State Archive in the Rovno region, the State Archive in the Ternopol region, the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine (Lvov), the State Archive of the Office of Internal Affairs...

  15. Kutnowski-Kupferminc family. Collection

    This collection contains: one copy of the ruling of the Brussels Military Court of 5 December 1950 on Max Boden, one handwritten Hebrew letter, one written letter to “grandpa”, five extracts/attestations from the population registers of Anderlecht, Saint-Gilles and Brussels for Kutnowski and Kupferminc family members and two inscription certificates of Jankiel Kutnowski in both the population register of Schaarbeek and Charleroi, nine photos showing Aron Kupferminc, Anna Chana Kupferminc, Schlomo Kutnowski, Hersz Kutnowski and Jankiel Kutnowski, twelve attests of deportation or death concer...

  16. Collection of the Ministerie van Sociale Zaken - Ministry of Welfare in the Netherlands, regarding concentration camps and prisons, dated, 1945-1947

    Collection of the Ministerie van Sociale Zaken - Ministry of Welfare in the Netherlands, regarding concentration camps and prisons, dated, 1945-1947 Included in the collection: Documents, testimonies, reports, research, questionnaires, official documentation of the Ministerie van Sociale Zaken and others, regarding the camps.

  17. Documentation from the former Federal Archive in Koblenz (Bundesarchiv Koblenz), regarding government offices and various Nazi frameworks

    Documentation from the former Federal Archive in Koblenz (Bundesarchiv Koblenz), regarding government offices and various Nazi frameworks

  18. Documentation of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party regarding the partisans and underground activities in the Poltava region, 1962-1969

    Documentation of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party regarding the partisans and underground activities in the Poltava region, 1962-1969 Included in the collection: Documentation regarding the participation of several Jews in the partisans movement and the anti-fascist underground, submitted by the certification committee of the Kremenchug district of the Poltava region; confirmations of the receipt of partisans cards and lists of partisans; list of partisans brigades and detachments and underground organizations active in the district; documentation regarding the murder of Jews w...

  19. M.18.2 - Correspondence of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) with the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Relatives Search Department

    M.18.2 - Correspondence of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) with the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Relatives Search Department Correspondence between different organizations in various countries (including the JDC offices around the world). The correspondence deals with administrational topics and subjects regarding the search for relatives. The documentation is arranged by country or date or organization.

  20. Bequest Ernst Bürgin

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Ernst Bürgin from the historian Dr. Florian Schmaltz in March 2007. Ernst Bürgin was born in Wyhlen on July 31, 1885. After attending school in Basel, he studied chemistry and electrochemistry there and in Berlin. In 1911, he earned his doctorate. Subsequently and only interrupted by his deployment in World War I, he worked as a chemist for various companies in Berlin and the Rhineland. In 1924, he became the procurator and head of the plant Rheinfelden of the Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron (CFGE), which became part of the I.G. Farben i...