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  1. Collection of the Directie van Handel en Nijverheid - Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands, 1905-1943

    Collection of the Directie van Handel en Nijverheid - Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands, 1905-1943 In the collection of the Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands there is much information regarding the economic development in the Netherlands before and during the Nazi occupation, including the labor market in the Netherlands during the 1930s, the draft of reserve forces among Dutch merchants in 1940, and the removal of Jews from the Dutch economy, for instance Jewish clerks and Jewish businesses such as Bijenkorf, Hollandia Kattenburg & Co, Zwanenburg, Orga...

  2. Collection of the Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, 1924-1944

    Collection of the Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, 1924-1944 Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, was responsible for the administration of matters related to the regions, municipalities, and needy persons, Armwezen. The local Police, firefighters and air defense forces were subordinate to it and were transferred to the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice during the Nazi occupation period. A general draft of the Dutch Army was declared in June 1939. Binnenlands B...

  3. M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York

    M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York The Central Location Index (CLI) was established by various relief organizations in May 1944. The goal of the CLI was to concentrate data regarding refugees and those missing. After the organization (CLI administration) disbanded in May 1949, the documentation was stored in the cellars of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York; in 1957 the documentation was transferred to Yad Vashem. In the collection there are documents, lists and index cards. There are two main sectio...

  4. Eckdish family papers

    The Eckdish family papers include correspondence and immigration documents relating to Paul Eckdish and his family's experience emigrating from Germany in 1939. Correspondence includes originals and photocopies of letters sent to Paul in the United States, mainly from his brother, Martin, and Martin’s wife Ilse, in Palestine. Immigration documents include clearances, a job referral, and a receipt for passage on the SS Rotterdam. Also included is correspondence and receipts from Paul’s attempts to assist his parents in leaving Europe to go to Shanghai.

  5. Collection of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden, 1940-1943

    Collection of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden, 1940-1943 The role of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden was the determination of damages and payment of compensation to German citizens who suffered from war damages in the Netherlands; the Hilfsausschuß was based on VO 21/41; Germans outside of the Netherlands were also entitled to compensation, on condition that the damage to property was caused in the Netherlands; most of the claims related to the property of Jewish refugees from Germany who had stored their household contents in storage rooms of...

  6. [Court and denaturalization preceedings regarding Feodor Fedorenko, Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains extensive material in the form of court proceedings regarding the war criminal trials and subsequent denaturalization and deportation of Feodor Fedorenko, a former Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility in occupied Poland. Fedorenko is accused of having actively participated in the massmurder conducted in Treblinka and testimony alleges his presence and participation in shootings of numerous victims. The Fedorenko trial was the 1st trial that sought to deal with US citizens who participated actively in the Holocaust and later came to the United States under...

  7. Menschenfracht nach Palästina

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is an unpublished account by Werner Bukofzer about his illegal immigration to Palestine from Germany via the Danube and then on board of the "Hilda" to Haifa. He describes the hardships on board of the ship during an especially harsh winter 39/40, the uncertainty, and the dangers through onboard fire, storms and imminent shipwrecking. After days in the port of Haifa the passengers are taken prisoners by the British and interned in the Atlit camp. What follows is the monotony of prison life. Individual characters and events are described through anecdotes. After Purim 1940 a hungers...

  8. [Condition of Jewish Communities in Wartime, a Survey]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Entries documenting the state of Jewish communities in the period of September 1939 – November 1939. This entry surveys Zambrow (occupied by the Germans, burned, Ryki (occupied by the Germans, bombing caused severe damage), Międzyrzec Podlaski (occupied by the Germans, then by the Soviets, then by Germans again, when the Red Army left all young people left with it, several streets burned entirely), Skierniewice (occupied by the Germans, totally burned by bombing), Belchatow (occupied by the Germans, about 8000 Jews fled on the first day, thousands more later, Jewish shops looted, books conf...

  9. Lt. Alexandr Alexandrovich Bystrow

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains two reports written by Paul Anderson about the officer of the 61 Mechanised Rifle Regt of the Tenth Devision (Fourth Mechanised Army of the Soviet Forces, stationed in the Soviet Zone of Germany) Lt. Alexandr Alexandrovich Bystrow. On the 27th of August 1950 he crosses the zonal border and surendered to British military authorities as a political refugee. In the report Anderson explains very briefly the life story of Bystrow and his reasons for his desertion from the Soviet Army Forces. As Anderson argues the motives have little to do with political or ideological reasons,...

  10. [Court and denaturalization preceedings regarding Feodor Fedorenko, Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains extensive material in the form of court proceedings regarding the war criminal trials and subsequent denaturalization and deportation of Feodor Fedorenko, a former Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility in occupied Poland. Fedorenko is accused of having actively participated in the massmurder conducted in Treblinka and testimony alleges his presence and participation in shootings of numerous victims. The Fedorenko trial was the 1st trial that sought to deal with US citizens who participated actively in the Holocaust and later came to the United States under...

  11. [Hell or Paradise]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several reports written by Paul Anderson, regading the reality of Soviet life. He gives informations about Soviet collective farms, the trade Unions and about Red Army refugees who recently escaped to the West from the Soviet zone of Germany. As Anderson argues communities in the country side of Russia had a hard and not easy life, which makes it even more surprising why they were still voting for the communist party. This is based ultimately on illudions and ideals that are false even if they are genuinely and sincerely belived in. To every Soviet citizen the first experi...

  12. Jüdische Warenlager

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several documents dealing with regulations and procedures against Jews by the Nazi military commanders in France. Information and telegrams about confiscations of Jewish property and aryanizations are given. A table of contents of owners of Jewish warehouses is attached. For example, the textile warehouse of the factory of Ferdinand Bloch. The document provides information about the sale of the warehouse after deducting the costs. The sale brought in ffrs 39780. The warehouse of Marx Bloch was also sold and the proceeds were transferred to that of the head of the civil adm...

  13. The Tragedy of Goworowo - Bulletin No. 1

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This bulletin was intended to publish the work of the Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, describing the destruction of the Jewish community of Goworowo in the first months of the war. The bulleting consists of a summary of the testimony of a woman from Rozan, here referred to as X, elsewhere giving her name as Rachel B. the bulletin describes the gathering of Jews into the synagogue and holding them for hours under threat of incendiary bombs and fire. Many of the men were taken out and shot. In the end they were let out under German fire, to see t...

  14. Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova Nezavisne Državne Hrvatske

    • The Ministry of the Interior of the Independent State of Croatia

    The collection comprises papers from the Cabinet Office and Minister's office: categorized as very secret, secret, general files and documents, subsection of personal and computationally-economic affairs, records of the office assistant minister and the president's office, the files of the general section (IA to ID), the Administrative Department (II-A to II-C) and supervisory departments (NO to NO-III-IV), the administrative department of the General Directorate for Internal Administration (RU, RU BI to B-III), a very secret and secret papers of the Secretariat, Director General of the Gen...

  15. Central Location Index of the Relatives Search Department

    In the collection there are documents, lists and index cards. There are two main sections to the collection: Index Cards and Boxes of Documents.1. Index Cards: There are approximately 1,200,000 index cards, not in alphabetical order. Most of the cards are in good physical condition; 2. Boxes of documents: There are approximately 210 boxes of documents clearly divided into two kinds of material:A. The lists are located in 83 boxes including the names of those survivors for whom the organization has searched. The names appear on the index cards as well (in Part 1), because with every applicat...

  16. David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany

    This record group is a collection of testimonies recorded by David Boder, a Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in DP camps in Europe in 1946. The collection is comprised of testimonies of Jews and non-Jews, recorded in various languages and translated into English. The testimonies focus on the events in the lives of the survivors during the war in the ghettos and camps, while serving in the military, in hiding and in children's homes. The testimonies also contain information regarding the rehabilitation of the survivors from immediately after the war until the ...

  17. Šiaulių apskrities viršininkas

    • Der Kreishauptmann von Schaulen
    • Chief of Šiauliai District

    "The collections of the heads of the counties contain important documents concerning the Holocaust in the Lithuanian provinces" (Galina Žirikova, Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fondai: holokausto Lietuvoje tyrimo šaltinis /The Collections of the State Archive of Lithuania: a Source of Research on the Holocaust in Lithuania), Vilnius: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono žydų muziejus, Vilnius, 2011, p. 12). Circulars and decrees of the Nazis authorities and the chiefs of the local municipalities, decrees, protocols of inquiries of local residents, documents concerning Jewish property, infor...

  18. Vilniaus miesto savivaldybė

    • Stadtverwaltung Wilna
    • Municipality of the City of Vilnius

    This collection holds "documents dealing with the use of the Vilnius Ghetto inmates for work, payrolls, food cards for Jews, lists of the Jews in Vilnius 1 and 2 ghettos (September 1941), requests by gentiles to buy confiscated Jews' property" (Galina Žirikova, Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fondai : holokausto Lietuvoje tyrimo šaltinis (The Collections of the State Archive of Lithuania: a Source of Research on the Holocaust in Lithuania), Vilnius: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydų Muziejus, p. 11. The fonds consists of personal documents of residents (154108 personal cards), docum...

  19. Lietuvos TSR valstybės saugumo komiteto (KGB) operatyvinės įskaitos bylos

    • Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic Security Committee (KGB) Operative Follow-Up Files

    "SSRS OGPU-GUGB-NKVD-MGB-KGB and Lithuanian SSR NKVD-KGB operative files compiled by reconnaissance department (for the poltiticians, cultural and political leaders, activists of the the Uprising on June, 1941, local partisans, leaders of the antisoviet oragnizations, disidents, refugees from the Soviet Union and criminals" (Based on LYA). There are operative files (which deals with prosecution and surveillance proceedings) related to suspicious persons or to group of persons (for example: leaders of Jewish organizations (in Interwar period and early Soviet occupation period in 1940) and re...

  20. Correspondence with Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischer Glaubens (C.V.)

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence centres on two major subjects. One concerns The Wiener Library’s claim for the recently detected library of the C.V. (1947-1952) and includes background information on the library’s confiscation by the Nazis, its rediscovery on Czechoslovakian soil after the Second World War, and individuals and body’s involved in the process of negotiating its future ownership. Besides, a meeting of former members in London on occasion of the 60th anniversary of the C.V. is arranged. Triggered by a research enquiry on anti-Nazi resistance in Berlin from 1933-45, a second major subject co...