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  1. Records of the Hauptamt Wissenschaft- series Kennkarten, Police Identification Cards assigned to German Jews (RG 222)

    Contains 4689 administrative duplicates of police identification cards, called Kennkarten, issued to German Jews in the period c. 1939 – c. 1942 from several municipalities in Germany, including substantial numbers of cards from Mainz (Stadt & Land), Frankfurt A.M., Geissen, Darmstadt (Stadt & Land) and Worms.

  2. The Peoples' Court in Linz (court cases with a verdict and court cases without a verdict) Volksgericht Linz (Verfahren mit Urteil and Verfahren ohne Urteil)

    Contains 322 post-war trials of defendants accused of Nazi war crimes. The trials took place in the Volksgericht Linz (People's Court in Linz), Austria from 1946 to 1955. These cases mostly relate to Jewish victims. Includes cases from Salzburg over which the Volksgericht Linz also had jurisdiction.

  3. The archives of the Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau (DALJEWCIB) Harbin-Shanghai

    Contains administrative and personal files created by the Central Information Bureau for Jewish War Sufferers in the Far East, and the Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland (Aid Society of the Jews in Germany). The administrative files include correspondence from the Central Information Bureau for Jewish War Sufferers in the Far East with Jewish communities and international Jewish and non-Jewish aid and migration organizations in various parts of the world, including New Zealand, Italy, China, Switzerland, Germany and Nazi-annexed Austria, Australia, Great Britain, Yugoslavia, Poland, sever...

  4. Selected records from the Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulate, Switzerland: General Correspondence (FO 192)

    Contains general correspondence from the British Embassy and Consulate in Switzerland relating to the implementation of the Washington Accord (Allied-Swiss Accord) relating to Allied efforts to recover and restore gold and other assets stolen or hidden by Germany during World War II in Switzerland.

  5. Selected records from the Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulate, Turkey (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence (FO 195)

    Contains general correspondence from the British Embassy and Consulate in Turkey relating to asylum for Jews and persecution of Jews, 1944.

  6. Selected records from the Foreign Office and predecessor: Embassy, Consulate and Legation, Denmark: General Correspondence (FO 211)

    Contains general correspondence from the British Embassy, Consulate, and Legation in Denmark relating to the political situation in Iceland and Denmark, war graves, and the influence of German propaganda in Denmark.

  7. Selected records from the Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulate, Beirut, Lebanon (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence and Letter Books (FO 226)

    Contains general correspondence and reports from the British Embassy and Consulate in Beirut relating to Arab responses to Jews in Palestine, Arab investigations into Jewish smuggling of arms into region, Jewish immigration, and demonstrations and protests against Jews in Palestine.

  8. Selected records from the Foreign Office: Consulate and Legation, Greece (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence (FO 286)

    Contains general correspondence and reports from the British Consulate and Legation in Greece relating to telegrams and resolutions from the Jewish communities including Salonica and Corfu expressing gratitude for the British mandate in Palestine, 1922, and relating to illegal immigration into Palestine, 1946.

  9. Memoirs of Fedor Fedorovich Khudiakov describing his life before World War II and under the Nazi occupation in Kiev

    Contains photocopies of 143 pages of memoirs of Fedor Fedorovich Khudiakov. The author describes his family life in Kyiv during the famine in Ukraine, apartment problem of that time in Kyiv, difficulties with the food supply, persuasion by NKVD “enemies of people”. In the beginning of the war Khudyakov served in the military unit located near Kyiv. Author depicts different military operations of his division in Kyiv oblast at the beginning of the war. In the September 1941 Khudyakov was taken as a prisoner of war and placed in the Soviet POW camps in Yagotin and Sulimovka in Kyiv region.The...

  10. Literary archives of poet Riva Naumovna Balyasnaya

    Contains selected records related to Riva Balyasnaya, Jewish Soviet poet. Incudes copies of her personal papers, poems, a biography, and critical reviews of her poetry. Includes also materials of criminal investigated case related to Balyasnaya‘s poetry; an interrogation in 1952; a review of her poetry by three philologists that indicates her ”anti-Soviet activity”; a statement from the hospital about her mental condition in 1954; and related materials. Riva Balyasnaya's poetry includes poems written during WWII and dedicated to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust and to Jewish resistance.

  11. Leo Cohn collection

    Consists of digitized scans of documents, handwritten music, letters, postcards, photographs, and published material related to the Holocaust experiences of Leo Cohn. Mr. Cohn was born in Luebeck in 1913 and was a member of the French Jewish underground movement through the Jewish scouts. He was murdered in December 1944.

  12. Marti Korach Weiss collection

    The collection includes a diary written by Ilona Braunstein Korach in 1945, documenting her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland and Buchenwald concentration camp sub-camps Gelsenkirchen and Sömmerda. The diary was created by Livia Klein with whom Ilona and her daughter Martha were in camp with. The front cover of the diary states "Ilu [Ilona] Béla [Ilona’s husband who perished] and Marti” and the back states “minden elmulik egyszer” ("this too shall pass").

  13. Harvey Buchsbaum collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the grandparents of Harvey Buchsbaum in Germany, who were killed in the Holocaust.

  14. Amateur film club visits Dachau, 1942

    Title onscreen indicates that the footage shows an outing of the Munich amateur film club to Dachau, 1942. See Stories 1282, 1284, and 1285 for related footage. Very bluish color. A slate reads: "Special train (Sonderzug) for the amateur film club leaves at 7:45 am for Dachau." Members of the film club ride the train to Dachau. A clock indicates that they are arriving at Dachau train station at 8:19. They arrive at the station and begin filming in the residential/commercial areas of the town (NOT the camp). It appears to be summertime, based on their clothing. Club members film using a trip...

  15. Tola Ratz collection

    Contains letters written by Dr. Ignacy Izak Trocki (donor’s paternal uncle) in France to his cousin Renee Leszczynska in New York, dated May 1939-June 1941. Also includes photographs of the Trocki family in Zgierz, Poland and Benjamin Trocki with his cousin Renia in Nice in 1948. Dr. Trocki was born in Zgierz, Poland. He joined the Republican forces in Spain during the Civil War and in 1939 was imprisoned in Gurs internment camp. His wife Stefa and daughter Carmen lived in Paris and later the family lived in Narbonne. Dr. Trocki tried to leave France, without success. His brother Benjamin T...

  16. Jews in Poland; unearthing the Ringelblum Archives

    Immediate postwar documentary about the Jews in Poland during World War II. In Yiddish with English subtitles. Also called "We the Survivors". 06:12:59 to 06:13:58 Footage of the first unearthing of the Ringelblum Archives on September 19, 1946 in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto. During the war, Emanuel Ringelblum and a team of historians within the Warsaw Ghetto assembled an astonishing set of testimonies, documents, and photographs, which they preserved in buried milk cans to be unearthed after the war. Man arrives on a motorcycle at a large pile of rubble. Group of men stand at the entran...

  17. Martha H. Patterson photograph album

    The Martha H. Patterson photograph album consists of a photograph album of the 1936 Summer Olympic games in Berlin, Germany. The album includes pictures taken by a spectator who attended the games and later immigrated to the United States. Images include the opening ceremonies, with spectators giving the Nazi salute to the Olympic flame; African-American athlete Jesse Owens; Glen Morris; general track and field events; a swimming pool; and the entrance to the stadium marked with the Nazi swastika.

  18. George Lowy collection

    Contains correspondence from Camilla Arm (donor's maternal grandmother) in Czechoslovakia to her daughter Franciska and son-in-law Fritz [Bedrich] Loewy (donor's parents) in Palestine through Romania; Fritz, Franciska, and George Loewy immigrated to Palestine in 1938. Collection also includes correspondence from Ernst Arm (Franciska's older brother); dated 1939-1941; Camilla passed away in January 1941 in Czechoslovakia and Ernst fled to Sweden where he remained through the second World War.

  19. U.S. soldiers at Berchtesgaden; marching in Munich; boarding trains with locals to go home

    Driving in the countryside around Munich (1945), now in the area around Berchtesgaden. Beautiful shot of the Alps mountains while driving over a river. Soldiers stop alongside the road and enjoy a moment in the sun. A convoy pulls up to the wreckage of Hitler's headquarters at Berchtesgaden. The camera looks down from the mountainside onto a large group of military vehicles gathered in the valley below. Mountain scenes taken from the Eagle's nest. 01:31:03 Soldiers hike in the mountains, then have a picnic on the hood of a jeep (1945). Views of the Isaar River in Munich. CU, archway with in...

  20. Sketchbook of drawings created postwar by a former Polish soldier, POW, and refugee

    Notebook of color sketches created by Benedykt Filipiak postwar about his experiences in Poland and Germany during the war and in Germany and the United States after the war. Benedykt, 15, was a Polish Catholic youth attending the Polish Officer Cadet College when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He went into active service, was captured, and sent to Stalag XIB. He escaped and joined the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa.) as a resistance fighter. From August-October 1944, he fought in the Warsaw Uprising and was captured by the Germans during the failed battle to liberate Warsaw....