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  1. Association for Assistance to the Jewish Students in Poland, Lwów Regional Branch (Fond 499, Opis1)

    This collection consists of students' applications for financial aid. Applications are organized alphabetically by surname of the applicant.

  2. Records of the Trade Union of Jewish employees working for the private sector, Lwów regional branch, Poland (Fond 496, Opis1)

    The collection consists of the financial records of the members of the Trade Union.

  3. German invasion of Poland and USSR

    Title: The German Invasion of Russia Autumn of 1941. American narration describes the German invasion of the USSR. Fires and other devastation in USSR; Soviet POWs. Germans attack Poland in 1939. Clips of battle footage (from German newsreels) while the narrator enumerates the countries invaded by the Nazis. German bombers attack USSR. A German soldier tears down a banner containing a portrait of Stalin. A German soldier raises a barrier at the border. German soldiers enter the USSR on bicycle, foot and on tanks. Bombs dropped on Soviet territory. Nice shot of a long line of German tanks di...

  4. Records of the Ahavat Chesed Credit Union in Lwów, Poland (Fond 498, Opis1)

    The bulk of this collection consists of the applications of the members of the union for loans and financial assistance. The credit union was established for the purpose of providing financial assistance to working Jewish intelligentsia and members of their families. The trade union in Lwow, Poland (now L'viv, Ukraine) served as the central office for the whole of Eastern Galicia (Malopolska) .

  5. Records of the Gemilas Chesed Credit Union in Lwów, Poland (Fond 456, Opis 1)

    The collection consists of records of the Gemilas ChesedTax-Free Credit Union branch in Lwow, Poland (now L'viv, Ukraine). The union rendered financial assistance to craftsmen and small business owners and served as the central office for all of Eastern Galicia (Malopolska). Documents include financial reports prepared for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Joint) in Warsaw (a sponsor of the union), correspondence with local banks and government agencies, and the other materials. The Gemilas Chesed Tax Free credit union opened its branch in Lwow to provide financial assistanc...

  6. Records of the Jewish Relief Committee (Fond 505, Opis 1)

    This collection includes bylaws, minutes of the meetings of the Executive Committee and its subcommittees, reports and statistical information, correspondence with Polish government offices and agencies, Jewish organizations (Joint, Jewish Colonization Society, Central offices of the Jewish communities in Warsaw), commercial shipping companies regarding transportation for immigrants leaving for Argentina, Northern America and Africa, as well as financial reports of the charitable (Gmilat Hesed) and coop organizations. The third and largest part of this collection consists of the records of ...

  7. Kurator der wissenschaftlichen Hochschulen in Wien (AT-OeStA/AdR UWFuK Kurator)

    The collection includes records pertaining to the dismissal of Jewish professors and the hiring of replacements, confiscated literature, student matters, and other topics.

  8. Reichsstatthalter in Österreich III a.k.a. Abteilung III-Büro Mühlmann (AT-OeStA/AdR ZNsZ RSthOe Abt. III)

    The collection includes records pertaining to cultural institutions and art in Nazi-annexed Austria, in particular the confiscation and aryanization of Jewish-owned and Church-owned artwork and cultural properties.

  9. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland. Department of Emigration Centralny Komitet Żydow Polskich (CKŻP). Wydzial Emigracji (Sygn.303/XIV)

    Circulars, communiqués, and other publications; correspondence with American and Polish Jewish organizations and Polish governmental agencies; name lists of persons applying for passports, registration certificates, and records of financial assistance to emigrés; personal letters regarding emigration to Palestine/Israel; photographs and various miscellanea.

  10. Fabian Gerson memoirs

    Consists of the memoirs of Professor Fabian Gerson, originally of Łódź, Poland. The memoirs are written in two parts. In part I, titled "The Road to Annihilation," 13 pages, Professor Gerson describes his childhood in Łódź, pre-war antisemitism, and the German invasion. In December 1939, Fabian's mother, Dora (neé Kon) and sister Franciszka moved to Czestochowa; Fabian and his father, Pinkus, escaped the ghetto to join them in October 1940. On September 22, 1942, Fabian was separated from his family during the liquidation of Czestochowa and taken to forced labor at an armament plant owned b...

  11. Gardelegen photographs

    Consists of 11 photographs taken of the Gardelegen atrocity, including photographs of corpses carried on stretchers in preparation for burial. Also includes one letter, dated July 28, 1945, written by Daniel J. McCue, Jr. in Bad Aibling, Germany, to his father, Daniel J. McCue, Sr. In the letter, McCue writes that he is enclosing photographs taken "at a concentration camp..snapped by one of our boys." The photographs are marked "Dachau" on the verso, but depict Gardelegen.

  12. Elimelech Weinmann family tree

    Consists of the family tree of Elimelech Weinmann, born in Poland most likely in the early 1800s. The family, which now has Argentinean, Israeli, and Australian branches, lost members in the Holocaust.

  13. "The Holocaust Survival of the Katz family, 1941-1944"

    "The Holocaust Survival of the Katz family, 1941-1944" is a 23 page memoir written by Ruth Katz Leiser. The memoir recalls the Holocaust experiences of the Katz family of Godulin, near Maišiagala, Poland.

  14. Simon Ruder photographs

    Consists of seven post-war photographs from the collection of Simon Ruder, originally of Obertyn, Poland. Mr. Ruder was deported to Loncki prison in 1941, where he spent two years sewing Nazi uniforms before being sent to Auschwitz, Dachau, and then the Mühldorf subcamp, from which he was liberated in 1945. The photographs, taken at an unknown displaced persons camp, depict Mr. Ruder, his brother Mendel, and other newly released prisoners. Includes a photograph of what appears to be a remembrance ceremony, and a group picture in which some of the men appear to be wearing prisoner uniforms.

  15. Selected records from the "Nedic Archives" of the Military Historical Institute of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia

    Selected records from the archives of the Military Historical Institute of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia related to the activities of the puppet government of the Prime-Minister Milan Nedic during the Nazi occupation. This collection includes correspondence of the various Government authorities regarding arrests, persecution and reprisals against Jews, members of the antifascist movement, communists and the civilian population.

  16. Fondo Documental Secretaría Técnica, Primera y Segunda Presidencia del Teniente General Juan Domingo Perón (1946-1955), Sección: Migraciones y Colonización

    Administrative records, declarations, testimonies, declartations, decrees, name lists pertaining to Argentine migration and colonization policies and legislation, including Jewish migration in Europe and South America after the end of the Second World War.

  17. Nazi Criminals Criminales Nazis

    This collection includes newspaper clippings and a few original documents pertaining to the search and whereabouts of Nazi war criminals believed to be hiding in Argentina and other countries in South America.

  18. Legal authorities beyond the area of the Federal Republic of Germany – cadre camp Sosnowitz Justizbehörden außerhalb des Gebietes der Bundesrepublik - Stammlager Sosnowitz (BA R137V)

    The collection contains registry and registration books with arrival and departure of prisoners; also contains various documents concerning food rations, rules, regulations and policies issued to camp guards. Contains information on incarcerated prisoners under Polish punishment regulations ("Polenstrafrecht") at the "Stammleger" Sosnowitz (region Kattowitz).

  19. Vsesoyuznoe Obshestvo po zemelnomu ustroystvu trudyashikhsya evreev Society for Settling Working Jews on the Land (OZET)

    The collection contains documents pertaining to organization and work at all administrative levels; notes from the meetings of the governing bodies of the Society for the Settlement of Working Jews on the Land (OZET); collectivization plans and directives concerning resettlement; correspondence between the Central Soviet of OZET and Jewish organizations abroad; industrial and agricultural records; propaganda materials such as newspaper articles and film scripts; information bulletins; financial records of OZET; and the proceedings of the liquidation committee. Also contains documents pertai...

  20. Selected records from the National Archives in Prague

    Contains records generated in the Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren (Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) by the German occupiers and by dependent Czech agencies dealing with “internal security” and “racial policy.” It also contains case files from the Comité d'Assistance aux Réfugiés (Committee for Refugee Assistance) in Paris, 1933-1940 (probably captured there, taken to Germany, and evacuated to the Protectorate), including cases for refugees from Czechoslovakia, Austria, and other countries. Many documents derive from puppet ministries and agencies, including materials on deport...