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  1. Regional departments of the NSDAP in occupied territories Selected records of the Regionale Dienststellen der NSDAP in besetzten Gebieten (NS 45)

    This collection contains antisemitic propaganda for the Hitler Youth; instructions and guidelines for the SA; an antisemitic text written by SA head Viktor Lutze; denunciations; information on the search for the persons who assassinated Heydrich; materials concerning Alsace including Aryanization, the number of “evacuated Jews,” and antisemitic agitation; documents on discrimination against Mischlinge (mixed-race individuals) on the grounds of “race defilement”; statistical data on the district of Salzburg; registration of Jews in the Sudeten land; and antisemitic literature from Austria, L...

  2. Military Historical collections Militaergeschichtliche Sammlungen

    Contains mainly personal papers, correspondence, diaries, and similar materials written by German officers and soldiers during World War II.

  3. Memoirs Wspomnienia

    The collection contains several hundred of memoirs, testimonies and diaries of former prisoners of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, collected over several decades after World War II. This collection provides personal insights into the experiences of prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The collection is open, memoirs and testimonies are still being collected.

  4. Provincial Committee of Jews for Lower Silesia Wojewódzki Komitet Ź̇ydów na Dolny Śląsk (Sygn. 415)

    The collection contains records related to the Jewish settlement in Lower Silesia after 1945. Consists of the surviving office files of the Provincial Committee, which was established in June 1945 and liquidated in 1949. Includes protocols, reports (description and statistics) of the Provincial Committee, as well as of the municipal and county committees, numerous name indexes from the Department of Evidencing and Statistics and the lists of the Department of Child Care. Unfortunately, the documents of the Departments of Youth, Culture and Propaganda and Emigration were scrapped almost in t...

  5. Beaded bib necklace made by a young Polish Jewish refugee in Russia

    Colored glass bead bib necklace designed and made by 14 year old Nechama Ejnes from beads she bought at the bazaar while living in Kostroma in the Soviet Union. She also made a matching belt which did not withstand the hardships of life as a refugee. She fled Poland with her family, parents Moishe and Chana, and three younger siblings, Miriam, Shraga, and Zvi in September 1939 following the German invasion. They wandered from town to town until settling in Kostroma. They were assigned a single room with a communal kitchen that they shared with several other families for nearly seven years u...

  6. The Attorney General against Malkiel Gruenwald (RG 30) The Kasztner Trial

    Contains records from the libel trial against Malkiel Gruenwald who had accused Dr. Rudolph (Rezsö) Kasztner, a well-known official in the Israeli government, of being a traitor, charging that Kasztner, as the former head of the Jewish Rescue Committee in Budapest, had made a traitorous bargain with the Nazis and had allowed half a million Jews to die unwarned so that he might escape with 600 (including 19 of his own family, and 300 from his home town of Cluj).

  7. Selected records from collections of the Bihor branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains information on the numbers of Jews killed in rural areas of Romania; investigations of Nazis, Iron Guards, and Hungarians by the inspectorate of gendarmerie of Oradea; correspondence of the gendarmerie in Bihor regarding the treatment of Jews, the handling of war criminals and the Iron Guard, Jewish emigration to Palestine, and the treatment of Jews and Romanians by the Hungarians. Police records on the surveillance and/or arrest of individuals in Oradea by order of the new people’s court, information on the internment of ethnic Germans and SS, name lists of Jews and members of the...

  8. Selected records from collections of the Satu Mare branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions. It includes selected files from the following organizations: Prefecture of Satu Mare county, 1938-1948 - correspondence regarding confiscation and restitution of Jewish property and goods; Prefecture of Satu Mare county,1941-1950 - confiscation of Jewish goods, antisemitic administration orders, confiscation of land, 1944 reports regarding the SS; Mayor of the town of Satu Mare,1943-1948 - confiscation of Jewish property, and war criminals.

  9. Henry Sussman collection

    Collection consists of documents, photographs, clippings and photocopies pertaining to Heinz Sussman's [donor] family's experiences in Theresienstadt concentration camp between 1943 and 1945; Russian, German and Czech. Also includes materials post war from Austria and Deggendorf Camp as well as immigration to the United States in 1947. Includes two copyprint photographs of Sussman family and young group prewar in Vienna, Austria.

  10. Selected records from collections of the Bistriţa-Năsăud branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains records concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions. It includes selected files from the following organizations: Mayorship of Bistriţa - restitution of Jewish property; statistics; and confiscation of Volksdeutch property, 1945-1947; Legion of Gendarmerie of Năsăud city - correspondence between Romanians and Jews; religious cults, 1940-1944; Democratic Jewish Committee in Năsăud - Various reports, 1946-1950.

  11. Selected records from collections of the Suceava branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Selected records from the local offices such as: Legion of Gendarmerie, district police, district prefectures, and mayors' offices located in many localities in Suceava County in the South Bukovina area of Romania. Topics include many aspects of Jewish communities, organizations, societies, measures against Jews, standards for qualifying for Romanian citizenship, denaturalization, and evacuation of Jews from rural areas, internment of Jews in camps, deportations of Jews to Transnistria, Jewish property, Jewish companies, Romanization,” and the fate of Jewish assets after the war. Also inclu...

  12. Records of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Serviciul Special de Informaţii (Romanian Special Information Service)

    This collection contains reports on surveillance by the secret police, Serviciul Special de Informaţii, concerning Romanian Jewish organizations and reports on Jewish leadership, as well as antisemitic organizations and publications, the wartime repression of Jews, and the wartime "aryanization" (confiscation) of Jewish property.

  13. Selected records of the Foreign Information Service of Romania (S.I.E.)

    Contains personal files of several Jewish Romanian individuals who were associated with the Jewish community and/or were industrialists; including Alexandru Safran, Chief Rabbi of Romania; as well as a file on the Zionist movement. Most of files are associated with the following persons: Sima Horia, Florin Gildau (Galdau), Viorel Trifa, Ricu Lupescu , Salomon Rabinsohn, Spliman Emil, Nicolae Malaxa, and Mahai I.

  14. Mayer family correspondence

    The Mayer family correspondence consists of sixteen letters from Babette Mayer and Paula Hein in Bollendorf and Wolfenbüttel; Moritz Mayer in Liège; and Berta Lazard in Differdingen, Avallon, and Verteuil to their family members in the United States. The letters describe conditions in Germany, Belgium, and France and ask for emigration help.

  15. Registration cards of Jewish refugees in Tashkent, Uzbekistan during WWII

    The collection contains 156,000 registration cards of Jewish refugees who arrived in Tashkent and were registered in February 1942. These registration cards list only those who came directly to Tashkent and then went to different localities in Uzbekistan. The card catalogue does not include those who arrived at other localities within the Uzbek Republic as well as significant number of Jews and non-Jews who came to Tashkent after February 1942 - including people joining their family in Uzbekistan from other parts of Soviet Union.

  16. Selected records pertaining to Jews in Albania

    Contains excerpts from many files of the Albanian Central Archive collections. The contents are records about Jews in Albania before, during and after the Second World War. Some of the varied topics are: taxation of Jews vs. non-Jews; information on the Jewish community in various localities; governmental decisions regarding Jews; Jews in trade and commerce; demographic and census statistics; petitions made by Jews and resulting decisions; name lists of foreign citizens resident in Albania, including Jews holding foreign citizenship; correspondence with James McDonald of League of Nations c...

  17. Diary of Walter Tausk

    Contains four volumes of the diary of Walter Tausk. Walter Tausk describes own experiences in Nazi Germany related to antisemitism and polices against Jews. The diary contains also newspaper clippings, photographs of leading Nazis, letters to Walter Tausk, fascists leaflets, business cards of companies Tausk worked for and meal vouchers for Jews.

  18. Reconciliation: displaced persons and emigration

    Contains selected files from the War Office, Foreign Office, and Home Office relating to Jewish immigration to Palestine, displaced persons, including administration and policy records, reports on movements of DPs, nominal rolls and statistics, as well as the post war situation in Europe and restitution.

  19. Selected records from collections of the National Archives, Hague

    Contains selections of records from a great variety of collections, and concerns topics such as: Jews within the diamond trade in Amsterdam, Jewish education, deportation of Jews, refugee camps in Rotterdam, Jewish orphans, camp Westerbork, records from the consulates in New York and Geneva, economic measures against Jews, looted Jewish property, looting of Jewish farm land, a large number of records from the "Rijksvreemdelingendienst" (the Dutch police for foreigners), the latter for the most part concerning Jewish refugees from Germany.

  20. Selected records related to the history of Jews in Zhytomyr region of Ukraine

    The collection contains selected records from regional Soviet government and Communist Party organizations related to the various aspects of Jewish life in the Zhytomyr region, chiefly before WWII. The records provide information about work and activities of the Jewish sections (evsektsia) of the Communist Party, Jewish public and political organizations ( Komzet, OZET, Kultur Liga, Agro-Joint etc), Jewish schools, closing synagogues and prayer houses, confiscation of religious objects, variety of lists of members of the Jewish communities, Jewish agricultural colonies and collective farms,...