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  1. Czech Ministry of the Interior (JAF 1075)

    Records generated by German occupational institutions (Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren) and Czech auxiliary agencies dealing with matters of internal security and racial policy, especially anti-Jewish measures. Contains correspondence, questionnaires, name list of Jews, Jewish doctors and university professors.

  2. Selected records from National Archives in Prague. Ministry of Finance of the Czechoslovakian Government-in-Exile in London (JAF 819)

    This collection contains records generated by German occupational institutions (Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren) and Czech auxiliary agencies dealing with matters of internal security and racial policy, especially anti-Jewish measures. Contains records related to deportation of Jews to Terezin, and Poland. Also contains appeals for evacuation, 1942-1945.

  3. Selected records from the Dr. Boris Tschlénoff collection

    Contains documents collected by, and pertaining to, Dr. Benzion Boris Arkadevitch Tschlénoff, a Ukrainian-Jewish doctor employed by OSE Geneva. Dr. Tschlénoff's life's work was dedicated to the care of tubercular Jewish patients and to the care and rescue of Jews suffering under Nazi occupation.

  4. Selected records from the Fonds Maurice Moch collection

    Contains documents pertaining to Jews in France during and after the war, as well as information pertaining to the organization and operation of the French Consistoire Central.

  5. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Var

    Contains records pertaining to the surveillance and persecution of Jews, Roma-Sinti, and Gays in the Var region of Mediterranean France.

  6. Natan Shafir collection

    The collection contains a photocopy of a published book of Natan Shafir's letters, saved by his son. These letters span the brief period of July 1941 to May of 1942, and were sent by Natan Shafir to his family living in Chkalov. The collection also contains photocopies of the actual letters, telegrams, and postcards, some of which display Soviet war art. There are also three photocopies of newspaper clippings.

  7. Leonid (Lema) Bernstein collection

    The collection contains letters sent by Lema Bernstein from the Front to his parents who were evacuated from Kiev to Saratov, and later back to Kiev. The letters span the period of 1941-1945. Lema describes his service in the Soviet Army from 1941-1945, including his experiences performing as a member of the Soviet Army jazz orchestra.

  8. Josef Berman collection

    Contains thirty-eight letters sent by Josef Berman to his wife Maria Brodskaya. These letters span the years of 1941-1945. Also included are three photocopied letters from Maria to Josef spanning the years of 1944-1945. The letters span the period of 1941-1945. Primary content pertains to details of Josef Berman's service in the Soviet Army, and his wishes for the welfare of his family evacuated from Kiev during the war.

  9. Memoirs of Lyubov Tartakover about her husband Shulem-Yankel Leibovich, Holocaust survivor

    The collection contains the memoir "Gray Shaking Shadows", hand-written by Solomon Mavritsovich Lebovich's wife, Lubov Tartakover. The memoir covers Solomon Mavritsovich Lebovich's time in a series of camps from 1944 to1945, deportation to Birkenau -Auschwitz, his experiences in Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen and other concentration camps, liberation and repatriation. Also includes one photograph and three drawings.

  10. Ikhil Shmulevich Falikman manuscripts

    The collection includes two photocopied works by Ikhil Falikman, one an early print of a book that later became an authorized Russian publication and the second a previously unpublished manuscript in Yiddish. Accreted materials contains nine drafts articles written by Ikhil Falikman during WWII, and a copy of the letter written by Ivan Ivanovich Nekhoda, Ukraininan poet, to Ikhil Falikman in August 1943.

  11. Irina Aleksandrovna Khoroshunova collection

    The collection contains two items: a photocopy of a typed interview with Irina Aleksandrovna Khoroshunova on April 24, 1982, and a photocopy of a printed version of her personal 1941-1944 diary during the Nazi occupation of Kiev. Ms. Khoroshunova, an ethnic Ukrainian (then 28 years old) provides a detailed account of the events in Kiev under Nazi occupation, including the September 1941 Babi Yar massacre, activities of the Communist underground, shortage of food, Nazi repressions against civilians and her own family.

  12. Chaim Gildin collection

    The collection includes a photocopy of a 2002 publication on a series of Ukrainian Jewish writers, including Chaim Gildin: Gildin, Chaim. circa 1937. “Autobiography,” in Repressed Jewish Writers of Ukraine, 5-6. Kiev: 2002. The collection also includes a photocopy of Chaim Gildin's 1945 NKVD file.

  13. Shmaruk-Tsybulnik collection

    The collection includes photocopied letters sent primarily between Isaac Shmaruk and his wife, Sulamif Tsybulnik. Other correspondence of note includes reciprocal letters from friends, family, and the Kiev Film Studio. The letters from Isaac Shmaruk discuss his life in the Red Army, his time spent in Germany, and efforts to contact family and friends throughout the Soviet Union. The letters from Sulamif Tsybulnik discuss her daily life in Ashkhabad, news from family and friends, her work with the Kiev Film Studio, and her brief stay in a Crimean sanitarium throughout a brief illness.

  14. Documents related to the righteous gentiles in the former USSR

    The collection includes photocopied letters, envelopes, testimonies, certified statements, photographs, passports, certificates of honor, forms, and applications of Jewish residents of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and the Gentiles who saved them. These documents were collected mostly from 1989 to 1997 by four main organizations: The Jewish Foundation of Christian Rescuers; the Association of Jewish Organizations and the Ukrainian Community; World of the Righteous; and the Societal History Instruction Center on Babi Yar.

  15. Diary of M. Zhabotinskii, a Jewish actor

    The collection includes the 85-page photocopied memoirs of M. Zhabotinskii, written between the years of 1957-1962.

  16. Memoir of Mark Josevich Sirota

    The collection includes a memoir of Mark Sirota, a renowned Ukrainian Jewish actor and theatre director. The memoir, completed in 1970, only covers the author's life from 1901 to 1939. The work is divided into 12 main chapters. Sirota provides interesting account of his childhood in Zitomir ( Zhytomyr) , beginning of his theatrical career with traveling Jewish theatre, travels trough Ukrainian, Polish and Romanian provincial towns. The memoirs offer rich and detailed information about Jewish life, history of the Jewish theatre in the background of the Russian revolution, civil war establish...

  17. Hitler's visit to Rome, May 1938

    A group of Italian school girls, escorted by nuns, followed by a group of young boys in uniform. Uniformed men with feathered hats march down the street. Women in native costume. A panning shot shows a huge building surrounded by Nazi flags and a crowd of spectators behind a barricade. Uniformed young girls march down the street. Uniformed boys, some with rifles and some playing drums. Long shot of men on motorcycles as they perform some kind of routine on a large field. More marching men on the streets of Rome, followed by Hitler's motorcade. Hitler is briefly visible, as is Goebbels, who ...

  18. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Alpes de Haute Provence

    This collection contains material pertaining to Jews residing in the Alpes de Haute-Provence, and to the administrative procedures for arresting and holding Jews in internment camps there. The prewar Department of the Basses-Alpes had no Jewish population, but became a refuge for Jews fleeing the Occupied Zone in the North for the Italian-occupied (before November 1942) portion of the South. The citadel of Sisteron became an internment camp, and Jews were kept under house arrest in several communes (rural districts).

  19. Selected records from Statistisch-wissenschaftliches Institut des RFSS (NS 48)

    Contains records of the Statistisch-wissenschaftliches Institut des Reichsfuehrers-SS, including statistics on demography and population, war casualties, sickness and death at the Mittelbau camp, water analysis at the Nordhausen camp, Warsaw ghetto statistics, personnel case files, and a name list of Himmler’s friends and associates.

  20. Selected records of the Reichspropagandaleitung (NS 18)

    Contains records created by the Reichspropagandaleitung, including propaganda leaflets, brochures, publication of war reports, political discussion of the situation in the USA, Winston Churchill, the war with Italy, propaganda in the East, advertisements for pro-Nazi companies, the role of the churches, measures in regard to foreigners, typhus, race defilement, swing dancers, Jews in the film industry, and prisoners of war.