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  1. Records of the Regional Shekel Commission in Lwów (Fond 336)

    The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence related to the fundraising activities of the local branches of the "shekel commissions" across of the Eastern Galicia, central offices of the Zionist organization in London, list of the delegates to the Zionist Congresses, list of voters of the delegates to the Zionist congresses etc.

  2. Selected records from the Archives Départementales du Finistère

    Contains information on the systematic persecution of Jews and Freemasons in the area in and around Finistère. Also contains information concerning the expropriation of Jewish property in the same region.

  3. Selected records from the Archives Départementales de la Seine-Maritime

    This collection contains documents on émigrés and refugees, including Germans, Austrians, and stateless persons residing in the department in 1940; the operations of the administration dealing with “Jewish questions”; deportations of Jews from the Rouen area; the designation of Aryan administrators for Jewish properties appropriated by Vichy; arrests and search warrants; the supervision of Jewish property in the Dieppe area; the appropriation of properties belonging to Masonic lodges; outlawed “secret societies”; Jews in Le Havre; and a lawsuit concerning the Dreier family’s attempt to reco...

  4. Selected court records from the Military Tribunal of Bucharest territory

    Contains court records, declarations, letters from several ministries, personal files with pictures and finger prints, interrogation files, declarations, and name lists of defendants, reports of national propaganda and files of the special information service. The records pertain to the criminal cases related to the Holocaust.

  5. Dunson family at Christian mission; church picnic

    At the Kiamichi Mountain Christian Mission in Nashoba, Oklahoma, where Harold Dunson and his family were sent as missionaries in 1947. MS, man in cowboy hat, swinging rope in front of a large US mailbox on a wooden post. Name on box reads: "Harold L. Dunson." MLS, panning shot, cinderblock church and courtyard. VS, children, women at church picnic. Children filing out of Church hall. Also teenagers, posing for group portrait. VS, youth racing on a lawn, sack races, three-legged races, etc.

  6. Selected records of the Liaison Office (under the Office of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers) for Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria

    Contains correspondence, various data, minutes of the meetings of the Council of the Ministries and Governors of the three provinces, bills and other materials related to the political, economical situation in Bukovina, Bessarabia and Transnistria under Romanian occupation during WWII. The collection also includes archival documents related to the implementation of the population policies in provinces by the Romanian authorities as well as Romanianization of Jewish properties and assets, plans and proposals concerning transfers of Romanian population to the newly occupied provinces, surveil...

  8. Radio truck seeks listeners; Roma

    Two trucks with the phrase "werdet Rundfunkhoerer" [become radio listeners] emblazoned on their sides enter a small town. Children follow after the trucks eagerly. There is a loudspeaker visible on top of one of the trucks. The children crowd around the trucks as a man distributes leaflets. The truck is shown parked at the base of a rotating windmill. The next part of the clip shows a group of Roma/Sinti gathered around a cooking fire and standing in front of the radio wagon. They laugh and wave at the camera. A group of children plays a ring-around-the-rosy game.

  9. Schlachtensee displaced persons camp photographs

    Consists of four photographs taken in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA) Schlachtensee displaced persons camp near Berlin, Germany, circa 1945. The photographs include images of Rabbi Hyatt, an American chaplain; an unidnetified rabbi from Schlachtensee; a group of students; and Phyllis Dunkelman.

  10. Lea Schneider photograph collection

    The collection consists of six photographs: five photographs collected by Wolf Goldsztajn [donor's stepfather] depict Siegmund "Zisha" Breitbart, a Jewish strong man of the 1920's, and one photograph shows Jewish refugee youth in Munich, Germany, marching in an anti-British demonstration protesting Palestine policy in 1947. Zelig Gorszkiewicz [donor's father] is second from left in the first row.

  11. Metal lid from a cremation urn stamped Dachau

    Container lid with the birth, death, and cremation dates for 28 year old Anton Oleszak. The lid is believed to be from a cremation urn used to return his ashes to his family following his execution in Dachau concentration camp. Oleszak was condemned to death by hanging in Dachau on February 17, 1942. He was a Catholic from Neustadt, Poland. It was a policy of the Nazi government to return the remains of political prisoners to their families.

  12. Barbie Trial -- Day 13 -- Witness testifies

    The President, André Cerdini, enters and the session begins. Witnesses present at this time are called from the viewing public and brought out of the court room to a separate chamber. The session is temporarily suspended as the witnesses exit. The President enters and the session restarts. The bailiff reads the charges being filed against Klaus Barbie. The President then introduces Mme. Sabina Zlatin (maiden name Chwast). She describes her activity as a nurse in 1939, where she worked in a hospital in Argentan and then in Montpellier. She assisted with the movement and placement of children...

  13. Volksdeutsch; Propaganda; Romania

    Title on screen: "Umfassende Schulungsarbeit der Maenner der Partei lenkt die weltanschauliche Ausbildung." [loosely: Ideological instruction by the men of the party] The camera pulls back slowly from a man in a Nazi party uniform. He stands at the head of a table and speaks animatedly to a group of Volksdeutsch, who sit and listen attentively. Another similar scene, although briefer. The next scenes show further instruction given to Volksdeutsch. Close-up and medium shots of a speaker and people listening in the audience. The young women and men in the audience wear uniforms. The light is ...

  14. Jakob Lapides papers

    The papers consist of a commemorative card given to Jakob Lapides as recognition for his contribution in the students' self-government in the orphanage in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland. Also included in the collection is a newspaper published on Aug. 1, 1941, in the Łódź ghetto

  16. Népbíróságok Országos Tanácsa Selected records of Budapest People's Court

    Contains records of the Budapest People's Court (Budapesti Népbiróság). The material includes documents from the pre-trial police investigations, as well as interrogation protocols, indictments, trial transcripts, witness testimonies, judgments, and post sentencing histories.

  17. Hennoch Henry Hochman letter

    The letter was written by Hennoch Henry Hochman [donor's maternal great uncle] in Łódź, Poland, to Abe [Abram] Stern [donor's father] in which he discusses World War II and his hope for things to calm down and for peace to come quickly.

  18. Postwar court records relating to the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki

    Consists of 3,737 court cases from the Court of Thessaloniki, minutes of meetings, reports based on minutes, reports of the court reporters, etc. Records relate to petitions to the court by Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, either seeking approval for a formation of a relatives' council and the appointment of a committee "on behalf of those absent in Poland" or legal confirmation that their relatives, lifetime residents of Thessaloniki named in their petitions, have been killed in Birkenau or Auschwitz, or died on the way there.

  20. Correspondence of the Sicherheitspolizei related to the arrest of Belgian Jews

    Contains Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO) correspondence from 1943 concerning the arrest of Belgian Jews.