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  1. Tatiana S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tatiana S., who was born in Olʹshana, Ukraine in 1925. She recounts attending Jewish and Ukrainian schools; German invasion in June 1941; her older brother's draft; fleeing with her family to Cherkasy; her father's draft; returning to Olʹshana with her mother and younger siblings; ghettoization; anti-Jewish measures; her father's return; receiving food from local people; a mass killing of Jewish men; transfer in May 1942 to a prison in Zvenigorodka, then to Nemorozh; slave labor building roads; transfer with her family to Smilʹchentsy; her father's and brother's murde...

  2. Renate Klapper: Personal papers

    This collection contains the papers of Renate Klapper, a Jewish girl from Berlin who was sent to England shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War to escape Nazi persecution whilst her family died at Auschwitz concentration camp.Personal papers including her school certificates (1684/1), wartime correspondence with her mother sent via the British Red Cross Message Bureau (1684/2), honorary membership certificate of the Royal College of Midwives (1684/3), two photocopies of her will (1684/4), two copies of her death certificate (1684/5), valuation documents of two properties in Ger...

  3. Jewish Community in Łódź Łódzka Gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska (Sygn.228)

    Contains records relating to Jewish community of Łódź dwellers before War World II. Includes records of Jewish cemeteries, synagogues and houses of prayer; appointments of rabbis, religious celebrations and ritual matters; social welfare matters such as day care for children, and care of orphans; a list of children under the custody of a community; applications for allowances, holiday rations of food for the poorest; medical care: general and mental hospitals; schooling and culture: construction and management of schools, and celebration of anniversaries and state holidays. Includes also re...

  4. Records of the Sociedad Israelita de Paysandú

    Records of the Sociedad Israelita de Paysandú (Israelite Society of Paysandú), Uruguay. Includes correspondence, minutes of sessions; reports and other office documents, 1945-1948.

  5. Sąd Grodzki w Krośnie

    • Court of the first instance in Krosno

  6. Palermo Mario

    Il fondo, versato all'Istituto campano nel 1981, raccoglie un'ampia documentazione sull'attività professionale e politica di Mario Palermo. Mario Palermo (Napoli, 21 ottobre 1898), studiò legge e intraprese la carriera di avvocato penalista. Partecipò, come volontario, al primo conflitto mondiale e, rientrato invalido, cominciò a frequentare l'Associazione nazionale mutilati ed invalidi di guerra di cui divenne anche presidente. Durante il ventennio fascista, dopo aver militato per un breve periodo in Giustizia e libertà, nel 1930 aderì al Partito comunista. Nel 1943 entrò a far parte del C...

  7. Sightseeing in Paris; women modeling new dresses

    Another day, showing monument/great building, two women with another German officer. Focus on one (not the same woman as shown previously), who is smiling and laughing. She tips her hat to the camera. 01:05:18 in a park. Two women from the previous scene are laughing and swinging on a swing set, standing up. An older woman speaks to them, appearing to chastise them (perhaps for standing or for swinging too high, or she wants the children to get a turn). Children in BG. Two women and the officer at a food stall of some kind. One of the women (in dark coat) feeds something to the German offic...

  8. Rafi B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rafi B., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1920, the youngest of three children. He recounts his father's death when he was three; moving to Timis?oara; attending a Romanian school; speaking German, French, Hungarian, and Romanian; moving to Bratislava; active participation in Hashomer Hatzair beginning in 1933; working for his aunt as a photographer; being sent to Prague in 1938 by Hashomer Hatzair to organize there; his brother's emigration to London; working for Hechalutz and continuing as a photographer; changing his name to a non-Jewish one; obtaining false papers...

  9. Starostwo Powiatowe w Kartuzach

    • Landratsamt Karthaus
    • Kartuzy County Governor's Office

    Wydział I: podział prowincji pruskiej 1878-1893, sygn.1; wybory deputowanych i landratów 1879-1919, sygn. 2-8; emigracja, imigracja, nadawanie obywatelstwa pruskiego 1841-1920, sygn. 9-17; szlachectwo, odznaczenia, zmiany nazwisk 1891-1919, sygn. 18-25; zmiany nazw miejscowości 1843-1915, sygn. 26; klasyfikacja gruntów, siatka triangulacyjna 1866-1916, sygn. 27-29; wycinki z gazet, statystyki, notowania meteorologiczne, rolnictwo, przemysł, regulacje stosunków własnościowych 1835-1920, sygn. 30-44. Wydział II: żandarmeria, szkolnictwo powszechne, opieka nad młodzieżą i przysposobiebie wojsk...

  10. Bundesamt für Wirtschaft.- Organisationsunterlagen

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 103-ORG
    • German
    • Sammlung 100 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Mit Wirkung vom 9. Okt. 1954 (BGBl. 1954 I S.281) wurde das Bundesamt für gewerbliche Wirtschaft errichtet, das zum 1. Jan. 1987 in Bundesamt für Wirtschaft (BAW) umbenannt wurde. Aufgaben bei Errichtung der Behörde waren im wesentlichen: Durchführung des Waren-, Dienstleistungs- und Zahlungsverkehrs bei der Ein- und Ausfuhr und im innerdeutschen Handel. Weiterer Zuständigkeiten wurden übertragen: 1959 Genehmigung der Ein- und Ausfuhr von Kernbrennstoffen und radioaktiven Stoffen; 1961 Zentrale Erfassung der Genehmigungen und Überwachung des Umgangs mit Krieg...

  11. Heeres-Abnahmestelle b.d. Firma Hasag Eisen-und Metallwerke G.m.b.H Apparatebau Tschenstochau Military Collection Center Hasag Hardware Ltd Facilities Construction in Częstochowa Wojskowy Punkt Odbioru Firmy Hasag Zakłady Metalowe Sp. z o.o. Budowa Urządzeń Częstochowa (Sygn. 192/2)

    Contains records relating to the production and organization of the Hasag ammunition factory located in the labor camps at the Hasag Facility in Częstochowa. Including are ordinances, circular letters, reports and protocols of inspection, as well as general correspondence. There were thousands of Jews among the forced laborers from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Josef Tiso in prison; airline; UNRRA supplies eggs

    1150 AA: LS, EXT of the jail called Kraiska Sud of Bratislava. LS warden opens Dr. Josef Tiso's cell (Tiso was a Monseignor of the Catholic Church and ex-prime minister of Slovakia; he was imprisoned for collaboration with the Nazis). CU the name "Josef Tiso" written on the door of Tiso's cell. MS Tiso at a little desk in the bottom of his cell reading or writing his memoirs. CU Tiso reading or writing and taking a book. LS Tiso leaving his cell at the side of a warden. LS Tiso walking in the courtyard of the jail. Several shots of Tiso walking around courtyard of jail. Warden in the courty...

  13. Esther G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther G., who was born in Mutvitsa, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1934. She recalls the warmth of Sabbath observance; Soviet occupation; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions resulting in a sense of isolation; her mother arranging for a farmer to hide Mrs. G. and her brothers; betrayal by the farmer; a German guard letting her go (she never saw her brothers again); being hidden again by the same farmer who had betrayed her; retrieval by her mother, who escaped the ghetto's liquidation (her father was killed); posing as a Christian; hiding in several places while ...

  14. Ruth H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth H., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1928, the only child of an affluent family. She recalls a beautiful life; German occupation in 1939; her father's disappearance; living with her mother and grandmother; her aunt's suicide upon receiving deportation notice; their deportation to Theresienstadt in 1942; extreme hunger; their transfer to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her grandmother; assignment to the family camp; slave labor clearing bombing rubble in Hamburg; clandestinely receiving food from French POWs; a death march to Bergen-Belsen; liberation;...

  15. Regierungspräsident (Office of the Governing President) of Ústí nad Labem

    Files are preserved in the fonds from the Regierungspräsident (Office of the Governing President) of Ústí nad Labem, in which it is possible to follow the task of this Nazi office of mid-level instance from Landrats (district councillors) right through to municipal offices very well. Of importance for study of Jewish history and in particular persecution of the Jews are the situation reports from 1938–1943 (inv. № 2); from the agenda of Department I b Volk – Care for the population: Census, 1939 (inv. № 153); from the agenda of Department Ib Sta – Nationality: Jews and persons of mixed race...

  16. District Office in Prešov Okresný úrad Prešov

    Contains administrative records on the Jewish community and Jewish individuals in the Prešov District. The records include lists of Jews living in the region, deportation lists and exemptions from deportation, lists of labor camp inmates, applications of Jews appealing for exemption, Jewish work permits, ban of the Jewish press, revocation of licenses, individual files of Jewish doctors and lawyers banned from carrying out their profession, liquidation and aryanization files of Jewish properties, Jewish housing lists by street address and apartment number, request by the Orthodox Jewish com...

  17. O.85 - Austrian Communities Registry

    O.85 - Documentation collected for the Austrian Communities Registry The purpose of the Yad Vashem Communities Registry Project is to perpetuate the history of the communities destroyed during the Holocaust. The historiography of the communities focused on countries, and sometimes on districts, but not the history of the local communities. With the increase of interest in the local communities, this Record Group also serves as a very important source for historians and researchers working in this field. The task of preparation of the Austrian Communities Registry was assigned to Dr. Herbert...

  18. Regional department of militia in the city of Kirovohrad

    • Кіровоградське обласне Управління міліції
    • Kirovohradske oblasne upravlinnia militsii

    File 1 at the Inventory 2 of the collection contains reports and statements about atrocities of the German occupiers and material damage caused by them in Kirovohrad region during the occupation: P. 8 - Statement of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission about the murder of the Jewish population in Kirovohrad by the German occupiers; P. 21 - Statement of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission about the murder of the Jews in Holovanivsk village of Odesa region by the German occupiers; P. 22 - Statement of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission about the murder of the Jewish population in village Novo...

  19. Displaced persons camp; tattoo numbers

    Young men (displaced persons) crowded on benches outdoors, pan and CUs, at unknown DP camp location. Baby in a carriage. 01:12:44 DPs display the numbers tattooed on their forearms from the Nazi concentration camps. Women sit on a bench and knit. A young man washes his feet under a faucet. Waking on a path. Large group of people stand beneath a castle. CUs, scar on the leg of a man, presumably a result of labor during the Holocaust. Palace grounds. More CUs, portraits of displaced people. A young girl holds a puppy. The group lines up in rows in the courtyard, lowering a Zionist flag.

  20. Helen R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen R., who was born in Wolbrom, Poland in 1923. She recounts her father's death when she was ten months old; antisemitic harassment by teachers and students in school; her mother's remarriage; moving to Sosnowiec; the births of two half-siblings; German invasion; ghettoization in Srodula; pervasive hunger; deportation with her sister to Guentherbruecke; forced labor in a munitions factory; she and her sister helping each other; receiving extra food from her cousin; transfer to Peterswaldau; liberation by Soviet troops; their return to Sosnowiec; learning her immedi...