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  1. Stadthauptmannschaft Tschenstochau Selected records of the district of Częstochowa Starostwo Miejskie w Częstochowie (Sygn. 4)

    The records of Starosta of Częstochowa survived only partially, and include records of the financial department and partial records of the internal department. During the German occupation Częstochowa was a separate town (county) in the Radom district. The selected files of this collection contain mainly correspondence with Judenrat regarding Jewish matters. Includes records of the Jewish community during 1939-1944 and consists of correspondence on such matters as: confiscation of Jewish property, displacements and deportations, orders concerning the ghetto of Częstochowa, permissions to le...

  2. German civilians tour Buchenwald; US artillery, tanks in action

    At Buchenwald, survivors sit crouched around a fire, looking at the camera. German civilians file past after being taken through barracks. A flatbed of naked corpses situated in front of a building. MS, pile of bodies alongside building as civilians walk past. Women walk by with their heads buried and their hands covering their mouths. Crowds of people with white flags line the road; Germans sit against a fence. Overturned carts on the road with items scattered everywhere; horses eat from the abandoned carts. U.S. infantry run from a tank that is firing into the forest. LS of a building beh...

  3. Rene?e H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rene?e H., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in 1933. She recalls her childhood in German-occupied Bratislava, where, as the "ears" of her deaf parents and younger sister, she gathered information and alerted them to immediate dangers. She speaks of her and her sister's flight from Bratislava and hiding with a farm family; the ordeal of finding shelter after being evicted from the farm following their parents' deportation; and their voluntary surrender to the police in hopes of locating their parents. She relates her disappointment when she and her sister we...

  4. Milan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Milan K., who was born in Požarevac, Yugoslavia, one of four children. He recalls cordial relations with Serbs; moving to Belgrade in 1923; marriage to a Serbian; traveling to Sarajevo, intending to emigrate; German invasion in 1941; his daughter's birth in June; returning to Belgrade; forced labor; a round-up from which 120 volunteers were solicited; learning the next day they were shot; two German soldiers giving him bread; a failed escape attempt; being allowed to join his wife in another city; a beating by Germans; escaping; joining the partisans; serving in Vrnj...

  5. Selected records of the County Starosty in Włoszczowa Starostwo Powiatowe we Włoszczowie (Sygn. 736)

    Situational reports of the County Starosty of Włoszczowa 1933-1938; included is information about anti-Communist and anti-Jewish events in areas of the country.

  6. Beatrice S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Beatrice S., who was born in 1933 in a small town near Vilna, Poland (now Lithuania.) She recalls her prewar home life and schooling, and the Russian occupation in 1939. She relates her vivid memories of the German occupation in 1941 and the atrocities which followed, including the murder of her mother and two-year-old brother (which she and her father witnessed from their hiding place); her flight to relatives in another town; her escape with her father into the woods; and the 900 kilometer walk to the Russian front. She describes their journey to Siberia; her separa...

  7. Rahela R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rahela R., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1926. She recalls her mother's death in 1934; cordial relations with non-Jews; participating in the Zionist group Akiba; learning Eastern Orthodoxy ritual and prayer in school, which later helped her pose as a non-Jew; German invasion; visiting her brother and two uncles at Topovske Šupe; her brother's warning that they should hide; watching her brother being taken away; his murder, with three hundred other Jews, in reprisal for a German who was killed; hiding in Arandelovac; obtaining false papers; receiving travel ...

  8. Marion P. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Marion P., whose first testimony was recorded in 1986. Mrs. P. notes that some memories seem engraved in spite of large gaps. She recounts assisting in rescuing a child, Katinka; persuading some SS to free children; inconsistent behavior of the Germans, killing some resistants and letting others go; six months in jail for being with others who distributed bulletins of BBC broadcasts; release for no reason; problems between rescuers and hidden Jews due to living in very close quarters; religious faith helping her deal with constant fear; killing t...

  9. Ilse A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse A., who was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany circa 1922. She recalls a happy childhood; Hitler's ascent to power in 1933; one brother's emigration to Australia; anti-Jewish laws resulting in expulsion from school; her family's move to Amsterdam; discrimination because she was German; a dressmaker's apprenticeship; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures despite sympathy from the Dutch; her grandmother's deportation; her father learning they were to be deported; contacting the underground; receiving false papers; being transported to Apeldoorn with her parents (her br...

  10. Bronislava T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronislava T., who was born in 1924 in Krako?w, Poland. She recalls her large, extended family; their relative affluence; attending Catholic school, to which she attributes her ability to pose as a Catholic; German invasion; expulsion from their home in 1940; fleeing to Bochnia to avoid ghettoization; her aunt's and grandmother's deaths and her brother's deportation in 1941; she and two friends receiving false papers from her father's friend in Krako?w, who accompanied her to Warsaw; and their family's deaths in an "aktion". Mrs. T. recounts working at various jobs; h...

  11. Zbiór akt miejsc i faktów zbrodni hitlerowskich („Z”)

    Dokumentacja wytworzona i zgromadzona przez Komisję Główną i komisje okręgowe zawierająca fragmenty akt niemieckich i materiały powojenne dot. miejsc i faktów zbrodni niemieckich, m.in. w sprawie eksterminacji ludności żydowskiej, eksterminacji umysłowo chorych, powstania warszawskiego i zburzenia Warszawy, robotników przymusowych, wysiedleń ludności polskiej, grabieży mienia, germanizacji dzieci polskich, pacyfikacji wsi polskich; protokoły zeznań świadków i oskarżonych; relacje, wspomnienia i pamiętniki; ekspertyzy i opinie biegłych; protokoły oględzin i ekshumacji zwłok (m.in. w Palmirac...

  12. Bezirks- bzw. Landratsamt Neustadt

    Staatsrechtliche Gegenstände: Auswanderung, Wahlen. Verwaltung des Bezirks: Sitzungsprotokolle des Bezirkstags und Bezirksausschusses, Statistik. Gemeindeverwaltung: Gemeindefinanzen und -vermögen, Zuschüsse, Steuer- und Gemeindeeinnehmereien. Militär: allgemeine Militärangelegenheiten, Wehrpflichtige, Freimachungsgebiet (Rote Zone), Quartierleistungen, Rekrutierung von Pferden. Kirchen: Gemeinschaftliche Angelegenheiten, Verwaltung, Dienst- und Personalverhältnisse katholischer und protestantischer Pfarreien und Pfarrstellen, Bau-, Vermögens-, Finanz- und Rechnungsverwaltung katholischer u...

  13. Gerta T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerta T., who was born in 1916 in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Austria), the younger of two children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending school; working as a salesperson; her brother attending medical school; her engagement; the Anschluss; antisemitic harassment; her brother's illegal emigration to France with his wife and her parents, with assistance from a SS doctor he knew; her parents unsuccessful attempt to join him; her fiance? obtaining an English visa for her; emigration to London in August 1938; working as a governess in Plymouth a...

  14. Ann E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann E., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924. She recounts her father's service in World War I (he was in a Russian POW camp for several years); not being admitted to public school because she was Jewish; the Anschluss; expulsion from private school; her father's imprisonment in Dachau on Kristallnacht; his release after six weeks due to his veteran's status; she and her sister being sent on a kindertransport to London in March 1939; living with a foster family in Bedford for over two years; her parents arriving later in 1939; visiting them; her father's incarcerat...

  15. Jakub Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakub Z., who was born in Nowy Sącz, Poland in 1928 and raised in Košice. He recounts Hungarian occupation in 1938; German invasion in spring 1944; assistance from a non-Jewish neighbor; ghettoization; deportation with his parents to Birkenau; separation from his mother upon arrival (he never saw her again); learning of selections and gas chambers, which he describes as a new reality; volunteering with his father for agricultural work; his father's hospitalization from a severe beating; his own hospitalization; his father visiting and bringing him extra food; being ...

  16. Lăpuşna County Tribunal

    • Tribunal judeţean Lăpuşna
    • Лапушнянский уездный трибунал
    • Lapushnyanskiy uyezdnyy tribunal

    Reports of the Chişinău Prefecture about the incidents; correspondence with the Chişinău police questura on issuing a permit for the right to carry personal weapons; correspondence with the Chişinău police questura on individuals suspected of anti-Romanian activities; correspondence with Romanian prisons on individuals arrested for communist activities; the case of Etya Kichel and Zelman Griber that are suspected in communist activities; correspondence with the central prison on the prisoner Chaim Rabinovich; a case against the residents of the town of Călăraş Zelman Glos and Voza Luft susp...

  17. Documentation from the Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives: Activities of the Hashomer Hatzair Movement in Europe during World War II

    The collection contains mainly documentation regarding the activities of the Hashomer Hatzair Movement during the war in various countries in Europe. The Collection was gathered and brought to Eretz Israel by members of the movement. The documentation from the Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives was originally arranged and organized in Record Groups: 1. The Vilna Ghetto Record Group; 2. The Warsaw Record Group; 3. The Bialystok Record Group; 4. The Hashomer Hatzair Movement in cities and ghettos in Poland during the war; 5. The Movement in Hungary, Slovakia, parachutists; 6. The PCh"Ch Archive in Ge...

  18. Geschäftsstelle des Bundespersonalausschusses

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 106-II
    • German
    • Schriftgut 1339 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 58,1 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Gemäß Bundesbeamtengesetz vom 14. Juli 1953 (BGBl. I S. 551) in der Fassung der Bekanntmachung vom 31. März 1999 (BGBl. I S. 675) wurde zur einheitlichen Durchführung der beamtenrechtlichen Vorschriften ein Bundespersonalausschuss (BPersA) errichtet, der seine Tätigkeit innerhalb der gesetzlichen Schranken unabhängig und in eigener Verantwortung ausübt. Der BPersA besteht aus acht ordentlichen und acht stellvertretenden Mitgliedern. Ständige ordentliche Mitglieder sind der Präsident des Bundesrechnungshofes als Vorsitzender sowie der Leiter der Personalabteil...

  19. Arnold Joseph collection

    The Arnold Joseph collection consists of correspondence to and from defendants at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, which Joseph acquired during his military service as a censor. Incoming correspondence from the general public comes from the so‐called “201 file” of letters not to be delivered to the defendants so as not to upset them. It includes a mixture of praise and good wishes for the defendants as well as insults and invectives, and some correspondence includes prayers, poems, and songs. At least one letter is from a former German soldier, another is from a former political prisoner,...

  20. Sightseeing in Berlin and German-occupied Paris

    Side street. German officer stands next to a car: “M30 Pf4 4 To.” He kneels beside the car and talks to a mechanic working underneath it. He climbs up to the driver’s seat. River. People ride bikes. The Schlossbrücke bridge in Mitte, Berlin, with the Berliner Dom in the BG. The Pont d'Iéna bridge across the River Seine in Paris, and the Eiffel tower. Large building with a dome. Other Paris buildings. The Luxor Obelisk at the Place de la Concorde, with the L'église de la Madeleine in the BG shot from the Pont de la Concorde. The Arc de Triomphe on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. Corner of Rue...