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  1. Personal archives of Esdras Moissis related to the history of the Jewish community of Larissa in Greece

    Contains Esdras Moissis’s personal archives, which include various records, correspondence, and publications related to the history of the Jewish community of Larissa.

  2. Államvédelmi Központ Bizalmas iratok, 1942–1944

    • Centre of State Security Classified Records, 1942–1944

    The survived records of the Centre of State Security mostly contain investigative files, including the cases of corruption, bribery, embezzlement, fraud, falsification of documents, black marketeering, trafficking and other violations of economic laws. A significant part of the suspects of these cases were Jews trying to circumvent the regulations of the anti-Jewish laws, or were trying to escape internment, ghettoization and deportation in 1944, as well as non-Jews who helped or cooperated with them. The classified (confidential) records of the Center mostly include the investigative files...

  3. Records of the commune Boguszyce of the county Rawski Akta gminy Boguszyce powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1101)

    This collection contains the registration book (Tom V) of the commune Boguszyce of the county Rawa Mazowiecka. Included is registration of Jewish and Polish inhabitants from the villages: Kaliszki, Zarzecze, Łochów, Małgorzatów, and Podkonice Duże. Two Jewish families are registered in this book: Luftman's family, and Majercholc's family.

  4. Polish YMCA: classroom, orchestra, swim team

    Women exit a building. CU sign "Polska YMCA". People file through a hallway looking at posters, checking their coats. Boys stand in front of a doorway. Doors open to reveal a classroom of teenagers learning the English language. Man conducts an orchestra. CUs, the listening audience. Coach instructs swim team how to dive properly. Boys swim and play around, file into a locker room.

  5. 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,...

  6. Report of the Budapest Jewish Rescue Committee

    The Report of the Budapest Jewish Rescue Committee contains a photocopy of the report written by Dr. Reszo Kasztner (Rudolf Kastner) in 1946. The report gives an eye witness account to occupation of Hungary and the treatment of Jews by Nazi Germany. It details Kasztner's experience with the German invasion and occupation of Hungary, as well as the efforts made by Kasztner and the committee to move Jews into labor camps rather than concentration camps. The report contains a photocopy of the original report written in German, as well as an English transcription by Hilda Wolin.

  7. Propaganda posters

    A German propaganda poster depicts a tank with a Nazi swastika banner in the BG. It reads, in Russian, "Growing every day." Another propaganda poster depicts a German soldier in the FG, turning back to face local peasants, who are standing behind him and waving to him. It reads, again in Russian, "The German Army, your protector and friend!" A third propaganda poster shows a farmer tending to his field, and reads: "Now, I work in peace". A fourth poster shows a farmer planting seeds, but the caption is illegible, as the time code was burned in on top of it in a moment of dazzling brilliance...

  8. Haim D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim D., who was born in 1928 and grew up in Metz, France. He recalls Jewish refugees from Germany; antisemitic incidents; his father's conscription into the French military; his oldest brother's disappearance; their transfer with other military families to another town; attending a Catholic school; his father's release after eight months; German invasion; orders in November 1940 for all Jews to register; leaving for Paris with his family; compulsory wearing of the yellow star and other anti-Jewish restrictions in 1941; his bar mitzvah at year's end; frequent arrests ...

  9. Esther K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther K., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1919. She recalls her large, extended family; attending public school; German invasion; marriage; ghettoization; working in a clothing factory; her father, two brothers, and a sister dying from starvation; deportations, including her mother and other siblings; transfer with her husband and a cousin to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her husband (she never saw him again); and the public shooting of her pregnant cousin. Mrs. K. recounts transfer after six weeks to Bergen-Belsen, then Salzwedel; forced labor in a munitions ...

  10. Archive of the Apostolic Nuncio in Vienna Archivio della Nunziatura Apostolica in Vienna

    Contains a telegram, letters and posters sent to Gaetano Cicognani, Apostolic Nuncio in Vienna (1935-1938) and to Pope XI, from Josef Moses Krumer, as well includes Krumer's three published books in Hebrew relating to his predictions of catastrophe for the Jewish people.

  11. M.7 - Relico Collection - Documentation of the World Jewish Congress Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population, Geneva

    M.7 - Relico Collection - Documentation of the World Jewish Congress Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population, Geneva The Relico Organization, the World Jewish Congress Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population, Geneva, was founded in Geneva in 1939 by Dr. Abraham Silberschein, and funded by the World Jewish Congress. The Committee was active until 1947. Its main purpose was to assist the persecuted Jews in the areas occupied by the Nazis. The organization also assisted in locating family members and provided relief to Jewish refugees who had lost their homes an...

  12. Henry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921, one of two children. He recounts attending school; his older brother's death from illness; the Anschluss; expropriation of his father's business; antisemitic harassment; his father obtaining visas for Panama through his brother in Holland; traveling to Amsterdam; German invasion in 1940; working at a rubber plant; a general strike in 1941; hiding during a raid (several friends were captured and deported); traveling illegally to Belgium with a group of friends; his parents joining him; being smuggled with a group to Pa...

  13. Rose L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose L., who was born in a small town in Poland in 1910. She describes growing up in an affluent family; studying with private tutors; marriage to a wealthy businessman; establishing their home in Tluste (presently Tovste); her daughter's birth; Soviet occupation; persecution as business owners, including loss of their house; her parents moving to Ozeri?a?ny to avoid her father being arrested; German invasion; ghettoization; mass killings; joining her parents in Ozeri?a?ny with her daughter; returning to Tluste with her daughter after learning that her husband was dep...

  14. Senators visit Buchenwald; checking IDs; destroyed trains; military vehicles

    (LIB 5927) Congressional Group, Weimar, Germany, April 24, 1945. MSs, CUs, officers speaking to the Senators at Buchenwald concentration camp. MSs, Senators viewing stack of naked bodies. MS, Senator Alben W Barkley standing next to pile of bodies. MSs, black soldiers speaking with group of senators. VS, Gen Omar N. Bradley talking with the senators. Seq: Senatorial group is met by Lt Gen Walter B Smith at the airfield. MS, Gen Dwight D Eisenhower and group of Senators come out of building and enter car. (LIB 5928) Checking Civilians at Duisburg, Germany, April 23, 1945. Seq: Soldiers of th...

  15. Okresný ľúdový súd v Lučenci

    • District People´s Court in Lučenec

    The fonds contains various files concerning the persecution of Jews in Slovakia (1938-1945) and Hungary (1938-1945). Among others there is a case file of the former detective of Hungarian state police which contains the information about the investigation and the death of Jewish man in Lučenec (Losonc). Another file of former dignitary of the Nyilaskeresztes Párt (Arrow Cross Party) in Lučenec contains the information on the division of Jewish property in Lučenec (Losonc). One file contains the information on the ghetto in Lučenec (Losonc). There is also a file concerning the blackmailing o...

  16. Oberfinanzpräsident (Supreme Financial President) of Opava

    The fonds contains sources concerning the organisation and structure of financial administration in the relevant administrative circuit during the period 1938–1945. The file groups O 5200–O 5400, which contain materials from 1940–1944, are fundamental for the study of Jewish history. Specifically they are the directives and decrees for the use of seized Jewish and other enemy property and for the transfer of works of art from this property to the Reich Regional Museum in Opava (inv. № 91, call number 5200, box 2077), intimations of yields of Reich Minister of Finance from 4. 11. and 9. 12. ...

  17. Okresní národní výbor Praha-západ

    • District National Committee of Praha-západ / NAD 790

    The fonds arose from the activities of the District National Committee of Prague-West. Contains books, file material and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found in the following documents: inv. no. 313 National administration (since 1945); inv. no. 316 Restitution - allocation of property, call no. 566 (1949–1950); inv. no. 553 Overview of the religiosity of the district of Praha-západ, call no. 290 (1954); inv. no. 557 Libuš-rejection of kosher, call no. 295.9 (1952).

  18. Selected records of the Municipal School Council in Kielc Rada Szkolna Miejska w Kielcach (Sygn. 248)

    Records of the Municipal School Board, which supervised the activities of all schools in Kielce before the war. Included are numerous lists of Polish and Jewish schoolchildren. The Board granted and withdrew licenses for teaching and corresponded with the schools. Among the materials are documents related to Jewish private schools in Kielce.

  19. Track and field events in Pirna; prewar Jewish life in Germany

    "Picture Show Nr. 4" SCHILD - SPORTFEST SUMMER 1936. A track and field sporting event in Pirna with Albert Günther Hess's brother Manfred as the judge. HIS HONOR, THE JUDGE [Fred]. FALSE START. SHORT PROMENADES. AGH and his wife Ilse go on a walk through town. AGH films scenes around him: shots of a large building, the park, water flowing into a pond. BIRDS FOR THE EYE. CUs, birds. ICESKATING. CU, a bird "iceskating." OTHER WALKS. AGH and Ilse in a cafe. RETURNING HOME FROM A WALK. CUs of Ilse walking, entering the house. Brief shot of street with park benches.

  20. Depsztok and Apelojg families correspondence

    The Depsztok and Apelojg families correspondence includes letters exchanged among members of the Depsztok and Apelojg families in Warsaw, Poland, and the Szlomo and Syma Depsztok family in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Most of the letters date between 1936 and 1939, and postcards from the Warsaw ghetto are dated 1941. The Warsaw relatives ask about the possibility of making a living in Argentina, thank the family in Argentina for sending money, and described being taken care of by Szlomo’s and Syma’s brothers and sisters. The postcards written from the Warsaw ghetto primarily describe hunger, as...