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  1. British Colonial Office Cyprus, original correspondence

    Consists of records relating to the British Colonial Office's administration of Cyprus in 1939. Contains information regarding emigration to Cyprus in general, and Jewish emigration to Cyprus in particular.

  2. Selected records from the British Colonial Office : Confidential general and confidential original correspondence files on Palestine

    Contains confidential records relating to the distribution of immigration certificates to Jews in DP camps in Germany, the rate of immigration, illegal immigration, and files relating to the formation of a Jewish fighting force in Palestine.

  3. Ministry of the State Treasury. The Office for Nationalized Property Ministarstvo Državne Riznice. Urzed za Podržavljeni Imetak

    These card files relate to the registration, confiscation, and disposition of Jewish property. The files are arranged in alphabetical order by geographic location.

  4. Maud Kay Hamilton letters

    Contains two letters written to Maud Kay (Mrs. W.H.) Hamilton by Holocaust victims who received donations of clothing she send through a program organzied by her Church, the Church of God in Saxton, PA.

  5. Kalinsky Nerad family collection

    Contains correspondence pertaining to the lives and Holocaust experineces of the Kalinsky Nerad family.

  6. City Committee of the Communist Party of Croatia Gradski Komitet Saveza Komunista Hrvatske

    This collection contains data on Jews murdered on the territory of what, on November 29, 1945, became the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. The data are arranged alphabetically by victim name.

  7. Zbirka stampata, brošure and plakati Collection of printed materials, pamphlets and posters from Croatia

    This collection contains printed matter relating to the Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia (sic), including regulations prohibiting Jews to appear in public places, the obligation for Jews to wear the Star of David on the left sleeve of their clothing, the registration of Jewish property, the movement of Jews into ghettos, the prohibition of sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews, and the like.

  8. Leonard Lauder collection

    The Leonard Lauder collection consists of materials documenting anti‐Semitism in Germany in the first half of the 20th century, particularly during the Nazi era, that Lauder acquired from private vendors. The collection includes the Georg Hirschberg papers, Helmrich Heilmann correspondence, Hugo Simon correspondence, Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara materials, printed materials, photographic materials, banknotes, a proof of Aryan descent document, and commemorative stamps. The Georg Hirschberg papers contain professional credentials, military papers, correspondence, announcements, and notices doc...

  9. Central Jewish Committee in Poland. Presidium Centralny Komitet Żydow Polskich (CKŻP). Prezydium (Sygn. 303/1-27)

    Contains meeting protocols and reports related to the Jewish life in Poland after World War II. The collection documents activities of the Presidium, Central Jewish Committee in Poland. The data pertains mainly to the financial, political, educational, cultural, and emigration issues of the Jewish population in Poland.

  10. Cigarette case engraved with Camp Buchenwald

  11. Legal Department, Central Jewish Committee in Poland Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Prawny (Sygn. 303/XVI/1-438)

    Contains correspondence, petitions, agreements, and depositions related to legal aspects of the Polish Jews after World War II, 1945-1950. The Data pertain mainly to the legal issue of the Jewish properties, repatriation, Jewish orphans, the search of Holocaust survivors, preservation of Jewish cemeteries, the search for war criminals, and exhumations. The collection includes correspondence of the Legal Department, Central Jewish Committee of Jews in Poland with a variety of world organizations e.g. the World Jewish Congress in Austria and in Great Britain, the American Joint Distribution C...

  12. Nazi Party Chancellery Partei-Kanzlei der NSDAP (NS 6)

    Contains documents pertaining to the activities of the Nazi Party 1933-1945. Topics include general correspondence of the party; mobilization and defense; the Volksturm; Nazi ideology in the armed forces; use of security police and the SD to confront political opposition; the July 20, 1944, attempt on Hitler's life; copies of foreign propaganda; reorganization of the administrative divisions in the Reich; ethnic Germans in other countries; racial policies; statistics on ethnic make-up of European countries; economic data of, and economic relations with various European countries; industrial...

  13. Reichskunstwart (R 32)

    This collection contains material relating to the office of the Reichskunstwart, which was created in 1920 and was dissolved by the Nazis in favor of the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda. The purpose of the office was to ensure a consistent treatment of laws and administrative measures regarding the arts. The collection provides information about state festivals, graphics, stamps, coins, architecture, painting, literature, theater, music, dance, film, the press, memorials, and Volkskunst.

  14. Academy of German Justice Akademie für Deutsches Recht (R 61)

    Contains documents pertaining to the work of the ADR from 1933 to 1944. Includes documents regarding the organization and work of the ADR; conferences; relations with organizations in other countries; the Haus des Deutschen Rechts; speeches and papers of the organization president, Dr. Hans Frank, and other officials; personnel; budget, finances and property; publications, newspapers and libraries; committees of the ADR, including meeting protocols.

  15. Magdeburg Jewish Community records

    Contains postwar correspondence, including with other Jewish communities; lists of Jews; private papers of Israel Hersch; membership lists of the Jewish community; and a card file, presumably made by the Gestapo, of Jews in the Neu Stassfurt forced labor camp; photographs of the aftermath of Kristallnacht; and family photos.

  16. Jüdische Gemeinde Leipzig records

    Contains documents pertaining to Jews leaving and joining the community in Leipzig, Germany, Jewish-owned property and foundations, census figures, publications of laws, personal papers, questionnaires filled out by Jews seeking to emigrate, deportation lists, and lists of deaths and weddings. Contains records relating to the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, real estate documentation, captured documents of the Saxony Gauleitung, and missing person reports. Also contains deportation lists, general correspondence of the community, questionnaires for survivors, and documents pertain...

  17. Dresden Jewish community records

    Contains correspondence pertaining to the repression and persecution of Jews, documents related to the confiscation of Jewish property and its transfer to new ownership, lists of former residents of Dresden, Germany, and their subsequent whereabouts, missing person reports, deportation tables, and captured Nazi party documents.

  18. Records relating to Auschwitz and other camps from the Central State Archive of the Ministry of Defense, Podolsk

    Contains commission reports on the following: mass graves, disposition of elements of the Polish population towards the Red Army, damage inflicted on Polish towns by the Germans, the construction and running of a concentration camp in Lublin, the killing of populations at Sobibor and Odessa, and atrocities in the Minsk area. It also includes photographs of camp victims and executed people; descriptions of concentration camps at Auschwitz, Brzezinka, and Jaworzno; a declaration describing atrocities committed by the Romanian Army against the Jews; and a declaration by a captured German soldi...

  19. Margit Meier papers

    Consists of a document and photographs relating to the experiences of Margit Fuchs Meier during the Holocaust and in the immediate post-war period. Included is a document stating that Margit Fuchs worked at a Jewish children's home in Etterbeek, Belgium from November 1944 to May 1945. Twelve photographs depicting infants and toddlers from the Jewish children's home in Etterbeek and five photographs of the Fuchs family in Vienna and Brussels, circa 1936-1942.

  20. Jan Zlotkiewicz photograph collection

    The Jan Zlotkiewicz photograph collection consists of photographs depicting Jan Zlotkiewicz (born Jakub Salomon Zlotkiewicz) during his military service in the Polish Army.