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  1. Terezin ghetto records

    Contains selected records from the Terezin ghetto in Czechoslovakia, 1941-1945.

  2. Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office, German Section; General Department Public Records

    Contains records relating to Jewish displaced persons, including statistics, conditions in the Hohne camp in Germany, and on the joint British-United States committee to consider the problem.

  3. Foreign Office: Consular (War) Department, later Prisoner of War Department; registered files (KW&RD Series)

    Contains records relating to the treatment of Jews in France and reports on Bergen-Belsen.

  4. Peter Stern memoir

    Contains a memoir written by Peter Stern about his Holocaust experiences.

  5. Foreign Office and Predecessors: Control Commission for Germany (British Element), T Force and Field Information Agency Technical. Selected records.

    Contains FIAT files of captured enemy documents relating to Montan Anlage Auschwitz and Montan-Auschwitz Vertragsfragen. Also contains files relating to Jewish affairs and the treatment of Jewish DPs (Operation "Oasis") and various private office papers and administration and local government branch files.

  6. Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Prisoners of War/Displaced Persons Division (FO 1052). Selected records.

    Selected records of British Public Record Office fond FO 1052. Contains records relating to Jewish displaced persons, British DP policy, education and training programs for Jewish DPs, and information regarding emigration to Palestine (Operation "Grand National").

  7. War Office and successors: registered files (general series), WO 32. Selected records.

    Contains selected records relating to operations in Palestine, disturbances, and the formation of a Jewish Brigade. Materials were copied from record group WO 32 at the National Archives, United Kingdom. This series comprises registered files of the War Office dealing with all aspects of the administration of the departments and the armed forces.

  8. War Office and Successors: Middle East forces, military sections and headquarters papers, Second World War

    Contains worldwide intelligence summaries, as well as intelligence records relating to Jewish political activities in Palestine.

  9. Anniversary; War Crimes Trials: Einsatzgruppen Case; Allied Council Meeting

    02:30:00 (Munich 680) Sig Corps 85th Anniversary, Hanau Sig Depot, Germany, March 3, 1948. MCU, Maj. Gen. Jerry V. Matejka saluting soldiers to be decorated and advancing to award the Italian War Cross. (The men decorated are Maj. Aldo R. Rossi, Capt. Wayne A. Meyers, and M/Sgt. Paul M. Daugherty). VS, black Army band playing as it marches in review, followed by 22nd HQ detachment, 218th, 192nd, and 69th Sig. Companies. (The men marching carry slung rifles.) MS, Sgt. and soldiers in the ranks listening to he general's talk. 02:34:47 (Munich 674) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedi...

  10. Judge Advocate General's Office: War Crimes Case Files, Second World War (WO 235)

    Contains case files relating to individuals tried in British military courts for war crimes committed in Europe during World War II. Included are cases about crimes in Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz, Neuengamme, Hadamar, and Ravensbrück, Loibl Pass work camp, Gross Rosen concentration camp, and Lefitz Children’s hostel. The files contain daily transcripts of court proceedings, court exhibits, and prosecution and defense summations. Also included is documentary evidence collected by the US Chief Counsel including English translations of German documents. .

  11. War Office: Sixth Airborne Division, Palestine; papers and reports

    Includes logs of daily events pertaining to miscellaneous intelligence reviews, division intelligence summaries, and illegal immigration, trans-shipment reports.

  12. Judge Advocate General's Office: Military Deputy's Department and War Office, Directorates of Army Legal Services and Personal Services, War Crimes Files

    Contains war crime files relating to the children's hostel in Lefitz, Germany, and the death of Allied children.

  13. Records of the Russian State Archives of Literature and Art

    Contains eyewitness accounts of pogroms; printed excerpts from Vasilii Grossman's war diary; copies of articles, reports, and manuscripts by Grossman; Russian translation of Yankel Vernik's "A Year in Treblinka; " typed journal of D. I. Zaslyavskiy from 1943; protocol of conversation with the writer A. A. Bek; letters to the radio program "Naiti Cheloveka" from persons seeking information on relatives who went missing in World War II (1966-1968).

  14. Italian Ministry of Defense Selected records of the Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito

    Contains a census, questionnaires, documents, circulars, and correspondence relating to Jews, racial policy, military institutions, Yugoslavia, France, and Greece. Includes reports on the activities of the Ustashi against Jews in Yugoslavia; reports of Jews moving into newly occupied territories; translation of an article from "Der Spiegel" on the conduct of the Italian military in protecting Jews in occupied territories; the role of the Catholic Church in persecuting Jews in Rome; lists of military officers who aided Jews in Greece, France and Croatia; bibliography from the book on Italian...

  15. Records of the Ukrainian Extraordinary State Commission

    Contains photocopied records excerpted from the Poltava State Oblast Archive Fonds 1792/6/2; 1876/8/68/81/91/98/104; 3388/1/688, 1601a, 1624; 4085/3/227b. Contains executive commission depositions pertaining to German atrocities committed during the occupation of Poltava (1941-1943); lists of inhabitants shot by the Germans; reports on the execution of Soviet POWs and local populations (including Jews) in Zolontonosha, Kremenchug, Poltava, Khorol, Mirgorod, Kobeliaki, and other cities; and depositions on the treatment of POWs by the Germans.

  16. Henry Taca collection

    Consists of a Polish citizenship certificate issued on 28 November 1939, to Hersz Taca (donor) by the British Consul in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. The certificate bears a handwritten Curacao visa, dated 27 July 1940 and a subsequent, stamped Sugihara transit visa, dated 31 July 1940. Mr. Taca, a student, was trying to get to Palestine, but ended up spending the war in Calcutta, India.

  17. Segreteria particolare del Duce

    Contains records from the private secretary of Benito Mussolini (Duce). Included is information about Mussolini’s correspondence; Jewish communities in Verona, Rome, Milan, and the occupied territories; racial policy; the Protocols of the Elders of Zion; and the ministries of finance, war, and education.

  18. Natalie Baum collection

    The Natalie Baum collection consists of photographs of the Tisch family in Vienna, Austria and Antwerp, Belgium prior to their deportation and correspondence written by Jakub Tisch and Wittie Tisch in Antwerp, Belgium, to their daughter, Natalie Tisch in Denmark, and their son Leo Tisch in Austria, 1939-1942. Also included are documents relating to Jakub and Wittie Tisch’s deportation; a birth certificate of Natalie Tisch; correspondence with the US Embassy in Copenhagen relating to Natalie’s efforts to immigrate to the United States; money transfers from her parents in Antwerp to Nelly in ...

  19. Can I hug you? A Holocaust Survivor's Story

    Contains a documentary film about a Holocaust survivor, Bernice Vant who visited North Davidson High School and spoke to some of their classes.

  20. Oral history interview with Lou Dunst