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  1. KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Abteilung IV - Verwaltung

    Contains records from Auschwitz-Birkenau relating to the Office IV Department of Administration. Includes personnel paperwork, lists of the transfers of SS officers and of SS property, SS use of the tailor and cobbler services, driving permits, and the order and distribution of supplies, such as clothing, office supplies, and other miscellaneous goods. Includes lists of materials confiscated by prisoners and of the ordering of coal for the crematoria. Most of the paperwork includes the name of the member of the SS making the request.

  2. Records of the Oberfeldkommandantur

    Includes orders, instructions, announcements, reports, and correspondence of the military unit relating to occupation duties.

  3. Records of the Gebietskommissar Wilna-Land

    Contains records of the military occupation administration unit relating to occupation duties. Included are orders, instructions, announcements, reports, and correspondence.

  4. Records of the Gebietskommissar der Stadt Wilna, Fond R-614/1

    Contains records of the military occupation administration unit relating to occupation duties. Included is information on Jewish property, Gebietskommissar personnel, racial classification, and economic transactions.

  5. Records of the Gebietskommissar Kaunas Stadt, Fond R-616/1

    Contains records of the military occupation administration unit relating to occupation duties, including receipts of German businesses in Kaunas.

  6. Records of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, Fond R-633/1

    Records relate to the duties of the ERR, especially the plundering of Lithuanian museums and libraries.

  7. Records of the Stadtverwaltung Wilna, Fond R-643/3–5

    Contains records of the Vilnius city administration. It includes information on Jewish matters, German decrees, punishments for Jewish rescue, and economic and property issues.

  8. Records of the Wilna Stadt und Land SS, Fond R-658/1

    Contains records of the SS units assigned to Vilnius and its environs. Included are lists of Jews working in local SS and police buildings as well as information on partisan activities.

  9. Records of the SS- und Polizeistandortführer Wilna, Fond R-659/1

    Contains records of the SS command for Vilnius. Included are announcements, reports, and correspondence regarding Soviet partisans, the local population, and police personnel.

  10. Records of the Stab der Selbstschutzeinheiten (Schuma) Vilnius, Fond R-660/1 and Fond R-660/2

    Contains records of the Vilnius self-defense units (Schutzmannschaften), including information about personnel, Pioneer Battalion 184, and Communists.

  11. Records of the 1st Selbstschutz Polizeibataillon, Vilnius, Fond R-661/1

    Contains records of the 1st Self-Defense Police Battalion in Vilnius, including orders and a history of the battalion.

  12. Selected records of the Feldkommandantur 814, Vilnius, Fond R-677

    Contains records of the military unit in Vilnius, including information about conscripted Jewish labor, Jewish doctors, orders of the Feldkommandantur, and battles with partisans.

  13. Records of the Standortkommandantura Marijampole, Fond R-678

    Contains records of the military unit in Marijampole, including secret reports on combat with partisans and on the shootings of Soviet prisoners of war.

  14. Hersch Berman collection

    Contains ten black and white photographs and one legal document pertaining to his experiences in the Enns Displaced Persons camp.

  15. SS-Hauptamt (NS 31)

    This collection contains files relating to the ideological and political training of the SS, especially replacements in the Waffen-SS, the police and other organizations absorbed by the SS, the build-up and training of the SS in the “Germanic” countries, and the collection of information on the racial backgrounds of SS members.

  16. SS-Führungshauptamt (NS 33)

    This collection contains files relating to the direction of Waffen-SS activities; the military training of the Allgemeine-SS; and the recruitment, armament, training, administration, and operational activities of the SS and its subordinate organizations.

  17. Histoire de l'arrestation et de la dispartion de la Famille Suganas du Mans

    Contains a memoir about the Holocaust experiences of Claude Audinot's family friends, the Suganas family.

  18. Central Consistory of Jews in Bulgaria (Fond 622)

    Contains reports, minutes, correspondence, and financial records relating to activities of the Central Consistory of the Standing Committee and the Public Cultural and Educational Organization of Jews in the People's Republic of Bulgaria. Includes lists of Jews who left Bulgaria for Israel and lists of Jews living in Sofia, Bulgaria.

  19. Jewish bank Geula records (Fond 559)

    Contains selected documents including statutes; minutes of annual meetings and executive council meetings; correspondence regarding mortgages, local courts, and mergers; name lists of bank members; and circulars issued by other banks.

  20. Parliament (People's Congress) records (Fond 173)

    Contains requests made by the People's Representative Professor Stainov to the Chairman of Parliament and to the Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding deportation of Asian Jews. Also includes Law of Protection of the Nation records: telegrams, resolutions, and other supporting documents.