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  1. Maks Astrinsky collection

    The Maks Astrinsky collection consists of correspondence, letters, and one picture postcard pertaining to Maks Astrinsky, a partisan who hid in the forests of Poland and witnessed the massacre of Jews and the burning of homes by the Germans in Slonim and other towns.

  2. Trude Gruber papers

    Contains twenty-five letters and postcards, nine legal documents, forty-two black and white photographs, and two color photographs concerning Trude Gruber's experiences as a Kindertransport child.

  3. French resistance, street fighting; Liberation in Paris

    "Le Journal de la Resistance" Title: "Realise clandestinement et sans aucun moyen materiel entre le 16 et le 26 aout 1944 par une equipe de cineastes de la Resistance, ce film apporte a la France et au Monde un temoignange authentique sur la Liberation de Paris" View of Paris just prior to liberation. Empty street, trucks, Germany rebuilds, tank. Men running in street, hanging posters. CUs, various posters. Mobilization. Removing posters. FFI. Shots fired. MS, men's heads at window. Running, firing in streets, commotion. Automobiles with "Police." Sandbags. Buildings. Blood on sidewalk. You...

  4. Mobilization of Dutch troops; eviction of a Dutch Jewish family; Leeuwarden

    This video contains three films of Leeuwarden from the collections of the Frisian Film Archive. 00:33:47 to 00:43:19 - Filmed before World War II. Private residences and passing pedestrians. Cars and bicycles sporadically dot the streets. Man smokes a cigarette, conversing with a female companion on a nearby bench. A middle-aged woman sweeps her front porch; a younger woman polishes a door-handle. A boy teaches a younger boy to ride a bicycle. A group of three children in fancy dress playfully approach the cameraman. A class of schoolchildren performs gardening work, overseen by their teach...

  6. Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camp records Abteilung I - Kommandantur

    Contains telegrams and Entlassungscheine (discharge certificates) from Auschwitz concentration camp relating to prisoner deaths, prisoner escapes, and prisoner discharges. All records relate to the main camp, Auschwitz I. The materials date from 1940 to 1944.

  7. Auschwitz concentration camp records Abteilung II - politische abteilung

    Contains lists of new prisoners entering Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941, and Sterbeurkunde (death notices) for primarily Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox prisoners dating from 1940 to 1944, with the bulk of them dating from 1943. All of the records relate to the main camp, Auschwitz I.

  8. Auschwitz concentration camp records Abteilung IIIa - Arbeitseinsatz

    Contains telegrams, card files, card indexes, reports, registers, name lists, and various other documents relating to prisoner labor in Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz concentration camps. Select files relate to camp prisoners working as electricians and ironworkers. The records date from 1942 to 1945 with the bulk dating from 1944.

  9. Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camp records Abteilung III - Schutzhaftlagerfürung

    Register books, card indexes, and various other records relating to the "state of the day" in Auschwitz concentration camp, the camp for female Roma in Birkenau concentration camp, the camp for male Roma in Birkenau concentration camp, prisoner numbers, prisoner barracks, the SS Baubrigade Bauzug, the penal company, the underground cell in barrack 11, and Soviet prisoners of war who died in Auschwitz concentration camp.

  10. Linden family papers

    Contains biographical sketches, photonegatives, photographs, school report cards, newsletters, identification documents, certificates, clippings, affidavits, a Jewish flag, and various other documents relating to the experiences of Fred Linden (Fritz Isaac Lindenstrauss), his wife Ruth Betty Salomon Linden, and their son, Kurt Joseph Linden, during their time living as German Jewish refugees in Shanghai, China, from April 1939 to August 1947. Several documents relate to the Linden family's business, "Ladies Secondhand Store," where they provided clothing goods and tailoring services to the ...

  11. Ruth Wanderer Biheller collection

    Contains eight black and white photoprints of scenes in Aschau displaced persons camp and an identification card (Kennkarte) for Guti Wanderer. The photographs depict scenes of the ORT training school in Aschau and an Israel independence parade.

  12. Fichier de Drancy Drancy file

    The Drancy File conserved at the ICRC is a census of the Jewish deportees from France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Greece, and Turkey, who were arrested by the Vichy Government on French territory and who transited the camp in Drancy between February 1942 and March 1943. The File was conveyed to the International Committee of the Red Cross in several batches that in all likelihood were delivered to the ICRC delegation in Paris between July and September 1943.

  13. Lilly Goldstein D. P. index card and vaccination form

    Contains a displaced person index card (A 10193) issued to Lily Kaufman (Lilly Goldstein) by the Allied Expeditionary Force in 1945 and a vaccination form for Lili Kaufman issued a displaced persons camp in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1945.

  14. Rosenberg family papers

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of the Rosenberg family in the Feldafing displaced persons camp. Included are photographs depicting the lives of Mania and Jacob Rosenberg and their children Ada and Abraham in the camp; Jacob’s cousin Harry Silverman at the Lemberg displaced persons camp; childrens’ religious classes; and a wedding. Other material includes Mania Rosenberg's identification card from Feldafing, a newspaper article written by Jacob Rosenberg and published in Feldafing, and a Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) greeting card for 1947.

  15. Basel family collection

    Contains two passports for Ruwen Basel, three identification cards for Fela Liebgold and Ruwen Basel, correspondence pertaining to reparation payments, and Ruwen Basel's work for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) as a camp supply officer.

  16. Oral history interview with Mindel Freedman and Mottle Freedman

  18. Provincial administration in Białystok Urząd Wojewódzki w Białymstoku (Sygn. 71)

    Contains reports, registers, and various other documents from the Repatriation Department, General Political Branch, and the Social Branch of the Bialystok Provincial Administration dating from 1944 to 1950. The records contain information about repatriation, terrorism by underground groups, religious confessions, minority groups in Bialystok, including Jews, and war damage to Jewish communities.

  19. Records of the city of Lublin Akta miasta Lublina (Syg. 22)

    Contains maps, building plans, architectural drawings, minutes of meetings, permits, registers, and various other documents from the city administration of Lublin, Poland, from 1939 to 1944. The records relate to a prisoner of war camp in Lublin, constructions of streets in Lublin, construction of factories and buildings for industry in Lublin, plans for the crematoria in Lublin concentration camp, housing for factory labor, the role of the Waffen SS in Lublin, plans for structures in the Dachau and Auschwitz concentration camps, payroll for the Lublin city administration, establishment of ...

  20. Records of the city of Lubartów Akta miasta Lubartowa (Sygn. 43)

    Contains records of the administrative division of the city of Lubartów, Poland, relating to religious confessions; supervision of churches in the Lubartów area; addresses of Jews and Jewish property in Lubartów; Jewish refugees from the Pomerania and Poznań districts; displacement of the Jews from Lubartów to Ostrów and Parczew; and the imprisonment of all inhabitants of the village Palikije (community of Wojciechowka) in a penal camp.