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  1. Имперский суд и Прокуратура Германии (г. Лейпциг)

    • Reichsgericht und Reichsanwaltschaft (Leipzig)
    • Records of the Reichsgericht and Reichsanwaltschaft in Leipzig (State Court and State Prosecutorial Office)

    Investigatory records, letters, newspapers

  2. Управление службы безопасности (СД) в г. Штеттине

    • SD-Abschnitt (Stettin)
    • Records of the SD‐Abschnitt Stettin

    Correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to the Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses, the confiscation of their printed materials, and one item about Jewish influence on churches.

  3. Материалы народного суда и других немецких судов

    • Records of Volksgerichtof and other German Courts

    Court files of investigation of people charged with state treason, sabotage, listening to foreign broadcasts, and other treasonable acts involving the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. Included are correspondence and orders regarding the investigation of Poles, Czechs, Jews, and Russians; excerpts from "highly treasonable" radio broadcasts printed in "Deutsche Volkszeitung" (October 1938) and broadcast over "German Freedom Station."

  4. Бюро имперского протектора в Богемии и Моравии (г. Прага)

    • Records of the Reichsprotektor in Böhmen und Mähren, Prague
    • Büro des Reichsprotektors in Böhmen und Mähren (Prague)

    Contains a March 1941 monthly situation report of the head of the SD in Prague that mentions the emigration and "resettlement" of Jews. Also included are letters to other German authorities that include a listing of all leadership offices, statistics on German nationals, and the reestablishment of Deutschtum ("Germanness") in the Protectorate.

  5. Правление синагогальной общины (г. Штеттин)

    • Vorstand der Synagogen-Gemeinde (Stettin)

    Archival records of the synagogue in Stettin (Szczecin, Poland) and the history of Jews in the region from 1906 to 1937: it consists of a bulletin and various documents of the "Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland" regarding the need to better organize statistics on Jewish organizations; correspondence, statistics and clippings on the emigration of Jews from Szczecin (Stettin).

  6. Petro ir Povilo bažnyčia su rodykle į HKP lagerį

    1. Rinkinių apskaitos ir apsaugos skyrius

    Vilnius. Petro ir Povilo bažnyčia su rodykle į HKP lagerį.Po geto likvidavimo apie 1000 žydų buvo palikti dirbti „Kailio“ fabrike, 1000 žydų liko dirbti kariuomenės autoremonto dirbtuvėse HKP, apie 50 – karo ligoninėje ir 70 – gestapo dirbtuvėse. Šie keli šimtai kvalifikuotų darbininkų su šeimomis prieš pat geto likvidavimą buvo perkelti į du Subačiaus g. 37 esančius šešiaaukščius pastatus (dabar nr. 47 ir 49). Daugiausiai tai buvo mechanikai, skardininkai, šaltkalviai, stikliai, t.y. tie, kurie dar iki įsteigiant stovyklą, būdami gete, dirbo Heereskraftfahrpark/Ost/562 (sutrumpintai HKP) k...

  7. Prayer book

    1. Frank Meissner family collection

    Prayer book carried and used by Franz Meissner with an inscription dated 1912 inside the front cover. Franz, age 16, left Czechoslovakia in October 1939 because of the increasing persecution of Jews as Czechoslovakia was dismembered by Nazi Germany and its allies. With the encouragement of his family, he left for Denmark with Youth Aliyah, an organization that helped people to emigrate to Palestine. In 1943, the Germans began to deport all Jews from Denmark. Frank was warned that the Gestapo was looking for him and he was smuggled on a fishing boat to Sweden. He had been receiving weekly le...

  8. Cohn/ Baer family papers

    The material consists mostly of birth and death certificates, permits and travel documents. Included are papers which document the increasingly oppressive measures taken by the Nazis against the Jews. At 628/9 is Martha Cohn's identity card with the conspicuous “J” on the cover denoting Jew and which bears the additional information that she was ‘evacuated' from Berlin on 16 December 1942. At 628/10 is the order from the Amtsgericht, Berlin, that she must adopt the forename ‘Sara' to identify her as a Jew, dated 11 Jan 1939. At 628/11 is an order stamped by the Gestapo that she must leave G...

  9. Jakob Zelnik collection

  10. Edgar Dreyfus: Family papers

    The papers in this collection document in part the lives of a French Jewish family and their experiences during the German occupation.

  11. Copy papers re the Holocaust in Poland

    1295/1 Sheet of copy photographs containing the following 3 images: nd1) undated photograph of children in a classroom at Uzhgorod, Czechoslovakia. The children perished at Auschwitz in May 1944. The teacher was the depositor's mother. 2) undated photograph of a woman, Sarah Krischer, who was selected by Mengele in May 1944. She was 27 years old. Her 2 sisters, brother and nephews as well as parents were selected by Mengele and gassed on the day of arrival. 3) undated photograph taken in Volhynia province, Poland. The 2 men with beards were murdered. The one on the left is Rabbi I...

  12. Kurt Sabatsky: reports on leading Nazis and incidents of Jewish persecution

    This collection consists of typescript reports about individual Nazis and accounts of incidents of Jewish persecution. Many of the reports are written in the first person. In the last report (-/23), an account of the author's dealings with Erich Koch, formerly Gauleiter of Ostpreussen, the author reveals his identity - Kurt Sabatsky, formerly District Syndicus of the Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens, who later worked for the Wiener Library. At -/13 is a report of a meeting between Hermann Göring, then head of the Gestapo, and Brodnitz and Alfred Wiener, representative...

  13. POLYAKOVA-GARMS-VINZ Maria Yakovlevna and others

    1. Кримінальні справи на нереабілітованих осіб

    Case No. 3404 on charges against POLYAKOVA-GARMS-VINZ Maria Yakovlevna - from November 1941 to April 1944, translator at the SD in the city of Simferopol. She participated in arrests, searches, interrogations and beatings of Soviet citizens and citizens of Jewish nationality, and participated in the operation to exterminate 425 patients of the psychiatric hospital in the mobile gas chamber. LEGEK Leongard Ivanovich – from November 1941 to October 1943, driver at the SD of the city of Simferopol. He participated in the mass extermination of Soviet citizens and citizens of Jewish nationality ...

  14. KLIMENKO Ivan Iakovlevich [Case no. 30]

    1. Кримінальні справи на нереабілітованих осіб

    Case no. 30 against KLIMENKO Ivan Iakovlevich From November 1941, he was a member of the troika at the Kharkov city council. Then, from February 1942 to August 1943, he was a train driver of the Kharkov station. He kept records of persons living in the buildings of Building Management Agency No. 608 in order to detect partisans, kept records of property left behind by Soviet citizens who had evacuated, handed over some of the property to the Germans, embezzled property, forbade citizens to use coal, made a list of Jews living in the buildings served by Building Management Agency No. 608, to...

  15. DZHELOMAGA Vasilii Petrovich and others

    1. Кримінальні справи на нереабілітованих осіб

    Case against DZHELOMAGA Vasilii Petrovich – from August 1941 to November 1941, he was a policeman in the town of Belaya Tserkov, Kiev region. Then, he became the senior duty officer at the SD Gestapo prison in Belaya Tserkov. He guarded industrial facilities, admitted Soviet citizens to prison and dismissed them for execution, beat prisoners and participated in the persecution of Jews VISHNEVSKII Vasilii Mikhailovich – from April 1942 to November 1942, he was a policeman in the town of Belaya Tserkoagainst From May to August 1943, he was the senior duty officer at the SD prison. Then he was...

  16. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jude, worn by a German Jewish prisoner

    1. Hans Benjamin Marx collection

    Yellow cloth Star of David badge worn by Hans Benjamin Marx while he was confined at Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp between February 18 and May 8, 1945. All Jews in the Reich were required to wear Judenstern on their outer clothing at all times to identify themselves as Jewish. Hans spent most of the war in Frankfurt with his older sister, Claire, and their mother, Elise. Elise was a Protestant, but converted to Judaism before getting married to Hans’s father, Ernest. In November 1938, following the Kristallnacht pogrom, Ernest was arrested and transported to Buchenwald concentr...

  17. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jude, belonging to a German Jewish prisoner

    1. Hans Benjamin Marx collection

    Yellow cloth Star of David badge worn by Hans Benjamin Marx while living under the Nazi dictatorship in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, between September 1, 1941 and February 14, 1945. All Jews in the Reich were required to wear Judenstern on their outer clothing at all times to identify themselves as Jewish. Hans spent most of the war in Frankfurt with his older sister, Claire, and their mother, Elise. Elise was a Protestant, but converted to Judaism before getting married to Hans’s father, Ernest. In November 1938, following the Kristallnacht pogrom, Ernest was arrested and transported to Buc...

  18. Theresienstadt armband with prisoner number worn by a liberated German Jewish prisoner

    1. Hans Benjamin Marx collection

    Theresienstadt armband worn by Hans Benjamin Marx after liberation in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp and on his journey home between May 8 and June 14, 1945. The Soviet commander in charge of the liberated camp prohibited Judenstern, and instead authorized the released prisoners to wear an armband with their transport number on it. Hans spent most of the war in Frankfurt with his older sister, Claire, and their mother, Elise. Elise was a Protestant, but converted to Judaism before getting married to Hans’s father, Ernest. In November 1938, following the Kristallnacht pogrom, Ernest was ar...

  19. RSHA

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Polizei und SS
    4. Reichssicherheitshauptamt

    I. Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)/ IV E 6: Sammlung von Rundschreiben, Befehlen und Erlassen Reichsführer-SS (RFSS), RSHA, CdS, 1934-1943, (EAP 173-b-16-12/92a, 93b, 94a, 95c, 102, 109-112, 125), 6923-8231: 1) Rundschreiben RSHA (Streckenbach) vom 24. Juli 1940: Nachweispflicht über Deutschblütigkeit der Ehefrau bei Heirat von Beamten (Hinweis auf Erlass vom 24. Juni 1938), 6925; 2) Rundschreiben RSHA vom 26. Februar 1942: Änderung im Aufbau des Amtes VI, Aufteilung der einzelnen Länder auf die verschiedenen Referate, 6928; 3) Rundschreiben RSHA vom 25. Januar 1943: Umorganisation zum Zwe...

  20. Julian and Frieda Noga photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Frieda Noga (née Greinegger), originally from Michaelnbach, Austria, with her family; holding a bouquet of flowers; and with her husband Julian Noga, originally from Skrzynka, Poland, as a young couple.