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  1. Jewish Religious Community of Olomouc

    This fonds contains the community's statutes including amendments (1865, 1892–1937), meeting minutes, protocol registers, election records, personnel records, membership registration, financial files, records concerning the teaching of religion, the construction and demolition of the synagogue, books of hazkarot, burial society records and the records of other Jewish associations and institutions. The community kept routine administrative files until 1940. In addition, the fonds contains a small collection of documents from 1940–1944 relating to the racial persecution of the Jewish populati...

  2. Staatliche Kriminalpolizei, Kriminalpolizeistelle Litzmannstadt Państwowa Policja Kryminalna Posterunek Policji Kryminalnej w Łodzi (Sygn. 203)

    Contains records relating to organization of the Staatliche Kriminalpolizei (Kripo), Kriminalpolizeistelle Litzmannstadt. Includes personnel files of officers, reports of crimes in Łódź and the surrounding district, materials concerning police activity in the ghetto, such as: crossing boundaries, confiscation of property, reports concerning murders and suicides in the ghetto, records and statistics concerning the migration of people, daily reports of der Aelteste der Juden Litzmannstadt, the records of arrested/detained Jews and books of record and inspection, as well as ordinances and anno...

  5. Liliane Steinfeld. Collection

    This collection contains : several documents regarding members of the Steinfeld/Stainfeld family during the war, two photos of deported Steinfeld family members, a Gestapo pin and a scrapbook containing a collection of wartime cartoons published in British and American newspapers, gathered by Liliane Steinfeld.

  6. Zbiór fotokopii akt dotyczących okupacji niemieckiej w Polsce

    Fotokopie wykonane z akt archiwalnych zasobu byłej GKBZpNP i innych instytucji z lat 1939–1945: rozporządzenia RSHA m.in. w sprawie postępowania z robotnikami przymusowymi; materiały Policji Bezpieczeństwa: raporty dzienne grup operacyjnych (Einsatzgruppen) z terenu Polski z akcji eksterminacyjnych „Operacja Tannenberg” („Unternehmen Tannenberg”); wykazy egzekucji indywidualnych i zbiorowych; akta Gestapo z Łodzi, Radomia, Gdańska i in.; spisy aresztowanych, sprawozdania z działalności, rozkazy; materiały dot. żandarmerii, niemieckiej Policji Porządkowej (zarządzenia, wytyczne, rozkazy i in...

  7. Landratsamt (District Councillor's Office) of Vrchlabí

    This fonds contains records of the Vrchlabí-based Landrat (district councillor). The following material relates to Jewish issues: correspondence with the Gestapo concerning Jews, 1940 (Inv. No. 5, Box 3); an official census of inhabitants and enumeration of factories, 1939 (Inv. No. 16, Box 33); weddings and racial policy, 1939-1945 (Inv. No. 18, Boxes 43-44A); anti-Jewish measures, 1938–1939 (Inv. No. 49, Box 489). It is highly likely that there are also records relating to Jews in other parts of the fonds that are not mentioned here. Records in the fonds that relate to elements hostile to...

  8. Zbierka IX. Nacistické okupačné jednotky

    • Collection IX. Nazi Occupation Forces

    Collection contains various documents dedicated to the activities of Nazi occupation forces which were operating in Slovakia after the outbreak of the Slovak National Uprising on August 29, 1944. Suppression of the armed uprising, which dominantly took place in the Central Slovakia with the center in the city of Banská Bystrica, was accompanied also by the massive and intentional persecution of the rest of the Jewish community in the Slovak territory. Material includes numerous information about mass executions in Kremnička and also about the later exhumation of the mass grave as well as th...

  9. Regierung Arnsberg / Polizei, Justiz und Strafvollzug

    1. Regierung Arnsberg

    Politische Polizei: Kriegervereine 1844-1920 (86); Polenvereine 1883-1923 (205); Lageberichte 1893-1935 (35); Presse 1820-1943 (26); Streiks, Lohnbewegungen, Bergarbeiter 1845-1930 (96); politische Vereine, Parteien, politische Veranstaltungen 1844-1976 (137); Ausländerüberwachung, Spionageabwehr 1885-1925 (7); Ruhrkampf 1919-1927 (17); Sicherungswehren 1819-1924 (7); Zigeuner 1857-1939 (12); Waffen 1919-1937 (7); unpolitische Veranstaltungen 1816-1946 (27); Ausgleich bürgerlich-rechtlicher Ansprüche von Schäden der "nationalsozialistischen Revolution" 1933-1953 (26); Geheime Staatspolizei ...

  10. Służba Bezpieczeństwa Naczelnego Dowódcy SS, Kierownictwo Oddziału w Katowicach

    • Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers SS-SD Leitabschnitt Kattowitz

    Informacje o życiu społeczno-politycznym, nastroje ludności, sprawozdania sytuacyjne, raporty z lat 1930-1944, sygn. 1-11

  11. Gmina Żydowska Gliwice

    • Synagogen Gemeinde Gleiwitz
    • Jewish Community in Gliwice (Gleiwitz)

    Akta gminy żydowskiej w Gliwicach (1910- 1943), - Protokoły posiedzeń zarządu gminy 1914-1942, - Okólniki, ogłoszenia i zarządzenia nazistowskie 1938-1942, - sprawy gminy i Bezirkstelle Gleiwitz 1938-1943, - korespondencja gminy z władzami, gminami (Berlin, Wrocław, Opole, Racibórz), instytucjami żydowskimi, osobami prywatnymi. 1919-1943: - legaty, fundacje 1910-1939, - dokumenty bractwa pogrzebowego (Chewra Kadisza) 1931-1939, - statuty i korespondencja dotycząca domu starców 1926-1942, - sprawy własności gminy i majątku jej członków 1933-1943, w tym sprawy procesowe, spisy przejmowanych m...

  12. Odette Pilpoul

    1. Archives de la Commission d'histoire de l'occupation et de la libération de la France (CHOLF) et du Comité d'histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, fonds privés et documents divers relatifs à la période 1939-1945
    2. Fonds d'origine privée
    3. Résistance et déportation
    4. Résistant(e)s et déporté(e)s

    Listes originales diverses de déportées ; chronologie de la libération de Hasag ; notes manuscrites concernant notamment le recensement et la recherche des compagnes de déportation françaises et étrangères d'Odette Pilpoul ; brochures retraçant les activités du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale ; correspondance ; bulletins et circulaires d'amicales.

  13. 211. Donati Angelo

    1. Vicissitudini dei singoli
    2. Vicissitudini dei singoli - Serie I

    "Documents du temps de guerre concernant A. Donati" relativi al periodo 1940 - 1943; "Documents d'apres guerre concernant A. Donati" relativi al periodo 1944 - 1947; "Rapport sur les activites menees par le Comité de l'UGIF au cours du mois de juin 1943 à Saint Martin Vesubie; rapporto, in francese, di Angelo Donati sull'attività svolta in favore degli ebrei nella zona di occupazione italiana in Francia; Angelo Donati a Leon Poliakoff del Centre de documentation juife contemporaine del 17 giugno 1946 su madame Meyer; lettera dell'ispettore Brun del Service des Menées antinationales di Nizza...

  14. 49.

    1. Località di internamento, campi di concentramento e carceri in Italia
    2. Campi tedeschi di polizia e di transito

    "Relazione sul campo di concentramento di Bolzano"; "elenco dei 23 italiani soppressi dalla Gestapo il giorno 12 settembre 1944 a Bolzano e a Bolzano sepolti nello stesso giorno nella fossa comune"; fotografie del campo di concentramento di Bolzano scattate dal signor Pedrotti di Bolzano nel primo dopoguerra; cartine di segnalazione dei campi di concentramento e delle sedi di confino in Italia; "diario di Emilio [Sorteni] donato da Pietro Ruberl nel 1981"; "documenti raccolti dalla dott.ssa [Giacomozzi] del Comune di Bolzano versati in copia al CDEC nel 1995; "testimonianza di Ada Buffulini...

  15. Wohin?

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The booklet asks the question “Wohin” (Where to?) by Max Sievers with observations on the progress of the war after seven months of fighting. The feeling that it has not yet fully started and therefore will last for a long time is prevalent. Sievers analyzes the failures of Western countries (Finland). The entry of the United States in an eventual alliance is hoped for and the role of the Soviet Union and Italy in the progress of the war will most likely become more active. The second essay “Deutschlands innerer Kriegsschauplatz” (Germany’s inner front) by Manfred discusses the terror withi...

  16. Kampf gegen den Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The publication discusses a reprint of an answer addressed to the writing of "The Myth of the 20th century", which was anti-church and anti-Christian. How this publication was created, printed and distributed in 1934 is recounted. After a disturbing meeting with Hitler, the archbishop of Cologne initiated the creation of a defense office against national-socialist anti-Christian propaganda. Anti-Christian publications were collected, counterpropaganda produced which was often immediately confiscated by the Gestapo. Overall, about 17 Mio. were distributed. Also conferences, meetings, lecture...

  17. Documentation from the concentration camps and the POW camps in Germany from the OSOBY Archive in Moscow, 1938-1944

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10633850
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1938-1944
    • Administrative documentation Financial accounts List of Nazi war criminals List of POWs Map Names of perpetrators Official documentation Order Personal documents Statistical data

    Documentation from concentration camps and POW camps in Germany from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1938-1944 The collection contains files regarding personnel matters, among them reports concerning transfers of staff members (including members of the Totenkopf units), promotion and the awarding of medals, and personal files of staff members; guidelines for Inspektion der Konzentrationslager (the supervision of the concentration camps) and guidelines issued by the Reichsfuehrer SS concerning administration of the concentration camps and the handling of the inmates, including matters pertainin...

  18. Ruth W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth W., who was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1914. Mrs. W. recalls her childhood; her father's death in 1927; being legally barred from university attendance; working as a bookeeper for her uncle; marriage in December 1938; staying with their respective parents to avoid registering; and failing to obtain affidavits from American relatives. She tells of forced labor in a munitions plant; her mother's deportation to Ri?ga in August 1942; her husband joining her when his parents were deported to Terezi?n; hiding with a farmer when her husband's deportation seemed imminen...

  19. Margarete L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margarete L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924. She recalls her father's trip to the Soviet Union from which he never returned; expulsion from school at age thirteen; forced labor; a non-Jewish co-worker who provided them with extra food; destruction of her mother's business during Kristallnacht; receiving protection for herself, sister and mother from the Swedish embassy since they were Soviet citizens; arrest and torture by the Gestapo for refusing to name Jews in hiding; and transfer to Bergen-Belsen. She describes the pervasive fear; transfer of Soviet citi...

  20. Margo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margo B., who was born in Schkeuditz, Germany in 1925. She recalls attending school in Halle; antisemitic restrictions; her father's arrest in 1938 because he had Polish citizenship; his release provided he emigrate within four weeks; his emigration to Paris; joining him with her younger sister, mother, and uncle a month later; moving to Villeneuve-sur-Lot; attending school; her father serving in the military when war began; his return upon French surrender; obtaining false papers for himself from a military colleague; their family receiving false papers from a non-Je...