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  1. Juozas Kungys case

    Contains copies of depositions, transcripts of proceedings, and other documentation used in the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Investigation's prosecution of Juozas Kungys, accused of Nazi war crimes in Lithuania.

  2. Joseph Stone war crime trial collection

    Contains, but is not limited to, trial transcripts, copies of evidence documents, and trial summaries, relating to the war crime trials held in Nuremberg, Germany, from 1946 to 1948. Several of the documents relate to Joseph Stone's involvement in the "German Industrialists Case" and matters relating to the use of prisoners of war and slave labor.

  3. Wolf Lewkowicz collection

    Contains an introduction to the collection and other information about the Lewkowicz, Lewin, and Zissman families; approximately 178 letters and post cards written by Wolf Lewkowicz and his family to Sol J. Zissman, Lewkowicz's nephew, of Chicago, Ill., from 1922 to 1939, containing information about Lewkowicz family matters and information about the situation for Jews in Poland at that time; and 13 sound recordings, made from circa 1955 to 1965, of Sol Zissman reading the letters in Yiddish. Letter 179, written by Aaron Chmielnicki Carmi in 1945, describes Wolf Lewkowicz's last days before...

  4. Mordecai E. Schwartz papers

    Contains, but is not limited to, reports, vocational courses programs, correspondence, and other documents relating to the service of Mordecai E. Schwartz in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and the Preparatory Commission of the International Refugee Organization (PCIRO) and the handling of displaced persons in the United States Zone from 1946 to 1950. Also contains materials relating to the Jüdisches Komitee in Hasenhecke-Kassel and Mönchberg-Kassel, Germany.

  5. Joseph Dainow collection

    Contains letters written by Joseph Dainow from September to December 1945 describing his experiences while working in the Office of the U. S. Chief of Counsel during the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, and his visits to Fürth, Germany, and encounters with the remaining members of the Jewish community there; "Joe Dainow : Letters from Nuremberg 1945," which contains photocopies of a 1973 article from the Louisiana Law Review describing Dainow's career at Louisiana State University and photocopies of Dainow's Nuremberg correspondence with highlighted statements and ann...

  6. German occupation of France and Holland

    Surrendered German soldiers are issued PG coats; PG is painted on by a French officer. CU, statue of Joan of Arc, German troops marching in front. German troops marching down street; dead horses and ruined carts cover street. German troops marching, on carts and motor vehicles. Civilians welcoming German troops, shaking hands with German officers. POWs marching down street. German prison camp. CU, various nationalities of POWs, some African, some Russian. Two POWs eating food from bowl, dancing, faces are tattooed, from North Africa. German troops marching into a town. Horse-drawn vehicles ...

  7. Lorenz Schmuhl papers

    The Lorenz Schmuhl papers consist of correspondence, writings, diaries, photographs, and documents relating to Major Lorenz Schmuhl's service as the first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also includes information about Karl Koch, Kommandant of Buchenwald during World War II, and his wife, Ilse Koch, as well as testimonies and writing about Buchenwald and Lorenz. Photographs include originals and copies of Buchenwald during and after the war. Correspondence includes letters, announcements...

  8. Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Contemporary History records relating to Jewish partisan resistance in the Soviet Union

    Contains name lists, case files, photographs, interrogations, reports, memoranda, and various other documents relating to both Jewish and non-Jewish partisan resistance movements in all areas of the occupied Soviet Union during World War II; biographical information on individual partisans, their promotions, awards, and activities; persecutions of Soviet Jews during the German occupation; atrocities committed against Soviet Jews during the German occupation; the establishment of ghettos in the Soviet Union; counter-intelligence by the Gestapo to combat partisan activity; and the role of the...

  9. Odessa Oblast Archives records

    Contains files from the central administration of Transnistria (Ukraine) dealing with the local Jews and with the Jews deported from Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria, and their fate in the ghettos between the Dniestr and the Bug.

  10. Women, childcare, park, "Der Stuermer", market

    INT women training for Nazi motherhood at soup kitchen, cooking class, ladling soup. All at table, hands clasped, praying, eating. Class on infant care, instruction with doll, diapers, rubbing lotion. Potty in glass bowl in crib corner. Women around crib see how to lift baby out. LS town of summer garden homes with trees, big buildings (new city housing?) on outskirts. Apartment building with five stories, swastika flags. Woman in backyard feeding chickens. Pram with baby, stares at sky. In garden, girl picks daisy; shaved man with cigar. 00:24:20 EXT shops, sign "B. R. Friedland" [this is ...

  11. Seymour Z. Mann collection

    The Seymour Z. Mann collection includes reports, correspondence, a diary, cultural programs, questionnaires, and printed materials documenting the Evangelical Church and the Social Democratic Party in Ludwigsburg, Germany before, during, and after the Nazi years and Nazi cultural programming in Ludwigsburg during World War II. Adolf Dörrfuss (1875-1948) was a pastor in Ludwigsburg and his 157-page 1946 report describes the Evangelical Church in Ludwigsburg during the Nazi years. The report is interspersed with historical documents such as articles, bulletins, and pamphlets about the Church ...

  12. The Częstochowa Council of Elders (Judenrat) Rada Starszych w Częstochowie (Sygn. 213)

    Records pertains to the administration of the Częstochowa ghetto. Included are statistics on the Jewish community and ghetto; a census of Jews in Częstochowa, with name lists; duty rosters for and instructions to Jewish ghetto police; and a book of events and regulations for the Jewish ghetto police.

  13. Kommandeur der Schutzpolizei in Distrikt Radom work journal (Sygn.172)

    Contains a work journal (diary) kept by the commander of the Schutzpolizei station in Radom, Poland, from June 15, 1944, to December 12, 1944. The journal contains information about police activities and various crimes commited such as trespassing, robbery, kidnapping by partisans (bandits) and theft.

  14. Stutthof concentration camp records

    Contains personal files on prisoners of Stutthof concentration camp; personnel files for SS staff at Stutthof; and records relating to the general administration of the camp. Administrative records include files from the camp commanders office, files from the "Political Department" concerning marking of prisoners and prisoner transports, files from the "Camp" relating to daily operations and handling of prisoners, files from the "Economic Administration" relating to financial management of the camp, files from the "Camp Physician" relating to medical services and the crematoria in the camp,...

  15. Records of the SS in Lublin (Sygn. 22)

    The bulk of the collection contains the records of the Zentralbauleitung der Waffen SS und Polizei in Lublin, Poland, relating to the design and construction of various camp facilities in and around Lublin, among them KGL (Kriegsgefangenenlager) Lublin and "Lager F" in Lublin. Records from other occupation agencies in Lublin contain information about general administrative and police matters in Lublin and surrounding communities. Also includes records of the Jewish councils (Judenräte) in Biskupice and Zamosc ranging from 1939 to 1942. Among these records are several lists of Jewish citize...

  16. Lászlό Erős papers

    The Lászlό Erős papers include an English translation of his joint memoir with his wife, I Will Never Let Go of Your Hand! The memoir covers the period from 1940-1946 and consists of three parts: Blanka’s experiences with deportation and concentration camps, a diary account of Lászlό’s escape from his labor battalion and his eventual reunion with Blanka, and an account of how the survivors from Gyergyόszentmiklόs were memorialized at the local synagogue. The manuscript is accompanied by the original photographs published in the Hungarian version of the memoir and a list of 986 Jews transpor...

  17. Photograph of liberated Buchenwald inmate

    Contains a photograph of an unidentified liberated inmate of the Buchenwald concentration camp, circa may 1945.

  18. Joseph Napoli collection

    Photocopy of an article written by Napoli, a former officer in Army tasked with de-nazification of Germany after 1945, describing problems with process of denazification during that period. Published as "Indifference or Ignorance?" in the newsletter of the Public Committee in Israel of Survivors of Auschwitz, 1983.

  19. Hersz Fischel identification card

    The identification card was issued by the Arbeitsamt-Getto to Hersz Fischel (donor's uncle) to authorize his labor exchange in the ghetto in Łódź (Litzmannstadt), Poland.

  20. Joseph C. Solarz papers

    The Joseph C. Solarz papers include narratives, letters, photographs, and news clippings documenting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The narratives include a personal narrative by Solarz and a report by an anonymous author. The letters include a 1945 illustrated note to Solarz by liberated prisoners Tadeusz Warsowicz, Jozef Kachel, and Stefan Dziwlik; a letter from “Alex” to his parents recounting his visit to Buchenwald; and a 1957 letter from former Buchenwald prisoner Feliks Grossman. Photographs depict the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp, and most bear capti...