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  1. Deutsches Konsulat in Lemberg

    Geschäftsführung; Deutsche in Polen; Wirtschaft und Verkehr; Pass- und Staatsangehörigkeitsfragen.

  2. Judenrat in Bochnia Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Bochnia (Sygn. 257)

    Records of the Judenrat in Bochnia, Poland. Consists of two certificates issued by the German Criminal Police to Ms. Grubner and Mr. Leib Strum, Argentinian citizens, to allow them to live outside of the Jewish ghetto, July 3, 1943. Both documents have the attached person's photographs.

  3. Fred S. Gichner correspondence

    The Fred S. Gichner correspondence contains letters and telegrams documenting Gichner’s help in supporting the American immigration of the families of his European cousins, Maurice (Moritz) and David Bronner, largely facilitated by the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS).

  4. Reich Ministry for Food Supply and Agriculture Reichsministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (R 14)

    Contains records relating to the Reichsministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft activities, 1933-1945.

  5. From Bialystok to Brooklyn

    Describes Sara Lew's childhood in Poland; her internment in the ghetto in Bialystok, Poland, and many concentration camps including Majdanek, Blizyn, Auschwitz, and Krakow (Kratzau); the death of family members; and her post-Holocaust experiences as a displaced person in Europe and after her immigration to the United States in 1950. It also includes poems and vignettes in English and Hebrew about Auschwitz, her parents and their values, liberation, and people Sara knew.

  6. Nuremberg war crimes trials: Reports and other papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital content This collection consists of mostly original documents relating to the Nuremberg Trial of the major German war crminals. The papers in this collection are those which she had worked on and which had been in her desk when she left.The bulk of the material appears to be a case for the indictment broken down into 6 parts covering such offences as war crimes, crimes against Jews, and the plunder of art treasures. Each case is supported by argument and reference to documentary evidence. The names of the individ...

  7. Wendy Lefort family papers

  8. Archief van de Schade Enquete Commissie Amsterdam

    Inleiding Dit archiefje bevat enkele stukken van de Schade Enquête Commissie (S.E.C.) en is afkomstig van Th. Kok die als enquêteur werkzaam was bij de S.E.C. In 1940 werd het Besluit op Materiele Oorlogsschade (verordening 221/1940) uitgevaardigd. Deze verordening betrof de vergoeding van materiële oorlogsschade. Voor de uitvoering van deze verordening werden de zogenaamde Schade Enquête Commissies ingesteld. Een Schade Enquête Commissie was belast met de registratie, het onderzoek en de taxatie van oorlogsschade, die in haar ambtsgebied was ontstaan De Schade Enquête Commissie Amsterdam b...

  9. German Condor Legion in Spain

    Onscreen titles: "Deutsche Freiwillige in Spanien" [German volunteers in Spain]. And: "Der erste Filmbericht vom Kampf der Legion Condor" [First film report about fighting of the Condor Legion]. Views of a city (or cities) in Spain. Beautiful landmarks and churches, interrupted by a shot of a bomb-damaged building. The narrator states that in 1936 began a wave of senseless terror, whose barbaric hate knew no bounds. Spanish Republicans are shown taking target practice at a statue, riding in the back of a truck through the streets, and otherwise exhibiting their barbaric natures. Spanish civ...

  10. Dachau: Report by former inmate, and prisoners' possessions list

    This collection comprises two separate deposits: a copy report by a former inmate, Eric Walters, of Dachau and Buchenwald, on conditions in those camps and a microfilm collection of proforma lists of Dachau inmates' possessions.According to a note at the beginning of the report, Eric Walters, the author, mentions that it was written between March and October 1939, after he was released from Buchenwald. The report entitled Tiere bewachen Menschen has been published in English under the title Monsters and Men.The provenance of the microfilm lists of Dachau prisoners' possessions is unknown. T...

  11. Deutsche Arbeitsfront-Splitterbestande (NS 5-I)

    Contains records of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) related to Jewish property, aryanization, the Jewish economic situation, economic value of forced labor, and antisemitic discourses.

  12. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Tarn-et-Garonne

    Correspondence, reports, lists of internees, police instructions on visas and reports on foreigners, and files on individual internees of the internment camps in France, primarily the Septfonds camp, 1939-1945.

  13. Bulgarian Red Cross (Fond 156)

    Contains correspondence with various Red Cross organizations abroad, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, regarding prisoners of war (POWs ), and missing in action (MIAs), etc.

  14. Nurses at field hospital

    The 51st Field Hospital at a campsite (in France?). Beatrice takes of her helmet and glasses and poses for the camera near other corps members and a cluster of tents. Pan of tentsite, corps members, and an ambulance. 01:08:13 Man in glasses exits a tent and smiles for the camera. Laundry hanging to dry outside. 01:08:22 Large group of military personnel sit in the grass for a meeting. Beatrice (on the right) and two women sunbathe. 01:08:34 Beatrice sits on a jeep and poses for the camera before helping another nurse sort laundry items in the grass.

  15. American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France

    An American anti-war propaganda film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information to educate US soldiers before going to France. Some scenes are staged. Reel 4: Shows French POWs in a German camp, the Free French fleet and air squadrons, scuttled French warships in Toulon, and advancing Allied troops. French troops are reviewed by de Gaulle and in Great Britain, and Russian and French underground fighters kill German sentries, blow up bridges, and ambush German motorcycle columns. Germans seize and execute French hostages.

  16. Wildermuth, Dr. Hans (Oberstabsarzt)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 7.5.1894 Stuttgart; gest. 10.1.1960 in Winnenden/Württemberg; 1.10.1912 Eintritt als einj. Freiw. beim Gren.Rgt. Königin Olga (1. Württembergisches) 119; 31.3.1913 als Gefr.d.R. zum Train entlassen; 15.8.1914 Train Btl./San.kp.; 8.1914 Ers.Btl./Gren.Rgt. 119; 8.1914 1. Feld-Kp./Gren.Rgt. 119; 28.8.1914 Abmarsch ins Feld; 9.1914 Verwundung; 2.1915 Ers.Btl./Gren.Rgt. 119; 8.7.1915 Res.Laz. Feuerbach, Hilfsarzt; 7.1915 überzähl. Uffz.; 3.12.1915 Ldw.-Feldlazrett bei Mülhausen/Els. (7.Ldw.Div.); 11.1916 dgl., Leiter der Leichtkrankenabt.; 1.1917 2monatiger K...

  18. Walzel Brothers Limited Partnership, Poříčí (near Trutnov)

    The extant records are important sources for the history of the flax industry in the Trutnov region. Meeting minutes of the company's general meetings are primary sources for its history, even though the records from 1935–1943 are incomplete and fragmentary. Section two contains important, albeit modest, reports on the work of prisoners of war and of female Jewish labourers at the firm.

  19. Julien Bryan Collection compilation

    Compilation of newly preserved footage from the Julien Bryan Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shown during a presentation given by Raye Farr and Regina Longo for the New York Film and Video Council in March 2005.

  20. Ewa Karpinska papers

    The papers consist of a portrait photograph of the Szotland family and a 7-page, typewritten biography which is probably a transcript of an interview conducted on August 16, 1995, with two letters to Minna Wosk, subject of the interview. These letters are from Dr. Thomas Lange, are written on "Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt" letterhead, and are dated September 12, 1997, and January 26, 1998.