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  1. Reichskunstwart (R 32)

    This collection contains material relating to the office of the Reichskunstwart, which was created in 1920 and was dissolved by the Nazis in favor of the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda. The purpose of the office was to ensure a consistent treatment of laws and administrative measures regarding the arts. The collection provides information about state festivals, graphics, stamps, coins, architecture, painting, literature, theater, music, dance, film, the press, memorials, and Volkskunst.

  2. Ferencz interviewed by Richard Hudson

    Interview with Benjamin Ferencz. Host: Richard Hudson, executive director of the Center for War/Peace Studies. Sponsored by the Center for War/Peace Studies. Series discusses ways of enabling the United Nations to seek a world of peace with justice. Interview focuses on the Center's proposal of a binding triad system for global decision-making (included in Ferencz's book, "A Common Sense Guide to World Peace," 1985). Ferencz describes two defining elements of his book: a) the bridge to peace involves three interlocking components: law, courts, and enforcement; b) if people are better inform...

  3. Ministry of the State Treasury, Office for Nationalized Property. Registers of confiscated properties Ministarstvo Državne Riznice, Ured za Podržavljeni imetak. Imenici i registri dosjea konfiscirane mase

    Records relate to the Aryanization and disposition of Jewish property. Collection contains registers or lists of Jewish businesses and/or self-employed Jews in various towns, cities and districts of the Independent State of Croatia. They were presumably compiled by the State Directorate for Renewal in 1941, or in 1942 by its successor, the Office for Nationalized Property of the State Treasury.

  4. Pluton Żandarmerii w Tarnowie Gendarmeriezug Tarnów (GK 693)

    Circular letters, reports, correspondence on the Home Army (Armia Krajowa)-Polish resistance movement.

  5. M.68 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from archives in the Netherlands, 1930-1950

    M.68 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from archives in the Netherlands, 1930-1950 The documentation gathered in the archives in the Netherlands is mainly from the National Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) and the Amsterdam Municipal Archives, as well as Het Nationaal Archief (the National Archives) and smaller archives throughout the Netherlands. The documentation deals with persecution of the Jews of the Netherlands, anti-Jewish orders and directives, the German authorities in the Netherlands during the war, Jews in camps in the Netherlands and the East, the Joodse Raad (Jewis...

  6. Hemingway and Mencken with troops; Hong Kong scenes

    "Hong Kong - Fortress!" Paramount News presents first and exclusive pictures of the new Hong Kong, a city armed for defense. Paramount News fanfare over opening titles. CU, Arthur Menken (Paramount News staff cameraman) introducing footage. General view of Hong Kong harbor. CU, waterfront skyscrapers. Street scene in Hong Kong. Signs (Chinese) on side of buildings. Street scene. Pulling rickshaw thru streets. Soldiers thru streets. General view of Hong Kong shipyard. Name: Hong Kong Dock Co. People working. Ship under construction. Men working on deck of ship. Large ships, sampans. Chinese ...

  7. J. Herbert Nagler papers

    The J. Herbert Nagler papers consist primarily of letters Nagler wrote to his parents in Philadelphia while he was studying medicine in Berlin, Germany and in Basel and Fribourg, Switzerland. His letters include his impressions of the last years of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi party and Hitler’s assumption of power, the situation of Jews in Germany, and the April 1, 1933 anti-Jewish boycott. The collection also includes an electronic typescript of Nagler’s letters and a digital image of Nagler.

  8. Food conservation leaders in US

    Part 3: US will eat less to feed Germany. Shows food conservation leaders: Hoover, Truman, Herbert Lehman, Henry Wallace, Eric Johnston, and Henry Luvce. Sec. Anderson asks America to help. Unrelated footage: Part 1: Shanghai Hails Chiang Kai-shek: Chiang deplanes, is greeted by Gen. Wedemeyer, and cheered in the city; Part 2: Gen. Homma Sentenced to Die: Japanese Gen. Homma is tried and sentenced to death by the US Military Commission in Manila; Part 4: US Soldiers go Skiing in Japan: Soldiers ski at the 8th Army Enlisted Men's Rest Center on Honshu Island (Japan); Part 5: Giant Machine Bu...

  9. Hitahadut Olej Germania: reports and papers

    These reports and papers document in part the activities of the Socialist Zionist organisation Hitahadut Olej Germania.

  10. Knopf family collection

    The Knopf family collection consists of documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Oswald, Frieda, and Jeanette Knopf, originally of Vienna, Austria. Includes Oswald and Frieda Knopf's pre-war papers, including the marriage certificate for Frieda's parents, Jeanette Winter and Solomon Wolfer (1901), Oswald's pre-World War I military papers, schooling papers, their ketubah, and a copy of their Viennese marriage certificate. Also includes immigration paperwork, Oswald and Frieda Knopf's 1938-1939 Reisepasses, a health certification for boat travel, a 1939 immigration card for their dau...

  11. Selected records from the French Diplomatic Archives in Nantes concerning Palestine

    Contains a collection of diplomatic dispatches sent to all French diplomats during the period 1938-1949 concerning Palestine. Various subjects discussed include: illicit immigration to Palestine in 1939 (the exodus of Polish Jews toward the Levant); surveillance of the activities of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in October, 1939 and his "escape"; Zionist politics; a letter from the French Ambassador to Turkey in 1942 to the Admiral of the Fleet under Vichy in 1942 on the "Strouma Affair" [Struma]; "Jewish Terrorism in Palestine," dated November 9, 1944; the evolution of the Palestinian econo...

  12. O.23 - Gilbert Collection: Documentation written by senior Nazi war criminals in detention during the Nuremberg Trials

    O.23 - Gilbert Collection: Documentation written by senior Nazi war criminals in detention during the Nuremberg Trials Gustave Mark Gilbert was an American psychologist best known for his psychological diagnoses of high ranking Nazi leaders and officials during the Nuremberg Trials. In the collection there are interviews with these Nazi leaders and officials, as well as essays and manuscripts written by them while they were imprisoned during the trials. Among other items in the documentation: - Hans Michael Frank, Governor of the Generalgouvernment, who described his experiences and persona...

  13. Wehrbereichsverwaltung Süd - Hauptsitz Stuttgart

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Mit Wirkung vom 01.02.2002 erfolgte die Zusammenlegung der WBV V und VI unter Aufgabe ihrer organisatorischen Selbständigkeit zur WBV Süd mit Sitz in Stuttgart und die Errichtung der Außenstelle München der WBV Süd (WBV Süd-ASt München), gem. Erlaß BMVg -WV I 1 (22) - Az.: 10-10-30, vom 06.12.2001 vgl.WBV VI Gemäß Erlass BMVg IUD II 1 (020) vom 30. Mai 2013 werden die vier Wehrbereichsverwaltungen einschließlich der Außenstellen in Kiel, Wiesbaden und München mit Ablauf des 30. Juni 2013 außer Dienst gestellt. die Anteile Personalabrechnung der Wehrbereichsve...

  14. Αρχείο Μακεδονικής Διοίκησης

    • Archive of Macedonian Administration
    • Archeio Makedonikes Dioikeses

    The Archive consists of public administrative documents, mainly concerning the region of Central Macedonia, Greece. There are plenty of verdicts by local courts, citizen’s applications as well as administrative correspondence between the local authorities. Related to the Holocaust of Greek Jews is a report made by the Prefecture of Kozani (Central Macedonia region, Greece) on 9/2/1944, referring to Greek prisoners. Among others there are two Jewish names: Algava Bension (Αλγκαβα Μπενσιόν) from Thessaloniki and Zach Abraham (Ζακ Αβραάμ) from Volos.

  15. Loading supplies on ship

    EXT American flag on a ship in FG looking across water to a large building on shore in BG. Crane loading supplies on a ship. Looking up at crane from between rows of railway cars. Men moving load of wood. Men working in a lumber yard. CU of men carrying wood.

  16. Amalia Klinger collection

    Postcards written by Amalia Holloschütz in Rzeszow, in German occupied Poland, to her daughter Leonora Lusia in two forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The last postcard was written on May 27, 1941 and reached Moscow on June 11, 1941 just 11 days before the German invasion of the USSR. Amalia and her two small sons Josek and Henek were deported to Belzec death camp in July 1942. Note: with Hebrew inscription for the gravestone of Abraham Itzhak Holloschütz who died and is buried in Vienna. ID card for Herbert Marian Kolisher (Leonora's second husband), a former prisoner of the Buchenwal...

  17. Hashomer Hatzair Prague-Bratislava Office (RG-33)

    Contains correspondence, letters, diaries, activity reports of the Hashomer Hatzair, Prague-Bratislava office concerning refugee camps, immigration, summer settlements, and a seminar held in Lindenfels (Germany). Records relate to the Hashomer Hatzair movement in various European countries or areas such as Poland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Romania, Transylvania, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Italy, and France.

  18. Processo de pedido de visto para Cônsul de Portugal em Flessingue, mulher de Cônsul de Portugal, dois filhos de Cônsul de Portugal, Kock e filho de Kock

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bordéus para Cônsul de Portugal em Flessingue, de nacionalidade holandesa e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino às Índias Holandesas. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bordéus para mulher de Cônsul de Portugal em Flessingue, de nacionalidade holandesa e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino às Índias Holandesas. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bordéus para dois filhos de Cônsul de Portugal em Flessingue,...

  19. Костопільська районна надзвичайна комісія зі встановлення збитків та злочинів, заподіяних німецько-фашистськими загарбниками.

    Акти розслідувань злочинів та збитків, заподіяних німецько-фашистськими загарбника під час окупації, списки потерпілих осіб Костопільського району Рівненської області

  20. Registration cards issued at Jewish Committees in Łódź and Gliwice (Sygn. 303/V/428)

    Contains 8209 registration cards issued to Jewish survivors in Łódź and Gliwice by the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP).