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  1. Oberbefehlshaber der Ostseestreitkräfte der Kaiserlichen Marine

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Zu Beginn des Ersten Weltkrieges wurde für den Krieg in der Ostsee ein besonderer Verband der Ostseestreitkräfte geschaffen. Der Oberbefehlshaber, Großadmiral Prinz Heinrich von Preußen, war unmittelbar dem Kaiser unterstellt. Zur Störung russischer Unternehmungen, zur Sicherung der Kieler Bucht und zum offensiven Minenkrieg standen überwiegend veraltete Fahrzeuge und Reserveformationen zur Verfügung. Die Kommandobehörde bestand bis zur Auflösung des Ostseeverbandes im Januar 1918. Bestandsbeschreibung Die Archivalien dokumentieren das Geschehen auf einem Neb...

  2. Wach, Curt

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 5. Febr. 1906 in Gersdorf bei Hainichen, gest. 18. Juni 1974 in Berlin, Maschinenschlosser, Minister für Handel und Versorgung Besuch der Volksschule, Lehre zum Maschinenschlosser, 1920 Mitglied des Deutschen Metallarbeiterverbandes, 1927 Beitritt in die KPD, 1927 Betriebsrat der Frano-Werke in Frankenberg, ab 1928 Instrukteur im KPD-Arbeitsgebiet Hainichen, Referent an der KPD-Parteischule in Thalheim, ab 1932 Politleiter des KPD-Unterbezirks Riesa und Mitglied des Sekretariats der KPD-Bezirksleitung Sachsen, Mai 1933 verhaftet, April 1934 durch OLG Dre...

  3. German soldiers in Russia; POWs

    14:00:00 - 14:15:05 Winter in Russian village. German solderis. Destroyed buildings, rubble. Russian Women. Ice. (M 3041) 14:15:05 b/w: train tracks, German soldiers, totally destroyed train, partisans. 14:15:50 Pan across forested terrain, several destroyed Russian trucks, two soldiers inspect remains. 14:16:24 Winter, wind whirls up snow, two horses pull cars (picture jumps). The extreme cold affects the cameras so that the film can no longer be transported cleanly. 14:16:33 Soldiers in drill suits are cleaning wooden carts. In the background horses with saddles (different settings). 14:1...

  4. 1922 funeral of a Jew

    Concordia Film 2. “Az áldozatok temetése” (The victim’s funeral) and a decorative border with CONCORDIA FILM at the bottom. Men in coats stand in front of the glass windows of a shop, price tags attached to every item. “Mintegy 20000 ember vett részt az áldozatok temetésén” (About 20,000 people attended the victim’s funeral). The crowd dressed in dark colors. Bearded man. “A közismert amerikai Pedlow kapitány a temetésen” (The well-known American captain Pedlow at the funeral). A man in uniform (Pedlow?) thumbs through a book. More shots of the funeral crowd. “Az áldozatok hozzátartozói”. S...

  5. Fred Stern collection

    The Fred Stern collection consists of one letter (V-mail) and one photograph pertaining Pvt. Fred Stern's service with the 327th Engineer Combat Battalion, 102nd Infantry Division. The letter was sent to his sister Mollie Bruh (née Stern) in May 1945. The letter relates the German atrocities witnessed by Stern, specifically the Gardelegen Massacre and its aftermath. The photograph depicts the corpses of Dachau concentration camp victims.

  6. Giorgio Liuzzi

    La raccolta è costituita da carte personali di Giorgio Liuzzi, quali fotografie, diplomi, riconoscimenti ufficiali, testi di conferenze, cartoline e corrispondenza di carattere generale. Si conserva nella busta il fascicolo "A corredo del fondo" che conserva dattiloscritti con l'elenco delle carte e delle fotografie ad esso appartenenti, nonchè una breve descrizione sull'attività di Giorgio Liuzzi per agevolare la comprensione del fondo.

  7. Star of David badge with Jude in the center and a framed letter

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7142
    • English
    • 1940
    • a: Height: 5.375 inches (13.653 cm) | Width: 6.625 inches (16.827 cm) b: Height: 11.875 inches (30.163 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm)

    Originally owned by Mendel Kaliminsky, March 1943. Taken from him by his father, Solomon Kaliminsky, March 1943. Given to the Israelite Reprisal Brigade by Solomon Kaliminsky.

  8. Raymond Douglas Dopp collection

    Consists of one typed official report, entitled "Orientation Training" written before the end of the war after a visit to the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. The report gives a physical description and a brief history of the camp, including prisoner arrival and death rates. Also includes information and incidents related by prisoners regarding daily life, torture methods, and medical experimentation. The collection includes a letter, with a copy, written by Raymond Douglas Dopp, who was part of the personnel group who wrote the "Orientation Report," after visiting Buchenwald ...

  9. Selected documents and photos from the private collection of Raoul Cohen-Addad

    This collection comprises the records of Raoul Cohen-Addad (1916-2003), an Algerian-born Jew. Conscripted into the French army in 1939, he worked with the resistance to liberate Algeria in 1942. He was then deported to a forced labor camp under the Vichy regime. The collection includes personal and family papers, photos, documents pertaining to the judicial procedures Cohen-Addad instigated in an attempt to receive reparations for damage to his career, documents concerning the association of former North African resistance fighters from 1947-1949, the activities of the “Association of Frenc...

  10. Αρχείο της Ιταλικής Αστυνομίας των Καραμπινιέρων

    • Royal Carabinieri Police Archive
    • Archeio tis Italikis Astynomias ton Karabinieron

    The archive contains approx. 80.000 personal files (for 130.000 inhabitants). It contains reports on political events, social and ethnic groups (Greeks, Turks, Jews and other foreigners) and companies, juridical decisions, information on the antifascist activities, the Jewish community, cases related to full Italian citizenship and the special local form of citizenship (Cittadinanza Egea Italiana).

  11. Obóz Koncentracyjny w Mauthausen-Gusen [Konzentrationslager Mauthausen-Gusen]

    • akta administracyjne (wykazy imienne więźniów przybyłych do KL Mauthausen-Gusen, m.in. z innych obozów koncentracyjnych, więzień, z podobozów do obozu macierzystego i do innych podobozów; wykazy imienne więźniów zatrudnionych w różnych komandach roboczych; dzienne meldunki o zmianach w stanie ewidencyjnym więźniów wskutek ucieczek z obozu macierzystego, podobozów i transportów, przenoszenia więźniów z podobozów do obozu macierzystego lub innych podobozów; meldunki dzienne o zgonach; imienne listy więźniów zmarłych w obozie głównym i jego filiach w latach 1944-1945, m.in. wykazy imienne wi...

  12. Neuman (Nenner) family collection

    Collection of documents of the Neumann (Nenner) family from their time in the Displaced Persons Camp in Lechfeld in Germany and their immigration to Palestine; dated 1940s-1950s. Includes a temporary exit pass from the artillery officers' course taking place in a military garrison, Bucharest, 1943; a civil marriage certificate, Bucharest, 1944; a recruitment certificate to "Va'ad leSherut Ha'Am" in Lechfeld Displaced Persons Camp; a birth certificate of a baby girl born in Ainring (Bavaria), 1947; an import form for merchandise imported by boat, railway, surface mail or by air for use in Is...

  13. War Crimes Trials: I.G. Farben Case

    (Munich 617) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 6 (I.G. Farben Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Shots of defendants pleading "not guilty" to the indictment. The defendants rise and plead to charges in the following order: Carl Krauch, Hermann Schmidt, Georg von Schnitzler, Fritz Gajewski, Heinrich Hoerlein, August von Knierien, Fritz ter Meer, Ernst Buergin, Paul Haefliger, Max Ilgner, Friedrich Jaehne, Hans Kuehne, Walter Duerrfeld, Heinrich Gottineau. The other defendants standing trial but not answering to pleas are visible in the prisoners' dock: Christian Schneider, Otto ...

  14. Court appointed receivership matters 214-1 Gerichtsvollzieherwesen

    Selected records relating to confiscated property of Jewish deportees and emigrants and property of Roma, Polish people, and prisoners. Contains statistics and registers.

  15. Ida Dancyger family photographs

    Consists of a large portrait, taken in the 1920s, of a young man (possibly her brother) and older woman who were family members of Malka Finkelstein, originally of Warsaw, Poland. Also includes a post-war photograph of Ida Flint, the daughter of Malka Finkelstein and Mendel Flint, with her father at the Hallerin displaced persons camp in post-war Austria.

  16. George Sakheim collection

    Consists of photographs and photographic album pages from the collection of Dr. George Sakheim, depicting the images he saw and events he experienced as a simultaneous translator at the Nuremberg trials. Also includes a DVD of a speech given by Dr. Sakheim in May 2013 about his experiences.

  17. Abram Wolraich collection

    The collection consists of 5 pdfs containing 251 pages of documents and correspondence with and on Abram Wolraich regarding his care after arriving in Britain, as well as a presentation for schools on Abram’s life.

  18. Hlavnoslužnovský úrad v Rožňave 1939 – 1944

    • Chief Constable's Office of the Rožňava District
    • Főszolgabírói Hivatal Rozsnyó

    The collection of materials contains the administrative files that concern the political, economic, and social life in the villages that belonged to the office between 1939 – 1944. The persecution of the Jewish population is documented in the major part of the collection. These documents concern the Anti-Jewish agenda and the situation of the Jewish population in the territory of the district. The collection includes the documents of the liquidation of Jewish associations and citizenship application of Jewish inhabitants. One might can find here the preserved files concerning the activity o...

  19. Kaiserliches Gouvernement in Deutsch-Südwestafrika

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Originalakten werden im Nationalarchiv Namibia in Windhoek aufbewahrt. Das Bundesarchiv verfügt nur über Mikrofilme. Bestandsbeschreibung Politische und Verwaltungsangelegenheiten, Angelegenheiten der Beamten, Angestellten und Arbeiter des Gouvernements, Selbstverwaltung, Militärische Angelegenheiten, Finanz- und Rechtsangelegenheiten, Polizeiwesen, Medizinalangelegenheiten, Kultus und Kultur, Besiedlungssachen, Farm- und Landwirtschaft, Forstwirtschaft, Jagd und Fischerei, Tierzucht, Veterinärwesen, Wasserrecht und -erschließung, Bergbau und Geologie, Ha...

  20. Street scenes in Krakow, Poland 1936

    Short shot of a horse drawn carriage pulling up in front of Holy Cross Church in Krakow, Poland. A group of adolescent girls walk along the street toward the church, a wooden cart without a horse is parked along the road.