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  1. Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12421174
    • English, Hebrew
    • Birth certificate Legal documentation Marriage certificate Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors Survey report

    Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files include the applications including details regarding those who p...

  2. Wanderer and Biheller families collection

    Consists of Wanderer family photographs, copies of the Biheller family tree, and restitution-related papers that primarily relate to the donor's mother, Ruth Wanderer Biheller (1935-2020) with some documentation capturing the Wanderer family's experience in the Aschau displaced persons camp near Munich, Germany after they survived the Holocaust in hiding in Brzeżany, Poland (currently Berez︠h︡any, Ukraine). They immigrated to the United States in 1951. Identification documents, such as an Israeli passport and Palestinian identity card, for Ruth's husband, Hans Josef Biheller (Joseph Bihelle...

  3. Álorvosi iratok, 1964-1975

    • Cases of the Victims of Nazi Pseudo-Scientific Experiments, 1964-1975

    Nazi Germans conducted a series of medical experiments on large numbers of prisoners, mainly Jews from across Europe, but also on Romani people, ethnic Poles, Soviet prisoners of war and disabled non-Jewish Germans. These human experiments took place in concentration camps mainly in the early 1940s. Prisoners were coerced into these experiments that would often result in their death, or disfigurement or permanent disability of their bodies. Many deported Hungarian Jews fell victims to these infamous Nazi human experiments that were conducted, most notoriously, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp...

  4. Levetzow, Magnus von (Konteradmiral)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 08.01.1871 - 13.03.1939, Konteradmiral, Polizeipräsident von Berlin, MdR (NSDAP, 1932-1933) Bestandsbeschreibung Im Jahr 1944 hat die Witwe des Konteradmirals den Nachlass der Kriegswissenschaftlichen Abteilung des OKM übergeben. Nach Kriegsende wurden die Unterlagen aus dem Marinearchiv nach London gebracht. Ende der 1950er Jahre wurden die Unterlagen von der britischen Admiralität an die Dokumentenzentrale des MGFA abgegeben und gelangten von dort in den 1960er Jahren in das Bundesarchiv. In den folgenden Jahrzehnten wurden dem Bundesarchiv von verschiedene...

  5. Schermeister girls play in the garden, 1928

    All three Schermeister girls play on the lawn of their vacation home in Snekkersten. The two older girls, Lis (donor's mother) and Jeanne, carry parasols and the youngest, Inge (age 3), rides in and pushes a baby carriage. Their mother and father (Edith Cohen Schermeister and Bernhard Schermeister) play with them.

  6. Deutsch-Italienische Studienstiftung

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Am 27. April 1938 wurde die Studienstiftung durch die Unternehmen Siemens & Halske, Siemens-Schuckert, IG Farbenindustrie, Deutsches Kalisyndikat, Stahlwerksverband, Rheinisch-westfälisches Kohlensyndikat gegründet. Ziel war die Förderung des Studiums der Kulturbeziehungen. Präsident war Dr. Ludwig von Winterfeld (Vorsitzender der deutsch-italienischen Gesellschaft), als Stellvertretender Vorsitzender fungierte Dr. Georg von Schnitzler. Bestandsbeschreibung Überliefert ist lediglich eine Namenskartei mit Angaben zur Person, Dienststellung, Anschrift, u.a....

  7. Murray Aronoff collection

    The collection relates to Murray Aronoff and his role as a volunteer on the SS Exodus (SS President Warfield), during the British siege of the vessel as it carried Jewish refugees to Palestine in 1947. The SS Exodus was an excursion boat transporting Jewish displaced persons to Palestine. It was rammed and boarded by British naval vessels. The passengers were forcibly evacuated by the British to France and then to Germany. Murray Aronoff was an American volunteer crew member and was injured, with others, while resisting the British boarding of the vessel. The collection includes mimeographe...

  8. Oral history interview with Max Nirenberg

  9. Papers of Georgiy Dimitrov (Fond 146)

    Contains notebooks from jail regarding "Mein Kampf" and studies of history and foreign languages. Also includes a part of Georgiy Dimitrov's diary, personal documents, letters, correspondence, and other records related to involvement with activities of the Communist Party.

  10. Selected records of the Hauptamt für Communalpolitic (NS 25)

    Contains records related to municipal regulation of taxes and to culture, finance, and social welfare throughout Germany. Also contains records related to Jewish apartments and lodgings, Jewish cemeteries, the expropriation of Jewish assets, and judicial procedures related to Jewish issues.

  11. War Crimes Trials/war criminals

    Army-Navy Screen Magazine, no. 79. Reel 2: "Guilty Men" War crimes trials. War criminals are beaten and hung by their heels. Moscow declaration. Concentration camp scenes. Collection of documents for the trial. CUs, dead bodies of Himmler, Goebbels, etc. Disorder. Arrest of major war criminals. Belsen trial. Hangings. Mobs gather to view bodies. Other European war crimes trials of Caruso, Quisling, popes. German war criminals are tried and executed. German concentration camp scenes. Trial of some Japanese war criminals.

  12. Selected records of the Presidium of the Municipal Council in Chmielnik Prezydium Miejskiej Rady Narodowej w Chmielniku (Sygn. 2447)

    Records of the Jewish properties abandoned after war in Chmielnik, Poland. Included are official correspondence of the city council, rent registers, and registry books of individual properties with information about their previous Jewish owners.

  13. Drielsma: family documents

    Readers need to reserve a termnal in the reading room to access this digital content.Drielsma: family documents also including correspondence and photographs

  14. Processo de pedido de visto para Donato Aguillar, mulher de Donato Aguillar, Antonio Ansola Lopez, mulher de Antonio Lopez, dois filhos de Antonio Lopez, Hypolito Medina e Elena Medina

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Dakar para Donato Aguillar, de nacionalidade espanhola, com destino a Espanha. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Dakar para mulher de Donato Aguillar, de nacionalidade espanhola, com destino a Espanha. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Dakar para Antonio Ansola Lopez, de nacionalidade espanhola, com destino a Espanha. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Dakar para mulher de Antonio Lopez, de nacionalidade espanhola, com...

  15. Processo de pedido de visto para Gaston Dezavelle, Jakob Boux, August Herrmann, Otto Siering, Eugen Hartweg e Eugen Barth

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berlim para Gaston Dezavelle, de nacionalidade francesa e residente em França, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berlim para Jakob Boux, de nacionalidade francesa e residente em França, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berlim para August Herrmann, de nacionalidade alemã e residente na Alemanha, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo...

  16. Internationaler Deutschlehrerverband

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Der Internationale Deutschlehrerverband (IDV) ist ein eingetragener Dachverband für organisierte Deutschlehrerverbände auf fünf Kontinenten. Er wurde 1968 von 16 Organisationen aus 15 Staaten gegründet. Heute (2015) gehören im 105 Mitgliedsverbände aus 85 Ländern an. Der Sitz des IDV-Vorstandes ist der Arbeitsort des jeweiligen Präsidenten/der jeweiligen Präsidentin. Seine Ziele sind vor allem die Förderung der Kontakte und der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Deutschlehrerverbänden und ihren Mitgliedern, die Unterstützung der Deutschlehrenden und ihre fachliche Aus- ...

  17. Deutsche Seewarte

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Deutsche Seewarte ging im Jahre 1872 aus der in Hamburg am 1. Januar 1868 gegründeten Norddeutschen Seewarte hervor, sie war ab dem 9. Januar 1875 der Kaiserlichen Admiralität zugeordnet. Ab dem 1. Oktober 1919 gehörte sie zum Reichsverkehrsministerium und ab 1934 mit ihren meteorologischen Aufgaben zum Reichsluftfahrtministerium, mit ihren nautisch-hydrographischen Tätigkeiten zur Reichsmarine/Kriegsmarine. Die beiden Bereiche wurden 1945 auf das Seewetteramt des Deutschen Wetterdienstes und das Deutsche Hydrographische Institut aufgeteilt. Bestandsbesch...

  18. Dr. Morris Kandel collection

    The collection contains a photograph, translated affidavit, and two bound volumes of transcripts from the I.G. Farben trial (The United States of America vs. Carl Krauch, et al.), where Dr. Morris Kandel worked as a research analyst. The photograph depicts I.G. Farben defendant Fritz Ter Meer at the podium with members of the prosecution behind him. The photograph is hand-annotated with numbers by 10 individuals, and an accompanying document identifies each person. Dr. Morris Kandel is identifed as number "5." The bound volumes of transcripts consist of Brief on "Fundamental Questions of La...

  19. Trims of Russian scenes: bucolic mountains; city street scenes

    TRIMS depicting a variety of activities in daily life throughout Russia. HS, boats on lake in mountains, bucolic atmosphere. 01:10:02 Pedestrians walking in city, street scene.

  20. Signing of Versailles Treaty

    Views of the Palace of Versailles and the gardens. The camera pans left to right across the exterior of the palace, showing the crowds lined up outside. More exterior shots - the fountain, crowds cheering, waving flags, soldiers marching in formation. One car after another drives through a large archway - the delegates arriving. Delegates and their wives embark from cars and are greeted and escorted inside: French Foreign Minister Stephen Pichon, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, American Secretary of State Robert Lansing, General Tasker Howard Bliss, Herbert Hoover, General Michel Maunour...