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  1. Documentation of the Amtsgericht Bergedorf (Bergedorf Magistrates Court) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Amtsgericht Bergedorf (Bergedorf Magistrates Court) in Hamburg The Amtsgericht Bergedorf (Bergedorf Magistrates Court) was established in 1855. It is still in existence as of the time of the writing of these lines. The Court files that arrive for archival storage are transferred to the State Archive in Hamburg. They include administrative files, protocols of trials, court decisions, criminal and civil court proceedings, files and Register (registration) books, and freiwillige Gerichtsbarkeit (mediation and arbitration) files. The files that were copied for Yad Vashem re...

  2. Ferencz interviewed by Russel Harvey

    Interview with Benjamin Ferencz. Host: Russel Harvey. Benjamin Ferencz expresses his concern for world peace. He demands that the world clearly define laws for human behavior, and thus for international fundamentals. Ferencz encourages education, common sense, recognition of progress in peace-making, rational processes for settling differences, and planetary thinking.

  3. Lena Lipchiz papers

    The Lena Lipchiz papers document relatives of Lena Lipchiz who remained in Poland when she immigrated to the United States. Records include one 1920 photograph of Moryc Baumgarten in Łódz; an admission card allowing Basia Baumgarten visitors at a Chojny sanitorium; a 1940 letter from Basia in Łódz to Lena in New York; a 1940 postcard from A. Dziaba in the Łódz ghetto to Lena; and a 1946 postcard and empty 1947 envelope from Isak Kleber in the UNRRA DP camp at Grugliasco to Lena.

  4. Adler family papers

    Collection of papers, correspondence and ephemera of the Adler family who emigrated to the UK in 1936.

  5. State Attorney Hamburg Staatsanwaltschaft Landgericht (213-12)

    Court proceedings relating to post-war Nazi court cases after 1945. Files mostly contain documents concerning preliminary research, state attorney, court proceedings, and sentences. The collections contains 3,451 procedures, 1946-1995 and 320 charges against 598 persons.

  6. Comitetul Democrat Evresc. Biroul I.O.V.R Records of the Jewish Democratic Committee Office of the Association of Widows and Orphans from the Iasi branch of the Romanian National Archives

    This collection consists of 1,350 files containing questionnaires with families of Jewish victims of the Pogrom of Iaşi, death certificates, interviews with survivors, hospital release forms, Jews in forced labor in the Iasi area, birth certificates and other family records.

  7. Burning farms; POWs; town on fire

    LS views of farm burning in Bialystok; soldiers arrest citizens, check IDs. CU of frightened man. Long view of tanks lining road; soldiers. Pan of many wrecked tanks burning in fields near Minsk, all spewing black smoke. HA pan of Russian POWs sitting on the ground (POW camp?). CU endless line of turbanned Russian POWs, many with Asiatic faces. Distance sign: "Berlin/Breslau/Moskau." MS Kalvaria in flames in the distance. Nazis ride into town. Dead horse on road ("Dunaburg"?); scorched earth. Many views of smoking rubble, total destruction.

  8. Licco Haim and friends on a ski adventure in 1941

    Handwritten title "Hochwinter 1941". Title with 9 February date, named friends, and a figure on a ski slope, "The Black Peak". Group with Anny, Belka, Vania, Shatsi, Konovaliko, and others climbs up a slope. Mountain hostel on Black Peak. Snow-covered hills. Skiing. 01:06:53 Title with 16 February date, "On the Jumping Hill" (?), Shtainke and Licco. Snowy mountainous scenery. Licco and his friends ski, some in slow motion. 01:14:18 [COLOR] Skiing. CUs of the group of friends, including a young girl. 01:20:17 [B/W] More skiing. 01:23:28 Title with 8 March date and two names, "Istene Kal", An...

  9. Hlavnoslužnovský úrad Medzibodrožského okresu v Kráľovskom Chlmci 1944

    • Chief Constable's Office of the Medzibodrožský District in Kráľovský Chlmec 1944
    • Bodrogközi Járás Főszolgabírói Hivatala

    The collection holds only the fragments of the administrative agenda that used to belong to the Chief Constable's Office of the Bodrogköz District. A total of 6 documents are preserved in the archival fond and all of them concerns the Aryanization of Jewish property in Kráľovský Chlmec. These files document the appointments of non-Jewish managers at the head of the store of Jenő Reisman, Hugó Tannenbaum, Ignác Salamon, Miksa Rieder, Jenő Braun and Emanuel Weisz.

  10. Gemeentelijk bouw- en woningtoezicht

    Op 1 juli 1906 werd de verordening, regelende de Bouwpolitie ingetrokken en het Gemeentelijk Bouwen Woningtoezicht ingesteld. Er ontstond een dienst waarvan de afdelingen werden belast met Bouwtoezicht, Woningtoezicht, Hinderwet en onderzoek van bouwmaterialen. Daarnaast was er een afdeling "Algemene Dienst". De dienst is belast met de uitvoering van voorschriften waaraan nieuw te bouwen en te verbouwen woningen. Bovendien is de Dienst verantwoordelijk voor het toezicht op woningen en voor de onbewoonbaarverklaring van woningen. Ook adviseert de Dienst aan het College van Burgemeester en we...

  11. Archives of the service for war victims Archives du service des victims de la guerre : Series P

    Contains records relating to the fate of Jewish and non-Jewish Belgians throughout Europe during the period of 1939 to1950. Includes name lists from a wide variety of sources such as concentration and prisoner of war camps, relief and charity organizations, hospitals, prisons, and similar institutions. See also Parts Mi, A, and R (Rg- Rg-65.001M; Rg-65.002M; Rg-65.004M).

  12. David Jakubowski papers

    The papers consist of documents and letters relating to Dr. David Jakubowski's time in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, where he was a physician before and during the uprising and also relating to his time of medical service with several refugee aid agencies after World War II.

  13. Papers of Virgil Dimov (Fond 4220)

    Contains correspondence, criminal cases, appeals, indictment and testimonies, and other legal papers of lawyer Virgil Dimov. Documents relate to the persecution of Komsomol members, confiscation of Jewish properties, Jewish partisans and other Jewish matters.

  14. Paul Mandel papers

    The papers primarily consist of Holocaust-era postcards related to the Mandel family of Łódź, Poland. Included are seven postcards written from Mirel Mandel in Łódź to her brother Barney Solomon in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1940. There is also one postcard to Barney Solomon from Estera Moszkowicz in Radom, Poland. Photograph postcards of the Mandel family depict Mirel and Abraham Mandel, their sons Mendel, Machel, and Paul, and their daughter Balcha. Also depicted is Barney Solomon and various other relatives.

  15. Andy Murray Coffey letter and photographs relating to the liberation of Ohrdruf

    Andy Murray Coffey's collection relates to the liberation of Ohrdruf. The collection includes: photocopies of photographs taken by Andy Murray Coffey and H.L. Jamis of dead inmates who died of abuse suffered while engaged in slave labor and of dead inmates being buried by American soldiers and Germans who lived near Ohrdruf; and a letter describing Coffey's recollections about Ohrdruf, the Germans who lived near the camp, and General Patton's order forcing German citizens to view the camp and bury its dead.

  16. Repatriation of POWs: airplane; supplies; camp; classroom; sports; roll call; mess hall

    Repatriation of Russian POWs in Bari and Florence, Italy. Reel 1: Airplane at Bari airport, Russians departing, lining up in double columns and marching. Inspecting airplane. Russian POWs boarding truck to repatriation camp, receiving mess kits. Men entering and leaving Russian orderly room. MCU, sign: "Orderly Room" in English and Russian. Russians entering and leaving recreation hall, star over entrance. Men entering and leaving shower room. Men cleaning up yards and sweeping living quarters. Back view of Russians sitting in group, officer delivering latest war news from European map. Men...

  17. Landsberg Hangings

    (Munich 191) Hangings at Landsberg, Germany, May 28, 1946. Bodies of hanged men are set in coffins and coffins are stacked in yard. One coffin is labelled "Niedermayer Engelbert". Niedermayer was a crematoria worker at Dachau. Soldier adjusts rope on scaffold. German civilian hangman speaking to American officers. 22:03:28 Klaus (or Claus) Karl Schilling is escorted up the steps of the scaffold. He faces the camera and speaks briefly before he is hanged. Schilling was a physician who deliberately infected inmates with malaria at Dachau. Another man is executed. Otto Moll is executed in the ...

  18. NSV training; French antisemitic youth rally

    05:31:01 NSV pupils training for employment as Red Cross nurses: caring for babies in nursery, cooking in kitchen, uniforms, classroom instruction on anatomy, giving massages, hospital care, doctor and nurses seen at patients' bedsides. calisthenics, playing chess, medical care, with families. 05:33:32 Women entering Palais du Sports for French youth demonstration against Bolshevism. Military officers in uniform (Nazis?) entering stadium. HAS, crowd. Banner reading "Le Combat Seul." Youth welcoming speaker, heiling, Nazis seated in audience. French safety minister Darnand speaking from podi...

  19. Personalbögen von Mitarbeitern des öffentlichen Dienstes bei Post und Bahn

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • PERS 100
    • German
    • Sammlung 3794 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 129,2 laufende Meter

    Bestandsbeschreibung Bestandsgeschichte Seit Mitte der 80er Jahre übernimmt das Bundesarchiv nach einer generellen Vereinbarungen mit den Landesarchiven sowie der Post und der Bahn Personalakten früherer Angehöriger der Post- und Bahnverwaltung anhand bestimmter Auswahlkriterien. Für die Personalbögen derjenigen Beschäftigten von Post und Bahn, deren Personalakten nicht in den Personalakten-Bestand "PERS 101 Personalakten von Beschäftigten des öffentlichen Dienstes" übernommen und die zunächst lediglich zu statistischen Zwecken gesammelt wurden, wurde der Bundesarchiv-Bestand "PERS 100 Pers...

  20. Papers re 'Gerechtigkeit', an Austrian anti-Nazi publication

    The collection consists of 4 letters from the offices of the publishers of Gerechtigkeit, an Austrian anti-racist publication. In addition there is an apparently unrelated note about the Austrian Office, a body supported by the bulk of Austrian liberals, Austrian legitimists and some Austrian socialists. The letters in this collection are also evidence of the organisers' desire to create an international anti-nazi movement. Moritz Zalman, responds to a letter at 735/1, because his colleague, Irene Harand is in Poland. The letter itself is addressed to a professor in Amsterdam. The letter at...