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  1. Южный штаб партизанского движения (1941 – 1944 гг.)

    • Southern headquarters of the partisan movement (1941-1944)

    Отчет о боевой и разведывательной деятельности Краснодарского штаба партизанского движения, газеты и листовки военного времени

  2. Ruth Loewenstein collection

    Doll: handmade by Annie Loewenstein (donor's mother) in Munich, Germany. The Loewenstein family: Willy (donor's father) [b. 1894], Annie [b. 1904], Ruth (donor) [b. 1929], and Marianne (donor's sister) [b. 1932], were able to leave Germany in August 1939 for England. Ruth and Marianne were wearing thin gold bracelets on their wrists and each carried a doll. The German guard at the Dutch border tore off the bracelets, but did not pay any attention to the dolls. Upon arrival in New York on September 10, 1940, Annie took the heads off the dolls, in which she had hidden valuables. She sold the ...

  3. Valsts slepenpolicijas pārvalde Gestapo

    • Secret State Police Office (Gestapo)
    • Geheime Staatspolizei - Gestapo Amt

    The fonds contains information collected since 1924, including information about the German secret police; German diplomatic mission reports, including reports on the activities of the Communist Party; Latvian political administration official staff lists; outgoing correspondence from the Baltic states to Germany; snippets from Latvian newspapers and newspapers from other European countries;; information about migrants (Übersiedler) from Baltic states in 1941, including names of agents and persons involved.

  4. Hierl, Konstantin

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1125
    • German
    • 1891-1955
    • Nachlässe 44 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 1,1 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Reichsarbeitsführer Lebenslauf 24. Febr. 1875 Geboren in Passberg Besuch von Humanistischen Gymnasien in Burghausen und Regensburg 1893 Fahnenjunker des 11. Infanterie-Regiments „von der Tann" 1895 Beförderung zum Leutnant 1899 - 1902 Besuch der Kriegsakademie 1903 Zentralstelle des Generalstabs 1907 Großer Generalstab, Berlin 1909 - 1911 17. Infanterie-Regiment „Orff" Lehrtätigkeit als Lehrer für Kriegsgeschichte und Kriegskunst an der Kriegsakademie 1918 Gründung des Freikorps „Hierl" Reichswehrministerium 30. Sept. 1924 Suspendierung wg. Unterstützung des ...

  5. Wajsrosen family collection

    Contains a "Certificate of Integrity," based on a background check, issued by the Israeli Police to Malka Weissrozen (donor) for the purpose of issue of US visa; dated April 1955; a photograph depicting Malka on a motorcycle in the Bergen Belsen DP camp, dated: June 28, 1946; an identification photograph, c. 1954, for Mala Malka Bella Wajsrozen b. 12/18/1930 in Sandomierz, Poland, daughter of Cwi Hersch Wajsrozen, b. 1887 and Chana Tuchman Wajsrozen.

  6. Fiction film about a German immigrant becoming a US citizen

    16mm film "This is America" Part of a series produced by Frederic Ullman Jr. in the 1940s. This episode, "New Americans," which dates from around the late 1940s, focuses on a German immigrant (or refugee) and his quest to become a United States citizen. Depicted are his arrival in the city via Ellis Island, meetings with immigration officials, and attempts to find housing and a job. He is led to the National Refugee Service where he finds friendly assistance. He perseveres and is eventually sworn in as a United States citizen.

  7. Archief van de secretarie van de gemeente Wymbritseradeel 1923 - 1983

    Het archief bevat de neerslag van de taken en activiteiten van de gemeente. In hoofdstuk 2.1.3.1 en 2.1.3.2 zijn de notulen van vergaderingen van de gemeenteraad en het College B&W te vinden. In hoofdstuk 2.1.7 vindt u stukken betreffende personeelsaangelegenheden. In hoofdstuk 2.2.3 zitten stukken betreffende de bevolkingsregistratie (zie ook het gedeponeerd archief van de ambtenaar van de burgerlijke stand, hoofdstuk 3.1). Hier kunt u in de gedeeltes over de oorlogsjaren mogelijk relevante informatie vinden.

  8. District Gendarmerie Headquarters of Trutnov

    The archival fonds of the Trutnov District Gendarmerie Headquarters contains records from 1938. As the records are kept in a single box, it may be assumed that they are only a fraction of the creator's original files. All that has been preserved are various reports of crimes and offences. The reports include information on the posting of anti-Jewish posters in Jičín, on the appointment of the forced administrator Stöhr from Rochlitz to the Jewish firm of D. Glaser (a mechanical spinning mill), on an anti-Jewish gathering in Vrchlabí on 10 November 1938, on the arrest of Jews from Vrchlabí o...

  9. Jerry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jerry S., who was drafted into the United States Army in 1943. He recounts assignment to the 82nd Airborne Division; dropping into France behind enemy lines; fighting from town to town in Germany; entering Dachau, having no conception of a concentration camp; observing prisoners who looked like walking cadavers, mostly Jews; providing whatever food and water they had; observing piles of corpses, human hair, and belongings; United Stares military authorities compelling local Germans to go through Dachau; their specious claim of having no knowledge of the camp; and leav...

  10. Poland; Warsaw ghetto

    Officer training course Prien, Chiemsee, chess game, excursion, sunbathing, rowing. 10:05:45 Knight cross holder, igloo building (exercise for Russia), snowball fight with women. 10:16:40 Title: "Poland 1940/41" Horses, Polish village, riders, everyday life, guns, Draw well. 10:24:16 Soldiers with young dogs, eating, riding column, guns, laughing young woman.10:30:00 Medical vehicle, winter, "patch hour", snowfall, hairdresser, market, graves. 10:40:41 Warsaw Ghetto, driving, train station "Warschau-West" sign. 10:42:20 In Mszczonow, Poland, sign "Mszczonow", village, ruins, market, office,...

  11. Oral history interview with Sherman Ray

  12. Zbiór materiałów dotyczących zbrodni hitlerowskich w Polsce

    • Collection of materials detailing Nazi crimes in Poland

    Prokuratura I Frontu Białoruskiego: zbrodnie hitlerowskie w województwie białostockim, lubelskim, warszawskim, nowogródzkim i wileńskim - protokoły zeznań świadków, 1944, sygn. 230, t. 1; Polsko - Radziecka Komisja dla Badania Zbrodni Niemców w Lublinie: badania zbrodni na terenie Siedlec i okolicy - protokoły, 1944, sygn. 230, t. 2; Łódzka Wojewódzka Komisja dla Badania Zbrodni Niemców w Polsce: wyjazd do obozu w Chełmnie nad Nerem, posiedzenie - protokół, sprawozdanie, 1945, sygn. 230, t. 3; Gminna Rada Narodowa w Zaborowie: ekshumacja zwłok ofiar terroru hitlerowskiego - protokół, 1945, ...

  13. Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands

  14. Panzer-Armeeoberkommando 5

    Ia: KTB von Mitte November 1942 bis April 1943 und Juni bis Oktober 1944. QQu.: KTB von Mitte November bis Dezember 1942; Ic: TB von Mitte November 1942 bis März 1943. Nach Neuaufstellung: KTB Ia: Juni bis Oktober 1944; KTB QQu und TB Ic fehlen.IIa: TB von Mitte November bis Dezember 1942 und Armee-Tagesbefehle aus 1942/43. IVa: TB von Mitte November bis Dezember 1942. IV b: TB von Juli bis November 1940 und von Mitte November bis Dezember 1942. V: TB von Mitte November bis Dezember 1942. A.Pi.Fü.: 6 AE aus 1944. A.Na.Fü.: Tagebuchblätter (4 AE) von Februar bis April 1943. Bv.TO: TB von Mit...

  15. Collections of Jewish records and old books (Fond 1568)

    Includes records of the Jewish community of Bulgaria, records related to Jewish labor detachments, Jewish public organizations, Jewish folklore, declarations of the Bulgarian Jews regarding material compensation for the damages caused by the antisemitic legislation of the Fascist government of Bulgaria, and records of the Jewish Scientific Institute.

  16. Records of the Allied Military Government of Trieste related to restitution claims

    contains records related to restitution for personal property confiscated during the war. The records concern the Jewish community of Trieste and their processing of claims through the Allied Military Government, Property and Claims Division of the Office of the Comptroller.

  17. Paul and Judith Schneiderman collection

    Collection of photographs documenting the experiences of Paul and Judith Schneiderman (donor's parents) in the Landsberg Displaced Persons camp immediately following the Holocaust. Both survived multiple concentration camps, and they met and married while in Landsberg.

  18. Krupp family at rally; Krupp firm; Portraits unveiled; Goebbels visits Krupp works

    Reel 2: 07:01:22 "1 May 1934, Jubilee" Members of the Krupp family attend a Nazi rally in Berlin. 07:03:00 "Nazi officials visiting the Krupp Firm" Soldiers marching, holding flags with swastikas, delivering speech, distributing Hitler's book, "Mein Kampf." 07:03:50 "Dedication of Hitler painting at Krupp's Institute for Physical Research" Unveiling of portraits of Hitler and Bismarck. Shots of officials talking, Krupp leaving. Chamber music group playing, audience members and speakers salute both pieces. Unveiling portrait of Bismark and bust of Hitler in a meeting room. 07:07:32 "Goebbels...

  19. Ustaša Supervisory Office—Đakovo Concentration Camp

    Materials on the operation of the Đakovo concentration camp.

  20. Signatures of eyewitnesses to the Gardelegen massacre

    Consists of a certified copy of a list of signatures headed "Gardelegen-April 13, 1945 U.S. Army--102nd Infantry Division in Germany." The document includes two photographs of the barn where the Gardelegen massacre occurred, one of which shows burned bodies. It is signed by a number of U.S. veterans who were eyewitnesses to the aftermath of the atrocity.