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  1. Stern family papers relating to restitution

    Relates to the fate of Ilse Stern Salinger, who was incarcerated in Westerbork and later perished at Auschwitz along with her husband and child. Also relates to cooperative efforts by Mrs. Salinger's father, Robert Stern, and her mother-in-law, Clara Alice Steinhaus, to obtain restitution from the West German government for damages (e.g. loss of freedom, loss of property) to Ilse Salinger.

  2. Rundschreiben from the Frankfurt am Main office of the United Restitution Organization

    Collection consist of thermofax and mimeograph copies of United Restitution Organization (URO) Rundschreiben from the Frankfurt am Main office, 1961-1970; miscellaneous printed and mimeograph memorandums, statistical reports, etc. some are from the URO office in Berlin.

  3. "Children of the Holocaust"

    The writer's account of the suffering of children she witnessed as a concentration camp inmate. She does not indicate the name of the camp, but another version of the memoir makes clear that it was Riga-Kaiserwald.

  4. Häftlingspersonalbogen from Auschwitz concentration camp

    Contains Häftlingspersonalbogen (prisoner registration forms), numbered 1 through 331, for female prisoners at the women's camp at Auschwitz (reel 1) and Häftlingspersonalbogen, numbered 1 through 4,50,0 for male prisoners at the Auschwitz main camp (reels 2-9). Each of the Häftlingspersonalbogen contains personal information such as date and place of birth, marital status, date of arrest, date of entry into the camp, nationality, occupation, religion, race, and physical appearance. Registration forms relate to prisoners, mainly Jews, from different European countries. Also included is i...

  5. Einwandererzentralstelle, Rasse und Siedlungsamt, Aussenstelle Litzmannstadt records (Sygn. 167)

    Contains information about the activities of the Einwandererzentralstelle, Rasse und Siedlungsamt, Aussenstelle Litzmannstadt from circa 1939 to circa 1944; resettlement of Poles; Germanization of native Poles; Germanization of Polish children; qualification of Poles as Volksdeutsche; racial investigations by the SS; Mischlinge; marriages of SS members; transports; establishment of concentration camps; and Poles used in forced labor.

  6. Der SS und Polizeiführer im Distrikt Lublin records (Sygn. 891)

    Contains information about propaganda; SS activities in Lublin, Poland; police activities in Lublin; industry; agriculture; "Germanization" and propagation of German culture in occupied areas of Poland; members of the SS in Lublin; and combatting partisans.

  7. Kreishauptmann in Busko, Innere Verwaltung (Sygn. 164)

    Contains information about activities of county officials in the Busko area; activity of the Polish police in the Busko area; agriculture; abolition of various unions and associations; banking activities in the Busko area; persecution of Roma; education; propaganda; health conditions; sports; economy; and health care for children.

  8. Records of der Landrat des Kreises Schrimm (Sygn.65)

    Contains circular letters, reports, and various other documents relating to the activities of the offices of the Landrat (district magistrate) des Kreises Schrimm (Śrem, Poland); employees of the Landrat office; the Gestapo office in Poznan; apprehension of prisoners of war; activities of the rural police in western Poland; extradition of Polish prisoners of war interned in Hungary and recruited into the Polish army in France; the transport of Franz Sobkowiak to Mauthausen; transports of prisoners to concentration camps; and a propaganda campaign by the "Army Information Garrison" to attrac...

  9. Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers SS - SD Leitabschnitt Kattowitz (Katowice) (Sygn.169)

    Contains reports about the public opinion in various towns in the vicinity of Kattowitz from circa 1941 to circa 1944. The reports contain information about public opinions on economic matters, political matters, Russians, and members of the National Socialist's Russian movement in Germany; the "Day of German Domestic Music"; and recruitment of women into the air defense service.

  10. Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Wollstein (Sygn. 73)

    Contains quarterly situation reports from 1940 to 1943 concerning political and economic atmosphere, population, criminal activity, German-Polish relations, strength of the police force, and special occurrences in several towns of the Wolstein (Wolsztyn) district including Gro-Nelken, Kirchdorf, Deutsch-Gabel, Wollstein, Teichrode, Weiberg, Kirchplatz, Rakwitz, Altkloster, and Klosterweise. Also contains regulations concerning confiscation, registration, operation and repair of motor vehicles (December 1939).

  11. Military-Historical Institute (Prague) records

    Preliminary description: Reel 1: Kommandostab-Reichsführer-SS (FN 100004-102753). Reel 2: Kommandostab-Reichsführer-SS (FN 200004-200738); Polizeiregimente-Mitte (FN200739-201951); HSSPF Russland-Süd (FN201952-202765). Reel 3: Kriegsarchiv SS (Various units) (FN 300002-300195); Kreigsarchiv SS (8. Infantrie Regiment) (FN300196-300576); MNO-L (Ministerstvo Narodni Obrany-London [Ministry of National Defense - London]) (FN 300577-301113); Fond 117 Concentration Camps (FN301114-301736); Fond 127 Terezin (FN 301738-301766); Fond 308 Resistance Movements (FN301767-301796); Fond 117 Concentrat...

  12. Records of the Generalgouvernment- Kraków (Sygn. 880)

    These records contain information about activities of the General Government and its officials in Kraków. Also included is information about the administration of prisons in Kraków and Rzeszów, the establishment of a separate Jewish section in Kraków, and the treatment of prisoners of war. Included are instructions, orders, guiding principles, and correspondence of the cabinet of the Governor General and the office of the Governor of the District of Kraków, which mainly relate to legal and prison matters concerning the prosecution, conviction, and imprisonment of criminals, as well as staff...

  13. Records of the Sicherheitsdienst des Reichführers SS: SD Abschnitt Litzmannstadt; SD Hauptaussenstelle Kalisch (Kalisz) (Sygn. 70)

    Contains orders, correspondence, reports, and various other records relating to the activities of the SS in Litzmannstadt (Łódź); activities of the SD (Security Services) in Łódź; orders of the RSHA for employing Jews in SIPO and SD offices; collaboration by Polish SD personnel; regulations for air raids; persons acting as informers for the SS and SD; and confiscation of Jewish property for use by SS personnel. Also included are monthly situation reports for January 1940 to Jul. 1940 containing information about attitudes and opinions of the Polish population on the overall political si...

  14. Records of the Stadtverwaltung Weichselstadt

    Contains circulars, registers, lists, correspondence, and various other documents relating to the registering of the urban population in Warthegau or Wielkopolska (a Polish region annexed into the German Reich); inhabitants conscripted for service in the Wehrmacht; evacuation of Poles and Jews to the General Gouvernement territory; registration of property abandoned by Poles and Jews after evacuations; employment for newly resettled Germans; maintenance of population registry cards for inhabitants of the Hermannsbad district; identification of Polish laborers with the letter "P"; travel reg...

  15. Records of the Landrat des Kreises Wollstein (Sygn. 66)

    The collection contains circulars, bulletins, correspondence, lists, photographs, and various other documents relating to the establishment of the office of Displacement (Expatriation of Poles) in Poznań, Poland; settlement of Germans in Warthegau (Western Polish territory incorporated into Germany); forced evacuation of houses for use by resettled Germans; tracing of escaped Polish POWs by the Secret Police in Poznań; arrest of Polish workers abandoning their work stations; curtailing of work of priests, pastors, and monks; prohibition of marriages between Germans and Poles; prohibition ...

  16. Court inquiries about executions and mass graves in districts, provinces, camps, and ghettos Ankieta Sadów Grodzkich (Sygn.163)

    This collection contains questionnaires distributed by various Polish courts to districts and provinces and to municipal authorities near the sites of concentration camps and ghettos in Poland. The questionnaires request information about mass executions and mass graves.

  17. Helen Freibrun memoir and photograph

    The Helen Freibrun memoir consists of a photocopy of a typescript memoir containing information about Helen Freibrun's life in Usharod (Uzhgorod), Czechoslovakia, before the Holocaust; her experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp where she was involved in selections by Josef Mengele and interactions with a female Nazi named Ilse; her experiences in Mauthausen and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps; her survival of a death march; and the start of her new life in the United States. Also included is a photocopied photograph of Helen Freibrun and her brother six months after the end of Wo...

  18. Leontyna Davies questionnaire transcript and photo album

    Contains information about Leontyna Opocynska Davies' experiences in her hometown of Nowy Sacz, Poland, and the ghettos of Stary Sacz and Krakow; her forced labor at the AEG - Allgemeine Elektrizitägss Gesellschaft Kabel factory in Płaszów; her internment at Auschwitz; and her survival of a death march in Germany. Also included are pages of an album containing photos of the Opocynski family in the Stary Sacz ghetto. The album contains notations and photo identifications made by Leontyna Davies.

  19. History of the family Wos the dream comes true

    Contains information about the Wos family from the late nineteenth century to World War II, including references to the helpfulness of Mr. Wos' father, a Polish Catholic, to Jews during the existence of the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Additionally, gives information on Polish resistance to the German occupation of Poland; deportations; Ravensbrück; forced labor in Germany; repatriation; post war life under the communist regime in Poland; and emigration to the United States.

  20. "Memories of a Vanished World"

    Contains information about Joseph Soski's childhood in Busko and Krakow, Poland; German occupation of Krakow; increasing restrictions of Jews; donor's escape to the Soviet-occupied zone of Poland; life in the Czestochowa ghetto; forced labor; deportation to Buchenwald, then to Dora-Mittelbau; evacuation from Dora-Mittelbau; liberation; displaced persons camp; emigration to the United States; and a new life in the United States.