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  1. District Authority of Vsetín Okresní úřad Vsetín

    Administrative records of Vsetín, a town in the Zlín region. Features records pertaining to cultural and school affairs, including anti-Jewish measures and the expropriation of Jewish properties and assets.

  2. Bracha R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bracha R., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1927. She recounts her parents had emigrated from Poland; German invasion; fleeing to Toulouse; attending school; her father's return to Brussels; rejoining him with her mother a few months later; her father bringing her to the home of non-Jews to hide, then to another home a few days later; remaining for about eighteen months; being placed with another family under a false name for the rest of the war; reunion with her parents; marriage; and the births of a son and daughter.

  3. Copy witness statements re Auschwitz war criminals

    Most of these copy statements re the activities of former SS officers at Auschwitz by former inmates were collected by the International Auschwitz Komitee. The witnesses submitted their statements to the IAK in response to notices published in Polish and German newspapers, asking for evidence against former SS officers at Auschwitz. Many of the statements make reference to this fact. Many also end with a declaration that the witness is ready to repeat the statement under oath. Most of the statements are 1 or 2 pages long except that of Dr. Eduard Wirth, former doctor at Auschwitz, who descr...

  4. Selig Hecht: correspondence

    This collection consists of 2 letters written by Selig Hecht, a German born American scientist, on a visit to Europe. The first, a letter to a colleague back home, outlines the problems facing Jewish academics in Nazi Germany, and introduces the second which is a much more detailed picture of the privations suffered by Jewish academics and also the indifference of the non-Jewish population, and the culmination of a latent antisemitism in the profession that had long pre-dated the Nazi seizure of power. The latter is addressed to Alfred Cohen. Others mentioned include Willstaetter, Fajans, a...

  5. Family home movies of Germany; election poster; boat ride

    1936-1938. Handwritten intertitles. “Der neue Mantel fuer….” Women exit clothing shop with a shopping bag. “Hoppegarten” Horses race around track. Woman with glasses with an umbrella. “beim Da X.” Women with still picture camera. Woman with fur looks on the water with binoculars. Women sit at table on a balcony, CUs. Garden walkway. Sailboats and rowers. Hitler Youth on waterfront. Group of three walks along path, eat. Slow motion of a young man hopping over a wheelbarrow. INT, CUs, man eating. INT, chocolate shop. Pet bird in a cage. Nazi soldier stands next to election poster of Adolf Hit...

  6. Gezantschappen te Zweden (Stockholm) (1868) 1910-1946 (1948) (tot 1919 mede-geaccrediteerd bij de regeringen van Noorwegen en Denemarken) & te finland (Helsinki) 1919-1940, (1868) 1910-1946

    • Nationaal archief
    • 2.05.219
    • Dutch
    • 1868-1948
    • 11,5 meter; 528 inventarisnummers

    Gedurende de Tweede Wereldoorlog vluchtten veel Nederlanders naar Zweden om via dat land als vrijwilliger naar Engeland uitgezonden te worden. De werkzaamheden (geldelijke ondersteuning, tewerkstelling in Zweedse kampen, repatriëring naar Nederland) ten behoeve van die vrijwilligers werden in de eerste jaren van de oorlog verricht door het te Stockholm gevestigde consulaat-generaal. In 1943 werden deze taken overgenomen door het Bureau Zorg Uitgewekenen (BZU). Later ging dit bureau op in de Afdeling Repatriëring van het gezantschap. In het voorjaar van 1945 kwamen uit Duitse concentratiekam...

  7. Childhood memoirs of World War II

    The memoirs describe how Eva Edmands emigrated with her parents from Austria to France after the Anschluss and how they lived in hiding until France's liberation.

  8. Frances S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances S., who was born in Horocho?w, Poland in 1910. She describes her prewar family and religious life; her marriage in Yugoslavia in 1938; her studies at the University of Belgrade; and her arrest in 1938 before her stay was legalized. She recalls registering for emigration for fear of the Nazis; her flight, once she obtained her visa; her journey to Bombay via Greece, Iraq, and Karachi; and her forty-day trip to the United States, where she arrived in March 1941. She tells of her life here; her impressions of America's inertia with regard to receiving immigrants;...

  9. Visto nos passaportes de Moses Mendel Schonhaut, irmãos Habib, e Ekonomopoulos e esposa

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Viena para Moses Mendel Schonhaut, de nacionalidade austríaca e residente na , com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Viena para Habib, de nacionalidade grega, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Viena para mulher de Habib, de nacionalidade grega, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Viena para Habib, de nacionalidade grega, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado...

  10. Ursula D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ursula D., a non-Jew, who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1938. She recounts her parents' anti-Nazi sympathies; her father listening to Allied radio broadcasts; Allied bombing; constant fear; arrival of United States troops; postwar hardships, including rationing; an influx of refugees; her sense that Germans refused to admit culpability for the war and considered themselves "victims"; visiting relatives in Belgium, where she first learned about the Holocaust; confronting her parents; their unwillingness to discuss it; moving to Israel in the early 1960s; marriage to ...

  14. Kielce County II Starostwo Powiatowe Kieleckie II (Sygn. 308) : Wybrane materialy

    Files on national minorities, statistics and registers of population in Kielce region. Includes lists of cemeteries and industrial plants for nationalization

  15. Posterunek Żandarmerii w Żyrardowie Gendarmerie Posten Żyrardów (GK 657)

    Reports, correspondence, interrogation’s protocols regarding work and events with the intervention of the gendarmerie. Includes personal files of the gendarmes.

  16. Processo de pedido de visto para Jozef Bussgang, Stefania Bussgang, Janina Bussgang, Iulian Bussgang, Izydor Goldberg, Stanislawa Salomea Goldberg e Aniela Porun

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bucareste para Jozef Bussgang, de nacionalidade polaca, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bucareste para Stefania Bussgang, de nacionalidade polaca, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bucareste para Janina Bussgang, de nacionalidade polaca, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bucareste para Iulian Bussgang, de nacionalidade polaca, com destino a Portugal. ...

  17. Starosta Powiatu Zawierciańskiego

    • Der Landrat des Kreises Warthenau
    • Zawiercie County Governor’s Office

    Sprawy budżetowe i finansowe: budżety, zapomogi, wsparcia z lat 1939-1944, sygn. 1-6. Sprawy osadnictwa i przesiedleń z lat 1940-1944, sygn. 7-11. Policja polityczna: sprawy przepustek i dowodów osobistych z lat 1939-1944, sygn. 12-14. Policja porządkowa: ruch uliczny, sprawy cen, statystyka kryminalna z lat 1939-1944, sygn. 15-19. Policja przemysłowa: wykaz przedsiębiorstw przemysłowych i handlowych z lat 1940-1944, sygn. 20. Żandarmeria: szkolenie, obsada stanowisk z lat 1942-1944, sygn. 21-22. Sprawy przynależności państwowej: zarządzenia, sprawy listy narodowościowej z lat 1939-1944, sy...

  18. Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung.- Organisationsunterlagen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Rechtlich selbständige Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts. 1876: Gründung des Kaiserlichen Gesundheitsamtes 1919: Umbenennung in Reichsgesundheitsamt 1945-1952: Umbenennung in Zentralinstitut für Hygiene und Gesundheitsdienst, das zunächst dem Magistrat und dann dem Senat von Berlin unterstellt ist 1952-1994: Gründung des Bundesgesundheitsamtes (BGA) im Zuständigkeitsbereich des Bundesgesundheitsministeriums 1994-2002: Gründung des Bundesinstituts für gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutz und Veterinärmedizin (BgVV) im Zuständigkeitsbereich des Bundesgesundheitsmin...

  19. SS concentration camp officer testimony

    Consists of one typed testimony, eight pages with some additional pieces, written by an unknown author, about the testimony of an SS officer regarding his work in concentration camps, including Treblinka. The author describes begins the essay by describing his surprise when one day in 1943, he ran into an old acquaintance on a street in Berlin. The friend, who had previously been imprisoned on account of his activities with the Confessing Church, was wearing an SS officer's uniform, much to the author's surprise. The friend confided in the author that he was using this position to record in...

  20. Bernard Block photograph collection

    The Bernard Block photograph collection documents the Buchenwald and Ohrdruf concentration camps immediately following liberation. Images depict burial of victims, mass graves, and general scenes of the camps. The collection contains twenty photographs mounted with tape onto loose photo album pages, some with captions handwritten across the top in blue ink. The collection also includes an image of Major Bernard Block, DDS in his military uniform.