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  1. Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of SIG (the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    The documentation is from 1939-1950. Most of the documentation describes the activities of Saly Mayer as the (unofficial) representative of the JDC in Switzerland during World War II.Saly Mayer transferred JDC funds to persecuted Jews in Europe and Shanghai in different ways. He also distributed money for the care of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland. As part of his activities, he received information regarding what was happening in Europe against the Jews, for example in Slovakia (from the Bratislava Working Group). He was in contact with representatives and activists of various Jewish or...

  2. Selected records of the City Tuszyn Akta miasta Tuszyna (Sygn.2135) : Wybrane materiały

    Post-war materials regarding property matters of the Jewish and Polish population. Includes registers of properties, and the permanent and temporary population of city Tuszyn.

  3. Inventaris van het archief van de Gouverneur van Suriname: Afdeling Kabinet Geheim, 1885-1951 (1952)

    • Nationaal archief
    • 2.10.18
    • Dutch
    • 1887-1951
    • 10 meter; 914 inventarisnummers

    De gouverneur van Suriname was de eenhoofdige leiding van de uitvoerende macht. Ondanks aansturing vanuit Nederland en controle door de Koloniale Staten van Suriname (de wetgevende macht) gold de gouverneur onbetwist als de machtigste persoon van de kolonie. Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog nam die macht nog eens toe doordat de gouverneur ook nog opperbevelhebber van de strijdkrachten was. Het archief van het kabinet van de gouverneur bevat voor de periode 1887-1951 de verbalen van de gouverneur met agenda's en correspondentie (meest telegrammen) met agenda's. Tevens is er divers materiaal be...

  4. Papers of Karl Schlyter, Swedish Minister of Justice

    Contains papers of a former Swedish Minister of Justice and well-known jurist, Karl Schlyter (1879-1959), including documents from the "XI: e Congres Pénal et Pénitentiaire International" in Berlin, Germany, from August 18 to 24, 1935; invitations to visit concentration camps in Germany; and some reports from those visits. Also contains the letter of resignation from James G. McDonald, High Commissioner for Refugees (Jewish and Other) coming from Germany, addressed to the Secretary General of the League of Nations, on December 27, 1935, and several newspaper clippings related to the McDon...

  5. Daniel Jacobson papers

    Letter, with envelope written by Sgt. Daniel Jacobson, of Baltimore, Maryland, while serving with the US Army's 179th Infantry, 45th Division in Munich, Germany, to his wife Julia Jacobson, 6 May 1945. The letter written on Hitler's personal stationery, describes the irony of being Jewish and using Hitler's stationery, and how he acquired it during a visit with other American soldiers to the ruins of Hitler's home in Berchtesgaden. He also describes a porcelain figurine that he took as a souvenir, and other impressions of Munich, where he was stationed at the time. Also included are three p...

  6. Thessaloniki Jewish Community records

    The collection contains registration records for over 43,000 Salonika Jews completed prior to their deportation to Auschwitz. The cards contain personal information as well as itemized lists of real and material property subsequently aryanized by occupying forces and Greek collaborators.

  7. Edith K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith K., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1924, an only child. She recalls their assimilated home; essentially being raised by her grandmother; German invasion in 1944; her parents' round-up in November 1944 (she never saw them again); escaping with two friends from a round-up; returning to Budapest; hiding with her future husband's family; obtaining false papers through non-Jewish friends; living as a non-Jew in several places; liberation in January 1945; reunion with her grandmother; learning no other relatives had survived; marriage in 1948; escaping with her ...

  8. Processo de pedido de visto para Alfred Feigl, Elsa Feigl, Helmuth Ulrich, Alborn Dassler, Jenny Dassler e Ante Fischer

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Zagreb para Alfred Feigl, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino não identificado. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Zagreb para Elsa Feigl, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino não identificado. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Zagreb para Helmuth Ulrich, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino não identificado. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulad...

  9. Notársky úrad v Moldave nad Bodvou 1939 - 1945

    • Notary Office of Moldava nad Bodvou 1939 - 1945

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Moldava nad Bodvou holds records of the local administration in the period between 1939 and 1945, including archival materials on the Anti-Jewish measures that were in force during these years. These archival sources are related mainly to the following issues: personal files related to Jewish residents, such as the number of local Jewry in 1939 (211 inhabitants), the list of Jewish doctors in Moldava nad Bodvou, files about the vetting of local doctors in 1939, official documents on Jews who converted to Christianity in Moldava nad Bodvou, as well ass the ...

  10. Verbände und Einheiten der Pioniere des Heeres

    Bestandsbeschreibung Die Unterlagen des 1935 aufgestellten Pionierbataillons 47 (Garnison: München) reichen mit Vorakten bis 1922 zurück (ca. 220 AE). Auch vom Pionierbataillon 7 (Rosenheim) sind eine Anzahl von Vorkriegskriegsakten (ca. 100 AE) und von der Pionier-Sperrkolonne rund 45 Akten aus 1939/40 erhalten. Ansonsten sind nur Schriftgutsplitter zahlreicher Formationen vornehmlich aus dem 2. Weltkrieg überliefert (s.u.). Erwähnenswert ist außerdem die vom Arbeitsstab Pioniergeschichte bei der Pionierabteilung (In 5) des Allgemeinen Heeresamtes angelegte Sammlung von Einsatzberichten ei...

  11. German TV documentary film on antisemitism (reel 6)

    Jews are forced to adopt the middle names "Israel" and "Sara." A pile of Jewish passports and an image of a crematorium as the narrator says, "So did Globke help prepare for the Final Solution." Shots of Hitler with his dog as the narrator says that after the Jewish name legislation was enacted Globke was promoted to the Ministerialrat in July 1938. Staged scenes of Kristallnacht as the narrator reads a quote from Globke. Footage of Jewish children sent on Kindertransport to England. The narrator makes the connection between Globke's idea of assigning Jews the names Sara and Israel, and Hey...

  12. The Striker, October 1937, 15th year 1937 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    Issue of Der Stürmer, a viciously anti-Jewish newspaper published by Julius Streicher, an early Nazi Party member, from 1923-1945 in Germany. The newspaper's slogan was "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" [The Jews are our misfortune]. The paper thrived on scandal, and preferred sensational stories of Jews committing disgusting, evil acts. It was also infamous for its antisemitic cartoons and staff cartoonist Fips. Streicher was arrested by the US Army in May 1945. He was tried by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, convicted, and executed per the ruling that his repeated articles...

  13. Peterhof destruction; Leningrad

    Titles: "The first pig iron in the country" Smelting factory and workers. CUs molten metal pouring into vats and moving along conveyor belts. LS numerous rail carts filled with pig iron. Titles "Film-reporting from the frontlines"/ "The Leningrad front" Shots of field strewn with dormant munitions. Various shots of German corpses. CU of German corpse lying atop swastika flag. War-ravaged Peterhof; the Cascade steps and Samson fountain. Contrasting shots of fountain pre-war with fountain in ruins. Various shots of civilians in Leningrad. 03:43:12 Titles: "The Advance of Leningrad Continues" ...

  14. Finanzlandesdirektion Graz, Arisierung

    • Financial Directorate Graz, Aryanization

    Der Bestand enthält die Arisierungsakten des Oberfinanzpräsidenten Graz (ab 1941) sowie Vermögensanmeldungen (vgl. RGBl I 1938, S. 414), die an die Reichsstatthalterei in Graz abgegeben werden mussten (diese können auch schon früher datiert sein). Der Hauptteil der Akten betrifft "die Verwaltung und Verwertung des unbeweglichen Vermögens, das dem Reich durch Einziehung, Verfallserklärung oder ähnliche Rechtsakte zufällt." An den Beginn eines Einzelaktes ist im Regelfall eine Übersichtstabelle mit der genauen Auflistung des Vermögens, das festgestellt werden konnte, gestellt (häufig Bankkont...

  15. Dezsofi family collection

    The Dezsofi family collection includes biographical material, correspondence, school notebooks, writings, and magazines relating to the pre-war experiences of twin sisters Dolly and Marianne Dezsofi in Budapest, Hungary as well as during the war while in hiding. Biographical material includes a death certificate and union identification card for Imre Tieberger, Dolly and Marianne’s uncle, two pre-war greeting cards with photographs Dolly gave to her mother for mother's day, and a pre-war photograph of Dolly and Marianne in first grade, dated 1937. Correspondence includes letters written by ...

  16. Administration of the city of Feodosiya during the Nazi occupation (Fond p 1458)

    Contains records of the city of Feodosiya, Ukraine, including orders, public announcements, information regarding Jewish populations, and lists of Jews and Jewish property.

  17. Translators; Russian prosecutor addresses Nuremberg Trial

    20:00:40 (Munich 70) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 26-27, 1946. MLSs, MSs, translators' section: Voice of witness is heard testifying in French as civilian interprets in English; voice heard speaking in German, translated to English by same man. References to Lord Halifax, Goering. 20:03:09 A woman translator is heard interpreting into Russian. German translator speaks into microphone. 20:04:24 Silent scenes: MSs, sailor operates console where sound is mixed and routed to different headsets. MSs, translators at work. MCUs, defense attorney at speaker's stand places headphones...

  18. Hitler meets Admiral Horthy

    Hitler meets Admiral Horthy of Hungary; German troops in Budapest: MS then CUs. Admiral Horthy disembarks and is met by Hitler and Von Ribbentrop and others. Lots of handshakes. MS Hitler and Horthy walk into conference room. Hungarian foreign minister Sztojay talks to German officer. Hitler and Horthy walk through room greeting others as camera follows. (Handshaking and bowing among uniformed officers.) German troops roll into Budapest as roadside civilians wave and smile. As tanks and equipment move through streets many civilians seem noncommittal. German talks to Hungarian policeman. MS ...

  19. 1945 news roundup

    News documentary with intertitles produced for the home movie market by Castle Films Productions. "The News Parade of the Year 1945" "Now it can be seen! British Battleship Bombed!" "Nazi U-Boat scores direct hit on HMS Barham" "Hitler’s V-2 bomb exposed by Allies" "Millions mourn the death of President Roosevelt, Truman succeeds as President" "Soviets last offensive in the heart of Berlin" "Prime Minister Churchill reviews British and Canadian troops" "American flag raised on Iwo Jima" "Atomic bomb destroys Nagasaki" "Millions of GI’s come home on ships" "Carrier Saratoga steams into San F...

  20. Processo de pedido de visto para John Converse, Paul Manning, Kate Bonner, Walter Hazlett, John Hasey, Carl Rutledge e Sheila Converse

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Nova Iorque para John Converse, de nacionalidade americana, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Nova Iorque para Paul Manning, de nacionalidade americana, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Nova Iorque para Kate Bonner, de nacionalidade americana, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Nova Iorque para Walter Hazlett, de nacionalidade americana, com desti...