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  1. Powiatowy Oddział Państwowego Urzędu Repatriacyjnego w Krasnymstawie

    • State Repatriation Office. Krasnystaw County Branch

    Materiały pokontrolne, 1947-1949, sygn. 1 Ewidencja repatriantów, 1944-1949, sygn. 2-11 Ewidencja orzeczeń odszkodowawczych, 1946-1947, sygn. 12 Zaświadczenia repatriacyjne, 1945-1948, sygn. 13-17

  2. Selected records of the commune Łazy Akta gminy Łazy (Sygn. 43)

    Consists of the registration book of the commune Łazy in the county Sochaczew in Poland.

  3. Judge Royce S. Weisenberger collection

    The Judge Royce S. Weisenberger collection consists of photographs of men, women, and children being loaded into a train at Buchenwald concentration camp, June 1945; newspaper clippings regarding liberation and the arrest of Dr. Robert Karl Neuman; and a three-page testimony written by Major Royce S. Weisenberger on the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp and its conditions.

  4. Dead and dying at Dachau

    Closeup footage of the dead and dying in Dachau. MS pan of bodies in small room. Some clothed, some not. CU of hand clutching ribbon. Pan back over same bodies. CU of some of dead. MS of room in brick building bodies piled in long narrow space between two concrete partitions. CU of dead mans face, CU of water trough, CU of shoe floating in trough. MCU of bodies in camp uniforms visible through entryway in brick. CU of face of dead man. MS through brick entryway of stack of clothed bodies. MS and CU of dead men on floor. MCU Body of man half covered by blanket lying on straw in barracks room...

  5. Feuerlicht and Grussgott family papers

    Contains photographs (70), letters, passports, and other documents illustrating the experiences of Abraham Grussgott and Nelly Feuerlicht (donor). Abraham (b. 1924 in Bardekov, Czechoslovakia, present day Slovakia), survived in the woods of Czechoslovakia, running and on false papers; Nelly (b. Berlin Germany) fled with her mother Yetti Friedman [Feuerlicht] and father to Belgium, from where Nelly and Yetti were able to depart for the United States. Collection documents their unsuccessful efforts to get Ignatz [Nelly's father] a visa to enter the United States in 1942. He was deported and p...

  6. Zbiór akt dotyczących niemieckich obozów i więzień („Ob”)

    Zbiór akt obozowych i więziennych zebrany przez GKBZNwP, GKBZHwP oraz GKBZHwP – IPN dot. zakładania, organizacji i likwidowania niemieckich obozów i więzień, dokonanych tam zbrodni oraz miejsc egzekucji i grobów masowych (m.in. obozy koncentracyjne w Buchenwaldzie, Ravensbrück, obozy zagłady w Bełżcu, Treblince, więzienie Pawiak w Warszawie, więzienie Rotunda w Zamościu, więzienie tzw. Fort VII w Poznaniu, obóz przejściowy w Pruszkowie, obozy pracy, obozy jenieckie); zestawienia liczbowe osób różnych narodowości uwięzionych i zmarłych w niemieckich obozach i więzieniach; protokoły zeznań św...

  7. Gerichtsakten 1938-1945

    • Legal Records 1938-1945

    Der Bestand enthält: - Anklageschriften und Urteile sowie sonstige Gerichtsunterlagen (Vernehmungen, Hinrichtungsprotokolle) des nationalsozialistischen Volksgerichtshofes sowie der Oberlandesgerichte Wien und Graz (diese Dokumente wurden mikroverfilmt – Wolfgang Form: Widerstand und Verfolgung in Österreich 1938 bis 1945. Die Verfahren vor dem Volksgerichtshof und den Oberlandesgerichten Wien und Graz (411 Mikrofiches + Erschließungsband) – und werden u.a. von der Universitätsbibliothek Wien unter "wissenschaftliche Datenbanken – Deutsche Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert online" für Studieren...

  8. Raoul Wallenberg Unit, B'nai B'rith International, Melbourne, Australia collection

    Postage stamps from Australia, commemorating Raoul Wallenberg. Included is a block of four stamps, a first day cover, and special display edition of a 70 cent commemorative stamp issued by Australia Post in October 2015, honoring Raoul Wallenberg, who had been made an honorary citizen of Australia posthumously, in 2013. The first day cover and commemorative display also include the two other stamps issued in this series, which honored Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela, as humanitarians who were officially recognized as such by the government of Australia, along with Wallenberg. Also included...

  9. Holocaust and World War II victims records

    Contains files from a variety of record groups relating to individual victims of the Holocaust and World War II. Includes files (primarily names lists) from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) collections RG-338 (reels 1-29 and 32-37, including war crimes trial materials), RG-84 (reels 30-31, 37-40, and 48), including materials from the U.S. legations in Bern, Ankara, Rome, and Shanghai), RG-153 (reels 41-43 and 49, Judge Advocate General records), and RG-59 (reels 44-47, State Department Visa Division, including materials about the Presidents Advisory Committee on Polit...

  10. Секционен инженер по корекция на реките Канаклийка, Хасковска, Сутлийка и Азмака-Хасково (1942-1944)

    • Sectional engineer for correction of Kanakliyka, Haskovska, Sutliyka and Azmaka-Haskovo rivers (1942-1944)

    Списъци на политическите затворници в Хасковския затвор и на евреите работили на реката край с. Динево (1943). Отчети за извършената работа, сведения за атмосферните промени (1942, 1944); преписки с Хасковския затвор за извършената работа от политическите затворници и убийството на надзиратели в лагера (1943). Раздавателни списъци за надниците на работниците (1942–1944).

  11. Hadjeret el Meguil, Algeria: Various documents

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of documents concerning life in Hadjeret el Meguil and other internment camps in Vichy North Africa was, according to a covering note at the beginning of the collection, donated to the Wiener Library, by way of gratitude for the assistance that was given to the depositor with respect to his restitution claims.Material re camps in North Africa including the following:Type-written copy of a novel, "Levinstein", by Peter Andreas, based on his experiences in forced labour units ...

  12. UN formed at San Francisco conference

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 394. Release date, 04/30/1945. Representatives of 46 nations at San Francisco Conference. Delegates arriving at conference, surrounded by crowds and journalists. Anthony Eden, Jan Smuts of South Africa (old man in uniform). Mackenzie King heads Canada's delegation. Molotov arrives; "[he] will play an important role in the proceedings." Narrator states that the charter is based on the Dumbarton Oaks formula. French and then Saudi delegations arrive. Senator Tom Connally of Texas, Commander Harold Stassin. Interior of conference location, delegates registering...

  13. Aerial views of Paris; POW camp

    EXT shots of military planes, and a plane taking off. The propellors of plane 771 spin, preparing for take-off. People board plane V4. Aerial shots from plane show views of Paris and a chateau with large gardens. Clouds and the city below. 01:17:44 Two men stand in front of a military jeep smoking cigarettes. A young man in uniform walks towards the camera, hands in pockets and smiling. Building with an arched roof and a steeple has a sign in front that reads “Post Chapel”. 01:18:13 POW camp (?). Camera pans left to a plane, watchtower, a basketball court and rows of buildings. View from pl...

  14. Reichsgruppe Energiewirtschaft

    Bestandsbeschreibung Neben wenigen allgemeinen Unterlagen zur Organisation der deutschen Energiewirtschaft, Gaswirtschaft und Versorgungsfragen besteht der Bestand v.a. aus Unterlagen über Bauvorhaben von Einzelfirmen der Elektrizitäts - und Gaswirtschaft A-Z (alphabetisch geordnet nach Firmensitz) Erschliessungszustand Vorläufiges Verzeichnis (1962) Zitierweise BArch R 12-II/...

  15. Fritz G. Cohen collection

    The Fritz G. Cohen collection consists of 37 handwritten postcards, in German, sent from Hannover, Germany, dated 1940-1942, from Lina Cohen, the donor's grandmother, or Margarete Liepmann, or Bertha Abrahamsohn, the donor's aunt, and sent to Hete or Henry Vaderborght or Mimi Lambucht in Brussels (Belgium), and to Dr. J. Gramegna in Genoa, Italy. All the postcards are addressed to "My dear child" or "My dear children" and describe daily family life in Hannover, Germany. The death certificate is from Terezin and dated March 30, 1943; it states that Lina Cohen died in Terezin February 20, 1943.

  16. GIs at Camp Boston

    Back at Camp Boston. Murray poses in a field. Soldiers show off their injuries after a football game. One day pass to Reims. Details of the Reims Cathedral. A GI cafe. Fuzzy shots of train cars. Scenes of the countryside from a passing train. Soldiers smoke cigarettes and explore an abandoned German railway gun. Trucks enter the USA Calais Staging Area. Panoramic shots of the camp, including tents. Soldiers pose in a group shot with a dog. Soldiers pack their things and board box cars.

  17. Belsen Concentration Camp: burial and Red Cross

    Four SS men drag two corpses by the legs, pass another pair of men with a corpse, British gentry stands at frame right with bayonet. Pit of corpses, MCU of two SS men standing with the dead in the grave, shifting the bodies and preparing for burial. MS across mass grave in process of being deepened by Hungarian troops with shovels, British officer in foreground watching. MCU of Martin Wilson talking with Czech Jewish woman (interpreter) who is a former prisoner. MCU as Red Cross load stretcher cases into back of ambulance, sending to delouse and cleanse. Men wearing full decontamination sui...

  18. State Archival Service of the Republic of Moldova

    • Государственная архивная служба Республики Молдова
    • Gosudarstvennaya arkhivnaya sluzhba Respubliki Moldova

    List of 444 Jews shot in the fall of 1941 and buried in mass graves in the cemetery for the victims of Fascism in Dubăsari. The list was compiled by the initiative group that assisted the reconstruction of the monument to the victims of Fascism in Dubăsari on the basis of archival data obtained at the NARM, data given by the Jewish community of Tiraspol, and data obtained from relatives and friends of those who were killed by the Keller's Fascist punitive squad in September 1941

  19. Lwow compilation: video finding aid

    Compilation of footage on wartime Lwow, including the Lwow pogrom in 1941. Scenes show Jews being rounded up and beaten. 01:00:05 to 01:04:52 RG-60.3121 Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos & Sound, 2440 R.1 (1939) 01:04:54 to 01:06:12 RG-60.3122 Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos & Sound, 2440 R.2 (1939) 01:06:14 to 01:15:04 RG-60.3112 Liberation of Ukrainian and Belorussian land from Polish landlords Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos and Sound, 539 R.2 (1940) (in 00:14:59 out 00:23:40 of original tape) 01:15:05 to 01:25:15 RG-60.3119 Soviet...

  20. Henry Weil testimony

    Consists of one testimony, four pages, written by Henry Weil in 1995 (and revised in 2001.) In the testimony, Weil describes his experiences in the Polish Army, in Kraków, Lwow, the Wolbrom ghetto, and the Stalowa Wola forced labor camp. After escaping forced labor and returning to Kraków, he was sent to Płaszów where he worked for the Schindler Emaillewaren Fabrik. When Płaszów was liquidated and the men temporarily sent to Gross-Rosen prior to the factory's move to Brünnlitz, Weil changed places with his brother Wovek in order to save him. Wovek began to work for Schindler, while Henry sp...