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  1. Reichsstelle für Getreide, Futtermittel und sonstige landwirtschaftliche Erzeugnisse

    Bestandsbeschreibung Der größte Teil des Bestandes (ca. 1926-1945) ist noch nicht endgültig bearbeitet. Überliefert sind hier in großer Zahl Unterlagen der Rechts-, Revisions- und Bilanzabteilung, Materialien und Spesen und Frachten sowie Statistiken. Zitierweise BArch R 15-VII/...

  2. "My Heroine Aunt"

    Includes a two-page biography of Margarete Elkan describing her acts of heroism during the Holocaust. The essay, "My heroine aunt," describes the work of Margarete Elkan as well as the stories of Bertha Bennigsohn and Elise Katz. Both the brief biography and the essay describe the experiences of German Jews before and after the Holocaust.

  3. Documentation from the Landratsaemter (county district authorities) of Merzig, Saarlouis and St. Wendel in the Saar region, 1935-1947

    Documentation from the Landratsaemter of Merzig, Saarlouis and St. Wendel (district authorities) in the Saar region

  4. Претура Велико-Врадіївського району, с. Велика Врадіївка Велико-Врадіївського району Голтського повіту.

    Накази, постанови, розпорядження, обіжники, інструкції губернаторства Трансністрії, військового командування, повітової префектури та районної претури про реєстрацію населення по примаріях для видачі румунських паспортів, постачання продуктів румунським військовим частинам, видачу зі складів сільгосппродуктів для вивезення до Румунії, встановлення цін на продукти, проведення переписів худоби, стягнення податків, обмін радянських грошей на німецькі марки, складання районного і сільських бюджетів, використання циганів на різних роботах, розведення шовковичних плантацій; протоколи засідань сіл...

  6. Liberation scenes

    05:17:59 Title: LIBERATION Allied camera teams from Russia, Britain, and the US filmed the liberation of the camps from 1944-1945. 05:18:04 Various camps. Bones. Passports, scissors, shoes, eyeglasses, zyklon B canisters. 05:19:06 Majdanek. 05:19:32 Mauthausen: Corpses on ground. Emaciated survivor walking, posing next to barbed wire fence. People in uniforms, grabbing potatoes from truck. Inmates offer food to liberators. Woman kisses hands of liberating soldier. 05:20:38 Bergen-Belsen: Bodies lying out in rows. Civilians tour camp. Women bury the dead. Bulldozer covers mass grave. 05:21:2...

  7. Family at their home in Belgium during World War II

    In COLOR, various scenes of the de Brouwers at St. Denis-Westrem. CUs of Denise in a fur coat relaxing in the family garden; Carl poses near the apiary; Denise gathers flowers and smokes at a table decorated with flowers and tea; Madeleine, the cook's daughter, and Colette watch the Jersey cows; CUs of a local worker; CUs of Carl and Denise playing with Jean-Marie. 00:19:34 Jacques and Birgitte recite a poem.

  8. Rabbi Baruch G. edited testimony

    Rabbi Baruch G., a survivor from Mława, Poland, tells of his childhood and youth. Recollections of the joyous Passovers of his childhood call to mind his feelings of loneliness at his son's bar mitzvah, at which there was no one present from his side of the family, since all had perished in the Holocaust. Rabbi G. chronicles the breakdown and destruction of his closely-knit extended family and his own personal deterioration as he experienced the degradations of numerous concentration and slave labor camps. He describes the process of his recovery and relates his insights into its limitatio...

  9. "Incurably insane"

    A Nazi educational film (propaganda) [Aufklaerungsfilm] produced by the Rassenpolitische Amt [Office of Racial Policy] regarding "unheilbare Geistkranke" [the "incurably insane"]. Part 2: Racially mixed boy, blond, part negroid. Intertitles: indicating cost to state, mother and son - 26 years; epileptic siblings, cost ____ RM (Reichsmark); two brothers. Titles and close views of various related people. Two girls, twins seen before; one holds up the other's head. Kids outside, grass and blankets. "Bloedes, taubstummes" [imbecile deaf mute] girls. "Taubstumme, schwachsinning" [deaf mute, feeb...

  10. Relli Schmerler Katz memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 25 pages, untitled, by Relli Schmerler Katz, originally of Czechoslovakia. In the memoir, written in 1996, Mrs. Katz describes pre-war Jewish life. Her family was deported in April 1944 to the ghetto in Mátészalka, Hungary, and from there to Auschwitz. She describes the process of arrival in Auschwitz, reuniting with an aunt who had been deported previously, and surviving multiple selections. In August 1944, she and her mother were sent to the Geislingen an der Steige forced labor camp. She describes a number of her specific memories of the camp, including the memory...

  11. Narodowosocjalistyczna Niemiecka Partia Robotnicza. Kierownictwo Powiatowe w Raciborzu [Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. Kreisleitung Ratibor]

    • akta administracyjne (zarządzenia dot. spraw organizacyjnych, ideologicznych i propagandowych, szkolenia politycznego i bojowego członków NSDAP; zarządzenia, korespondencja dot. spraw administracyjnych; zarządzenia Wydziału Kobiecego Okręgu Śląsk dot. różnych akcji prowadzonych przez Narodowosocjalistyczny Związek Kobiet; korespondencja dot. spraw personalnych oraz socjalnych urzędników państwowych i działaczy NSDAP; opinie, świadectwa polityczne wydawane przez grupy miejscowe NSDAP w stosunku do osób starających się o pracę na terenie powiatu; wnioski o przyjęcie do partii; donosy i skar...

  12. Selected records from National Archives in Prague (JAF: NSM 1464)

    This collection contains records of the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and subordinate Czech agencies dealing with matters of internal security and “racial” policy. It also includes a police catalog of art and precious metal objects confiscated from Jews.

  13. Bulgarian Peoples Bank in Kavala (Fond 1226)

    Contains dossiers on Jewish accounts from the bank in Kavala.

  14. Miriam Mordecai memoir

    Consists of a photocopy of a typescript memoir, which describes how Miriam Mordecai and her family, Greek Jews, survived the Holocaust. She gives credit to gentiles in Greece who helped save members of her family. Also included is information about World War II in Italy and Albania and the deportation of several of Mordecai's relatives to Auschwitz.

  15. Oral history interview with Henny Aronson

  16. Sąd Specjalny. Prokuratura przy Sądzie Specjalnym w Radomiu

    • Sąd Specjalny w Radomiu Sondergericht. Staatsanwaltschaft bei dem Sondergericht in Radom
    • Public Prosecutor at the Special Court in Radom

    Zawartość zespołu stanowią akta spraw w układzie alfabetycznym

  17. Eyck, Erich.- Bildbestand

    Bestandsbeschreibung Familienfotos, Porträtaufnahmen Zitierweise BArch N 1724-BILD/...

  18. Joseph Starkman collection

    Contains two certificates issued to Sonia Starkman and to Josef Starkman testifying that each served in a Belorussian Partisan unit from June 18, 1942 until July 20, 1944; two temporary certificates issued to Sonia Starkman and to Josef Starkman awarding them medals for fighting as partisans against Germany during the “Patriotic War,” dated: June 22, 1944, in Russian; a “Deutsche Kennkarte” issued to Joseph and Sonja Starkmann, issued in Passau, Germany, dated October 2, 1951; two identity cards issued by Civilian Services attached to Polish Forces entering U.K. issued to Jozef and Zofia Gr...

  19. May Day; church service

    May Day: Workers and peasants gather in large crowds to hear speeches given by the German occupation. The Kiev-Pechersk Monastery at sunset (the campanile is clearly visible), and the cupolas of what appears to be the Cathedral of Dormition (within the monastery). Night-time exterior shot of Saint Andrew's Church (not at the monastery), followed by interior shots of an Orthodox mass. The choir is singing, and the worshippers stand listening, crowded beneath the iconostasis. Translation of Russian narration: May Day - the German national holiday was also celebrated by all liberated populatio...

  20. Yugoslavia: repairing trucks; airfield; village; plane doctors

    Reel 1: Men unloading truck parts from plane. Bolting front and rear sections of truck together, putting on rear wheels. Mechanics and Yugoslavian assistants lifting body of truck onto frame; bolting and installing racks on truck bed; fueling and checking oil. Men driving off in completely assembled truck. Damaged airport, administration building, ruined hangars and buildings in BG. Village of Serpska Cryna. Horse-drawn carts and villagers along road, seen through window of village flower mill. GI trucks and repairmen passing carts and villagers on way to landing field. Trucks; mechanics si...