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  1. Segal family papers

    Contains photocopies of official documents and personal letters written mostly by Abram Segal, who was evacuated to Tashkent during the War.

  2. Schwartzman family papers

    Contains photocopies of official documents, personal letters and poems written by various members of the Schwartzman family of Kiev. Some of the documents are pre-1917, while others coincide with World War II.

  3. Reichsgemeinschaft Deutscher Hausfrauen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 1915 als Verband Deutscher Hausfrauenvereine e.V. gegründet, 1923/1924 umbenannt in Reichsverband deutscher Hausfrauenvereine e.V., Berufsorganisation der deutschen Hausfrauen. 1924 Errichtung einer Berliner Geschäftsstelle, 1934 Zusammenschluss mit der Reichsvereinigung deutscher Hausfrauen zur Reichsgemeinschaft deutscher Hausfrauen e.V., Berufsorganisation der deutschen Hausfrauen. Zum 1. Januar 1936 wurde auf Druck der Reichsfrauenführerin Scholtz-Klink die Reichsgemeinschaft mit ihren 359 Ortsgruppen aufgelöst und in das Deutsche Frauenwerk integriert. E...

  4. Landrat (District Councillor) of Karlovy Vary

    The fonds includes documents of the political administration of Karlovy Vary and partly of Jáchymov from the period of the Nazi occupation. Jewish issues can only be found sporadically: an official record of the request of Berta Kreisl to manage the Villa Josefa bathhouse the owner of which, Dr. Max Eidinger, a Jew, fled to London (1938) (inv. No. 15), the escape of a Jew and a Czech, two teachers from the driving school in Karlovy Vary (1938) (inv. No. 18), the records of Jewish returnees who left the Sudetenland before the Nazi annexation, a regulation (1938) (inv. No. 21), the escape of ...

  5. Ministry of Internal Affairs. Administration of towns in Thrace, 18th and 19th railway (Fond 705)

    Contains selected records concerning the railroad including directives, correspondence, and reports on personnel, maintenance, security, and incidents including violence.

  6. Selected records of the Argentinean Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    The collection contains documents related to Argentinean diplomatic activity in Germany and occupied Europe during World War II. The bulk of the materials relate to Poland, Germany, and France.

  7. Verdoner baby

    Baby- Francisca Verdoner Kan - bathing, dressing, in crib, etc. Scenes with mother or nursemaid. Scenes with sister Yoka, father and grandfather.

  8. Records from the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and anti-Semitism

    Contains records of the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism, including correspondence, minutes, annual reports, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and magazines.

  9. Edmund Hamber papers

    This collection consists of the letters which Edmund Hamber wrote to his children while he was incarcerated in Dachau concentration camp. In addition there are copy family photographs, copy article re the Hamber brothers and Kiba and sundry other material.

  10. Processo de pedido de visto para John Stark, Elizabeth, Ralph Henry Jackman, Olga, Margaret Post, Joseph Bradley e Maurice Stack

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Nova Iorque para John Stark, de nacionalidade americana, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Nova Iorque para Elizabeth, de nacionalidade americana, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Nova Iorque para Ralph Henry Jackman, de nacionalidade americana, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Nova Iorque para Olga, de nacionalidade americana, com destino a Por...

  11. Hitközségi szervezet: Vidéki hitközségek

    • Jewish Community Organizations: Countryside communities

    This is a vast collection that contains miscellaneous documents that relate to the history of Hungarian Jewish communities both in the years before 1944 and after 1945 and document key aspects of the Holocaust in Hungary. The collection offers rich documentation on the history of the following Hungarian Jewish communities in the era of Nazism: Bácsalmás, Baja, Bonyhád, Csongrád, Dombóvár, Eger, Esztergom, Gyöngyös, Jászberény, Kalocsa, Kaposvár, Kisújszállás, Kőbánya, Marcali, Mezőkövesd, Miskolc, Nagykőrös, Sárbogárd, Sopron, Szarvas, Szeged, Szentes, Szigetvár, Tata, Vác. There are also s...

  12. Anti-Polish propaganda just prior to outbreak of war

    Excerpts from the last newsreel before the outbreak of war. Women and children who have allegedly suffered at the hands of the Poles are interviewed in a German refugee camp. A weeping woman tells her story. The ship Schleswig-Holstein arrives in Danzig harbor. Joyous civilians and members of the Kriegsmarine wave to the the ship from the shore. Men in formal navy dress uniforms leave the ship and review sailors lined up on the dock. A banner reads "Wilkommen Schleswig-Holstein". German draftees, still wearing civilian clothes, stand at attention at roll call, then are issued shoes and unif...

  13. Ellen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ellen S., a non-Jew who was born in Bohemia. Mrs. S. describes her life in Plzen?; her limited yet positive contact with Jews; the German occupation and increasing restrictions on her freedom; her apprenticeship to a dressmaker; and her peripheral knowledge of the Jewish situation. She relates the shock of seeing a deportation train full of abused prisoners, and her thwarted attempts to feed them; her subsequent attempts to aid people when possible; and the inability of the church to address the immediate situation. She also speaks of meeting the American G.I. who was...

  14. Deutsche Botschaft Athen

    Abrechnungen.

  15. 1945 List of Jews registered in the Jewish Community in Skopje

    • Список на Евреите кои се пријавени во Еврејската општина во Скопје, 1945
    • Spisok na Evreite koi se prijaveni vo Evrejskata opstina vo Skopje, 1945

    Тhe document is structured in the following way: - Ordinal number of the family and ordinal number of each member of a family - Name and surname, profession, place of birth, date of birth and remark - 124 families or 305 people have been recorded

  16. Добрянська міська управа, с. Добрянка Добрянського району Чернігівської області

    • Dobrianka village board, village of Dobrianka, Dobrianka district of Chernihiv oblast
    • Dobrianska miska uprava, v. Dobrianka Dobrianskoho raionu Chernihivskoi oblasti

    Local administration documentation can contain information related to the Holocaust. Titles of the selected files: File 3. Order by Chernihiv District Department for Health Protection and instructions from Dobriansk district board about measures to fight spotted fever. List of settled German soldiers. Order by district board concerning establishment of the German-Ukrainian courses. Materials of the population census. File 6. Orders, certificates. List of population of Sidalevka to obtain passports. Materials of the population census.

  17. Association of German Municipalities, Office for the Sudetenland in Liberec

    The fonds id divided according to the association departments: Department 123 – Alien, passport and reporting police of the fonds contains file № 11 Jews. This relates to care for Jews from privileged mixed marriages affected by the war from 1942–1943 (inv. № 195). Department 360 – Church matters contains file № 22 – Cemeteries. This relates to issues of dissolution and closure of Jewish cemeteries in the following locations: Budišov nad Budišovkou, Drmoul, Sokolov, Šenov u Nové Jičína, Teplice and Vrchlabí, 1940–1941 (inv. № 285).

  18. Dr. E. George Stern papers

    The papers consist of a letter from Ralph Dorn Hetzel, president of Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania, on behalf of Dr. Bruno Stern's son George E. Stern, that helped Dr. Bruno Stern and his wife, Frida, escape from Nazi Germany to the United States where they joined their three sons. Also included is a photographic portrait of Dr. Bruno Stern.

  19. Selected records of the Oberstes Parteigericht der NSDAP (NS 36)

    The Oberstes Parteigericht der NSDAP (OPG) was founded on January 1, 1934 to handle cases concerning behavior that could harm the reputation of the NSDAP. It was responsible for trials of political importance and for appeals against decisions of district party tribunals. This collection includes transcripts of trials for excesses against Jews, such as murder or sexual assault during Kristallnacht; for abuses by SA leaders in concentration camps; and of a German "race-scientist" accused of having had a relationship with a half-Jewish woman. It also includes guidelines for the nomination of p...

  20. Various wartime scenes

    A film report examining Nazi methods to control morale. Consisting mostly of captured films. Civilians leave bombed cities and receive food. Shows Goering and Himmler and explains their civilian defense responsibilities. Streets are cleared and antiaircraft guns fire during an air raid. Shows wrecked planes, US POWs, and a bomber being shot down. A newsreel shows boxing, Axis troops, and, on the Russian front, mud, demolitions activities, and tanks being strafed.