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  1. Štátny policajný úrad v Žiline

    • State Police Bureau in Žilina

    The fonds contains many files pertaining to the persecution of Jews at the territory of competence of the State Police Bureau in Žilina. These include various reports on Jews, reports on house searches of Jewish owners, various applications of Jews such as those asking for the permission to use public spaces after 10:00 PM or those asking for the exception from the obligation to wear the compulsory marking of Jews. The fonds contains documents on confiscation of Jewish movable property as well as documents pertaining the auctions of Jewish property. Various documents pertaining to the print...

  2. Dyrekcja Policji Kryminalnej w Warszawie [Kriminaldirektion Warschau]

    • akta administracyjne (zarządzenia, pisma okólne dot.: planu specjalnej akcji pościgowej Policji Bezpieczeństwa i Służby Bezpieczeństwa dla dystryktu warszawskiego, poszukiwania zbiegłych jeńców wojennych, zwalczania spadochroniarzy, polskiej konspiracji, zachowania tajemnicy służbowej, akcji represyjnych, pozyskiwania konfidentów przez żandarmerię; kores pondencja dot. wydawania broni służbowej; schematy organizacyjne Policji Bezpieczeństwa, Policji Porządkowej, Policji Kryminalnej, Tajnej Policji Państwowej w Warszawie; wykaz przestępców kryminalnych; sprawy personalne funkcjonariuszy Po...

  3. Powiatowy Oddział Państwowego Urzędu Repatriacyjnego w Lublinie

    • State Repatriation Office. Lublin County Branch

    Zarządzenia i materiały pokontrolne, 1946, 1948, sygn. 1-2 Sprawozdawczość dotycząca repatriantów, 1946, sygn. 3-4 Ewidencja repatriantów, 1945-1950, sygn. 5-8 Poszukiwanie rodzin, 1950, sygn. 9

  4. Crimean Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes (Fond p 1289)

    Contains records related to the Crimean Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate Nazi crimes for the territory of Crimea during World War II.

  5. Julien Bryan Collection compilation

    Compilation of newly preserved footage from the Julien Bryan Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shown during a Museum development event in Florida in 2005. Segments include RG-60.3941, RG-60.4008, and RG-60.4116.

  6. Sentencing Fritzsche; Accusing Goering, Ribbentrop, Frank at Nuremberg Trial (SOUND ONLY)

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. NOTE: Here, the actual sentences for the defendants are read, but there was a court ruling that no filming and photographs were allowed during the announcement. So the voice of judge is heard, no pictures, white screen, SOUND ONLY. Soviet voice at start, re. Funk. Adjournment for 10 minutes. "Hello, recording. Hello, recording." 02:25:40 Continuation of sentences pronounced by tribunal: 02:25:45 Hans Fritzsche: Not guilty Martin Bormann (fragment) 02:26:30 Resume of Goering's career in the Nazi Party. US Justice Fran...

  7. Collection Pfungst family

    Mile Braach, born Emilie Marie Auguste Hirschfeld, a Frankfurt annalist and entrepreneur studied the feminist Marie Eleonore Pfungst in the 1990s. To do so, she collected documents regarding the life of the Pfungst family. The Jewish entrepreneurial family owned the Naxos Union, one of the first producers of sanding machines. The family was persecuted during National Socialism. Braach's biography of Marie Eleonore Pfungst was published by the Fritz Bauer Institute in 1995. The records used to write the biography were then transferred to the Institute's archive. The collection Pfungst family...

  8. Comunità ebraiche in Italia

    Il fondo conserva per lo più carte inerenti la persecuzione degli ebrei nelle varie comunità italiane durante il periodo nazi-fascista. Tra esse, elenchi nominativi, richieste di informazioni, perizie dei danni causati dal vandalismo nazifascista, richieste di risarcimento danni, raccolte di articoli di giornale, dati inerenti la popolazione ebraica prima e dopo la seconda guerra mondiale nonchè cenni storici sulle comunità. Da segnalare il fascicolo contenente l'elenco delle comunità e degli enti ebraici al 1936 (b. 1, fasc. 1).

  9. Thomas R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Thomas R., who was born in 1920 and served in the United States Army in World War II. He recounts military draft after Pearl Harbor; serving in the 3rd army, 79th infantry division; deployment to Belfast, then England; crossing the channel; fighting in France, Austria and Germany; encountering several slave labor camps; entering Dachau; "skeleton-like" prisoners; freight cars filled with corpses; being stationed in Salzburg; observing evacuations of displaced persons; and military discharge.

  10. Leon F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon F., who was born in Zolochiv, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1919, one of five sons. He recounts studying in a yeshiva; mobilization shortly before the war; Soviet occupation; German invasion; hiding with Jews and non-Jews in several locations; his brother suggesting he hide elsewhere; learning his brother and mother had been killed; visiting his wife who was hiding elsewhere; and liberation by Soviet troops.

  11. COLLECTION.JMP.ARCHIVE/34

    This fonds contains the community's statutes (1877, 1896, 1900), meeting minutes (maintained until 1940), election records, personnel records, circumcision records (1817–1839), correspondence, records concerning Jewish houses, financial files, synagogue seats records, the statutes and records of the burial society, and fragments of documents relating to Jewish associations and institutions. The fonds also includes fragmentary files relating to the affiliated communities of Hroubovice, Chrudim, Přestavlky and Zájezdec.

  12. Soroca District Chamber of Commerce and Industry

    • Camera de comerţ şi industrie a judeţului Soroca
    • Сорокская уездная палата торговли и промышленности
    • Sorokskaya uyezdnaya palata torgovli i promyshlennosti

    The lists of traders of Soroca town and Soroca district in 1923; the lists of traders from Tarigrad village in 1927; the requests of the traders from Soroca district regarding the registration of commercial enterprises; the minutes of the registrations and the certificates on the ending of commercial activity by citizens; the requests of the traders for registration of commercial enterprises; the lists of traders from Soroca district and certificates on the right to trade; the lists of traders from Soroca district in 1934; the lists of members of Soroca district Chamber of Commerce and Indu...

  13. Перший поліцейський участок Префектури поліції міста Одеси

    • First Precinct of the Police Prefecture of the City of Odessa

    Inventories in the fonds are systematized according to the structural-chronological principle. Included (f. R-2353, f. R-2354) are accounting data of the second and ninth police precincts compiled on the eve of and after the interning of Jews in ghettos: family lists of Jews residing within the precincts, with family members’ ages indicated; addresses of and numbers of rooms in apartments they occupied; and documents describing Jewish property left behind (f. R-2353, 1942). There is also a list of Jews sent from the Mogilev ghetto for a month to work at the printing office of the Governorat...

  14. Verwertungsgesellschaft mbH (VEBEG)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Im Aug. 1946 wurde die Gesellschaft zur Erfassung von Rüstungsgut mbH (GER) als gemeinwirtschaftliches Unternehmen der Länder der US-Besetzungszone in München gegründet. Zum 14. Juli 1947 wurde der Name in Staatliche Erfassungs-Gesellschaft für öffentliches Gut (STEG) geändert. Die STEG war vor allem mit der treuhänderischen Erfassung, Übernahme und Verwertung amerikanischen Heeres- und Beuteguts zur Versorgung der deutschen Wirtschaft wie der Bevölkerung beauftragt. Darunter fiel auch die Abwicklung des sog. "Amerika-Geschäfts". Die Hauptgeschäftsleitung war...

  15. Crimea

    Map of the Crimea. German soldiers in the devastated city of Jevpatorija, where houses and other buildings have been destroyed. Fires still burn in the background as the Germans reconnoiter. Explosions and sniper fire. Germans fire a howitzer and toss grenades. They climb onto the tiled roof of one of the houses. A group of Soviets surrender. German soldiers toss a grenade into the basement of a structure; an injured man tries to crawl out of the building a moment later. More capture of Soviets. Pan across a group of them standing next to a wall, their arms raised.

  16. Bachrach and Steinhardt families collection

    Photographs and biographical materials documenting the experiences of Enny Bachrach and her husband Siegfried Steinhardt. Photographs include WWI images of Louis Bachrach, Enny’s father, in his battalion and in a field hospital, and later undated images of various family members. Biographical materials include birth certificates for Siegfried Steinhardt, Enny Bachrach, Evelina Steinhardt, and two immigration documents issued to Enny Bachrach from civil authorities in Eisenach, Germany and the Bolivian consulate in Hamburg. Also included is a Jewish wedding certificate (ketubah) for Enny and...

  17. "The Three Lives of the Polish War Hero; Emile H. Szlechter"

    Consists of one article entitled "The Three Lives of the Polish War Hero; Emile H. Szlechter," written by his stepson, Reinhold Beuer-Tajovsky. The article describes Szlechter's life as a lawyer in Lwów, fighting in the Polish Army immediately after the German invasion in 1939, and having to flee to Romania, leaving his wife and daughters, to avoid capture. From Romania, he made his way to France and joined the Free Polish Army, spending the war as a member of the French resistance group in the Toulouse-Haute Garonne region. After the war, he discovered his family had perished and married H...

  18. Written Essays of Pupils in Kherson Regional Schools on the Theme of “What I Experienced During the Occupation.”

    The collection includes a single inventory systematized alphabetically. A number of essays – by A. Figonenko (town of Velikaia Aleksandrovka [Velikaia Aleksandrovka district]), T. Moiseichenko and M. Tonkonog (city of Skadovsk), L. Bozhenova, I. Koval’, Odarchenko, A. Sidenko, and N. Timofeev (city of Kherson) – contain recollections of anti-Jewish actions during the occupation: Jews being forced to wear six-pointed stars and conscripted to unload rocks for paving roads; the formation of a “particular place” – the Jewish ghetto on the outskirts of Kherson, where the local population was for...

  19. Urząd Pracy w Łodzi

    • Arbeitsamt in Litzmannstadt
    • Labour Office in Łódź

    Przepisy o ogólnym funkcjonowaniu urzędów pracy, materiały dotyczące procedury administracyjno-biurowej, korespondencja w sprawie szkolenia wojskowego urzędników Arbeitsamtu, kartoteka zakładów zbrojeniowych na terenie Łodzi, policyjne doprowadzania Polaków uchylających się od pracy i ich badania lekarskie, akta personalne pracowników Urzędu w Wieluniu placówki w Ostrzeszowie.

  20. Aussenstelle Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten records (MfS IX/11)

    Selected records from the record group MfS IX/11 compiled by the former East German Security Service "Stasi." Materials of mixed provenance, primarily papers generated by the German Security Police and SD between 1933 and 1945. Included are routine, periodic reports of local Gestapo surveillance of suspect political, religious, or fraternal groups; records of police documents such as circular letters, memos of telephone conversations, daily reports, situation reports; and reports from or about the "Ausland" such as Austria, Yugoslavia, and the occupied Eastern territories.