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  1. Židovské organizace

    • Jewish organisations

    The collection contains documents about activities of Jewish organisations and individuals that were examined by the Czechoslovak security apparatus during the 1950s. It includes materials of Jewish relief organisations, in particular of the American Joint Distribution Committee (JOINT) in Czechoslovakia, documents about Jewish emigration from Czechoslovakia (especially between 1945 and 1950), and of Zionist organisations. It also contains materials about Czechoslovak assistance to Israel in 1948-49, including training and shipments of weaponry. Among other materials, it also contains a fil...

  2. Posterunek Żandarmerii w Woli Pękoszewskiej [Gendarmerie Posten Wola Pękoszewska]

    • akta administracyjne (zarządzenia i pisma okólne dot. odnajdywania zakopanej broni na terenie GG przy pomocy różdżkarzy, organizacji sądownictwa SS i policji, służby wartowniczej w Warszawie, umundurowania oraz wyposażenia policji polskiej i ukraińskiej, udzielania pomocy rodzinom rannych policjantów, zwalczania nielegalnego handlu, obrony przeciwlotniczej, obchodów dnia policji niemieckiej; rozkazy dzienne dowódcy Policji Porządkowej w GG, komendanta Policji Porządkowej dla dystryktu warszawskiego odnośnie odkomenderowań, podróży służbowych, awansów, udzielania pochwał, nadawania odznacz...

  3. Fonds avant-guerre / guerre des ondes

    • Pre-war fonds / war of the airwaves

    Pre-war (1933–1940) The fonds includes programmes broadcast on state radio stations and private stations. - Public stations: Paris PTT, Radio Paris, Poste Colonial - Private stations: Poste Parisien, Radio cité, Radio Nîmes, Radio 37 Agence sonore Radio Actualités Françaises: several copies of material and reports that had been recorded on discs for distribution to different radio stations War of the airwaves (1940–1944) The fonds consists of radio recordings from different radio stations broadcasting: - In occupied areas: Radio Paris - In the free zone: Radio Vichy - In Free France...

  4. Father Antoni Gerwel collection

    Consists of a typed transcript copy of a letter, with translation, describing the Holocaust experiences of Father Antoni Gerwel, a Polish Catholic priest who perished in the Dachau concentration camp on August 31, 1942. The letter was written on July 22, 1977 by Father Jan Żelaźnicki to Father Gerwel's nephew, Jędrzej Gerwel. In the letter, Father Żelaźnicki explains that Father Gerwel was a priest in Kadzidło, Poland, and that they were deported together to Dachau in April 1940. Both were sent to Gusen and separated, but reunited again in Dachau. Father Gerwel volunteered to go to a specia...

  5. Demonstration at DP camp

    A large group gathers outside in a field carrying hand-made flags of Israel and other countries. The demonstration begins, people march in uniform, carrying signs in Hebrew. (See brief shot of same event in RG-60.1811)

  6. Records relating to Wöbbelin concentration camp

    Includes articles concerning the role of the 8th U.S. Infantry Division and the 82nd U.S. Airborne Division in the liberation of Wöbbelin concentration camp. Also included is information concerning the surrender of the 21st German Army at Tippelskirch castle near Ludwigslust, Germany. Other materials include program booklets of a Holocaust memorial service and the 1988 United States Holocaust Memorial Council Days of Remembrance ceremony in Washington, D.C.

  7. Documentation of the German State Ministry for Bohemian and Moravian Affairs (Deutsches Staatsministerium fuer Boehmen und Maehren), Germany, 1938-1945

    Documentation of the German State Ministry for Bohemian and Moravian Affairs (Deutsches Staatsministerium fuer Boehmen und Maehren), Germany, 1938-1945 The Ministry for Bohemian and Moravian Affairs was established following the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis and the establishment of the Protectorate on the majority of its territory. Konstantin von Neurath, appointed as Governor of the Protectorate by the German authorities, was, in effect, ousted from his position by Hitler, on September 1941, for introducing policies that were not harsh enough in the eyes of the Fuehrer. Wilhel...

  8. Sąd Obwodowy w Skoczowie

    • Amtsgericht Skotschau
    • Local Court in Skoczów

    Akta cywilne niesporne: uznanie za zmarłego, w tym zaginięcie w wypadkach wojennych z lat [1924] 1942-1944, sygn. 1-79; Sprawy spadkowe z lat [1932] 1940-1945, sygn. 80-288; Sprawy opieki i kurateli z lat [1917] 1939-1945, sygn. 289-702; Sprawy cywilne sporne z lat 1940-1942, sygn. 703-745; Sprawy dotyczące ksiąg gruntowych z lat [1928] 1941-1945, sygn. 746-1465.

  9. Henry Sharp collection

    The Henry Sharp papers consist of identification and registration papers documenting Sharp’s immediate post-war life as a Holocaust survivor in liberated Germany. The collection also includes photographs of Buchenwald after liberation.

  10. Selected records of the Lehr- und Forschungsgemeinschaft- Ahnenerbe (NS-21)

    Contains documents related to the operations of the Lehr- und Forschungsgemeinschaft- Ahnenerbe, a Himmler-created organization that sought to promulgate the notion of German cultural superiority through pseudo-scientific and pseudo-archaeological 'discoveries.'

  11. Eli Oliff papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Eli Oliff (born Eliasz Olewnik), originally of Żuromin, Poland. Included are two photographs depicting Eli in his concentration camp uniform after liberation at Buchenwald, a letter with envelope written by Eli in the Garmisch Partenkirchen DP camp to his relative Joseph Olev in Chicago, Illinois.

  12. Antinacistinės rezistencijos spauda. Lietuvos generalinė sritis

    • Collection of Press Items from Anti-Nazi Resistance. Lithuanian General Region

    'Prints by the Union of the Lithuanian Fighters' for Freedom: "Laisvės kovotojas", ,"Laisvas žodis", "Apžvalga", "Frontas"; proclamations, appeals, letters, posters. Prints by the members of the various organization in Lithuania (prints: ,"Į laisvę", "Lietuvių frontas", "Lietuvių fronto biuletenis", "Pogrindžio kuntaplis", "Atžalynas", "Baltija", "Nepriklausoma Lietuva", "Karinės ir politinės žinios", "Lietuvos laisvės trimitas", "Vieninga kova", "Mūsų žemė", "Naujas žygis", "Naujo žygio apžvalga", "Tautos žodis", "Lietuva", "Naujoji Lietuva", "Vardan tiesos". Some of the prints have antise...

  13. German campaign in Poland; German military; destruction

    Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 3: German engineers repair a bridge over the Vistula. Tanks ford the river and motorized columns cross the bridge. Reconnaissance planes fly over. Stukas dive-bomb a supply train and grounded Polish aircraft. Shows closeups of the wreckage.

  14. Selected records of the City Biała Rawska Akta miasta w Białej Rawskiej (Sygn.1023)

    Inventory book of the Jewish Religious Community in Biała Rawska, 1935. The book contains registers of the buildings, as well as property owned by the Jewish community.

  15. Antisemitic float in parade

    Scenes from the celebration of the 450th anniversary of the founding of the town of Schneeberg. SA men on horseback carry banners with the town's symbol on it. Close-ups on a parade float show a caricature of a Jew paying wages to a German citizen. In the other hand the "Jew" holds a bill of huge denomination. A caption along the bottom of the float states: The Jew led the nation into hunger, poverty, and inflation. In the next scene, men wearing Prussian helmets assemble in formation and then march. A brief shot of people working on a float, then a shot of another float labelled, Schluss d...

  16. Archief van de gemeente Leiderdorp, 1934-1985 (1999)

    Het archief bevat de neerslag van taken en activiteiten van de gemeente Leiderdorp, 1934-1985. Inventarisnummers 2-4 bevatten registers van notulen van vergaderingen van de gemeenteraad met betrekking tot de jaren 1938-1947. Inventarisnummer 137 bevat stukken betreffende de historie en groei van Leiderdorp, 1945-1946. Inventarisnummer 156 bevat stukken betreffende inmenging van het hoger gezag, 1945-1963. Voor gemeenterekeningen uit de jaren 1939-1946, zie inventarisnummers 535-537 (correspondentie over jaarrekeningen bevindt zich voor deze jaren in de inventarisnummers 531-532). Begrotinge...

  17. Polski Związek Zachodni. Obwód w Toruniu

    • akta śledztw dot. zbrodni niemieckich (odpisy z akt dochodzeniowych oraz aktów oskarżenia osób podejrzanych o przestępstwa wojenne) - akta administracyjne (dokumentacja w sprawie gromadzenia i opracowywania materiałów dot. okupacji niemieckiej na Pomorzu w latach 1939-1945, wytyczne dot. sporządzania przez terenowe oddziały administracji państwowej list osób podejrzanych o przestępstwa wojenne, opracowania, artykuły, dokumentacja w sprawie rehabilitacji osób, które w czasie II wojny światowej podpisały niemiecką listę narodową) - ankietyzacja miejsc i faktów zbrodni niemieckich - materiał...

  18. Fanny Freund collection

    Collection of documents and certificates documenting the experiences of Fanny Freund (b. 1923 in Tarnopol), before during and after the Holocaust. Collection includes a certificate stating that Fanny Freund was liberated by the British Army from the Belsen concentration camp, dated December 14, 1948; an IRO processing card issued to Fanny Freund, November 1949, with photo of bearer attached; blank registration card; Arbeitskarte (work card) issued for "Maria Chrestschenko" (Fanny Freund's false identity), photo of bearer attached, issued January 27, 1944; a deposition stating that Fanny Fre...

  19. Rosita K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosita K., who was born in Cluj, Romania. She speaks of the ghetto of Cluj, where she lived for four weeks; her deportation to Auschwitz; daily life in Auschwitz; her work as a slave laborer; the kindness shown her by a Wehrmacht soldier; her transfer to Bergen-Belsen where she was liberated by the British; her postwar stay in Sweden before emigrating to the United States; and the lasting detrimental effects of her wartime experiences.

  20. Plaut family papers

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