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  1. Central Archives of the Federal Security Services (former KGB) of the Russian Federation records relating to war crime trials in the Soviet Union

    Contains interrogation transcripts, witness statements, arrest warrants, evidence documents, copy prints, sketches, diagrams, photographs and other trial documents relating to the arrests and investigations of suspected war criminals for war crimes trials held in Riga, Kiev, Minsk, Babruisk (Bobruysk), Sevastopol, Kishinev (Chisinau), Chernihiv (Chernigov), Pskov, Velikie Luki, Stalino, Krasnodar, Bryansk, Nikolaev, Novogrod, Leningrad, and Smolensk in the Soviet Union. Also includes trial documents for trials of several individuals suspected of war crimes and several Sachsenhausen concentr...

  2. Hostages and political prisoners Otages et détenus politiques

    Contains records of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Commission of Prisoners, Internees, and Civilians (PIC) from ACICR series G 44, Otages et détenus politiques, relating to aid for hostages and political prisoners in Nazi concentration camps; hostages and political prisoners in prisons and concentration camps in Germany; hostages, political prisoners, and resistance fighters imprisoned during World War II and after by satellite regimes of the Nazis or imprisoned by Germany in countries occupied by Germany and German nationals detained or interned in countries of the Allied c...

  3. Selected Records from the International Committee of the Red Cross Commission for Prisoners, Internees and Civilians. Jews (Israélites), 1939-1961 (bulk 1940-1950)

    Contains working files of Hans Bachmann, personal secretary to Carl J. Burkhardt, relating to assistance to Jews in various countries and civilian detainees of concentration camps in Germany from 1939 to 1945; administrative records of the Department of Special Assistance (DAS) relating to actions in favor of Jews; records relating to materials and moral assistance from the International Red Cross (ICRC) on behalf of European Jews; general records relating to ghettos, internment camps, and concentration camps for Jews; records relating to ICRC appeals to various governments asking for respe...

  4. American Relief for Poland organization records

    Contains reports, bulletins, general correspondence, name lists, "welfare messages," financial records, newspaper clippings, photographs, and various other records relating to the work of the American Relief for Poland from 1939 to 1952. The files of the American Relief for Poland, Lisbon office, contain reports and general correspondence from Florian Piskorski, American Relief for Poland delegate to Europe, general financial records of the Lisbon office, name lists of Polish and Jewish refugees, Polish prisoners of war, and Roman Catholic priests, in concentration camps receiving aid, and ...

  5. Lwów files Teka Lwowska (Sygn. 229)

    This collection contains reports, articles, clippings, and various other documents relating to the persecution and execution of Jews in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine); the activities of the Jewish council (Judenrat) in the Lwów ghetto; the confiscation of Jewish property; the eviction of Jews from their homes; various "actions" in the ghetto, some specifically targeting elderly Jews; the mistreatment of Jews by Ukrainians; the burning of synagogues; the extortion of money from Jews in the ghetto; the activities of the German police and Gestapo; Jews taken to forced labor camps near Lwów; ...

  6. Index of prisoners in the Hasag Pelcery labor camp in Częstochowa Kartoteka wiezniów obozu pracy Hasag Pelcery w Czestochowie (Sygn. 207)

    Contains the index of 4,724 prisoner names, some Jewish, from the Hasag Pelcery (Pelzery) forced labor camp in Częstochowa, Poland, which operated from circa June 1943 to circa January 1945. The index contains biographical information for each prisoner including, but not limited to, prisoner name, prisoner identification number, date of birth, occupation, prisoner's residence before coming to Hasag Pelcery, and prisoner's work assignment in the camp. The index cards are undated.

  7. Jewish council in Krakau Rada Żydowska miasta Krakowa (Sygn. 218)

    Contains lists, correspondence, reports, instructions, and various other documents relating to the activities of the Judenrat (Jewish council) in Kraków, Poland, during the German occupation; evacuation and transports of Jewish citizens from Kraków; Jews in forced labor; the murder of Jewish physicians from Kraków and Kielce; aid for the poor Jews of Kraków; activities of the Jewish police in Kraków; Jewish welfare centers in Kraków; and issuance of identification cards to Jews in Kraków. Also contains a list of names of Kraków Judenrat members.

  8. Jewish councils Rady Żydowskie (Sygn. 214, 215, and 220 through 224)

    Contains reports, name lists, correspondence, financial records, and various other records relating to the work of Jewish councils (Judenrat in Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Końskie, Warsaw, Jasło, Falenica, Lochów, Staszów, Włoszczowa, and Pińsk. The majority of the files relate to the work of the Sanitation Commission of the Jewish council in Staszów, Poland.

  9. Klara Ostfeld collection

    Contains a typewritten, English-language translation by Martha Luchsinger of Klara Ostfeld's memoir relating to life in Cernauti, Romania (now Chernivt︠s︡i, Ukraine), under the Iron Guard (Garda de Fier) and the Ion Antonescu regime; her deportation to Transnistria (Ukraine) in 1941; conditions in "Mogilev Podolsk" (Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ, Ukraine) and Scazenetz forced labor camps; and her postwar life in Romania, Israel, and Venezuela. Carlos Rangel wrote a "Prologue" to the memoir. The title pages for the Author's note and Ch. 1. are missing and the title pages for Ch. 9. and Ch. 52. are in...

  10. Jonas Landau memoirs

    Contains Jonas Landau's memoir relating to his childhood in prewar "Stolpce" (Stolbce, Poland, now Stolbëisy, Belarus); the shooting of Jews by the Nazis after they occupied the town in June 1941; his work in the local railroad station; conditions in the ghetto; his escape from the ghetto in 1942; and his experiences from 1942-1944 as a partisan in a predominately Jewish detachment of the Zhukov group in Byelorussia (Belarus). After liberation in July 1944, he returned to Poland where he learned his family had not survived. He decided to emigrate to Palestine, but en route in Germany he me...

  11. Abe Weiss papers

    The Abe Weiss papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and restitution papers documenting Abe Weiss from Kołomyja, his relocation to Leipzig, and his immigration to the United States as well as his family members who remained in Kołomyja, Leipzig, Zbąszyń, Kolno, and Białystok and perished in the Holocaust. A photo album includes photographs from his visit to the Berlin Olympics. Biographical materials include photocopies of Abe Weiss’ Polish and German birth certificates, wedding announcements for Regina Nachbar and Chaim Dudowicz, Red Star Line and S.S. Gerol...

  12. Irwin B. Zeisel's recollections of his experiences in the United States Army in Germany

    Contains a photocopy of the typewritten recollections of Irwin B. Zeisel, a United States Army Staff Sergeant in the 304th Medical Detachment, 76th Infantry Division, during World War II. He describes conditions he witnessed in Buchenwald and other unnamed concentration camps and unnamed displaced persons camps in Germany. Handwritten editorial corrections are included.

  13. Selected records from the Odessa Oblast Archives, Izmail branch

    Contains records on Transnistria region (Ukraine) related to economic, administrative, religious and political matters. Collection consists of correspondence, name lists, orders, instructions from the Governor's office, Ministry of Internal Affairs and police offices pertaining to political, moral, and economic condition of the population. Includes material on Communist and Komsomol party activities, Jewish and Roma labor camps, various religious sects, and lists of persons working in the "Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle."

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  15. Prewar family life in Saxony

    THE LIFE OF THE HESSENS AND THE ROSENSTERNS - NATUREFILM. THE HESSENS AND ROSENSTERNS BELONG TO THE CULTURED MAMMALIAN SPECIES LIVE IN INNER SAXONY. Map of Inner Saxony. EXT, apartment building, someone waving on the balcony. INT of home, table with flowers. EARLY IN THE MORNING, WOMEN SEARCH FOR FOOD. Albert Günther Hess's (AGH) sister-in-law Ilse Rosenstern and her son George walking. Street scenes. Woman entering a shop. 12:20 Clock. 1:35 Clock. Same woman exiting shop. MEN HAVE UNUSUAL APPENDAGES FOR AMBULATION. AGH working on his first boat. Automobile. Child on bicycle, scooter. THESE...

  16. Underground archives of the Warsaw Ghetto : Ringelblum Archives Konspiracyjne archiwum getta Warszawskiego : Archiwum Ringelbluma

    Contains some 25,000 pages of more than 6,000 documents relating to the lives of the Jewish population living within the borders of occupied Poland from September 1939 to the end of February 1943. The collection contains questionnaires, reports, journals, diaries, memoirs, journal articles, literary works, letters, notices, copies of official correspondence, protocols of the deliberations of ghetto institutions, identity cards, postal notices, advertisements, medical prescriptions, business stationery, wrapping paper used in the ghetto, outlines of scholarly and artistic works, school and u...

  17. Selected records from the Nikolaev Oblast Archives

    Contains lists, reports, and other documents relating to the fate of Romanian and Ukrainian Jews deported in the Golta district of Transnistria (Ukraine). The paper portion of the collection contains lists of Jews interned in the ghetto in Slivina, Ukraine (between the Dniestr and Bug Rivers).

  18. Underground press Zespół podziemie-prasa konspiracyjna (Sygn. 230)

    Contains newspapers, bulletins, periodicals, reports, leaflets, radio announcements, essays, clandestine underground publications, and various other documents relating to the activities of the anti-Nazi underground movement in Poland during the German occupation from 1939 to 1945. The materials relate to underground and partisan group activities, persecution and extermination of Polish Jews, activities of communists, situations on the war front, and situations in the Jewish ghettos and concentration camps throughout Poland. A significant portion of the collection is made up of photocopies o...

  19. Union générale des israélites de France records

    Contains information about the establishment of the Union générale des Israélites de France (UGIF) and its work in the Northern and Southern zones of occupied France; work of the Comité de coordination; work of the president and secretariat; Jewish census in France; aid for camp internees; UGIF finance and administration; liaisons with police departments; employees of UGIF; homes for the aged; care of children and orphans; UGIF social services; education and sports; medical welfare; food services and agriculture; the Commissariat général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ); Jewish war veteran...

  20. Nazi feature film on espionage, British agents, German rearmament

    Plot summary: In this feature film set in 1936, Mr. Morris operates a British espionage ring based in Berlin that is eager to receive information about secret German rearmament plans. He is successful when he bribes a broke engineer involved in the construction of a new artillery cannon and places an agent in a military airport testing a new type of bomber. However, when Morris deliberately makes the acquaintance with the girlfriend of Hans Klemm, a soldier running in new tanks, he encounters trouble. He initially makes some progress by utilizing the soldier's friendliness and naiveté, but ...