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  1. General der Nebeltruppen im OKH

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Der General der Nebeltruppen beim OKH wurde mit Verfügung vom 31. August 1940 aufgestellt (siehe RH 15/89). Er war höchster Waffenvorgesetzter der Nebeltruppe und war verantwortlich für die Organisation, Ausbildung und Ausrüstung der Nebeltruppen und Gasabwehr aller Waffen. Darüber hinaus hatte er den Chef des Generalstabes des Heeres in Fragen des Einsatzes der Nebeltruppe zu beraten. Die Dienststelle gliederte sich in Gruppen mit folgenden Aufgaben: Ia ¿ Gasabwehr aller Truppen; Ic ¿ Auswertung der Feindnachrichten über Gaskampf und Gasschutzausrüstung; IIa...

  2. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, .50 Reichsmark

    .50 Reichsmark coupon issued at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. Later that day, soldiers from the Sixth Army Ar...

  3. 'The Cedar Boys', Waddesdon collection

    This collection contains mostly copy papers and photographs pertaining to the Steinhardt family, Waddesdon Manor and the Flersheim-Sichel-Stiftung.Audio interview with the donor, Helga Brown, who describes how she and her family lived in Frankfurt am Main in the 1930s; that her father ran the Jewish orphanage school, Philanthropin, having been forced out of his teaching post at a state school; how her sister persuaded the UK branch of the Rothschild banking family to support and fund the relocation of the boys to Waddesdon Hall, Buckinghamshire; how Julian Lyton played a key role in the pro...

  4. Processo de pedido de visto para Petrus Wilhelmns, Maria Couturier, Johannes Gerharders Heyen, Abram Judko, Lagoletti Panasoli, Paul Lous Patard, Samson Weildeberg e Manuel Sagrario y Fernandez

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Tanger para Petrus Wilhelmns, de nacionalidade holandesa, com destino não identificado. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Tanger para Maria Couturier, de nacionalidade holandesa, com destino não identificado. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Tanger para Johannes Gerharders Heyen, de nacionalidade holandesa, com destino não identificado. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Tanger para Abram Judko, de nacionalidade holan...

  5. Processo de pedido de visto para Manoel Bom de Sousa Pernes, Mejia, família de Mejia, Hodson, família de Hodson, Deleew e família de Deleew

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Manoel Bom de Sousa Pernes, de nacionalidade britânica e residente na Suíça, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Mejia, de nacionalidade americana e residente na Suíça, com destino ao Canadá. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para família de Mejia, de nacionalidade americana e residente na Suíça, com destino a Canadá. Sem informação de autorização...

  6. Vilniaus miesto savivaldybė

    • Stadtverwaltung Wilna
    • Municipality of the City of Vilnius

    This collection holds "documents dealing with the use of the Vilnius Ghetto inmates for work, payrolls, food cards for Jews, lists of the Jews in Vilnius 1 and 2 ghettos (September 1941), requests by gentiles to buy confiscated Jews' property" (Galina Žirikova, Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fondai : holokausto Lietuvoje tyrimo šaltinis (The Collections of the State Archive of Lithuania: a Source of Research on the Holocaust in Lithuania), Vilnius: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydų Muziejus, p. 11. The fonds consists of personal documents of residents (154108 personal cards), docum...

  7. Ankarai követség iratai, 1924-1945

    • Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Ankara, 1924-1945

    Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Ankara, the capital city of neutral Turkey, that are relevant for the study of the history of the Holocaust include citizenship cases of Hungarian Jews, cases of Jews deprived of German citizenship, visa requests to enter as well as to leave Turkey, including the visa of emigrating Jews, records of extradition, records related to Jews expelled from Hungary, to the granting of diplomatic visa (such as that of Oscar Schindler). There are also birth, death, marriage and baptism certificates, documents of employment, of criminality, of settling in Turkey, inh...

  8. Więzienie w Sieradzu

    • Prison in Sieradz

    Akta ogólne: korespondencja w sprawach i zatrudnienia więźniów, wypadki w więzieniu, rozkazy naczelnika, wykazy wydanych porcji i artykułów żywnościowych, raporty dozorców, księga płac funkcjonariuszy, kartoteki uposażeń, akta osobowe funkcjonariuszy, księgi więźniów, wykazy rzeczy odebranych więźniom, książka próśb i zażaleń więźniów, dane o ich sprawowaniu oraz wypłacanych należnościach za pracę, wykaz niemieckich jeńców wojennych z 1945 r. Teczki poszczególnych więźniów odsiadujących wyroki za kradzież, gwałt, kazirodztwo, spędzanie płodu, zabójstwo rozbój, uchylanie się od służby wojsko...

  9. Einrichtungen der Wehrmacht in der US-Besatzungszone

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Ursprünglich befanden sich alle Unterlagen von Wehrmachtseinrichtungen, die nach der Kapitulation in alliiertem Auftrag tätig waren, im Bestand RW 54. Im Zuge einer Umstrukturierung und Aufteilung auf regionale Zuständigkeiten im Jahr 2016 wurde für die Unterlagen der Einrichtungen der Wehrmacht in der US-Besatzungszone der Bestand RW 65 gebildet. Bestandsbeschreibung Der Bestand enthält vor allem Unterlagen von Kriegsgefangenen-, bzw. Internierungslagern für Angehörige der Wehrmacht und der Waffen-SS, die bei den mit der Verwaltung dieser Lager betraute...

  10. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin

    5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

  11. Wooden horse and wagon pull toy

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn512925
    • English
    • 1940-1945
    • overall: Height: 12.598 inches (31.999 cm) | Width: 9.449 inches (24 cm) overall: Height: 18.110 inches (45.999 cm) | Width: 5.906 inches (15.001 cm) | Depth: 7.087 inches (18.001 cm)

    The toy was created by for Max Arpels-Lezer by his rescuer while he was in hiding in the Netherlands during the Holocaust. Max (Marcus) Lezer was born Oct. 9, 1936, in Assen, Netherlands, to Flora (Arpels) and Solomon Lezer. In the summer of 1942, Solomon and Flora sent Max to his grandparents in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, for a holiday. During Sept. 1942 Flora was arrested and sent to Westerbork transit camp and then to Auschwitz where she perished. After Flora's arrest, Solomon felt he could no longer care for Max and arranged for him to be placed in hiding.

  12. German POWs

    Captured German POWs are marched in a column by American soldiers, who smile into the camera. Motorcycles drive past the column of prisoners. The camera pans across POWS, some of whom are wounded. POWs sit in a field. They stand in rows and are counted. POWs shown removing dead/wounded Allied soldiers from a field. A crowded shot of POWs shown lying or sitting switches to much smaller groups of three or four, who look at the camera. Wounded, including a man with a large bandage over his eye. POWs receiving medical treatment. Supplies being unloaded from a truck. Prisoners behind barbed wire...

  13. Ushomirsky family letters

    Contains the photocopied official documents, personal letters, postcards, and handwritten poems of the Ushomirsky family. The letters span the 1940s through the 1950s, while the official documents are primarily from before the Second World War.

  14. Deutsche Botschaft China

    Allgemeine Politik Chinas, Boxeraufstand, Gesandtschaftswesen, innere Verhältnisse, Organisation des Dienstbetriebs, Geschäftsgang, Konsulate und fremde Niederlassungen, Handel, Wirtschaft und Verkehr, Diplomatische und konsularische Behörden in China und Ostasien, Wirtschaft, Handel und Verkehr, Finanzen, Rechtswesen, Kulturpolitik.

  15. Policajné riaditeľstvo v Bratislave

    • Police Directorate in Bratislava

    The fonds contains documents of the Police directorate in Bratislava, the police and state security body with competences over the territory of the capital of Bratislava and several nerby towns. It contains documents on anti-Jewish persecution during the period of year 1938 – 1945 such as various lists of Jews created by the state administration and police bodies in Bratislava. It also contains the applications of individuals for the recognition of non-Jewish origin/status or applications of indivituals for the exemption from the obligation to wear the mandatory sign of a Jew. There are als...

  16. Комсомольские подпольные органы Белостокской области в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945гг.

    • Komsomol-Organe im Untergrund, Białystok

    Белостокский подпольный обком ЛКСМБ. Протоколы и выписки из протоколов заседаний подпольных обкома и РК ЛКСМБ, собраний актива области, первичных комсомольских организаций партизанских отрядов и бригад, отчёты, политдонесения и докладные записки подпольных обкома, горкома и РК ЛКСМБ, подпольных комсомольских и первичных комсомольских организаций отрядов о боевой, агитационно-пропагандистской работе, документы о приёме партизан в члены ВЛКСМ (автобиографии, заявления, характеристики), переписка с РК об активизации комсомольской работы, списки погибших, представленных к наградам и награждённы...

  17. Magyar Izraeliták Országos Képviselete iratai. Jogügyi Osztály

    • Documents of the National Representation of Hungarian Israelites. Legal Department

    The largest part of this vast collection was created in the years 1959 to 1963 and contains ample information on what happened to individuals and families during the Holocaust in Hungary. The documents were collected by the Magyar Izraeliták Országos Képviselete Jogügyi Osztálya (the Legal Department of the National Representation of Hungarian Israelites). They were employed as evidence in Holocaust-related legal cases such as compensation cases and cases to determinate pensions. Next to personal recollections, the collection includes testimonies taken by notaries and certificates issued by...

  18. Selected records related to evacuation from the State Archive of the Republic of Mari El, Russian Federation

    Contains various records and correspondence files created by the Soviet Government and Communist Party authorities related to the evacuation of civilians to the Republic Mari El during WWII. It includes lists of evacuees, statistical data, information about food and medical supplies etc provided by the above-named authorities to the evacuated population.

  19. Lewald, Theodor

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Staatssekretär im Reichsministerium des Innern, Präsident des Deutschen Olympischen Komitees Bestandsbeschreibung Der Bestand enthält vor allem Unterlagen aus Lewalds Tätigkeit im Reichsamt des Innern bzw. Reichsministerium des Innern, insbesondere der Bereiche Verfassung und Verwaltung, Kulturpolitik, Sport, Verkehrswesen und nachgeordneter Stellen, sowie privaten und politischen Schriftwechsel 1914-1918. Die Akten wurden von Lewald an das Reichsarchiv abgegeben, gelangten am Kriegsende in die Sowjetunion und wurden im März 1959 von dort an das Deutsche Zent...

  20. Klagenfurter Landesgericht, Rückstellungskommission

    • Klagenfurt State Court, Restitution Commission

    Zur gesetzlichen Grundlage vgl. BGBl Nr. 54/1947. Ca. 20 Prozent der 1687 Anträge wurden von Kärntner Slowenen eingebracht. 4,5 Prozent beziehen sich auf Regressansprüche von Kanaltaler Umsiedlern, die während der NS-Zeit Liegenschaften erworben hatten, die auf Basis des 3. Rückstellungsgesetzes wieder den ehemaligen slowenischen Besitzern rückgestellt worden waren. Durch die enge inhaltliche Verknüpfung wurden gelegentlich der Rückstellungsantrag und das Verfahren des ehemals "ausgesiedelten" Kärntner Slowenen im Akt des Regress einfordernden Kanaltaler Umsiedlers eingelegt. 9 Prozent betr...