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  1. Documentation regarding the investigation of Nazi war crimes in Cherkassy region, dated 1944-1947

    Documentation regarding the investigation of Nazi war crimes in Cherkassy region, dated 1944-1947 Included in the collection is documentation regarding the persecution and murder of Jews in Sukhoy Yar, and the number of people who perished in Uman; documentation regarding the persecution and murder of Jewish and non-Jewish residents in the Zolotonosha district; murder of Jews during 19-22/09/1941 and on 02/11/1941; murder of residents of the Zolotonosha district, 25-31/07/1942, and murder of disabled people, 27/03/1943; lists of people who perished; information regarding the number of peopl...

  2. Robert E. Work collection

    The collection contains 2 letters by Joseph and Magda Goebbels written from the Führerbunker in Berlin, dated April 28, 1945, addressed to Harald Quandt, son of Magda Goebbels (held in a Allied POW camp); and an interrogation report of Hanna Reitsch, Hitler's personal pilot, written by Robert E. Work, Captain, Air Corps Chief Interrogator, dated November 1, 1945. The interrogation report gives background on how Hanna Reitsch received the letters, German transcriptions, English translations, and Reitsch's evaluations of their content. Also included is a copy photograph portrait of Robert E. ...

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

    10 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 killi...

  4. Heribert Froboese testimony

    Typescript text (37 pages) of the testimony of Father Heribert Froboese, O.F.M., a priest interned at Buchenwald, written shortly after his liberation in 1945; and a photograph of Father Froboese in the clothing of a Franciscan monk, dated August 1945. Father Froboese wrote this testimony with the hope that it could be used in the trial of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, and he gave the donor's father, Col. Aloysius McCormick, Jr., of the U.S. Army, a copy of this text after meeting him in 1945. File contains an explanatory note from the donor, dated 1984, and a brief biography of Col. McC...

  5. Susan T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan T., who was born in Budapest, Hungary. She describes early edicts against Jews; continuous efforts to obtain American visas for her family; her husband's deportation to a labor camp near the Czech border in 1942, then to one in Russia in 1944; and life in the "open ghetto" in Budapest. She relates the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944; anti-Jewish legislation and increased deportations under Eichmann's supervision; restrictive conditions in German-occupied Budapest; the forced march to a brick factory outside Budapest; and the negotiation of the group's...

  6. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Lwow region, 1944-1946

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Lwow region, 1944-1946 Included in the collection: Documentation of the municipal committee of the city of Stanislawow, collected in the context of the work of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of Jews in Stanislawow, 03 August 1941-05 May 1943, according to testimonies of Jewish community representatives; documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, 1944-1946, regarding the Nazi war crimes in Sambor; survey and information transferred by the Communist Party committee in the...

  7. Vilniaus apygardos komisarinis tarėjas

    • Kommissarischer Gebietsrat Wilna-Land
    • Commissar Councillor of the Vilnius Region

    Documents and orders of the German authorities and Lithuanian administration, reports of the chiefs of the districts about situation in the districts, orders and correspondence about nationalized Jewish property, registration of Jewish property; lists of property and equipment of Jewish doctors, registration and information about synagogues in the district and about cultural heritage, lists of Jewish doctors, etc.; register lists of the Auxiliary police, payment lists for local residents for their help with confiscated Jewish property (for example: for sorting of the property, cleaning, tra...

  8. VI. Waffen-Armeekorps der SS (lettisches)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die überlieferten Schriftgutsplitter stammen aus Rückführungen aus den USA. Bestandsbeschreibung Kriegstagebücher und Tätigkeitsberichte sind nicht erhalten. Erschliessungszustand Vollständig erschlossen Zitierweise BArch RS 2-6/...

  9. Yugoslavia: railroad yard; bank; villagers; Ustashi prisoners marched through streets; scenes in Belgrade

    Reel 9: Railroad yards in Belgrade, locomotives. Kalemegdon Park, French Military Museum in BG. Pan across old fortified area overlooking mouth of Sava River; Danube River on right. People lined up in front of various banks to exchange old dinars for new dinars. Sign on bank telling people to exchange money. People leaving bank, guard standing by door. Yugoslavians looking at displays of new dinar money. Street scenes showing damages to residential section and hospital. CUs, faces of townspeople. Group of Ustashi prisoners marching under guard to concentration camp; Serbians beating prisone...

  10. Sara C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara C., who was born in Druysk, Russia in 1910. In two separate interviews Mrs. C. recalls her parents' deaths when she was a child; living with an aunt in Latvia; marriage at age nineteen; and her son's birth nine years later. She recounts arrival of the Germans; round-ups; ghettoization; her husband's disappearance in March 1943 (she later learned he was killed); hiding in the forests near Vilna with her son, then in a house with an old woman for one year, in a potato cellar and another place where they were infested with lice; her son dissuading her from surrender...

  11. Reichsprüfungsamt für die höheren bautechnischen Verwaltungsbeamten

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte In das Deutsche Zentralarchiv Potsdam ist nur ein Rest der Registratur des Reichsprüfungsamts gelangt. 1959 wurden (zusammen mit den Akten des Reichsverkehrsministeriums) 24 Bände aus der UdSSR übergeben. Archivische Bewertung und Bearbeitung Der Bestand wurde 1970 verzeichnet und ein Findbuch erstellt; dabei wurden 8 Bände häusliche Prüfungsarbeiten kassiert. Im Jahre 2008 wurde der Bestand zum Zwecke der Online-Stellung im Internet in der Datenbank BASYS-S des Bundesarchivs erfaßt. Bestandsbeschreibung Ausbildung und Prüfung der Baurefere...

  12. XVI. Armeekorps (mot.) / XVI. Armeekorps

    KTB Ia und Qu.: 13.7. bis 15.10.1944. TB Ic 13.7 bis 31.10.1944.

  13. Sack, Walter.- Tonbestand

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Schlosser, Kunstschmied Mitglied der Deutsch-jüdischen Jugendgemeinschaft (1928); Mitglied des Ringbundes Deutsch-Jüdischer Jugend (1933), Mitglied der KPD (1939) Mitglied der Widerstandsgruppe um Herbert Baum (ab 1933) Emigration nach Schweden (1939) Rückkehr nach Deutschland, Mitglied der SED (1946) Abt.-Leiter Wirtschaftspolitik in der Landesleitung der SED (1946-1950) Hauptgeschäftsführer der Handwerkskammer Groß-Berlin (1951-1960) Bezirksbürgermeister von Berlin-Treptow (1961-1963 und 1967-1974) Stadtrat beim Magistrat von Groß-Berlin (1963-1967) Stadtve...

  14. German invasion of Poland, advance

    Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 6: Camp of Polish POWs, long line of POWs marching on road, CUs feet. German troops move east, through rural terrain. Graphic of southern front (Lemberg). Troops cross River Sam, Hitler reviews. Hitler looks at map. German troops, tanks through burning town. Tired German troops and artillery along road. Troops rest by road, sleeping, cleaning equipment, washing shaving, etc. Read papers while marching. Tanks through terrain, villages

  15. NSDAP Auslandorganisation: newsletter extracts

    This collection consists primarily of typescript extracts from the official organ of the NSDAP Auslandsorganisation. It appears that the extracts were compiled contemporaneously, possibly by the JCIO. The date of the last extract, January 1936, gives some indication as to the date of completion. The choice of extracts is explained in a footnote to a summary of the extracts (840/2) which states that only those articles were chosen which contained particularly interesting items of news and announcements. The subjects include matters of finance, economics, schools and the welfare of German wom...

  16. Biura Obwodowe Okręgowego Urzędu Likwidacyjnego w Lublinie - zbiór szczątków zespołów

    • Local Branches of the Lublin Regional Liquidation Office

    903.1 Biuro Obwodowe Okręgowego Urzędu Likwidacyjnego w Białej Podlaskiej, 1945-1947, 6 j.a. 903.3 Biuro Obwodowe Okręgowego Urzędu Likwidacyjnego w Lublinie, 1947-1948, 4 j.a. 903.4 Biuro Obwodowe Okręgowego Urzędu Likwidacyjnego w Łukowie, 1945-1948, 4 j.a. 903.5 Biuro Obwodowe Okręgowego Urzędu Likwidacyjnego w Puławach, 1945-1947, 3 j.a. 903.6 Biuro Obwodowe Okręgowego Urzędu Likwidacyjnego w Radzyniu Podlaskim, 1945-1948, 6 j.a.

  17. Santé ; Direction de la population et des migrations ; Sous-direction des naturalisations

    A l'occasion d'une mission de contrôle effectuée dans le premier semestre 1999 à Rezé par la Mission Ministère sociaux, la sous-direction des naturalisations a proposé la remise aux Archives nationales du fichier des personnes déchues de leur nationalité française par le gouvernement de Vichy en raison soit de leurs activités de résistants, soit de leur appartenance raciale ou religieuse. En effet, le régime l'Etat français a mis en œuvre un système législatif, au demeurant illégal, visant à retirer la nationalité française à des personnes ayant obtenu antérieurement leur naturalisation, et...

  18. Map

    Foldout map of Berlin acquired by Max Kolpas, a soldier in the 298th Combat Engineers, United States Army. The map also shows the surrounding areas and identifies important Nazi buildings and other locations. It is missing adjoining sheets. The map was created by the Geographic Section, General Staff, British War Office. Kolpas landed at Omaha Beach during D-Day, June 6, 1944, and was a member of one of the first units to enter Berlin in July 1945.

  19. Eugenio Gluecksmann

    Il fondo è composto da lettere e cartoline originali di Eugenio Gluecksmann e della sua famiglia, raccolte dalla figlia Elena. Si segnalano due lettere di Primo Levi inviate nel dopoguerra a Elena Gluecksmann (1). Tra le carte sono presenti informazioni su Giuseppe Nai, fuggito da Auschwitz il 21 gennaio 1945.

  20. Harry K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry K., who was born in Otynya, Poland in 1919. He recalls his childhood in Zablotow; his older brother's service in the Polish military; supporting his parents from age fourteen on; the outbreak of war in 1939; Soviet occupation; forced labor; being drafted into the Soviet army in 1940; transfer to Cheliabinsk; attending a military school; service in Manchuria and Leningrad; assignments building bridges and as a traffic regulator near Moscow; transfer to the Polish army in spring 1944; serving in W?odawa, then Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki; learning his family had been murd...