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  1. 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.

  3. Walter Furman papers

    The Walter Furman papers comprised documents and photographs collected by Walter while serving overseas with the United States armed forces. Included in the collection is a five-page mimeograph copy of a report prepared by for Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) by the United States Group Control Council dated 16 April 1945 summarizing the conditions at Buchenwald, and two black-and-white photographs of atrocities at Dachau.

  4. Lists of Jews evacuated from Bytom in Upper Silesia

    Contains names of 982 Jews (indicated as German Jews by Siegfried Halbreich [donor] who were transported from Beuthen, Germany, (now Bytom, Poland) in Oberschlesien (Upper Silesia) in May and June 1942.

  5. Documentation of the Magistrates Court of Law in Völklingen (Amtsgericht Völklingen) in the Saar region, 1933-1943

    Documentation of the Magistrates Court of Law in Völklingen (Amtsgericht Völklingen) in the Saar region, 1933-1943 Included in the material that was photocopied for Yad Vashem are, in most part, orders and instructions given by the law authorities, including the German Ministry of Justice and the Courts of Law and authorities in the Saar region. The orders relate to Jews and to inmates and to their handling, among other matters. Included in the collection are two files that deal with trials that were held during 1933-1934, in which a Jewish lawyer participated.

  6. 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...

  7. 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.

  8. Singing on Horst Wessel Platz

    A huge crowd gathered on Horst Wessel Platz in Berlin sings folk songs. The narrator says that the event, and others like it, was organized by a Berlin radio station. The camera focuses on a choir of Hitler Youth and League of German Girls members singing. The crowd then whistles the tune.

  9. Lusia Berkowicz-Hammer photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of Henoch Berkowicz, Abram’s father, taken in the Łódź ghetto, in Poland, circa 1940, and a photograph of Fajga, Abram’s sister, taken in Łódź, Poland,circa 1939.

  10. Donald R. Wheeler photographs

    The collection contains gelatin-silver photographs of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. The photographs include scenes of camp buildings, instruments of torture, lamp shades made by Ilse Koch, newly freed prisoners of the concentration camps, bodies of camp victims, human remains, Allied soldiers within the camps, crematoriums, and prisoners displaying their tattooed numbers. The photographs were created by members of the United States Air Force 30th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron in 1945.

  11. Deutsche Baubataillon, Kaunas (Fond R-1547/1)

    Contain records relating to forced labor. Includes information on construction work, the guarding of Jews, and methods used to increase the pace of work.

  12. Worker identification cards from the Łódź ghetto for Rela and Mendel Rozencwajg

    Consists of a worker identification card issued to Mendel Rozencwajg and a photocopy of such a card issued to Rela Rozencwajg circa 1941 by the Arbeitsamt of the Łódź ghetto. Mendel and Rela Rozencwajg worked and lived there from 1941 until the time of the liquidation of the ghetto in August 1944. The cards include photographs and other vital information concerning the owners.

  13. Bea Browdy letter

    The Bea Browdy letter consists of a copy of a letter written by Army nurse Bea Browdy and addressed to her friend Mildred Herman, dated May 11, 1945. The letter describes the wartime experiences of the American army nurse and includes descriptions of Dachau concentration camp and the conditions there shortly after liberation. Both women served as nurses in the United States Army.

  14. Provincial Information and Propaganda Office in Kielce Wojewódzki Urząd Informacji i Propagandy w Kielcach (Sygn. 319)

    Situation reports and press articles related to anti semitic events and Jews properties after World War II. Includes newspaper clippings related to German crimes committed during WWII.

  15. US battalion lays cable; DPs interrogated

    (LIB 4607) Co "C" 93rd Signal Bn Lays Communication Cable, Nierstein, Germany, March 24, 1945. SEQ: Cable on reel is let out from boat to men on shore who tie it to trees along bank of Rhine River. Engineers dig trench along river and lay cable in it. Telephone terminals are set up on shoreline. Lt. Gen George S Patton Jr and Maj Gen Manton S Eddy speak with engineer personnel. MSs, CU, approximately 18 displaced persons gather on the east side of Rhine River who are French, Italian, and Polish (formerly of the slave labor battalions used by the Germans) are interrogated by 5th Inf Div sold...

  16. Martin S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin S., who was born in Bronx, New York in 1922 and served in the United States military as a radio repair man in Europe during World War II. He recounts passing outside of Buchenwald immediately prior to its liberation and observing thousands of skeletal prisoners in striped uniforms as well as the pervasive stench of dead bodies. Although his unit left the next day, having no exposure to the prisoners except briefly observing them twice, Mr. S. notes it was one of his most traumatic experiences.

  17. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Cantal

    This collection contains records from the Prefect’s Office, under headings “Foreigners”, “Jews”, “War Damages” and “Internment and Shelter”. It includes local objections to use of the thermal bath resort of Chaudes-Aigues as an internment site for Jews (under house arrest), correspondence concerning foreign Jewish refugees, Jews’ response to a call to work at Organisation Todt construction sites, and reports on war crimes committed during the war, including those concerning Jews.

  18. Stadt und Amt Sobernheim

    Bd. 1: Verfassung, Verwaltung, Bevölkerung; Bau- und Wegesachen; Bergwerke; Geschichte und Statistik; Gemeindegüter; Justiz; Inventarien; Sammlung kurpfälzischer Verordnungen; französische Verordnungen; Kirchen, Schulen, Hospitäler; persönliche Angelegenheiten; Zunftwesen; Kriegs- und Militärwesen; Markt, Handel und Gewerbe; Milde Sachen; Mühlen; Polizei; Prozesse; Steuern, Schätzung, Contribution, Fronden; Landwirtschaft und Viehzucht; Wald-, Weide, Flur- und Grenzsachen; Zinsregister, Bede- und Grundbücher; Gerichtsprotokolle; Stadtratsprotokolle; Hospitalrechnungen; Bürgermeisterei- und ...

  19. Biblioteca Archivio "Renato Maestro"

    • Library and Archives "Renato Maestro"

    Complesso che comprende l'archivio di deposito e corrente prodotto nell’ambito della gestione dei servizi bibliotecari e dell’archivio storico della Comunità israelitica, ora ebraica, di Venezia a partire dalla costituzione della così denominata biblioteca archivio Renato Maestro. L'archivio conserva anche gli strumenti di consultazione anche delle biblioteche di provenienza delle collezioni librarie, repertori compilati a cura del personale bibliotecario e documentazione inerente agli utent e alle ricerche svolte presso la biblioteca archivio. L’archivio comprende infine documentazione rel...

  20. Processo de pedido de visto para Emilio do Nascimento Gomes, Manuel Ferreira Vaz, Eugénio dos Santos, Manuel Martins e Paulino da Santa

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Rio de Janeiro para Emilio do Nascimento Gomes, de nacionalidade brasileira e residente no Brasil, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição do visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Rio de Janeiro para Manuel Ferreira Vaz, de nacionalidade brasileira e residente no Brasil, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição do visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Rio de Janeiro para Eugénio dos Santos, de nacionalidade brasileira e residente no Brasil, com destino a Portuga...