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  1. Elisabeth Eidenbenz papers Nachlass Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011)

    Private papers of Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011), a teacher, nurse, and aid worker for refugees in the camps of Argelès-sur-Mer, Saint Cyprien, and Rivesaltes, France and in other places. The collection consists of private personal documents, correspondence and photographs of Elisabeth Eidenbenz and her family; reports, press articles, correspondence, and photographs relating to activities of Elisabeth Eidenbenz to rescue children of Spanish Republicans, Jewish refugees and Romanies fleeing the Nazi invasion. Elisabeth Eidenbenz was a founder of the Mothers of Elne-a maternal hospital at E...

  2. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 110 and 111 -- Hausner sums up for Prosecution

    Sessions 110 and 111. Judges enter the courtroom and open Session 110 of the trial (duplicate footage on Tape 2211). 00:02:07 Hausner begins summing up his case. He says that this is the trial of one of the ghoulish personalities which history will forever remember. He reminds everyone of the struggles of the witnesses, of Auschwitz, of religious leaders being degraded, of torturous activities, of murder. He says that man cannot create a nightmare so terrible, and yet it happened, created by Eichmann. He says that after hearing all this, Eichmann got his turn, and 16 years later he does not...

  3. Documents of Persecution

    • Židovské muzeum v Praze
    • COLLECTION.JMP.SHOAH/DP
    • Czech, German, English
    • The collection contains 90 boxes of documents (9.79 bm) organised into 79 groups and cannot be considered closed, being added to with new acquisitions. New groups could also gradually be added.

    This collection originated as a documentation of the persecution and genocide of Jews in the Czech lands excluding the archival materials relating to the history of the Terezín ghetto, which forms a separate collection. The content of the collection comprises originals, copies and transcripts of official documents and personal estates, as well as prints, newspaper clippings, maps, memoirs and a small amount of non-written material. The Documents of Persecution collection is a source of information on Holocaust history of Bohemian and Moravia Jews, and to a lesser extent also Slovakian Jews....

  4. Akta gminy Goraj

    • Files of the commune of Goraj

    Protokóły Zarządu Gminnego i Gminnej Rady Narodowej (sygn. 1), dzienniki główna (sygn. 2-4),budżet (sygn. 5-9), księga dochodów budżetowych (sygn. 10), księgi wydatków budżetowych (sygn. 11-12), księgi sum przychodnich (sygn. 13-15), rozkład podatków gminnych, kontyngenty, użytki rolne (sygn. 16-18), kwartalne wykazy urodzonych parafii Goraj i Radzięcin (sygn. 19-20), sprawy organizacyjne (sygn. 21-23), sprawy osobowe (sygn. 24-26), zebrania i urzędowanie ciał samorządowych (sygn. 27), protokoły posiedzeń, zebrań i sesji Gminnej Rady Narodowej (sygn. 28-32), protokoły posiedzeń Prezydium GR...

  5. Casimier Claude Hampel collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Wasserman and Hampel families in Warsaw and Łódź, Poland, including Genia Wasserman, her parents Emilia and Marian Wasserman, Genia’s sister Lea Wasserman, and her son Claude Hampel. Pre-war photographs include depictions of Emilia and Marian Wasserman, and Genia’s brother. Wartime photographs consist of depictions of the Wasserman family in the Warsaw ghetto and Lea Wasserman and her fiancé. Post-war photographs include depictions of Genia and her son Claude in Łódź.

  6. Dienststellen und Kommandostellen der Kriegsmarine im Bereich Süd / Südost

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das Deutsche Marinekommando Italien bestand ab November 1941 in Rom, ab November 1943 in Levico, ab Januar 1944 in Montecatini Terme, ab Juli 1944 wieder in Levico, im April 1945 in Carersee, es wurde im Januar 1945 in Marineoberkommando Süd umbenannt. Ihm unterstellt waren erstens der Kommandant der Seeverteidigung italienische Riviera in La Spezia, dann in San Giuliano, später in Genua-Nervi und der Kommandant der Seeverteidigung Westadria in Venedig und Venedig-Lido, ab März 1944 in Treviso, ab April 1945 in Feltre, außerdem ab Dezember 1944 noch der Komma...

  7. M.37 - Documentation from the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine, 1941-1977

    M.37 - Documentation from the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine, 1941-1977 There are files in the collection which were selected from among the 60 records groups in the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine. Previously, the Central Archive was known as the Party Archive of the Institute for the History of the Communist Party in Ukraine (the Institute was a branch of the Tsentralny Komitet Komunisticheskoy Partiy Ukrainy [Ukrainian Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Communist Party]). Until 1989, foreign researchers were not given access to the A...

  8. Industriebeteiligungsgesellschaft mbH.- Bildbestand

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Industriebeteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, als Industrieverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH am 11. Januar 1951 gegründet und am 12. September 1951 umbenannt, war eine Dienstleistungsgesellschaft zur Abwicklung mittelbar und unmittelbar im Bundeseigentum befindlicher früherer Reichsgesellschaften. Zur Liquidationsmasse zählten insbesondere die sogenannten Speergesellschaften, so auch die in den 1920er Jahren gegründete Montan-Industriewerke GmbH, die 1951 in der Industriebeteiligungsgesellschaft mbH aufging. Rechtliche Grundlage für die Tätigkeit der Industriebeteilig...

  9. Einheiten der Propagandatruppe des Heeres

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Der weitaus größte Teil der Akten, die in das Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv gelangt sind, stammt aus einer Aktenrückgabe aus den USA von 1963. Der Bestand wurde im Jahr 1977 durch eine umfangreiche Sammlung von Propagandamaterial der Propaganda-Staffel Kroatien in Form von Wandzeitungen, Bekanntmachungen und Flugblättern etc. (28 AE) ergänzt, die dem Militärarchiv von privater Hand als Kopien übergeben wurden. Bestandsbeschreibung Dieser Bestand enthält nur Aktensplitter einiger Propagandaeinheiten des Heeres. Die Stammtafeln sind annähernd vollständig erhalten....

  10. Safety fountain pen used by a courtroom illustrator at the Major War Crimes Trial

    Waterman-style safety fountain pen used by Edward Vebell, 24, to create courtroom sketches at the 1945 Trial of Major German War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. The sketches were published in the U.S. Army newspaper Stars and Stripes on December 9, 1945. A young commercial artist when he was drafted for the US Army, Vebell was the first staff illustrator for Stars and Stripes. His assignments included combat zones in Italy and France. For the Nuremberg trial assignment, he sat in the press gallery for 3 days and used field glasses to “bore into th...

  11. Walter Materna war diaries and personal documents

    The Walter Materna war diaries and personal documents includes Materna’s World War I diaries (four volumes); World War II and immediate post-war diaries, including inserted World War II photographs (volumes 1-3, 5-10, 13-17); and World War II and immediate post-war documents such as leaflets, telegrams, and personal documents. Materna’s World War II diaries describe events in Poland (Generalgouvernement), Ukraine (Kharkiv, Berdychiv, Donetsk, Dnipro), and Russia (Voronezh, Livny). The diaries include numerous antisemitic statements and descriptions of local Jewish populations by Materna, in...

  12. Processo de pedido de visto para Hans Gerd Winter, Joseph Becvar, Karl Seifert, Bruno Metzkow, Wilhelm Scharnbeck, Wilhelm Karl Heinrich Shnauffer, Oskar Lidermayer, Lilly Craass, Oskar Staebel, Waldemar Wiedmann, Rudolf Wolters, Otto Renner, Rudolf Krocker, Karl Hettlage, Otto Peters Pixis, Wilhelm Kreis, Franz Janke, Gerhard Vanderhirz, Professor Bruckmann, Virkus, Craaf, Speer, Biebrach, Wüster, Kolb, Richter, Scherer, Wilhelm Schnauffer e Karl Benhke

    Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação da Alemanha ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Hans Gerd Winter, de nacionalidade alemã e residente na Alemanha, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação da Alemanha ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Joseph Becvar, de nacionalidade alemã e residente na Alemanha, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação da Alemanha ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Karl Seifert, de nacionalidade alemã e residente na Alemanha, com destino a Portugal. Vist...

  13. Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) - Chef des OKW, einschl. Wehrmachtrechtsabteilung

    Bestandsbeschreibung Den Schwerpunkt der Überlieferung bilden die Unterlagen der Wehrmachtrechtsabteilung. Neben diesen sind lediglich fünf Archivalien der Adjutantur des Chefs OKW zu strategischen Fragen der Kriegsführung und organisatorischen Angelegenheiten des Chef OKW erhalten geblieben.  Die Überlieferung der Wehrmachtrechtsabteilung erstreckt sich für Gruppe I (Wehrrecht) von der Organisation sowie den gerichtsherrlichen Befugnissen der Abteilung über allgemeine wehrrechtliche Angelegenheiten (z.B. strafrechtliche Stellung des Reichsbahnpersonals in den besetzten Gebieten) bis h...

  14. Swaab-Tygel family. Collection

    This collection contains: three pre-war photos of members of the Antwerp sports club Joodse Arbeiders Sportklub or JASK [English: Jewish Workers Sports Club (Antwerp) or YASK], including Philip Swaab and possibly a brother or future brother-in-law called Marcel ; a pre-war group photo of pupils at a school or colony, including Bertha and Eugenie alias Jennie Tygel ; two pre-war photos of Philip Schwaab with friends ; one post-war portrait of Philip Schwaab ; a certificate issued by the Dutch branche of the Red Cross in Switzerland to Philip Schwaab for passing an exam

  15. Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection

    The Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection contains primarily photographs of Arthur Gelbart, who was a resident of Częstochowa ghetto and several labor camps, and Rose Grosman, who was kept hidden throughout the war. The photographs show both at several separate displaced persons camps as well as life prior to the war.

  16. Index cards on Jews from Belgium interned in or deported from France. Collection

    This collection consists of index cards containing information on 9,765 Jewish men, women and children who in general lived in Belgium before the Second World War and who were interned in or deported from French internment camps during the war. The group of index cards for a specific person can contain a file card drafted by the Sicherheitspolizei-Sicherheitsdienst in 1941-1944 in case of a person who fled Belgium in or after 1941 and a research request filed by a relative. Every group of index cards for a specific person contains handwritten file cards with information gathered post-war by...

  17. Bundesversicherungsamt.- Organisationsunterlagen

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 229-ORG
    • German
    • Sammlung 139 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das Bundesversicherungsamt (BVA) wurde durch Bundesversicherungsamtsgesetz (BVAG) vom 09. Mai 1956 (BGBl. I S. 415) als selbstständige Bundesoberbehörde im Geschäftsbereich des BM für Arbeit und Soziales errichtet und hatte bis November 2000 seinen Sitz in Berlin, seither in Bonn. Kernaufgabe des BVA ist die Rechtsaufsicht über die bundesunmittelbaren Träger, Verbände und weiteren Einrichtungen der gesetzlichen Kranken-, Renten- und Unfallversicherung sowie der sozialen Pflegeversicherung: Bundesversicherungsanstalt für Angestellte (seit 01.10.2005 Deutsche R...

  18. German town; Degenerate Art exhibit in Munich

    In the medieval German town of Eisenach, passersby, civilians, artist painting quaint scene outdoors. EXTs Wartburg fortress walls. LS, hillside. 00:13:52 Industrial exhibition in Dusseldorf, high angle views. Visitors at displays, including farm equipment: "Stahl-Kombinus" and "Leichte Maschinen". Fountain inside exhibition, crowds. 00:15:25 Very crowded city square in Weimar in summer. Throngs of people, many seated at tables outdoors, men in uniform, women in summer dresses. Large group dancing, ballroom style (motion is slowed down in film). Banners with swastikas surround the square. 0...

  19. Joseph Tenenbaum papers

    The collection documents the career of urologist, author, and activist Joseph Tenenbaum, originally of Sasów, Poland. Included are biographical materials, correspondence, writings, subject files, photographs, and scrapbooks that document his medical career; his writings on medical topics, Judaism, and the Holocaust; his involvement in Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and the Zionist Organization of America; and his work as the founder and chairman of the Joint Boycott Council of the American Jewish Congress (1933-1941...

  20. Amphibische Gruppe

    Bestandsbeschreibung Durch Aufstellungsbefehl Nr. 86 -Marine- vom 10. Oktober 1958 wurde zum 1. November in Wilhelmshaven das Kommando der Amphibischen Streitkräfte aufgestellt. Es unterstand als Typkommando dem Befehlshaber der Flotte. Zugeteilt wurden dem Kommando - das am 1. April 1958 aufgestellte und am 5. September in Charleston / USA zusammengetretene 2. Landungsgeschwader (bis 31. Oktober 1958 dem Kommando der Zerstörer nachgeordnet), - das am 1. April 1958 aufgestellte Marinepionier-Bataillon (Seebataillon); ebenfalls bis zum 31. Oktober dem Kommando der Zerstörer unterstellt, - mi...