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  1. Reconciliation: displaced persons and emigration

    Contains selected files from the War Office, Foreign Office, and Home Office relating to Jewish immigration to Palestine, displaced persons, including administration and policy records, reports on movements of DPs, nominal rolls and statistics, as well as the post war situation in Europe and restitution.

  2. Selected records from collections of the National Archives, Hague

    Contains selections of records from a great variety of collections, and concerns topics such as: Jews within the diamond trade in Amsterdam, Jewish education, deportation of Jews, refugee camps in Rotterdam, Jewish orphans, camp Westerbork, records from the consulates in New York and Geneva, economic measures against Jews, looted Jewish property, looting of Jewish farm land, a large number of records from the "Rijksvreemdelingendienst" (the Dutch police for foreigners), the latter for the most part concerning Jewish refugees from Germany.

  3. Selected records related to the history of Jews in Zhytomyr region of Ukraine

    The collection contains selected records from regional Soviet government and Communist Party organizations related to the various aspects of Jewish life in the Zhytomyr region, chiefly before WWII. The records provide information about work and activities of the Jewish sections (evsektsia) of the Communist Party, Jewish public and political organizations ( Komzet, OZET, Kultur Liga, Agro-Joint etc), Jewish schools, closing synagogues and prayer houses, confiscation of religious objects, variety of lists of members of the Jewish communities, Jewish agricultural colonies and collective farms,...

  4. Transport Units Todt-Speer Transporteinheiten Todt-Speer (R 50 II)

    The collection contains records of the “Hauptabteilung Truppenverwaltung” or “Zahlmeisterei” (Main Bureau for Troop-administration) of the “NSKK-Transportstandarte Speer” (NS Motor Corps-transport-regiment Speer). Mostly contains reports of troop levels and various correspondence. Also includes files of several other transport units which served abroad, e.g. “NSKK Transportgruppe Nord, Abschnittsführung Russland-Nord”.

  5. Nathan Schwalb papers/Hechalutz Office Geneva

    The collection contains correspondence, reports and photographas related to the situation and fate of Jews in Europe during the Second World War and the rescue activities of the Hechalutz movement. Mainly includes correspondence with Hechalutz members in the Nazi-occupied territories and the JOINT; reports about the situation of Jews in various countries; reports about the concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, and Westerbork; and miscellaneous internal records pertaining to the activities of the Hechalutz headquarters in Geneva.

  6. Béla Weichherz diaries

    The collection includes two diaries written by Béla Weichherz for his daughter, Kitty Weichherz, in order to record the events of Kitty's life. The diaries begin in 1929, with Kitty's birth, and continue until 1942, when the Weichherz family was deported from C̆adca, Slovakia to a concentration camp. In the diary Béla makes note of daily events and tracks Kitty's development. Kitty also writes and draws in the diary. Towards the end of the diary, Béla writes about political changes and his fears for his family. The diary also includes family photographs, a birthday card Kitty made for her f...

  7. Selected records from Statistisch-wissenschaftliches Institut des RFSS (NS 48)

    Contains records of the Statistisch-wissenschaftliches Institut des Reichsfuehrers-SS, including statistics on demography and population, war casualties, sickness and death at the Mittelbau camp, water analysis at the Nordhausen camp, Warsaw ghetto statistics, personnel case files, and a name list of Himmler’s friends and associates.

  8. T. Scarlett Epstein diary

    Consists of a diary kept by T. Scarlett Epstein (Trude Grünwald), originally of Vienna, Austria, in the summer of 1937 and in the summer and fall of 1938. A teenage girl, Epstein records her visit to the World's Fair in Paris in 1937. In the summer of 1938, she describes her escape from Vienna into Yugoslavia, made possible through Epstein's friendship with the ex-ambassador of Yugoslavia to Austria. From Yugoslavia, Epstein traveled to Albania in November 1938. Throughout the diary, Epstein inserted train tickets, maps, photographs and other pieces of realia she collected.

  9. Selected records of the Reichsamt für das Landvolk (NS 35)

    Contains correspondence with other party agencies and departments, documents concerning “Regime-destructive actions” of the rural population in the Rheinland and the march Brandenburg (the so-called “Rheinische bzw. Märkische Bauernbriefe 1937-1938”), and reports on agricultural policy in Austria.

  10. Selected records of the Reichsnährstand / Reichsbauernführer (R 16-I)

    Contains correspondence addressed to the Nazi Party’s National Agency for Agricultural Policy, files of the Reich Farmers Council, and the like.

  11. Irene Halmi collection

    The collection consists of a vase, a document, photographs, and a publication relating to the experiences of Irene Halmi as a nurse in the United States Army hospital in Dachau concentration camp following its liberation on April 29, 1945.

  12. Collection of non-official German documents (RG 90) Nazi Party in Palestine.

    The collection contains records from the Nationalist Socialist Party Headquarters in Palestine, 1932-1939 and files and registers of the Temple Society, 1878-1948, as well as documentation on German enterprises.

  13. Selected records of the Reichspropagandaleitung (NS 18)

    Contains records created by the Reichspropagandaleitung, including propaganda leaflets, brochures, publication of war reports, political discussion of the situation in the USA, Winston Churchill, the war with Italy, propaganda in the East, advertisements for pro-Nazi companies, the role of the churches, measures in regard to foreigners, typhus, race defilement, swing dancers, Jews in the film industry, and prisoners of war.

  14. Selected records of the NS-Volkswohlfahrt (NS 37)

    Contains selected records of the NS-Volkswohlfahrt, the Nazi social welfare institution charged with propagating health care issues and family aid to those deemed racially pure. Primarily contains files of financial/real estate properties of the NSV outside of Germany.

  15. Selected records of the Reichsstudentenführung / Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (NS 38)

    Contains selected records of the Reichsstudentenführung / Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund pertaining to the denial of matriculation to Jewish students in Brünn/Czech Republic, non-admission of Polish students, reports of the Jewish derivation of students, and denunciations of various non-Aryan professors.

  16. Selected records of the Hauptamt für Beamte/ Reichsbund der deutschen Beamten (NS 40)

    Contains records pertaining to the operation of the Hauptamt für Beamte/ Reichsbund der deutschen Beamten and the organization and operation of the Nazi civil service.

  17. Selected records of the Oberstes Parteigericht der NSDAP (NS 36)

    The Oberstes Parteigericht der NSDAP (OPG) was founded on January 1, 1934 to handle cases concerning behavior that could harm the reputation of the NSDAP. It was responsible for trials of political importance and for appeals against decisions of district party tribunals. This collection includes transcripts of trials for excesses against Jews, such as murder or sexual assault during Kristallnacht; for abuses by SA leaders in concentration camps; and of a German "race-scientist" accused of having had a relationship with a half-Jewish woman. It also includes guidelines for the nomination of p...

  18. Mark Hochman collection

    Documents illustrating and describing the experiences of Mark Hochman, born in Podhorany, Czechoslovakia [present-day Ukraine] who was interned in various forced labor camps during the Holocaust. Included are post-war affidavits of birth and employment in Podhorany, Czechoslovakia, Czech driver’s license and police document [potentially residential]. Also included in the collection is an application for reparations from the Claims Conference, dated 1993. Two cassette tapes, recorded interview with Mark Hochman, one labeled “Interview/Mark Hochman/Louis Rosenkranz/1989”.

  19. Selected records from the Geschäftsgruppe Ernährung (R 26 IV)

    Contains records pertaining to Aryanization, activity reports of the Geschäftsgruppe Ernährung, statistics on the Carpathian countries, social politics in Slovakia, emigration in Hungary, organization and structure of the University of Zagreb, and forced laborers in the agricultural sector.

  20. Surrender of military and civilians in Engers and Germersheim

    (LIB 4671) American military activities in Engers, Germany. A soldier directs half-track tanks down the center of town. A German civilian wearing a white armband reads a proclamation while standing astride a bicycle. Soldiers and civilians are visible in the background. German soldiers or Hitler Youth surrendering. 01:54:22 Quality improves. Slate indicates that the date is March 25, 1945 and the cameraman is named Urban. American soldiers walk through the streets of Engers. Nice shots of an American soldier searching Germans. A First Lieutenant swears in two enlisted men as Second Lieutena...