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  1. The Secret Annex First edition of Anne Frank’s Het Achterhuis given to a Dutch couple dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944 diary letters from 12 June 1942 - 1 August 1944

    1. Ryan M. Cooper collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn652080
    • English
    • 1947
    • a: Height: 7.375 inches (18.733 cm) | Width: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) b: Height: 8.375 inches (21.273 cm) | Width: 5.125 inches (13.017 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    One of two copies of the first edition of Anne Frank’s “Het Achterhuis” (“The Secret Annex”), given to Miep and Jan Gies by Anne’s father, Otto Frank. The book includes the original dust jacket and protective clamshell case, and was one of 1500 copies printed in the first run. Anne Frank was a German Jewish girl who immigrated to Amsterdam, Netherlands, with her parents, Otto and Edith, and older sister, Margot. Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940. Under German occupation, antisemitic restrictions were enforced, and Otto set up a hiding place in the attic of his business. The fa...

  2. Secret Field Police, Bad-Nauheim Geheime Feldpolizei, Bad Nauheim (Fond 1369)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Consists of the war diary with files on organization and personnel matters, cooperation with other police departments in security tasks in the Taunus (Usingen, Reifenberg during deployment for the campaign in France and later use in France, Greece and Soviet Union), partisans and resistance in occupied territories. Includes orders, reports, correspondence, name lists of personnel, and financial statistics. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  3. Seeligmann family papers

    The collection consists of identification photographs of members of the Seeligmann family and documents relating to the Seeligmann family who fled from Berlin, Germany, to Tianjin, China, in 1939.

  4. Selected files from the collection: "Preussische Bau- und Finanzdirection" (A Pr. Br. Rep. 042)

    Records include the following topics: communist sub organizations; status and retirement of Jewish civil servants; taxes for Jewish properties and other Jewish property matters; inquiries concerning Jewish companies; employment of war prisoners; antisemitic books; mail service for the Gestapo and the “Ostgebiete” (Eastern regions); requirements for Jewish students in foreign countries; and proof of Aryan origin.

  5. Selected files from the UK National Archives

    Selected files from the UK National Archives relating to the British investigation and prosecution of war crimes immediately after World War II (WO 309: War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office, British Army of the Rhine War Crimes Group (North West Europe) and predecessors: Registered Files (BAOR and other series) & WO 311: Judge Advocate General's Office, Military Deputy's Department, and War Office, Directorates of Army Legal Services and Personal Services: War Crimes Files (MO/JAG/FS and other series) and WO 310: War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office, War Crimes Group (Sout...

  6. Selected records from Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt

    Contains a variety of records related to the fate of Jews between 1933 and 1945 in the "Volksstaat Hessen" (Land Hessen), the city of Darmstadt, Germany, and the German towns Bensheim, Büdingen, Dieburg, and Friedberg. Records from offices of various institutions of the German government including Abteilung G5 Reichsstatthalter, Abteilung G11 Innenministerium, G12A Landespolizei, Schutzpolizei and Gendarmerie, G12B Gestapo, and SD. G15 local governmental records of many towns.

  7. Selected records from police departments in the German occupied countries (R 70)

    This collection includes Security Service (SD) decrees and reports relating to the treatment of forced laborers; concentration camp Hertogenbosch (Netherlands); police measures against the resistance (France); police actions and raids against Jews and Roma (Slovakia); deportation to concentration camps in Poland and Czechoslovakia (Theresienstadt), including an index of names; denunciations; looting of Jewish assets; slave labor camps (Slovakia); Jewish councils (Judenräte), Gestapo function, forced resettlement of Jews, including an index of names of people executed (Poland).

  8. Selected records from State Archives in Warsaw and its branches in Otwock, Mława, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Pułtusk and State Archives in Płock

    Contains selected records from the State Archives in Warsaw and its branches: The training materials for police officers concerning the Jewish Youth organization, 1939-1943; Resolutions of the City Council, 1915-1919; Correspondence and the lists of registered associations, circulars, announcement.; Records of Jewish organizations and Judenrat (Jewish councils); Books of tenants in various regions of Otwock and other places; The questionnaires about the course of the war activities in the municipality in 1939-1945. Lists of population loss, 1946; Opening protocols of mass graves of Poles mu...

  9. Selected records from the Ministère des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre

    Contains records from various concentration and other camps, includes mainly various name lists, statistics, reports, questioners, correspondence, and testimonies. Included are camp medical records, lists of deportees, and internees, list of arrivals and prisoners, registers of deaths and death certifications, lists of capos and gestapo agents, general camp statistics and registers, general camp documentation, witness reports and testimonies about living conditions, 1945-1965; lists of survivors, reports of special commissions after liberation, excerpts of the journal of war orphans, corres...

  10. Selected records from the National Archives in Prague relating to Roma

    Selected records related to administration of penal camps and labor camps; gendarmerie administration of the so-called "Gypsy problem"; Roma camps; deportations; Jews, Romani, and Russian populations in Danzig and East Prussia; and persecution of Roma peoples. Also included are documents with statistical and evidential data derived from investigating the Roma population, and documents recording pro-fascist legislation relating to persecution of Roma.

  11. Selected records from the National Archives of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

    Records relate to the Fünfbrunnen concentration camp. Included are name lists of Jews deported from Luxembourg to Poland, Sipo reports on arrested Jews and resistance members, investigation files and survivor accusation statements against Gestapo man Fritz Hartmann, and excerpts from the trial of Gestapo man Klöker and many others charged with war crimes in 1948.

  12. Selected records from the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD)

    Contains records relating to the German occupation of the Netherlands from 1940 to1945; persecution of Jews in the Netherlands; looting of Jewish property; activities of the SS and Gestapo in the Netherlands during the German occupation; anti-Jewish measures in Dutch society after the German invasion; Jewish refugees; and German concentration camps and work camps in the Netherlands during World War II.

  13. Selected records from the Ordnungspolizei

    Records pertaining to the Ordnungspolizei, including organization and daily administration of the Ordnungspolizei, expulsion of Jews, expropriation of Jewish property and assets, the Gestapo headquarters in Vienna at the Hotel Metropol, treatment of homosexuals, and personnel matters (such as promotions to SS).

  14. Selected records from the Regional State Archives in Opava

    Features administrative records pertaining to the expropriation of Jewish properties and assets and the enactment of anti-Jewish measures in the districts of Opava and Olomouc, including from the Oberlandrat, the Regierungspräsident Troppau, the SD headquarters in Opava, the Gestapo headquarters in Opava, the Finance Chief in Opava, and the Police Headquarters in Olomouc. Also features administrative records from the State District Archives Přerov, State District Archives Šumperk, State District Archives Bruntal, State District Archives Karviná, State District Archives Jeseník, and the Stat...

  15. Selected records from the Sächsisches Staatsarchiv Leipzig

    Various local government offices in Leipzig, Germany, created the documents from the 1880s to the 1940s. Among topics covered in the Holocaust era are Jewish organizations, youth organizations, Romanies, labor, Jehovah's Witnesses, and confiscation of Jewish property.

  16. Selected records from the State Regional Archive in Modra, Slovak Republic

    Consists of World War II-era administrative files from the district archives in Modra and the wider Bratislava region. It includes reports, lists, and propaganda leaflets. Topics include Gestapo members and activities in occupied Czechoslovakia, the Hlinka Guard, the Sudetendeutsche Partei, the use of Nazi symbols and greetings, pro-and anti-Communist movements, and the writings of prominent individuals. A large part of the material pertains to antisemitic measures: the confiscation of Jewish property and the distribution of Jewish assets among Hlinka Guard members; prohibitions against Jew...

  17. Selected records of the Auxiliary Police. Battalion No 202 Kraków Schutzmannschaft Bataillon 202 Kraków (Sygn.GK 658)

    This collection contains personnel files of Polish police officers assigned to the Auxiliary Police Battalion No 202 P in Kraków and serving in the practice camp in Kochanówka near Debica.

  18. Selected records of the city Żyrardów Akta miasta Żyrardowa (Sygn. 2)

    This collection contains selected records of the city Żyrardów in Poland, e.g. registers of permanent inhabitants and houses, birth certificates, circular letters and other documents issued by the German authorities (1940-1943); witness testimonies relating to the crimes committed by the Gestapo and gendarmerie; documents relating to the changing of surnames, social welfare in the wartime including a list of victims, and documents of the WWII Committee of the Exhumation of those Murdered by the Nazis.

  19. Selected records of the Collection "Z" (materials collected by the Main Commission for Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland) containing fragments of German files and post-war materials regarding the places and facts of Nazi crimes Zbiór „Z” (akt zebranych przez Główną Komisję Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce) zawierający fragmenty akt niemieckich i materiały powojenne dotyczące miejsc i faktów zbrodni hitlerowskich (GK 166)

    Original documents collected by the Main Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Poland: materials on Joseph Meisinger (chief of Einsatzgruppe IV, than chief of Sipo and SD in Warsaw), materials on the crimes committed in Zamość region (“Zamojszczyzna”), files on the children's camp Dierżężnia near Łódź, reports of gendarmerie in Biłgoraj county, District Lublin, materials regarding Major Henryk “Hubal” Dobrzański, a diary from the Łódź ghetto in Yiddish, memories of Tadeusz Bednarczyk about the Warsaw ghetto, personal files of Wilhelm Koppe (SS- und Polizeiführer, SSPF in GG), testimonies...

  20. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Warsaw Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Warszawie (GK 182)

    Reports, correspondence, hearings of witnesses regarding the action of the Polish underground in Warsaw, materials about the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 - various information, studies, accounts, notes, list of executions, situational sketches and maps, list of commanders and military units; account of German crimes committed in September 1939; investigation materials against Erich von dem Bach, Heinz Reinefarth, Otto Geibel and other German commanders suppressing the Warsaw Uprising; study on the Chełmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp; materials on the "Gęsiówka" and Pawiak prisons in Warsaw; que...