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Language of Description: German
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  1. Dr. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky papers

    1. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    Contains two postcards and three letters, all handwritten, addressed to Adela Litwak (Ksenia Osoba), the donor's maternal aunt, by two people: Fryda Litwak (Zofia Wolinska), who was in a forced labor camp in Germany; and Zosia Tymejko (the donor's name while in hiding), in Busko-Zdroj, Poland.

  2. Fischer, Josef, Doc., PhDr.

    • Doc. PhDr. Josef Fischer / NAD 1306
    • Národní archiv
    • 1306
    • English
    • 1891-1945
    • Textual material Photographic images 2,80 linear meters

    The personal fonds of Doc. PhDr. Josef Fischer, a prominent Czech philosopher, sociologist, translator, and participant in the domestic anti-Nazi resistance, is a valuable source for understanding his personality and work, for understanding the intellectual and spiritual atmosphere of the interwar Czechoslovakia, and for studying the issues of the domestic non-communist resistance. The documents related to the resistance activities of the author, especially the letters and secret messages of doc. J. Fischer from prison are a valuable source. The fodns also contains the extensive corresponde...

  3. Hájková, Alena, PhDr.

    • PhDr. Alena Hájková / NAD 1226
    • Národní archiv
    • 1226
    • English
    • 1929-1997
    • Textual material Photographic images 6,75 linear meters

    The personal fonds of historian Alena Hájková is a valuable source of information relating to the issue of racial discrimination against the Jewish population and the beginnings of Jewish resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The fonds contains mainly her manuscripts of scientific works related to the anti-Nazi resistance with a focus on the Jewish resistance. The fonds contains manuscripts of works such as The List of Jews in 1939-1941, Participation of Jews in the Czech Resistance Movement, The Disappeared Ones in the First Months of the Occupation, and Administration in ...

  4. Kaufmannová, Heda

    • Heda Kaufmannová / NAD 1981
    • Národní archiv
    • 1981
    • English
    • 1905-1981
    • Textual material Photographic images 2,50 linear meters

    The personal archive of the Czech writer, translator and participant in the anti-Nazi domestic resistance, Heda Kaufmann, is an important source for understanding her literary work and resistance activities during the years of the Nazi occupation. However, the documents in the fonds can also contribute to the understanding of the life of the Jewish community in the interwar Czechoslovakia. The fonds contains mainly personal documents, manuscripts of Heda Kaufmannová's works, documentation of her resistance activities, correspondence and photographs. Among the documents in Heda Kaufmannová's...

  5. Prof. PhDr. Koloman Gajan, DrSc.

    • Prof. PhDr. Koloman Gajan, DrSc. / NAD 1967
    • Národní archiv
    • 1967
    • English
    • 1924-2011
    • Textual material 9,19 linear meters

    The fonds of Prof. Koloman Gajan, PhD, DrSc., a leading Czechoslovak historian, contains mainly documents related to his scientific work: manuscripts of scientific papers, auxiliary study material, studies and articles, lectures, correspondence, and documentation of the author's public activities. The fonds also contains personal documents and biographical material. Among the Judaica in the fonds there is the author's own biography, which contributes to the knowledge of life in the Jewish community in the small village of Hamborek (now Brezovička) in eastern Slovakia, where Koloman Gajan sp...

  6. Okresní úřad Rakovník I

    • District Office of Rakovník I / NAD 32

    The fonds contains documents arisen from the activities of the Rakovník District Office, i.e. books, files, accounting material, census records, and projects. The file material contains the registry finding aid Jews 1724-1866 (no. 400-407). Trade, church and residence matters are also relevant. File material: Jews 1724-1865 (no. 400-407); Church matters, Jews, 1850-1914 (no. 638-641); Church matters, Jews 1928-1948 (no. 1121-1126); Security and police matters, among others Jews (1928-48 1155-1363); Registers of apostasies and conversions (no. K39-50); Volume LIV, no. VII-1-Jews, Files conce...

  7. Okresní úřad Valašské Meziříčí

    • District Office of Valašské Meziříčí / NAD 13

    The fonds contains documents arisen from the activities of the district office: official books, file material and accounting material. Register, religious, and foundation matters, population records, passports, evictions, group D - School and religious matters, Trade matters (no. D, H, IV, VII), commercial and industrial matters, and also census records. Jews are explicitly mentioned in inv. no. 1508 VII, and 1-1500, Investigation of the property of the Jewish religious community in Valašské Meziříčí, the Jewish religious community in Vsetín. (box 962 A); inv. no. 1273 D Jewish affairs - re...

  8. Hans Rosenblatt. Collection

    This collection contains: a digital copy of the Rosenblatt-Ginsberg family photo album, including photos of Hans Rosenblatt, his parents Adolf Rosenblatt and Lea Ginsberg, his uncle Samuel Rosenblatt and his adoptive parents David Dorn and Hanna alias Fanny Dorn taken before, during and after the war ; Samuel Rosenblatt’s American immigrant identification card from 1939 ; an album with handwritten messages of friends of Lea Ginsberg which she took with her when she migrated from Poland to Vienna to marry Adolf Rosenblatt ; postcards received by Lea Ginsberg in France in 1941 from her family...

  9. Serge Klarsfeld. Collection

    This collection contains: a photomontage of portraits of Jewish children deported from Belgium, used as a cover for the commemorative publication entitled "Mémorial de la déportation de Belgique de 25.124 Juifs et de 351 Tziganes" by Serge Klarsfeld an Maxime Steinberg ; the pages of addendum number 2 of the "Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France" [Memorial of the Deportation of Jews from France] by Serge Klarsfeld, containing portraits of deported Jews, their names and different pieces of information (transport, biography) ; a published collection of various documents used during ...

  10. M. 57-Kulturbund der Juden in Deutschland (the Cultural Organization of German Jewry)

    M. 57-Kulturbund der Juden in Deutschland (the Cultural Organization of German Jewry) History of the Organization Following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, the Jews were forbidden to attend cultural performances or to be employed in cultural institutions in Germany. Kurt Singer, the Director of the Berlin Municipal Opera (who was dismissed in 1933 because he was Jewish), decided to set up an alternate Jewish organization with the goal of arranging cultural activities for Jews. The new organization was also meant to solve the unemployment problem of the Jewish artists and workers who had bee...

  11. Polizeipräsidium Berlin - Kriminalpolizeileitstelle - Juden

    1. Bestände vor 1945
    2. Preußische und Reichsbehörden mit regionaler Zuständigkeit
    3. Preußische Behörden
    4. Polizeibehörden
    5. Polizeipräsidium Berlin - Kriminalpolizeileitstelle

    Vorwort Pr.Br.Rep. 030-02 Polizeipräsidium Berlin-Kriminalpolizeileitstelle 1. Behördengeschichte Nach der Machtübernahme durch die Nationalsozialisten 1933 begann eine grundlegende Umstrukturierung der Polizei und damit auch der Kriminalpolizei im Deutschen Reich. Bereits im Jahre 1922 hatte der Reichstag ein Gesetz über die Schaffung eines Reichskriminalpolizeiamtes beschlossen, das jedoch an föderalistischen Störmanövern Bayerns und Preußens scheiterte (Wagner, Hitlers Kriminalisten, München 2002, S. 19) Am 17. Juni 1936 wurde Heinrich Himmler zum "Chef der Deutschen Polizei" ernan...

  12. Polizeipräsidium Berlin - Kriminalpolizeileitstelle - Allgemein Erfasste

    1. Bestände vor 1945
    2. Preußische und Reichsbehörden mit regionaler Zuständigkeit
    3. Preußische Behörden
    4. Polizeibehörden
    5. Polizeipräsidium Berlin - Kriminalpolizeileitstelle

    Vorwort Pr.Br.Rep. 030-02 Polizeipräsidium Berlin-Kriminalpolizeileitstelle 1. Behördengeschichte Nach der Machtübernahme durch die Nationalsozialisten 1933 begann eine grundlegende Umstrukturierung der Polizei und damit auch der Kriminalpolizei im Deutschen Reich. Bereits im Jahre 1922 hatte der Reichstag ein Gesetz über die Schaffung eines Reichskriminalpolizeiamtes beschlossen, das jedoch an föderalistischen Störmanövern Bayerns und Preußens scheiterte (Wagner, Hitlers Kriminalisten, München 2002, S. 19) Am 17. Juni 1936 wurde Heinrich Himmler zum "Chef der Deutschen Polizei" ernan...

  13. Polizeipräsidium Berlin - Kriminalpolizeileitstelle

    1. Bestände vor 1945
    2. Preußische und Reichsbehörden mit regionaler Zuständigkeit
    3. Preußische Behörden
    4. Polizeibehörden

    Vorwort A Pr.Br.Rep. 030-02 Polizeipräsidium Berlin-Kriminalpolizeileitstelle 1. Behördengeschichte Nach der Machtübernahme durch die Nationalsozialisten 1933 begann eine grundlegende Umstrukturierung der Polizei und damit auch der Kriminalpolizei im Deutschen Reich. Bereits im Jahre 1922 hatte der Reichstag ein Gesetz über die Schaffung eines Reichskriminalpolizeiamtes beschlossen, das jedoch an föderalistischen Störmanövern Bayerns und Preußens scheiterte (Wagner, Hitlers Kriminalisten, München 2002, S. 19) Am 17. Juni 1936 wurde Heinrich Himmler zum "Chef der Deutschen Polizei" ern...

  14. Documentation of the Kulturbund der Juden in Deutschland (the Cultural Organization of German Jewry)

    This Record Group is the private archive of the director-actor Fritz Wisten, who was one of the organization activists. The documentation that arrived at Yad Vashem consists of photocopies of the original documentation in the archive, which is housed at the Stiftung Akademie der Kuenste Archive in Berlin. Most of the documentation in this Record Group is in German, dealing primarily with the Kulturbund activities after 1938. The Record group contains documentation of all the Kulturband activities:- Discussions with Hans Hinkel; - Organizational activities;- Surveys of organizational activit...

  15. Odvjetnička pisarnica Licht Aleksander

    • Law Office of Aleksander Licht
    • Državni arhiv u Zagrebu
    • HR-DAZG-96 Odvjetnička pisarnica Licht Aleksander
    • English
    • 1913-1941
    • 65 boxes, 1 book

    The collection contains documentation concerning legal representation in property disputes and disputes of journalists in the publishing and film industries, as well as documentation about the Zionist movement in Croatia and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Dr. Aleksandar Licht (1884−1948) was a Croatian Zionist leader and founder of the Zionist movement in Croatia. Licht was born in the village of Sokolovac, near Koprivnica, to a Croatian Jewish family. As a child he moved with his family to Zagreb. Licht was educated in Zagreb, where he finished elementary and high school. He earned a law degre...

  16. The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976

    The documentation mainly deals with research on various aspects of the Holocaust period in Poland and France. There are research papers, testimonies, newspaper clippings, correspondence and documentation concerning the emigration of Jews to Latin American countries. Outstanding documentation in the collection: - Draft of Dr. Nathan Eck's memoirs, Paris, June-July 1944; - Undated draft of descriptions and memoirs from the WW II period in Lodz, Warsaw and Vittel; - Testimonies regarding the persecution and murder of Jews and the uprising in the Sobibor extermination camp; - Articles, essays, ...

  17. Esther Eisen photograph

    1. Esther and Roman Eisen collection

    Black and white image of a group of boys and girls sitting and standing outside, one boy wearing Star of David patch. The group portrait was taken by Romek Freund of 6th grade school children from Elementary School #25 in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, in October 1941. The children gathered after the closing of the ghetto schools in September 1941 just to have this group portrait taken. Esther Eisen is presumably depicted in the photograph.

  18. Esther and Roman Eisen photograph collection

    1. Esther and Roman Eisen collection

    The collection consists of seven photographs relating to the experiences of the Cygielberg and Eisen families in Łódź, Poland, before World War II. Also included in the collection is a wedding photograph of Esther and Roman Eisen.

  19. Heinz Golessa

    Bearbeitungshinweis unbearbeiteter Nachlass Bestandsbeschreibung 4. September 1917 Geburt in Magdeburg 1923 - 1932 Besuch der weltlichen Versuchsschule Magdeburg-Buckau 1929 Mitglied der "Roten Falken" 1931 Mitglied der Sozialistischen Arbeiter-Jugend (SAJ) 1932 - 1937 Lehre als Maler 1934 Mitglied des Kommunistischen Jugendverbandes Deutschlands (KJVD), als Leiter des Stadtteils Magdeburg-Buckau des KJVD war er an der Herstellung und dem Vertrieb illegaler Schriften und Flugblätter beteiligt August 1935 wegen politischer Tätigkeit für den KJVD in Schutz- und Untersuchungshaft, nach fünfwöc...

  20. Konzentrationslager Groß-Rosen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Im Zuge von Rückführungen deutscher Akten aus den USA, die dort nach einem dem Einheitsaktenplan (EAP) der Wehrmacht zu Grunde liegenden Schema alfa-numerisch geordnet worden waren, gelangte der Bestand im Jahre 1962 in das Bundesarchiv. Im Zuge der letzten Bestandsbearbeitung wurden auch Akten aus Sammlungen des sogenannten NS-Archivs des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit der DDR (4 AE), aus dem Bestand NS 4 Flossenbürg (2 AE) sowie Kopien von deutschen Unterlagen (3 AE), die seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in den National Archives der USA verw...