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  1. Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Geschichte des Bestandes 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 von aktuellen Bestandsbereinigungen wurden in den Bestand auch Akten aus dem sogenannten "NS-Archiv" (28 AE) und der Bibliothek der Hauptabteilung IX/11 des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit der DDR (6 AE) integriert. Archivische Bewertung und Bearbeitung Anfang 1963 wurde zunächst ein vorläuf...

  2. Konzentrationslager Buchenwald

    Die Sammlung enthält v.a.: Zu- und Abgangsbücher, Blockbücher, Arbeitseinsatzbücher, Veränderungsmeldungen, Transportlisten, Namensverzeichnis des Lagers 2, Akten der Gestapo/Stapostelle Düsseldorf, Fluchtmeldungen, Effektenverzeichnisse, Listen betr. Pakete/Post, Sozialversicherungsunterlagen, Überweisungslisten von Häftlingsgeldern, Geldeinweisungslisten, Geldauszahlungslisten, Prämienlisten, Unterlagen betr. Außenkommandos, Unterlagen betr. Innenkommandos, Vernehmungsprotokolle, Unterlagen betr. Blockverlegungen, Unterlagen betr. Arbeitseinsatz, Strafmeldungen und –listen, Unterlagen bet...

  3. Lager in Frankreich

    Die Sammlung enthält u.a.: Häftlingslisten, Transportlisten, Zeitungsartikel, Verschiedene Verzeichnisse von in Frankreich lebenden und später deportierten Juden, vereinzelt Berichte über Festnahmen und Erschießungen, Abschublisten, Korrespondenz, Fernschreiben, Listen verstorbener Häftlinge, Listen Überlebender, Friedhofslisten Geschichte der Lager in Frankreich (Drancy, Gurs): Mit der Niederlage der französischen Armee im Juni 1940 fiel ganz Nordfrankreich unter die Besatzung der deutschen Wehrmacht. Diese beschlagnahmte im gleichen Monat in Drancy, einem Vorort nordöstlich von Paris, ein...

  4. Konzentrationslager Neuengamme

    Die Sammlung enthält u.a.: Küchentagebuch, Brotverteilungsliste, verschiedene Korrespondenz, Dokumente betr. Schiffskatastrophe von der Lübecker-Bucht, Berichte über Außenkommandos, Schriftwechsel, Häftlingsverzeichnisse (teilweise nach Nationen, teilweise Nachkriegsaufstellungen), Transportlisten, Totenidentifizierung, Akten über die Bergung von Leichen in der Lübecker Bucht (Schiffskatastrophen "Cap Arcona und Thielbeck") aufgestellt durch die Polizeigruppe Schleswig-Holstein/Süd, Sterbefallanzeigen des Städtischen Ordnungsamtes Hannover an das Sonderstandesamt Arolsen (Sterbefälle 1944-1...

  5. Kaul, Friedrich Karl

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 21. Febr. 1906 in Posen, gest. 16. Apr. 1981 in Berlin, Rechtsanwalt und Schriftsteller 1925-1929 Studium der Rechtswissenschaft in Berlin und Heidelberg, 1931 Promotion, 1932 KPD, 1933 Entlassung aus dem Justizdienst aus "rassischen Gründen", danach Versicherungsvertreter und Rechtskonsulent, 1935 Haft in den Konzentrationslagern Lichtenburg und Dachau, Juli 1937 Emigration nach Kolumbien, später Panama, Honduras und Nicaragua, Büroangestellter und Bauarbeiter, 1939 Aberkennung der deutschen Staatsbürgerschaft, 1941/42 in Nicaragua interniert, Ausliefer...

  6. Dieckmann, Johannes

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 19. Jan. 1893 in Fischerhude bei Bremen, gest. 22. Febr. 1969 in Berlin, LDPD-Politiker, Volkskammerpräsident 1913-1918 Studium der Nationalökonomie und Philologie an der Handelshochschule Berlin und den Universitäten Berlin, Gießen, Göttingen und Freiburg, 1915-1918 Militärdienst im Ersten Weltkrieg, zuletzt Leutnant der Reserve, 1918 Vorsitzender eines Soldatenrates, Eintritt in die DVP, 1919 Parteisekretär der DVP Osnabrück, 1921 in Duisburg und ab 1922 DVP-Generalsekretär für Sachsen in Dresden, 1929-1933 Abgeordneter des Sächsischen Landtags, 1933-1...

  7. Soup drudgery Print 8 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting desperate prisoners struggling to scoop and eat soup that has been spilled on the ground at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat to German security that had been abducted in the middle of the night and were meant to be...

  8. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish inmate

    1. Henry Carter collection

    Striped concentration camp uniform jacket worn by Henryk Karter while a prisoner in Auschwitz I, II, and III concentration camps from December 1942-January 1945. Henryk, wife Edith, and children Jurek, 3, and Halina, 5 months, fled Bielsko, Poland, for Krakow during the German invasion in September 1939. In June 1941, the family was forced into the Krakow ghetto. In late 1941, Henryk was arrested for resistance activity by the Gestapo. In December 1942, he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau as a political prisoner and tattooed with the number 90065. In February 1943, he was sent to Auschwitz II...

  9. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish inmate

    1. Henry Carter collection

    Striped concentration camp uniform pants worn by Henryk Karter while a prisoner in Auschwitz I, II, and III concentration camps from December 1942-January 1945. Henryk, wife Edith, and children Jurek, 3, and Halina, 5 months, fled Bielsko, Poland, for Krakow during the German invasion in September 1939. In June 1941, the family was forced into the Krakow ghetto. In late 1941, Henryk was arrested for resistance activity by the Gestapo. In December 1942, he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau as a political prisoner and tattooed with the number 90065. In February 1943, he was sent to Auschwitz III...

  10. Concentration camp uniform cap with 90065 worn by a Polish Jewish inmate

    1. Henry Carter collection

    Striped concentration camp uniform cap worn by Henryk Karter while a prisoner in Auschwitz I, II, and III concentration camps from December 1942-January 1945. It has his prisoner number 90065 embroidered on the front. Armband with a red cross worn by Henryk Karter while a prisoner and nurse in Block 19, the hospital, in Auschwitz I concentration camp, from ca. 1943 until his liberation in January 1945. Henryk, wife Edith, and children Jurek, 3, and Halina, 5 months, fled Bielsko, Poland, for Krakow during the German invasion in September 1939. In June 1941, the family was forced into the Kr...

  11. White armband with a red cross worn by a concentration camp inmate

    1. Henry Carter collection

    Armband with a red cross worn by Henryk Karter while a prisoner and nurse in Block 19, the hospital, in Auschwitz I concentration camp, from ca. 1943 until his liberation in January 1945. Henryk, wife Edith, and children Jurek, 3, and Halina, 5 months, fled Bielsko, Poland, for Krakow during the German invasion in September 1939. In June 1941, the family was forced into the Krakow ghetto. In late 1941, Henryk was arrested for resistance activity by the Gestapo. In December 1942, he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau as a political prisoner and tattooed with the number 90065. In February 1943, h...

  12. Felix and Flory Van Beek correspondence

    Collection of documents, correspondence, receipts and papers relating to Holocaust survivors Felix Levi and his wife Flory (later known as Felix and Flory Van Beek) in Rotterdam, Netherlands to friends and family including Felix's brother Hugo and Theo in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and New York; bound in binder; dated 1946-1948; in German, Dutch and English.

  13. Gymnastics Print 9 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting guards watching a group of prisoners, during an abusive exercise period, on their hands and knees being attacked and punished by Kapos and dogs at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both me...

  14. Introductory text for a portfolio of 15 reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Introductory insert, in French, for a portfolio of secretly created prisoner sketches from Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, which were reproduced, engraved, and published in 1946. The originals were created by Henri Gayot and the introduction was written by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. The sketches depict daily camp life and prisoner abuse, particularly for prisoners like Gayot and LaPorte, who were marked as Nacht und Nebel (NN) [night and fog], and were meant to “vanish” in the camp. LaPorte was arrested by the German S...

  15. Night and Fog Print 1 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting prisoners during a roll call between 3 am and 4 am at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. Many of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat to German security that had b...

  16. Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

    1. Löwenstein and Stern families collection

    Red document case used by Lola Stern (later Loy) and her family while emigrating from Germany in 1939 and Shanghai, China, in 1947. The case bears the name of a German insurance company and was likely acquired by Lola’s father, Hugo Stern, through his work as an insurance agent. After Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, Lola was expelled from her school for being Jewish. To learn some work skills, she moved away from her parents, Hugo and Käthe Stern, and younger sister, Lisa, in Nordhausen. On November 8, 1938, during Kristallnacht, Lola was living in Frankfurt am Main as ...

  17. Lindenbaum and Landau families collection

    The Lindenbaum and Landau families collection contains photographs of the Lindenbaum and Landau families, circa 1900s-1945. The family photographs were taken in Łódź, Poland; Warsaw, Poland; the Warsaw ghetto; and Belgium. The photographs feature friends and family members and include both victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Photographs of Tobiasz and Curtla Lindenbaum include the couple around the turn of the century; a portrait of Tobiasz, undated; Curtla holding an umbrella at an unknown resort, undated; Curtla, two of her daughters, and a grandson riding in a droshky, undated; Cur...

  18. Tin mug issued to a Jewish girl and her family at a displaced persons camp

    1. Julie Keefer family collection

    Tin mug issued to Julie (Jula) Weinstock, 5, her grandfather Aizik Eisen, and rescuer Lucia Nowicka in Wegscheid displaced persons camp, known as Camp Tyler, in Linz, Austria in 1946. In June 1941, when Julie was two months old, her hometown, Lvov, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) was occupied by German troops during their invasion of the Soviet Union. In July several thousand Jews were massacred in pogroms by local Ukrainians. In November, Jula and her family were forced into the Lvov ghetto and her grandfather, Aizik was taken to Jaktorow labor camp. Aizik escaped and in late 1943, he rescued J...

  19. Trunk used by a former German Jewish concentration camp inmate and aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Wooden trunk used by John and Alice Redlich Fink for travel to the US. Alice was a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Germany after the war. Alice left Nazi Germany in 1938 for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, left for the Bergen-Belsen dp camp to care for children and young women. Her mother, father, brother, and grandmother were all murdered in Auschwitz. She met and married Hans Finke, a fellow German Jewish relief worker, at the camp...

  20. Transport Print 3 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting teams of prisoners hauling construction materials uphill, while guards and dogs attack them, for use at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individual...