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Language of Description: German
Language of Description: English

  2. Appointments of notable people to serve as leaders of the Viennese Jewish community, 1938

    1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

    Appointments of notable people to serve as leaders of the Viennese Jewish community, 1938 - Copy of a document issued by the "Besonderes Stadtamt Wien" regarding the appointments of Dr. Josef Loewenherz as Chairman of the Viennese Jewish community and an eight member advisory committee, 28 May 1938; - Granting of exclusive authority to the Community Chairman; - The appointments, guidelines and granting of authority in accordance with the decision of the Gestapo in Vienna.

  3. Arbeitserziehungslager Großbeeren

    Die Sammlung enthält: Einzel-Todesmeldung, Häftlingslisten mit Nationalitätenangabe, Korrespondenz d. Netherlands Tracing Mission und des Niederländischen Roten Kreuzes, Nachweisung über die französischen, belgischen, holländischen und luxemburgischen Staatsangehörigen, die im Arbeitserziehungslager Gross-Beeren verstorben sind; Verzeichnis der im Gestapolager Großbeeren verstorbenen und auf dem Kirchhof in Großbeeren begrabenen Ausländer. Geschichte des Arbeitserziehungslagers Großbeeren 1942-1945: Die Gemeinde Großbeeren befindet sich südlich von Berlin im Gebiet Teltow. Im September 1942...

  4. Archiv města Benešov

    • Archives of the Town of Benešov / NAD 3

    The fonds contains official books, files, accounting material, and photographs. From the period up to 1850, the archives contain books of decrees including a document by which Jan of Lobkovice waives the right to provide protection to the town of Benešov and to receive inhabitants of the Jewish religion into the town, inv. no. 50 (1848). There are also the censuses of the population in individual periods, especially inv. no. 795, call no. XIX B, Census of the Jewish Population (1850). Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: Church affairs - keeping Jewish registries inv.no...

  5. Archiv města Vizovice

    • Vizovice Town Archives / NAD 1154

    The fonds contains documents of the municipal self-government, deeds, official books, file material and accounting material. It contains only details about Jews: the great distillery of Zikmund Jelínek and Sons, the great distillery in Vizovice - purchase contracts, economic affairs, the inn in Zádveřice, construction plans, the appointment of a "faithful hand" during the 1888–1944 protectorate. The documents from the Holocaust period include the following: inspection and confiscation of supplies in the house of Josef Weiss, No. 417, by the Gestapo 1939; administration of Jewish property an...

  6. Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author

    The Erich Kulka Record Group contains: Personal and family documentation; documentation regarding the trial conducted against Sebesta, an antisemitic Czech writer who libeled Erich Kulka; the struggle to clear the names of the Sonderkommando workers as set forth in the book "People In Auschwitz" by Herman Langbein; trials against Nazi war criminals; documentation regarding Holocaust denial; escape of inmates from Auschwitz-Birkenau; research he conducted and published throughout his life, mainly regarding Jewish fighters in the Svoboda Army in the Soviet Union; Kulka's struggle against anti...

  7. Ardal brand civilian gas mask placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    C2 gas mask, the civilian version of the Polish army’s Wz. 38 mask, placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his w...

  8. Ardeatine Caves; FFI; torture chamber; corpses

    Corpses of Italians executed by the Nazis are removed from the Ardeatine caves; last rites are given the victims; this was most likely filmed in July 1944 by the March of Time. A funeral cortege for FFI dead moves through Paris. Shows a Gestapo torture chamber in the city; corpses of US airmen in a field at Gambsheim; the removal of corpses from a cellar in Bande, Belgium; and last rites and burial of the victims.

  9. Arisierungsakten

    • Aryanisation Records

    Der Bestand teilt sich daher in die "Arisierungsakten des nördlichen Burgenlandes" (Kartons 1–68) und die "Arisierungsakten des südlichen Burgenlandes" (Kartons 69–83). Der Inhalt des Bestandes ist sehr uneinheitlich. Im Wesentlichen umfassen die Akten Schriftstücke, die in der Vermögensverkehrsstelle eingelangt sind oder ausgingen. In einigen der Akten finden sich außer einem Formular, welches der Aktanlegung von vermuteten jüdischen Firmen- oder Immobilienbesitzer diente, keine weiteren Schriftstücke. Andere enthalten umfangreiches Schriftgut. In den Akten finden sich vor allem: - allgeme...

  10. Arizační spisy

    • Aryanization files
    • AS/NSMPO
    • Arizační spisy - Národní správa majetkových podstat
    • NAD 375
    • Národní archiv
    • 375
    • English
    • 1938-1945
    • The collection consists out of 101 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 3.5 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.

    The collection Arizační spisy was in the 1950s divided into seven main groups by its origins: 1. "Müller": named after the "Sonderbeauftragter für Ernährungsfragen beim Reichsprotektor", Rudolf Müller. These are documents connected with Jewish food companies (70 boxes). 2. "Regierungspräsident Aussig" (Vládní president Ústí nad Labem): Documents which are connected with the Aryanization in Northern Bohemia from 1938 to 1945 under the administration of the Regierungspräsident Aussig an der Elbe (23 boxes). 3. "Landespräsident Brünn" (Zemský president Brno): Documents which are connected with...

  11. Armand Gelmann, 1921; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Armand Gelmann, 1921; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in the Gers region including EIF (French Jewish Scouts) membership; life in the Lot et Garonne region including EIF membership; life in the Tarn et Garonne district including EIF membership; La Sixieme (the Sixth) membership; activities as contact person for Dr. Sigismond Hirsch; activities initiating contacts and finding hiding places for Jews; arrest by the Gestapo after he is informed on; deportation to Auschwitz on Transport 58, 31 July 1943; nominated for the Medaille de la ...

  12. Armband stamped Jewish Police Schwandorf acquired by a US soldier

    1. Joseph W. Eaton collection

    Schwandorf Jewish police armband acquired by Joseph W. Eaton, 26, presumably after the war in Schwandorf displaced persons camp in Germany. Joseph had lived in the United States since November 1934 when his parents sent him away from Berlin, Germany. After joining the Army in 1942, he was trained in military government and psychological warfare at Camp Ritchie. He entered combat six weeks after D-Day, June 4, 1944, as part of the 4th Mobile Broadcasting Unit, Allied Headquarters. He was part of a handpicked Press and Publications Unit responsible for radio and print propaganda for German tr...

  13. Armband with a royal coat of arms issued to a Danish resistance member

    1. Knud Dyby collection

    Blue, red, and white armband with a medallion issued to Knud Dyby, a member of the Danish underground resistance, on May 4 or 5, 1945. The armbands, which appeared abruptly throughout Denmark, were issued by the Danish Freedom Council, Denmark's unofficial government-in-exile in England from July 1944 to May 1945. The armbands were meant to identify resistance members as legitimate combatants, rather than guerilla forces, to ensure they were protected under Geneva Convention rules defining combatants and how they should be treated by military forces. Denmark was occupied by Germany on April...

  17. Aronson, Shlomo

    1. Zeugenschrifttum
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    1. Einzeldokumente: Geschäftsverteilungsplan des Stabes der Sturmabteilung (SA), ohne Datum (circa 1931), 1 S. (Dokument 6); Formular für Schutzhaftbefehl, ohne Datum, 2 S.; Bericht über den Ausbau der Unterabteilung "Nachrichtendienst" in die Reichsorganisationsleitung der NSDAP, ohne Verfasser, ohne Datum (circa 1931), 6 S. (Dokument 5); Führerbesprechung im Braunen Haus vom 26. August 1931: Kurzbericht über Referat Heydrichs u.a., 1 S. (Dokument 7); Reichsführer SS (RFSS), Geheimer SS-Befehl D-Nr. 43, vom 04. September 1931: Aufgabe und Aufbau des Nachrichtendienstes, 1 S. (Dokument 8); ...

  19. Arthur Szyk drawing

    1. Joseph and Alexandra Braciejowski collection

    Drawing of satirical subject matter relating to Second World War created in the United States.