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  1. Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement No. 133, dated 04 October 1940. By Gestapo order, curfew in the ghetto will commence at 21:00

    1. O.34 - Zonabend Collection: Documentation From the Lodz Ghetto

    Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement No. 133, dated 04 October 1940. By Gestapo order, curfew in the ghetto will commence at 21:00

  2. Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 428 dated 02 August 1944 issued by the Gestapo regarding a reduction in the area of the ghetto

    1. O.34 - Zonabend Collection: Documentation From the Lodz Ghetto

    Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 428 dated 02 August 1944 issued by the Gestapo regarding a reduction in the area of the ghetto Evacuation of areas of the ghetto by 24 August 1944; non-evacuation will lead to death; details of the streets to be evacuated; permission to remain in the area granted to factory workers who must complete their work.

  3. Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 429, dated 23 August 1944 issued by the Gestapo ordering the Jews to evacuate various areas of the ghetto by 25 August 1944

    1. O.34 - Zonabend Collection: Documentation From the Lodz Ghetto

    Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 429, dated 23 August 1944 issued by the Gestapo ordering the Jews to evacuate various areas of the ghetto by 25 August 1944 Non-compliance with this order means death; details of the area still permitted to Jews.

  4. Reports and articles by the Ghetto Archives staff: "The Social Welfare Department - Its Establishment, Activity and Closure" by Jozef Zelkowicz "דער אפטייל פאר סאציאלער הילף - זיין אנטשטיין טעטיקייט און ליקווידאציע"

    1. O.34 - Zonabend Collection: Documentation From the Lodz Ghetto

    Reports and articles by the Ghetto Archives staff: "The Social Welfare Department - Its Establishment, Activity and Closure" by Jozef Zelkowicz Survey about the activities of the Social Welfare Department from its establishment, 15 October 1939 until its closure in its initial format, 27 September 1940; statistical data taken from Rumkowski's reports to the Gestapo and from departmental reports to Rumkowski regarding its activities; most of the data is related to the activity of the public kitchens which were opened first in the city and then in the ghetto; details about the number of lunch...

  5. Kulka-Jaeckel Collection: Nazi reports regarding public opinion in Germany

    The Collection includes reports regarding the Stimmungsberichte (atmosphere; mood) among the members of SD units, the Gestapo, the Nazi Party and local authorities throughout Germany. The reports in which there is information regarding the Jews served as the basis for the book,"Die Juden in den geheimen NS-Stimmungsberichten 1933-1945"(The Jews in the Secret Nazi Atmosphere Reports, 1933-1945), Kulka, Otto Dov and Jäckel, Eberhard, eds., Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2004.

  6. Valsts slepenpolicijas pārvalde Gestapo

    • Secret State Police Office (Gestapo)
    • Geheime Staatspolizei - Gestapo Amt

    The fonds contains information collected since 1924, including information about the German secret police; German diplomatic mission reports, including reports on the activities of the Communist Party; Latvian political administration official staff lists; outgoing correspondence from the Baltic states to Germany; snippets from Latvian newspapers and newspapers from other European countries;; information about migrants (Übersiedler) from Baltic states in 1941, including names of agents and persons involved.

  7. Чернігівська міська управа, м. Чернігів Чернігівської області

    • Chernihiv city board, city of Chernihiv, Chernihiv region
    • Chernihivska miska uprava, m. Chernihiv Chernihivskoi oblasti

    Local administration documentation can contain information connected to the Holocaust in the area. Titles and sizes of the selected files potentially related to the subject: File 1. Printed orders, decrees and announcements of the Ortskommandantur and city board about organizing of district boards, village elders and their tasks, tax payments, and other issues, 33 pages. File 2. Orders within city board about list of staff members, hiring and dismissal of servants. Memo from Baran-Butovych regarding releasing POWs from the camps, dwellers of Chernihiv and nearby villages, 43 pages. File 3. ...

  8. 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...

  9. Personal Archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson

    The documentation deals with a part of the estate of the Samson family, originally from the city of Norden in Northern Germany. There is pre-war documentation on tax issues and the assets of the Samson family, pre- and postwar correspondence with German authorities, personal documents and certificates, documents on the restoration of the Norden Jewish cemetery supported by the Samson family after WW II, the dedication of a memorial on the Norden Jewish cemetery, charity work, brochures and magazines related to the history of the Norden Jews.

  10. Suomen Punaisen Ristin Sotavankitoimiston arkisto

    • Archive of the Finnish Red Cross POW Office

    The archive contains records from the years 1939-1948. It includes journals, correspondence, death certificates, as well as card indexes and lists of POWs, which are the archive’s main material.

  11. The Alfred Schwarzbaum Collection

    Alfred Schwazrbaum has been called a "one man aid and rescue operation". The GFH Schwarzbaum collection holds hundreds of documents, including letters and postcards sent to Schwarzbaum from Poland and from Jews living outside Poland, asking him for help or inquiring about relatives in Poland, receipts for parcel deliveries and correspondences with Jews in Poland and elsewhere.

  12. Documentation from the Trial against Bovensiepen and others

    The Record Group contains files from the trial conducted against the heads of the Gestapo Headquarters in Berlin during the final years of the war, as well as files prepared during the collection of evidence for the trial, including information regarding Nazi crimes which took place in other locations in and out of Germany. The files also contain testimonies and much information regarding the Jews of Berlin during the final stage of the persecutions against them and their destruction. There is information concerning deportations, the many detention camps in the city, Jewish community activi...

  13. Documentation from the Auschwitz Trials in Frankfurt, 1965-1968

    The Record Group includes documents gathered within the framework of the prosecution as preparation for the trials, the testimonies taken and the protocols of the trials themselves.

  14. Letter re Jews in German army

    Copy of a letter from Dr Best of the Gestapo, Berlin, to the Reichskriegsminister concerning discussions held by Kurt Sabatzki of the Central Verein and Generalleutnant von Bonin as to whether Jews could serve in the German Army. The report about these discussions reached the Gestapo, Berlin, via the Staatspolizeistelle, Magdeburg 

  15. Edgar Dreyfus: Family papers

    The papers in this collection document in part the lives of a French Jewish family and their experiences during the German occupation.

  16. Copy Gestapo order re the confiscation of Agathe Barthel's property

    Copy order re the confiscation of all Agathe Barthel's property in accordance with laws ordaining the removal of the property of communists and enemies of the state.German 

  17. Copy Gestapo order re the confiscation of Adolf Israel Scheyer's property

    Copy Gestapo order re the confiscation of Adolf Israel Scheyer's property in accordance with a law relating to former German citizens (Scheyer had left Germany on 24 February 1939)German 

  18. Copy report of transport of Jews from Düsseldorf to Minsk

    This is an apparently authentic certified copy of a report about a transport of Jews from Düsseldorf to Minsk, which commenced on 10 November 1941. The author was Hauptmann der Schutzpolizei, Meurin. The document is countersigned by Oberwachtmeister der Sch[utzpolizei?] [illegible]. Whilst the addressee is not explicit, the tenor of the report and the list of recommendations for future transports in the penultimate section suggest that it was written for the attention of the Gestapo, Düsseldorf, ie the organisation responsible for deporting the city's Jews. The description of the embarkatio...

  19. Copy documents re Bad Aussee resistance movement and Operation Bernhard

    This collection of copy documentation relates to the Austrian resistance movement during the Nazi era and to the attempt by the Nazis to wage economic warfare by flooding Britain with counterfeit British currency in the operation named Unternehmen Bernhard, after the Gestapo officer in charge, Bernhard Krueger

  20. Bertha Pappenheim: Copy letter

    Copy letter of Bertha Pappenheim, dated FrankfurtBarely legible