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  1. M.12: Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (CDJC - Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) in Paris

    M.12: Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (CDJC - Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) in Paris The Record Collection contains documentation housed at the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CCJD) in Paris which was received by Yad Vashem Archives as microfilm during the 1950s and 1960s following the Schneerson-Di Nur Agreement. The Archives contain documentation of the Gestapo, the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ-Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs), the Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF...

  2. M.52.DAIFO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region

    M.52.DAIFO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region History of the Archives: The Archives was established in December 1939 and was called the Regional Historical Archives of Stanislawow until 1941. Before its establishment, all of the documentation was kept in institutions of the authorities and in public institutions. This documentation began to be collected by the Stanislawow UNKVD as of November 1939 in the new regional Archives after the same institutions and organizations were cancelled by the Soviet authorities. The name of the Archives was changed during ...

  3. M.52.DALO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Lwow Region

    M.52.DALO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Lwow Region History of the Archives: The State Archives of the Lwow Region was established in December 1939 on the basis of the State Archives of Lwow. The archive was called the Regional Historical Archives in Lwow until 1941. It was called the State Archive of the Lwow Region during 1941-1958, and was called the Regional State Archives in Lwow during 1958-1980. As of 1959 the documentation that was in the Regional Archives in Drogobych was transferred to it. Since 1980 it has been called the State Archives of the Lwow Region. The Sub-...

  4. MA 172 / 1

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. PERTINENZBESTÄNDE
    4. Judenverfolgung

    Generalia und Spezialia betreffend Judenangelegenheiten, unter anderem: 1) Anfrage und Anweisung Regierungspräsident Hildesheim vom 22. Dezember 1931 an alle Polizeibehörden und Antworten der Ortspolizeibehörde Göttingen vom 30. März 1933: Schutz der Juden, 2 Seiten; 2) Richtlinien Regierungspräsident Hildesheim vom 31. März 1933 an alle Ortspolizeibehörden: Boykottbewegung gegen ausländische Greuelpropaganda; 3) Ortspolizeibehörde Göttingen an Regierungspräsident Hildesheim vom 01. April 1933: Ermittlung in Judenverfolgungen; 4) Funkspruch Kommandeur der politischen Polizei vom 08. Septemb...

  5. MA 198 / 2

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Provenienzen der Länder
    4. Preußen

    I. Preußisches Ministerium des Innern/ II G: Bericht des preußischen Regierungspräsidenten Berlin, März-August 1933: Maßnahmen zur Durchführung der Verordnung zum Schutze von Volk und Staat vom 28. Februar 1933 gemäß Runderlass Preußisches Ministerium des Innern vom 03. März 1933, unter anderem: 1) Bericht Polizeipräsident/ Landeskriminalamt Berlin (gezeichnet Diels) vom 20. März, 04. April, 21. April 1933: Verzeichnis der bis zum 19. März 1933 nach Verordnung zum Schutze von Volk und Staat verbotenen kommunistischen und sozialdemokratischen Druckschriften und geschlossenen Räumlichkeiten, ...

  6. MA 70 / 1

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. PERTINENZBESTÄNDE
    4. Antikomintern
    1. Korrespondenz (Abschrift, 3 Seiten) Sven Hedin mit Professor Kant, Rektor der Universität Dorpat (ohne Datum): Die baltischen Länder fühlen sich nicht als Teil der UdSSR und schließen sich im Kampf um ihre Existenz Deutschland an; Anlage: Bericht (Abschrift, 2 S.) über Merekula auf Grund eidesstattlicher Aussagen sowjetischer Gefangener vom 02. März 1944: Die Sowjetsoldaten hatten den Auftrag bei geglückter Landung bei Merekula alles zu vernichten, einschließlich Frauen und Kinder; 2. Afrika; Algerien, 1937-1938: Fh. v. D.[?]: Halbmond gegen Sichel und Hammer, Der Krieg des "Destours" (A...

  7. MA 708 / 3

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. PERTINENZBESTÄNDE
    4. Dokumente aus polnischen Archiven

    I. Massenexekutionen und Massengräber von Juden und Polen, 1939-1945 im Generalgouvernement: Fragebogen örtlicher Kommissionen zur Erforschung deutscher Verbrechen, 1945-1946, 1-80, unter anderem: 1) "Fragebogen über Massenexekutionen und Massengräber " (polnisch), Oktober-Dezember 1945: Erschießung von Polen, Juden und Sowjetbürgern durch Gestapo und SS im Kreise Cholm, Distrikt Lublin, 1942-1945, 1-13; 2) dasselbe, Oktober 1945: Erschießung von Juden durch Gestapo und Gendarmerie im Kreise Hrubieszow, Distrikt Lublin, 1939-1943, 14-19; 3) dasselbe, November 1945: Erschießung von Juden, Po...

  8. MA 708 / 5

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. PERTINENZBESTÄNDE
    4. Dokumente aus polnischen Archiven

    I. Hauptkommission für die Erforschung deutscher Verbrechen in Polen: Personalakten von angeblich in Verbrechen verwickelten Deutschen in Polen, 1946-1948, 1-335, darin auch: 1) Rundschreiben Oberlandesgerichtspräsident Danzig, 03. September 1942: Behandlung von Rechtsstreitigkeiten zwischen Deutschen und Polen, 54-56; II. Hauptkommission für die Erforschung deutscher Verbrechen in Polen: Tätigkeit der Umwandererzentralstelle Posen, 1940, 336-420, unter anderem: 1) Liste [ohne Verfasser, ohne Datum]: [Polnisch] "Vereine, deren Mitglieder für die Abschiebung unbedingt in Frage kommen", "Vere...

  9. Maccabi sports club patch with a blue Star of David and Aachen worn by a Jewish youth

    1. Edward Isidor Gross collection

    White sleeve badge worn by Isidore (later Edward) Gross as a teenager when he played soccer with the Maccabi Sports Club in Aachen, Germany. He lived with his parents, Markus and Ida, and two younger siblings in Aachen, Germany. His parents had been born in Poland, but had lived in Aachen since 1920. Since the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in1933, Jew were increasingly persecuted in Germany. In fall 1938, Markus was deported back to Poland by the German authorities. Following Kristallnacht on November 9-10. Isidore, age 17, and his maternal uncle Jacob were arrested. Isidore was re...

  10. Machine inspection cover placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Machine inspection cover 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 wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Mar...

  11. Machine part put on workbench to conceal hiding place of Jewish family

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Machine part 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 wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had esca...

  12. Macramé bag with 2 wooden handles used by a Polish Jewish family while in hiding

    1. Franka and Samuel Baral family collection

    Macramé bag used by Franka Baral to hide money while living in hiding with her 3 children, Aneta, 13 yr., Martin, 11 yr., and Jim Jacob, 8 years old from 1943-45. It was made by her brother, Samuel Hirsh. One wooden handle was made hollow to hide valuables. They carried food in the see-through bag, so it would not attract interest. They were arrested several times, but the bag was never taken away. Franka and her family were forced into the Krakow ghetto in 1941 by the Germans, who occupied Poland in September 1939. In 1943, warned of a planned liquidation, the family escaped. The boys were...

  13. Madeleine D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Madeleine D., a Roman Catholic, who was born in Strasbourg, France in approximately 1923. She recounts attending Catholic school; German occupation; relocation with her family to Pe?rigueux for a year; returning home; working for an agency which enabled her to smuggle food, clothes and papers to French and English POWs for the underground; arrest in Saarebourg in 1942 and interrogation by the Gestapo; transfer to Schirmeck a month later; slave labor; the prisoners in her barrack surreptitiously praying at night; hospitalization; a prisoner-doctor smuggling her food; r...

  14. Magdalena N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magdalena N., who was born in Ružomberok, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1920, one of two sisters. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; her strong Slovak identity; teaching Jewish students in L̕ubochňa; anti-Jewish restrictions, including the humiliation of having to wear the star; moving to Bratislava with her family; her father hiding them, then arranging for her and her sister to be smuggled to Hungary; interdiction in Senec; return to Bratislava; two strangers paying for their release; her sister's marriage to a man legally exempted from deportat...

  15. Magdeburg Jewish Community records

    Contains postwar correspondence, including with other Jewish communities; lists of Jews; private papers of Israel Hersch; membership lists of the Jewish community; and a card file, presumably made by the Gestapo, of Jews in the Neu Stassfurt forced labor camp; photographs of the aftermath of Kristallnacht; and family photos.

  16. Magnus and van Oosten families papers

    The Magnus and van Oosten family papers consist of correspondence, certificates, printed material, and photographs, related to the experiences of the extended family of Sary Melles (née Magnus) during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. The collection includes correspondence from her brother, Ibertus Magnus, written shortly before and during his imprisonment by the Germans, first in Assen, the Netherlands, and then at Buchenwald, as well as a notification of his death and a death certificate. Also included is a brochure that documents the jazz band that he performe...

  17. Maier and Gruber families papers

    1. Ella Hochstadt Gruber Maier and Erich Maier family collection

    The papers consist of documents, photographs, passports, clippings, and identification cards relating to the Gruber and Maier families, their experiences in Austria, and their immigration to the United States during the Holocaust. The collection documents Erich Maier’s legal career in Austria through 1938 as well as Erich and Ella Maier’s attempts to facilitate their family members’ immigration to the United States in the 1940s.

  18. Majakowski Eisler Lieder

    1. Music study collection

    AURORA (2) ‎– 5 80 004, Format: Vinyl, 7", Mono, 45 RPM, Black label, Country: German Democratic Republic (GDR), Released: 1968. Album is from Aleksander Kulisiewicz's personal collection. Tracklist: A1. Linker Marsch. Conductor – Walter Goehr Written By – Wladimir Majakowski A2. Zeit Marsch Conductor – Adolf Fritz Guhl Written By – Wladimir Majakowski B1. Subotnik Conductor – Walter Goehr Written by – Wladimir Majakowski B2. Vorwärts, Bolschewik! Conductor – Walter Goehr. Written By – Ernst Busch, Peter Hacks

  19. Majdanek liberated

    Opening titles and credits (see transcription below). Pan of prisoners behind barbed wire. CUs prisoners, their tatooed numbers, of the electrically charged barbed wire, ruins, various signs, guard towers, aerial views, etc. The Russian officers examine officials of camp. Men dig up graves for evidence. CU, women weeping as bodies are uncovered. CUs, decomposed bodies and pile of skulls. Gas chambers. CU can of chemicals used for gas. INTs, camp, etc. Officials of the camp are examined and, with the help of female Russian interpreter, various prisoners tell their stories. Rolling credits at...

  20. Man's tailored nightshirt with braided trim brought to the US by a Jewish Austrian refugee

    1. Alfred and Elsa Dukes collection

    Man’s tailored nightshirt brought with Alfred Dukes when he, his wife, Elsa, and their 13 year old daughter, Gertrude, left Vienna, Austria, for the United States in July 1939. On March 13, 1938, Austria was annexed by Germany. Anti-Jewish policies forced Alfred out of his job as a government office manager. On November 10, during Kristallnacht, Alfred was arrested, while Elsa and Gertrude were taken to Gestapo headquarters and held for hours. Alfred returned home badly beaten a week later, with the condition that he leave Austria. Alfred and Elsa had no relatives to sponsor their immigrati...