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  1. Prewar Jewish life in Alsace-Lorraine; tourist views

    June 8-15, 1927 in Ingwiller (the family stayed at the Hotel de la Gare in Alsace-Lorraine). Stone house in Ingwiller, France where August Levy grew up. Emilie and Robert play. Street life in the village - cow pulling a wagon with passengers moves along the town's main road passing "Epicerie et Mercerie" shop. 01:03:07 CUs of Levy relatives: Lucy Levy; Rachel Meis, half-sister of Henry Meis (who brought August Levy to Cincinnati in 1892), and August; Henry Meis (1857-) with Lucy Levy; another relative (woman) with Clara Levy; Henry Meis with Lucy Levy again, followed by Rachel Meis; Clara L...

  2. Prezydent Policji w Łodzi

    • Polizeipräsident Litzmannstadt
    • President of the Police in Łódź

    Sprawy meldunkowe cudzoziemców oraz personalne fukcjonariuszy centrali w Łodzi i oddziału w Pabianicach.

  3. Prezydent Policji w Poznaniu [Der Polizeipräsident Posen]

    • akta administracyjne (okólniki dot. aresztowania oficerów Policji Polskiej, przydziału broni służbowej, obrony przeciwlotniczej, rozkazy dzienne Komendy Policji Ochronnej w Poznaniu; wykazy funkcjonariuszy Policji Pomocniczej, volksdeutschów zamieszkałych w Poznaniu; akta dochodzeniowe przeciwko Polakom oskarżonym m.in. o nielegalne posiadanie broni; sprawozdania sytuacyjne dot. życia gospodarczo-politycznego: zaopatrzenia, konfiskaty mienia, usuwania szyldów z polskimi napisami, akcji policyjnych, szkoleń, kontroli posterunków, szczepień ochronnych, zakwaterowań, opieki lekarskiej, niesz...

  4. Prezydent Policji w Szczecinie [Der Polizeipräsident Stettin]

    • akta osobowe (ankiety personalne oficerów Policji Krajowej z 1935 r., akta personalne oficerów Policji Porządkowej z 1942 r. i dwóch pracowników Prezydium Policji w Szczecinie) - akta administracyjne (korespondencja, doniesienia o pobycie cudzoziemców w Szczecinie w latach 1940-1944; wykazy skonfiskowanych książek i druków w latach 1936-1938; kores pondencja dot. wiz wyjazdowych dla agentów Abwehry i Gestapo)

  5. Prezydium Policji w Szczecinie

    • Polizeipräsidium in Stettin
    • Police Presidium in Szczecin

    I. Materiały aktowe 158 j.a. (1,90 m.b.): 1. Wydział Prezydialny 1852-1945; sygn. 1-52; 52 j.a. - zarządzenia policyjne, sprawy organizacyjne, dyscyplinarne, szkoleniowe, paszportowe i graniczne, zmiany nazwisk, roczniki biuletynów służbowych wydawanych przez gestapo i policję związane ze sprawami organizacyjnymi. 2. Urząd ds. Cudzoziemców 1926-1945; sygn. 53-123; 71 j.a. - sprawy personalne urzędników, upoważnienia do korzystania ze środków lokomocji w Szczecinie, fragmentaryczne dane o obozach w których przebywali robotnicy przymusowi, przepisy regulujące nadzór nad robotnikami przymusowy...

  6. Print of a Bedrich Fritta street scene

    1. Charlotte Schiff collection

    Postwar print of a street scene drawn by Bedrich Fritta while a prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. Fritta, a Czech Jewish cartoonist and graphic designer, was deported to the camp from Prague on November 24, 1941. He was assigned to head the Graphic Department. Fritta was part of a tight knit group of artists determined to secretly document the wretched conditions of daily life in the camp. In summer 1944, they were accused by the Gestapo of smuggling their 'gruesome', atrocity propaganda, that is realistic, work out of the camp. Fritta, his wife Hansi, and son Tomas, 3, were sen...

  7. Printed map of Theresienstadt Ghetto obtained by a Jewish Czech woman

    1. Elizabeth Trausel family collection

    Single sided, printed, paper map of Theresienstadt ghetto labor camp acquired by Elisabeth (Liese) Trausel while imprisoned at the camp from late fall 1944 until liberation in May 1945. Liese was from Prague which was invaded in March 1939, by Germany and made part of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The authorities passed new anti-Jewish regulations that severely restricted Liese’s daily life. In September, Germany invaded neighboring Poland. In September 1941, Liese was required to wear a yellow Star of David badge at all times to identify herself as Jewish. Later that month, Rein...

  8. Prisoner ID badge number 95769 worn by a German Jewish man

    1. Alfred Fabian collection

    Prisoner identification patch worn by Alfred Fabian in Niederorschel and Buchenwald concentration camps from November 19, 1944, to April 11, 1945, printed with his prisoner number, 95769. On May 17, 1943, Alfred, wife Ruth, 5 year old daughter Ingrid, and Alfred’s mother Erna were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia. On October 12, 1944, the family was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center, where Ruth, Ingrid, and Erna were gassed on arrival. On November 19, 1944, Alfred was sent to Niederorschel slave labor camp, a Buchenwald subcamp in Germany. Niederorschel...

  9. Prisoner ID bracelet worn by a non-Jewish doctor imprisoned for resistance activity

    1. Julius de Clercq Zubli collection

    Prisoner identification bracelet worn by Dr. Julius de Clercq Zubli in Sachenhausen concentration camp in Germany from September 1944-April 1945. Zubli was a non-Jewish Dutch physician in Amsterdam who aided Jews and the Dutch resistance in German-occupied Netherlands, 1940-1945. Zubli issued papers to Jews falsely stating that they had a contagious disease which delayed their deportation. He helped Jews go into hiding and delivered false food ration cards for the underground. In May 1944, Julius was arrested while caring for resistance leader, Gerrit van der Veen, shot during an armed raid...

  10. Prisoner in the Electric Fence Richard Grune lithograph of a concentration camp prisoner crouched near barbed wire

    1. Richard Grune collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50604
    • English
    • overall: Height: 22.750 inches (57.785 cm) | Width: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm) pictorial area: Height: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm) | Width: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm)

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune soon after the war to publicize the barbaric conditions he experienced or witnessed as a prisoner in concentration camps and prisons in Germany from 1935-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor that January and was transforming the government to a Nazi-controlled dictatorship. Nazi ideology demanded racial and cultural purity and homosexuality was antithetical to this vision. Under the new government, those suspected of violating a pre-existing statute, Article 6, §175, which puni...

  11. Prisoners of War Kriegsgefangene

    The collection Kriegsgefangene consists of several war-time prisoner lists of which two lists were reproduced by the USHMM: 1. Stammlager XVII B Gneixendorf/Sterbebuch/AdR/DWM/08 ("Gfg. Lgr. Gneixendorf, Totenbuch 2.8.43-26.4.45"). This list contains prisoners of war of various nationalities, including Americans, who died in the POW camp Gneixendorf between August 2, 1943 and April 26, 1945. The list of the dead includes Americans, Belgians, French, Italians, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Slovaks, Yugoslavs, and other nationalities. 2.The second list includes more than 2,000 prisoners from va...

  12. Private papers of Eva Michaelis-Stern (A440)

    Personal papers of Eva Michaelis-Stern (1904-1992). The collection consists of articles, notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, manuscript and narrations of Eva Michaelis-Stern concerning her work for the Youth Aliyah in Germany and England; correspondence between Eva Michaelis-Stern and various people, mainly private; agreement between Michaelis-Stern and war veterans organization; newspaper articles, pictures and letters, notes, various booklets, guides and printed material from the Keren Hayesod, the Central Zionist Archives and the Council for Social Services and Voluntarism, inclu...

  13. Processo ai criminali nazisti. Procura di Osnabruck

    Il fondo riunisce tutta la documentazione prodotta e raccolta dal CDEC in seguito all'incarico ricevuto da alcuni magistrati tedeschi di rintracciare i testimoni per deporre al processo di Osnabruck con il quale dovevano essere giudicati tre ufficiali e due sottufficiali della divisione SS. Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, ritenuti responsabili delle stragi sul lago Maggiore.

  14. 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...

  15. Prosperity sure Pamphlet

    1. Franz Wohlfahrt family collection

    Jehovah's Witness pamphlet, Wohlfahrt Sicher, used by Gregor Wohlfahrt and then his son, Franz, to preach and recruit members for the Jehovah's Witness in Austria. After Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938, the literature was banned by the Nazis. The Watchtower Society, the administrative arm for the Jehovah Witnesses, had been banned in Germany since 1935. The religion was not banned but members were arrested for their refusal to be drafted or participate in any military work. Members in Austria knew that they would be persecuted for their refusal to accept the authority of any temporal p...

  16. Prozesse gegen Deutsche im europäischen Ausland: Handakten von Rechtsanwälten

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • ALLPROZ 21
    • German
    • Sammlung 394 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 7,0 laufende Meter

    Bestandsbeschreibung Unmittelbar nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ermittelten alliierte Gerichte gegen die Verantwortlichen für Verbrechen gegen den Frieden, wegen Kriegsverbrechen und Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit. Neben den Verfahren vor dem Internationalen Militärtribunal (IMT) in Nürnberg gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher und gegen die NS-Eliten insbesondere aus den Reihen der Justiz, Industrie, Ärzteschaft, Wehrmacht, Diplomatie und Beamtenschaft (Nürnberger Nachfolgeprozesse) fanden weitere Prozesse vor Militärgerichten in den vier Besatzungszonen Deutschlands statt. Zu vergleichb...

  17. Przodownikom Pracy [Socialist Hero of Labor] lapel medal issued to a Jewish official postwar

    1. Kalman and Pauline Barakan collection

    Przodownikom Pracy [Socialist Hero of Labor] medal in the shape of a 7 point star awarded by the Polish government in the 1950s to Kalman Barakan for his exemplary work for the Polish National Enterprise for Foreign Trade in Łódź, Poland. When Germany invaded Poland in June 1941, Kalman Barakan was a 30 year old lawyer in Bialystok. His home was destroyed and he had to move into a Jewish ghetto and do rough manual labor. He escaped in 1943 and lived in hiding, constantly on the move. In August 1943, the ghetto was destroyed; Kalman’s entire family was murdered in a death camp. In July 1944,...

  18. Public humiliation for violation of racial laws in Silesia, 1941

    Public humiliation of a young couple guilty of "Rassenschande" [racial shame or racial defilement] in Steinsdorf [present day Scinawa Nyska, Poland] in Silesia. Sexual relations between Germans and non-Aryans were forbidden and punishable by law in Nazi Germany. Bronia, a 16 year old Polish slave laborer, had been working with Gerhard Greschok (Krzeszczok), a 19 year old German, at the Adler family farm in Steinsdorf in the summer of 1941 when their forbidden affair was reported to the Gestapo. The film was discovered in an attic in Sturov, Slovakia in 1946. 01:00:00 Bronia and Gerhard are ...

  19. Public School Athletic League Winged Victory achievement badge received by a German Jewish teenage refugee

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Girl's Branch PSAL (Public School Athletic League) medal awarded to Franziska (Ruth) Danzig for physical accomplishments when she attended school in New York in the 1940s. When Ruth was 6, her parents, Gerda and Emanuel, sent her from Munich, Germany, to London, England, in June 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the government actively persecuted the Jewish population. During Kristallnacht, on November 9-10, 1938, the family’s apartment was searched by the Gestapo. In spring 1939, Ruth’s cousin, Bianca, was sent on...

  20. Public transport pass and identification tag issued to a Roman Catholic Polish youth

    1. Hermanowski family collection

    Leather tag with an identification card and public transport pass for July 1944, issued to Wojciech Hermanowski. Wojciech was a Roman Catholic boy living with his parents, Jan and Stanislawa, and his older brother, Andrzej, in Warsaw, Poland, when the German army invaded on September 1, 1939. Wojciech was no longer allowed to go to school, so he began attending trade school and took general classes in secret. In February 1943, Andrzej was arrested as part of the underground resistance, and later transported to Auschwitz concentration camp. On August 1, 1944, the city’s underground resistanc...