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  1. Deutsche Polizeidienststellen in Norwegen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Der Bestand setzt sich aus Akten zusammen, die bei Kriegsende von der US-amerikanischen Besatzungsmacht beschlagnahmt und später an die Bundesrepublik Deutschland zurückgegeben worden waren. Archivische Bearbeitung Die Bewertung und Verzeichnung erfolgte in der Dienststelle Koblenz des Bundesarchivs. Das vorliegende Findbuch basiert auf dem vorläufigen Findbuch von 1975. Im Jahr 2006 ist eine Archivalieneinheit dazugekommen. Bestandsbeschreibung Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Nord bzw. für die besetzten norwegischen Gebiete 1942-1945 (7), Be...

  2. Oberkommando Wehrmacht/ Amtsgruppe Ausland

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Militär
    4. Zentrale Einrichtungen der Reichswehr und Wehrmacht
    5. Spitzenbehörden
    6. OKW/Wehrmachtsführungsstab

    I. Oberkommando Wehrmacht/ Amtsgruppe Ausland: ( =Ag Ausland IIA5 Band II; Heeresarchiv Potsdam, Sg.70/no 33 683) (OKW/1063): Meldung von V-Männern und der Auslandspresse, Bericht Generalkonsul von Krug (Vichy), usw., November-Dezember 1942: Entwicklung in Frankreich und französisch Nordafrika während und nach der alliierten Landung am 08. November 1942; Blatt 5.647 007-5.647 229; Inhaltsverzeichnis; Blatt 5.647 009-5.647 012: 1) Generalstab des Heeres/ Fremde Heere West an Auslands Abwehr vom 27. Dezember 1942: Aufstellung einer französischen Armee unter General Giraud als Nachfolger für d...

  3. Schriftgutverwaltung

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Polizei und SS
    4. Persönlicher Stab

    I. Reichsführer SS/ Persönlicher Stab (RFSS/ Pers. Stab): SS-Obersturmführer Wilhelm Friedrich Mayr: Korrespondenz Reichssippenamt, SS-Personalhauptamt, 28. Oktober 1938-19. April 1943: Ariererklärung für Oberleutnant Helgo Magnussen; Versuch, diese auch für dessen Schwester (verheiratet mit SS-Obersturmführer W. F. Mayr-Miesbach) zu erlangen [Originalakte 294], 7 947-8 029; II. RFSS/ Pers. Stab: Professor F. A. Six, 1943: Übersendung von Abhandlungen Francesco Orestano (Das religiöse Leben des neuen Europa), Bischof Alois Hudal (Europas religiöse Zukunft), Baron Julius Evola (Missklänge in...

  4. pièces justificatives du mémoire remis par J. Carcopino (suite)

    1. Haute Cour de justice. Volume 3 Haute Cour de justice. Rép. num. détaillé dact., par M.-Th. Chabord, 11 vol., 2420 p. Volume 3 : 3w/106-3w/141
    2. Jérôme CARCOPINO Secrétaire d'Etat à l'Education Nationale 23 février 1941-18 avril 1942
    3. Jérôme Carcopino. Dossier II

    pièces justificatives du mémoire remis par J. Carcopino (suite), n°s 37-184 (copies) 37 texte d'émissions radiophoniques de Radio-Sottens, 22 et 23 février 1941 38 télégramme de félicitations du Conseil de l'Université de Paris 31 mars 1941 (original) 39 La Fraternité française. Discours prononcé par M. Jérôme Carcopino, Secrétaire d'Etat à l'Education nationale et à la Jeunesse, radio-diffusé le 16 mars 1941 (brochure imprimée) 40 déclaration de M. H... le 29 mai à 15 heures (sans date d'année). Copie d'une pièce figurant au dossier Chevalier 41 lettre autographe de Jacques Pirenne, 17 mar...

  5. Les Gueules Cassées French National Lottery ticket

    1. Eva and Zvi Schloss collection

    Les Gueules Cassées [Broken Jaws] French National Lottery ticket with a Hebrew foreign currency stamp acquired by Eva and Zvi Schloss, postwar for their collection. The lottery was offered by the French National Lottery office to provide money for the Union of the Wounded Face and Head Association or Broken Jaws, and other disfigured soldier's organizations. In March 1919, after World War I (1914-1918), France passed a law recognizing the right of injured veterans to compensation. Facial injuries were not considered disabling for work, however, and the maimed and disfigured were not eligibl...

  6. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 [funfzig] kronen note

    1. Eva and Zvi Schloss collection

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp acquired by Eva and Zvi Schloss, postwar for their collection. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich. Zvi Schloss, age 10, fled Nazi Germany, with his parents, Meier and I...

  7. Zvi and Eva Schloss papers

    1. Eva and Zvi Schloss collection

    Consists of postcards and an envelope from the collection of Zvi and Eva Schloss. Includes two postcards, dated 1934-1935, and one envelope, all sent by Meier Schloss [Zvi Schloss's father] while he was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp to his family in Ingolstadt, Germany. Also includes one 1939 French national lottery ticket, one 50 kronen piece of Terezin ghetto scrip, and one 1914 postcard from World War I featuring a map depicting anthropomorphic representations of the belligerent nations.

  8. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 25 and 26 -- Testimony of Z. Lubetkin, Y. Zuckerman, A. Berman, R. Kuper

    Sessions 25 and 26. Eichmann sitting in his booth. The Judges open Session 25 and present Decision 14. This decision notes the appeal of witness interrogation abroad as certain witnesses would be arrested under the Nazi Collaborators Punishment Law of 1950, should they appear in Israel. Presiding Judge, Moshe Landau refers to Decision 11, which states that foreign courts may acquire testimony from restricted witnesses for the purpose of the Eichmann trial. There is a blip at 00:07:08. Hausner questions Zivia Lubetkin Zuckerman, a resistance fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto about the conditions ...

  9. The Call Print 2 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, including those that had died, being accounted for during roll call 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”, individuals presenting a threat ...

  10. Drudgery Print 4 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 a line of prisoners pushing full wheelbarrows uphill while guards and dogs attach them 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”, individuals presenting a...

  11. Brown leather work boots worn by a Hungarian Jewish man for forced labor and in hiding

    1. George Pick family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn514722
    • English
    • a: Height: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Depth: 6.375 inches (16.192 cm) b: Height: 11.875 inches (30.163 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm)

    Leather work boots bought by Istvan Pick in Budapest, Hungary, in spring 1943 when he received a summons to report for forced labor. He wore them in two forced labor battalions, and when he went into hiding in Budapest. Istvan, his wife Margit, and their ten year old son Gyorgy lived in hiding in Budapest from November 1944-January 1945. Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany and adopted similar anti-Jewish laws in the 1930s. Istvan, an engineer, lost his job in May 1939 because he was Jewish. He was conscripted into Hungarian labor battalions in 1940, 1943, and 1944. After German setbacks in ...

  12. Star of David badge printed Juif worn by a Jew in France

    1. Witek and Wiera Sierpinska collection

    Star of David badge given to Dr. Witek Sierpinski after June 1942 by a Jewish friend who had worn it in France. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, Witek worked in a psychiatric hospital in Lvov, Poland (Lʹviv, Ukraine). In November 1941, he moved to the Warsaw ghetto and joined the Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludnosci Zydowskiej w Polsce (TOZ), a ghetto health organization that helped the sick and starving. A former co-worker got him out of the ghetto. By 1942, he was active in various Polish resistance groups, particularly the Armia Ludowa [People’s Guard] (AL). He recruited me...

  13. Jewish Relief Unit Star of David pin worn by a German Jewish nurse working in a DP camp

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Jewish Relief Unit pin worn by Alice Redlich while she served as a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former concentration camp in Germany after the war. The British army liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice and her family were German Jews living in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship. In 1938, 18 year old Alice left for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, she left for the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp to care for children...

  14. Concentration camp uniform coat with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate

    1. Anonymous Jehovah’s Witness collection

    Concentration camp uniform overcoat worn by a male Jehovah’s Witness who was imprisoned in Buchenwald and Flossenbürg concentration camps from October 25, 1939, to May 8, 1945. It has a white patch with his Flossenbürg prisoner number, 38641, beside a purple triangle marking him as a Jehovah’s Witness. The Nazi regime persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses, who refused to put any authority before God or serve in the military. In mid-September 1937, he was imprisoned by the Gestapo for leading the local Jehovah’s Witness group, whose activities were viewed as subversive activity against the Nazi reg...

  15. Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate

    1. Anonymous Jehovah’s Witness collection

    Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a male Jehovah’s Witness who was imprisoned in Buchenwald and Flossenbürg concentration camps from October 25, 1939, to May 8, 1945. It has a white patch with his Flossenbürg prisoner number, 38641, beside a purple triangle marking him as a Jehovah’s Witness. The Nazi regime persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses, who refused to put any authority before God or serve in the military. In mid-September 1937, he was imprisoned by the Gestapo for leading the local Jehovah’s Witness group, whose activities were considered subversive activity against the Nazi regi...

  16. Concentration camp uniform trousers worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate

    1. Anonymous Jehovah’s Witness collection

    Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a male Jehovah’s Witness who was imprisoned in Buchenwald and Flossenbürg concentration camps from October 25, 1939, to May 8, 1945. The Nazi regime persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses, who refused to put any authority before God or serve in the military. In mid-September 1937, he was imprisoned by the Gestapo for leading the local Jehovah’s Witness group, whose activities were viewed as subversive activity against the Nazi regime. After two years, the SS sent him to Buchenwald where he was a slave laborer. On December 11, 1944, he was transferred to Flos...

  17. Concentration camp uniform pants with red triangle patch worn by Polish Jewish inmate

    1. Marek Watnicki collection

    Striped blue and gray concentration uniform pants worn by Mieczyslaw Watnicki in Auschwitz concentration camp from late 1940 until his liberation in Germany in May 1945. The pants have a red inverted triangle badge with the letter P on the upper left thigh. This would indicate that Mieczyslaw was a Polish political prisoner. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Mieczyslaw lived in Warsaw under a false identity as a non-Jew. He was arrested in late 1940 for falsifying identity papers, but the Gestapo did not discover that he was Jewish. He was sent to Auschwitz as a Polish politic...

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

    1. Marek Watnicki collection

    Striped concentration uniform jacket worn by Mieczyslaw Watnicki in Auschwitz concentration camp from late 1940 until his liberation in Germany in May 1945. The jacket breast has a white patch with an inverted red triangle with a P and the number 13760., one digit off from Mieczyslaw's number 137605. The red triangle with P indicates a Polish political prisoner. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Mieczyslaw lived in Warsaw under a false identity as a non-Jew. He was arrested in late 1940 for falsifying identity papers, but the Gestapo did not discover that he was Jewish. He was...

  19. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish inmate

    1. Marek Watnicki collection

    Striped concentration uniform cap worn by Mieczyslaw Watnicki in Auschwitz concentration camp from late 1940 until his liberation in Germany in May 1945. The pants have a red badge with the letter P, indicating that Mieczyslaw was a Polish political prisoner. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Mieczyslaw lived in Warsaw under a false identity as a non-Jew. He was arrested in late 1940 for falsifying identity papers, but the Gestapo did not discover that he was Jewish. He was sent to Auschwitz as a Polish political prisoner and assigned prisoner number 137605. In late 1944 or ea...

  20. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin

    1. Marek Watnicki collection

    10 mark Litzmannstadt coin owned by Mieczyslaw Watnicki, although when or how he acquired it is unknown. This type of coin was issued in Łódź Ghetto in German occupied Poland in 1943. Currency was not allowed in the ghetto, and scrip was issued for use only there. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Mieczyslaw lived in Warsaw under a false identity as a non-Jew. He was arrested in late 1940 for falsifying identity papers, but the Gestapo did not discover that he was Jewish. He was sent to Auschwitz as a Polish political prisoner and assigned prisoner number 137605. In late 1944 ...