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  1. Diels, Rudolf

    1. Zeugenschrifttum
    2. D

    Niederschrift Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft 06. Januar 1946; Eidesstattliche Erklärungen 29. November und 04. November 1946; Interrogations 31. Oktober 1947, betr. Tötungen, Wirtschaft

  2. L'univers concentrationnaire Conference internationale du 26 au 28 Octobre Washington sur la liberation des camps de concentration Nazis par les Arme Allie et Franaise

    Consists of "L'univers concentrationnaire" compiled by the French Embassy for the International Liberators Conference in October 1981. Included is a report concerning the general history of concentration camps and reports on selected individual camps. Among the camps with individual reports are Dachau, Auschwitz, Neuengamme, Mauthausen, and Alderney (a.k.a. Aurigny).

  4. Walter K. and Lucie H. Sobotta papers

    Contains photographs, affidavits, statements, and certificates relating to Walter K. and Lucie H. Sobotta and their experiences during World War II.

  5. William and Jean Helmar papers

    The papers consist of four postcards and letters with envelopes written and sent by William Helmar from Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps to his parents in the Netherlands. Also included is a note with instructions to concentration camp inmates' friends and families about sending packages to prisoners.

  6. Kampf gegen den Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The publication discusses a reprint of an answer addressed to the writing of "The Myth of the 20th century", which was anti-church and anti-Christian. How this publication was created, printed and distributed in 1934 is recounted. After a disturbing meeting with Hitler, the archbishop of Cologne initiated the creation of a defense office against national-socialist anti-Christian propaganda. Anti-Christian publications were collected, counterpropaganda produced which was often immediately confiscated by the Gestapo. Overall, about 17 Mio. were distributed. Also conferences, meetings, lecture...

  7. Wohin?

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The booklet asks the question “Wohin” (Where to?) by Max Sievers with observations on the progress of the war after seven months of fighting. The feeling that it has not yet fully started and therefore will last for a long time is prevalent. Sievers analyzes the failures of Western countries (Finland). The entry of the United States in an eventual alliance is hoped for and the role of the Soviet Union and Italy in the progress of the war will most likely become more active. The second essay “Deutschlands innerer Kriegsschauplatz” (Germany’s inner front) by Manfred discusses the terror withi...

  8. The Liberators: The Liberation by the Criminal Army! Poster issued by the Gestapo to discredit executed French resistance members

    Political poster of the French resistance group Manouchian network. In February 1944, this poster appeared all over France. The Gestapo executed these men. Their leader was an Armenian gentleman named Missak Manouchian. The poster was meant to make an example of these ten partisans whose faces appear on this fiche. According to the book "Jewish Resistance in France" by Amy Latour, not long after the appearance of the poster, people began to deface the fiche by writing across the face "THEY DIED FOR FRANCE."

  10. Jewish associations in Erfurt: SD-RFSS file

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this collection.This file of documentation on the membership and activities of Jewish organisations in Erfurt in the 1930s reveals as much about the organisations themselves as it does about Nazi preoccupations with them.Reports and correspondence: Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens: questionnaire and papers, frames1-3Reports and correspondence: Frauengruppe des Centralvereins; membership list of jüdischer Centralverein, 30 Sep 1938, frames 4-9Israelitische Wohltätigkeitsverein "Chewra": memb...

  11. Jüdischer Kulturbund Stettin

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains informations about the Jüdischer Kulturbund Stettin in the years of 1934 and 1935. Letters revealing the difficulties to promote Kulturbund activities and proposals for perfomances and cultural activities are attached. Also programs of the planed events, adressed to Hans Hinkel, Reich Ministry for the People's Enlightenment and Propaganda, can be seen. Forthermore a request to approve a list of chairmen of the Stettin branch, as well as a list of names of the chairmen of the Oberschlesien (Upper Selesia) branch can be seen. Nothing negative about the chairmen could be inve...

  12. Liebknecht, Kurt.- Bildbestand

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 26.03.1905 in Frankfurt/Main, gest. 09.01.1994 in Berlin, Architekt, Präsident der Deutschen Bauakademie 1924-1929 Studium der Architektur an der Technischen Hochschule Berlin bei Hans Poelzig, Dipl.-Ingenieur, 1929-1931 Tätigkeit als Architekt bei Ludwig Mies van der Rohe und Hans Poelzig, 1931-1948 als Spezialist in die UdSSR (Gruppe Ernst May), Tätigkeit im Büro von Standartgorprojekt (Stadtplanung für Magnitogorsk und Nowokusnezk), 1939-1948 Tätigkeit an der Allunionsakademie für Architektur in Moskau im Bereich Gesundheitswesen, v.a. Tätigkeit im Kr...

  13. "Survival in the Lion's Den"

    Contains information about the experiences of Fred Angress's family during resettlement in Amsterdam and their life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. The testimony draws from Angress' personal diary and other published sources, all of which are listed in a short bibliography. The testimony is dedicated to Nelly Gispen, a close friend of the author during the Holocaust era.

  14. Liebknecht, Kurt.- Planbestand

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 26.03.1905 in Frankfurt/Main, gest. 09.01.1994 in Berlin, Architekt, Präsident der Deutschen Bauakademie 1924-1929 Studium der Architektur an der Technischen Hochschule Berlin bei Hans Poelzig, Dipl.-Ingenieur, 1929-1931 Tätigkeit als Architekt bei Ludwig Mies van der Rohe und Hans Poelzig, 1931-1948 als Spezialist in die UdSSR (Gruppe Ernst May), Tätigkeit im Büro von Standartgorprojekt (Stadtplanung für Magnitogorsk und Nowokusnezk), 1939-1948 Tätigkeit an der Allunionsakademie für Architektur in Moskau im Bereich Gesundheitswesen, v.a. Tätigkeit im Kr...

  15. ED 642 / 1

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Polizei und SS
    4. Polizeipräsidien, Polizeidirektionen, weitere Polizeibehörden

    Verfahrensakten zu verurteilten Polen Nowiecki, Glegocinski, Niemier der Geheimen Staatspolizei, 1939-1940, darin: Personalbogen, polizeiinterne Korrespondenz, Vernehmungsprotokolle, Eingaben Dritter, Urteile d. Standgerichte, Vermerke [Kopien 1969-1970]. Masch. Auszüge aus der Vernehmung Erhard Wetzel [im Eichmann-Prozess], 1961, betr. Referat für Judenfragen, Ostland, insbesondere zum "Gaskammerbrief" v. 25. Oktober 1941 [Kopien, o.A.], 14 S.

  16. Bericht van een "Polizei-Inspektor" (waarschijnlijk de Leiter van de Gestapo, Dusseldorp, of een van diens vertegenwoordigers) uit Dusseldorp over een...

    1. Proces Eichmann

    Bericht van een "Polizei-Inspektor" (waarschijnlijk de Leiter van de Gestapo, Dusseldorp, of een van diens vertegenwoordigers) uit Dusseldorp over een bespreking op 6 maart 1942 op het RSHA, IV B 4. Eichmann begon mee te delen, dat nieuwe deportaties uit Duitsland, Oostenrijk en het Protektorat op handen zijn, uit Praag 20.000, uit Wenen 18.000, uit Dusseldorp weer 1.000 Joden. De richtlijnen m.b.t. ouderdom, invaliditeit, enz. moeten nauwkeurig in acht worden genomen. Na een transport is door de voorzitter van de Joodse Raad in Riga bij enkele "Gauleiter" geprotesteerd, dat 40-45 Joden ten...

  17. Liliane Steinfeld. Collection

    This collection contains : several documents regarding members of the Steinfeld/Stainfeld family during the war, two photos of deported Steinfeld family members, a Gestapo pin and a scrapbook containing a collection of wartime cartoons published in British and American newspapers, gathered by Liliane Steinfeld.

  18. Documentation from the concentration camps and the POW camps in Germany from the OSOBY Archive in Moscow, 1938-1944

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10633850
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1938-1944
    • Administrative documentation Financial accounts List of Nazi war criminals List of POWs Map Names of perpetrators Official documentation Order Personal documents Statistical data

    Documentation from concentration camps and POW camps in Germany from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1938-1944 The collection contains files regarding personnel matters, among them reports concerning transfers of staff members (including members of the Totenkopf units), promotion and the awarding of medals, and personal files of staff members; guidelines for Inspektion der Konzentrationslager (the supervision of the concentration camps) and guidelines issued by the Reichsfuehrer SS concerning administration of the concentration camps and the handling of the inmates, including matters pertainin...

  19. Fredrika L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fredrika L., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1917. She recalls attending pharmacy school; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; marriage; paying large sums in 1942 for false papers to travel to Switzerland via Belgium; the Gestapo arresting her husband en route to Switzerland (she never saw him again), but releasing her; returning to warn her parents not to take that train (they had already left and were detained and deported); hiding in many places, often with her brother; a Belgian family who took them in; contemplating suicide, but deciding against i...

  20. Natzwiller concentration camp records

    Consists of various documents relating to Natzwiller (a.k.a. Natzweiler) concentration camp. Among the documents are memoranda and reports relating to camp administration, statistical reports regarding inmate population, and a French-language report on the conditions at Natzwiller. The French report includes photographs and information on medical atrocities. Many of the materials (including the French report) are accompanied by English translations.