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  1. An anonymous testimony of a woman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1922, age 21, regarding her experiences in Lodz, Warsaw, Russia and her aliya to Eretz Israel in 1943

    1. O.12 - Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943
    • לודז'

    An anonymous testimony of a woman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1922, age 21, regarding her experiences in Lodz, Warsaw, Russia and her aliya to Eretz Israel in 1943 Life in Lodz; work as a clerk in the Jewish community. Attitude of the head of the Gestapo towards the leadership and clerks of the Jewish community; abuse of the editor Unger by the Germans; murder of Unger; escape to Warsaw; escape including move to the Bug River; escape to the Soviet Union; aliya to Eretz Israel, February 1943. The testimony was recorded during the war.

  2. Testimony of Palo Sheiner, born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, 1904, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, a camp near Marculesti and Hungary

    1. O.12 - Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943

    Testimony of Palo Sheiner, born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, 1904, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, a camp near Marculesti and Hungary Deportation from Cernauti to a camp near Marculesti; escape and crosses the Dniester river; escape along the Polish border; encounter with the Ukrainian Police and Gestapo; escape; capture and transfer to a cemetery; escape and rescue from shooting; escape to Hungary. The testimony was recorded during the war.

  3. O.92 - Kulka-Jaeckel Collection: Nazi reports regarding public opinion in Germany

    O.92 - 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. Professor Dov Otto Kulka submitted cop...

  4. Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding the activities taking place in the Soviet Union including the activities of the Einsatzgruppen

    Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding the activities taking place in the Soviet Union including the activities of the Einsatzgruppen The initial reports are reports (Referat) from the Director of the IVA1 (Gestapo-struggle against the Communists) in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA-Reich Security Headquarters) that were distributed among officials in the RSHA, with Himmler foremost among them; beginning with Report No. 4, the reports received the SIPO and SD Headquarters heading, with the acronym IVA...

  6. Имперский суд и Прокуратура Германии (г. Лейпциг)

    • Reichsgericht und Reichsanwaltschaft (Leipzig)
    • Records of the Reichsgericht and Reichsanwaltschaft in Leipzig (State Court and State Prosecutorial Office)

    Investigatory records, letters, newspapers

  7. תיקים אישיים,בעיקר של יהודים, של Gestapo Staatspolizeileitstelle Duesseldorf

    Structure of the Gestapo Staatspolizeirektion Duesseldorf: Division II (Domestic Police) is subdivided into subdivisions, of which the Department of Culture (II B), Division II C (Reaction and Opposition), II H (Party Affairs) and II E, the Department of Economics, are mentioned. Head of the Cultural Department (II B) was from 1935 to 1943/44 police superintendent Wilhelm Friedrich. The cultural department was again subdivided into the department for the Catholic Church (II B 1), the department for the Protestant Church and sects (II B 2), the department for emigrants (II B 3) and the depar...

  8. Files of the Oberfinanzpraesident Berlin-Brandenburg

    Files of the Oberfinanzpraesident Berlin-Brandenburg The local (Finanzamt) and regional (Oberfinanzpraesidium) finance offices were the central offices for the registration of Jewish property by the Nazi authorities. The Jewish property was later seized by means of very high emigration taxes and confiscation. Special importance was given to the Finanzamt Moabit-West in Berlin, headed by Willy Bötcher, which received the responsibility for the confiscation of property of political emigres (whose citizenship was revoked) throughout the German Reich on 30/08/1933. The function of the offices w...

  9. Documentation of the Reichsministerium der Justiz (Reich Ministry of Justice), Germany, 1933-1945

    Documentation of the Reichsministerium der Justiz (Reich Ministry of Justice), Germany, 1933-1945 In the years 1933-1935, the Reich Ministry of Justice became the central authority in the judicial system in Germany, and as such assumed management of the system. Upon the seizure of control by the Nazis, Franz Guertner, who had been appointed to the position of Reich Justice Minister in 1932 under Franz von Papen, abandoned the principles of State Law, and provided legal means for the activities of the SA, SS and the Gestapo. During his time, the rights of Jews were revoked and a special crim...

  10. List of Jews from Belgrade deported to the Sajmiste camp; list of the German perpetrators

    1. Државна комисија за утврђивање злочина окупатора и њихових помагача
    2. Documents on the Holocaust in Serbia (and Yugoslavia)

    The list of the Jews from Belgrade deported and killed in the Sajmiste concentration camp is one of the rare existing documents with the names of the victims. The list of the German perpetrators responsible for the prosecution of the Jews in Belgrade include members of the Gestapo, SS, German police in charge of the administration of the Sajmiste camp.

  11. Collection of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, the Netherlands, 1945-1967

    Collection of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, the Netherlands, 1945-1967 Establishment of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, in July 1945, in order to locate Dutch property - personal property and state property - such as: diamonds, machinery, art collections, stamp collections, banking securities, church bells and other items that were "purchased" or stolen and transferred to Germany and to other countries during the German occupation; Included in t...

  12. Collection of H. G. Adler, 1937-1959

    Collection of H. G. Adler, 1937-1959 H. G. Adler was born in Prague in 1910; he was a poet, historian, sociologist and multidisciplinary researcher; he was an inmate in Niederorschel, Langenstein-Zwieberge, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz camps; after the war he wrote important books regarding Theresienstadt and regarding totalitarian regimes; he died in London in 1988; Included in the collection: List of senior officials who served in Nazi organizations and institutions; Subjects related to the handling of the "Jewish Problem" that were discussed by Nazi organizations, including among others ...

  15. Documentation from the Staatspolizeileitstelle (Gestapo Headquarters) in Stuttgart

    Documentation from the Staatspolizeileitstelle (Gestapo Headquarters) in Stuttgart

  16. Еврейское телеграфное агенство (JTA)

    • Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
    • Evreiskoe telegrafnoe agentstvo (ITA)

    The collection's contents are described in three inventories. Documents are catalogued in the inventories for the most part chronologically, and with geographical and chronological indexes. Copies of informational bulletins of the JTA published in Berlin, London, Prague, and Paris constitute the bulk of the collection's documentary materials. The collection also has copies of bulletins and journals published in Palestine and Switzerland; articles, accounts, reports, and newspaper clippings on the situation of the Jewish population of various countries, on the activities of Zionist and other...

  17. Союз австрийских евреев (г. Вена)

    • Union österreichischer Juden (Wien)

    The entire Fond 714, 1903-1938 (134 Dela) contains the Austrian Jewish Union charts for 1903-1937, minutes, correspondence with local Jewish organizations campaigning against antisemitism and fundraising for charitable purposes; circulars on rules for electing boards of Jewish religious communities; accounts of the activities of Jewish religious community of Vienna, 1925-1928; brochures, and issues of the Jewish newspapers “Jűdische Welt”, “Jűdische Rundschau”, “Die Wahreit”, and “Jűdische-liberale Zeitung”, as well as issues of the German newspapers “National Zeitung” and “Reichspost”, and...

  18. Copies of ordinances from the Army and from civil authorities regarding treatment of Jews.

    1. Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Police Headquarters Chișinău
    • Copii ale ordonanțelor din partea armatei și ale autorităților civile privind tratamentul faţă de evrei
    • Копии постановлений армейских и гражданских властей относительно обращения с евреями

    Copies of ordinances from the Army and from civil authorities regarding treatment of Jews. Jewish work brigades in Chișinău. Report on killings of Jews by the GESTAPO. The ghetto in Chișinău. The ghetto in Chișinău. The pursuit of Jews known or denounced as having collaborated with the Bolsheviks. Mixed marriages and conversions. Reports asserting that Jewish elements had an undignified behavior during the retreat of the Romanians from Bessarabia in 1940. Report by the Siguranța on atrocities committed on October 8, 1941, when a convoy of ca 2,000 Jews were evacuated. They were robbed and t...

  19. Okresní úřad Sedlčany

    • Sedlčany District Office / NAD 7

    The fonds contains official books and files. The following documents are relevant: Conversion to the Roman Catholic Church and change of name Teresia Kohnová 1900; Jewish Religious Society 1904-1927, 1909-1937; Register of Jews: file 1940-1941 (A-K, L-W) with photographs; trade licenses 1940 (containing an inventory of Jewish property); Jewish religious communities 1938-1941; records of conversions 1938; The Record of Infectious Human Diseases 1940; Presidium files: Measures against agitation and political terror against Jewish citizens in connection with the exercise of their right to vote...

  20. Okresní soud Bechyně

    • District Court in Bechyně / NAD 70

    The fonds contains documents of the Bechyně District Court from the years (1849) 1850-1949 concerning the civil and criminal agendas, as well as the agenda for the establishment of new land registers. Information on Jews can be found in expropriation documents ordered by the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation, and the inheritance agenda (file No D) of Jews perished in WW II in concentration camps dealt with in 1946.