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  2. Dossiers XIX à XXV

    1. Archives de la Commission d'histoire de l'occupation et de la libération de la France (CHOLF) et du Comité d'histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, fonds privés et documents divers relatifs à la période 1939-1945
    2. "Mélanges"
    3. Documents rassemblés par la CHOLF
    4. Série de dossiers numérotés de I à XXV

    XIX. Cartes et plans divers, notamment de terrains de parachutage. XX. Police française : problème généraux, organisation et personnel, méthodes de travail, rapports et renseignements de police, personnel de police dangereux, gratifications du personnel des camps de Pithiviers et Beaune-la-Rolande. XXI. Renseignements sur les personnes suspectes et sur des agents de la Gestapo. XXII. Mises en garde, arrestations et exécutions, rapports sur des opérations de police. XXIII. Main-d'œuvre, Service du travail obligatoire (STO). XXIV. Budget et relevés de dépenses du mouvement Libération. XXV. Re...

  3. Double sided caricature of a couple made as a gift for one camp inmate by another

    1. Charles and Hana Bruml family collection

    Two joined drawings, a humorous drawing of Karel Fischer and his wife Anna, and a pencil portrait of Fischer drawn by Leo Haas when they were all prisoners in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp circa 1942- October 1944. It was presented to Fischer on his sixth wedding anniversary, March 20, 1944, by his workers. After the war, Fischer gave the drawing to his nephew and fellow Terezin inmate, Karel Bruml. In March 1939, Prague was annexed by Nazi Germany. Fischer, 49, was ordered to the newly opened camp in late November 1941 to build the railroad spur from Bauschowitz to Terezin. He was in ch...

  4. Downfall Drypoint etching by Lea Grundig of a people being pushed off a cliff

    1. Lea Grundig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521153
    • English
    • 1972
    • pictorial area: Height: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) | Width: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) overall: Height: 21.000 inches (53.34 cm) | Width: 16.625 inches (42.228 cm)

    Intaglio print, Untergang, created by Lea Grundig in 1936 in Nazi Germany. This is number 10 from the series, Krieg Droht. Lea Grundig and her husband, Hans, were dedicated Communists who created anti-Fascist works documenting and protesting conditions under Nazi rule in Dresden. Such works were prohibited under Hitler and the Nazi regime. Lea, 30, was arrested for her resistance art in 1936, but released. She continued working as an artist and was arrested in 1938 for high treason and sentenced to two years in the Dresden Gestapo prison. In December 1939, Lea was released and left for Pale...

  5. Dowódca Policji Bezpieczeństwa i Służby Bezpieczeństwa na obszarze Dowódcy Wojskowego we Francji [Der Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienst im Bereich des Militärbefehlshabers in Frankreich]

    • akta osobowe (akta personalne obywateli narodowości francuskiej i niemieckiej) - akta administracyjne (materiały wytworzone w latach 1921-1945 przez francuskie władze bezpieczeństwa i policję, organizacje społeczne i polityczne, władze kościelne oraz od 1940 r. przez niemiecki aparat policyjny dot. spraw organizacyjno-personalnych; materiały dot. spraw przesiedlania, wysiedlania i nadawania obywatelstwa niemieckiego; materiały dot. Kościoła katolickiego oraz sekt religijnych; materiały dot. francuskiego ruchu oporu rozpracowującego agentów Gestapo i kolaborantów; materiały dot. działalnoś...

  6. Dr Bela Berend: Trial Judgement and other papers

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access the digital version of this archiveThis collection contains the personal papers of Dr A.B. Belton, formerly Bela Berend, Rabbi of the Budapest Ghetto, 1944. The papers document, in part, his activities in Hungary during the war; his trial by the Hungarian authorities for war crimes; his involvement with post war libel cases relating to his role as leader of the Jewish Council in Budapest, 1944; his relationship with prominent figures in the United States; his views about Israel and politics in the Middle East.According to a no...

  7. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with A. Herman, Organization Rehabilitation Trade (ORT) representative in Warsaw, and Dr. Abraham Silberschein's former secretary, regarding sending relief to various Jews in Poland

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with A. Herman, Organization Rehabilitation Trade (ORT) representative in Warsaw, and Dr. Abraham Silberschein's former secretary, regarding sending relief to various Jews in Poland Also in the file: - Letter from Harman in Geneva regarding preparations for publication of testimonies regarding the atrocities carried out by the Germans in Poland, 19 June 1944; - Letter from Entraide Universitaire Internationale regarding the rehabilitation of the universities and help to students; three pamphlets are attached, October 1944; - Letter from Stach...

  8. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with representatives of the Poalei Zion party in Slovakia and Switzerland regarding aliya to Eretz Israel, disagreements with the Eretz Israel Office, relief for members and party methodology

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with representatives of the Poalei Zion party in Slovakia and Switzerland regarding aliya to Eretz Israel, disagreements with the Eretz Israel Office, relief for members and party methodology Also in the file: - Copy of a letter to the Gestapo in Tesin (?) regarding deportation of the Jews, 28 November 1939; - Speeches and statements made by the members of the Poalei Zion party at the Zionist Conference in London, September 1945; - Correspondence with party members in Poland, France, Germany and Austria, 1948-1949; - Correspondence with the Z...

  9. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the Polish legation in Switzerland regarding the issuing of passports to Polish citizens, help to Polish refugees and POWs, sending parcels to Poland and transmitting information

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the Polish legation in Switzerland regarding the issuing of passports to Polish citizens, help to Polish refugees and POWs, sending parcels to Poland and transmitting information Correspondence with the Polish legation in Switzerland, with Ambassador A. Lados and their Excellencies Dr. Jurkiewicz, Bronarski, Dobrzelewski, Ryniewicz, Nahlik, Rokicki and Dr. Kuehl from the Consular Department regarding the issuing of passports to Polish citizens, help to Polish refugees and POWs, sending parcels to Poland and transmitting information. Also...

  10. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Detailed report regarding Auschwitz-Birkenau submitted by Walter Rosenberg (Rudolph Vrba) and Alfred Wexler (Josef Lanik) who succeeded in escaping from the camp

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Detailed report regarding Auschwitz-Birkenau submitted by Walter Rosenberg (Rudolph Vrba) and Alfred Wexler (Josef Lanik) who succeeded in escaping from the camp Detailed report regarding Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1942-1944, submitted by Walter Rosenberg (Rudolph Vrba) and Alfred Wexler (Josef Lanik) who succeeded in escaping from the camp, 07 April 1944, and arriving in Slovakia Also in the file: - Gestapo telegram regarding the escape of these two inmates, 09 April 1944; Two Gestapo telegrams regarding the escape of inmates from Auschwitz: Siegfried Lederer, Cz...

  15. Dr. Friedrich Walter Forster collection

    The Dr. Friedrich Walter Forster collection consists of a photocopy of Forster’s German handwritten memoir of his Holocaust experiences, an English translation of the memoir, and a brief essay written by Forester's nephew Sandro Lane. The memoir describes Dr. Forester’s 1941 deportation from Vienna, Austria to Poland by the Gestapo. In Zakrzowek, Poland he continued his work as a physician before being deported to series of forced labor camps including Budzyn and Miękisz. He was sent to the Flossenbürg concentration camp in 1944. Towards the end of the war, he was sent from Flossenbürg to D...

  19. Dr. Isser Seilinger, born in Bersorka, (Russia) the Soviet Union, 1881; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Dr. Isser Seilinger, born in Bersorka, (Russia) the Soviet Union, 1881; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II Life in Grenoble including managing the CAR (Refugees Aid Committee) office from 1943; detention by the Gestapo, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz on Transport 76, 30 June 1944. In the file: - Photograph of Dr. Isser Seilinger; - Testimony.