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  1. Jacques Raffeld. Collection

    This collection contains : a label from a can filled with the carrier of the poisonous gas Zyklon-B used in the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers ; a cap which was part of a uniform worn by an unidentified concentration camp inmate ; four objects from Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka, related to the mass murder of Jews and other prisoners at both camps, recuperated by Icek Chil alias Jacques Raffeld during post-war visits to the former camp sites.

  2. Identification card

    This "National Registration Identity Card" for children under the age of 16 was issued to Zofia Tymejko [donor] after she emigrated to London, England.

  3. XXXXVII. Armeekorps (mot.) / XXXXVII. Panzerkorps

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher aller Truppenteile und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die Kriegstagebücher der Generalkommandos und der bodenständigen Höheren Kommandos vom Mobilmachungstag (26. Aug. 1939) an beim Heeresarchiv Potsdam einzureichen, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten. Diese Zugangssignaturen wurden anfangs getrennt nach den Kriegsschauplätzen, nämlich P für Polen und W für Westen vergeben. Nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges wurden die Zugänge nur noch nach laufender Nummer signiert und in dieser Reihenfolge auch eingelagert, ...

  4. Kriegsausschuß für Ersatzfutter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Die Bestände der Kriegswirtschaftsorganisationen des I. Weltkrieges waren in den Jahren 1943 und 1944 zunächst auswahlweise nach Staßfurt und dann unter Einbeziehung der gesamten zunächst zurückgelassenen Bestände und Bestandsteile nach Schönebeck ausgelagert worden. Im Zuge der Nachkriegsereignisse gelangten sie in das Deutsche Zentralarchiv, Abt. Merseburg, wo sie bis 1955 verblieben. Im Juli/August 1955 wurden die Bestände der Kriegsorganisationen des I. Weltkrieges nach Potsdam in das Zentralarchiv überführt. Archivische Bewertung und B...

  5. Eichmann Trial -- Session 92 -- Madagascar Plan

    Attorney General Gideon Hausner cross-examines Eichmann about the Madagascar Plan. The Madagascar Plan predated the Nazi period but was revived during the war. Under this plan, Europe's Jews were to be deported to the island of Madgascar, which belonged to the French. Hausner asks the accused what measures were taken towards promoting the plan (00:02:35). Eichmann testifies that it would have developed once a peace treaty with France was signed but that the treaty never happened so the plan was shelved. This is duplicate footage also found on Tape 2135 (01:04:23). The footage on Tape 2135 i...

  6. Propaganda filming of the Warsaw Ghetto: prison; street; corpses; burial

    ***This footage is from a roughly ninety-minute propaganda film that was never finished or shown publicly. It was created by a German propaganda camera team in the spring of 1942.The Nazi regime created these ghettos and imprisoned Jews within them, subjected them to these conditions of starvation and disease and overcrowding. And yet, with a film like this, they hoped to suggest that these conditions were chosen by the Jews, that they were natural Jewish living conditions. This film is considered propaganda because it is heavily staged, omits selective information, attempts to establish gr...

  7. XXIII. Armeekorps

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher aller Truppenteile und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die Kriegstagebücher der Generalkommandos und der bodenständigen Höheren Kommandos vom Mobilmachungstag (26. Aug. 1939) an beim Heeresarchiv Potsdam einzureichen, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten. Diese Zugangssignaturen wurden anfangs getrennt nach den Kriegsschauplätzen, nämlich P für Polen und W für Westen vergeben. Nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges wurden die Zugänge nur noch nach laufender Nummer signiert und in dieser Reihenfolge auch eingelagert, ...

  8. United Jewish Appeal officials visit to Israel, circa 1948

    Interior shots of fabric factory machinery and workers. United Jewish Appeal officials tour the facility, inspect fabric produced, and converse with factory workers. Julian Venezky appears at 01:00:46. UJA men, including Venezky and Sidney Green (?), exit the factory. Some of the officials are women. Point of view shot from interior of a moving car, passing by a checkpoint with a sign in Hebrew. The cars drive past a fenced area, probably a camp for new immigrants. Pedestrians smile at the car. UJA officials, now out of their cars, talk to people on the street. The camera pans down to revea...

  9. Selected records of the Silesian Voivodeship Police Policja Województwa Śląskiego (Sygn. 38)

    Selected files of the Policja Województwa Śląskiego (Silesian Voivodeship Police). Consist of orders and ordinances of superior authorities, situational reports, searching, investigations and detentions of criminals, information about various manifestations of social and political life. Included are records related to “Volksdeutsche" communities, German minority, communist movement, political parties and federations/associations. Among the materials there are documents concerning antisemitic and anti-communist political group, OWP (Obóz Wielkiej Polski), mandatory deportation of the Sinti a...

  10. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 46, 53, 62, 64, 68, and 71 -- Testimonies regarding badges, postcards, furnaces, ditches, suicides, selections

    Session 46. May 19, 1961. Alexander Arnon talks about wearing the Star of David badge. He is interrupted by the Prosecution, and asked about the forced payment of 100,000,000 Denars, with 60 Denars equal to an American Dollar at the time. Following that, legislation that required wearing the Jewish Star was put into effect. The court decides that photographing the badge he holds up will suffice for evidence. He was given the task of supplying the Jews of Zagreb with the badges, as ordered by the Gestapo officer Mueller. 00:10:46 Session 53. May 25, 1961. Margit Reich testifies. A translator...

  11. Selected records relating to Romania's communist government's attempt to obtain Holocaust-related restitution from the Federal Republic of Germany

    The collection contains reproductions of Russian restitution applications as well as general records concerning the collaboration between Romanian and German authorities from 1938-1941. All records are translated into both Romanian and German. The records are organized in 31 containers that were given to the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1971 by the Romanian Ambassador to Germany. Container 1: Consists of 5 large folders comprising an estimated 5,000 pages concerning: Legislation concerning racial and political persecution, translations of the most relevant documents in Ger...

  12. Okresní úřad Zlín I.

    • District Office Zlín I / NAD 153

    The fonds contains documents of public administration, official books, files, accounting material and associated agenda. Jews are mentioned in the presidium files of the Zlín District Office, these often being measures, circulars, instructions and orders of higher instances such as: an investigation into anti-Jewish leaflets distributed in the Zlín region in 1936 and 1938; trips of retired German officers of the Jewish faith to the Czechoslovak Republic; measures in the district of Zlín in 1937; the number of Jewish refugees moving into the district of the Zlín political district in 1937; m...

  13. LXXXI. Armeekorps / XXXII. Höheres Kommando z.b.V.

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher aller Truppenteile und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die Kriegstagebücher der Generalkommandos und der bodenständigen Höheren Kommandos vom Mobilmachungstag (26. Aug. 1939) an beim Heeresarchiv Potsdam einzureichen, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten. Diese Zugangssignaturen wurden anfangs getrennt nach den Kriegsschauplätzen, nämlich P für Polen und W für Westen vergeben. Nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges wurden die Zugänge nur noch nach laufender Nummer signiert und in dieser Reihenfolge auch eingelagert, ...

  14. Jewish children at play in Reichenbach and at the beach

    Peter (age 4 or 5) plays with a set of tin soldiers and a toy castle at home in Reichenbach. Peter's younger sister, Doris, waves. She sits in a high chair, and plays with blocks of wood. She and her brother play with a wooden clown doll. Doris in a crib, she reads a picture book. INT, Doris next to a window. 01:01:38 Peter is outside digging in a sandbox (at their home in Reichenbach at Adama Mickiwicza 9 - the house still exists), he has a scooter. Doris plays in a playpen outdoors, Peter joins her and they play. Mother Else helps Doris walk by holding her hands up. Doris sits alone on a ...

  15. Lager in Jugoslawien

    Die Sammlung enthält v.a.: Liste von Internierten im Lager Gradiske, im Lager Jasenovac, im Lager Jasenovac; Liste von Verstorbenen im Lager Susac und im Lager Djakovo; Toten- und Häftlingslisten von Konzentrationslagern in Jugoslawien; Namenverzeichnis von ermordeten und geretteten Juden im KL Jasenovac, Namenverzeichnis von jüd. Opfern des KL Banjica/Belgrad 1941-1944, Namenverzeichnis von erschossenen Juden im Dorfe Zasavica bei Schabac im Oktober 1941, Verzeichnis jugoslawischer kriegsgefangener Offiziere Geschichte der Lager in Jugoslawien 1941-1945: Im April 1941 wurde Jugoslawien von...

  16. Emanuel E. and Dorothea G. Minskoff papers

    The Emanuel E. and Dorothea G. Minskoff papers include correspondence, photographs, printed materials, a scrapbook, and subject files documenting Emanuel E. Minskoff’s work for the Individual Assets Investigation Branch in postwar Europe, his work on the I.G. Farben Trial, and Dorothea G. Minskoff’s work on the Ministries Trial, which were part of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings in Nuremberg, Germany. The papers also include information about Emanuel E. Minskoff’s work for the Treasury Department’s Foreign Assets Control Division regarding remittances to and trade with China in the ear...

  17. Samoszul family. Collection

    This collection contains eight photos including two portraits of the deported Gabrielle Samoszul, five photos of post-war commemorations at the he former SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks) and one photo of a celebration by members of the Union des Déportés Juifs et Ayants Droit de Belgique [Belgian Association of Jewish Deportees and their Proprietors].

  18. Maria Rose memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 115 typed pages, written by Maria Rose, originally of Warsaw, Poland, and edited by her son Julian (Julek). In the memoir, she describes her childhood, education, and family life in Warsaw, noting the fates of her extended family and school friends, as well those as in the Communist Association of Polish Youth, of which she was a member. She describes her pre-war arrests as a Communist, her marriage to Herc Dawidson, life in wartime Bialystok, Herc’s arrest, her 1943 return to Warsaw, deportation to Majdanek, and experiences in Auschwitz, Rajsko, and multiple camps i...

  19. Okresní úřad Kamenice nad Lipou

    • Kamenice nad Lipou District Office / NAD 2

    The fonds contains state administration documents. In the agenda of the mixed district office, the relevant documents can be found in the call number 2.3.5 Religious and ecclesiastical affairs. Documents on the topic can be found in the handling of 1905-1932 in call numbers 4.1. Register agenda, 5. 4. Church agenda, 8.1. Police matters, passports, war refugees and foreigners, 13. 1. Military matters; in the handling of 1932-1943 in call numbers I.3 President of the Republic, I.11 Statistics, I.12 Citizenship, I.17 Elections to provincial and district councils, I.18 Elections to municipal co...

  20. Bundesministerium für Verkehr.- Organisationsunterlagen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Für die dem Bund zustehenden Aufgaben des Verkehrs wurde im Rahmen der ersten Regierungsbildung das Bundesministerium für Verkehr (BMV) errichtet. Es ging aus der Verwaltung für Verkehr des Vereinigten Wirtschaftsgebietes hervor, deren Abteilungsstruktur im Grundsatz übernommen wurde. Im Januar 1950 setze sich das Ministerium aus folgenden Abteilungen zusammen: - Abteilung A (Allgemeine Abteilung, auch Verwaltung) - Abteilung B (Binnenschifffahrt) - Abteilung E (Eisenbahnen) - Abteilung L (Luftfahrt) - Abteilung See (Seeverkehr mit bis 1989 Sitz in Hamburg) -...