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  1. Ismail district prefecture and its subordinated preturas and town halls

    • Judeţul Ismail: prefecturile judeţene, subprefecturile plaselor/preturilor şi comunele subordinate
    • Примарии сел Измаильского уезда
    • Primarii sel Izmail'skogo uyezda

    Orders and directives of the Ministry of the Interior on the accounting of property left from the residents evacuated to the Eastern regions of the USSR; orders for the surveillance of religious sects; orders and directives on mobilization for labor duties; correspondence on verification of “trustworthiness” of the residents; correspondence on taxation procedures; guidelines for the restoration of nationality records; registration cards of those deported by the Soviet authorities, etc. The fund contains the following groups of items: Town hall of Giurgiulesti village (1941-1944); Town hall ...

  2. David R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David R., who was born in Lublin, Russia (presently Poland) in 1913, one of three children. He recalls expulsion from the Hebrew gymnasium due to his participation in illegal communist activities; imprisonment in Bi︠a︡roza, Rawicz, and Koronowo; forced labor; escaping during the 1939 German invasion; returning to Lublin; smuggling pigs from Mełgiew to support his family; escaping when Germans came for him; arranging for Polish friends to hide him and his family in Trzeszkowice, then in Mełgiew; obtaining false papers for all of them; traveling to Lublin with his mothe...

  3. Leah Press Kalina photographs

    The Leah Press Kalina photographs contain photographic prints, photographic postcards, and Rosh Hashanah cards documenting the post-war experiences of Leah Press Kalina, her sister Ruchel, and friends. The majority of the images in this collection depict Leah in the Deggendorf displaced persons camp between 1946 and 1947. Images include daily activities within the camp, friends, weddings, and Leah in a uniform. Also included are photographs of Leah with friends and several images of a friend named Saul Eckstein in Rome and Israel after the war. Pre-war images depict Gershon Press and his mo...

  4. Hitler and Mussolini; German-Japan pact

    Title: "1942" Title: "A Gift to Hitler February 1942" Title: "Axis Plans at Berchtesgaden 29 April 1942" Hitler and Mussolini confer at Berchtesgaden (1942). Title: "Japanese Submarine Welcomed in German Harbor 30 September 1942" A Japanese submarine is welcomed at a German port. Title: "1943" Title: "Signing of German-Japanese Economic Pact 20 January 1943" Ribbentrop signs pact. Title: "Arrival of Mussolini after his "Liberation" 10 October 1943" Mussolini visits Germany after his rescue from US captors.

  5. Starostwo Powiatowe w Pile

    • Piła County Governor’s Office

    Anteriora (sukcesja czynna): Urząd Pełnomocnika Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Obwód Piła z lat 1945-1946; 60 j. a. o sygnaturach: 10,12,30,33,48,51-55,62,67,69,71,82,100,105,106,108,116-120,126,131,134,186,187,191,192,196,207,208,210-215,217-221,237,243,291,328,333,336-338,371,372,374-377; Starostwo Powiatowe w Trzciance z lat 1945-1946[1947]; 25 j. a. o sygnaturach: 71,108,116,117,120,187,207,208,209,210,211,212,215,219,220,221,281,333,337,338,339,340,343,346,347. Sprawy ogólno-organizacyjne z lat (1945)1946-1950; 79 j. a. Sprawy administracyjne z lat (1945)1946 -1950; 36 j. a. Sprawy...

  6. Ze'ev D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ze'ev D., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, the older of two brothers. He recounts living in a children's home organized by Janusz Korczak for two years when his father was ill; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending a Polish scout camp in summer 1939; German invasion; returning home; ghettoization; working in a Korczak children's home; creating a puppet theater with friends; taking food to his parents; hiding during a round-up (his family and everyone in the children's home were deported); a factory job outside the ghetto; observing...

  7. Wedding of Red Orchestra resistance members

    January 25, 1941 wedding of Günther Weisenborn and Margarethe (Joy) Schnable in Berlin. Günther and Joy belonged to the important German resistance group labeled "Rote Kapelle" [Red Orchestra] by the Gestapo. Both were later arrested and survived only with great fortune. Resistance members pictured in the film include Harro Schulze-Boysen and his wife Libertas, the actress Marta Husemann, and famous publisher Ernst Rowohlt. The film opens with a hand-drawn title: “Hochzeit in Schoeneberg”. Horse-drawn carriage with driver. Günther and Joy seated. Berlin street scenes - street cars, tall bui...

  8. Jacob Kriegel papers

    The collection documents the efforts of American Jacob Kriegel, originally of Nadworna, Poland, to assist with family and friends in Poland and Israel trying to immigrate to the United States during the Holocaust and afterwards. The bulk of the collection contains affidavits written by Kriegel, wartime financial and related documents including his efforts to help other local businesses encourage their workers to purchase war bonds, and correspondence. There is significant correspondence from Anna and Max Hutt, his only relatives in Europe, along with their daughter Zimmia, who survived the ...

  10. Edith A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith A., who was born in Hungary in 1922. She recalls attending public school in Kos?ice; participating in Maccabi; dating a lawyer (her future husband); Hungarian occupation in 1938; Jewish men being drafted for Hungarian slave labor battalions, including her brother-in-law (he did not return); assisting Jews fleeing from Poland; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization with her family in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents; staying with her sister; receiving sweaters from a friend; transfer to Bierzanow-P?aszo?w; hospitalizati...

  11. Adolphe L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adolphe L., who was born in Fumal, Belgium in 1919. He recalls that his family were very religious Christians and Belgian patriots; attending school in Huy; military enlistment in 1938; German invasion; fleeing with his battalion to France; sailing from La Turballe to England; enlisting in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to continue to fight against Germany; months of physical and intelligence training; parachuting into Belgium in fall 1941; reunion with his fiancée and family; living in Liège; condemning the treatment of Jews based on his Christian beliefs; ...

  12. Visit of David Teitelbaum to Wielopole Skrzynskie

    David Teitelbaum visits his family in his birthplace of Wielopole Skrzynskie, Poland. The film shows members of the Teitelbaum, Rappaport and Sartoria families, their neighbors, and acquaintances. Individuals appearing in the film include: Oizer Teitelbaum and his wife Leah née Blattberg; the filmmaker David Teitelbaum and Chiel Teitelbaum; Rachel Sartoria née Teitelbaum and her husband Moshe; Sheindel Rappaport née Teitelbaum and her husband Moshe Aaron and their children, Simcha, Chiel, Shlomo, Channa, Chaim, and Etla; Juda Redel and his wife Eidel; and Nathan Lipschitz. Camera rotates, C...

  13. Personal papers of Erich A. Hausmann Nachlass Erich A. Hausmann

    Contains personal papers of Erich A. Hausmann, the Swiss-Jewish educator and pedagogue. Papers consist of his biographical materials and documentation on helping Jewish refugee children and youth during and after the war. Erich A. Hausmann worked with many organizations as the Schweizer Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder (SHEK), Verband Schweizerischer Jüdischer Fürsorgen (VSJF), Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE), Jüdisches Lehrerseminar Basel, and the Jüdische Schule Zürich (JSZ).

  14. Daniel I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Daniel I., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1932, an only child. He tells of his father's career as a writer and newspaper editor; his mother's as a teacher; an uncle, four aunts, and his grandmother emigrating to Palestine prior to his birth; German invasion in September 1939; destruction of their home by German bombs; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Białystok; moving to Moscow in summer 1940; attending school; visiting his aunt in Leningrad (presently Saint Petersburg); moving when his father found employment in Kaunas; attending a Yiddish school; German invasion; ghett...

  15. Jonny's Gang short comedy

    German titles: “Das Ende von Jonnys Gang” “Jonny's Gang: Hans Inderka, Holly Fischer, Friedl Schreier, Holly Adam, Gust Kestranek.” “Jonnys Freundinnen: Thea Herrmann, Tr. Krautschneider, Lari Novotna, Helga Bosraug.” “Das letzte Opfer: Herma Schwammenhofer” “Detektive von Scottland Yard: Fredl Kerpes, Herbert Adam, Walter Schubert, Richard Inderka, Theo Spitzer” “Aufnahmen. Walter Hausner.” “Mitglied des Klubs der Kino-Amateure Österreichs” Comedy film about “Jonnys Gang”. People dancing very closely. A woman hangs her arm over a mustached man. CU, man’s tattoo. Three men around a table, s...

  16. Harold R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold R., who was born in Fürth, Germany in 1922, the older of two brothers. He recounts attending public school; his bar mitzvah; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his expulsion from school and his family's eviction from their apartment; attending a trade school in Frankfurt; destruction of the family business and his father's arrest on Kristallnacht; his father's return from Dachau three weeks later; futile efforts to emigrate; deportation with his family to Rīga in November 1941; slave labor on a farm with 500 others for two years; public hanging of a man for tradin...

  17. Lou S. and Barry B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lou S. and Barry B., who were both born in Khust, Czechoslovakia in 1925. Mr. S., one of seven children, recalls Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; a tailoring apprenticeship; working in Budapest; German invasion; returning home; ghettoization in April 1944; deportation with his family to Auschwitz; separation from his mother (he never saw her again); remaining with his father, brother, uncle, and cousin; seeing a sister for the last time; transfer to Warsaw in May 1944; a privileged assignment in the laundry; trading goods recovered in the ghetto rubble ...

  18. Luftwaffenbefehlshaber Mitte / Luftflottenkommando Reich

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Akten stammen aus Rückführungen aus den USA und Großbritannien an die Dokumentenzentrale des Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes. Von dort wurden die Akten 1968 an das Bundesarchiv, Abteilung Militärarchiv abgegeben. Diese Akten waren bisher im Sammelbestand RL 7 (Luftflottenkommandos) zusammengefasst. Zur besseren Darstellung der einzelnen Provenienzen wurden Nebenbestände zu RL 7 angelegt. Im Zuge der Umsignierung wurden die bisher in den Amtsdrucksachen (Bestand: RLD 18) verwahrten Akten ebenfalls den neuen Beständen zugeordnet. Luftflottenkommando ...

  19. Records of Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Sygn. 362)

    Contains reports, correspondence, case files, and other materials from the archives of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Amt VII. Included is information about the monitoring of religious groups, churches, political organizations, and other Masonic organizations, as well as of members of the clergy, police, journalists, scholars, and individuals by the Sicherheitspolizei und Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS. In its totality, the collection reveals much about the interests of Franz A. Six, head of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Amt VII. Also included are periodic, special, and situation r...

  20. Sendzischew and Mottes family papers

    The Sendzischew and Mottes family papers primarily contain biographical papers, restitution claims, and photographs of Holocaust survivors David and Sala Sendzischew of Sosnowiec, Poland. The biographical papers are chiefly identification papers, marriage certificates, and immigration and naturalization documents. Also included is a testimonial statement from Sala, and letter to her from a soldier who helped her during the war. The photographs include family members and friends of the Sendzischew and Mottes families; David, Sala, and Israel Jacob Sendzischew; a photograph album of the famil...