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  1. Selected records of the Municipal Office in Warsaw Starostwo Miejskie w Warszawie (Sygn. 485) : Wybrane materialy

    The files of the Municipal Records in Warsaw relating the history of Warsaw during the occupation and the policy of the German authorities towards the Polish population. In addition to some statistical data (data on the area and residents, statistics on births and deaths, graphics depicting the economic life of the city) there are elaborates regarding the Warsaw financial situation, housing and health matters. Includes materials depicting the housing situation of the population, the occupant's economy within the German and Polish residential district, problems of health care in the city, di...

  2. Elisa F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elisa F., who was born in Rhodes, Italy (presently Greece) in 1927, the youngest of six children. She recounts her happy childhood; attending a Jewish, then an Italian school; moving to Kos in 1942; her father's leadership role in the Jewish community; anti-Jewish legislation; her mother's death; two brothers' emigrations; her father warning Jews to leave; his emigration to Turkey (her sister lived there); German invasion; fleeing to the countryside with her brother and his family; round-up and deportation to Greece; meeting two aunts; the Turkish consul having her br...

  3. Alberto I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alberto I., who was born in Rhodes, Italy (presently Greece) in 1927, one of ten children. He recounts three brothers and a sister emigrating to Congo; the early deaths of two younger siblings; cordial relations with local Greeks; attending a Catholic school; participating in fascist activities; enactment of Italian anti-Jewish laws; expulsion from the Fascist party and school; attending a Jewish school; destruction of their house in an Allied bombing; German occupation in 1943; a deportation order for all Jews; the Turkish consul saving Jews with Turkish citizenship;...

  4. Ministerie van Wederopbouw. Archief van het Bestuur voor Schade aan private goederen.

    De individuele dossiers oorlogsschade aan private goederen (ook kortweg “oorlogsschadedossiers” / “dossiers dommages de guerre” genoemd) zijn een bijzonder waardevolle bron voor historisch onderzoek. Het bestand valt uiteen in twee grote reeksen. De dossiers van de ‘centrale’ reeks zijn integraal bewaard. Wat de ‘provinciale’ reeks betreft, werden enkel dossiers met foto’s, kaarten, plattegronden of andere opvallende stukken overgehouden. Op moment van schrijven is de verhuisoperatie nog aan de gang. In het Algemeen Rijksarchief 2 – Depot Joseph Cuvelier bevinden zich momenteel van de centr...

  5. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  6. Sztorchan family photograph collection

    Collection of photographs depicting members of the Sztorchan family including pre-war in Sosnowiec, Poland and a post-war portrait.

  7. Selected records from collections of the Neamt branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Mayorship of the town of Piatra Neamț (Reels 1-7), including correspondence relating to elections within the Jewish community, subsidies for Jewish schools, revision of Romanian citizenship, and various requests relating to citizenship of Jews, lawsuit between the Jewish community and town relating to the exchange of land, goods and belongings of Iron Guard organization, expropriation of Jewish goods, anti-Jewish measures, confiscation of Iron Guard properties, lists of Jews for forced labor in Piatra Neamt, orders of the Ministry of Interior relating to awards for...

  8. Illich family activities in 1939

    Family activities in the year 1939. Introduced with German titles throughout, some are comical. Frame line of the opening scenes are off. The three Illich boys pull their cousin Hanni and their grandfather in a sled on the snow on New Year's morning in 1939. In the Third Poetz Revue, one of the twins plays the guitar and sings for the camera (the first revue after Marion Stein's family fled Austria). Play-acting in costume. 02:37:54 (B/W) People walking through a garden in early spring, flowering trees. Children take photographs. 02:38:51 Fritz, Ellen (Maexie), and the three boys singing ou...

  9. Anti-Bolshevik exhibition; Nazi Party Rally (Nuremberg): Armed Forces Day

    Overhead shot of crowds waiting, SS men. Wide view of exhibition building with crowds in front, swastika banners, and the building-wide exhibit title: "Grosse Antibolschewistische" [Great Anti-Bolshevik Exhibition] (pan, words shown one at a time). Men exiting exhibition building. 00:06:29 EXT stadium with Nazi banners. 00:06:58 Nuremberg parade grounds, crowds at seats, swastika flags. Marching (mostly trims of reasonable length). 00:07:40 Group of Italian officers, talking, laughing. 00:08:59 Trims of young men with SS badges eating. Flags with swastikas and SS. CUs, faces, men in SS swea...

  10. Ben V. Codor papers

    The collection consists of letters sent to Ben V. Codor, Director of the Jewish Federation of Delaware, from Albert Einstein, Felix Frankfurter, James H. Meisel (Secretary to Thomas Mann), James G. McDonald, Richard C. McMullen, and Gerrish Gassaway. Also included are letters from Codor to McDonald and Dr. Joseph Barsky, a letter from David Hays Sulzberger to Jacob Billikopf of the National Coordinating Committee, an exhibition label regarding the Einstein letter from the Historical Society of Delaware, and a photograph of Codor with Milton Kutz, assistant general manager of the Electrochem...

  11. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Honorary Consulate in Zürich Konsulat Honorowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Zürichu (Sygn.496)

    Reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, instructions and regulations related to the condition of national minorities, mainly Jews, in Poland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France and other countries in Europe. Included are materials about matters of visa regulations, Jewish communists, anti-fascist militia, testimony of the refugees, participation of the Polish citizen Lejz Horowitz in the work of the XX Zionist Congress in Zurich, commercial information about Polish Jews in Switzerland, Zionist congresses in Zürich, creation of the Polish-Swiss Export Association and their fraudulen...

  12. M.41.NARB - Documentation of the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia (Natsionalny Arkhiv Respubliki Belarus)

    M.41.NARB - Documentation of the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia (Natsionalny Arkhiv Respubliki Belarus) History of the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia The Central Archive for the October Revolution of the Belorussian Soviet Republic was established in the city of Minsk on 28 May 1927. The Archive moved to the city of Mogilev in 1930. The Archive underwent reorganization in 1938, and became the State Archive of the October Revolution and the Socialistic Construction. Following the outbreak of the war in 1941, the Archive's activities stopped. The Archive renewe...

  13. Akta miasta Wielunia

    • Files of the town of Wieluń

    Zachowane akta obejmują lata 1844, 1851, 1855-1856, 1862-1866, 1872-1939, 1941. W zespole zachowały się następujące akta: Organizacja - protokoły posiedzeń i uchwały Rady Miejskiej i Zarządu Miejskiego, przepisy i zarządzenia ogólne, okólniki, współpraca ze Związkiem Miast Polskich, statuty i taryfy, dzienniki korespondencyjne; Finanse - budżety, księgi dochodów i wydatków budżetowych, księgi sum pozabudżetowych, dzienniki główne, sprawy podatkowe, rejestry opłat, sprawy oddłużeniowe, akta obrotu czekowego, ubezpieczenia pracowników, księgi kasowe; Gospodarka - przedsiębiorstwa gminne, drog...

  14. Sarah G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah G., who was born in Radoszyce, Poland in 1921. She recounts extreme poverty and antisemitism in Warta; illegal immigration to Brussels when she was nine; attending secretarial school; German invasion; fleeing to France; working for the police; warning Jews of round-ups; returning to Belgium after six months; joining the Rote Kapelle resistance group; using false papers; uncovering collaborators; escaping arrest three times; the arrest of her sister and brother-in-law after her transmitter was found in their apartment; deportation of her parents and other sibling...

  15. Reichsverwaltungsgericht

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte 1941 als oberste Spruchbehörde der Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit errichtet; vereinigte das Preußische Oberverwaltungsgericht, den Reichsdienststrafhof, das Reichswirtschaftsgericht, den Verwaltungsgerichtshof in Wien, die Oberste Spruchstelle für Umlegungen, die Oberste Spruchstelle für Wasser- und Bodenverbände, das Entschädigungsgericht und das Reichs‧kriegsschädenamt Bestandsbeschreibung Reichskriegsschädenamt: allgemeine Kriegsschädenverwaltung im Reichsgebiet und in den besetzten Gebieten 1940-1945 (61), Aufsichtsabteilung, Feststellungsb...

  16. Selected records of the Chancery, the Economic Section, and the Foreign Relations Sections of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party

    Records of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party related to the emigration to Israel, the World Jewish Congress international meeting in Montreux, Switzerland; economic relations with Israel, and to the American Jewish Committee and Jewish Democratic Committee in Bucharest. The collection includes correspondence, protocols, minutes, and statistics of Jewish population and other documents related to Jewish question. This collection includes also 2 files relating to the arrest of young Jews involved in Jewish resistance against the Antonescu regime, 1942 (Fond 96, flies #655 &...

  17. Nathan P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan P., who was born in Torun?, Poland in 1922. He describes attending a secular school; not understanding he was Jewish despite his parents' Sabbath observance; living with his grandparents in a small village for eight months; attending Jewish school there; he and his mother and siblings, joining his father in Paris in 1930; his bar mitzvah; attending agricultural school in Contamine-sur-Arve; graduation in 1939; working in Bourges; German invasion; brief detention at Drancy; visiting his brother who was incarcerated in Beaune-la-Rolande; obtaining his release; ro...

  18. Michael R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael R., who was born in Dresden, Germany in 1926. He recalls leaving suddenly for Teplice right after he started school; moving to Prague; his grandparents, who remained in Dresden, emigrating to Palestine; his father obtaining Ecuadorian passports; the outbreak of war preventing their emigration; his father's death in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school and wearing the yellow star; deportation with his mother to Theresienstadt in 1942; living in a children's barrack, then a youth barrack; visiting his mother daily; several forced labor...

  19. Sally R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sally R., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1923, one of six sisters. She recounts antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1939; expropriation of her father's business; his death; one sister's deportation; communications from her from Gru?nberg; marriage in 1943; ghettoization; living with her husband's family and one sister; forced factory labor; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; deportation of her mother, other sisters, and sister's child (they did not survive); arranging to join her sister in Gru?nberg; transfer with her husband and sister to the Sosnowiec g...

  20. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski