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  1. Sąd Grodzki w Łukowie

    • Court of the first instance in Łuków

    Akta spraw cywilnych 1940-1944, sygn. 1-84, nab. 3908/09 Pomoce (4 j.a), Rep. C 1939-41, 41-44, Rep. Co 1940-1942, Skor. C 1939-1945, akta spraw (83 j.a.) C 1939,1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 Op. 1940, nab. 4231/10 - 16 j.a. 0,20 mb Rep. Kom 1939-1941, 1942-1945, akta Kg 1939-1943 (14 ja.).

  2. Arditti family photographs

    The Arditti family photographs consist of 62 family photographs mounted on photograph album pages. The images depict members of the Arditti family, a Turkish Jewish family from Smyrna, who emigrated from Turkey to France in 1920. Identified family members include Jacques Arditti, his parents, his brother and sister, his sister’s son, Jean-Pierre Franck, and his wife, Jacqueline Guiard. Photographs also depict Leon and Nelly Jaffe and their children, Albert and Liliane, who were relatives on Jacques’ mother’s side. Most of the photographs were taken in France, in Joinville-le-Pont, Deauville...

  3. Trial of the 20th of July plotters against Hitler

    Opening title: "Der 20. Juli 1944, vor dem Volksgerichtshof". Judge Roland Freisler and other judges enter courtroom and give the Nazi salute. The audience in the courtroom salutes as well. Close-up profile of Freisler. Title identifies General Major Helmut Stieff, one of the iniators of the attack on Hitler. Dark shots of Stieff as he stands before Friesler. Close up of a folder titled "Attentat auf den Fuehrer am 20 Juli 1944." The first page in the folder shows the layout in the room where the bomb went off. Shots of the destroyed room in Hitler's headquarters while Freisler's voice cont...

  4. Aaron B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aaron B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925. He recalls German invasion; volunteering for forced labor in his father's place; digging ditches near the Soviet border in November 1939; escaping to Warsaw two weeks later; unloading trains; obtaining a privileged position with assistance from a German officer; ghettoization; his parents and sister escaping to Bia?obrzegi in 1942; the German officer helping him to escape to Bia?obrzegi; forced labor at a munitions factory in Radom; public executions; learning his family was deported; escaping execution with assistance...

  5. Ike Diamond papers

    The Ike Diamond papers include his 1934 Polish identification card, a 1946 passport entry indicating Diamond could enter Venezuela, and his 1939-1945 diary describing the outbreak of war, his confinement in the Warsaw ghetto, his escape, hiding on a farm in Otrębusy, and liberation. He appears to have begun his diary while in hiding in May 1943, so the descriptions of fall 1939 through summer 1943 are written as chapters in the past tense while entries beginning September 1, 1943 are written as diary entries in the present tense. The first half of the diary describes hardships during the in...

  6. George Rosney papers

    This collection contains family correspondence of George Rosney including letters received by him in England from his parents in Karlsruhe and later Stuttgart prior to their deportation to Terezin. Also included is correspondence from various other individuals to George; a separate set including detailed account of George's impressions of Germany in the imediate aftermath of the war. In addition there is a set of correspondence received and copy outgoing of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, a cousin resident in the USA, which documents the efforts made to extricate Carl and Lise Rosenfeld from Germany.

  7. German educational film: North Polar Submarine Expedition, 1931

    Film documents the Wilkins-Ellsworth North Polar Submarine Expedition in 1931, where valuable scientific information was collected in the hopes of reaching the Arctic. The mission failed due to repeated mechanical problems of the 'Nautilus' ship. German intertitles (in quotation marks). "Im 'Nautilus' unter das Polareis!" "Ein Kinagfafilm aufgenommen mit der Agfa Movex auf Agfa Umkehrfilm 16mm" "I. Akt. Von Bergen bis zur Eiskante" "'Nautilus' am Kai in Bergen" Man on pier, boat anchored. "Der Bug des U-Bootes mit dem Stossfaenger" CU ship. "Das Heck des 'Nautilus' das noch mehrene Meter un...

  8. Maurice D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice D., who was born in Nowe Miasto, Poland in 1924. He describes his Orthodox family; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing with his brother to Warsaw; returning to Nowe Miasto; slave labor in the ghetto and in a camp in East Prussia; deportation with his family to Birkenau via Plonsk in November 1942; separation from his parents and sisters upon arrival; transfer with his brother to Auschwitz; working the night shift in the Canada Kommando; transfer with his brother to I.G. Farben in Buna/Monowitz in 1943; the death march to Gleiwitz in January 1945; buildi...

  9. "Eric Hoffman: For My Family, For My Children, For My Grandchildren"

    Consists of one typed memoir, circa 40 pages plus photographs, photocopied, and written in the spring of 1996 by Eric Hoffman, entitled "Eric Hoffman: For My Family, For My Children, For My Grandchildren." The memoir details Hoffman's life growing up in Münster, Germany; his move to Antwerp, Belgium; his voyage to Palestine in 1939; his wartime service in the British Royal Army Service Corps and his post-war life. The memoir also includes several personal photographs with, 'The Windmuller Family Chronicle,' which details the fate of 120 members of Eric's close and extended family, as well a...

  10. Okresní soud Hořice

    • District Court in Hořice / NAD 1282

    The fonds contains documents of the court administration of the Hořice judicial district. Of particular interest are the files from the post-war period, namely M - Declaration of death from 1945-1949 and D - estate file, concerning the property of the respective Jewish families. Files M - Richard and Emilie Passer, Olga Schanzerová, Karel Beutler, Bedřich, Josef and Markéta Lamm, the Berger family, Emilie and Alice Munkova, Lavecký family, Hugo Lewith, the Kaufmann family, Olga Singerová, Irma and Bedřich Baumann, Richard and Štěpánka Strauss, Alfred Hirsch, Otto Putzker, Gustav Kantor, Ire...

  11. George F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George F., who was born in Abau?jsza?nto?, Hungary in 1925 and raised in Budapest. He recalls exclusion from higher education due to Jewish quotas; a printer's apprenticeship starting in 1940; forced labor in 1942; stealing letterhead to make false papers for others; German invasion in 1944; organizing an underground; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; organizing an escape; recapture; contacts by underground colleagues leading to planned sabotage; escaping to Budapest; posing as a non-Jew; forced labor for Todt in Austria; a death march to Mauthausen in Dec...

  12. Joshua B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joshua B., who was born in 1930 in Lechint?a, Romania where his grandfather was the rabbi. He recalls moving to a village; anti-Semitic incidents; Hungarian occupation; moving with his grandparents and older brother to another town in 1941; being forced to move to the Bistrit?a ghetto around Passover in 1944; and deportation to Auschwitz about a month later. Mr. B. describes separation from his grandfather, whom he never saw again; transfer to Birkenau; finding his father, who brought extra food to him and his brother; his father's transfer (he did not survive); shari...

  13. Personal records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 150 P)

    Records of Hungarian law enforcement authorities about extra-judicial suppression of such activities as "spreading rumors," "anti-state" or "anti-Hungarian" statements, listening to British or Soviet radio broadcasts, "profiteering," "hoarding," sheltering Jewish fugitives, providing the latter with false papers, bribing officials, "vagrancy," prostitution, "miscegination," and so on. Measures included not only arrest and incarceration, but house arrest, restrictions on use of telephones and postal services, banishment from particular places, forbidding contact with persons outside immediat...

  14. French resistance, street fighting; Liberation in Paris

    "Le Journal de la Resistance" Title: "Realise clandestinement et sans aucun moyen materiel entre le 16 et le 26 aout 1944 par une equipe de cineastes de la Resistance, ce film apporte a la France et au Monde un temoignange authentique sur la Liberation de Paris" View of Paris just prior to liberation. Empty street, trucks, Germany rebuilds, tank. Men running in street, hanging posters. CUs, various posters. Mobilization. Removing posters. FFI. Shots fired. MS, men's heads at window. Running, firing in streets, commotion. Automobiles with "Police." Sandbags. Buildings. Blood on sidewalk. You...

  15. Benjamin Segoura. Collection

    This collection contains a digital copy of: the marriage booklet of Benjamin Segoura and Djoya Benaderek, Benjamin Segoura's 1939 social insurance card, a letter sent by Benjamin Segoura to his wife and children while detained at the Drancy transit camp in 1943, the post-war political prisoner certificate for Benjamin Segoura awarded to his widow Djoya Benaderek and a post-war letter from the French Ministry for former resistance fighters and war victims to Djoya Benaderek regarding the correction of Benjamin Segoura's place of death on his death certificate.

  16. Sąd Specjalny w Katowicach

    • Sondergericht Kattowitz
    • Special Court in Katowice

    The collection contains the files of the criminal cases investigated by the court refer to common offences and those committed in violation of German war legislation, including theft, fencing, illegal slaughter (including ritual slaughter for the needs of the Jewish community), crimes defined as defiling the German race (Rassenschande), possession of firearms, listening to the radio, and other misdemeanours; these files include several dozen criminal cases against Jews in the Silesia region.

  17. Tonia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tonia B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1925. She recalls her family's Bundist activities; attending Bund and public schools; German invasion; ghettoization; food shortages; seeing her parents, brother, and sister for the last time when they were deported in 1940; a non-Jewish friend bringing food prior to the ghetto being sealed; nursing training; working in a hospital; visits from H?ayim Rumkowski; deportation of the children in 1942; the deaths of relatives from starvation; hospitalization when she was ill; other nurses sharing their food with her; friendship w...

  18. Cahul district prefecture and its subordinated preturas and town halls

    • Judeţul Cahul: prefecturile judeţene, subprefecturile plaselor/preturilor şi comunele subordinate
    • Кагульская уездная префектура и подчиненные ей претуры и примарии
    • Kagul'skaya uyezdnaya prefektura i podchinennyye yey pretury i primarii

    Files of the town hall (primaria) of Beștemac village: lists of people asking for Romanian citizenship; the list of the households from Valeni village; the list of inhabitants of Ganasenii Noi village; the case of public sale of the right to commercialize alcoholic beverages in the village of Cazaclia; documents related to the taxation of the merchants of Cazaclia village; list of people from Chiriutnea village who received Romanian citizenship; the list of villagers from Chiriutnea who emigrated to the USSR; the list of inhabitants of Cociulia village in 1938‐1939; information regarding th...

  19. Bequest Alisa Fuss

    The Fritz Bauer Institute was given the bequest of Alisa Fuss in 2008 by the lecturer and translator Barbara Heber-Schäfer. She used the documents of the bequest for her book "Solidarität und Eigensinn. Das tätige Leben der Alisa Fuss" published in 2009. Alisa Fuss (1919-1997) was born in Berlin on April 7, 1919. In 1933, she lived in Breslau with her family, but emigrated to Palestine in 1935. She initially lived in a kibbutz organized by the Youth Aliyah, which she left between 1936 and 1939 because she rejected the attitude of the Zionist movement concerning preemptive attacks against Ar...

  20. Powiatowy Posterunek Żandarmerii w Lublińcu

    • Gendarmerie - Kreisposten Loben
    • County Gendarmerie Station in Lubliniec

    I. Organizacja i administracja ogólna: 1. Dyscyplina służbowa: zarządzenia, dochodzenia, z lat 1943, sygn. 1-2. 2. Szkolenie, przepisy służbowe: plany szkoleń, użycie broni, traktowanie przestępców, dziennik służby /Landwacht/, z lat 1939-1945, sygn. 3-6. II. Poszczególne dziedziny działalności policji: 1. Policja bezpieczeństwa: ruch ludności, dezerterzy, jeńcy wojenni, z lat 1941-1945, sygn. 7-9. 2. Policja drogowa: zarządzenia, meldunki, spisy pojazdów, z lat 1939-1944, sygn. 10. 3. Policja przemysłowa, budowlana, straż pożarna: zarządzenia, protokoły kontroli, spisy zakładów, z lat 1939...