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  2. Selected records of the Consistoire Central Israélite de Belgique, Brussels

    Records concern the Jewish communities of Brussels, Antwerp, Liege, and other Belgian cities. It contains correspondence among Jewish organizations during the German occupation, as well as documents concerning pre- and postwar Jewish and refugee organizations, synagogue records, and materials related to antisemitism.

  3. Volksvereinsverlag

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Gegründet 1904 vom Volksverein für das katholische Deutschland als GmbH bei enger personeller Verflechtung mit der Verwaltung des Vereinsvermögens und der Tätigung von Rechtsgeschäften im Sinne des Volksvereins sowie mit der Bewältigung von Erwerb, Herstellung, Herausgabe und Vertrieb von Druckwerken (Zeitschriften, zahlreiche Schriftenreihen, Schulungsmaterial, Einzelpublikationen, Flugblätter) und weiterhin mit der Information der katholischen Tagespresse über soziale und sozialpolitische Fragen betraut. 1928 Abtrennung vom Volksverein wegen schwerwiegender...

  4. Frank family: papers

    This collection contains the family papers of August Frank, former high court judge from Munich.The papers include various 19th century wills, birth and marriage certificates, family correspondence etc.

  5. Bundeswehrverwaltungsstellen im Ausland

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Den Bundeswehrverwaltungsstellen im Ausland obliegt die verwaltungsmäßige und wirtschaftliche Betreuung des im Ausland befindlichen militärischen und zivilen Personals der Bundeswehr ein-schließlich der Rechtsberatung der Kommandeure und Dienststellenleiter. Die erste Dienststelle die-ser Art war die zum 1.1.1962 eingerichtete Bundeswehrverwaltungsstelle in Frankreich, die aus der zum 15.11.1958 errichteten Verwaltungsstelle der deutschen NATO-Anteile in Frankreich hervorging. Es folgten weitere Bundeswehrverwaltungsstellen im nordamerikanischen und europäisc...

  6. Gray dress with prison number 1195 and id tag worn by a Jehovah's Witness inmate

    gray dress and ID tag with her prisoner number 1195 worn by Frieda Koschmieder while interned in Amberg prison in Germany for being a Jehovah's Witness. The Nazi regime persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses, who refused to put any authority before God. The missionary and outreach work practiced by members was viewed as subversive activity against the Nazi regime, leading to many arrests, as well as executions.

  7. Occupation and administration decrees from the Jewish Museum in Prague

    Consists of photographs of decrees and public notices issued by the Jewish communities of Prague and Slaný, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic), and German occupation agencies from 1940 to 1942. The decrees concern persecution of Jews in Prague and Slaný, the regulation of communication by mail between Jews and their family members in Terezin, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic), the confiscation of Jewish property, and the regulation of contact between Jews and Aryans.

  8. Documentation of the Weltverband der Judishen Studentenschaft (World Association of Jewish Students) in Vienna, 1924-1937

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10608370
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1924-1937
    • Booklet(s) Brochure Envelope Letter List of members of a Jewish organization Newspaper Note Official documentation Poster Protocol Statistical data Survey report

    Documentation of the Weltverband der Judishen Studentenschaft (World Association of Jewish Students) in Vienna, 1924-1937 The Weltverband der Judishen Studentenschaft was an umbrella organization that brought together Landesverbaende (national unions) of Jewish students. The Association held congresses and meetings of its administrative bodies in various places in Europe. In the Association files there are decisions made by the organization congresses and its administrative bodies, details regarding the national unions, reports concerning organization activities (including statistical data)...

  9. Frankfurt -- city views

    A variety of nice quality city views of Frankfurt, including houses, the Main river, a busy café, landmarks (the opera, the university) and townspeople. 03:03:56 People buy wurst and bread from vendors, followed by a scene in a beer garden. 03:06:20 Nazi flags are visible in the street, dating this film to the Nazi period (probably early on). Interior shots of the Goethe House museum. Staging of Goethe's play "Goetz" and other works outdoors in front of the City Hall. Title: "On the way from yesterday to today." Shots of streetcars. Interiors of the art museum. Title: "The face of today." H...

  10. Nuremberg Trial - Robert Servatius, defense counsel

    (Munich 195) Sauckel's case was presented on May 28 - 31, 1946 Robert Servatius, defense counsel for Fritz Sauckel, examines Sauckel (Sauckel is not seen). Thomas Dodd sits at the table behind Servatius. The questions Servatius asks and Sauckel's answers are translated in English voiceover. 19:32:09 shots of prisoners in the dock. Several of the defendants are taking notes. 19:34:49 May 27, 1946 Defense counsel Fritz Sauter questions witness Hartmann Lauterbach about his service with Baldur von Schirach. There is an English voiceover, this time the voice of a woman.

  11. Igazságügyminisztériumi Levéltár

    • Records of the Ministry of Justice

    The collection contains the documents of the central organs of the Ministry of Justice from 1867 till 1944, however, a highly significant part of the collection was destroyed by fire in 1956. The Hungarian Ministry of Justice had the main supervisory role over Hungarian courts, prosecutors, notaries, chambers of lawyers and their personnel, prisons and cases related to youth. The Ministry also played an important part in the preparation of laws and inheritance cases. Due to the aforementioned fire, only fragments of the original materials remain and many topics would prove practically unres...

  12. Wehrmacht activity in USSR

    Amateur footage shot by a Wehrmacht soldier somewhere in the USSR. German artillery fires upon wooden houses in a Russian village. CUS (dark) of toldiers loading howitzers. 00:43:01 Nice shots of German troops advancing across a field toward the smoldering village. Camera pans across the Russian countryside as prisoners are marched into the fields. Two Soviet soldiers stand at gunpoint with their hands in the air while a German soldier checks their pockets. German troops march down a country road. Soviet POWs are marched down a muddy, wooded road. Some of them wheel bicycles. 00:44:10 A Sov...

  13. Brandes family correspondence

    Correspondence from Keila and Anna (Hanna) Brandes in Vienna to their son and brother Richard Brandes (donor's grandfather), who following his emigration from Austria and the outbreak of World War II, was classified by the British government as an "enemy alien" and interned in a camp in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. File contains a letter of reference from Richard Brandes' employer in Vienna in 1934, and six letters sent to him by his mother and sister in Vienna, between December 1939 and May 1941. One on of the last letters, Richard Brandes wrote a reply, intending to send it back to them. K...

  14. Documentation of the Amtsgericht Bergedorf (Bergedorf Magistrates Court) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Amtsgericht Bergedorf (Bergedorf Magistrates Court) in Hamburg The Amtsgericht Bergedorf (Bergedorf Magistrates Court) was established in 1855. It is still in existence as of the time of the writing of these lines. The Court files that arrive for archival storage are transferred to the State Archive in Hamburg. They include administrative files, protocols of trials, court decisions, criminal and civil court proceedings, files and Register (registration) books, and freiwillige Gerichtsbarkeit (mediation and arbitration) files. The files that were copied for Yad Vashem re...

  15. Ferencz interviewed by Russel Harvey

    Interview with Benjamin Ferencz. Host: Russel Harvey. Benjamin Ferencz expresses his concern for world peace. He demands that the world clearly define laws for human behavior, and thus for international fundamentals. Ferencz encourages education, common sense, recognition of progress in peace-making, rational processes for settling differences, and planetary thinking.

  16. Lena Lipchiz papers

    The Lena Lipchiz papers document relatives of Lena Lipchiz who remained in Poland when she immigrated to the United States. Records include one 1920 photograph of Moryc Baumgarten in Łódz; an admission card allowing Basia Baumgarten visitors at a Chojny sanitorium; a 1940 letter from Basia in Łódz to Lena in New York; a 1940 postcard from A. Dziaba in the Łódz ghetto to Lena; and a 1946 postcard and empty 1947 envelope from Isak Kleber in the UNRRA DP camp at Grugliasco to Lena.

  17. Adler family papers

    Collection of papers, correspondence and ephemera of the Adler family who emigrated to the UK in 1936.

  18. State Attorney Hamburg Staatsanwaltschaft Landgericht (213-12)

    Court proceedings relating to post-war Nazi court cases after 1945. Files mostly contain documents concerning preliminary research, state attorney, court proceedings, and sentences. The collections contains 3,451 procedures, 1946-1995 and 320 charges against 598 persons.

  19. Comitetul Democrat Evresc. Biroul I.O.V.R Records of the Jewish Democratic Committee Office of the Association of Widows and Orphans from the Iasi branch of the Romanian National Archives

    This collection consists of 1,350 files containing questionnaires with families of Jewish victims of the Pogrom of Iaşi, death certificates, interviews with survivors, hospital release forms, Jews in forced labor in the Iasi area, birth certificates and other family records.

  20. Burning farms; POWs; town on fire

    LS views of farm burning in Bialystok; soldiers arrest citizens, check IDs. CU of frightened man. Long view of tanks lining road; soldiers. Pan of many wrecked tanks burning in fields near Minsk, all spewing black smoke. HA pan of Russian POWs sitting on the ground (POW camp?). CU endless line of turbanned Russian POWs, many with Asiatic faces. Distance sign: "Berlin/Breslau/Moskau." MS Kalvaria in flames in the distance. Nazis ride into town. Dead horse on road ("Dunaburg"?); scorched earth. Many views of smoking rubble, total destruction.