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  1. Chaim Posner photograph collection

    The Chaim Posner photograph collection contains ten photographs of the Glas and Posner families from Jaworzno and Chrzanow in Poland before the war.

  2. German Atrocities

    Issue 153, Part 3: Assisting survivors of Ohrdruf. Inspected by Gens. Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley. Exhumations at Arnstadt. Assistance given at Nordhausen, German townspeople required to view and assist in burial of dead.

  3. Theresienstadt activity report

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.The typescript report details every aspect of the activities of the camp under the following sub-headings: Abteilung fuer innere Verwaltung, Arbeitszentrale, Wirtschaftsabteilung, Spedition, Landwirtschaft, Produktion, Finanzabteilung, Technische Abteilung, Abteilung fuer Gesundheitswesen.

  4. Russian News (1943, No. 73-74)

    Reel 1: Artillery shells Dobronske, White Russia. Tanks and infantry advance. A German observation tower is blown up and its occupants killed. Troops enter the rubbled town and are greeted; they cross the Soje and Dnieper Rivers in boats and on pontoon bridges that are heavily shelled. Titles in Russian.

  5. Archieven van de gemeente Klimmen. (1797) 1800-1953 (1973)

    De gemeente Klimmen is bij de gemeentelijke herindeling van 1982 samengevoegd met de gemeente Voerendaal; tot de nieuwe fusiegemeente Voerendaal.. Het archief bevat de neerslag van de taken en activiteiten van de gemeente. Onder 2.1.1.- 2.1.3. zijn de notulen van vergaderingen en besluiten van de gemeenteraad en het college van B&W te vinden. Onder 2.2.1.2 vindt u stukken betreffende personeelsaangelegenheden. Onder 2.2.2.4.4.2 bevinden zich stukken betreffende de bevolkingsregistratie. Hier kunt u, in de gedeeltes over de oorlogsjaren mogelijk relevante informatie vinden.

  6. Archief van de gemeentesecretarie, Barneveld

    Op het moment van de bezetting was Johan Westrik burgemeester van Barneveld. Hij werd aangesteld als burgemeester op 20 april 1925 en hij moest deze post gedwongen neerleggen op 1 juni 1946. De burgemeester moest onderduiken in augustus 1944 omdat hij een weermachtsorder negeerde. Het archief bevat de neerslag van de taken en activiteiten van de gemeente. Zie inventarisnummers 1 en 5-6 voor de notulen van vergaderingen van de gemeenteraad en het College B&W. Nummers 338-356 betreffen personeelsaangelegenheden. Onder inventarisnummeres 397-410 zitten stukken betreffende de bevolkingsregi...

  7. Sąd Obwodowy w Neustadt (Schwarzwald) [Amtsgericht Neustadt im Schwarzwald]

    • akta sądowe dotyczące spraw karnych przeciwko robotnikom przymusowym (w większości Polakom), oskarżonym m.in. o opuszczenie miejsca pracy, nienoszenie oznaczenia „P” i in.; akta sprawy cywilnej o odszkodowanie

  8. Komendant Policji Ochronnej w Dystrykcie Radomskim [Der Kommandeur der Schutzpolizei im Distrikt Radom]

    • akta administracyjne (spisy kandydatów wytypowanych do awansu w Policji Polskiej; dziennik pracy niemieckiej Policji Ochronnej)

  9. Андреевская районная управа

    • Andreevo district council

    Orders, commands and warrants of heads of districts. Warrants for heads of districts and prefects on residents' forced labor, on recruitment of the labor force in Germany. Prefects' reports about residents that are leaving the forestry without an authorization. Passports, issued by occupational authorities; report and accounting books of passports and certificates.

  10. Memories of Occupation in Greece

    The Archive "Memories of the Occupation in Greece" contains 93 testimonies of witnesses of the German occupation of Greece during WW2. The interviews are biographical interviews with witnesses of various experiences such as: Resistance fighters, victims of the massacres, survivors of bombings, Jews in Hiding, Shoah survivors, as well as people who were arrested during raids in Athens and other places and deported to Germany. The archive preserves these testimonies for the future and makes them available for education and research. Register to view the interviews in the archive. The archive ...

  11. Ohrdruf liberation photograph

    Photograph taken at Ohrdruf concentration camp in 1945. Photograph shows four men with arms raised surrounded by United States Army soldiers. In the foreground is a pile of charred wood and what appears to be skulls. One camp inmate is shown talking to the soldiers on the left-hand side of the photograph. In script on the back of the photograph: "Ordroff [sic] Concentration Camp 30 min. after capture."

  13. Laurel Terry collection

    Consists of a small book entitled "Mitglieder=Grundbuch" consisting of the handwritten names and membership numbers of members of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (League of German Girls) from an unknown town. Also includes a Russian postcard sent to Lemberg in 1943 depicting a drawing of frontier men discovering a Russian town, and a photograph of a group of young men in uniform standing with Nazi flags in Neuburg an der Donau, Germany.

  14. Agro-Joint colony of Politodielec

    Electrical lines leading to an electrical water pump. LS of water pouring from a pipe. CU of pipe and water pouring into irrigation channel. Pan over cotton field, CU of cotton plants.

  15. Archives de Drancy

    Contains documentation about the administration of the camp, the condition and treatment of the inmates, lists of inmates, a list of those liberated from the camp, information about provisions for Christmas 1943, memoranda from the camp commandant, personal papers of the inmates, and other information.

  16. Andrew Kapochunas collection

    Contains an air mail envelope written while Kaunas was under occupation; five original Vilna Ghetto arrest documents; and an original signed receipt for 18,837 Litai received from the American Joint Distribution Committee, Vilnius, intended for "the Jewish Section for War-Sufferers, Lithuanian Red Cross."

  17. Rudolf Heilborn postcards from Buchenwald

    Contains two postcards written by Rudolf Heilborn from Buchenwald to Ruth Heilborn in Gleiwitz, Germany, in November and December of 1938. Rudolf Heilborn was among the Jews of Gleiwitz who were arrested by the Gestapo during Kristallnacht then deported to Buchenwald.

  19. Documentation of the Ukrainian authorities in the Rivne region, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the Ukrainian authorities in the Rivne region, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Documentation regarding the Radziwillow area, including statistical data regarding the area's residents, names of Jews in the area, and the location of the ghettos in the area, 1941-1942; - Statistical data regarding the population in the villages in the Klevan district; - List of Jewish residents from Tuchin.

  20. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The documents were collected by Dr. Wiener and his assistants from the early 1930s, during the war and its aftermath, until the late 1970s. As they constitute the library’s core, these documents were the first to be digitized and accessible online. They include the correspondence and decrees of various Nazi agencies, documents from concentration camps, and documentation of the activities, the life and the fate of Jewish associations, communities, and individuals before, during and after the Holocaust.