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  1. Okresní úřad Strakonice I

    • District Office of Strakonice I / NAD 417

    This large fonds contains documents from the regional political state administration and the judicial administration, dealing with the economic, political, social and cultural conditions of the former judicial district of Strakonice and Horažďovice. Most materials concerning Jews can be found in the affairs of the Jewish communities of Strakonice, Volyně and Horažďovice (rabbi affairs, elections to the Jewish religious community, model statutes of the Jewish community, Wilhemine vom Fürth Foundation, dissolution of the Jewish Women's Association in Strakonice, police travel permits, circula...

  2. Diary of dr. Alfons Van Orshoven. Collection

    This collection consists of three elements. First is a diary by Alfons Van Orshoven which he noted at Bergen-Belsen itself during his volunteering work, the first entry dating from 24 May 1945 and the last from 4 August 1945. Within the diary, there are some numbered pages which, however, remain unwritten. Among the things and people mentioned inside is friend and fellow year-old Prof. Jozef Vandepitte (called "Pitten") who was one of the other doctors that came to Bergen-Belsen together with Alfons. Second, there is a notebook in which are written the disease symptoms and treatment of pati...

  3. Hillel Storch papers

    The Hillel Storch papers consist of correspondence, photographic negatives, personal papers, printed materials, and subject files documenting Storch’s work on behalf of the World Jewish Congress in Sweden to rescue Jews during the Holocaust and to resettle survivors after the Holocaust. Records document his missions, activities, and meetings with Nazi leaders to save Jews from the extermination camps, and include materials about his work with Heinrich Himmler’s assistant Franz Goering and physical therapist Felix Kersten, and SS Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg about the “White Buses” oper...

  4. LXVII. Reservekorps / LXVII. Armeekorps

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher aller Truppenteile und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die Kriegstagebücher der Generalkommandos und der bodenständigen Höheren Kommandos vom Mobilmachungstag (26. Aug. 1939) an beim Heeresarchiv Potsdam einzureichen, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten. Diese Zugangssignaturen wurden anfangs getrennt nach den Kriegsschauplätzen, nämlich P für Polen und W für Westen vergeben. Nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges wurden die Zugänge nur noch nach laufender Nummer signiert und in dieser Reihenfolge auch eingelagert, ...

  5. Eichmann Trial -- Session 81 -- Examination of the Accused re: Office of Reich Security, visiting a camp, Polish Jews, executions

    Session 81. Dr. Servatius talks, citing pieces from a letter and asking Eichmann if they are valid. Eichmann says that a different conception arose in the SD circa 1938 with respect to the Jewish question. Emigration was encouraged, and creating organizations in favor of that were created. Eichmann says that he had to inform those in Vienna about this new mentality. 00:14:42 Tape jumps. Dr. Servatius submits a letter from Eichmann. It concerns Dr. Loewenherz and his interventions at Eichmann's office, working for the release of arrested persons. 00:19:23 Tape jumps. The judges ask if there ...

  6. Landesgericht Eisenstadt: NS-Verfahren

    Postwar court records of Nazi-related cases in the state court in Eisenstadt, Austria.

  7. Leo Melamed collection

    The Leo Melamed collection consists of immigration and identification documents issued to the Melamdowicz family (later Melamed) of Białystok, Poland. Also included are blank postcards from Japan; a notebook kept by Leo Melamed containing Lithuanian words and their Yiddish meaning; a second grade notebook, a letter signed by Tomlin Bailey, the American vice-consul regarding immigration visas, December 12, 1939; and a photograph identified as a Białystok Bund demonstration, 1934.

  8. Processo de pedido de visto para Ramon Almuina Gonzalez, Emilio Fernandez Pazo, Dolores Docampo Garcia, Jose Maria Peris y Gatala, Dolores Somoza, Amada Engrazia Novoa, Sabino Cancela Moldes, Francisco Riveiro Perez, Candido Perez Dominguez, Manuel Costoyas Porto, Antonio Cacheda Barral, Nicolas Alfaro Ridruego, Manuel Oterologuera, Manuel Matinez de la Fuente, Luiz de Olaso, Manuel Lorenzo, Manuel Estevez Nunez Perfecto Ordonez Ordonez, Perfecto Ordonez Ordonez, Jacinto Guridi Arregui, Jose Ramon Alvarez, Juan Bordas Moret, Manuel Antonio Gonzalez Calvo e Rogelio Fernandez

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Buenos Aires para Ramon Almuina Gonzalez, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino a Espanha. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Buenos Aires para Emilio Fernandez Pazo, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino a Espanha. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Buenos Aires para Dolores Docampo Garcia, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino a Espanha. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Buenos Aires para Jo...

  9. Card indexes of Jews persecuted during World War II

    The Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic (FJC) has several card indexes at its disposal: The central card index served the occupation authorities during World War II to keep an overview of most Jewish persons from Bohemia and Moravia. Before the end of the war, the Nazis tried to destroy the majority of important documents that could, inter alia, attest to their part in the extermination of Jews. They were particularly thorough with destroying the cards of deported persons. Yet they were not successful in destroying all the evidence. Some of the cards were preserved, and m...

  10. Eichmann Trial -- Session 104 -- Cross-examination of the Accused re: Hungary

    The footage begins in the middle of Session 104. Eichmann is shown examining a document. Cross-examination by Attorney General Gideon Hausner begins with questions about the deportation of Jews from Budapest, including the number of people deported and the deportation of Jewish children. Hausner asks about proposals made by Blaschke to Kaltenbrunner for the redirection of trains from Auschwitz to Austria.This is a reference to the "Blood for Goods" transaction, which was the attempt by members of the Hungarian Jewish Relief and Rescue Committee to negotiate with the SS for the exchange of o...

  11. Elias Stainfeld. Collection

    This collection contains : three war-time letters from Charlotte Stainfeld to her brother Elias Stainfeld living in France ; documents and three letters with news about acquaintances written by Elias Stainfeld’s (unidentified) friend Blajwajs or Blejwas who was interned at the Le Vernet camp ; a post-war letter sent by survivor Elias Stainfeld from the Monowitz labour camp to the address of his deported sister Charlotte Stainfeld in Antwerp ; three post-war letters delivering the news of his sister and niece’s deportation to Elias Stainfeld ; a letter and a telegram involving Elias Stainfel...

  12. Friedman family collection

    Consists of identity cards, photographs, and documents related to Willem and Helene Ginsburg Friedman, originally of Antwerp, Belgium. They were able to emigrate through France to Portugal, using visas provided by Aristides de Sousa Mendes, and then to escape to the United States in 1940. Includes pre-war passports, safe conduct passes, pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs.

  13. Eichmann Trial -- Session 80 -- Examination of the Accused re: relocation, deportation, Lebensborn, Palestine, Bulgaria

    Session 80. Dr. Servatius reads a document about 1,000 Poles taken on each transport, and a request to get moving so that the Aktion can begin in November. Servatius then asks Eichmann when he was involved with this in Berlin. He says that these were in the Government General area, and Birkenau was requesting transports, so his office got together to figure out how to fill the order. He says that teenage Poles were to replace the Jews of similar ages working in war industries. He says that he was involved with this indirectly. He says that Mueller's orders demanded setting up children's cam...

  14. Wehrkreiskommando XVII (Wien)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Für Österreich wurden am 1. April 1938 die Wehrkreiskommandos XVII und XVIII (Salzburg) geschaffen. Den Wehrkreiskommandos oblagen u.a. Leitung des Ersatzwesens, Vorbereitung der Mobilmachung, Betreuung und Einsatz der Landesschützen-Bataillone (hauptsächlich Kriegsgefangenenbewachung), Überwachung der Ausbildung der unterstellten Truppen, Sicherung des Befehlsbereichs bei inneren Unruhen und im Kriege gegen feindliche Unternehmungen sowie Hilfe bei Notständen aller Art. Kommandeur der Ersatztruppen XVII. Dazu kam am 15. Oktober 1939 die Dienststelle eines 2....

  15. Akta miasta Kraśnika

    • Files of the town of Kraśnik

    Zespół zawiera następujące akta: przepisy i zarządzenia ogólne (sygn. 1-5), sprawy organizacyjne (sygn. 6-10), sprawy osobowe (sygn. 11-12), zebrania i urzędowanie ciał samorządowych (sygn. 13-16), majątek gminy i gromad (sygn. 17-56), budżety: administracyjny, zakładów i przedsiębiorstw (sygn. 57-91), dochody gminy (sygn. 92-111), dochody obce (sygn. 112-166), egzekucja administracyjna (sygn. 167-169), sprawy ogólnogospodarcze (sygn. 170), drogi i place publiczne (sygn. 171-178), rolnictwo (sygn. 179-180), opieka społeczna (sygn. 181), ewidencja i kontrola ruchu ludności (sygn. 182-191), b...

  16. Freddie Knoller: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Freddie Knoller, an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor from Vienna. His parents, David and Marja Knoller, insisted that he and his two brothers, Erich and Otto, emigrated to avoid increasing anti-Semitism and Nazi persecution after the annexation of Austria. Freddie's parents were murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp whilst his two brothers survived in England and the United States respectively.Included are letters (with translations) from Freddie Knoller’s parents, mainly addressed to his brother Erich, giving an insight into their fea...

  17. Verwaltungsamt für innere Restitutionen, Stadthagen

    Die Aufgabe des Verwaltungsamtes für innere Restitutionen war die Rückgabe von Effekten an Inhaftierte der Nationalsozialisten und der Alliierten. Effekten bezeichnen das persönliche Eigentum, das den Häftlingen bei der Inhaftierung abgenommen wurde. Die in diesem Findbuch beschriebenen Effekten waren der Behörde vorwiegend von der britischen Besatzungsmacht übergeben worden und zwischen 1962 und 1964 an den ITS übergegangen. Der Bestand enthält umfangreichen Schriftverkehr mit den Empfängern der zurückgegebenen Effekten. Bei dem Findbuch handelt es sich um das Ergebnis einer Neuerschließun...

  18. W.P. Crozier Papers

    Accounts, both typescript and holograph, of interviews conducted by Crozier, with 62 statesmen and politicians, between 1931-1944. The interviews are concerned with European politics and the Nazi threat, the Jewish National Home and the Far East (India and China). There are 175 major interviews with 23 leading politicians, including Stanley Baldwin, Eduard Benes, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, David Lloyd George, Arthur Henderson, Sir Samuel Hoare, Leslie Hore Belisha, Ivan Maisky, Herbert Morrison, Jan Masaryk, Sir John Simon, Sir Robert Vansittart. There are also 57...

  19. Paul Bucholz. Collection

    In this interview Peisach alias Paul Bucholz talks about: his youth in Antwerp, Belgium ; his father's fate working as a forced labourer for Organisation Todt in France ; going into hiding with his mother Basze Laie Bucholz and younger brother Salomon in Silsburg in 1942 ; the separation of his youngest brother Jakob who was placed in hiding in Forest, Brussels ; his uncle Simon Bucholz fleeing to Spain ; the escape attempts of his uncle Aron Bucholz from the Dossin barracks and Transport XX.

  20. Eichmann Trial -- Session 96 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    Footage beings in the middle of session 96. Attorney General Gideon Hausner continues cross examination of the accused with questions regarding whether Theodor Dannecker, Dieter Wisliceny, Alois Brunner, Rolf Günther and Gustav Richter received instructions from Eichmann. This is duplicate footage also found on Tape 2149 (at 01:01:55). Eichmann concedes that they did receive instructions from him with the exception of those that were involved in missions abroad (00:02:47). This discussion continues and after a long reply by the accused, Judge Landau asks Eichmann to stop repeating general s...