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  1. Hollander-Götz family. Collection

    This collection contains two photos : portrait of Vigdor Getsel (Victor) Hollander and a pre-war photo of Esther Pschetizki with her sons Abraham, Isaak, Eliezer and Israel Helfgott.

  2. Eisenstadt family papers

    The collection contains pre-war photographs of the Eisenstadt family of Pinsk, Belarus, and post-war photographs of Boris Eisenstadt and his wife Rachel Eisenstadt (née Bak, later Burstein) of Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania and her son Alex in the Landsberg displaced persons camp in Bavaria, Germany. The documents are identification papers of Rachel from Landsberg and Israel. There is also a letter regarding her visa application to the United States from Canada, 1957.

  3. Deutscher General beim Oberkommando der finnischen Wehrmacht

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Erste deutsche Truppen in Finnland gab es seit dem Spätsommer 1940, doch hatten diese lediglich Durchmarschrechte und dienten nur zur Sicherung des Nachschubs für die in Nord-Norwegen stationierten deutschen Truppen. 1940/41 wurden deutsche Truppen mit der Aufgabe nach Nord-Finnland entsandt, u.a. die Nickelminen von Petsamo gegen einen denkbaren sowjetischen Überfall zu sichern und, im Fall des beabsichtigten Krieges gegen die Sowjetunion, Murmansk (und die gleichlautende Bahn nach Süden) in Besitz zu nehmen. Murmansk war als Nachschubhafen für die sowjetisc...

  4. Processo de pedido de visto para William Mark, Carolina Mark, Jacobo, Susana, Marianne de Landsberger-Freideck, Yvonne Praxmarer, Albert Levy, Lucie Abramowicz, Danielle Abramowicz, Ernest Adler, Elizabeth Adler, Josette Adler, Myriam Suzanne Becker, Maria Josefa Schurtenberger-Gemuseus, Madeleine Philipossian (nascida Gemeseus), Max Albert Bloch, Elizabeth Marianne Bloch (nascida Schimmelburg), Claire Ruth Ballin, François Stránsky, Antoine Lanckoronski e Adelaide Lanckoronski

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Genebra para William Mark, de nacionalidade mexicana, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Genebra para Carolina Mark, de nacionalidade mexicana, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Genebra para Jacobo, de nacionalidade mexicana, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Genebra para Susana, de nac...

  5. Justizbehörden im ehemaligen Sudetenland sowie im Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren

    Bestandsbeschreibung Obergericht, Sondergericht und Staatsanwaltschaft Brünn 1938-1945 (6), Landgericht Bud‧weis 1944-1946 (2), Land-, Amts- und Sondergericht Eger 1941-1945 (1949) (12), Amtsge‧richt Gablonz 1941-1943 (2), Amtsgericht Haida 1940-1945 (1), Amtsgericht Hotzenplotz 1941-1944 (2), Amtsgericht Jägerndorf 1944 (1), Amtsgericht Jechnitz 1936-1945 (5), Amts‧gericht Kaaden 1941-1943 (10), Amtsgericht Karlsbad 1945 (1), Amts- und Sondergericht Königsberg (Ostsudetenland) 1942-1944 (2), Amtsgericht Komotau 1942-1944 (1), Amtsge‧richt Kratzau 1943-1944 (3), Staatsanwaltschaft Leitmerit...

  6. Selected records of the Holocaust in Nógrád County, Hungary

    This collection contains three group of records: I: Records of deputy prefect of Nógrád County, 1934-1944 (bulk 1938‒1944); mayor of Salgótarján city (1939‒1944); people's court (no date), and lawsuits (1945‒1946); government commission for "abandoned" properties in Balassagyarmat; commissions of Nógrád-Hont county (1945‒1949) and Salgótarján city (1945); political screening committees of Salgótarján, Szecseny, Nógrád-Hont, and Szirak counties, and of Salgótarján city; orphans court of Nógrád county (1940‒1943) and Nógrád -Hont county (1946‒1948); deputy prefect of Nógrád -Hont county (docu...

  7. The World Jewish Congress New York office records. Series B (Political Department)

    Contains records of the Political Department represented the WJC with governments and international organizations such as the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and the Council of Europe. Records relate to the departmental activities reflected antisemitism, human rights, migration, minorities, genocide, statelessness, prosecution of war crimes, relations between Christians and Jews, peace and disarmament, reparations, the situation of Jews in specific countries (notably the USSR and North Africa). Contains also papers of three persons: Maurice L. Perlzweig, Robert S. Marcu...

  8. Nazi Germany trims: Autobahn, HJ, Woolworth's, zeppelin, "Der Stuermer", exhibitions

    TRIMS. Signs for gasoline - "Gro Essen" and "Flug Essen." Autobahn. Mechanics. "Gesperrt" sign on Autobahn. Construction. Gas station. Construction, Nazi flags in BG. Driving on Autobahn. Mechanic working on coal/rail engine. Building construction, workers with cart. Autobahn. 01:02:12 City, HJ march in FG, church in BG. BDM girls marching street side, women on steps, gardening. Soup. Nazi poster. Autobahn. Leica factory. CUs, roof. HAS, market, vegetables, eggs. CUs, peasant woman selling wares, flowers. 01:04:06 CUs, boots. 01:04:17 Amusement park rides, spectators, children. Woolworth sh...

  9. Ministerstvo vnitra I - stará registratura, Praha

    • Ministry of Interior I - old registry, Prague / NAD 1075/2
    • Národní archiv
    • 1075/2
    • English
    • 1918-1944
    • Textual material 965,15 linear meters

    The fonds as a whole provides information on the activities of the state authorities during the first Czechoslovak Republic and the so-called autonomous administration at the beginning of the Nazi occupation. For researchers, the most valuable part is the legislative issues, issues of organization of political administration, federal affairs, elections, and national and autonomous affairs. The fonds also stores valuable material on economic history. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: reports on the activities of national committees and the memorandum of the Jewish Nat...

  10. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Contains records captured by the Red Army around the end of World War II currently housed at the Russian State Military Archive, formerly the Osobyi archives. In 1992, the Osobyi was renamed the Center for the Preservation of Historical Documentary Collections (CPHDC) and in 1999 The Russian Archives Committee merged the CPHDC into the Russian State Military Archives (RGVA) located next door. The RGVA contains prewar Soviet military documents. While the Osobyi is now a part of RGVA, the old Osobyi fond numbers for the various collections remain unchanged. In 1992, the Osobyi was renamed the...

  11. Eichmann Trial -- Session 29 -- Testimonies of A. Aviel and H. Behrendt

    Session 29. Court is adjourned. There are shots of the audience, frontals of the courtroom, and a conversation between Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius and Adolf Eichmann. Following a blip at 00:05:21, excerpts from Tape 2040 with witness Avraham Aviel are repeated. He discusses the liquidation of the Radun ghetto, and his escape to the group of Jewish men being used for labor. After joining the second group, Aviel recounts the death of his mother and younger brother: "Only afterward did I learn that I had been the only one who somehow managed to escape from that situation." Aviel disc...

  12. Breendonck; Hannover; Arnstadt

    "Breendonck" Views of Breendonck camp in Belgium. EXTs of prison used to house Belgian patriots. Blood-stained coffins are exhibited as evidence of brutality Inmates demonstrate the methods used against the prisoners, such as beatings with barbed wire poles, chaining them into a vise, thumb screws. Victims reveal results of beatings and cigarette burns; a woman also reveals scars on her hips. 01:09:40 "Hanover Concentration Camp" [Neuengamme] General views of the camp where only 200 remained of 10,000 Poles. INTs of the camp, few remaining inmates mill about. VS, Red Cross clubmobiles enter...

  13. Registries of Jewish retirement home Scheut. Collection

    This collection contains digital copies of two registries used to monitor the number of residents at the Jewish retirement home Scheut in Anderlecht. The institution housed 490 Jewish elderly men and women from September 1943 until December 1944. Each page contains four names and bibliographical information : name, date of birth, place of birth, profession, nationality, information on the spouse, date of arrival at Scheut and date of departure. The registries sometimes also refer to the way of arrival or departure of a person.

  14. Центральное строительное управление войск СС и полиции (г. Аушвиц)

    • Waffen-SS und Polizei. Zentralbauleitung in Auschwitz; Waffen-SS and Police, Central Construction Office in Auschwitz
    • Tsentral'noe stroitel'noe upravlenie voisk SS i politsii (g. Aushvits)

    The Construction Office of the Waffen-SS and Police at Auschwitz (Oświęcim), subsequently renamed the Central Construction Office of the Waffen SS and Police, was created in 1940 with the commencement of construction of the concentration camp. Here, in October 1941, construction began on a prisoner of war camp. In 1943, the Auschwitz concentration camp was divided into three independent camps: Auschwitz I (the main camp), Auschwitz II (Birkenau), and Auschwitz III, subsequently renamed the Monowitz concentration camp. The Central Construction Office of the Waffen-SS and Police at Auschwitz ...

  15. Pastor Paul Vogt papers Nachlass Pfarrer Paul Vogt (1900-1984)

    Private papers of Paul Vogt (1900-1984), Swiss pastor and a refugee aid worker. Consists of manuscripts, press articles, honors, diaries, obituaries, notes by Sophie Vogt-Brenner and Annemarie Vogt, photographs, interviews and publications. Records relate to Paul Vogt's commitment and leadership for charity and assistance to refugees, his work towards understanding between Christian and Jews, and his support for the existence of the State of Israel.

  16. Ruth T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth T., who was born in Hrubieszów, Poland in the early 1930s. She recounts her family's affluence; summer vacations in Krasnobród; German invasion; her father's military draft; brief Soviet occupation; German invasion; delivering messages for her father to his colleagues in Hashomer Hatzair; hiding during round-ups; deportation of her parents and brother; escaping; a non-Jewish teacher hiding her; bringing food to her grandmother and two aunts in hiding; later seeing them killed; witnessing a mass shooting; being assigned to gather valuables from abandoned Jewish ...

  17. Hecht family collection

    The collection documents the prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences of Arthur Hecht and his family, who primarily lived in Hörstein, Germany prior to WWII. Documents include birth and death certificates, a naturalization certificate, military discharge papers, a track award, and a 1946 clipping documenting Arthur’s reunification with his parents after their immigration to the United States. Original and copy print photographs include depictions of pre-war family life in Germany and life in the United States after immigrating, including Arthur’s time in the military.

  18. Gestapo Düsseldorf Geheime Staatspolizei-Staatspolizeileitstelle Düsseldorf (RW 0058)

    Case files of individuals arrested by the Gestapo in the Rhine Land region, consisting of questionnaires, protocols, internments and dismissals, Schutzhaft orders, arrest orders, flyers, photographs, and biographical information with particular focus on the Communist Party in Germany and associated political organizations (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD), Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (KJVD), Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus, Roter Frontkämpferbund (RFB), Revolutionäre Gewerkschaftsopposition (RGO), Rot Sport, Aufbruch-Arbeitskreis, Ringbolschewisten); the Communist move...

  19. Franck, Wolf

    Bestandsbeschreibung Biographische Angaben 18.02.1902 Geboren in Berlin-Wilmersdorf Erwerb der Hochschulreife am Friedrich-Werderschen Gymnasium in Berlin-Moabit 17.10.1921-31.05.1927 Studium: Nationalökonomie und Staatswissenschaften an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (heute Humboldt-Universität) in Berlin Ab ca. 1928/29 Arbeit als Redakteur beim „Drahtlosen Dienst", einem publizistischen Dienstleister für den Hörfunk der Weimarer Republik heiratet Marga Oppenheimer (geb. am 24.04.1907 in Berlin) 06.10.1932 Geburt des Sohnes Michael 1933 Emigration nach Fran...

  20. Dachau at liberation; delousing; identifying German captors; religious ceremony

    Courtyard with series of buildings, Dachau concentration camp. One building has SS sign on it (possibly SS barracks). VS of camp at Dachau, including inmates sitting by fires cooking. Steam in FG. Shot of liberated inmates pans to bodies, stacked like cork wood. A sequence of shots of corpses. Inmates in striped uniforms unloading bread from truck. Cleaning out large cabin. Carrying corpse. VS of liberated inmates being deloused. Considerable coverage of this activity. Two young inmates in striped suits strolling through camp. Inmates pulling food truck. Shot of crematorium, flame is visibl...