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  1. Commissariat général aux questions juives

    Consists of records relating to the operations of the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives. On 29 March 1941, the Vichy Government of France formed the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ). The CGQJ was responsible for defining Jewish status, inventorying Jewish persons and their possessions, excluding Jewish persons from the French economy, and ultimately, interning Jewish persons to facilitate the implementation of the "Final Solution." The collection contains a variety of documents encapsulating the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives' operations in Toulouse, Marse...

  2. Van West-Goudsmit family. Collection

    This document is a parcel request form sent by Michel Van West, his wife Sara Goudsmit and their son Edouard Van West during their detainment at the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks) to Paul Mouradian, asking him to send them a package with specific types of food and toiletries

  3. Erlich-Liberman family. Collection

    This collection contains an audio interview of Anna Erlich-Liberman and 22 photos of : the Liberman-Weinberg family, including their three daughters Bertha, Julia and Rosalia Liberman ; siblings Anna and Rosa Erlich ; Vital Bertrand Lieberman and comrades at the Les Mazures camp in France ; Anna Erlich and her friends at the home of the Jewish Association (AJB or Jewish Council) in Lasne ; pre-war photos of Erlich and Liberman family members whom remained in Poland ; pre-war photo of Fryda Liberman ; post-war photos of Anna Erlich, her husband Vital Bertrand Lieberman and other family membe...

  4. Morris Rosen family photographs

    Consists of three photographs of students and teachers at the "Yavne" religious elementary school for boys in Be̜dzin, Poland; photograph of Maks Bilauer, the donor's future brother-in-law; photograph of Pola Frochcwajg Rozen, the donor's father's first wife.

  5. Erna E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erna E., who was born in Oświęcim, Poland in 1920. She recounts her large family's affluence; summering in mountain resorts; participating in Betar; Vladimir Jabotinsky staying at their home; antisemitic harassment beginning in 1933; one year of school in Myslowice; one brother serving in the Polish military; German invasion in 1939; fleeing with her family to Przeworsk; her father continuing to the Soviet zone; finding her brother in Kraków (he had been wounded); their return home; brief arrest with her sister by Soviets in Tarnów en route to find their father; r...

  6. Personalakten von Beschäftigten des öffentlichen Dienstes

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • PERS 101
    • German
    • Sammlung 70560 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 906,6 laufende Meter

    Bestandsbeschreibung Bestandsgeschichte Mit dem 9. Gesetz zur Änderung dienstrechtlicher Vorschriften vom 11. Juni 1992 (BGBl. I S. 1030) wurde die Gliederung von Personalakten für Beamte generell geregelt. Personalakten sind demzufolge nach sachlichen Gesichtspunkten in Grund- und Teilakten zu gliedern. In Einzelfällen können auch Personalnebenakten angelegt und geführt werden (§ 90 (2) BBG). Den aktenführenden Stellen blieb vorbehalten, interne Regelungen zur Führung, Ordnung und Aufbewahrung von Personalakten im eigenen Geschäftsbereich einzuführen. Personalakten enthalten Angaben zur di...

  7. Portfolio

    Folio cover for an introductory insert and a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  8. M.44 - Documentation from archives in Estonia, 1941-1946

    M.44 Documentation from archives in Estonia, 1941-1946 A. Documentation from the Estonian State Central Archives (ERA) in Tallinn, Estonia Examples: - Collection of the autonomous leadership regarding Jewish culture in Estonia; - Collection of the Valga Juudi Spordiselts Makkabi (Maccabi Sports Association) in Valga; - Collection of the Tartu Akadeemiline Juudi Ajaloo ja Kirjanduse Selts ülikooli juures (Association for Jewish Culture and History) in Tartu; - Collection of the Tartu-Juudi üliõpilaste Kassa (Jewish Students' Fund) in Tartu, 1887-1928; - Collection of the Tartu Juudi Usuühing...

  9. Postwar devastation; opening of Nuremberg Trial; early Nazi party history, events, leaders

    Part 1 of GERMAN language version [corresponds to NARA reels 1 & 2] "Europa 1945" Panorama of war devastation: buildings and cities laid to waste, rubble, mother climbing out of trap door shelter with naked baby in arms, people in hunger and despair emerge from shelters, children running down steps, clambering for food, poverty, homeless people, begging for food, weeping woman. "Nuremberg 21 November 1945" EXT and INT Nuremberg Palace of Justice. CU, document announcing trial and listing the accused. Seating of International Military Tribunal. Chief US prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson pres...

  10. Kormányzó félhivatalos iratai

    • Semi-official Records of the Regent

    The collection holds the semi-official diplomatic records as well as private and family documents of Miklós Horthy, the Regent of Hungary between 1919 and 1944. The collection is divided into two main thematic groups: Records related to Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs (I-II.) Files with relevance to the history of Hungarian Jews and the Holocaust include the letters of Prime Ministers Bethlen, Gömbös, Teleki and Bárdossy to Horthy (I.B), memorandum of the policy of the Imrédy government (I.C), various pro memoriae and letters on political parties and problems (I.D) and letters and prop...

  11. Boberach, Heinz

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1521
    • German
    • 1951-2005
    • Nachlässe 104 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Lebensdaten 21.11.1929 geboren in Köln-Lindenthal als Sohn des kaufmännischen Angestellten Wilhelm Boberach und seiner Ehefrau Margarete, geb. Heuvelmann 1940-1944 Oberschule für Jungen in Köln-Lindenthal 1945-1950 Städtisches Gymnasium Köln 1950-1954 Studium der Geschichte und lateinischen Philologie an den Universitäten Köln und Bonn 14.7.1955 Wissenschaftliche Prüfung für das Lehramt an höheren Schulen vor dem Wissenschaftlichen Prüfungsamt Köln 1957-1959 Archivreferendariat im Bundesarchiv Koblenz und an der Archivschule Marburg 1959 Promotion mit der Arb...

  12. Political cartoon by Rollin Kirby portraying a bloodstained Hitler standing on a pile of human skulls

    Satirical drawing created by Rollin Kirby and published in the New York Post on June 4, 1940. He inscribed the drawing and gave it to Charles Neal and Lida Thomas on June 4, 1940. The drawing depicts Adolf Hitler holding a bloody sword and standing atop of mound of human skulls. A vulture perches on the pile next to him. Kirby had been a celebrated political cartoonist in the US since World War I (1914-18), and won three Pulitzers in the 1920s. His editorial cartoons appeared daily in a series of New York newspapers. He was known for his bold visual style and his support of the common man a...

  13. Narodowo-Socjalistyczna Niemiecka Partia Pracy Kierownictwo Powiatowe w Płocku

    • Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei Kreisleitung Schröttersburg
    1. Kreisorganisationsamt [Powiatowy Urząd Organizacyjny] z l. 1940-1945 (sygn. od 1 do 4): sprawy powołania Okręgowego Urzędu Pełnomocnika Sztabu Gotowości i utworzenia gminnych grup Reich Land Bund [Państwowego Związku Ziemskiego], rozkazy, plan stanowisk, wykazy przedsiębiorstw kupieckich i rzemieślniczych oraz zawodów ludności Bielska, statystyka ludności niemieckiej, polskiej, żydowskiej i Volksdeutschów, miesięczne plany służby NSDAP). 2. Kreispersonalamt [Powiatowy Urząd Personalny] z l. 1939-1944 (sygn. od 5 do 44): akta osobowe pracowników. 3. Kreispropagandamt [Powiatowy Urząd Prop...

  14. Konzentrationslager Klooga (Vaivara)

    Die Sammlung enthält: Namentliches Verzeichnis und Häftlings-Nummernverzeichnis von Häftlingen des SS-Arbeitslagers Klooga/Estland, die bei verschiedenen Arbeitskolonnen eingesetzt waren, 1943-1944 Häftlingskartei des SS-Arbeitslagers Klooga/Estland Geschichte des Konzentrationslagers Klooga 1943-1944: „In Klooga an der Nordküste Estlands befand sich 1943/44 als Außenkommando des Konzentrationslagers Vaivara ein Zwangsarbeitslager, das insbesondere für die deutsche Marine produzierte. Über 2.200 Männer und Frauen waren dort inhaftiert, die meisten von ihnen Juden. Angesichts der heranrücken...

  15. Rubel family papers

    The Rubel family papers consist of letters and postcards exchanged between Ferdinand and Else Rubel, originally of Steinbach am Donnersberg, Germany, who had immigrated to the United States, and loved ones in Nazi-occupied Europe. The bulk of the correspondence is addressed to Ferdinand and Else Rubel in New York by friends and family members imprisoned in the Gurs, Rivesaltes, and Noé internment camps. The letters and postcards relay gratitude for letters, packages, and money transfers; describe the poverty and illness in the camps and worries about relatives selected for labor detail; and...

  16. Serge Klarsfeld. Collection

    This collection contains: a photomontage of portraits of Jewish children deported from Belgium, used as a cover for the commemorative publication entitled "Mémorial de la déportation de Belgique de 25.124 Juifs et de 351 Tziganes" by Serge Klarsfeld an Maxime Steinberg ; the pages of addendum number 2 of the "Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France" [Memorial of the Deportation of Jews from France] by Serge Klarsfeld, containing portraits of deported Jews, their names and different pieces of information (transport, biography) ; a published collection of various documents used during ...

  17. Processo de pedido de visto para Helene Johanna Hermina Spoor, Max Kan, Margot Sara Leonie Brieger, filho de Margot Sara Leonie Brieger, J. S. Auerbach, Je Ruthiël Auerbach, Amalia Auerbach, Ciwie Auerbach, Jochwat Auerbach (nascida Resen), August Jacobs, Henriette Jacobs (nascida Hart), Henriette Jacobs, Benjamin Andries Jacobs, Heinz Gunther Olbrich, Frederike Ruth (roos) Wertheimer, Arnold Hans Wreschner, Alice Helene Welsenner (nascida Ettizgnausen) e Edgar Weinberg

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Amesterdão para Helene Johanna Hermina Spoor, de nacionalidade holandesa, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado com condicionantes. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Amesterdão para Max Kan, de nacionalidade holandesa e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Amesterdão para Margot Sara Leonie Brieger, de nacionalidade alemã e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino a Portugal. Sem inf...

  18. Dorota Grinberg papers

    The papers consist of pre-war and post-war photographs of Marek Nunberg and his family in Poland as well as documents relating to Marek Nunberg's service in the Polish Army during the war.

  19. Ann F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann F., who was born in Panevėžys, Lithuania in 1918, one of ten children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her father's charitable giving; antisemitic violence; two older brothers emigrating to South Africa; joining a married sister in Kaunas; Soviet occupation; marriage to a cellist in February 1940; her daughter's birth; German invasion; mass killings by Lithuanians, then Germans; ghettoization; an abortion in 1942 since Jewish women were forbidden to bear children; a non-Jewish neighbor hiding them during a round-up; starvation; deportations of many relatives...

  20. Gauselbstverwaltung der Reichsgaus Daniz-Westpreusen Namiestnik Rzeszy Okręgu Gdańsk-Prusy Zachodnie (Sygn. 263)

    Selected records of the office of the Governor of the Reich of the Gdańsk-West Prussia District (Namiestnik Rzeszy Okręgu Gdańsk-Prusy Zachodnie: Gauselbstverwaltung der Reichsgaus Daniz-Westpreuse). Consist of internal regulations and orders, correspondence, lists of cities and districts with Polish and new German names, and the organizational chart of the office of the Governor of the Reich of the Gdańsk-West Prussia District.