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  1. Jacob Gora fonds

    Fonds consists of textual records, and includes articles and letters which Jacob Gora contributed to newspapers, his 400 page memoir in Yiddish, and 21 Polish books surrounding Polish history and the Holocaust, printed between 1946 and 1957, many published by Centralna Zydowska Kamisja.

  2. Finland Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives records

    Contains reports to Helsinki (Finland) from the following Finnish Embassies: Vienna (Austria), Washington, D.C. (USA), Warsaw (Poland), Stockholm (Sweden), Prague (Czech Republic), Paris (France), Oslo (Norway), Hague (Netherlands), Budapest (Hungary), Berlin (Germany), Bern (Switzerland). Also contains records of incoming and outgoing cables to and from these embassies and copies of the Finnish Foreign Ministry files on various matters related to Jews, including files on the "Jewish question," and Finnish emigration policy. Other miscellaneous documents include personal name lists of Jewis...

  3. Okresní úřad Rakovník I

    • District Office of Rakovník I / NAD 32

    The fonds contains documents arisen from the activities of the Rakovník District Office, i.e. books, files, accounting material, census records, and projects. The file material contains the registry finding aid Jews 1724-1866 (no. 400-407). Trade, church and residence matters are also relevant. File material: Jews 1724-1865 (no. 400-407); Church matters, Jews, 1850-1914 (no. 638-641); Church matters, Jews 1928-1948 (no. 1121-1126); Security and police matters, among others Jews (1928-48 1155-1363); Registers of apostasies and conversions (no. K39-50); Volume LIV, no. VII-1-Jews, Files conce...

  4. Nazi atrocities; surrender

    06:12:46 Reel 2: "Activities in European Theater of Operations" In Germany, Schweinfurt citizens gather in courtyard. Confiscated art, belongings, etc. German male civilians march in columns in streets to be screened by US counter-intelligence. Cached gold and art treasures emoved from Merkers salt mine. Nordhausen citizens loot shops, walk through streets, stopped by armed US soldiers, forced to surrender stolen goods. French POW camp in Seurst, Germany. The liberated wave out of three story building windows, give hugs, pats, and kisses to liberating soldiers, large crowd, US and French ra...

  5. Prüfungsstelle Keramische Industrie

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das Registraturgut der Prüfungsstelle Keramische Industrie gelangte im September 1955 durch Abgabe des Custodian für die Reichsstellen, Wirtschaftsgruppen und anderen staatlichen Wirtschaftsstellen im amerikanischen, britischen und französichen Sektor von Berlin in das Geheime Staatsarchiv. 1969 erfolgte die Abgabe an das Bundesarchiv. Bestandsbeschreibung Das im Bundesarchiv befindliche Registraturgut der Prüfungsstelle Keramische Industrie setzt 1936 ein und enthält überwiegend Unterlagen zur Ausfuhr keramischer Produkte. Aufgrund der lückenhaften Überliefe...

  6. Akta miasta Konina

    • Files of the town of Konin
    1. Magistrat Policji w Koninie /Polizei Magistrat zu Konin/, daty skrajne: 1795-1806, sygn. 1, zawartość: produkcja i sprzedaż piwa. 2. Urząd municypalny miasta Konina, daty skrajne: /1800/ 1807-1866, sygn. 2-497, 850-857, zawartość: repertorium akt, sejmiki szlacheckie, cenzura , biblioteki, sprawy kościelne, szkolnictwo, budownictwo, dzierżawy, kasa miejska, poczta, rzemiosło, Towarzystwo Ogniowe, regulacja hipotek koncesja, ruch ludności, sprawy wojsk., cło, podatki., opieka zdrowotna, lekarze, porządek publiczny, epidemia cholery, szpital, więzienie, włóczęgostwo, sprawy cudzoziemców. 3...

  7. American military at Nordhausen; Eisenhower lands in Frankfurt; soldiers on leave in England

    Reel 14: (1945) Concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany; Ike, Frankfurt; Air trip to England; Cambridge American soldiers board military planes in a field. Sign, "Leave Flight Officers." Ansco (film) logo. At Nordhausen concentration camp, soldiers inspect rocket debris. [Fedeli reports visiting the contentration camp at 'Buchenwald' near Weimar, Germany in late April 1945.] Brief LS of camp buildings along road. Pan of liberated camp and environs from a moving vehicle. Dozens of large containers of ammunition stacked side by side in fields, behind a sign: "Tor II." Displaced families pus...

  8. Arnold Hartmann correspondence

    The Arnold Hartmann correspondence documents Hartmann’s efforts to help his Breslau cousins flee Germany during the Holocaust and either join their relatives who had already emigrated to Shanghai, Montevideo, or La Paz or immigrate to the United States. Hartmann’s correspondents include his cousins Philipp and Regine Hartmann in Breslau; their older daughter Meta and her husband Bruno Oszlowski who traveled from Breslau to Montevideo; their younger daughter Erna Hartmann who traveled from Breslau to La Paz and married Max Kissinger; cousins Martin and Jette Beil, also in Breslau; cousin Mar...

  9. Wilhelm Stahl and Walter Lewalter papers

    The collection contains German military documents relating to the military careers of non-Jewish Germans Wilhelm Stahl and Walter Lewalter. Also included are financial documents relating to the forced sale of Jewish assets in Frankfurt, Germany, postcards, as well as photographs of Wilhelm Stahl and family, Walter Lewalter, and Warsaw, Poland. The biographical materials in this collection are organized into two subseries of materials relating to Wilhelm Stahl and Walter Lewalter. Materials relating to Wilhelm Stahl include a military identification booklet, 1910-1919; a passport “Wehrpaß,” ...

  10. (Generalkommando Dehner) LXIII. 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, ...

  11. "Sunday's Child"

    Contains a manuscript entitled "Sunday's Child," by Lili R. Andrieux.

  12. Lakhovitzky family collection

    The Lakhovitzky family papers contain birth certificates, marriage certificates, certificates of identity, travel documents, photographs, and similar materials documenting the family’s migration from Russia to France in 1927-1928, their internment in camps from 1941-1942, and their immigration to the United States in 1942. Outside of birth certificates from Russia for Natan Lakhovitzky, and documents attesting to the marriage and Russian citizenship of Natan and Vera Lakhovitzky from their stay in Turkey in 1927, the majority of the documents date from the period of their residence in and a...

  13. Kaufmannová, Heda

    • Heda Kaufmannová / NAD 1981
    • Národní archiv
    • 1981
    • English
    • 1905-1981
    • Textual material Photographic images 2,50 linear meters

    The personal archive of the Czech writer, translator and participant in the anti-Nazi domestic resistance, Heda Kaufmann, is an important source for understanding her literary work and resistance activities during the years of the Nazi occupation. However, the documents in the fonds can also contribute to the understanding of the life of the Jewish community in the interwar Czechoslovakia. The fonds contains mainly personal documents, manuscripts of Heda Kaufmannová's works, documentation of her resistance activities, correspondence and photographs. Among the documents in Heda Kaufmannová's...

  14. Senat Wolnego Miasta Gdańska

    • Senat der Freien Stadt Danzig

    Wydział Prezydialny: powstanie i dzieje Wolnego Miasta Gdańska (WMG) 1919-1939, sygn. 1-49, Komisja Graniczna, podział mienia popruskiego 1920-1935, sygn. 50-92, konstytucja gdańska 1919-1933, sygn. 93-99, umowy i porozumienia 1917-1939, sygn. 100-290, ustawodawstwo, Volkstag i sejmiki powiatowe 1924-1939, sygn. 291-309, Senat, prezydenci 1920-1939, sygn. 310-513, Liga Narodów, komisarze, raporty 1921-1939, sygn. 514-696, sprawy wojskowe 1920-1937, sygn. 697-710, polityka zagraniczna Polski, Niemiec i WMG 1920-1939, sygn. 711-794; 1214-1354 partie polityczne 1919-1938, sygn. 795-806, przeds...

  15. Ruth von Wild papers Nachlass Ruth von Wild (1912-1983)

    Private papers of Ruth von Wild (August 3, 1912 -April 26, 1983), a Swiss teacher and aid worker for refugees. The collection consists of a diary, diploma, certificates, correspondence, postcards and reports of holiday travels by former employees of the Swiss Working Community for Children of Spain (Ayuda Suiza, SAS) [Schweizerischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Spanienkinder], and for the Swiss Working Community for Children with Disabilities (SAK) [Schweizerischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Kriegsgeschädigte Kinder], personal photo albums on the activities of the children's colony of the Swiss Re...

  16. Children playing in prewar Vienna

    Possibly a kindergarten scene. Four little girls, posing for the camera, then running about happily. An infant is being placed into its carriage, CUs. Another baby. A few mothers with carriages gathered on a sidewalk, including Doris Lichtenthal. Children play. They begin raking sand or dirt of some kind. 01:01:08 Kids play, boys in lederhosen with hoops and sticks, girls with jump ropes. The boys try to climb the fence before giving up. Peter rides a scooter that is just a bit big for him. Peter plays with blocks (brief). A child writing, followed by a girl running behind a toy baby carria...

  17. Warsaw uprising underground press Prasa konspiracyjna Powstania Warszawskiego

    Contains an underground press collection of 106 titles issued during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, mostly by resistance organizations. Among other publishers are the Armia Krajowa (Home Army), the Armia Ludowa (People’s Army), the Polska Partia Socjalistyczna (Polish Socialist Party), and the Stronnictwo Narodowe (National Party).

  18. Hela R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hela R., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in approximately 1921, one of five children. She recounts her father living in Berlin; her mother running a business; her death in childbirth; her father's return; living with her maternal grandparents; attending a Polish school; studying with Marek Bieberstein; working as a clerk; active participation in Akiba; German invasion; traveling as a non-Jew to visit her father in Sanok, smuggle children to Tarno?w, and visit Warsaw; smuggling into and out of the ghettos in Warsaw and Krako?w, acting as a courier for Zionist movements...

  19. Yaakov F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yaakov F., who was born in Suwałki, Poland in 1924, the sixth of eight children. He recounts his family's affluence; attending Jewish school; antisemitic harassment and violence; one brother enlisting in the Polish military; brief Soviet invasion, then German invasion in 1939; a local German warning his father of imminent deportations; his parents arranging for him to hide with a non-Jewish family; attending church and wearing a cross; moving to the barn when the family feared discovery; escaping to the forest when the Pole hiding him tried to kill him; assistance fro...

  20. Kurt Gerron: personal papers re Theresienstadt film

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection comprises the papers of Kurt Gerron which were created during the course of making the infamous propaganda film, which he directed and which was shot in Theresienstadt-Ghetto in 1944. It was originally entitled Theresienstadt. Ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen Siedlungsgebiet but came to be known as Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt. The papers consist of descriptions of the days' shooting; itemized camera shot descriptions; narrator's text and related correspondence and papers. The pap...