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  1. Ministerstvo sociální péče - Londýn

    • Ministry of Social Welfare - London
    • MSP - L
    • NAD 1007
    • Národní archiv
    • 1007
    • English
    • 1940-1945
    • 15,8 linear metres of documents from which 15,5 linear metres are processed and inventoried and 0,3 linear metres unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.

    The fonds includes various administrative correspondence (this correspondence refers to requests for social supports or finding a job opportunity), questionnaires of repatriates, circulars, information booklets, studies, reports and records of the Czechoslovak National Council and its committees. Jewish related documents can be found in various boxes, such as in boxes 58 and 59, there are files of Jewish associations, clubs and Jewish committees including the Federation of Czechoslovak Jews, The Union of Orthodox Jews from Czechoslovakia or Central Board of Jews. There are also documents fr...

  2. Frieda R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frieda R., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1920, one of three children of Polish émigrés. She recounts her paternal grandmother joining them from Poland; attending public school and a Bund school (her father was a Bundist); participating in Maccabi; her father's death in 1932; leaving school to help support the family; joining the Yiddisher Arbayter Sport Klub (YASK); friendships with young German refugees through the Freie Deutsche Jugend; her fiancé emigrating to the United States in 1939; fleeing to Baisieux with his family when the war began intending to go...

  3. Der Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik.- Organisationsunterlagen

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 475-ORG
    • German
    • Sammlung 119 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Errichtung: Errichtet unter der Bezeichnung "Der Sonderbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des ehemaligen Staatssicherheitsdienstes" aufgrund § 2 Abs.8 BArchG vom 6.1.1988 (BGBl I S. 62) i.d.F. der Anl.I Kap.II B Abschnitt II Nr. 2 zum Einigungsvertrag vom 31.8.1990 (BGBl II S. 889, 912). Grundlage für die Tätigkeit der Dienststelle ist das Gesetz über die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen DDR (Stasi-Unterlagen-Gesetz) vom 20.12.1991 (BGBl I S. 2272); neubekanntgegeben am 18. Februar 2007 (BGBl. I S. 162), zuletzt geändert durch Art. 5 Abs. 1...

  4. Peter Rosen papers

    The Peter Rosen papers contain training materials from the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie; drafts, correspondence, and research created during the production of a 1945 handbook titled The German Police prepared by MIRS (London Branch) and SHAEF’s Evaluation and Dissemination Section (EDS); two Gestapo files; and a Sicherheitsdienst (SD) file. Camp Ritchie training materials include handouts on the organization and tactics of the French and German armed forces; recognizing the uniforms of allies and enemies; technical instruction in aerial photography, signal communica...

  5. Sondergericht Litzmannstadt Special Court Litzmannstadt Sąd Specjalny w Łodzi (Sygn.196)

    This collection consists of files of the Special Court in Łódź, as well as the files of the Landgericht (District Court) and Amtsgericht. Along with the court files there are also reference files of the prosecutor. The collection consists of selected files: all cases related to the resistance movement have been copied, as well as those related to political activity, religious activity and, widely considered Jewish matters. Other cases were illustrated as examples in some dozen cases. Thus, for example,. illegal trade, illegal slaughter, illegal manufacture of vodka and other crimes of econo...

  6. Alexander B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander B., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1925, the youngest of three children. He recounts attending a Jewish school through eighth grade; his father losing his business and their landlord forcing them to move due to antisemitism; round-up to Trnava in 1940; working as a non-Jew to support his family; deportation to Sered in fall 1941; beatings by the Hlinka guard; transfer to Majdanek; encountering a cousin and his brother-in-law; volunteering as a German translator; transfer to digging anti-tank trenches, then to Auschwitz/Bir...

  7. Meir S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meir S., who was born in Svali?a?va, Czechoslovakia (presently Svali?a?va, Ukraine) in 1929, the sixth of seven children. He recounts his family's relative affluence; attending a Czech school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; the deaths of two siblings; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father liquidating all their assets in summer 1939 to emigrate to Chile; the outbreak of war preventing their emigration; joining a relative in Uz?h?horod for nine months; moving to Mukacheve; attending a Jewish gymnasium; his brother escaping to Budapest; ghettoiza...

  8. Arbeitserziehungslager Großbeeren

    Die Sammlung enthält: Einzel-Todesmeldung, Häftlingslisten mit Nationalitätenangabe, Korrespondenz d. Netherlands Tracing Mission und des Niederländischen Roten Kreuzes, Nachweisung über die französischen, belgischen, holländischen und luxemburgischen Staatsangehörigen, die im Arbeitserziehungslager Gross-Beeren verstorben sind; Verzeichnis der im Gestapolager Großbeeren verstorbenen und auf dem Kirchhof in Großbeeren begrabenen Ausländer. Geschichte des Arbeitserziehungslagers Großbeeren 1942-1945: Die Gemeinde Großbeeren befindet sich südlich von Berlin im Gebiet Teltow. Im September 1942...

  9. Zemaljska komisija za Bosnu i Hercegovinu za utvrđivanje zločina okupatora i njihovih pomagača

    • State Commission for Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Investigation of the Crimes of the Occupiers and their supporters

    Contains information about questioning and deportations of Jews in Banjaluka and confiscation of Jewish property, details of terror against Jews in Bihać during 1941, details about seized buildings by Ustasha government, extortion of gold and silver, theft of synagogue's inventory, etc. Also contains records regarding torture of Jews in town of bijeljina, conducted by local Culturbund (local Germans). Similar details can be found regarding town of Mostar, in 1942. Jews in Mostar were imprisoned by Italian government and transferred to camps located on island in Adriatic sea, where they were...

  10. Petsch, Theodor (General der Infanterie)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners General der Infanterie Theodor Petsch geb. 27.6.1884 in Berlin, gest. 22.6.1973 Lindau-Schachau Sept. 1903 Fahnenjunker im 5. Westpr. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 148, Jan. 1905 Leutnant im 5. Westpr. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 148, Okt. 1909 zur Reserve beurlaubt, Okt. 1912 Wiedereintritt als Leutnant im 5. lothr. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 144, Juni 1914 stellv. Adjutant in der 67. Infanterie-Brigade, Aug. 1914 Kriegseinsatz im 5. lothr. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 144, Nov. 1914 Oberleutnant und Kompanieführer, Apr. 1916 Hauptmann, ab 1917 Führer des II. Bataillons im In...

  11. Comunidad Israelita Húngara del Uruguay Records of the Hungarian Jewish Community of Uruguay

    The Statut of the community, minutes of the Board of Directors, registration of donations, accounting books, registration of letters, alphabetical index of partners, cemetery registers, real estate, and dead persons index.

  12. Ghetto inhabitants, ruins, Germans, starving children

    General shot of pedestrians; partially-destroyed buildings. Shots of individuals on the street. Fight on the street (among street vendors?). Shots of individuals on the street, including a young boy with sidelocks. Damaged buildings, German Luftwaffe officer smiles and waves at the camera. Street vendor selling stars. Close-ups of men and women. 01:02:18 Ghetto inhabitants (including children) mugging for camera, shot from a car with at least one German Luftwaffe officer. Shots of destroyed buildings. Shot of a man dressed in rags. Street vendors hold up bread and smile. VAR shots of people...

  13. Jeanette A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeanette A., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1925, one of six children. She recalls her older brother attending medical school in France; his return immediately prior to the war; German invasion; ghettoization; slave labor in a leather factory; her mother and youngest sister joining her brother in another town; transfer to barracks at the factory; return to Radom; her brother, mother, and youngest sister joining them; selection of her parents for a mass killing from which her oldest sister escaped; transfer to Pionki; slave labor in an ammunition factory; transfer to...

  14. Processo de pedido de visto para Henry Serper, José Mont Formis, Ferruccio dalla Torre, Nuta dalla Torre, Maksims Bernanis, David Kahan, Aron Kahan, Penelope Reynord, Claude Marguerite Spitz, Maxmilien Spitz, Elizabeth Spitz, Maria Verdin, Louis Paul Delondre, Theodor Goldsmith, Suzanne Nathalie Stoll, Eugénie Victorine Josephine Stoll (nascida Verhoest), Elizabeth Loew, Georges Loew e Joanne Janine Herschtel

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Henry Serper, de nacionalidade búlgara, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para José Mont Formis, de nacionalidade es, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Ferruccio dalla Torre, de nacionalidade italiana, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Nuta dalla ...

  15. Iaacov R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Iaacov R., who was born in Orlov, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1917, one of five children. He recounts living in Prešov; his family's assimilated lifestyle; memorizing the Hebrew for his bar mitzvah; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; completing high school; two sisters emigrating to Palestine in 1935; leading Hashomer groups in Žilina, Košice, and Bratislava; anti-Jewish restrictions after Slovak independence; Joint support of Hashomer; draft into a Slovak labor battalion; serving in Trebišov; demobilization; Hashomer activities in Trenčín ...

  16. Ship SS France; Visiting Morocco and Spain

    With intertitles in English. “Europe and the North Coast of Africa, 1929. Before sailing on deck of ‘SS France’” Large group of well-dressed men and women gather on the deck of the SS France for a group shot. 1.11 Man leans on the railing looking out. Other groups of people gather for group shots, laughing and embracing each other. A final large group of people form a line, walking on the deck of the ship. 1:47 “Dropping the Pilot.” Overhead shot of a small paddle boat and shots of the open water. 2:18 “Advertising the races during 5 o’clock tea.” Men in uniform carry large cutouts of horse...

  17. Берлинское сионистское объединение

    • Berliner zionistische Vereinigung; Berlin Zionist Union*
    • Berlinskoe sionistskoe ob"edinenie

    The collection's contents are catalogued in one inventory; the inventory is arranged by document type. The collection includes the charter of the BZU; minutes of meetings of the BZU board for 1937; minutes of sessions of electoral caucuses, and materials on the election of delegates to the delegate assembly; minutes of the 1936 twenty-fifth congress of the Zionist Federation of Germany; minutes of preelection meetings of BZU members for 1938; circulars on admitting new members and on improving the work of Hebrew language courses; membership cards; and instruction booklets for new members. T...

  18. Polish Army uniform jacket and pants worn after the war by a former Jewish partisan

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn36439
    • English
    • 1945-1946
    • a: Height: 25.875 inches (65.723 cm) | Width: 20.750 inches (52.705 cm) b: Height: 37.000 inches (93.98 cm) | Width: 17.750 inches (45.085 cm)

    Polish Army uniform issued to Moses Temczyn after the end of World War II in 1945 when he served as chief of surgery at a military hospital in Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Temczyn was mobilized into the Polish Army following the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939. He was captured, imprisoned in Stalag LA, and released after 18 months. In 1942, he escaped during deportation from Grabowiec to Sobibor extermination camp. He became the leader of a partisan unit near Lublin which merged with the Polish People’s Army in 1943. After the end of the war in 1945, Major Temczyn served at t...

  19. Località di internamento, campi di concentramento e carceri in Italia

    Il fondo si presenta come una raccolta complessa e articolata di informazioni, notizie, lettere, disposizioni e circolari, registri e fotografie, riguardanti le carceri, i campi e località di internamento in Italia durante il periodo della seconda guerra mondiale. Si tratta per lo più di materiale in copia fotostatica raccolto dal CDEC nel corso delle ricerche per la storia della Shoah in Italia.

  20. Roziana B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roziana B., who was born in Deštnice, Czechoslovakia in 1927. She recounts being the only Jewish family in town; their assimilated lifestyle; her mother's death in 1936; her father's remarriage in 1937; attending public school; moving to Žatec; German occupation; her father's friend, who was in the Gestapo, warning him to flee (he did); their arrest on Kristallnacht; being ordered to leave; traveling to the Czech border; being denied entry by Czech officials; incarceration by Germans in Kolešovice, then Karlsbad; release; returning to Žatec, then Deštnice; receiv...