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  1. Starosta Powiatu Lublinieckiego

    • Der Landrat des Kreises Loben
    • Lubliniec County Governor

    Polizei /Policja/: Fremdenpolizei, Meldwesen, Passewesen (Obcokrajowcy, Meldunki, Paszporty): ruch robotników przymusowych, przepustki graniczne, dowody osobiste z lat 1936-1944, sygn. 1-10 Verkehrpolizei (Policja drogowa) z lat 1936-1944, sygn. 11-12 Gewerbepolizei (Policja przemysłowa): poszukiwania złóż żelaza, domokrążcy, nielegalny ubój, kontrola cen z lat 1936-1944, sygn. 13-21 Gesundheitspolizei (Policja zdrowia publicznego): sprzedaż koni z lat 1936-1944, sygn. 22 Baupolizei, Siedlungswesen (Budownictwo, osadnictwo): sprzedaż i nabycie gruntów z lat 1936-1944, sygn. 23-25 Kriminalpo...

  2. Stella M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stella M., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1930. She describes her wealthy and assimilated family; an antisemitic incident in school; cordial relations with non-Jews; vacationing in Rabka; German invasion; escaping east with her family for two months eluding the Germans; reaching Tarno?w; deciding to return; obtaining a horse in Bochnia; expulsion, from their home; their maid hiding valuables for them; ghettoization in March 1941; non-Jewish friends sending them food; her father working as a ghetto policeman; his warning others of pending round-ups; liquidation of ...

  3. Lore P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lore P., who was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 1921. She recounts attending a Jewish school; babysitting for a Jewish family in Dortmund; her brother's emigration to Palestine in 1936; Kristallnacht; her father's arrest and release one week later; attending school in Berlin in 1940; working in a factory; returning home in 1941; working in Essen; deportation with her parents to the Rīga ghetto in January 1942; encountering an uncle and cousins; construction work with her mother at the airport; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); transfer to Spi...

  4. Dedication of land for Jewish refugees in the Philippines, 1940

    Dedication of Mariquina Hall in Manila on April 23, 1940. President Manuel Quezon offered this private land (called Mariquina Hall) to the Jewish Rescue Committee in order to provide housing for Jewish refugees. Guests gather outdoors. 01:02:51 Alex Frieder speaks to the audience, while President Quezon sits at the table to the side. 01:03:05 President Quezon addresses the crowd, Herbert Frieder in back. Quezon shakes hands with some men on the stage. Alex Frieder and President Quezon walk together through the crowd to survey the land. CUs, side views of President Quezon speaking. The camer...

  5. Akta gminy Włodawa

    • Files of the commune of Włodawa

    Zarząd Gminy Włodawa działy: Ogólno-Organizacyjny - księga uchwał rady gminy z lat 1934-1936 (sygn. 1); Finansowo-Budżetowy - budżety gminy, księgi kasowe wójta gminy, obrachunki, wymiar podatku gruntowego, księga biercza z lat 1934-1935, 1938, 1941-1945 (sygn. 2-8); Prezydium Gminnej Rady Narodowej we Włodawie (Zarząd Gminy do 1950 r.) działy: Ogólno-Organizacyjny - sprawy organizacyjne, sprawy osobowe, protokoły: sesji rady, posiedzeń prezydium, zarządu gminy, komisji, sesji sołtysów, kontrole wewnętrzne, majątek gminy z lat 1945-1954 (sygn. 9-52); Finansowo-Budżetowy - korespondencja bud...

  6. Minutes of the Commission of Spain Procès-verbaux de la Commission d'Espagne (B CR 212 PV)

    Records related to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formed the so-called Commission d'Espagne (Commission of Spain) on August 26, 1936 which directed and coordinated all of the ICRC's humanitarian activities and operations within both the Republican and Nationalist territories. The collection covers the ICRC's humanitarian activities in Spain and consists of correspondence, reports and minutes of the Commission. Contains documentation on military and civilian prisoners, visits to the internment...

  7. Collection of the Abteilung Feindvermögen (Department of Enemy Property) in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6212257
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Announcement Circular Correspondence Curriculum Vitae (CV) Document Financial accounts Laws and decrees Letter List of murdered Jews from the Netherlands Lists of businesses and skilled workers Newspaper Note Questionnaire Record of persecuted persons Reports Statistical reports

    Collection of the Abteilung Feindvermögen (Department of Enemy Property) in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 The Abteilung Feindvermögen (Department of Enemy Property) was established in The Hague by the Germans as a department in the Generalkommissariat für Finanz und Wirtschaft (Office for Finance and Industry) in 1940; order VO 26/1940 established that the Germans would administer all property owned by people who were defined as the Enemy in the Netherlands, meaning the property of Dutchmen residing in the Allied countries, and the property of citizens of the Allied countries residing in the N...

  8. Prozesse gegen Deutsche im europäischen Ausland: Handakten von Rechtsanwälten

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • ALLPROZ 21
    • German
    • Sammlung 394 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 7,0 laufende Meter

    Bestandsbeschreibung Unmittelbar nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ermittelten alliierte Gerichte gegen die Verantwortlichen für Verbrechen gegen den Frieden, wegen Kriegsverbrechen und Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit. Neben den Verfahren vor dem Internationalen Militärtribunal (IMT) in Nürnberg gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher und gegen die NS-Eliten insbesondere aus den Reihen der Justiz, Industrie, Ärzteschaft, Wehrmacht, Diplomatie und Beamtenschaft (Nürnberger Nachfolgeprozesse) fanden weitere Prozesse vor Militärgerichten in den vier Besatzungszonen Deutschlands statt. Zu vergleichb...

  9. Komunalna Kasa Oszczędności Powiatu Łowickiego w Łowiczu

    • Łowicz County Communal Savings Bank

    Statuty KKO z lat 1937 i 1941 - sygn. 1-2, okólniki i zarządzenia władz nadrzędnych - sygn. 3, protokoły rewizji i likwidacji gminnych kas pożyczkowo-oszczędnościowych - sygn. 4-5 i 64-74, protokoły z posiedzeń Rady, Dyrekcji oraz Komisji Rewizyjnej KKO - sygn. 78-83, dokumenty dotyczące likwidacji KKO - sygn. 101-105; pozostałe akta stanowią: bilanse rachunkowe i sprawozdania finansowe, księgi pożyczek, rejestry wniosków i uchwał kredytowych.

  10. Emanuel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emanuel R., who was born in approximately 1911 in Moscow, Russia. He recounts a pleasant pre-revolution life; his bar mitzvah in 1924; emigration to Paris after Lenin's death; his family's Zionism (his father purchased land in Palestine in 1925 where he lives today); attending boarding school; marriage in 1927; French military enlistment; his daughter's birth; posting to the German border in 1939; retreating during German invasion; traveling to Vichy with an admiral; military discharge; reunion with his wife in Toulouse; registering as a non-Jew; joining the undergrou...

  11. Eichmann Trial -- Session 29 -- Noske document; Aviel testifies

    Session 29. The Court assesses the relevancy of Gustav Noske's testimony in Trial 9 in Nuremberg [T/307]. Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius expresses his desire to examine Noske, should Noske be alive. The Court continues to discuss the significance of Noske testimony, and the issue is put aside for further consideration. Attorney General Gideon Hausner calls witness Avraham Aviel, a Radun ghetto survivor to the stand. Aviel describes the conditions in the Radun ghetto in Poland. He discusses his experiences with Jewish deaths: "...this was the first time I had seen so much blood that h...

  12. Αρχείο Ιωσήφ Σιακκή

    • The Joseph Siakkis Archives
    • Archeio Siakkis Iosif

    Contains records related to the history of the Jewish communities of Greece. The archives are organized into 28 thematic sections. The most important topics are: 1. History of Greek Jewry and Jewish communities of Thessaloniki, Kerkyra [Corfu], Larissa, Volos, Trikala, Zakynthos, Chania, Preveza, Sparta, Chalkis and other major Jewish centers; 2. Antisemitism, Nazi occupation and Holocaust; 3. Collections of Jewish periodicals (Kerkyra and Athens); 4. Records of the Greek Jewish family names, personal correspondence, literary essays and poetry.

  13. Полтавський обком Компартії України, м. Полтава Полтавської області

    • Poltava Oblast Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, city of Poltava
    • Poltavskii obkom Kompartii Ukrainy, m. Poltava Poltavskoi oblasti

    Opys 2 contains information on 242 files. Selected files containing data on the occupation and local administration, Nazi population politics, population losses, and the Holocaust: File 110 - Activities of the department to execute orders of the Central Committee (of the Communist Party of Ukraine) and of the Council of the People’s Commissars. Budennyi’s address to the population. Notes, memos, reports by the Oblast Party Committee, city committees, and district committees about the railway cars needed for evacuation. File 123 – Information items, memos by the Oblast Party Committee about ...

  14. Erica Prean: copy personal correspondence and family research

    This collection contains correspondence regarding the family history of Erica Prean. Research into the history of the family was carried out as part of a project at the Walburgisgymnasium in Menden to commemorate the lives of the Jewish citizens who were victims of the Shoah. Family papers Including is a photocopy of a family photograph.Also included are transcripts and translations into English of letters sent to Ilse Bernstein and her daughter Erica in England from Ilse's parents Carl and Emmy Bernstein and aunt Adda (1939-1940) English and German Also text of talk given at HMD 27.1.2018,...

  15. Illich family visits Bad Gastein, 1937

    Out of focus in the center of the frame for a few seconds. The boys sit on a wooden fence in the country surrounding an unknown teenager. CUs, Grandfather Fritz (Pucki) at an outdoor café, then Sascha. At the train station, the boys lean their heads out of the train window, waving to Pucki, Leithner, and Uncle Paul on the platform. Leithner follows the train as it departs. View of another station, the boys walk through it (filmed from a distance). Mountains, farms from the train window. A train pulls into the platform with Pucki, the boys greet him with hugs. The city of Bad Gastein, waterf...

  16. Selected records related to the history of the Jewish community of Dupnitsa and Kustendil

    Records of the Jewish community of Dupnitsa (1915-1978) and Jewish community of Kustandil (1940-1972) relating to various activities of the Jewish communities of Dupnitsa and Kustandil before, during and after WWII. Included are correspondence of communities officials’ with local authorities, Central office of the Jewish Consistory, financial and budget reports of the Jewish communities, minutes of the board meetings, record books of the Dupnitsa Jewish school, statistical information, annual reports, and bylaws etc. The collection also includes personal collection of Assen Grigorov Suitsch...

  17. Stammdienststelle der Luftwaffe

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Organisation und Aufgaben: Mit Luftwaffenaufstellungsbefehl Nr. 4 wurde 1956 die "Dienststelle für Zentrale Luftwaffenaufgaben" (DZL) in Köln-Wahn eingerichtet. Die "Personalabteilung für Unteroffiziere und Mannschaften der Luftwaffe" der DZL wurde im September 1957 in "Stammdienststelle der Luftwaffe" (SDL) umbenannt. Die Stammdienststelle der Luftwaffe war die dem Bundesminister der Verteidigung unmittelbar nachgeordnete oberste personalbearbeitende Dienststelle für Unteroffiziere und Mannschaften der Teilstreitkraft Luftwaffe, soweit die Personalbearbeitun...

  18. Selected records of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Waszyngtonie (Sygn. 490)

    Correspondence, reports, memoranda, press clippings, press reviews and other documents concerning the following subjects: Political relations between the US and Germany; minorities in Poland and the USA, immigration policy in USA and Canada; Polish and Jewish scouting in the USA; Polish Army in France (1939); Jewish issues in Poland and Germany (1935-1937); diplomatic reports on the situation in Germany (1940); Polish-American relations (1944-1945); World War 1939: the situation of children and women, the fate of prisoners of war; immigration policy in USA and Mexico (1940-1944); aid for re...

  19. Aleksandra U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aleksandra U., who was born in Russia in 1912, the third of six children. She recounts a brother's death prior to her birth; destruction of their house during World War I; building a new house in Kalinkavychy in 1918; the deaths of two sisters; her father's death in 1919; her brother's birth shortly thereafter; her mother's marriage to her sister's widower in 1923; his six children moving to their home; leaving school at fourteen to help support the family; working in Poltava until 1930; learning accounting; completing teachers education in Minsk; assignment to teach ...

  20. Andreja P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andreja P., who was born in Pécs, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1912. He recounts his family's move to Zagreb; mobilization when Germany attacked in April 1941; traveling to Sinj and Split; troops deserting when Croatian independence was declared; Split's occupation by Italy; working as a musician; obtaining false papers to bring his parents and sister there; a non-Jewish friend bringing his sister; his parents' arrest by Ustaša en route; using influence to obtain their release; their return to Zagreb; his father's and uncle's deportation to Jasenovac (they were kill...