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  1. Lăpuşna District Chamber of Commerce and Industry

    • Camera de comerţ şi industrie a judeţului Lăpuşna
    • Лапушнянская уездная палата торговли и промышленности
    • Lapushnianskaya uezdnaya palata torgovli i promyshlennosti

    The personal files and lists of members of the Chamber; the lists of traders and owners of commercial and industrial enterprises of Bessarabia; the lists of owners of commercial and industrial enterprises; the lists of owners of commercial and industrial enterprises from Chişinău; the lists of owners of industrial enterprises allowed to the election of the Chamber; the lists of owners of stone quarry and brick and glass factories; the list of owners of industrial enterprises in Bessarabia; the requests of the traders for receiving small loans; the lists of Jewish private firms, registered i...

  2. Eric H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric H., who was born in Bad Salzuflen, Germany in 1924. He recalls being raised by his grandmother in Gemu?nd (his mother died in childbirth); cordial relations with non-Jews prior to 1933; Nazi schoolteachers; Hitler's visit in 1937; Kristallnacht; forced liquidation of the family business; moving to Cologne with his father and stepmother; his father's brief incarceration in Sachsenhausen; moving to Brussels; German invasion; traveling to Lille; returning to Brussels; his father's incarceration in St. Cyprien and Les Milles in 1941; traveling to Marseille with his s...

  3. Starostwo Powiatowe w Sokołowie - Węgrowie

    • Kreishauptmannschaft Sokołów - Węgrów
    • Sokołów Podlaski-Węgrów County Governor’s Office

    W zespole tym znajdują się materiały do organizacji Land i Stadtkommissariate Węgrów, zarządzenia organizacyjne i plan akt, obwieszczenia komisarza miasta w sprawie zaciemnień, spisu przemysłowego /1941/, a także preliminarze budżetowe. Na uwagę zasługują: meldunek policji o aresztowani ludności, o uciekinierach z terenów wschodnich; sprawy kontyngentów, ich ściąganie, zarządzenia, akcje premiowania /1944 r./, rejestracja bydła oraz wykaz skonfiskowanego bydła.

  4. Ruth C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth C., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1920, the older of two children. She recounts her family's affluence; her sheltered childhood; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; confiscation of family valuables; learning to be a seamstress; eviction from their home; slave labor cleaning streets; ghettoization in March 1941; their Ukrainian maid trading their valuables for money and food; forced factory labor; her parents hiding her and her brother during a round-up; her parents' deportation in October 1942; deportation to Płaszów; visiting her brother; public exe...

  5. Ezra B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ezra B., who was born in Würzburg, Germany in 1922, the youngest of five children. He recounts his family's Orthodox rabbinical lineage; their move to Wartenberg shortly after his birth; his strong German and Jewish identities; participating in a Jewish youth group; the Nuremberg laws marking a turning point for him; antisemitic harassment by his principal; attending a Jewish school in Berlin; Kristallnacht; his father's brief incarceration in Sachsenhausen; his family moving to Berlin; joining a Zionist group; moving to a kibbutz in Rathenow; illegally returning to ...

  6. Richard and Ernestine Benes papers

    The Richard and Ernestine Benes papers contains a diary, biographical material, and emigration and immigration documents relating to Richard and Ernestine Benes attempts to emigrate from Austria to the United States. The diary was written by Richard from June 6 - July 4 1941. In the diary Richard writes about their emigration from Austria to Prague, Berlin, Paris, and Spain as well as their time aboard the ship and arriving in New York City. Biographical materials include birth and baptism certificates, a marriage certificate, proof of citizenship, identification cards, passports (Reisepass...

  7. Drogenbeauftragte der Bundesregierung

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Im Jahr 1992 wurde im Bundesministerium des Innern die Geschäftsstelle des Drogenbeauftragten der Bundesregierung eingerichtet (siehe hierzu auch BArch B 106/305302). Das Amt hatte von 1992 bis 1998 der Parlamentarische Staatssektretär Eduard Lintner (CSU) inne. Als die rot-grüne Koalition Ende 1998 dem Bundesministerium für Gesundheit „die Federführung für die Drogenpolitik" übertrug, siedelte sie auch die Drogenbeauftragte der Bundesregierung Ende 1998 dort an (Schreiben der Bundesministerin für Gesundheit, Andrea Fischer, an den Bundesminister des Innern, ...

  8. Postwar conditions of housing and YMCAs in Europe and the Far East

    Credits. EXT, bridges in San Francisco and Germany. Bridges at war - soldiers and tanks, bombings. Repaired bridge in Manila in October 1946. Views of damage to buildings in Manila. Children and young people in Manila, food shortages. YMCA services. 01:06:36 Boys club meeting of the YMCA outdoors in Manila. Baseball game. Damaged Y building. INTs, woman cooking in her home; her family eats. Student accommodations. Vocational training - repairing an automobile. Boxing match. Amateur night (musical performance). 01:09:55 Cathedral in Prague. City scenes, some buildings with damage. Two men en...

  9. Leon F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon F., who was born in Berez?h?any, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (now Ukraine) in 1908. Mr. F. recalls hiding with his family when the town was burned in World War I; antisemitic harassment; attending yeshiva in Stanis?awo?w; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; attending medical school in Prague and theological school in Frankfurt; working as a gynecologist in Warsaw; his father's death in 1938; German invasion; draft into the Polish military; finding his unit had been destroyed in Min?sk Mazowiecki; escaping to the Soviet occupied zone; imprisonment as a spy; draft into t...

  10. Paule M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paule M., a non-Jew, who was born in I︠E︡nakii︠e︡ve, Russia (presently Ukraine) in 1912. She recounts being in Russia due to her father's employment; her brother's birth; fleeing to the Kola Peninsula during the revolution; her brother's death; moving to England for a year, then Isbergues, France; her sister's birth; moving to Beverwijk; attending a Dutch school; moving to Uccle in 1924; completing university in 1934; becoming a professor of German literature; traveling with her sister in Germany in 1934; observing antisemitic signs; sheltering German refugees; German...

  11. Collection of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, the Netherlands, 1945-1967

    Collection of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, the Netherlands, 1945-1967 Establishment of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, in July 1945, in order to locate Dutch property - personal property and state property - such as: diamonds, machinery, art collections, stamp collections, banking securities, church bells and other items that were "purchased" or stolen and transferred to Germany and to other countries during the German occupation; Included in t...

  12. Verband Deutscher Ubootfahrer e.V.

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Der VDU ist ein Zusammenschluss von Ubootfahrern, unabhängig von parteipolitischer, weltanschaulicher und religiöser Bindung; der Dachverband der örtlichen Ubootkameradschaften und der Bootskameradschaften sowie der in geografischen Regionen zusammengefassten Einzelmitglieder. Die Ziele und Aufgaben des VDU sind: Förderung, Pflege und Erhalt der Gedenkstätten für die Gefallenen der Ubootwaffe beider Weltkriege sowie aller im Dienst auf Ubooten ums Leben gekommenen Soldaten, Förderung des Seegedankens und der maritimen Belange der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, d...

  13. Boell, Ludwig (Hauptmann)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Lebensdaten 03.07.1889 geboren in Weißenburg/Elsaß I. verheiratet mit Edith ..., gest. 1927 II. verheiratet mit Miranda ... Wehrdienst in der kgl. preuß. Armee und in der Reichswehr 01.10.1907 Eintritt 30.09.1920 Entlassung aus dem 200.000 Mann-Heer Beförderungen 1908 Gefreiter 31.03.1909 Unteroffizier 10.08.1909 Vizefeldwebel 19.11.1909 Fahnenjunker 22.03.1910 Leutnant (mit Patent vom 22.3.1908) 25.02.1915 Oberleutnant 18.06.1917 Hauptmann Dienststellungen 01.10.1907 Inf.Rgt. 143 Einjährig-Freiwilliger 04.02.1909 Inf.Rgt. 132 freiwillige Übung 16.06.1909 Inf...

  14. Reichs Prosecutor’s Office in Trutnov

    The fund contains well-preserved documents of justice administration from the occupation period and sorted in accordance with the individual cases that the court addressed; it is possible to have a clear look into the functioning of the period administration of justice. Jewish history is involved in the following documents: the death sentence fordental technician Weber, member of the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), who in 1943 declared that no one believes in victory anymore and that the concentration camps are ruled by medieval methods and many Jews die there and th...

  15. Sol U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol U., who was born in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Poland in 1926, one of six children. He recounts his family's poverty; their moving to Romania in 1928, then to Borek Fa?e?ck in 1933; attending cheder in Podgo?rze; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced factory labor; ghettoization in Krako?w; working in Oskar Schindler's factory in 1942; Schindler protecting his Jewish workers when the ghetto was liquidated in March 1943; deportation of Mr. U.'s family (he never saw them again); transfer to P?aszo?w; public hangings; living in...

  16. Shlomo L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo L., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1930, the older of two children. He recounts his family's affluence; attending a Jewish school; participation in Betar; Soviet occupation; his father's workers testifying to protect their his from deportation as bourgeoisie; attending a Soviet school; German invasion in June 1941; hearing mass shootings from the Seventh Fort; ghettoization; his father's round-up in a mass killing of intelligentsia; public hangings; trading valuables for necessities; raising chickens and rabbits; playing soccer; attending concerts and sho...

  17. Shoshannah Gallowski Fine papers

    The Shoshannah Gallowski Fine papers consist of Allied Expeditionary Forces Displaced Persons (A.E.F D.P.) registration records, administrative records, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Fine's work with orphaned Jewish children and displaced persons at Kloster Indersdorf (Kibbutz Dror) and in Great Britain after the Holocaust. The papers also contain addresses given by Leonard G. Montefiore relating to Jewish orphans; a book of drawings by Moshe Barash entitled "Figures from the haze" (in Hebrew); and a book of songs entitled "Songs from the Vilna ghetto" (in Y...

  18. Joseph W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph W., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1929, one of four children. He describes his orthodox family; living in his grandfather's home in Konstantyno?w until age five; attending cheder; German invasion; ghettoization; his father's death in 1940; smuggling food from outside the ghetto with his younger brother; hiding his youngest brother during round-ups; giving him up when all children were collected; his mother's death in 1943; several jobs in ghetto factories; friendship with Jankele Herszkowicz, a popular ghetto singer, who raised spirits with his songs; his b...

  19. Ruth L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth L., who was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia in approximately 1931, the older of two sisters. She recounts moving to C?esky? Te?s?i?n; her family's affluence; German occupation; her father attending the World's Fair in the United States in April 1939 (he did not return due to the outbreak of war); evacuation to Krako?w, then Bochnia in August 1939 in anticipation of German invasion; German bombings during which her aunt and cousin were killed; traveling to the Soviet zone; deportation to Siberia; forced labor with her mother; harsh conditions including starvation ...

  20. Russian TASS New Agency- a collection of news Radziecka Agencja Informacyjna TASS-zbiór komunikatów (Sygn. 1424)

    News from the Russian news agency TASS regarding: the Anders Army in the USSR and the East; the situation on the fronts of World War II and the Red Army; conferences in Yalta, San Francisco and Potsdam, and the results of Mikołajczyk's visit in Moscow; Soviet opinions about the Catholic church; The Krajowa Rada Narodowa (National Council) and the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego, PKWN (Polish National Liberation Committee); the situation of Polish people in the USSR and in the West; situation of Poland during the occupation; Polish territories occupied by the Red Army in 1944; post-war ...