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  1. Polizeipräsidium Frankfurt a.M.

    Akten 1866-1946, auch Vorakten des Polizeiamtes der Freien Stadt Frankfurt (vgl. auch Abt. 5), so Aufnahmen und Entlassungen zu Bonames (ab 1846), Feuerpolizei in den Ortschaften des Gebiets der vormals Freien Stadt (ab 1821), Omnibuswesen (ab 1843), Eisenbahnbau (ab 1836), Israelitische Kultusangelegenheiten (ab 1842). Gliederung: I. Hoheitssachen, II. Organisation der Polizei, III. Statistik und Wahlen, IV. Sicherheits- und Ordnungspolizei (u.a. Überwachung der Sozialdemokratie), V. Theater-, Presse- und Vereinsüberwachung, VI. Markt-, Messe- und Reklameüberwachung, VII. Straßenpolizei, V...

  2. Josef and Olivia Kohn family papers

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of Josef and Olivia Kohn, both of Romania, who married in 1942. Also includes photographs of Josef's parents, Itzak and Leni, and Olivia's parents, Sancu and Rachel Pechet (Pecket). Also includes documents related to birth, nationality, education (including diplomas), passports, and family history. The collection documents pre-war and wartime life in Romania, and the family's escape from the Communist regime in 1949.

  3. Mayer Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mayer Z., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1912, one of five children in an impoverished family. He recalls working as a tailor from age eleven; living in ?o?dz?; starting a business with his brother-in-law in Piotrko?w; increasing antisemitism; German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; escaping to the Soviet zone in December; encountering his wife in Brest; moving to Hantsavichy; arrest with his brother-in-law; imprisonment in Luninet?s? and Pinsk; deportation to a Soviet concentration camp; forced labor for a year; transfer to Solikamsk after German ...

  4. Ján V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ján V., who was born in Svätý Beňadik, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1932. He discusses his family's total assimilation; cordial relations with non-Jews; learning he was Jewish from children on the street; fascist takeover resulting in anti-Jewish restrictions, including his expulsion from gymnasium and wearing the star; the mailman warning his father that Hlinka Guard were coming for them; escaping with his parents and older sister to Stará L̕ubovňa; living as non-Jews, using false papers; playing with boys who were in the Hitler Youth; joining a parti...

  5. Landeszentralbank in Bremen

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 331-HB
    • German
    • 1909-1992
    • Schriftgut 618 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 17,0 laufende Meter

    Bestandsbeschreibung Mitwirkung des Präsidenten bzw. der Landeszentralbank im Zentralbankrat; Geldpolitik; Bankenaufsicht; Berichterstattung über die Wirtschaftsentwicklung in Bremen; Rechnungslegung der Landeszentralbank; Schwierigkeiten des Bankbetriebs nach der Kapitulation (Giroverrechnung); Korrespondenz von Präsident Dr. Tepe mit Mitgliedern des Zentralbankrats und anderen Stellen; Sitzungsunterlagen des Zentralbankrats; Vermerke und Schriftwechsel des Zentralbankrats; Wirtschafts(branchen)berichte und Unternehmensberichte (Außenhandel, Schiffsbau, Flugzeugbau, Unterhaltungselektronik...

  6. Pavienės tarnybos policijos lietuvių ryšių karininkas Tvarkos policijos vado Lietuvoje štabe

    • Der lit. Verbindungs-Offizier für die Schutzmannschaft des Einzeldienstes im Stabe des Kommandeurs der Ordnungspolizei Litauen
    • Liaison Officer of the Individual Police Service of the Lithuanian General Region under the Chief of the Ordnugspolizei in Lithuania (Kaunas)

    This collection contains "the important confidential circular No. 3 of 16 August 1941 signed by V. Reivytis, director of the Police Department, sent to the police chiefs of the counties concerning the detention, rounding up, and guarding of male Jews. Essentially, it meant the beginning of the mass extermination of the Jews in Lithuanian provinces. The same collection contains reports by the police chiefs of the counties and rural districts to the director of the Police Department concerning the detaining and rounding up of Jews." Galina Žirikova, Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fond...

  7. Felix H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felix H., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1920. He recalls good relations with non-Jews; German invasion; fleeing with his friend to Soviet-occupied Kovel?, then Rivne; attending medical school in L?viv; German occupation; building roads in a labor camp; escaping with his friends after hearing from a German soldier of the camp's liquidation; escaping the mass killings in Zolochiv; returning to Lublin; escaping from the ghetto with his future wife and with assistance from her father (he never saw his own family again); hiding with assistance from his father's busines...

  8. Selected records of the town Działoszyce Akta miasta Działoszyce (Sygn. 2369) : Wybrane materialy

    Minutes of the Municipal Council sessions of 1920-1950, books of permanent inhabitants containing detailed information about individuals, a register of estates, lists of artisans and merchants, town statistics of 1931-1947 (data about the town and its dwellers), extracts of register acts, 1866-1950 (File 81), post-war correspondence concerning abandoned property, registry of Jews, including family members (files 129-504). Almost all records of the town Działoszyce that survived from the pre-war period relate to the Jewish community. Before 1939, the Jewish population constituted almost 90% ...

  9. Personal papers of Elsa Lüthi-Ruth Nachlass Elsa Lüthi-Ruth

    Contains personal papers and photographs of Elsa Lüthi-Ruth, a nurse for the Swiss Red Cross and in various internment camps in France during World War II. Papers consist of biographical materials and documentation on the Elsa Lüthi-Ruth activities. The main part of the collection consists of six personal albums that document her youth and studies, as well as her work during the war.

  10. Henry B., Sophie B., and Millie K., Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry and Sophie B. and their daughter Millie K.. Mr. B. was born in Łódź, Poland in 1910. He recalls his mixed neighborhood; cordial relations with non-Jews; marriage in 1937; Millie's birth in 1938; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing with his brother to Soviet-occupied Vilnius, then Šiauliai; German invasion in 1941; exemption from ghettoization due to his job; receiving Ukrainian papers and a travel permit for him and his brother from his wife; reunion with his wife and daughter in Bochnia; moving to Kraków; obtaining a privileged position in communicat...

  11. Ghetto in Dabrowa Gornicza and Bedzin

    Jews walking on sidewalk, nicely dressed, past storefronts, CUs. Funny angle up, Jewish star on clothes of boy and his dad. Policeman passing quickly close to camera. Large group of many smiling women with Jewish stars close together, elevated camera angle. CU, pan CU to more faces. Wider shot, big crowd on street in front of building. Pan up brick building to window with bars, three men lean heads out window. CU men from elevated angle. Serious-looking man, grim woman, two boys smiling awkwardly at camera, man with beard. Crowd on street, CU. Crowd walking, smiles and excitement. Men arm i...

  12. Deutsches Ausland-Institut

  13. OKH / Heeresverwaltungsamt

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das Heeresverwaltungsamt war dem Chef der Heeresleitung bzw. dem Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres und ab 1939 dem Befehlshaber des Ersatzheeres unterstellt. Das Heeresverwaltungsamt stellt den Nachschubbedarf des Feldheeres und setzte nach den weisungen des Generalquartiermeisters die Nachschubverpflegungsämter ein. Der Chef des Heeresverwaltungsamtes war zugleich der Chef der Wehrmachtverwaltung beim OKW. Als solcher erteilte er die grundsätzlichen Richtlinien für die Verwaltung und Versorgung der Wehrmacht. Diese Regelung ist mit der Unterstellung unter den Befe...

  14. Lydia P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lydia P., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1933, an only child. She recalls her parents working in their antique shop; being cared for by a nanny who taught her English; speaking German with her parents; her family's orthodoxy; visits to her maternal grandparents in Bánovce nad Bebravou for Jewish holidays; harassment after the formation of the Slovak state; living with her grandparents and attending a Jewish school (it was safer there); returning to her parents; confiscation of their store; hiding with her parents in 1942; their dep...

  15. Rebuilding Warsaw, probably in 1947

    Reel 3A Animated map. Goats grazing in brick ruins. Man approaches a gravesite with flowers. LS, overview of massive destruction in the city of Warsaw - bombed buildings. MS, then CUs of the monument in the former Warsaw ghetto to Jews who died in the 1943 uprising. HAS, construction site, rebuilding Poland, river in BG, crane. VAR views of schoolchildren walking along the sidewalk and playing at school. HAS, policeman directing traffic (pedestrians, automobiles, trams, horse/buggy) with Warsaw in the distance. School. Shop amidst ruins (pile of bricks). CU, shop sign (bookstore). Large bui...

  16. Broadside from Tel-Aviv announcing closures to mourn the sinking of the refugee ship "Struma"

    Broadside issued by the Municipal Corporation of Tel-Aviv and mayor, Israel Rokach, announcing closures and a day of mourning in response to the sinking of the refugee ship, Strumah, in the Black Sea off of Istanbul, Turkey, in February 1942. The Strumah (Struma) was an illegal immigrant ship that left Constanta, Romania, on December 12, 1941, with 767 Jewish refugees fleeing policies enacted by the German-allied, Romanian government. The ship was headed for Istanbul, where the passengers hoped to get visas to enter Palestine (now Israel). The old cargo barge was unsafe and overcrowded. The...

  17. Arthur Szyk print

    Multi-colored image of a woman standing at the open door of a building holding a dish with children standing in front of her; inside the building are a man and woman seated at a table

  18. Jack Gardner fonds

    Fonds consists of records generated as a result of Jack Gardner’s role in the Red Army, his medical leave, his residency in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp, and his advocacy work in restoring Jewish cemeteries and mass graves in Sambir, L’viv Oblast, Ukraine. Records include correspondence, identification, permits, licenses, certificates, legal documents and clippings.

  19. Bundesministerium für Familie und Jugend.- Organisationsunterlagen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Im Rahmen der Kabinettsbildung der zweiten Legislaturperiode wurde mit Wirkung vom 20. Okt. 1953 (Ernennung des ersten Ministers) ein BM für Familienfragen (BMFa) mit zunächst vier Referaten errichtet: 1. Allgemeine und grundsätzliche Fragen der Familien- und Bevölkerungspolitik, 2. Sozialpolitik einschließlich Wohnungsbau, 3. Steuer- und Wirtschaftspolitik, 4. Ehe- und Familienrecht. Im Dez. 1957 kam als zusätzliche Aufgabe der Bereich Jugendfragen vom BMI hinzu (ohne Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Schriften). Seitdem hieß das Ministerium BM für Fami...

  20. Jacqueline M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacqueline M., a Catholic, who was born in Tournai, Belgium in 1923, one of two children. She recounts her parents' leftist activities; the family move to Charleroi; attending school in Roux; moving to Brussels; attending high school and university; studying medicine; German invasion in May 1940; her father's mobilization and capture; his return one year later; a Jewish classmate wearing the yellow star; her family hiding Resistants and Allied soldiers; accompanying some of them to Paris; delivering Resistance letters; her family hiding the Resistance leader Georges L...