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  1. Franz Goldberger letter

    The letter and resume are addressed to Benjamin Davis at Walton High School in Bronx, New York, from Franz Goldberger in Vienna, Austria; dated January 13, 1940. Franz wrote to Benjamin asking for assistance in receiving an affidavit of support from either the recipient or anyone else who may be of assistance, in order to emigrate from Austria. The resume includes Franz's photograph and states that he was born in Saaz, Germany on August 6, 1899.

  2. The Sugihara family in Bucharest, Romania, 1942

    8mm film is severely compromised by mold. WS, pan of buildings in the city streets of Bucharest (Patriarchate Hill), pedestrians. Sugihara's official car with a small Japanese flag in FG. Driving along the city street in the car with tall buildings in BG. Toddler boy and mother, Yukiko Sugihara, pick flowers from the garden adjacent to the Japanese diplomat's residence. Sister Setsuko and two siblings join, one on a tricycle. The toddler runs towards the camera along the home's walkway and returns to his mother behind. The children play in the yard, the car is parked in front with the resid...

  3. Oral history interview with Morris Pelta

  4. Selected records of the Primary School No. 2 in Opoczno Szkoła Podstawowa Nr 2 w Opocznie (Sygn. 604)

    Organizational files of the school, regulations, reports and ordinances regarding education, registers of resolutions, minutes of meetings, student attendance, grades and plans of classes .In almost the entire interwar period, only Jewish children attended this school. Only after 1935, some Roman Catholic children appear in the classes.

  5. Heinrich Pollatschek collection

    Copy family correspondence including postcards from Heinrich Pollatschek in Buchenwald to his wife, Zdenka, between August 1938 and March 1939; also letters and postcards from Heinrich and Zdenka Pollatschek from Kielce ghetto, Poland to family in Vienna and London. The correspondence describes the miserable conditions which they endured including food scarcity and cramped accommodation. Heinrich is described as working as an orderly at the office of the Jewish Council of Elders. His wife suffered from high blood pressure and severe rheumatism; also includes English summaries of some of the...

  6. Processo de pedido de visto para Rudolf Henri Alfred Groenewout, Anna Cornelia Groenewout Greenshields, Adelia Henrietta Groenewout, George Rudolphus Groenewout e Margueritte Josephine Groenewout

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Rudolf Henri Alfred Groenewout, de nacionalidade belga e residente em França, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Anna Cornelia Groenewout Greenshields, de nacionalidade belga e residente em França, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Adelia Henrietta Groenewout, de nacionalidade belga e residente em França, com destino ...

  7. P.42 - Jan Karski Collection

    P.42 - Jan Karski Collection Jan Karski, an emissary of the Polish underground in Paris and London, submitted important reports regarding the murder of the Jews of Poland to the representatives of the Polish government-in-exile in London in 1942. Along with other documentation, these reports served as the basis for a joint statement by the Allies which was made on 17 December 1942. Jan Karski remained in the west until the end of the war and worked to persuade the government heads and the public leaders to act in order to rescue the Jews of Poland from extermination. After the war Jan Karsk...

  8. Партизанские формирования Вилейской области в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945гг.

    • Partisanenformationen (Oblast Wileika)

    Директивные указания и приказы БШПД по Витебской области, Вилейского обкома КП(б)Б, штаба особого соединения партизанских отрядов, Военно-оперативного отдела партизанского Центра Вилейской области, командования бригад. Постановления Браславского, Ильского, Логойского подпольных РК КП(б)Б о проведении массово-воспитательной работы среди партизан и населения, распределении районов действия между партизанскими отрядами и бригадами. Отчёты, донесения, справки, информации, докладные записки и сведения командования бригад и отрядов, комиссаров партизанских отрядов, оперуполномоченных КГБ и партиз...

  9. Papers of the Jewish Religious Education Board

    Minute book of the executive committee of the Jewish Religious Education Board, 1878-87, including annual reports, 1878-9, and annual reports of the Jewish Association for the Diffusion of Religious Knowledge, 1881-5. Teachers' training committee, students' book (men), 1894-1908, and teachers' training committee, students' book (women), 1898-1920. Seventeen volumes of 'The Director's Report', report of the director of Jewish Education to the general committee for Jewish Education, 1922-39. Four volumes and an index volume of notes on books by the director of Jewish Education, 1922- 40. Pape...

  10. Department of Public Health of Simferopol City Council

    • Врачебно-санитарный отдел Симферопольской городской управы

    Budget. Lists of personnel of patient care institutions. Surveys and estimates on the state of health affairs in the Crimea. Information about diseases of inpatients and outpatients. The number of employees and salary costs for hospitals. Lists of medical workers in cities and districts of Crimea. Information regarding Jewish physicians and the Holocaust can be found in the file 1 of inventory 1 (contains monthly reports about number of employees and salaries, for November-December of 1941), as well as in the file 6 of inventory 1 (information about medical personnel, reports about activiti...

  11. Deutsche Gesandtschaft Buenos Aires

    Deutsche Handelsorganisation für Südamerika.

  12. Miriam Pomerantz Weissman Photographs, ca. 1926-1946.

    The photographs depict the funeral for Miriam Weissman's grandfather in Konstantynów, Poland, in 1926; her mother, four brothers, and sister in 1920; and Miriam Weissman with her cousin, Dr. I. Goldberg, and other Holocaust survivors at a wedding at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in 1946.

  13. Ustaša Supervisory Office for the City and District of Koprivnica

    Contains instructions for restricting the movement of Jews, removing telephones from Jewish residences, and delivering the Star of David insignia to the Danica camp. Included are lists of Jews held in Danica camp, applications for release from the camp, and lists of shops and factories operated by Jews.

  14. Архивы на перемещенных лиц

    • Archives of displaced persons
    • Центр розыска и информации российского Красного креста
    • Архивы на перемещенных лиц
    • Russian
    • 1945
    • Точное количество документов установить сложно, т. к. в одной учетной карточке содержится до пяти ссылок на том и страницу документа, касающегося конкретного лица. Приблизительное количество документов – 1 млн.

    Документы разнообразны по содержанию: • списки советских граждан, репатриированных на родину; • трудовые книжки рабочих Германского рейха; • списки восточных рабочих; • листы регистрации бирж труда; • личные дела рабочих; • листы страхования рабочих; • свидетельства о смерти рабочих; • свидетельства о рождении детей в Германии; • удостоверения личности, выданные германскими властями; • списки военнопленных; • списки мест захоронений и т. д.

  16. Selected records of the Consistoire Central Israélite de Belgique, Brussels

    Records concern the Jewish communities of Brussels, Antwerp, Liege, and other Belgian cities. It contains correspondence among Jewish organizations during the German occupation, as well as documents concerning pre- and postwar Jewish and refugee organizations, synagogue records, and materials related to antisemitism.

  17. Volksvereinsverlag

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Gegründet 1904 vom Volksverein für das katholische Deutschland als GmbH bei enger personeller Verflechtung mit der Verwaltung des Vereinsvermögens und der Tätigung von Rechtsgeschäften im Sinne des Volksvereins sowie mit der Bewältigung von Erwerb, Herstellung, Herausgabe und Vertrieb von Druckwerken (Zeitschriften, zahlreiche Schriftenreihen, Schulungsmaterial, Einzelpublikationen, Flugblätter) und weiterhin mit der Information der katholischen Tagespresse über soziale und sozialpolitische Fragen betraut. 1928 Abtrennung vom Volksverein wegen schwerwiegender...

  18. Gray dress with prison number 1195 and id tag worn by a Jehovah's Witness inmate

    gray dress and ID tag with her prisoner number 1195 worn by Frieda Koschmieder while interned in Amberg prison in Germany for being a Jehovah's Witness. The Nazi regime persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses, who refused to put any authority before God. The missionary and outreach work practiced by members was viewed as subversive activity against the Nazi regime, leading to many arrests, as well as executions.

  19. Occupation and administration decrees from the Jewish Museum in Prague

    Consists of photographs of decrees and public notices issued by the Jewish communities of Prague and Slaný, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic), and German occupation agencies from 1940 to 1942. The decrees concern persecution of Jews in Prague and Slaný, the regulation of communication by mail between Jews and their family members in Terezin, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic), the confiscation of Jewish property, and the regulation of contact between Jews and Aryans.

  20. Frank family: papers

    This collection contains the family papers of August Frank, former high court judge from Munich.The papers include various 19th century wills, birth and marriage certificates, family correspondence etc.