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  1. Kenneth Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kenneth Z., who was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1917. He recalls his medical education; marriage in 1941; enlistment in the Army Air Force in 1943; and serving as the surgeon for the 8th Armored Division's 399th Field Artillery as they crossed the English Channel in January 1945, progressed through France, Holland, and Germany, and crossed the Rhine on March 27th. He recounts establishing a medical station in Langenstein; entering a nearby concentration camp; his horror at the inmates' condition and mass graves; efforts to help the prisoners; witnessing the killing...

  2. Robert K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert K., who was born in New York in 1920. He recalls enlisting in the United States Army at age twenty-one; assignment to the 101st Cavalry Reconnaissance; entering Europe shortly after D Day; receiving radio orders to proceed to a concentration camp in April 1945; prisoners wearing striped uniforms; mounds of smoldering bodies; smoking chimneys; giving the prisoners food; leaving the camp when they were relieved by other soldiers; and learning later that it had been Landsberg concentration camp. Mr. K. recounts his reaction of disbelief upon entering Landsberg and...

  3. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Jura

    Contains documents from the Jura, a mountainous, sparsely-populated region on the eastern border of France, once part of the Franche-Comté. The documents concern the anti-Jewish laws put into effect, certain Jews who held government jobs and were given special permission to keep them, the cancellation of Vichy laws allowing lawful pillaging of Jewish property under “Aryanization”, letters that singled out Jews in hiding to the authorities, documents dealing with foreigners who had been given exile in 1939, arrests of Jews by German authorities, and post-war Zionist youth camps.

  4. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Haute-Loire

    Contains documents concerning the refugee centers in Chambon-sur-Lignon, run by La Cimade (Côteau-Fleuri) and La Maison-des-Roches. Daniel Trocmé, nephew of Pastor Trocmé and director of the latter, was sent to Buchenwald when a round-up occurred (see PV of his arrest). Also includes records from internment camps like Tence, records connected to Gurs on Noé, and police records relating to immigration, foreign workers in forced labor brigades, house arrests and surveillance of foreigners, round-ups, education and teachers.

  5. Reichstuberkuloseausschuß

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Entstand 1933 im Zuge der nationalsozialistischen "Gleichschaltung" der Verbände und Organisationen aus dem im Jahre 1895 gegründeten Zentralkomitee zur Bekämpfung der Tuberkulose und wurde der Reichszentrale für Gesundheitsführung (Reichsausschuss für Volksgesundheitsdienst e.V.) unterstellt. Mit dem 1938 geschaffenen Reichstuberkuloserat erhielt der Reichstuberkuloseausschuss Funktionen eines Ausführungsorgans der vom Reichstuberkuloserat beschlossenen Grundsätze und Planungen. Leiter wurde Dr. Barthels; ihm folgten 1934 Prof. Dr. Taute, 1934-1938 Dr. Frey ...

  6. National Administration of the Assets – Circuit Office of Jihlava

    The fonds contains the files concerning the administration, seizure, post–war restitution and nationalisation of property of Jews and persons of hostile countries, primarily houses in the Jihlava region, western Moravia and certain houses in southern Bohemia. The fonds contains 2 books – list of restitutions and list of real estate. The files are sub–divided into several groups – files concerning general matters, files of returned real estate (classified according to location) and files concerning real estate transferred to the administration of national committees, communal enterprises or ...

  7. Simon Goldman photographs

    The Simon Goldman photographs include 17 photographs of Simon Goldmand and his friends at the Bindermichl Displaced Persons camp in Austria. The collection also inclues a floppy disc.

  8. Selected records the Lithuanian Central State Archives, Jager report (Fond 1742/1)

    Contains reports, personal files, and legal documents relating to the escape of the president, Antanas Smetona form Lithuania, the Jäger Report on Einsatzkommando 3, and Lithuania's cultural relations with the Soviet Union.

  9. Booth family papers

    Includes photocopies of correspondence between the Philip Booth family and Leon Kubowitzki, exchanged while attempting to aid several Jews from German-occupied Belgium with emigration matters. Also included are affidavits relating to the efforts of Philip and Mary Booth to help Jews emigrate from Europe. See RG list for RG-10.02601 and RG-10.026*02 titles.

  10. Bundespatentgericht.- Organisationsunterlagen

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 194-ORG
    • German
    • Sammlung 106 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das Bundespatentgericht wurde am 1. Juli 1961 aufgrund des Sechsten Gesetzes zur Änderung und Überleitung von Vorschriften auf dem Gebiet des gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes vom 23. März 1961 (BGBl. I , S. 274) als unabhängiges und selbständiges Bundesgericht mit Sitz in München errichtet. Das Bundespatentgericht gehört insofern zur ordentlichen Gerichtsbarkeit, weil es gemäß Art. 96 Abs. 3 GG im Rechtszug unter dem Bundesgerichtshof steht. Berufungsgericht ist folglich der Bundesgerichtshof. Das Bundespatentgericht ist zuständig für die rechtliche Kontrolle der ...

  11. Raoul Wallenberg-projektets arkiv

    • Uppsala universitetsbibliotek
    • Raoul Wallenberg-projektet
    • English
    • 1989-1991
    • Letters (including drafts), audio recordings, manuscripts, documents filed by subject

    The Raoul Wallenberg project, which ran from 1989 to 1991, was to conduct and preserve interviews (on tape and in transcripts) with people who could talk about Swedish aid activities in Budapest in 1944-45. It conducted 170 such interviews: 12 in Sweden, 47 in Israel, 53 in Hungary, and 58 in the USA. This interview material, which forms the core of the project's archive, has been organized into two series of audio tapes (original recordings and working copies; see F2B) and a series of transcripts and translations (F2C). This register is attached to the archival index, which can be found on...

  12. George C. Gross photographs

    Consists of photographic negatives of images of the "death train" from which concentration camp prisoners from Bergen-Belsen were liberated near Farsleben (near Magdeburg, Germany) in April 1945. The prisoners had been placed on the train and departed Bergen-Belsen prior to the camp's liberation though the train had no intended destination. The images were taken and acquired immediately by George Gross, who was part of the 743rd Tank Battalion which secured the train while others in the unit sought provisions for the newly liberated prisoners.

  13. Gouache painting of a prisoner at the Majdanek concentration camp

  14. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) The documentation is from 1939-1950. Most of the documentation describes the activities of Saly Mayer as the (unofficial) representative of the JDC in Switzerland during World War II. Saly Mayer transferred JDC funds to persecuted Jews in Europe and Shanghai in various ways. He also distributed money for the care of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland. As part of his activities, he received info...

  15. Association for support of Jewish Palestine (Karen Hayesod). Lithuanian Branch (Fond 590)

    The collection contains correspondence files with local branches of the Karen Hayesod across Lithuania from 1920 to 1940 concerning a registration of local organizations fundraising activities for the Jewish settlements in Palestine before World War II. Also includes minutes and correspondence of Zionist organizations worldwide, local banks, Lithuanian government authorities, bylaws of the organization and its branches, a donors list, cashiers books, and financial reports.

  16. Archive of the City of Velké Meziříčí Archiv města Velké Meziříčí

    A registry of Jews born in Velké Meziříčí in the 19th century, a town in the Vysočina region. The expropriation and sale of the Jewish cemetery by the Auswanderungsfonds für Böhmen und Mähren (Emigration Fund for Bohemia and Moravia) to the municipality of Velké Meziříčí, 1943 to 1944.

  17. Holocaust in Croatia Stradanja Zidova u Hrvatskoj Holocaust

    Contains files and name lists of Yugoslavian Jews persecuted and murdered during World War II. The dossier on each victim includes details of each person’s life and place of death.

  18. Oral history interview with Simon Kagan

  19. Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 427
    • German
    • Schriftgut 1350 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 1,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) wurde durch Gesetz über die integrierte Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (FinDAG) vom 22. April 2002 zum 1. Mai 2002 gegründet und vereinigte fortan das Bundesaufsichtsamt für das Kreditwesen, das Bundesaufsichtsamt für den Wertpapierhandel und das Bundesaufsichtsamt für das Versicherungswesen. Durch die Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht wird die einheitliche staatliche Aufsicht über Kredit- und Finanzdienstleistungsinstitute sowie über Versicherungs- und Wertpapierhandelsunternehmen gesic...

  20. Steffan, Dr. Paul (Flottenarzt)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 9.3.1885 geb. in Wiesloch/Baden; Beförderungen: 15.7.1913 Mar.Oberassistenzarzt; 22.3.1914 Mar.Stabsarzt; 1.7.1925 Mar.Oberstabsarzt; 1.2.1930 Mar.Generaloberarzt; 1.10.1933 Flottenarzt; 1935 Flottenarzt (E); Dienststellungen: 15.7.1913 Pr.Kr. "Württemberg"; 1921 z.Vfg. des Stat.Arztes der Nordsee; 1922 Mar.Laz. Kiel-Wik, ab 1924 zugl. Soldaten-Familienarzt der Mar.Station der Ostsee; 1925 San.Amt der Mar.Station der Ostsee, Soldaten-Familienarzt, zugl. Hygien.Unters.Stelle; 1926 Mar.Leitung/Mar.Medizinalabt.; 1930 Mar.Laz.Wilhelmshaven, Chefarzt; 1934 OBdM/G...