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  1. Julius Kühl collection

    The Julius Kühl collection consists of photocopies of documents relating to the life and career of Dr. Julius Kühl, a diplomat employed at the Polish embassy in Bern during the War and, his assistance to hundreds of Jews fleeing Nazi tyranny. Records include general correspondence, telegrams, articles and clippings, reports and pamphlets, miscellaneous reports, Professor Penkower’s interview with Dr. Reuben Hecht, a Treblinka report, and Dr. Kühl’s autobiographical report. General correspondence relates principally to Julius Kühl's wartime service at the Polish embassy in Bern, and his effo...

  2. P.55 - Personal Papers of Dr. Heinz E.Samson

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 7894262
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Balance sheet Booklet(s) Brochure Death certificate Envelope Financial accounts Genealogy Journals Legal documentation Letter List of deportees List of murdered Jews from Germany Maps Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Postcard Poster Speech

    P.55 - Personal Archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson In the collection there are files from the private archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson. Description of the collection: The documentation deals with a part of the estate of the Samson family, originally from the city of Norden in Northern Germany. There is pre-war documentation on tax issues and the assets of the Samson family, pre- and postwar correspondence with German authorities, personal documents and certificates, documents on the restoration of the Norden Jewish cemetery supported by the Samson family after WW II, the dedication of a memorial ...

  3. Infanterie-Division Schlesien

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher (KTB) aller anderen Verbände und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die KTB der Divisionen vom Mobilmachungstag (26. August 1939) an das Heeresarchiv Potsdam abzugeben, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten (anfangs getrennt nach Kriegsschauplätzen: P für Polen, W für Westen; nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges aber nur nach laufender Nummer) und in dieser Reihenfolge eingelagert, dann aber systematisch nach den KTB-führenden Stellen und Abteilungen in Eingangslisten erfasst wurden. Diese Listen (so genannte "Potsdam-...

  4. Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen

    Die Sammlung enthält v.a.: Nachkriegsberichte, Häftlingskarten, Dt. Rotes Kreuz-Korrespondenz, Effektenverzeichnisse, Sterbeurkunden, Sterbezweitbücher, Todesmeldungen, verschiedene Listen (Transportlisten, Häftlingslisten, Totenlisten, Befreiungslisten, Friedhofslisten, Listen Überlebender) Geschichte des Konzentrationslagers Bergen-Belsen 1943-1945: Das Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen wurde am 10. Mai 1943 ca. 50 km nördlich von Hannover errichtet. Als „Auffanglager Bergen-Belsen“ sollte es in der Konzeption des Auswärtigen Amtes und des Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler als Sammellager ...

  5. Karliner family papers

    The Karliner family papers consist of wartime correspondence and photographs taken of the Karliner family in Germany before World War II, aboard the MS St. Louis, in France while in hiding at Oeuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) homes, and during the post-war years. The correspondence is written by members of the Karliner family, many of whom perished in the Holocaust at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Written by Joseph, Martha, Ilse, Ruth, and Walter Karliner, the letters are dated circa 1927-1944. The Karliner family photographs include photographs of Josef Karliner’s store; the family i...

  6. Max and Dorothy Folk papers

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Max and Dorothy Folk, both of whom survived the Holocaust and married in Landsberg am Lech, Germany after the war. The collection primarily consists of biographical and identification papers from Landsberg, documents regarding their respective Holocaust experiences, papers related to their immigration to the United States in 1950, and restitution paperwork. Biographical material primarily documents the Max and Dorothy’s post-war lives as refugees in the Landsberg am Lech DP camp area. Papers of Max include identification cards; documents ...

  7. Ямпільська повітова управа

    • Iampilska povitova uprava
    • Iampil county administration

    Some cases contain registration materials in the form of lists of ghetto prisoners and labor camps, prisoners in the workers' columns, lists of people for food aid, etc., 1942-1943. In particular, this is information about the place of residence and the composition of Jewish families, as well as information on the age of ghetto prisoners and the profession of adult family members [inventory 3, files 81, 82, 84, 86]. Available documents with statistical data on the Jewish population of the county. The statistical data for 1942-1943 on the quantitative composition of the population in the ghe...

  8. The World Jewish Congress New York Office. Series D. Relief and Rescue Department

    Contains records relating to social relief and rescue activities, location of survivors, immigration and migration, refugees, displaced persons, extermination of Jews, reaction to Hitler's Final Solution, and relations with international relief organization including the UNRAA and Red Cross. Seven sub-series of World Jewish Congress New York Office records, Series D contains the following files: 1. Executive files, 1939-1969: The majority of the material deals with applications and affidavits for individual immigration cases; 2. Immigration Division, 1940-1953: Includes correspondence and r...

  9. Data from the "Minority Census" in Germany (Volkszaehlung 1939), from materials of the Reichssippenamt, May 1939

    Data from the "Minority Census" in Germany (Volkszaehlung 1939), from materials of the Reichssippenamt, May 1939 The collection includes personal data of Jewish families that was collected during the population census. The Record Group was located in the State Archives of East Germany in Potsdam, under Archive signature 1/82. Following the reunification of Germany, this Archive was added to the Bundesarchiv (Federal Archive) in Berlin. The Reichssippenamt materials have been included in the R 1509 Record Group in this Archive. The data is listed alphabetically more or less according to the ...

  10. Nuremberg Trial proceedings; summation and verdict

    Part 4 of GERMAN language version [corresponds to NARA reels 7 & 8] Courtroom scenes, questioning various defendants, showing various views of the courtroom and trial proceedings. Questioning Jodl and von Ribbentrop. Prosecutor asks Goering: "Do you still say that neither Hitler nor you knew of the policy to exterminate the Jews?" Goering: "I already had said that not even approximately did I know to what degree this thing took place." Prosecutor: "You did not know to what degree, but you knew there was a policy which aimed at the liquidation of the Jews?" Goering: "No, not liquidation ...

  11. Eichmann Trial -- Session 98 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    The following footage is duplicate footage also found on Tape 2159 (from 01:01:07 to 01:05:13). The footage on Tape 2160 is more complete. Eichmann is asked if he was aware that the people on these transports died in the dozens. The accused states that his section was not responsible for the round-ups, the local authorities were responsible. Hausner notes that these people died during transport not before (00:01:48) and children were taken out of the cars dead and he, Eichmann, was responsible for the organization of these transports (00:02:17). Hausner presents a document regarding coopera...

  12. 149. Feldausbildungs-Division

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher (KTB) aller anderen Verbände und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die KTB der Divisionen vom Mobilmachungstag (26. August 1939) an das Heeresarchiv Potsdam abzugeben, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten (anfangs getrennt nach Kriegsschauplätzen: P für Polen, W für Westen; nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges aber nur nach laufender Nummer) und in dieser Reihenfolge eingelagert, dann aber systematisch nach den KTB-führenden Stellen und Abteilungen in Eingangslisten erfasst wurden. Diese Listen (so genannte "Potsdam-...

  13. Entrance doors from Hospital No. 1 in the Łódź ghetto

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn1228
    • English
    • a: Height: 128.000 inches (325.12 cm) | Width: 84.750 inches (215.265 cm) b: Height: 29.250 inches (74.295 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) c: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) d: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) e: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)

    Wooden doors of the Łódź ghetto Hospital No.1 (later the Helena Wolf Hospital), removed in 1989, prior to the building’s renovation. On September 1, 1939, German troops invaded Poland, and occupied Łódź the following week, renaming it Litzmannstadt. In February 1940, the German authorities established the Łódź ghetto in the existing slum of Baluty, and forced 160,000 Jews to relocate into one and a half square miles of space. The ghetto was surrounded by barbed wire fencing, and sealed on April 30. The authorities forced the Jewish residents to labor in textile factories, and the police exh...

  14. Ersatz-Brigade 204

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher (KTB) aller anderen Verbände und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die KTB der Divisionen vom Mobilmachungstag (26. August 1939) an das Heeresarchiv Potsdam abzugeben, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten (anfangs getrennt nach Kriegsschauplätzen: P für Polen, W für Westen; nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges aber nur nach laufender Nummer) und in dieser Reihenfolge eingelagert, dann aber systematisch nach den KTB-führenden Stellen und Abteilungen in Eingangslisten erfasst wurden. Diese Listen (so genannte "Potsdam-...

  15. Mickal E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mickal E., who was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1926, the younger of two children. She recounts her family's assimilated lifestyle; attending a Czech school; cordial relations with non-Jews; participating in a Zionist youth group; expulsion from school in March 1939 due to German occupation; confiscation of the family's business; moving in with her grandparents; her father's deportation for forced labor, her mother leaving to earn money in Prague, and her brother moving to a hachshara; forming a subgroup with four other girls within th...

  16. Eichmann Trial -- Session 98 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    Footage begins in the middle of Session 98 during cross examination of the accused by Attorney General Gideon Hausner concerning the death of deportees during transport. Eichmann denies being involved in round-ups and, in particular, the Stettin Affair. When asked by Hausner who did carry out the deportations from Stettin, Eichmann states that it was the local authorities (00:01:28). A document is cited noting that at a meeting in January 1940 it was decided that section IVD4 would deal with deportations (00:03:19) and Eichmann maintains that their job was only to draw up timetables. Hausne...

  17. Bălți district prefecture and its subordinated preturas and town halls

    • Бельцкая уездная префектура и подчиненные ей претуры и примарии
    • Bel'tskaya uyezdnaya prefektura i podchinennyye yey pretury i primarii
    • Județul Bălți: prefecturile judeţene, subprefecturile plaselor/preturilor şi comunele subordinate

    Files on the issue of permit residents for foreign citizens to stay in Bălți. Correspondence with the sub-prefectures on the work of schools and churches. Lists of schools opened in county Bălți, 1920-1921. Lists of residents of villages: Fălești, Limbeni, Logofeni, Albineț, Catranîc, Năvîrneț, Obreja Veche, Obreja Nouă. Certificates that allow Jews to leave the country starting from 1932 until 1940. Files of Prefecture fight against speculation in food insdustry and other essential goods, 1940. The list of residents of county Bălți, where is indicated their residence and profession in 1928...

  18. Photographs of Roman Catholic clergy, Adolf Hitler, and other Nazi officials

    The collection consists of black and white photographs of Roman Catholic bishops and clergy (including the Sigismund Waitz Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria and Wilhelm Frick) with Adolf Hitler and other Nazi officials. The photographs also show Nazi officials and clergy giving the Nazi salute and Nazi flags are seen in several backgrounds.

  19. Bundesamt für Wehrverwaltung

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Im Jahre 1969 verfügt der Präsident des Bundeswehrverwaltungsamtes, daß Schriftgut des Amtes, das für die "Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, die militärische Forschung oder aus anderen Gründen bedeutsam ist" [Vgl. Dienstakten 6181/1 (Verfügung BWVA - Der Präsident - ZA I 2 - Az 11-16-04-05/VS-NfD v. 25.02.1969)], an die Dokumentenzentrale des "Militärgeschichtliche Forschungsamtes" (MGFA) abzugeben ist. Der Verfügung liegt eine erste beispielhafte Aufstellung über entsprechendes Schriftgut bei. Mit Übergang der Zuständigkeit an das Bundesarchiv-Milit...

  20. Paul Morgenstein. Collection

    This collection consists of a pre-war and two post-war photos of Paul Morgenstein as well as his audiovisual testimony. In this interview Paul Morgenstein talks about: his pre-war life in Antwerp, Belgium ; the family fleeing to De Panne, Dunkirk and Calais in 1940 ; Paul's journey to the United Kingdom and his life during the bombardments in 1940-1942 ; his journey to Canada and later on to Cuba in 1942 ; his life in Cuba as a member of the diamond industry and the Jewish Antwerpian enclave in Havana in 1942-1947 ; his migration to New York, United States, in 1947.