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  1. Selected records of the City of Otwock Akta Miasta Otwocka (Sygn.1)

    This collection contains minutes of sessions of the town government and council, as well as records relating to taxes, matters concerning the Jewish community and Jews in general, all aspects of economic and cultural life, health care and schooling, registers, lists of electors, budget, permissions for house construction, e.g. technical project of edifices, and reports of the town government and council activity.

  2. Selected records of the city of Mińsk Mazowiecki Akta miasta Mińska Mazowieckiego (Sygn.35)

    This collection contains materials related to social welfare, tributes and taxes on civilians (1940-1941), as well as information regarding sending people to forced labor in Germany, lists of real estate, workshops and manufactures belonging to Jews (from 1941), lists of Jewish inhabitants of Mińsk Mazowiecki (above the age of 14), announcements of the German authorities, documents related to the ghetto, post-war specifications on the so-called abandoned property, i.e. previously belonging to Jews. Documents from the pre-war period: indexes of the registers of inhabitants (1935-1939), the e...

  3. Collection of posters Zbiór afiszów (Sygn. 204)

    This collection contains German propaganda posters distributed in Poland during World War II (including those of antisemitic and anti-communist character), as well as announcements of the orders of the occupation authorities and of executions of death penalties.

  4. Selected records from State Archives in Warsaw and its branches in Otwock, Mława, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Pułtusk and State Archives in Płock

    Contains selected records from the State Archives in Warsaw and its branches: The training materials for police officers concerning the Jewish Youth organization, 1939-1943; Resolutions of the City Council, 1915-1919; Correspondence and the lists of registered associations, circulars, announcement.; Records of Jewish organizations and Judenrat (Jewish councils); Books of tenants in various regions of Otwock and other places; The questionnaires about the course of the war activities in the municipality in 1939-1945. Lists of population loss, 1946; Opening protocols of mass graves of Poles mu...

  5. Przewodniczący Rady Żydowskiej w Warszawie The Chairman of the Jewish Council Warsaw Der Obman des Judenrates in Warschau (Sygn.483)

    This collection consists of records created by the Office of The Chairman of the Jewish Council in Warsaw (Der Obmann des Judenrates in Warschau), 1940-1942. Included are numerous statistical documents (diagrams and tables), records of population, reports, correspondence, information about forced labor, food supply, deaths, financial and economic plans, taxes payments, etc. The most valuable is a set of reports of the Chairman of the Judenrat from Oct. 7, 1939 through Feb. 27, 1941. Other materials of the Warsaw Judenrat are available in the Ringelblum Archive from the Jewish Historical Ins...

  6. Court of the First Instance in Lipsko on Vistula Sąd Grodzki w Lipsku nad Wisłą (Sygn.1053)

    This collection contain selected so-called “Zg.” files i.e. cases of declaring a person dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes those who perished during the Soviet and Nazi occupation: including those arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring a person dead, testimonies of two witnesses filled out on standard forms, and the correspondence and sentence of the court. The law determined who could be d...

  7. Collection of posters, announcements and leaflets Zbiór afiszów, plakatów i druków ulotnych (Sygn. 206)

    This collection includes ordinances from the Labor Office of Radom in Poland during the German occupation, as well as notices of identity cards for Jews, creation of a ghetto for the Jews of Radom, notices for registration for Jewish labor, antisemitic posters, and declarations of assets.

  8. District Court in Radom Sąd Okręgowy w Radomiu (Sygn.448)

    This collection contains documents of civil and criminal cases investigated by the court, as well as a registry of economic enterprises and cooperatives. The given survey included only a category of files resulting from applications to acknowledge the death of individuals submitted by other persons. They concern, almost always, people who died during the German occupation (collected from their homes by the Germans, taken away to forced labor, taken away to concentration camps, etc), who did not return home, as well as people murdered on the spot, whose death certificates had not been issued...

  9. Sondergericht. Staatsanwaltschaft bei dem Sondergericht in Radom Sad Specjalny w Radomiu. Prokuratura przy Sadzie Specjalnym w Radomiu (Sygn.399)

    This collection includes files of particular cases, including criminal cases (assaults, thefts, murders, document forgery, injuries); as well as administrative cases, which included cases related to the charges of illegal trade, espionage, the hiding of Jews, receiving correspondence from abroad, the refusal to turn in radio sets, or listening to foreign broadcasts, among others. Most of the defendants in the administrative cases are Poles and Jews. The files of the German Court and Higher German Court in Radom include the civil cases of the people of German origin.

  10. Court of the First Instance in Kozienice Sąd Grodzki w Kozienicach (Sygn.1029)

    This collection contains selected so-called “Zg.” files; that is, cases of declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes those who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: including those arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring the death of a person, testimonies of two witnesses filled out on standard forms, and the correspondence and sentence of the court. The law dete...

  11. Court of the First Instance in Zwoleń Sąd Grodzki w Zwoleniu (Sygn.1054)

    This collection contains selected so-called “Zg.” files; that is, cases of declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes those who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: including those arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring the death of a person, testimonies of two witnesses filled out on standard forms, and the correspondence and sentence of the court. The law dete...

  12. Inspectorate of Home Army in Częstochowa Inspektorat Armii Krajowej w Częstochowie (Sygn.399)

    Records of the Armia Krajowa (AK), the Inspectorate in Częstochowa. Documents relate to organizational matters and orders of the Home Army Headquarters, quartermaster’s orders, military problems, budget, financial settlements, financial reports, and contain lists of the sanitation equipment. The collection also contains documents on AK Women's Military Service, the Warsaw insurgents, and guerrilla troops.

  13. Selected personal files of the beneficiaries of the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP) Teczki osobowe beneficjentów Fundacji Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP)

    This collection contains copies of 20,534 personal files of those assisted by the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP). These files often contain beneficiary’s application (with individual call number) which details the places and conditions of work (forced labor); statements; accounts or testimonies; letters from the period of occupation and/or other documents (most often copies) in support of a claim; doctor’s certificates; notarized copies of archival documents; photographs; certificates from various institutions; and correspondence with the Foundation.

  14. Tin can used as a cup

    Given to Annya and Israel Sheynman by Italian troops. Saved throughout war by Annya and Israel Sheynman.

  15. Stamped envelope

    Addressed in ink to "Herrn Heinrich Potischel (sp?) Wien XII Hauptstrasse 2" with one 4-cent Deutsches Reich stamp and nine 12-cent anti-Nazi stamps attached. Also has five ink stamps dated 8.IV.43.

  16. Nazi flag

    Nazi flag acquired by Sergeant Charles Ottinger while serving in the US Army during WWII. Brought back to the US by Charles Ottinger, March 1945.

  17. Garment bag retrieved from Dachau postliberation by a US soldier

    Garment bag retrieved from Dachau Concentration Camp by by Joe Davis.

  18. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark, acquired by a US soldier

    1 Reichsmark coupon issued at Buchenwald concentration camp acquired by Rudolph Cohen when he served in the US Army from 1943-1946. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of...

  19. Sketchbook of drawings created by a former concentration camp prisoner

    Sketchbook created by Adolf Frankl, depicting scenes from multiple concentration camps. It was likely created after the war, as a way for Adolf to process his experiences during the Holocaust. Adolf was living in his hometown of Bratislava with his wife, two children, and a large extended family, when the city became part of the Nazi puppet state of Slovakia in May 1939. When World War II began in September 1939, the family’s interior design store was confiscated and Aryanized. Adolf was able to continue working for the new owner, and received documentation protecting him and his family fro...

  20. SS Dachau Book

    Booklet produced by the United States 7th Army about Dachau concentration camp in Germany, not long after the Division liberated the camp.