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  1. Records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General (Army) French war crimes cases

    Consists of microfilm reels containing depositions, photographs, and descriptions of incidents relating to alleged war crimes committed in France by German troops, the SS, and the Gestapo given to War Crimes Group, United States Forces, European Command (EUCOM). The incidents described involve episodes of murder, torture, and arson directed at French civilians during the Holocaust.

  2. US case files. Auschwitz concentration camp, Record Group 338

    Consists of a war crimes case file relating to the Auschwitz concentration camp, crimes allegedly committed by camp personnel, medical experiments, lists of war crimes suspects, and testimonies by Auschwitz survivors. Includes documents relating to Drs. Josef Mengele and Friedrich Entress, and to Konrad Reinhard, a Roma who collaborated with the Germans. The earliest war crimes cases were investigated by war crimes sections under the Staff Judge Advocates of the 1st, 3rd, and 7th U.S. Armies and under the commanding generals of the Eastern and Western Military Districts. The war crimes prog...

  3. Regional File of the U.S. War Department, Military Intelligence Division (MID)

    Consists of selected records from the Regional File containing a wide variety of information about conditions and events around the world with a general span of years from 1922 to 1944. Some materials are dated as early as 1918. Many records from the 1930s and 1940s include Holocaust-related topics such as concentration camps, antisemitism, deportations, racial laws, forced labor, and religious persecution.

  4. Gomel Oblast Archive records

    Consists of microfilmed documents relating to the activities of various oblast government offices in the vicinity of Gomel. Included is information concerning reprisal actions by Germans against partisan activity, the liquidation of the ghetto at Monastyrek, the confiscation of Jewish property and livestock, and arrests of Roma.

  5. Mogilev Oblast Archive records

    These files relate to the activities of various Mogilev city administration offices and German occupation agencies in the Mogilev area during World War II. Included is information about criminal proceedings, the persecution of Soviet Jews, the confiscation of Jewish property, reprisals against Jewish and partisan resistance, regulations for mixed marriages, the Mogilev ghetto, the transit of refugees, Einsatzkommando activities, forced labor, census statistics, and partisan clashes with police forces.

  6. Records relating to the occupation of Yugoslavia during World War II

    Consists of copies of documents from the Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia concerning Yugoslavia during World War II. Included are documents relating to the occupation of Yugoslavia by Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, the activities of resistance forces, executions of Jews and other civilians in retribution for German deaths, the persecution of Roma, and Hitler's plans for the partition of Yugoslavia. Also included are documents relating to the Ustaša (Ustashi) and the Zbora groups. See RG list for titles for RG-49.00201 and RG-49.00205.

  7. Records relating to crimes against Serbs, Jews, and other Yugoslav peoples during World War II

    Contains information concerning the persecution of Serbs and Yugoslav Jews, atrocities committed by the Ustaša (Ustashi), the forced resettlement of Yugoslavs, and the killing of Orthodox priests.

  8. Elizabeth Model scrapbooks

    "Memories: People and Places" is the remembrance of Elisabeth Model as a wife, mother, and artist during the 1940s and 1950s. "In Memoriam: Max Model" is a tribute to Max Model, husband of Elisabeth Model, with information about his persecution during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. See RG list for titles for RG-10.060*01 - *02.

  9. "Children of the Holocaust"

    The writer's account of the suffering of children she witnessed as a concentration camp inmate. She does not indicate the name of the camp, but another version of the memoir makes clear that it was Riga-Kaiserwald.

  10. Records of gay men and sex offenders in Austria

    Consists of copies of documents from the Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstandes concerning legal action against gay men and sex offenders. The documents relate to evidence against three such criminals, describing their criminals backgrounds and suggestions for their punishment and treatment.

  11. Gaynor I. Jacobson papers

    The Gaynor I. Jacobson papers consist of biographical information, correspondence, photographs, printed material, reports, transcripts, and writings documenting Jacobson’s refugee aid work with the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) and especially his work assisting eastern European Jews fleeing anti‐Semitism and Communism. Biographical information includes the employment histories of Jacobson as well as author Tad Szulc and Auschwitz survivor Alex Dekel. Personal correspondence includes letters from Gaynor to his family describing his re...

  12. Gaynor I. Jacobson collection Tad Szulc papers

    Contains transcripts of oral history interviews, correspondence, reports, and photographs compiled by Tad Szulc while conducting research on the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Among the materials is information concerning Jewish emigration, displaced persons, Holocaust survivors, and Jews in predominantly Arab countries during the 1960s through the 1990s. Also includes the research notes used by Tad Szulc while writing "Rescue."

  13. Häftlingspersonalbogen from Auschwitz concentration camp

    Contains Häftlingspersonalbogen (prisoner registration forms), numbered 1 through 331, for female prisoners at the women's camp at Auschwitz (reel 1) and Häftlingspersonalbogen, numbered 1 through 4,50,0 for male prisoners at the Auschwitz main camp (reels 2-9). Each of the Häftlingspersonalbogen contains personal information such as date and place of birth, marital status, date of arrest, date of entry into the camp, nationality, occupation, religion, race, and physical appearance. Registration forms relate to prisoners, mainly Jews, from different European countries. Also included is i...

  14. Records of the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit (Sygn.113)

    Contains information about German annexation of Polish land through the years; German colonization in Poland and Eastern Europe; "race science"; population statistics for Kraków, Poland, through the years; birth statistics for several Polish towns and villages; activities of Einsatzgruppen; statistics for Catholic churches in the Kraków area; and the history of the Polish nobility from circa 1300 to circa 1600.

  15. Einwandererzentralstelle, Rasse und Siedlungsamt, Aussenstelle Litzmannstadt records (Sygn. 167)

    Contains information about the activities of the Einwandererzentralstelle, Rasse und Siedlungsamt, Aussenstelle Litzmannstadt from circa 1939 to circa 1944; resettlement of Poles; Germanization of native Poles; Germanization of Polish children; qualification of Poles as Volksdeutsche; racial investigations by the SS; Mischlinge; marriages of SS members; transports; establishment of concentration camps; and Poles used in forced labor.

  16. Der SS und Polizeiführer im Distrikt Lublin records (Sygn. 891)

    Contains information about propaganda; SS activities in Lublin, Poland; police activities in Lublin; industry; agriculture; "Germanization" and propagation of German culture in occupied areas of Poland; members of the SS in Lublin; and combatting partisans.

  17. Kreishauptmann in Busko, Innere Verwaltung (Sygn. 164)

    Contains information about activities of county officials in the Busko area; activity of the Polish police in the Busko area; agriculture; abolition of various unions and associations; banking activities in the Busko area; persecution of Roma; education; propaganda; health conditions; sports; economy; and health care for children.

  18. Records of der Landrat des Kreises Schrimm (Sygn.65)

    Contains circular letters, reports, and various other documents relating to the activities of the offices of the Landrat (district magistrate) des Kreises Schrimm (Śrem, Poland); employees of the Landrat office; the Gestapo office in Poznan; apprehension of prisoners of war; activities of the rural police in western Poland; extradition of Polish prisoners of war interned in Hungary and recruited into the Polish army in France; the transport of Franz Sobkowiak to Mauthausen; transports of prisoners to concentration camps; and a propaganda campaign by the "Army Information Garrison" to attrac...

  19. Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers SS - SD Leitabschnitt Kattowitz (Katowice) (Sygn.169)

    Contains reports about the public opinion in various towns in the vicinity of Kattowitz from circa 1941 to circa 1944. The reports contain information about public opinions on economic matters, political matters, Russians, and members of the National Socialist's Russian movement in Germany; the "Day of German Domestic Music"; and recruitment of women into the air defense service.

  20. Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Wollstein (Sygn. 73)

    Contains quarterly situation reports from 1940 to 1943 concerning political and economic atmosphere, population, criminal activity, German-Polish relations, strength of the police force, and special occurrences in several towns of the Wolstein (Wolsztyn) district including Gro-Nelken, Kirchdorf, Deutsch-Gabel, Wollstein, Teichrode, Weiberg, Kirchplatz, Rakwitz, Altkloster, and Klosterweise. Also contains regulations concerning confiscation, registration, operation and repair of motor vehicles (December 1939).