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  1. Card file of the Jewish community in the Lemberg Ghetto, 1941-1943

    Card file of the Jewish community in the Lemberg Ghetto, 1941-1943

  2. Card file of the Jewish residents and refugees from Pinsk in alphabetical order, 1939-1941

    Card file of the Jewish residents and refugees from Pinsk in alphabetical order, 1939-1941

  3. Card file of the OFD-Muenchen (OFD Munich)

    Card file of the OFD-Muenchen (OFD Munich) In the Collection: Microfilm JM/ 22704 - Card files from July 1943 with authorizations by Jews for the transfer of monies from bank accounts to the OFD; Microfilm JM/ 22705, JM/ 22708 - Card files with details regarding deposits and withdrawals of monies, mainly from 1942; Microfilm JM/ 22706 - Card files with names and (apparently) file numbers, which include information regarding former places of residence or names of inheritors; Microfilm JM/ 22707 - Handwritten or typewritten notes with names and (apparently) file numbers, some of which have ad...

  4. Card files and personal documentation of Stutthof camp inmates from various countries and nationalities, 1939-1945

    Card files and personal documentation of Stutthof camp inmates from various countries and nationalities, 1939-1945 Stutthof camp was a Nazi concentration camp located 37 kilometers east of Danzig, near the city of Sztutowo in Poland. The camp, established in September 1939, was the first concentration camp established outside the borders of Germany. It was the last camp to be liberated by the Allied forces. During the period that Stutthof camp was active it had approximately 110,000 inmates imprisoned there, including 28,000 Jews. More than 80,000 of the inmates perished in the camp.

  5. Card files of confiscated Jewish properties from the District of Lublin Kartoteka skonfiskowanych nieruchomosci żydowkich z Dystryktu Lubelskiego (Sygn. 243)

    Contains card files organized in alphabetical order by geographical place name. They contain the following information: date of confiscation; address and description of the property; and name of the Jewish owner. The properties were confiscated by the Germans and administrated by the Treuhandstelle.

  6. Card files of non-Aryans Fremdstaemmigenkartei

    Contains partial and preliminary indexes of Jews in Germany of the later Reichssippenamt (Reich Office of Genealogy) mainly concerning Jewish students, also cards on Jewish companies as well as variety of diverse information on Jews in Germany, like obituaries.

  7. Card files of the Jewish population of Gliwice Kartoteka ludności żydowskiej Gliwic (Sygn. 112)

    This collection is a part of a larger group of files of the Jewish kehilla (congregation) in Gliwice. The purpose of creating these cards is unknown.The cards contain such data as: name, surname, place and date of birth, profession, citizenship, residence addresses and dates. Note: Digitized cards are availabe online: https://cbj.jhi.pl/collections/552807 [accessed 25 September 2018]

  8. Card index of Jews murdered in the Iaşi pogrom (June-July 1941) and a card index of survivors (former deportees), compiled by the Romanian branch of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) after the Holocaust

    Card index of Jews murdered in the Iaşi pogrom (June-July 1941) and a card index of survivors (former deportees), compiled by the Romanian branch of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) after the Holocaust A. Card index of Jews murdered in the Iaşi pogrom (June-July 1941) In the collection there are 465 file cards, including personal information regarding the victims of the pogrom in Iaşi. In addition to the name of the victim and the date of his/her murder, data regarding the cause of death is also written on the file cards, as well as data regarding the person making the declaration (that is t...

  9. Card index of requests to issue identity cards for Jews in the Radom Ghetto from 1941

    Card index of requests to issue identity cards for Jews in the Radom Ghetto from 1941

  10. Card index of the “general documents” of the collection Incarceration and Persecution

    Card index of the “general documents”: Descriptions, among others, of the general documents of the Concentration Camp Collection. Their structure follows a multi-level classification on the overall topics Concentration Camp, SS-Construction Brigades, SS-Iron Construction Brigades, Extermination Camps, Youth Protection Camps, Police Detention Camps under the command of the security police, Slave-Labor Camps for Jews, Ghettos and a chronological index. The referenced collection contains, among others: correspondence, decrees and orders from the Reich Main Security Administration and the SS Ec...

  11. Card index of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC /JDC)

    Contains the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee card index of the Emigration Service in Munich, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Barcelona, Spain.

  12. Card indexes of Jews persecuted during World War II

    The Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic (FJC) has several card indexes at its disposal: The central card index served the occupation authorities during World War II to keep an overview of most Jewish persons from Bohemia and Moravia. Before the end of the war, the Nazis tried to destroy the majority of important documents that could, inter alia, attest to their part in the extermination of Jews. They were particularly thorough with destroying the cards of deported persons. Yet they were not successful in destroying all the evidence. Some of the cards were preserved, and m...

  14. Cardarelli family collection

    Oral history interviews with Silvana (Cardarelli) Fabrizi and Maria (Cardarelli) Puzzanghero, an annotated transcript, and original photos from San Donato Val di Comino, Italy

  15. Cardboard backed Star of David badge worn by a Jewish Romanian forced laborer

    Yellow cloth Star of David badge worn by Ancsel Feuerwerker (later Arthur Feuer) while serving in a Hungarian forced labor battalion in Szaszregen (Reghin), Romania, from October 1942 to September 1944. Ancsel, his parents, 7 siblings, and many relatives lived in Craciunesti, Romania, an area of northern Transylvania ceded to Hungary, a German ally, in August 1940, as part of the second Vienna Award. In October 1942, Ancsel was conscripted into a labor battalion based in Szaszregen (Reghin), Romania. Ancsel’s battalion put-up tar-covered telephone poles for 8 or 9 months, and was then moved...

  16. Cardinal Faulhaber letter

    The Cardinal Faulhaber letter was written by Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber and addressed to the administration of Dachau concentration camp requesting the release of clergymen imprisoned within the camp. Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber (1869-1952) was a German cardinal and archbishop of Munich, Germany who was a prominent opponent of the Nazis.

  17. Cardinal Innitzer of Vienna, speech and procession

    Crowds line the streets of Vienna. A procession moves down the street; a band plays. Church bells peal as nuns and Catholic clerics move down the street. Cardinal Theodor Innitzer, surrounded by other clergy, waves and blesses the crowd. The scene changes to show Innitzer giving a speech in which he says (in part) that religion and love of the fatherland belong together. Cardinal Theodor Innitzer was the primate of Austria. In 1938 he publicly endorsed the Anschluss and met with Hitler, but he later repudiated the Nazis.

  18. Cardozo family photographs

    Consists of photographs capturing the experiences of the Cardozo family before and during the war, including images such as a meal featuring David Lopes Cardozo and others wearing visible Star of David badges on their clothing, portraits of David's sons, Raphael and Max Lopes Cardozo, who perished in Terezin in 1944, and the wedding portrait of Julia Hendrika Lopes Cardozo and Yoel (Wolf) Strosberg in Antwerp, Belgium.

  19. Carel Sternberg identification card

    The"Carte d' Identité" (identification card) was issued to Karel (or Carel) Sternberg donor, a Czech law student, in December 1938. Sternberg was in France when the Germans took over the country, and he worked closely with Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee in Marseille, France.

  20. Caribbean internment camp envelopes

    Two empty envelopes, sent by internees in camps for European refugees in the Caribbean during World War II. One envelope, with illegible postmark, was sent by Ruchel Nayberg from Gibraltar Camp 2, in Jamaica, British West Indies, addressed to Michel Nayberg care of Mr. Bidermann's bookstore in New York. The second envelope, postmarked May 1945, was sent from Heinrich Hauser, at Camp Guatemala, Bonaire, Netherlands West Indies, addressed to Olaf Domnauer in Paterson, New Jersey. Both envelopes show evidence of having been opened and examined by censors.