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  1. Selected files from the collection: "Preussische Bau- und Finanzdirection" (A Pr. Br. Rep. 042)

    Records include the following topics: communist sub organizations; status and retirement of Jewish civil servants; taxes for Jewish properties and other Jewish property matters; inquiries concerning Jewish companies; employment of war prisoners; antisemitic books; mail service for the Gestapo and the “Ostgebiete” (Eastern regions); requirements for Jewish students in foreign countries; and proof of Aryan origin.

  2. Allied POWs in Paris

    American and British POWs are marched through the streets of Paris under German guard. French civilians watch them pass. 03:03:06 The prisoners pass by a larger crowd of civilians, some of whom kick them as they walk past. A fight breaks out but it is hard to see who is fighting. CUs of some of the POWs.

  3. Selected files from collections of the Polizeipräsident and Polizedipräsidium, Berlin

    Contains personal files; court records; charges against Jewish people; reprieves; release papers and reports; and records related to the banning of Jewish institutions and reports such as the automobile club and student organizations.

  4. Chamber for disciplinary actions Selected files from the collection : Disziplinarkammer (of the Bezirksvervaltungsgericht Berlin) (A Pr. Br. Rep. 031-04)

    Contains trials against Jewish people or related to Jewish matters. Also includes records relating to private and professional relationships to Jews; bribery on behalf of Jews; provision of public benefits for Jews; Jewish medical doctors; false statements about the ethnic background; patronage of Jewish-owned businesses; providing shelter to Jewish people; unauthorized respectful treatment of Jews; financial business with Jews; unauthorized promotion of Jewish employees; sharing residence with Jews; and tolerance of race defilement.

  5. Headquarters of municipal authorities Selected files from collection: Magistrat Generalbüro (A. Rep. 001-02)

    Contains records relating to the renaming of streets; expropriation of Jewish property; discriminatory regulations against Jews at work and in public places; financial support for schools; local political issues; and statistics from the local registry office. Also contains correspondence, certificates, and other documents such as: birth, marriage, and death certificates; and local correspondence (claims) between the authorities of Berlin and other districts; correspondence between the Jewish community and the Reichsbund (Reichs Union) of Jewish front-line soldiers.

  6. Deutsches Siedlerund badge with clasped hands across a Reichsadler

    Deutsches Siedlerbund (German Settlement) house emblem to show support for the expansive Nazi governement building program for German workers in the 1930s.

  7. Atrocities at Dachau

    (LIB 6573) Atrocities at Dachau, Dachau, Germany, May 3, 1945. MSs, CUs, starved prisoners scrambling for food in queue. MSs to CU, emaciated prisoner is helped toward camera by two other inmates. MSs, CU, Jewish boy, a prisoner in various camps for four years, playing an accordion. Pan, men in line, some with hands raised in air. CUs, valves and fixtures in gas execution chamber. CU, nude bodies of victims. CU, can of cyanide powder. MSs, inmates cooking around small fires. MCU, an inmate scrapes food from pan. CU, young inmate spoons soup from bowl. CUs, faces of former inmates. Full scre...

  8. Municipal nursing facilities of Buch Selected files from the collection: Städtische Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Buch (A. Rep. 003-04-01)

    Contains registration forms and guidelines for registration; correspondence related to ethnic background. Records relate to the shortage of nursing staff; Jewish employees; dismissals related to the Reichs law concerning medical doctors; “racial politics"; transfer of Jewish patients; abolition of health insurance for Jews; and unauthorized renting out of property to Jewish people. Also includes lists of Jewish patients.

  9. Selected files from the collection : "Bezirksamt Wilmersdorf" (B Rep. 209)

    Contains records relating to evaluation and treatment of Jewish property (addresses, type of property and ownership status); renaming of streets; denazification and Aryanization, and protesting against Jewish businesses. Includes also name lists of “foreigners” and forced laborers.

  10. Health administration and Senate Administration for Health Selected files of the Gesundheitsverwaltung and Senatsverwaltung für Gesundheit (B. Rep. 012)

    Contains records about Jewish-owned pharmacies, Jewish pharmacists, the reorganization of the health care system, relations between Jews and non-Jews, Roma in hospitals, and the sterilization of “disabled” persons.

  11. Selected records of the Bezirksamt Tiergarten (A. Rep. 032 - 08)

    Contains records relating to Jewish property: expropriation of Jews; Jewish owners and renters; and sale of Jewish property; medicine: racial biology and eugenics; sterilization of disabled persons; rabbis in local hospitals; expulsion of Jewish doctors; fines for consulting Jewish doctors; list of Jewish hospitals and pharmacies; education on racial biology and genetics for Aryan doctors; statistics concerning eugenics and racial biology; and special files relating to the hospital Moabit; NSDAP propaganda and salaries for war prisoners.

  12. Liebschütz and Rozsa family collection

    Correspondence, documents, photographs, diaries, and other writings, related to the families of Elise (Lisa) Rozsa, originally of Brno, Czechoslovakia, and her husband, Imre Rozsa, originally of Hungary, both of whom fled Europe during the Holocaust, living in exile in Iraq, Palestine, Uganda, and Kenya. The collection includes written memoirs from Lisa Rozsa and her mother, Selma Liebschütz, detailing their experiences during the war years, including Liebschütz's account of being deported to Auschwitz, her experiences in several subsequent camps as a forced laborer, escape from a death mar...

  13. Records of South African Jewish Board of Deputies

    Contains selected records related to government efforts to limit immigration through legislation, correspondence and lists of the Jewish Immigration Officer at the Cape, naturalization applications, shipping lists, anti-Jewish agitation in South Africa, post-war Holocaust Commemoration, as well as selected photographs of Jewish immigrants arriving in South Africa and of the South African Jewish community assisting refugees.

  14. Jewish Trade Unions in Lithuania (Fond 1141)

    The collection contains statues, correspondence files, membership lists, circular letters, minutes of the board meetings, applications for membership of the trade unions, professional, cultural , emigration and health organizations active in the prewar Lithuania: Artisan Union “ Ezras Paolim” in Telsiai, Lithuanian Jewish Coop Enterprises Association, ORT, “Education and Work”, Jewish Teachers Association “Hamore”, OZE, Jewish Refugee Support Committee and Jewish Theater and Art Support Association etc.

  15. Records of the Jewish School in Utena, Lithuania (Fond 790)

    The collection contains lists of students who attended school, minutes of the meetings of the Teachers Council, applications for admission, duplicates of the graduation diplomas, registers of students and correspondence with the Ministry of Education of Lithuania.

  16. Economic recovery activities in Europe

    The Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) was a U.S. government agency set up in 1948 to administer the European recovery program (Marshall Plan). EXT building with several narrow smokestacks. CU man. Row of bicycles and motorcycles under a shelter, man rides a bicycle away. Woman leans out a window, speaking. Cycling down different streets. INT men enter a room full of large stacks of wound wire. Man walks across factory floor. Upside down slate reads “DAY 28 INT 1 ECA.” Two men carefully lower a large spool of wire onto something. Damaged brick building. Ruins People and clothing line...

  17. Jewish Cultural and Educational Society "Tarbut," Wilno office (Fond 295)

    The collection contains records of the Jewish private schools located across Wilno area (Adutishkis, Oszmiana, Moldeczno, Ostryna, Vasiliszki, Radoszkowiczy etc.). The file for each school contains certification of the schools and its curriculum, correspondence with the Board of Education of the Wilno district of Poland, Office of School Inspector and other Polish government institutions.

  18. Association of Jewish landlords in Wilno and Wilno district (Fond 342)

    The collection contains correspondence files with the Ministry of Public Work, Ministry of Finances, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Wilno Magistrate, Wilno Treasury and other local and central government offices of the Polish government as well as Jewish community. Includes also minutes of the meetings of board of the organization, membership lists, list of Jewish owners of the real estate properties in Wilno, personal files of the Jewish real estate agents, card catalogue of members of the association.

  19. Vermögensanmeldungen und Arisierungsakten Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Linz

    Contains records pertaining to the registration and expropriation of Jewish property and assets in Upper Austria. Often, official documents are supplemented with personal letters and affidavits of those who were affected.

  20. Working group for genealogical research Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sippenforschung

    Contains records pertaining to the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sippenforschung. Mainly contains correspondence, questionnaires, and manuals relating to genealogical research in Upper Austria and Lower Austria.