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  1. Lwòw branch office of administration for emigration Ekspozytura Urzedu Emigracyjnego we Lwowie (Fond 422, opis 1)

    Consists of various reports, statistical information, records related to organization and administration emigration and repatriation, finance and transportation. It also includes correspondence with shipping companies.The bulk of this collection relates to the administration of emigration and is arranged in alphabetical order (Ukrainian) according to designated countries of emigration, e.g. Australia, Austria, etc.

  2. Kesselring; Mauthausen at liberation

    Kesselring Meeting, Zellam See, Austria, May 8, 1945. VS, occupants of a halted convoy study maps. (The convoy of US vehicles, led by German officer in a German vehicle, attempts to make contact with Field Marshal Albert Kesselring.) MSs, convoy of US jeeps and German jeeps passing camera. VS, convoy pulls into hotel area. MLS, train pulls into railroad station at Saalfelden. CU, Nazi insignia. INTs (underexposed footage), meeting between German Gen. Westphal and other officers. Field Marshal Kesselring, Bertchesgaden, Germany, May 10, 1945. MSs, CUs, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring with Ma...

  3. Union of "Napredak" (Progress) co-ops in Sarajevo Savez Napretkovih Zadruga-Sarajevo (Fond DRGP)

    Contains documents relating to the inventory of Jewish shops in the Independent State of Croatia. They encompass records of both the State Agency for Economic Renewal (Državno ravnateljstvo za gospodarsku ponovu) in Zagreb and the Union of “Napredak” Cooperatives in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, and Osijek.

  4. Ardie Wickers collection

    The collection consists of a Nazi banner and flag pole finial relating to the experiences of Ardie Wickers, a US soldier, during the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany on April 4, 1945.

  5. State Agency for Economical Renewal, branch office in Osijek Državno ravnateljstvo za gospodarsku ponovu-podružnica Osijek (Fond DRGP)

    Contains primarily of records of the Office for Nationalization. It includes lists of Jewish property, correspondence and decrees issued by the State Treasury regarding the confiscation of Jewish property in Osijek and other localities, appeals by local Jews, and inspections of confiscated property and businesses.

  6. State Agency for Economical Renewal, branch office in Sarajevo Državno ravnateljstvo za gospodarsku ponovu-podružnica Sarajevo (Fond DRGP)

    Consists primarily of decrees issued by the State Treasury regarding the confiscation of Jewish property in Sarajevo. Also included are correspondence regarding the confiscation of Jewish property, appeals by local Jews, and inspections of the confiscated property and businesses.

  7. Selected records from the State Regional Archive in Nitra

    Records of the Tiso administration’s wartime policies in Nitra and surrounding towns. Topics covered include Aryanization, the local Hlinka Guard and Hlinka Slovak People’s Party, the application of antisemitic laws, and the Roma. The collection includes the periodic situation reports for the Nitra region, and complaints and appeals by citizens.

  8. Selected records from the State Regional Archive in Modra, Slovak Republic

    Consists of World War II-era administrative files from the district archives in Modra and the wider Bratislava region. It includes reports, lists, and propaganda leaflets. Topics include Gestapo members and activities in occupied Czechoslovakia, the Hlinka Guard, the Sudetendeutsche Partei, the use of Nazi symbols and greetings, pro-and anti-Communist movements, and the writings of prominent individuals. A large part of the material pertains to antisemitic measures: the confiscation of Jewish property and the distribution of Jewish assets among Hlinka Guard members; prohibitions against Jew...

  9. Edith Hamberg Tarcov papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Edith Hamberg (Tarcov), originally of Hannover, Germany, including her immigration to the United States, correspondence with her parents Minna and Sally Hamberg who remained in Hannover until their deportation to Riga in December 1941, restitution paperwork, photographs, and an unpublished novel manuscript based on her life. Biographical materials include family trees, immigration documents, restitution papers, Edith’s German passport, and a family book. The immigration documents include copies of the affidavits by her relative Milto...

  10. Usher Korol’ letters from the front

    Contains copies of personal documents and letters sent by the political commissar Usher Korol’ from the Front to his family, which had been evacuated to Bukhara, in Uzbekistan.

  11. Selected Records from the Departmental Archives of the Alpes-Maritimes. 1933-1972

    Contains records directly linked to the war: internments for administrative or “political” reasons; purges; surveillance of political parties; freemasons (“Sociétés Secrètes) and the press; food distribution and rationing; non-Jewish laborers requisitioned to work in Germany (“STO”); military affairs; prisoners; refugees; supervision of real estate transactions; sequestered property; affairs related to German or Italian occupation; war damages; veterans’ affairs; judicial matters and lawsuits; as well as the Armistice Commission. Also contains material indirectly related to the war: public ...

  12. Slave labor burials; freed US POWs; Military Government restores order

    Slave Labor Burials, Nordhausen, Germany, April 13, 1945. VS, distorted cadavers lying in yard of concentration camp. German civilians cart them on litters to common burial grounds under the direction of US MPs. CU, emaciated bodies of victims. MS, charred human torso is placed on litter. LSs, head-on-shots, German civilians carry shovels as they walk on highway. LS to CU, common burial grounds for victims of Nazi atrocities. German soldiers looking down into open burial pit filled with bodies. Freed American Prisoners, Graselben, Germany, April 12, 1945. MLS, happy, released American priso...

  13. Memoirs and testimonies of Jewish Holocaust Survivors

    Contains first and third person biographies and testimonies of Jewish survivors about their life stories during WWII in Ukraine and Russia under Nazi occupation.

  14. Oral history interviews of the Sy Rotter collection, RG-50.596

    Oral history interviews, edited films, B-roll footage and interview outtakes, and supporting documentation produced for educational television documentaries by Sy Rotter, founder of the Foundation for Moral Courage. Films include: The Other Side of Faith (1990); Zegota: A Time to Remember (1992); Rescue in Scandinavia (1994); A Time to Gather Stones Together (1994); A Debt to Honor (1995); One Day in the Life of Oni (1996); It Was Nothing...It Was Everything (1997); Zegota: Council for Aid to Jews in Occupied Poland (1996); Treason or Honor: German Rescuers of the Holocaust (1998); Making C...

  15. Joseph Shaykin collection related to Jewish agricultural colonies in Ukraine

    Contains records relating to the history of Jewish agricultural colonies in Ukraine before World War II. Included are tables with statistical and demographic information, maps, biographies, and testimonies gathered by Joseph Shaykin between 1960 and 1990. There are also copies of publications about the colonies.

  16. Maps and graphics. Banned books and music

    Maps and graphics. Map of France, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Prussia, Soviet, Ukraine, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Italy. Graphics showing radio broadcast signals, the press, local Nazi parties, and trade pressure. CUs, Germany, Ukraine, "The Partition of Czechoslovakia". CUs of forbidden books, including Schnitzler, Kant, Wassermann, Einstein, Napolean, Zweig, and Remarque. CU, Mendelsohn's Wedding March music. [Apparently outtakes similar to footage used in March of Time issue, Inside Nazi Germany.)

  17. Selected records from the Vatican Archive collections

    Contains records from pontifical representatives, the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, and the archive of the Vatican’s Secretary of State. Includes records representing the Vatican communications with Church representatives in numerous countries, as well as materials from Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli, later Pius XII.

  18. Envelope from Simon Wiesenthal

    One air mail envelope, printed with the return address of Dipl.-Ing. Simon Wiesenthal, Linz-Donau, Pacherstrasse 3, Austria. Addressed to Ernesto Klinger, Casilla Correo 2157, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and postmarked 9 April 1953 from Linz. No letter was found in envelope.

  19. Evreyskaya tematika v fondakh gosudarstvennogo arkhiva Ivano-Frankovskoy oblasti Selected records from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankivsʹk Region (formerly Stanislawów) related to the history of the local Jewish community

    Contains records from Jewish private schools in Stanislav, Ukraine; government surveillance information on Jewish political parties and organizations; information regarding the arrest of Jews associated with Zionist organizations; information documenting violence against Jews by Ukrainian nationalists in Stanislav; records of Jewish emigration in the 1920s and 1930s; organizational records of Jewish philanthropic associations; inheritance records; and birth, death, and marriage records from the main synagogue in Stanislav; Jewish records from regional and districts' police office, prison, c...

  20. Stuart Cohn collection

    Consists of one handwritten manuscript, in Yiddish, of the Holocaust testimony of Jack Greenspan. Also includes one photocopy of a prewar postcard sent by Mendel Kane to his son, Jake Cohn. Mr. Kane perished in the Holocaust.