• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn44090
• English
• 1920-1970
• 656 microfilm reels, 35 mm 463,438 digital images, TIFF
• Updated 1 year ago

The selected archives comprise a collection of documents and publications related to the Holocaust, the Jewish world prior to the Holocaust-community institutions, youth movements, immigration of Jews to Palestine, personal documents, Brichah [Escape, the organized effort that helped Jews escape post-Holocaust Europe to Palestine] and Sh'erit ha-Pletah [the surviving remnant]. It is the chief archive of the history of the Hanoar Hazioni and Akiva youth movements. Consist also of the unique collections of postal items from the time of the Holocaust, personal testimonies of Holocaust survivor...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn512000
• English
• 1937-1943
• 8,543 digital images, JPEG 8 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains captured records of the German occupation administration, records of the local Ukrainian administration under Nazi occupation, records of the Ukrainian Nationalist Organization (OUN), and prewar records of Jewish communities of the region. Includes correspondence, reports, diaries, notebooks, regulations, orders, name lists of property owners, list of Jews in Town Zdolbunov including list of doctors, census of the Jewish population in Berezno, Ukraine, the Ukrainian newspaper: "Volyn," 1941-1943, statistical information, and the following Jewish communities' records: Berezno, Deraz...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn42389
• English
• 1923-1940
• 15,915 digital images, JPEG 8 DVDs, 4 1/4 in
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains records related to the partisan warfare and situation in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) region, activities of the underground regional Committee of the Communist Party. Also contains a small collection of the captured German records and publications, German flyers and posters. Includes records of the Jewish population (statistics, EvSekt︠s︡ii︠a︡ records, working plans and reports) pertaining to the history of the Jewish population of the region before WWII (1920s-1930s).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn73595
• English
• 1939-1946
• 1,300 digital images, JPEG 2 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Records created during the WWII by the German occupation authorities, and after the war by the Polish municipal authorities. Contains selected files of town Łowicz, communes (Bolimów, Kiernozia, Bielawy, Jeziorko), county in Łowicz, Prison in Łowicz, as well as the files of School Office (Schulamt) in Łowicz. Includes a rich collection of German posters and flyers, records related to anti-Jewish orders, forced labor, lists of inhabitants of Jewish origin (in Łowicz and Bolimie, from 1940), lists of children evacuated from Warsaw located in individual villages 1944, and German ordinances of ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn73597
• English
• 1932-1945
• 4,586 digital images, JPEG 3 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains selected records from towns (Płock, Gąbin, Gostynin, Sierpc, Raciąż and Wyszogród), and counties (in Gostynin, Płock and Sierpc) in voivodeship Mazowieckie (Poland), both those group of records are from the pre-war, and post-war period. Records from the pre-war period include: minutes of sessions of the Town Hall, budget books, reports and various matters of social and economic character, as well as minutes of sessions of the Jewish Religious Community Council in Płock from1932-1933, and reports from the sessions of the Rabbinical Judgement in Drobin. Records from the period of 193...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47327
• English
• 1939-1950
• 2,960 digital images, JPEG 6 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains selected records of the district Starosties (Landraturen) in Konin, Ostrów, Śrem, municipal files of Czerniejewo, Gołańcz, Kłecko, Buk, Dolsk, Kostrzyń, records of the Umwandererzentralstelle (Central Office of Migration) in Poznań, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (NSDAP) in Poznań, the collection of announcements, posters, and leaflets as well as records of the Bodenamt SS (Land Office) in Poznań. Includes records relating to displacements of people, the relationship of Germans towards Poles and Jews, registration of Jews occupied in medical service, statistics of ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn595258
• English
• 1915-1951
• 18 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Selected records of the various units of municipal offices in Radom city and its district, the Radom District Court, School Inspectorate, Association of Polish Teachers, and the banks and credit unions. Included is also the private collection of documents of Lejbuś, Judek Perl. Records of the municipal offices in Radom city and district consists of correspondence, German announcements, statistics of people from Polish territories incorporated into the Reich including the number of displaced Jews, records on the forced work of Polish population, cases of Polish POWs, lists of people murdered...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn73594
• English
• 1939-1949
• 15,165 digital images, JPEG 13 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Records created during the WWII by the German occupation authorities, and after the war by the Polish municipal authorities. Contains files of towns (Łuków, Mińsk Mazowiecki, Siedlce, Węgrów), communes (Łuków, Tuchowicz, Dąbie, Celiny, Łysów, Skórzec, Zbuczyn, Żeliszew, Wyrozęby, Sterdyń, Chruszczewka, Korczew, Kowiesy), county (in Łuków, Węgrów, Sokołów Podlaski, Siedlce), as well as the collection of German posters of the Siedlce county. They refer to various matters, such as the registration of populations, displacements, forced labor, raising taxes and other fares, security and public o...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn98224
• English
• 1936-1950
• 23 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

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.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn611483
• English
• 1939-1945
• 3,701 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Circulars and ordinances of authorities, official correspondence, reports on activities, quota reports, sending people to work, minutes of meetings, materials on the population policy of the occupant, censuses, lists of employees of the office of the starost, materials on the Polish resistance movement, reports of gendarmerie, interrogation of Jews in cases of illegal border crossing, correspondence with the Judenrat from Wegrów, matter of control of correspondence, daily orders, certificates, receipts, documentation related to the implementation of the antisemitic exhibition entitled "Jued...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn597100
• English
• 1926-1938
• 26,886 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Consist of court case files, notes, brochures, proclamations, publications, posters, leaflets related to communist and anti-Polish activities of Jewish population in Kalisz District after Polish independence. Jews were accused of organization of the local communist parties, participation in the plot designed to assassinate Polish independence, dissemination of anti-Polish publications, distribution of communist literature and slogans and banners, participation in the plot of the attack on the state system of Poland, active participation in illegal demonstrations in 1931, participation in a ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn597099
• English
• 1918-1939
• 45,707 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Consist of court case files, notes, communist proclamations and newspapers, posters, postcards, arrest warrants, leaflets related to communist and anti-Polish activities of Jewish population in Łomża District after Polish independence. Jews were accused of organization of the local communist parties, participation in the plot designed to assassinate Polish independence, dissemination of anti-Polish publications, distribution of communist literature and slogans and banners, like: "Long Live Soviet Russia", "Worship to the chief of the international proletariat and peasantry, Karl Liebknecht,...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn607806
• English
• 1900-1948
• 6,482 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Records of the activities of the the Central Committee of the Jewish Workers Federation "Bund" in Poland and abroad between 1900-1948. The collection contains circular letters, proclamations, reports, posters, appeals, photographs, press articles, a list of confiscated newspaper “Fołkscajtung”, correspondence, minutes, testimnonies, bulletins, accounts, memoirs, and card files.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn593160
• English
• 1945-1947
• 2,324 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Reports on the political situation in individual voivodships, materials about the Majdanek Museum of 1945, war compensation cases, German inscriptions from the occupation period, Soviet soldiers' graves in Poland, memoirs and elaborations on concentration camps, literary works on war, posters and announcements from 1945 on ceremonies for the victims of war, reports and correspondence on the Red Army in Poland.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn714064
• English
• 1940-1944
• 340 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Reports of the Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy w Busku (Polish Welfare Committee in Busko) related to the situation of Busko city's population, 1940-1944 and situation in Pińczów after the fire in September 1939 . Includes posters, announcements, and two issues of the German propaganda magazine “Służba światowa” ("World Service", subtitle "International Information Agency for the Study of the Jewish Question"), July-October 1943. The articles in the newspaper were intended to discredit the Jewish community around the world. The following articles appeared in the October issue: "The leading positi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn557918
• English
• 1944
• 6,067 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Selected records of the Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN), including: A list of the members of the PKWN, and others, who left Moscow for Chełm in 1944, reports of the PKWN delegates of the Department for Jewish Affairs regarding the security of the so-called liberated areas and the organization of Jewish communities, correspondence with the Central Jewish Committee, newsletters of the Jewish Press Agency, 1944, records of the Department of Justice discussing matters of the restitution of property to Jewish survivors, records on the war crime trials, articles written by staff of...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn597101
• English
• 1923-1939
• 3,776 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Consist of court case files, notes, brochures, proclamations, publications, posters, leaflets related to communist and anti-Polish activities of Jewish population in Krakow District after Polish independence. Jews were accused of participation in the activities of the local communist parties, dissemination of communist magazines and illegal possession of weapons, editing and dissemination of anti-Polish publications and a secret prison newspaper, distribution of communist literature, slogans and banners, participation in the plot of the attack on the state system of Poland, participation in...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn714720
• English
• 1926-1980
• 1,689 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Selected materials from the collection of Żanna Korman née Zelikan (1900-1988), a Polish communist activist: reports and notes about her stay in the USSR in 1941-1945; biographies and memories of many people; curricula for political officers in the Polish army in the USSR; appeals and other electoral materials of Jewish organizations from 1926-1939; correspondence with Henryk Makower and his wife Emma Noemi Makower née Wigdorowicz; and Pinkus Korman personal documents from 1939-1942.

1. German poster collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3743
• English
• 1934
• overall: Height: 47.520 inches (120.701 cm) | Width: 32.375 inches (82.233 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

German propaganda poster designed by Künstlerbund, Karlsruhe A.G. and published by Gaupropagandaleitung Baden der NSDAP (District Baden Propaganda Line of the NSDAP) in 1934. The poster was designed O. Rinne, possibly a pseudonym for German Art Deco artist, Felix Rinne. The poster shows an oversized man wearing the shirt, jodhpurs, and armband from a Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA) uniform preparing to confront a group of affluent men at a table decorated with a Nazi banner. He is rolling up his sleeves and getting ready to work, while the men are leisurely talking at the table instead of working....

1. German poster collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3731
• English
• 1932
• overall: Height: 35.375 inches (89.853 cm) | Width: 24.375 inches (61.913 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Political poster promoting Adolf Hitler for the German presidential elections of 1932. The poster features a man breaking chians on his wrists, implying that a vote for Hitler will stop the oppression that shackles the common man. Hitler ran as the National Socialist German Workers’ Party candidate against incumbent Paul von Hindenburg. This poster was designed by Hans Schweitzer, who went by the pseudonym Mjölnir (the hammer of Thor). By June 1932, Germany was deep in the throes of the Great Depression, with six million unemployed. This economic distress contributed to a rise in the popula...