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  1. Primary School no 2 in Skarżysko-Kamienna Szkoła Podstawowa nr 2 w Skarżysku-Kamiennej (Sygn. 2931)

    The materials relate to the school's activities, such as: reports on pedagogical conferences, administrative matters, correspondence, etc. Typical information for this type of documentation: name and surname of the child, date and place of birth; school class attended; grades in individual subjects of study. The materials (from different years) also contain school certificates.

  2. Selected records of the District People's Courts and the Local People's Courts from the State Archive in Košice

    Trial and investigative records of Slovaks and former Hlinka guard members tried in the District People's Courts (Okresný ľudový súd) and the Local People's Courts (Ľudový súd) in Košice and various surrounding municipalities between 1945 and 1948. Includes the trial records of individual Slovaks accused of denouncing their Jewish neighbors, the trial records of regional Hlinka Guard commanders responsible for the deportation of local Jews, as well as the trial records of political defendants. Features survivor and eyewitness testimonies describing the persecution of Jews and crimes committ...

  4. Selected records from the General State Archives in Volos (GAK Magnesia)

    The collection includes selected archival materials from four record groups: 1. Judical Archives: Special Court for Criminal Cases of Local Collaborators in the Volos area (Thessaly region) who committed crimes against the civilian population in the former Italian and German zones of occupation during the Second World. This collection contains court proceedings and verdicts against local collaborators; Court of First Instance in Volos (Political department). It contains court minutes and judicial records related to compensation payments to victims of Nazi persecution during World War II, in...

  5. Interior Ministry: General administration Selected Records from the French National Archives: F1a Ministère de l'Intérieur/Administration Générale

    The collection contains selections from the French Interior Ministry’s Delegation in the occupied zone, Department of Worship, and Interior Commission of Algiers documenting the status of Jews, religious worship, and deportations. Records include reports and circulars about the application of laws governing secret societies, the employment status of Jews, the operational status of Jewish organizations, descriptions of German-occupied France and anti-Jewish measures in occupied Europe, French attitudes towards obligatory labor service in Germany, the internment of Jews, and official French n...

  6. Waldapfel family papers

    The Waldapfel family papers include correspondence, immigration documents, and photographs documenting Irma Waldapfel, her children Valerie, Max, and Karoline, and their Waldapfel and Fischer relatives. Correspondence includes postcards sent from Czechoslovakia to Irma, Valerie, and Karoline during the interwar period and letters Irma and Karoline sent from Vienna to Valeria and Max in New York. Immigration documents consist of a Queen Mary passenger list and handwritten notes documenting Irma’s and Karoline’s itinerary from Vienna to Cherbourg to New York. Photographs depict Irma, Karoline...

  7. Mittelbau forced labor camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark note

  8. Leonard Golub collection

    The collection consists of a letter with envelope written by Simon Wiesenthal to Leonard Golub, December 2, 1977. The letter was a response by Wiesenthal to Golub, a high school student who wrote to him as part of a research project for a course entitled “Ethnicity and the Jews.” The letter is on the letterhead of the Documentation Centre of the Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime (Dokumentationszentrum des Bundes Judischer Verfolgter des Naziregimes).

  9. Lt Colonel Bruce Hinson photograph album

    The collection consists of an annotated photograph album documenting Bruce Rateliff Hinson, MD’s experiences as an army surgeon during World War II. The album covers his entire military career from 1942-1945. It includes depictions of his family; training at Sioux Falls and Atlanta; and overseas posts in England, Brittany (France), Luxembourg, and Germany (Nuremberg, Bamberg, Passau). There are six photographs taken at Buchenwald the day after liberation primarily documenting piles of corpses and building structures.

  10. Cecile Melvegier Winter papers

    Affidavit of support & notifications about what happened to the donor's parents

  11. Szilágysomlyó [Newspapers]

    Antisemitic weekly published in a town Szilágysomlyó [Șimleu Silvaniei] in Romania. It includs many articles concerning the measures that had been adopted against the large Jewish community of this town, 1940-1944.

  12. Jews in Budapest during the German occupation, Autumn 1944

    A film by József Herczog. As an amateur filmmaker, Herczog filmed the streets of Budapest during the German occupation of Hungary in autumn 1944 and captured a record of his salon business, the dedication of the bomb shelter in cellar of the “yellow star house” where he lived and over 50% of the tenants were Jewish, Hungarian soldiers, an evacuation, and bomb damage. Title card: “Filmezte es osszeallitotta: Herczog Jozsef fodraszmester” Title card: drawing of Danube and Parliament with handwritten “BUDAPEST”. Herczog's salon at Thököly street 22 (Hernád street) in Budapest. Baross Square. S...

  13. Brassói Lapok [Newspapers]

    Hungarian language cultural journal began publication on Jan. 1, 1895 in Brassó, Hungary (now Romania), still in publication. The selected issues of the Brassói Lapok journal relate to the period before WWII and focus on the Transylvanian Hungarian attitude toward the anti-Jewish measures adopted by the Romanian Government during the 1930s.

  14. Ernest Chambré postcards

    Three (3) postcards sent to Ernest Chambré in Tel Aviv, Palestine (now Israel), from multiple authors in France. The postcards are dated January 23, 1945, September 24, 1945, and September 23, 1946.

  15. Yiddish Intermediate School in Skuodas Skuodo žydų vidurinė mokykla (Fond 796)

    Records of the Jewish Intermediate School in Skuodas. The collection contains minutes of meetings of the teachers’ council, records of the entrance examinations; requests from parents to admit their children to school; graduation certificates that include photos of students, class journals, etc.

  16. Selected records of the Office of Information and Propaganda of Warsaw Province Urząd Informacji i Propagandy województwa warszawskiego (wybrane materiały) (Sygn. 501)

    Various records from the post-war period: a list of organizations from September 1945, a list of crimes committed during the war in Warsaw and the Warsaw District, records of evidence of crimes, correspondence, situation reports from the period 1945-1947.

  17. Court of the First Instance in Iłży Sąd Grodzki w Iłży (Sygn. 3046)

    Court files in civil and criminal matters in which one of the parties was a person of Jewish origin. Post-war materials regarding real estate owned by Jews, applications for correction or reconstruction of birth, death or other documents.

  18. Samuel Comis letter

    Letter, five pages, written by Samuel J. Comisaroff (donors' father), enlisted American Army soldier, to his family in the United States describing his visit to Buchenwald concentration camp on April 20, 1945.

  19. Abend and Getter families papers

    The collection consists of photographs primarily depicting the prewar and wartime lives of the Abend and Getter families, originally of Przemyśl, Austrian Galicia (Przemyśl, Poland) and Złoczów, Austrian Galicia (Zolochiv, Ukraine), who were all in Paris, France during the Holocaust. Included are prewar family photographs depicting Joachim and Chaya Getter, their daughter Floine Getter, Salomon Abend and his wife Perla Rosiner in Przemyśl, Thonon-les-Bains, France, and Paris, France. Also included are a small amount of wartime photographs taken in Beaune-La-Roland transit camp where Salomon...

  20. Prewar Czech families: birthday; beach; skiing

    Guttmann family picks vegetables from the garden in Bechyně (Continuation of RG-60.7181), eating. Suzi and Sylvie walk in the street with an older man (Simon?). Steffi and the two girls exit the sweet “Cukrářství” shop. INTs, birthday party for Suzi’s fourteenth birthday. Steffi brings in flowers and the cake. Suzi opens presents. CUs, sweets, cake with “14”. CU, her new watch (some soft shots). EXT, Girls and their mom carry baskets along the road. INTs man (Simon?) shaving. 01:02:15 EXTs Sylvie and her mother in bathing suits get into a row-boat for Sylvie’s swimming test. She passes and ...