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  1. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Gdańsk Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Gdańsku (GK 172)

    Contains records on war crimes committed on Poles and other nationalities by Germans during War World Second in Gdańsk region, Poland. Includes testimonies of Albert Forster's (Gauleiter der Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreußen activities, lists of Poles who died in concentration camps or during forced labor in the Third Reich, materials on the gas chamber and mass grave in the Nowy Port in Gdańsk, documents on germanization of Polish children and the “educational camp” in Snopki near Pisz.

  2. Reichswehr training activities; von Hindenburg

    Ozaphan film.Title: “Deutsche Reichswehr Manöverbilder” [German Reichswehr-Maneuver pictures.] Horse-drawn carts driven by German soldiers on a dirt road in the countryside. Title: “Marschfahigkeit aller Waffengattungen ist die Vorbedingung des Erfolges.” [Eligibility of all branches of arms is a prerequisite for success.] Soldiers marching on a dirt road. Some of them are marching with dogs, or riding bikes. Title: “Rast” [Rest] Soldiers dismount from their horses, sitting on the sides of the road in the shade under some trees. Title: “Die Gulaschkanone.” [The Goulash Cannon.] A large obje...

  3. Selected records of the Provincial Information and Propaganda Office in Łódź Wojewódzki Urząd Informacji i Propagandy w Łodzi (Sygn. 641)

    Records relating to German war crimes committed in the Łódź province. Includes reports on committed crimes, lists of graves of soldiers and murdered people, copies of the "Biuletyn Żydowskiej Agencji Prasowej (ŻAP) from 1945-1946, memories of Mieczysław Słowikowski from KL Auschwitz (born on 4th Sept. 1900 in Suwałki, prisoner number 5363).

  4. Selected records of the School Inspectorate Kielce Inspektorat Szkolny Kielecki (Sygn.109)

    Consists of personal files of teachers employed in schools in Kielce region, among them are files of Jewish teachers: Brykman Pesa from Lelów, Bursztyn Nachyma from Suchedniów, Chmielnicki Zelman from Bodzentyn, Ejbuszyc Majlech from Łopuszno, Elwing Zyla Majloch from Małogoszcz, Katz vel Kluger Hadesa from Wodzisław, Wajnsztok Izrael Mendel from Bodzentyn, Wajfelnera Mirla from Włoszczowa, Zylberberg Aron from Kielce and Białogon, Zylbersztajn Mojżesz from Jędrzejów.

  5. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Siedlce Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Siedlcach (GK 180)

    Minutes, official correspondence, a study entitled "Losses of the Siedlce county during the Nazi occupation", a study about the Treblinka camp based on the investigation materials of the prosecutor Zdzisław Łukaszewicz, testimonies of witnesses and lists of those murdered in the Biała Podlaska, Łuków, Siedlce county, testimony of Piotr Litwiniusz on the mass execution of Jews in the Łomża Podlaska counties, materials on Soviet prisoner-of-war camps in Ostrówek, Kaliłów, Sielczyk, Suchożrebach and Wola Suchożerbska, camp for Italian and French prisoners of war in Siedlce, materials on war cr...

  6. Polish Red Cross Provincial Board in Kielce Polski Czerwony Krzyż Zarząd Wojewódzki w Kielcach (Sygn. 363)

    Selected records of the Polski Czerwony Krzyż (Polish Red Cross) in Kielce. Consists of reports of the Rada Główna Opiekuńcza, RGO (Central Welfare Council), lists of war graves, lists of victims of German crimes and war losses, help of the Polish Red Cross for prisoners of war, information about the fate of the Jewish population. Includes lists of Jewish soldiers who died during World War II and reports of the situation of Jews during World War II.

  7. The city governor office in L’viv Der Stadthauptmann in Lemberg (Sygn. 540)

    Consist of selected records of the Stadthauptmann office in L’viv. Included are ordinances, circulars, reports, German personnel files, lists, correspondence, regulations, announcements, and financial books of taxes related to German population, Ukrainian police, ownership of properties, abandoned Jewish properties, and taxes.

  8. Selected records of the Special Criminal Court at the Warsaw Appeal District located in Łódź Specjalny Sąd Karny na Okręg Apelacyjny Warszawski z siedzibą w Łodzi (GK 209)

    Contains selected files of criminal trials conducted in the Special Penalty Court in Warsaw, seat in Łódź during the years 1944-1946. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Most of investigation were discontinued. Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. "Sierpniówka" was one o...

  9. Gardelegen liberation photograph

    Contains a black and white photograph of three corpses of prisoners shot by the SS laying in the doorway of a barn just outside of Gardelegen; caption on verso: "March 1945 / Gardalagen [sic] / 20 miles east of Hanover Germany."

  10. Alexander Bachnár papers, Bratislava component collection

    Copies of documents on the Holocaust in Slovakia collected by Alexander Bachnár during his research in various archives, as well as the study of press and testimonies, original versions of his personal archives, correspondence, his own and other author's works. The documents include Anti-Jewish regulations, decisions, regulations of the Ministry of Interior, the State Council and Jewish Center; the Jewish Census from before the concentration of Jews and transports in 1942; the Census of Jewish Property (and documents relating to Aryanization, lists of persons imprisoned in labor and concent...

  11. Selected records of the commune Przysucha Akta gminy Przysucha (Sygn. 1130)

    Registers of residents from the following settlements: Gwarek, Drutarnia, Janów, Kozłowiec, Puszcza, Huta, Lipno, Mazniczka, Plebania, Jakubów, Pomyków, Młyny, Hamernia, Topornia, Mechlin, Browarek, the settlement of Przysucha, Zapniów, Gródek, village Przysucha, Zajezierze colony, and index of the displaced persons from Warsaw. These registers include notes about the population returning from Germany and Jews who emigrated to Brazil, Palestine, Argentina, etc. The collection Includes also correspondence and other files of the Commune Office in Przysucha relating to n the judiciary, detenti...

  12. Selected records of the Żanna Kormanowa collection Akta Żanny Kormanowej (Sygn. 1573)

    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.

  13. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Poznań Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Poznaniu (GK 178)

    Investigation records regarding crimes committed in the territory of the Warthegau, such as hearings of witnesses, exhumation, medical and autopsy reports, examination of corpses, correspondence, reports of former concentration camp prisoners, questionnaires regarding mass graves, lists of war criminals, files of the case of Artur Greiser (Reichsstatthalter der Warthegau), a collection of files from criminal proceedings and many others. Records relate to: Poznań, Żabikowo, Chełmno (Kulmhof) Śrem, Kórnik, Łódź, Kalisz, Włocławek, Gniezno, Ostrów, Kepno, Szamotuły.

  14. Criminal Police of the Protectorate Protektorátní kriminální policie

    Records of the Criminal Police of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, featuring alphabetically arranged registration cards of prisoners; alphabetically arranged cases of prisoners accused of so-called economic crimes; reports of suicide attempts and injuries; cases of so-called protective custody (Schutzhaft); daily reports; reports of deaths; lists of persons deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp; transport lists from the Kounicova dormitories in Brno-Žabovřesky which were used as a prison and execution site.

  15. Selected records of the Polish Care Committee in Busko Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy w Busku (Sygn. 2170)

    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...

  16. Selected records of the commune Lipsko Akta gminy Lipsko (Sygn. 2812)

    Books of resolutions of the Commune Council of 1919-1921 and 1928-1933, book of minutes of meetings of the Commune Board in Lipsko from 1934-1946, correspondence, and the register of residents from 1935-1948;

  17. Selected records of the Commune Suchedniów Akta Gminy Suchedniów (Sygn. 141) : Wybrane materialy

    Population books and registers of the Suchedniów commune, Suchedniów village, and other villages in Kielce region, Poland. Includes information related personal data about residents, payment of taxes, security and public order.

  18. Selected records of the Communal Council in Wodzisław Gminna Rada Narodowa w Wodzisławiu (1670)

    Protocols, registers and correspondence related to abandoned Jewish properties, martyrdom and war damage. Includes reports regarding the restoration of property ownership.

  19. Selected records of the Electoral Commissions of the Kielce Voivodeship Komisje Wyborcze Województwa Kieleckiego (Sygn. 103)

    Selected records related to elections to the Legislative Sejm (Polish Parliament) in 1918, elections to the Sejm and Senate in 1928, 1930, 1935 and 1938; the Socialist Left Bloc (Bund and NSPP), the Żydowski Robotniczy Komitet Wyborczy "Polej Sjon" (Jewish Workers' Election Committee), Zjednoczony Żydowski Blok Gospodarczy (United Jewish Economic Bloc), Ogólno-Żydowski Narodowy Blok Gospodarczy (General-Jewish National Economic Bloc), Blok Obrony Praw Narodowości Żydowskiej w Polsce (Bloc for the Protection of the Rights of Jewish Nationality) and others.. Consists of correspondence, announ...

  20. Christmas in Brno, prewar

    Michaela and Antonin dressed as angels, singing for the camera beside the Christmas tree in 1939. INTs, a decorated Christmas tree at the Eckstein home in Brno. Children in costume pose and touch the dangling ornaments. They kneel beside the ornamental manger under the tree, hold their hands in prayer and sing for the camera. Pan up, star on top of the tree. 01:02:21 Toys. The children, in different outfits, perform a skit for the camera in a different room. Back beside the tree, the nanny guides them through a song and helps them place more ornaments on the tree. She entertains them with a...