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  1. Grupa Bojowa Reinefahrta w Warszawie 1944 Kampfgruppe Reinefahrt Warshau 1944 (GK 661)

    Records relating to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Includes German reports, information on the situation among Polish fighters and civilians in Warsaw, interrogations of Home Army officers (Teofil Suscitowski, Ryszard Jankowski, Henryk Wilczkowiak, Józef Hoffman), and documents of Sonderkomando Spilker (photocopies from the German archives).

  2. Morton Adell collection

    Photos and documents of Morton Adell, Regional Director of Northern Greece for the American Joint Distribution Committee in the years immediately after World War II. Includes photographs of the desecration of the Salonika Jewish cemetery; images of a postwar children's Chanukah party; letters; and a JDC report entited "Jewish Education in Greece," by Alfred Cohen, dated October 1946.

  3. Department for the Investigation of Enemy War Crimes by the French Judiciary Police Service de recherche de crimes de guerre ennemis de la police judiciaire (SRCGE)

    Investigations conducted by the Department for Investigation of Enemy War Crimes (SRCGE) into war crimes committed either on the French mainland or involving French citizens in camps outside of France. The investigations were conducted by judiciary police starting in late 1944. They are organized alphabetically by département or by the country where they are presumed to have occurred (Germany, Austria, Poland), and also by subject matter. Investigated activities include arrest, arson, denaturalization denunciation, deportation, execution, expropriation, forced labor, homicide, internment, k...

  4. Selected records of the commune Mirzec Akta Gminy Mirzec (Sygn. 2692)

    Book of resolutions of the Board of Commune Mirzec, 1932-1939; books of permanent population with an alphabetical index.

  5. Irving Rubenstein collection

    Contains carbon copies of reports recorded in Mauthausen. Includes copies of a nine-page confession of Franz Ziereis, former commandant, detailing daily murder and mistreatment of Mauthausen inmates [per Ziereis] persecuted by other high-ranking Nazi officials, and a with note to his wife including details of atrocities at other camps. Also includes a report, including a handwritten note on the last page, conveyed by inmate and victim Wladislaus Czaplinski, a physician in the camp who was interned in the Camp from 1940 through liberation. His statement details the murder of thousands of pri...

  6. Awards Documentation Department of Yad Vashem (Righteous Among the Nations) Dział Dokumentacji Odznaczeń Yad Vashem (Sprawiedliwy Wśród Narodów Świata) (Sygn. 349)

    Consists applications, testimonies, protocols, letters and correspondence related to award documentation "Righteous Among the Nations."

  7. Selected records, Obóz Koncentracyjny Sachsenhausen Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen (GK 137)

    Files and waybills to KL Sachsenhausen from various camps and places, personal files of prisoners, periodic reports, 1941-1942 regarding camp crew: ceremonies, training and others matters.

  8. Rosa Goldmann death certificate

    Contatins a death certificate issued on November 2, 1942 stating that Rosa Goldmann, transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp on October 7, 1942 with transport "Ae/677," perished in Thereisenstadt on November 2, 1942. On the reverse is a note written in English to "American Censor" stating that the writer has been in concentration camp and this is the first time they can write. It is unsigned, but appears to have been written by someone fluent in English.

  9. Selected records of the commune Radzynów located in Olganów Akta Gminy Radzanów w Olganowie (Sygn. 2141)

    Lists of voters to the Sejm (Polish Parliament) from 1922 and 1930; census of Jews from 1930; index to permanent population books and records of postwar fate of the property belonging to Jews.

  10. Sledding in Brno

    January 1939. Sledding in the snow near home in Brno on the street v Hlinkách (Hlínky 35). 01:00:11 CU Antonín bundled up in the sled with nanny in a checkered jacket. They pass a wine cellar, she waves to the camera, both children pulled in sleds. Poster; restaurant. A lady skis by the family. 01:00:47 Michael Eckstein looks at the camera walking in the snowy streets of Brno, he watches the children race down the street and play in the snow. Snowballs. Quick view of sign for Vystaviště. End 01:02:05 01:02:10 HAS, Playing in the snow at the empty fairground / exhibition area in Brno (Vystav...

  11. Urząd Okręgu Warszawskiego Selected records of the Amt des Distrikts Warschau Amt des Distrikts Warschau (GK 101)

    Telephone and address book of the Office of the Head of Warsaw District and subordinate German authorities and institutions in Warsaw; ordinances and circulars, reports regarding the political, economic and cultural situation in the Warsaw District at the end of March 1940. Includes official correspondence, personal files of prison guards at Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw, reports on escaped prisoners, and situational reports.

  12. Selected records of the commune Moskorzew Akta Gminy Moskorzew (1909)

    Registers of born and deceased members of religious groups: Evangelical, Orthodox and Jewish in the Moskorzew commune, files for the years 1916-1918.

  13. Selected records of the commune Duraczów Akta gminy Duraczów (Sygn. 524)

    Registers of inhabitants of individual villages, industrial and commercial cards from 1941-1942, name lists and statistics of population from 1939-1943, and documentation regarding Jewish real estate, 1942. Includes the pre-war period records of the spa in Czarnecka Góra, a registration book of spa patients, also correspondence regarding the contribution to the Jewish religious community.

  14. Selected records of the Public High School in Małogoszcz Publiczna Szkoła Powszechna w Małogoszczu (Sygn. 1757)

    Nominations for teachers of Jewish religion at the school w Małogoszczu; circulars; minutes of meetings; correspondence; and various types of lists. Documents relate to matters of teaching religion at school, Jewish children attending school, and conflicts related to the teaching of Jewish religion at school.

  15. Prewar summertime activities

    July 1939. Children on a swing in the garden at the Eckstein family home in Brno in summer. Pan of the garden, the home, and the ornate balcony. Blossoming bushes, outdoor furniture. Michaela and Antonin run around and play with garden tools in the sandbox and take dips in the baby pool. The nanny lays a sheet in the grass for the kids to rest; she makes a sun-hat for Michaela; she splashes them with pool water. End 01:04:09

  16. Russian TASS New Agency- a collection of news Radziecka Agencja Informacyjna TASS-zbiór komunikatów (Sygn. 1424)

    News from the Russian news agency TASS regarding: the Anders Army in the USSR and the East; the situation on the fronts of World War II and the Red Army; conferences in Yalta, San Francisco and Potsdam, and the results of Mikołajczyk's visit in Moscow; Soviet opinions about the Catholic church; The Krajowa Rada Narodowa (National Council) and the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego, PKWN (Polish National Liberation Committee); the situation of Polish people in the USSR and in the West; situation of Poland during the occupation; Polish territories occupied by the Red Army in 1944; post-war ...

  17. Selected records of the Association of communities in Busko Związek gmin w Busku [Gemeindeverband in Busko] Sygn. 2123. Wybrane materialy

    Records related to the economic exploitation of the local population by the German occupation authorities: taxes, tributes and tolls. Includes lists of companies and a list of residents of the Busko region with statistics of Polish and Jewish people.

  19. Selected records of the Central Committee for Social Welfare in Warsaw Centralny Komitet Opieki Społecznej w Warszawie (Sygn. 164/0)

    Questionnaires of children who were abroad (in Denmark and Norway), correspondence and name lists on the persons returned to Poland after the Second World War. Includes documents related to financial assistance for children and lists of former KL Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners who survived the camp.

  20. Selected records from the State Archives of Transcarpathian Region of Ukraine related to the history of the Jewish Communities of the region before, during, and after WWII

    Records of the history of the Jewish communities of the Transcarpathian Region of Ukraine. Includes leaflets, minutes and reports submitted to the Ministry of the Interior and the Police Headquarters on the activities of the Zionist Jewish Party in Transcarpathia; correspondence of the police and district authorities on the activities of various political parties operating in the Zakarpatsʹka oblastʹ; reports of the police and district authorities on Jewish parties in various locations; reports on activities of Jewish associations (preparing Jews for emigration to Palestine), and the New Zi...