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  1. Policja Ochronna w Warszawie. Batalion Szkoleniowy Polizei-Ausbildungsbataillon Schutzpolizei Warschau (GK 720)

    Registers of Hifspolizei officers in Warsaw, Poland

  2. Selected records of the County Starosty in Łódź Starostwo Powiatowe Łódzkie (Sygn. 2123) : Wybrane materialy

    Various certificates, citizenship credentials and certificates, craft cards (permits to open craft workshops), registers of factories, and factory plans. It relates also to Jews who survived the Holocaust and lived in Łódź after the war.

  3. Hitler Youth; American homefront activities

    Army-Navy Screen Magazine #50. 16mm film made for soldiers and war workers including two segments. "William L. Shirer Talks About The Hitler Youth" Lengthy segment about the Hitler Youth hosted by William Shirer, with footage of youth and how they were trained and raised for war. "By Request" shows images of the US homefront, a German mini submarine, and a woman singing in a radio studio. Includes Flatbush, New York; Fox Theater, Henry Street NYC; Baseball.

  4. Selected records of the commune Niewachlów, 1889-1954 Akta gminy Niewachlów (Sygn. 136), 1889-1954

    Consists of files of abandoned Jewish property, 1942-1947, population books of Niewachlów commune, including Białogon village; and alphabetical indexes to population books.

  5. Selected records of the commune Busko-Zdrój Akta gminy Busko-Zdrój (Sygn.2130)

    Files of industrial and commercial enterprises, population books and indexes, the registry files and correspondence.

  6. US airmen

    US airmen standing around in the middle of a street, joking and laughing, there is a garbage can with a fire inside it. "11th SQDN" (?) posted next to doorway. CU, US soldier sits in a covered jeep. Jeep with "...HQ 2" on bumper. The men stand in a circle looking at papers. Sign on far building, "...Dispensary". Some get into the back of a covered jeep. On the corner, boys shine the shoes of a soldier.

  7. Komendant Policji Bezpieczeństwa i Służby Bezpieczeństwa dla Okręgu Warszawskiego (GK 106) Selected records of the Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD für den Distrikt Warschau Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD fur den Distrikt Warschau (GK 106)

    Anonimous denunciations to Gestapo mostly related to Jews in Warsaw, training of Jewish policemen in Warsaw ghetto and lists of policemen, various ordinances and reports, daily orders of Der Kommandeur der Sipo und SD for 1940, files on illegal trade carried out by Jews, files of investigations against Germans suspected of accepting a bribe, maintaining contacts with Polish women, illegal trade and other.

  8. Prison on the Święty Krzyż Wiezienie na Świętym Krzyżu (Sygn.187)

    Correspondence of the Ministerstwo Sprawiedliwości (Ministry of Justice), Warsaw and Sąd Okręgowy (Regional Court), Kielce, statistics, registers, files on pardon, early dismissal (1930) and personal files of prisoners of the Więzienie na Świętym Krzyżu (Prison on the Święty Krzyż), Kielce. Includes Jewish prisoners.

  9. Selected records of the Cooperative Bank of Merchant in Pińczów Spółdzielczy Bank Kupiecki w Pińczowie (Sygn. 2362)

    A register of members of the Spółdzielczy Bank Kupiecki (Cooperative Bank of Merchant) in Pińczów, membership declarations, a book of minutes of general meetings of members.

  10. List of people from Radautz, Romania who perished in the Holocaust

    Contains two "Yizkor" leaves (memorial leaves) prepared by the "Chessed shel Emet" society, one for men and one for women, with lists of deceased Jews (who, presumably, perished during the Holocaust) from Radautz (Rădăuți), Romania. Includes three printed leaves with additional lists of names of deceased Jews, perhaps proof prints for memorial leaves. On verso of one of the leaves is a handwritten copy of a Romanian letter from 1919. Undated, likely mid-1940s.

  11. Cairo Conference; Marines capture Tarawa

    News documentary with intertitles and English narration produced for the home movie market by Castle Films Productions. "The News Parade" 1943. "Allied Chiefs Meet! In Egypt and Persia!" of the Cairo Conference involving Churchill, Roosevelt, and Lady Chiang and Chaing-Kai Shek of China. Film opens in Egypt with shots of pyramids. Churchill, Roosevelt and Chaing Kai- Shek seated with representatives standing behind. Narrator indicates the fate of Japan is being resolved by China, the United States and Great Britain and that strategy is being planned on a unified basis. The war meeting shift...

  12. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Grodzisk Mazowiecki Sąd Grodzki w Grodzisku Mazowieckim (Sygn. 1648) : Wybrane materialy

    Selected files of the Sąd Grodzki w Grodzisku Mazowieckim, records so-called “Zg”. Records of "Zg" relate to declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes persons who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: either including persons arrested by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (approximately 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring the death of a person, testimonies of witnesses filled out on standard forms, correspondence and ...

  13. Komendant Policji Porządkowej Dystryktu Radomskiego Der Kommandeur der Ordnungspolizei im Distrikt Radom (GK 648)

    Personal files of Polish police officers in the District of Radom during occupation of Poland. Consists of correspondence, reports, certificates and a list of employed engineers and technicians in the ammunition factory in Skarżysko Kamienna. Includes personal files of the following police officers (Volksdeutsche): Franz Bartkowiak, Bruno Bilau, Zdzisław Ciecierski, Adolf Felscher, Georg Hessler, Gustav Kapler, Ernst Lachmann, August Mittelstädt, Sigismund Radtke/Radke, Reinhold Weiss, Adolf Zelcher.

  14. Philipp Kanner papers

    Contains approximately 60 letters and documents that belonged to Philipp Kanner, the secretary of the Ferramonti di Tarsia camp after it came under the auspices of Allied forces in September 1943. Includes a notebook with duplicates of 56 notices handwritten by Kanner to the Welfare Committee of the camp with food orders, maintenance instructions, notices from the camp police, Kashrut, dwelling, and other notices; most notes are signed by Kanner and a small part is signed by the camp commander. Also includes handwritten and typescript letters and drafts sent to and from Kanner, including Ka...

  15. Selected records of the Primary School No. 2 in Opoczno Szkoła Podstawowa Nr 2 w Opocznie (Sygn. 604)

    Organizational files of the school, regulations, reports and ordinances regarding education, registers of resolutions, minutes of meetings, student attendance, grades and plans of classes .In almost the entire interwar period, only Jewish children attended this school. Only after 1935, some Roman Catholic children appear in the classes.

  16. Selected records of the Ministry of Justice of the Government of the Republic of Poland in London Ministerstwo Sprawiedliwości Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie (GK 160)

    Contains selected records of the Ministry of Justice of the Polish government-in-exile in London: interrogations of witnesses regarding German crimes during the war in Stanisławów, District of Lviv (liquidation of the ghetto), list of Gestapo members in Stanisławów (15 names), testimony of Stanisław Kocyan about SS-man in KL Auschwitz Concentration Camp. „Central registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects “prepared in 1945 and 1946.

  17. Selected records of the Generalgouverneur in Polen Gubernator Generalnego Gubernatorstwa w Polsce (GK 95)

    A diary of Hans Frank (Hans Frank Tagebuch). a governor of occupied Poland during World War II. The diary entries relate to all aspect of Generalgouvernment (GG) administration from its seat in the royal Wawel castle in Krakau (Kraków). The journal is in typed in chronological order. The entries reflect careful, thoughtful consideration of administrative matters, rather than the spontaneous thoughts or feelings usually found in a diary.

  18. Children ride a carousel and play in the gardens

    The children ride the carousel in June 1941. They lounge outdoors on the porch at Bítýška and pose for the camera. 01:02:13 Ducks wade in a small stream on the property. Michaela and Antonin watch with the boy, Milan Jubánek, the (grand)son of the housekeeper’s family in Bítýška. 01:02:35 They sit on a wall together and smile for the camera. EXTs, grounds of summer cottage at Bítýška and the home. The children play in outdoors and pick flowers. Two dogs join the kids, CUs of the German shepherd. End 01:04:24

  19. Selected records from the IG-Farbenindustrie collection (R 8128)

    Consists of selected records from the institutional archive of Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG, commonly known as IG Farben, a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate. Records pertain to slave labor at the IG Farben complex at Auschwitz, as well as forced labor throughout the IG Farben complex (such as the arms production and the mining industry such as the Riebek'sche Montanwerke AG), the purging of Jewish employees and workers, the nexus between Stickstoff production and explosive weapons production, internal correspondence and minutes of meetings, monthly reports, the 1...

  20. Bombs to England

    Degeto Schmalfilm-Schrank. "Bomben Auf 'Engeland'" Luftwaffe bomber crew gets ready for a mission over the UK. German aircraft and artillery. Artillery was under camouflage. Artillery is loaded onto bombers. Very large bomb is moved by a tractor and loaded on bomber. German bombers take off and in flight. City on fire. Fires doused with water. The aftermath of the fires. (4:05) Film ends.