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  1. Memorial for those martyred in Poland

    Contains a leaflet entitled (in translation) "Memorial for those martyred in Poland during the months Tamuz to Kislev 1942-1943" (Hebrew). No publisher or year is indicated, though publication was possibly in Palestine circa 1943. Contains a version of the "El Maleh Rachamim" (God Full of Mercy) prayer in memory of Holocaust victims, presumably written during or after the Operation Reinhard deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto. Translation of the prayer (at least in part): "The thousands upon thousands souls of Israel … that were killed … in the countries occupied by the Nazis … Poland, Aust...

  2. Selected records of the commune Odrowąż Akta gminy Odrowąż (Sygn. 530)

    List of owners of buildings in the Commune Odrowąż, 1941-1942 and a register of residents of the village Stąporków Nowy from 1934-1943.

  3. Americans tour cities in Europe and Russia before World War II

    Touring Europe before World War II, probably in the year 1930. Home movies by an unknown American cameraperson. Consists of two 14" reels which contain short 16mm rolls spliced together. Includes segments of rare Kodacolor (lenticular) film. The Americans travel by bus, boat, and train across Europe with stops in England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Finland to Russia, Belarus, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy. Reel One begins in Michigan with a ferry trip to Canada where the group of Americans board the SS Athenia ship. Folks play games on the ship. Icebergs. (10:35) Docking at the har...

  4. Association for the Protection of Foreigners in General Government Związek Opieki nad Cudzoziemcami w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie (Sygn. 763)

    Applications, notes, instructions, permits, address books, and correspondence of the Związek Opieki nad Cudzoziemcami (Association for the Protection of Foreigners) in the Generalne Gubernatorstwo (General Government ), Poland.

  5. Selected records of the Collection "Z" (materials collected by the Main Commission for Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland) containing fragments of German files and post-war materials regarding the places and facts of Nazi crimes Zbiór „Z” (akt zebranych przez Główną Komisję Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce) zawierający fragmenty akt niemieckich i materiały powojenne dotyczące miejsc i faktów zbrodni hitlerowskich (GK 166)

    Original documents collected by the Main Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Poland: materials on Joseph Meisinger (chief of Einsatzgruppe IV, than chief of Sipo and SD in Warsaw), materials on the crimes committed in Zamość region (“Zamojszczyzna”), files on the children's camp Dierżężnia near Łódź, reports of gendarmerie in Biłgoraj county, District Lublin, materials regarding Major Henryk “Hubal” Dobrzański, a diary from the Łódź ghetto in Yiddish, memories of Tadeusz Bednarczyk about the Warsaw ghetto, personal files of Wilhelm Koppe (SS- und Polizeiführer, SSPF in GG), testimonies...

  6. German Information Office S.A. Agency in the General Government Niemieckie Biuro Informacyjne S.A. Agencja w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie (Sygn. 566)

    Articles and announcements intended for publication, reports on daily life in GG, newspaper clippings, War messages from the German supreme command, balance sheets, financial statements, and commercial announcements regarding share capital of enterprises.

  7. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Łódź Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Łodzi (GK 177)

    Records relating to the extermination camp in Chełmno nad Nerem (Kulmhof am Nehr): documents excavated in Chełmno, records of the investigating judge, files regarding camp in Radogoszcz and execution of a hundred people in Zgierz, the camp for Soviet prisoners of war in Ruda Pabianicka, germanization of Polish children from Łódź, investigation against Wilhelm Bittel - a former head of the ghetto in Zduńska Wola and German activities againt Jews, questioning of witnesses about German atrocities in Opoczno county, and photographs of gendarmes.

  8. Social Anti-Communist Committee ANTYK Społeczny Komitet Antykomunistyczny ANTYK (Sygn. 1346/0)

    Selected records collected by the Społeczny Komitet Antykomunistyczny ANTYK (Social Anti-Communist Committee ANTYK). Includes instructions, reports, correspondence, files of members of the Komunistyczna Partia Polski, KPP (Communist Party of Poland), the Polska Partia Robotnicza, PPR (Polish Workers' Party), and the Gwardia Ludowa (People's Guard), propaganda materials, documentation of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, judgments of special military courts, and reports of the Armia Krajowa (Home Army), and various publications.The materials were collected and hidden in a secret archive-the so-ca...

  9. Selected records of the commune Boszczynek Akta Gminy Boszczynek (Sygn. 2222)

    Consists of selected files of Commune Boszczynek. Includes lists of local stores, lists of voters to the Sejm (Polish Parliament), 1935-1938, the population book of villages Boszczynek and Bełzów, and general files related to ownership of houses, farms, and other lands.

  10. Presentation by Seymour Caplan

  11. Selected records of the Collection of Jan Sehn Archiwum Jana Sehna (GK 190)

    Archives collected by Jan Sehn, a chairman of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Kraków, head of the Documentation Department of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in Oświęcim, full secretary of the Minister of Justice for prosecuting war criminals. Consist of notes, correspondence regarding the publication of memories of Rudolf Höss, KL Auschwitz commander and other matters related to war crimes, memories of Rudolf. Hössa, his statement, account, and opinion about high-ranking SS officers.

  14. Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich papers Nachlass Prof. Dr. Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007)

    Private papers of Prof. Dr. Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007), a Swiss Jewish religious philosopher. Consists of certificates, photographs, family history, school and studies history, reports, refugee files, documents regarding reparation and inheritance, prizes and honors, articles for books and magazines, press articles, letters to the editor, radio and television articles, teaching material, and correspondence, e.g. with Leo Baeck, Peter Nathan Levinson, Gertrud Luckner, Franz Mussner, Rolf Rendtorff, Julius Schoeps, Albert Speer, Herbert Strauss; correspondence between the Christian-Jewi...

  15. Oral history interview with George Schwab

  16. Family visits cottage in Veverská Bítýška

    September 1938. Veverská Bítýška, at the family’s estate: School-age boys outdoors near a fish pond (Felix Landsmann (b. 1930) and Gustav Landsmann (b. 1926), died in Auschwitz).The Landsmann boys, with their cousins Michaela and Antonín, play in the meadow. 01:00:26 Woman in a patterned jacket (probably the boys’ mother Juliane (Lilli) Landsmann, died in Auschwitz) greets the children and waves to the camera. Antonín tumbles in the grassy hill. Michaela eats an apple. The toddlers play outdoors in a basin of water. Beautiful view of the raging river Bílý potok (following the flood of Septe...

  17. Selected records of the County Council in Końskie Powiatowa Rada Narodowa w Końskich (Sygn. 629)

    Correspondence regarding Jewish properties, 1945 and a register of abandoned Jewish properties, 1947.

  18. Selected records from the State District Archive in Blansko

    Records of the District National Committee of Boskovice, District Court of Boskovice, District Office of Boskovice, Boskovice Municipal National Committee, Municipal Archives of Boskovice and Lomnice, pertaining to laws and regulations against Jews, Jewish residency applications and emigration, the expropriation of Jewish property, and anti-Jewish and anti-Roma measures. Records feature name lists of Jews, passport applications by Jews, residency permit applications by Jewish refugees from Nazi-annexed Austria, work permit applications by Jews, evictions of Jewish tenants, expropriation lis...

  19. Marseilles consulate log book

    Contains digital images of pages 1-45 from a logbook maintained by the American consulate in Marseille, France, during and after World War II. The book documents the efforts of American citizens, including State Department officials, relief agency workers, and other Americans living in France to renew their passport documentation.

  20. Provincial Information and Propaganda Office in Kielce Wojewódzki Urząd Informacji i Propagandy w Kielcach (Sygn. 319)

    Situation reports and press articles related to anti semitic events and Jews properties after World War II. Includes newspaper clippings related to German crimes committed during WWII.