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  1. Announcement

    Announcement from authorities in “North-East France” announcing the existence of “bandits” and asking for the cooperation of the French population not to align or work with the “bandits” which the French and the German Wehrmacht will squelch. The announcement Itself is entirely in French, however signed at bottom in German “Der Befehlshaber im Bezirk Nord-Ost Frankreich” or the commander in the district of north-eastern France.

  2. JDC vice-chairman Moses Leavitt visits DP camps in 1947; Lag B'Omer celebration

    Original, out-of-sequence, private footage documenting the field trip by Moses Leavitt (JDC’s Executive Vice Chairman from 1947-1965) in April/May 1947 to DP camps in the American Zone in Germany with stops in Austria, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. 01:00:10 At a displaced persons camp in Germany, EXT pan along a path lined with trees, children playing soccer. Crowd of DPs gather, children sitting in the front, waving at something off camera. Several young children are guided by two women up the path, they stand, some holding hands, as a woman arranges them. 01:01:13 INT dark room wit...

  3. Selected records of the Civic Chambers, attached to the Judicial courts of the Department of the Seine Les registres des arrêts des Chambres civiques de la cour de justice du département de la Seine (Z5)

    The archives of the civic chambers of the court of justice, departmental section of the Seine, are constituted by the files of the cases judged from 1944 to 1951, classified by registration number of the Prosecutor's office, as well as by the registers of judgments and the files on behalf of the accused allowing their files to be found. The accused are often members of collaborationist parties or members of the French State services and the documents of their trials help to establish their responsibilities in the implementation of the policy of the Vichy government. We can thus find in this...

  4. Oral history interview with Claudio Perra

  5. Oral history interview with Tobias Rawet

  6. KdF-Wagen

    Booklet advertising KdF Wagen, using Hitler's image

  7. Oral history interview with Janina Ludawska

  8. Adolf Eichmann memorandum

    Memorandum on the reorgnization of the Viennese Jewish community issued by Adolf Eichmann

  9. Health Insurance Authority 355-5 Aufsicht über Versicherungen

    Selected files of individual insurance funds (mainly health and death funds). Consists of correspondence, cash registers, and applications.

  10. Új Kelet [Newspapers] "New East"

    Zionist Jewish newspaper issued weekly (1918-1920), daily (1920-1940; 1948-2000); weekly (2000-2015): published first in Cluj [Kolozsvár], Romania, (1918-1940 and 1948-2015); and rerstablished in Tel Aviv, Israel (1918-1940, 1948, and 2011-2015), The Új Kelet is currently the main Hungarian-language independent newspaper in Israel and is published on a monthly basis.

  11. Helen Kronenberg Borenstein collection

    Contains a "Displaced persons pass and ex-Political Prisoner from Concentration Camp" document issued to "Helena Borensztajn" (donor) authorizing her to be absent from the Stuttgart West camp; undated.

  12. Major John B. Calfee collection

    Visitors Pass authorizing bearer to enter any part of the Dachau concentration camp, issued to "Lt. Col. Hogan, Capt. Calfee, & driver."

  13. Selected records from the State Archive of South Kazakhstan Region in Shymkent, related to the evacuation of civilians during WWII

    Selected records related to evacuation of the civilian population to Shimkent region in Kazakhstan during WWII. It includes information about resettlement, employment, provision of food supplies and medical assistance to the evacuees by the local Soviet and Communist Party authorities. The collection also includes various lists of evacuees who arrived in Shimkent region in 1941-1942 as well as statistical reports and correspondence files.

  14. Raya-Ginette Karsenty papers

    Contains the original manuscript for the biographical novel "Pour l'amour de vous," by Raya-Ginette Karsenty, published by Editions LAURIFLAM, 1990; a copy of the book "Escale a Shangri-la ou Les Horizons Retrouves, ecrits de jeunesse," published by Publigraph Editeur in 1994; two copies of a Karsenty and Bressac television script, directed by Badel, an adaptation of Saint-Exupery short novel "Vol de nuit"; and translation and adaptation of two short stories by Irwin Shaw, "Les Jeunes femmes en robes d'ete" and "Rencontre de veuves."

  15. Edith Stein papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Edith Stein (née Grunwald), her parents Bernat and Golde Grunwald, and her sister Gisela Grunwald including pre-war life in Antwerp, Belgium, wartime life as refugees in France and Altstätten, Switzerland, and post-war immigration to the United States in 1951. Biographical material includes an autograph book, family book (trouwboekje), identification documents, vaccine certificate, and a two-page personal narrative chronicling Edith’s story. Immigration papers include travel visas, Czech passports, declaration of intention forms, and...

  16. Oral history interview with Gerold Propper

  17. Oral history interview with Maurice Levis

  18. Slaughterhouse and Livestock Market Administration 377-11 Schlachthof- und Viehmarktverwaltung

    Selected records of the administration of meat industry, slaughterhouses and cattle market, import and transport of meat products, implementation of the law for employees and workers (1933-1939), Jewish slaughter ritual, general instructions for "national structure" of events, especially for the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (National Socialist German Labor Party), NSDAP, Deutsche Arbeitsfront (German Labor Front), DAF, Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy), KdF, and general rules for introduction of the Hitler salute (raising of the stretched right arm) and the German...

  19. Prewar Austria: vacation and leisure time

    “Bilder vom staatlichen Skikurs Radstadt Weihnachten 1933” Horse pulls a sled. People walk and ski in the snow. They point and wave at the camera. Others trek up a hill on skis and ski down. Tree with icicles. A person falls. “Allerlei Allotria” The boys do acrobatics. They ski down another hill. Someone waves. More acrobatics. People on a balcony. 01:03:45 Parade of uniformed military men in the snow. “Hotel Pesl Lisl Jasny” CUs of different people, some dark, some smiling for the camera, at the train station. Train departs, kids wave. (01:05:46) Mixed shots of skiing, and a group of peopl...

  20. Comunidad Israelita Húngara del Uruguay Records of the Hungarian Jewish Community of Uruguay

    The Statut of the community, minutes of the Board of Directors, registration of donations, accounting books, registration of letters, alphabetical index of partners, cemetery registers, real estate, and dead persons index.