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  1. Selected records of the Vâlcea Branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Correspondence, reports and statistics of the Jewish Community Rm. Vâlcea, 1929-1942, and the Jewish Community of Drăgăşani, 1941-1943. A digital file contains a fragment of the census of Jews in 1941 (69 digital pages).

  2. Selected records of the Tax Office in Skierniewice Urząd Skarbowy w Skierniewicach (Sygn. 891)

    Lists of owners of houses and construction plots in the city Skierniewice, communes of Korabiewice and Dębowa Góra (listed in alphabetical orders of the streets), also included are records of industrial certificates containing various data about the company and its owners.

  3. UNRRA selected records AG-018-040 : Office of the Historian

    Selected files of the UNRRA Office of the Historian. Consists of publications and monographs: UNRRA monthly reviews, the Facts and Figures, Operational Analysis Papers, the Director General's Report to the Central Committee-Supply Operations, Documents of the Central Committee of the Council, Indexes to the Council Documents, United Nations Committee on UNRRA, the President Roosevelt's message to the First Council, reports to the Allied Governments, various agreements; Subject files: agreements, Richard Brown's diary of trip with congressmen, reports, correspondence, displaced persons files...

  4. Jewish Community Board, Skuodas (Fond 1235)

    Collection contains records of the Board of the Jewish community of Skuodas (Shkud in Yiddish) in Lithuania. It includes minutes of the Board's meetings, correspondence and other records related to the activities of the Jewish community of Skuodas (Shkud) before WWII.

  5. Jewish periodicals and newspapers from the National and University Library of Croatia

    Copies of the major Jewish periodicals published in Croatia during the interwar and pre WWI period. This collection includes newspaper Jevrejski List (1934), Židov (1917-1941) and pre WWI Jewish newspaper Židovska smotra (1906-1914). These publications cover a wide range of topics such as cultural, political, and public events taking place in the Jewish communities of Croatia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and Jewish communities worldwide. In addition, these newspapers also include contemporary coverage of local and world politics.

  6. Selected records of the commune in Guzów Akta gminy Guzów (Sygn.5)

    Book inventory of the municipality Guzów in Poland: Contains the inventory of property and financial spending of commune Guzów, 1928-1936.

  7. Komendant policji bezpieczeństwa i służby bezpieczeństwa Dystryktu Krakowskiego Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienst für den Distrikt Krakau (Sygn. GK 678)

    Contains personnel files of the officers of KdS Distrikt Krakau (Commander for the Cracow region of the Security Police [Sicherheits­polizeiand] and the Intelligence Service [Sicherheits­dienst]). Including are a general list of officers, a list of telephone numbers, and orders of admission to the Montelupich prison, as well as the files of Gestapo officers Eric Wüstenhagen and Wilhelm Klüger.

  8. UNRRA selected records AG-018-005 : Bureau of Administration

    Records on UNRRA's organizational and procedural history, the Headquarters central files (Registry files) dealing with every aspect of UNRRA's work.

  9. Selected records from the State Archives of the Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan related to evacuation of civilians in the former USSR

    Records related to the evacuation of civilians to Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan during WWII that includes information about resettlement, employment and food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. This collection includes various lists of evacuees arriving to Pavlodar from various regions of the former USSR: Communists and specialists arrived in Pavlodar Region, persons arrived from the front line; the list of Polish citizens living in Pavlodar Region, lists of Polish-Jewish citizens traveling to Poland; correspondence, statistics, reports, materials related to the...

  10. Hitler Wanted for Murder pin

    Anti-Nazi pin-back button distributed in the United States during World War II. The pin falsely claims that Adolf Hitler’s real name is Adolf Schicklgruber (misspelled on the pin as Schickelgruber). An assertion which was originated by Hans Habe, a Viennese Jewish writer. The claim was based on the last name of Hitler’s father, who was born Alois Shicklgruber. Before Hitler was born, Alois changed his name and it became Alois Hitler. The motif of Hitler’s “real” name was likely an attempt to ridicule the leader and belittle him to the public. Buttons of this type came in various sizes, rang...

  11. Stuffed duck

  12. David Newman memoir

    Manuscript memoir, in Yiddish, 120 pages, describing David Newman's experiences in the Skarżysko-Kamienna forced labor camp in Poland during the German occupation, and his subsequent imprisonment at Buchenwald, written by Newman in 1988. An English translation by Miriam Beckerman, from 2006, is also included. The text begins with an account of the pre-war history of the Jewish community in his hometown of Chmielnik, Poland, the experiences of Newman's family during the initial stages of the German occupation of Poland, when his family lived in Łódź, their subsequent move to Staszow, and ...

  13. Roeckle family celebrations over the years

    INT, people eating and dining on Christmas. Gerald and Berthold play with a toy train set. MS, decorated Christmas tree, Elfriede lights the candles. Theo plugs in electrical lights and smokes a cigarette. 01:08:28 Several shots of men shoveling the snowy streets with a pharmacy and other shops or residences behind them. 01:09:06 The two boys set off a toy plane in a snowy park (Gerald was a model plane enthusiast his entire life). 01:09:18 Back inside the family residence, couples dance (camera on tripod). Family dines. 01:10:36 EXT, garden, child approaches camera "goose-stepping". Two wo...

  14. Ruth Schachter Morgenthau oral history collection

    Consists of oral history transcripts and related documentation created and compiled by Henry Morgenthau III, circa 1976-2003. Includes material related to the Schachter family and their extended family, including the Altstadter, Laufer, Szuster, and Weitman families, all regarding their various Holocaust experiences.

  15. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Rawa Mazowiecka Sąd Grodzki w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1846)

    Court civil cases investigated by the court during the occupation of Poland. The cases relate to Jews who were inhabitants of Rawa Mazowiecka and include records of evictions or paying off debts.

  16. Selected records of Grodzisk Mazowiecki commune Akta gminy Grodzisk Mazowiecki (Sygn. 19)

    Consists of the book inventory with the list of inhabitants of the Grodzisk Mazowiecki commune in Poland.

  17. Jewish family and vacation life in Reichenbach

    Pan, city square with shops: "Gustav Böhm", possibly Wroclaw. Snowing. Clocktower (12:28pm). End 01:00:24 01:00:29 Side view, a woman walks towards the camera with a boy (possibly Helene Fleischer and grandchild Johannes) passing their home in the mountains. Snow. 01:01:07 INT, Else Weyl in a patterned shirt looking at a catalog. [VQ: film is scratched]. She smiles and waves for the camera. 01:01:18 INT, Eric Weyl reading a magazine in the same room, he lights a cigarette. End 01:01:28 01:01:32 Two men and a woman stand around an automobile with license plate "IK-78126 - D". The man with su...

  18. Zygmunt Wieczorek collection

    Contains documents, photographs, identity cards, letters, and immigration paperwork for Zygmunt Wieczorek (b. 27 November 1912 in Argemunde, Berlin) who lived in Drążek, Poland. A Roman Catholic who served in the Polish military in Poznan, Wieczorek was captured an interned as a POW in forced labor at Probst shoe factory in Hettstedt, Germany. Includes a postwar letter from the factory owner trying to obtain assistance and detailing conditions in the Soviet Zone in Germany.

  19. Blessing of Bulgarian military recruits

    Religious procession through a town-square. Locals gather in front of a bank (with sign in Bulgarian) to watch. A military officer greets the line of armed Bulgarian soldier recruits. 01:11:10 Quick CU of priest. Bulgarian military soldiers with backpacks and weapons are blessed by a priest. 01:11:24 CU of priest reading. Locals observe the ceremony. A man leads others in song. Another view, LS, of the blessing. 01:12:24 A Bulgarian officer speaks to the recruits; a civilian dressed in a suit and glasses reads from a paper. CU, the new troops march away. 01:13:15 One by one, the soldiers ki...

  20. Theodor Kleinsorge papers

    The collection primarily documents the arrest of Theodor Kleinsorge, originally of Laßbruch, Germany, as a non-Jewish political enemy of the Nazis in July 1944; his deportation to the Dachau concentration camp in September 1944; and his death in Dachau in February 1945. Wartime materials include documentation about his arrest and deportation sent to Theodor’s wife, Ruth Kleinsorge; correspondence from Theodor and Ruth to Theodore’s mother Elise Kleinsorge; one letter written to Ruth from Theodor while imprisoned at Dachau; and several family photographs. Biographical material includes ident...