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  1. Izak Fridman biography

    The Izak Fridman biography is an internet printout, in Hebrew, about Izak Fridman, originally of Włodawa, Poland. Fridman was born in 1925 and served as a partisan during the Holocaust. He died in 1948 during the Israeli War of Independence. The biography includes wartime photographs and copies of postcards.

  2. Peçi family collection

    Consists of documents, photographs, and two photograph album from the collection of Louis Pechi, born Ljubomir Peçi in 1934, in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia). Includes photographs of pre-war Yugoslavia, documents related to the family's escape and life in wartime Italy, and post-war photographs, correspondence, and documentation. Also includes photographs and documents related to family members from the Sidon and Tkalčíč families, including cousins who were killed in Jasenovac.

  3. Selected records from the State Archives in Gorzów Wielkopolski

    Contain selected records from files of the towns Brójce, Pszczew and Gorzów Wielkopolski, created during the pre-war period, as well as in the first years of WWII. The materials from 1933-39 refer to the election of the Jewish community (list of members of the community in Gorzów), religious schooling, holidays and Jewish graveyards. Records from the period after 1939 relate to anti-Jewish orders, as well as press cuttings and personal questionnaires related to Kennkarte (from the town of Pszczew).

  4. Women's Military Service (WSK). District of Lublin Wojskowa Służba Kobiet (WSK). Lublin Dystrykt (Sygn. XIII)

    Contains orders, ordinances, instructions and reports of the Wojskowa Służba Kobiet (WSK) (Women's Army Service) of the Lublin District. Includes also a diary of Warsaw Uprising and documents of Władysław Oleszkiewicz.

  5. Judith Weinberger Sleed collection

    Consists of pre-war photographs of Pál and Margit Weinberger, and their children, Tamàs (Tomi) and Judith, as well as members of their extended family. Also includes a play entitled "Delibab-Utca" by Judith Weinberger in which she fictionalized her experiences as an orphan in post-war Budapest and as an adult, reflecting on her life and experiences. Weinberger survived in hiding in Budapest and was the only survivor of her family.

  6. George Barlaz papers

    The George Barlaz papers include photographs, immigration material, school records, and extensive correspondence relating to George Barlaz and his family’s pre-war life in Russia and Poland, George’s immigration to the United States, his attempts to help his family immigrate to the United States in the early 1940s, and his attempts to locate his family after the war. The collection also includes a diary kept by George from 1913-1921 which includes entries, addresses, and other notes. Series 1 includes pre-war photographs of the Barlaz family including Avraham, Adela, George, Shmuel, and Cha...

  7. Selected records from the State Archives of the Samara Region, Russian Federation

    Contains selected records of the former Communist Party Archives of the Samara (Kuĭbyshev) Region related to the evacuation of Soviet civilians to the Samara Region during WWII. It includes correspondence files related to their resettlement and name lists of communists evacuated to the region from various regions of the former USSR.

  8. Albin family photographs

    Consists of 28 photographs of the funeral of Frieda Neska Gold Albin; the photographs, taken in Riga, Latvia, in 1936, show religious ritual life. Also includes captions and caption translations.

  9. Selected records from the General State Archives of Greece in Athens

    Selected records from the Archive of Athens Court's Specials Section active between 1962‐1965. It contains decisions of the Athens Court related to the review of applications and compensation awarded to the Holocaust survivors and victims who suffered German persecution, arrest, killing, imprisonment and deportations to concentration and labor camps in the German occupied Europe.

  10. Carol Mizrahi photograph collection

    Two photographic prints of Nazi party officials and SS officers. One image depicts Heinrich Himmler giving a speech at an unknown event at a stadium on May 24, 1942 and the second image shows two SS officers and a German soldier, dated 1942.

  11. Trials of the German collaborators conducted after WWII on the territory of the Georgia SSR kept by the ex-KGB Archives Postwar trials and investigations from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Republic of Georgia (Fond 6)

    Criminal investigation files and records of trials of residents of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic accused of wartime crimes. It includes interrogation transcripts, witness statements, arrest warrants, sketches, diagrams, photographs, and other evidentiary documents related to suspected war criminals.

  12. Frank E. Morse collection

    Partial copy of official transcript of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, specifically the judgement against the defendants; dated circa September 30 - October 1, 1946. The excerpted transcript summarizes the indictments against each defendant and ultimately, the judgement and sentence; in English. Frank Morse (donor's grandfather) was an attorney and former Minnesota judge who served as a lawyer working with the United States Army during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in 1945 and 1946

  13. Munich sights

    German countryside, motorcycle passes on highway. 01:09:05 Busy street scenes in Munich - Marienplatz square, Old Town Clock Tower, Isartor City Gate, and Isar River. Nazi banners are visible on some of the buildings.

  14. Hungarian gendarmerie card files in Moscow, 1920-1944

    Hungarian gendarmerie card files in Moscow, 1920-1944. Collection comprises card files of people detained on suspicion of communist sympathies, or for having been active in the Hungarian Republic of Councils (1919), or on suspicion of being linked to activities in Yugoslavia.

  15. Jewish Community in Łódź Łódzka Gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska (Sygn.228)

    Contains records relating to Jewish community of Łódź dwellers before War World II. Includes records of Jewish cemeteries, synagogues and houses of prayer; appointments of rabbis, religious celebrations and ritual matters; social welfare matters such as day care for children, and care of orphans; a list of children under the custody of a community; applications for allowances, holiday rations of food for the poorest; medical care: general and mental hospitals; schooling and culture: construction and management of schools, and celebration of anniversaries and state holidays. Includes also re...

  16. Handmade card sent to Walter Fuerst in 1950

    Handmade card sent by Herbert Heyne to Walter Furst in 1950. The card was written and illustrated by Heyne.

  17. Matchbook cover with a printed appeal to not buy Nazi goods

    American matchbook acquired by Max Beer, who arrived in Canada in 1949 following his birth in a displaced persons camp in Germany. The matchbook was produced by the Jewish War Veterans of the United States as part of a 1933 boycott of German imports and has the slogan “For Humanity’s Sake: Don’t Buy Nazi Goods.” In spring 1941, Max’s father, Leo Beer, escaped from the Krakow ghetto in Poland, and joined the Soviet Army. In March 1942, Max’s mother, Gitla Paris Einzenberg (later Beer), was transported from the Radom ghetto in Poland, to a forced labor camp in Poland, and then deported to ano...

  18. Alliance of Swiss Jewish Care Organizations Verband Schweizerischer Jüdischer Fürsorgen (VSJF)

    Jewish refugee dossiers with biographical data for individuals who were getting support and care provided by the Verband Schweizerischer Juedischer Fürsorgen (VSJF). The dossiers include documentation and correspondence regarding entry and leaving the country, family relatives living in Switzerland and abroad, legal status, aid provided, accommodations, educational programs, health problems, internment in labor camps, professional occupation, legal processes, Jewish property and restitution matters, etc.; VSJF office files during period of years 1944-1979: protocols, minutes, correspondence...

  19. State Court Graz: Nazi-related court cases Landesgericht Graz : NS-Verfahren

    Postwar court and investigative records of Nazi-related cases in Styria, Austria for the years 1954 to 1992. The collection includes court case against Franz Murer, the deputy of the SS commandant of the Vilna (Vilnius) ghetto ("Stellvertreter und/oder Adjutant des Gebietskommissars der Stadt Wilna und Referent für Jüdische Angelegenheiten"); includes both cases that did and did not reach verdicts.

  20. Charles Rojer photographs

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs from the collection of Charles Rojer, including family photographs and photographs taken at post-war orphanages, including at the Home de La-Bas in Perwez, Brabant, Belgium. Also includes a card written by Rojer's sister, Cecile Rojer Jeruchim, which refers to their wartime separation.