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  1. Prosecutor's Office of a Special Appeal Court in Lublin Prokurator Specjalnego Sądu Apelacyjnego w Lublinie (Sygn.GK 377)

    The collection contains selected files of the prosecutor’s investigations from the Prosecutor’s Office of Special Appeal Court in Lublin during the years 1945-1956. These investigations pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Most of the investigation was discontinued. These investigations were based on the decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment o...

  2. Edward Kauffman collection

    Consists of 20 photographs taken and collected by Edward Kauffmann, a member of the 166th Infantry, part of the 42nd (Rainbow) Division of the United States Army. Includes aerial photographs of Paris, France taken in 1944, photographs of the destruction of buildings in France, and images taken of survivors and of corpses after the liberation of Buchenwald.

  3. May family photograph collection

    Collection of photographs documenting the experiences of Samuel and Fella May (donor's parents) as displaced persons in the years immediately following the Holocaust and their immigration to the United States in 1949.

  4. Dr. Errol Rohr collection

    Consists of eight post-war photographs taken after the liberation of the Wöbbelin concentration camp on May 2, 1945 in Germany. The photographs display the burial of the exposed piles of corpses, which were located on the camp grounds.

  5. Aart and Johanna Vos papers

    Dutch identification cards (2) for Aart Vos and Johanna Kuyper, from Laren, the Netherlands, 1942, with later stamps from 1945 declaring these as no longer valid. Also contains one order of confiscation from the German occupation authorities, documenting the confiscation of an automobile from Vos for use by the Wehrmacht, 1942.

  6. Selected records from the Sąd Okręgowy w Rzeszowie (SOR), (Sygn. GK 283)

    Selected records from trials at the district court in Rzeszὀw, 1945‒1966, for crimes by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Stalinist propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

  7. Selected records from the State Archives in Kalisz

    Pre-World War II files (starting with 1918) of the Starosties (county chiefs) in Odolanów, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Ostrzeszów, Pleszewo, Koźmin, and Kalisz, and of the towns of Kalisz, Kępno, Kobylin, Krotoszyn, Ostrzeszów, Pleszewo, Pogorzel, Stawiszyn, Sulmierzyce and Zduny: religious matters of the Jewish communities, cemeteries, and real estate belonging to communities, as well as communal elections, organizations, associations, political parties, sport clubs, foundations, and schools. Collection also includes records of the Jewish press, lists of inhabitants, legal acts, and correspondenc...

  8. Book

    Book, Guide for young mothers to parenting children, owned by Judith Steinberger Hahn that features her young daughters, Irene and Sylvia, on the front cover. The family lived in Budapest, Hungary. They were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center and murdered upon arrival. Judith's older sister Ruth, who survived the Holocaust in Budapest, retrieved the book after liberation.

  9. Tova Gamzo photograph collection

    Consists of two photographs owned by Tova (Tonka) Gamzo, who was part of a group of women who worked as forced laborers in the Ober Alstadt concentration camp, a subcamp of Gross-Rosen. The photographs are portraits of Germans (an unknown male and female) who helped the female forced laborers working in the factories.

  10. Oral history interview with Helena Bickart Stricks

  11. Krosno Ghetto photographs

    Consists of five photographs taken during the war by an unknown German soldier in the Krosno ghetto in Poland.

  12. Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection

    The Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection consists of copies of documents and photographs, in German and English, related to Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling, who was born in 1902 near Leipzig, Germany, and was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance. Schilling was arrested in 1939 and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen, where he died in November 1939, supposedly of natural causes. Copies include pre-war Schilling family information, copies of letters Schilling wrote from Sachsenhausen, and post-war material memorializing his life and resistance work. Collection compiled and biography written by Schillin...

  13. Daisy Herrmann Kummer family papers

    The Daisy Herrmann Kummer family papers document the Herrmann family of Vienna, Daisy’s years as a refugee in France, and the family’s immigration to the United States. Documents include birth, marriage, residence, baptism, naturalization, and death certificates; identification and military papers; letters from the American Committee of the OSE and the Baronness Germaine de Rothschilde; and a handwritten scouting manual Daisy kept while a member of the Éclaireuses éclaireurs israélites de France (E.I.F.) prior to leaving France.

  14. Blankman family photograph collection

    The collection consists of pre-war photographs documenting the Blankman family in Dubno, Poland (Dubno, Ukraine) prior to Chaim Blankman's immigration to Palestine in 1935.

  15. Colecţia 60 (Amintiri, memorii şi însemnări ale unor personalităţi despre situaţia economico-socială şi politică din România)

    Contains records relating to Buchenwald camp and name lists of inmates at Buchenwald, Matei Gal, lists of individuals murdered in Rîbnița, various recollections about Transnistria: Vapniarka camp, Silvina Mostovoi and other ghettos, photos 1942-1944, notes about activities of Jews in Arad 1942-1944, notes of Nicolai Golberger regarding Colonel Sabin Motora (Righteous Gentile) the former last commander of Vapniarka camp, Ivan Klopotar relating to Auschwitz, and Emanoil Safir relating to Rîbnița.

  16. Family visits blossoming tulips

    People visit sprawling tulip fields, probably near Lisse, Netherlands, Dutch flags affixed to a sign in the field. Ellis and her friend Hetty Winkel with an automobile behind them. 01:11:43 Brief view of toddler Hester (Hesje) Jas in a backyard garden, followed by more shots and closeups of the beautiful and colorful flowers (city in background). 01:12:15 Elisabeth Jas pushes a baby Hesje in a stroller. 01:12:24 Ellis, in the red dress as pictured earlier in Story RG-60.1373, near a flowering tree. Hester (b. February 15, 1938) was later killed at Sobibor with her mother Elisabeth Querido J...

  17. Selected records from the State Archives in Zamość (Sygn. 499)

    Selected records of pre-war, wartime, and postwar files of various offices in Zamość: prewar and wartime (into 1943) tax office records (including real estate); the (Jewish) schools inspectorate; social welfare (lists of employees, work books), including some material from the occupation; files from the towns of Szczebrzeszyn, Tomaszów Lubelski, and Zamość (including municipal council minutes, registries of several synagogue districts, lists of voters, statistics). Files for rural communes of Izbica, Krasnystaw, Łopiennik, Rudnik, Bełżec, Ulhówek, Mokre, Potoczek, Radecznika, Sitno, Zamość,...

  18. Book

    Six volumes from a set of prayer books published in circa 1793 in the Netherlands and given to Emilie Mittwoch in 1934 on the occasion of her 11th birthday [as inscribed on the inside cover of each volume] by her father. The volumes were purchased by the donor, who was a former classmate of Emilie before the war. Included in the volumes are two for Passover, two for Sukkoth, one for Shavuot and one for Yom Kippur. In Hebrew, printed in the Netherlands.

  19. Ladislav (Laszlo) Csatáry trial

    This collection contains the secret police file and trial records for Ladislav (Laszlo Csatary). Records are closed to researchers.

  20. Sloan family papers

    Temporary Registration card issued by the Military Government of Germany on September 21, 1946 to Chana Slodownik.