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  1. Marianne Schwarz Gerstenfeld colllection

    Contains a school report card issued to Marianne Schwarz in the Westbork internment camp; dated September 1944; and two photographic portraits of Marianne Schwarz in Amsterdam.

  2. Justice Ministry : Signature VI : Criminal Cases NSDAP Justizministerium : Signatur VI : Strafsachen NSDAP

    Contains court cases against illegal Nazi party members in Austria before annexation to Nazi Germany.

  3. Boris Gurevich papers

    The Boris Gurevich papers are comprised of over fifty letters Boris wrote to his brother and sister while in the Red Army between 1942 and 1944. The majority of the letters are to his sister in Andijan. In them, Boris enquires frequently about her health and food availability and describes his situation as a student in military training and later, as a soldier. Many of his letters describe his health, food rations, his uniforms, and his daily activities in training and in his free time. He often reports that he is happy, especially so while living in Rybinsk, where he lived with a friend, M...

  4. Government Code and Cypher School: German Police Section: Decrypts of German Police Communications during Second World War (HW 16)

    German language decrypted messages and English-language analytical summaries of German police radio communications from the late 1930s until 1945. Contains information relating to concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau and on the Russian Front. The series also contains details of the results of allied bombing raids and allied aircraft losses, prisoners of war (both captured and escaped) and German police operations against allied agents and partisans. Also included are verbatim German police messages for the years 1942-1945. These are contained in 27 volumes as pieces ...

  5. Special Penalty Court in Lublin Sąd Specjalny Karny w Lublinie (SSKL), Sygn. GK 205

    Contains selected files of criminal trials created in the Special Penalty Court in Lublin during the years 1945-1969. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Most of investigation were discontinued. Trials 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 of traitors to the Polish Nation. "Sierpniówka" was one of the world's fi...

  6. Ramon Wallen collection

    Consists of one photograph of Adolf Hitler in discussion with three unidentified men in military dress uniforms. On the verso of the photograph, there is a faded printed number "43."

  7. Selected records from the Foreign Office and predecessor: Embassy, Consulate and Legation, Denmark: General Correspondence (FO 211)

    Contains general correspondence from the British Embassy, Consulate, and Legation in Denmark relating to the political situation in Iceland and Denmark, war graves, and the influence of German propaganda in Denmark.

  8. Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Unprocessed appendix: Records from Greece)

    This collection contains a 19th century minute book from a "brotherhood" (Freemasons) from Athens, called "Athenon" (149 pages), date range: 1889 - early 1900s; a record book of a rabbinical court that originates from the Balkans, or possibly from Thessaloniki, which contains names lists from cities in Greece and Turkey (165 pages), date range: 1918-1926, and some records from 1933; also contains minutes of a rabbinical court, 1931-1934, Thessaloniki, Greece (120 pages).

  9. Goebbels' residence; German civilians and policemen; bomb damage in Berlin

    Airplanes bomb from the air. (KELLEY SFP 186 BERLIN T185) Berlin damage. Highway sign in yellow, "Berlin-Mitte." 02:30:05 LS, Goebbels' residence, civilians pass by in FG. Another angle showing bomb damage. German traffic cop gives direction to civilians. LS, large column of German policemen marching down street, policemen directing traffic in FG. CU, bomb damaged building with graffiti. CU, old German woman. LS, bomb damaged buildings in Berlin and civilians. Several shots and angles. CU, sign "Ihr lebt - wenn der Nazismus Stirbt! KPD." CUs, individual civilians in side view, one taking no...

  10. "Birkenau: The Camp of Death"

    Consists of one memoir, 111 pages, entitled "Birkenau: The Camp of Death" by Dr. Marco Nahon, originally written in June-July 1945 and translated in 1959. In the memoir, Dr. Nahon describes life in Demotika, Greece, after the German declaration of war in 1941, and his deportation to Auschwitz in May 1943 after a brief stop in Salonika. He gives a detailed description of life in Auschwitz, where, as a physician, he was employed at the hospital in Birkenau. In November 1944, he was taken to Stutthof, then to Echterdingen and to Ohrdruf. He was sent on a death march from Ohrdruf through Buchen...

  11. Rose Doery memoir

    Consists of one memoir, untitled, 21 pages, by Rose Doery (born Roza Hartz), originally of Amsterdam, Holland. She describes pre-war life in Amsterdam, her memories of the Jewish holidays, and her non-Jewish friends. In 1941, the family store was confiscated and in 1942, Roza managed to temporarily escape deportation by feigning appendicitis. On October 2, 1942, the family was deported to Westerbork, where they lived until February 1944, when they were sent to Bergen-Belsen. In the spring of 1945, they were placed on a train evacuating Bergen-Belsen, and were transported throughout Germany ...

  12. "Tilde's Story"

    Consists of a manuscript, 27 pages, entitled "Tilde's Story," consisting of a transcription of a 1977 oral testimony by Tilde Marchetti, which was transcribed in June 1995. In the testimony, Mrs. Marchetti describes her childhood in Sarajevo, her escape using fake documents to Split (Spalato), which was occupied by Italy, and the experience of being sent, with her parents, to Oderzo in northern Italy. She was able to escape capture and deportation with the help of her future husband, Ezio Marchetti, whom she met in Oderzo. Includes copies of a post-war letter telling Mrs. Marchetti's story,...

  13. Flossenbuerg liberated; POW hospital in Florence

    (LIB 6223) Probably April 30, 1945. Camera pans from left to right showing an overview of the Flossenbuerg slave labor camp, barracks on hillside, trees and mountains in BG. German civilians gathered at entrance to camp. Inscriptions on concrete gate post. Sign: "Vorsicht! Hochspannung Lebensgefahr" and "Arbeit Macht Frei". CU, electrified barbed wire around top of fence and guard towers. Makeshift handwritten banner on picket fence, "Prisoners Happy End! Welcome!". INT, CU, four naked male survivors: two Jewish, one French, one Polish, with numbers tattooed on their chests. Multiple takes....

  14. General Władysław Anders collection Kolekcja Generala Wladyslawa Andersa (KGA.11)

    Contains papers of Władysław Anders, General of the Polish Armed Forces in Exile. Also includes a journal of the activities of General Anders, 7 August 1941-27 March 1945, and speeches, orders, statements, studies, notes and correspondence.

  15. Jews hanged in town square near Minsk

    A group of Jews who have been hanged and left on display in a town square near Minsk. A sign posted on the gallows reads: (in German) "Diese Juden haben gegen die deutsche Wehrmacht gehetzt" and (in Russian) "Eti zhidy agitirovali protiv germanskogo pravitel'stva". [These Jews have agitated against the German Army!] Panning shot along the eight or so corpses, all of whom wear large Stars of David on their coats. CUs of some of the faces (slowed down and retouched?)

  16. Selected documents from the Departmental Archives of the Belfort Territory

    Contains documents pertaining to the expropriation of Jewish property in The Belfort Territory during the war and restitution and indemnification issues after the war. Also contains the diary of Henriette Bloch, a Jewish school teacher whose son, Julien, was captured as the Bloch family attempted to escape into the Jura.

  17. Prewar Jewish life in Budapest

    Peter Veres climbs the stairs and plays at an outdoor pool. His mother Kati Krausz Veres, in the dark jacket, drips water on Peter’s head. Father George fetches Peter’s toy from the pool. Armin Veres, George’s father, plays with Peter and his cousin Andrew Jakab (the son of George's sister Agi; he was 5 months older than Peter) on Armin's apartment balcony at 15 Lipot Korut in Pest. Sari (George's mother) joins them and holds Peter and Andrew. Armin, toddler Andrew, mother Agi Jakab (George's sister), and Sari walk towards the camera outdoors on a dirt road. Kati and Peter sit on a balcony....

  18. "Jewish Prisoners of the Concentration Camp 'Red Cross'"

    Consists of one manuscript, 41 pages, entitled "Jewish Prisoners of the Concentration Camp "Red Cross", written by Zoran Milentijević in Niš, Yugoslavia, in 1978. The manuscript, which is an English language translation, describes the history of the Jewish families of Niš, life in the "Red Cross" concentration camp, an escape from the camp on February 12, 1942, and the mass murder of those who remained in the concentration camp. Includes copies of photographs and documents as well as footnotes and a list of names of the Jews of Niš.

  19. Bernard Block photograph collection

    The Bernard Block photograph collection documents the Buchenwald and Ohrdruf concentration camps immediately following liberation. Images depict burial of victims, mass graves, and general scenes of the camps. The collection contains twenty photographs mounted with tape onto loose photo album pages, some with captions handwritten across the top in blue ink. The collection also includes an image of Major Bernard Block, DDS in his military uniform.

  20. District Court in Łomża Sąd Okręgowy w Łomży (Sygn. SOŁ)

    Contains selected files of trials that took place in the District Court in Łomża, 1945–1969. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles by Germans and their collaborators during the German occupation. Most of investigation were discontinued. Trials 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 of traitors to the Polish Nation. "Sierpniówka" was one of the world's fi...