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  1. Vakar family collection

    The Vakar family papers consist of correspondence, memoirs, manuscripts, news clippings, postcards, and other documents and materials related to the immigration of the Vakar family from France to the United States in 1940-1941, as well as the role of the American aid workers who helped them, Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Collection includes postcards and correspondence from the period of their immigration, later memoirs written by various members of the family recounting their experiences during their escape and their arrival in the United States, as well as news clippings and other material ...

  2. Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Hermansbad (Ciechocinek, Poland) (Sygn. 71)

    Contains information about the persecution of Jews and Roma; resettlement of Polish and German nationals; homosexuals placed in preventive custody; deportations of Jews and non-Jews; Jewish communities; Jews transported to Chelmno killing center in April 1942; Jewish labor battalions; escaped prisoners of war; political prisoners; statistics on Jewish populations; expropriation of Jewish property; killing of Jews who tried to escape from Inowroclaw (a.k.a Hohensalza) Ghetto; transports; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; and compulsory and slave labor, Reel 1 contains collections of newsletters or Mel...

  3. Akta miasta Rawicz

    • Der Burgermeister der Stadt Rawitsch Magistrat zu Rawitsch Zarząd Miejski w Rawiczu
    • Files of the town of Rawicz

    I. Magistrat zu Rawitsch /Magistrat w Rawiczu, Zarząd Miejski w Rawiczu, 1794-1939 1. Sprawy komunalne - sprawy administracyjne, rejestry mieszkańców, ewidencja i kontrola ruchu ludności, sprawy finansowe, kasa oszczędności, sprawy budowlane, kościoły fundacje, szpitale 2. Sprawy policyjne - sprawy budowlane i pożarowe, przemysł, handel, rolnictwo, stowarzyszenia, gazownia 3. Sprawy administracyjne - gmina żydowska, sprawy wojskowe, uroczystości II. Der Burgermeister der Stadt Rawitsch (Burmistrz miasta Rawicza), 1939-1945 zarządzenia, wysiedlanie, spisy więźniów, grabież mienia polskiego, ...

  4. Persecution of Jews; isolating, labeling, deporting, murdering Jews

    Pre-title sequence: Bookburning in Berlin, Joseph Goebbels speaking. View of bodies stacked with wood for burning, and Heinrich Heine quote. Film title: DER GELBE STERN: Ein Film ueber die Judenverfolgung 1933 - 1945. Events of January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany. NSDAP (Nazi Party) organization, new members, SA marching in streets. S.A. Heim [Sturmabteilung headquarters]. Joseph Goebbels speaks at Sportpalast in Berlin, against the lying Jewish press etc. This preceded Hitler's first speech as Chancellor, February 10. Still of burned Reichstag building, and a...

  5. Moshe Sheps papers

    The Moshe Sheps papers consists of 52 photographs and a postcard relating to Moshe Sheps' family before and during World War II in Poland.

  6. Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie.- Organisationsunterlagen

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 282-ORG
    • German
    • Sammlung 11 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Funktionsvörgänger vor 1945 war das Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme (RfL). Mit Wirkung vom 1. April 1952 wurde das Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie durch Verordnung vom 1. Juli 1952 (BGBl I S S. 367) in die Verwaltung des Bundes überführt und dem BMI unterstellt. Das Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie führte nur teilweise die Aufgaben des Reichsamtes für Landesaufnahme (RfL) fort. Die Trigonometrische Abteilung des RfL fand nach Keriegsende in Bamberg eine neue Wirkungsstätte. Die zunächst als "Land Survey Office" später als "Institut für Erdmessung" bezeichnete E...

  7. Infanterie-Division Schlesien

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher (KTB) aller anderen Verbände und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die KTB der Divisionen vom Mobilmachungstag (26. August 1939) an das Heeresarchiv Potsdam abzugeben, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten (anfangs getrennt nach Kriegsschauplätzen: P für Polen, W für Westen; nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges aber nur nach laufender Nummer) und in dieser Reihenfolge eingelagert, dann aber systematisch nach den KTB-führenden Stellen und Abteilungen in Eingangslisten erfasst wurden. Diese Listen (so genannte "Potsdam-...

  8. P.55 - Personal Papers of Dr. Heinz E.Samson

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 7894262
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Balance sheet Booklet(s) Brochure Death certificate Envelope Financial accounts Genealogy Journals Legal documentation Letter List of deportees List of murdered Jews from Germany Maps Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Postcard Poster Speech

    P.55 - Personal Archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson In the collection there are files from the private archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson. Description of the collection: The documentation deals with a part of the estate of the Samson family, originally from the city of Norden in Northern Germany. There is pre-war documentation on tax issues and the assets of the Samson family, pre- and postwar correspondence with German authorities, personal documents and certificates, documents on the restoration of the Norden Jewish cemetery supported by the Samson family after WW II, the dedication of a memorial ...

  9. Paul Morgenstein. Collection

    This collection consists of a pre-war and two post-war photos of Paul Morgenstein as well as his audiovisual testimony. In this interview Paul Morgenstein talks about: his pre-war life in Antwerp, Belgium ; the family fleeing to De Panne, Dunkirk and Calais in 1940 ; Paul's journey to the United Kingdom and his life during the bombardments in 1940-1942 ; his journey to Canada and later on to Cuba in 1942 ; his life in Cuba as a member of the diamond industry and the Jewish Antwerpian enclave in Havana in 1942-1947 ; his migration to New York, United States, in 1947.

  10. Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen

    Die Sammlung enthält v.a.: Nachkriegsberichte, Häftlingskarten, Dt. Rotes Kreuz-Korrespondenz, Effektenverzeichnisse, Sterbeurkunden, Sterbezweitbücher, Todesmeldungen, verschiedene Listen (Transportlisten, Häftlingslisten, Totenlisten, Befreiungslisten, Friedhofslisten, Listen Überlebender) Geschichte des Konzentrationslagers Bergen-Belsen 1943-1945: Das Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen wurde am 10. Mai 1943 ca. 50 km nördlich von Hannover errichtet. Als „Auffanglager Bergen-Belsen“ sollte es in der Konzeption des Auswärtigen Amtes und des Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler als Sammellager ...

  11. Brown tablecloth with a floral design saved during a pogrom in Ukraine and recovered after the war

    Brown floral tablecloth, the only family item recovered by Zeev Raveh Werba in Maniewicze, Poland (Prilesnoye, Ukraine), after the war. It was taken when their home was looted during a pogrom by the local Ukrainian population after the June 1941 invasion by Germany. It was found and saved by a neighbor, who returned it to Zeev. He kept the tablecloth with him during the remainder of his military service. When Zeev left for a displaced persons camp in Italy, he used the tablecloth while conducting interviews for a writer researching stories of Holocaust survivors. In September 1939, Zeev's v...

  12. US Tanks Advance; German POWs; Burning village

    Slate: PROJ 186, MURPHY, 24 MAR M3. 03:20:48 MS, US tanks rolling into village, some greenery, trees, and a large white house visible in BG. 03:21:09 MS, Establishing shot, through opening in rock formation. Open field and road beyond field. Tank rolling by 'window' in FG. One tank has a visible #48 painted on the side, in white. 03:21:22 MCU, back of head and helmet of US MP in FG as he motions for tanks to pass by. MSs, US army vehicles, mainly tanks moving along dirt road, alternating scenery in FG, chain link fences, MPs, shrubs and tree branches. 03:21:41 MSs, military vehicles approac...

  13. Ямпільська повітова управа

    • Iampilska povitova uprava
    • Iampil county administration

    Some cases contain registration materials in the form of lists of ghetto prisoners and labor camps, prisoners in the workers' columns, lists of people for food aid, etc., 1942-1943. In particular, this is information about the place of residence and the composition of Jewish families, as well as information on the age of ghetto prisoners and the profession of adult family members [inventory 3, files 81, 82, 84, 86]. Available documents with statistical data on the Jewish population of the county. The statistical data for 1942-1943 on the quantitative composition of the population in the ghe...

  14. Data from the "Minority Census" in Germany (Volkszaehlung 1939), from materials of the Reichssippenamt, May 1939

    Data from the "Minority Census" in Germany (Volkszaehlung 1939), from materials of the Reichssippenamt, May 1939 The collection includes personal data of Jewish families that was collected during the population census. The Record Group was located in the State Archives of East Germany in Potsdam, under Archive signature 1/82. Following the reunification of Germany, this Archive was added to the Bundesarchiv (Federal Archive) in Berlin. The Reichssippenamt materials have been included in the R 1509 Record Group in this Archive. The data is listed alphabetically more or less according to the ...

  15. 149. Feldausbildungs-Division

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher (KTB) aller anderen Verbände und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die KTB der Divisionen vom Mobilmachungstag (26. August 1939) an das Heeresarchiv Potsdam abzugeben, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten (anfangs getrennt nach Kriegsschauplätzen: P für Polen, W für Westen; nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges aber nur nach laufender Nummer) und in dieser Reihenfolge eingelagert, dann aber systematisch nach den KTB-führenden Stellen und Abteilungen in Eingangslisten erfasst wurden. Diese Listen (so genannte "Potsdam-...

  16. Ersatz-Brigade 204

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher (KTB) aller anderen Verbände und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die KTB der Divisionen vom Mobilmachungstag (26. August 1939) an das Heeresarchiv Potsdam abzugeben, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten (anfangs getrennt nach Kriegsschauplätzen: P für Polen, W für Westen; nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges aber nur nach laufender Nummer) und in dieser Reihenfolge eingelagert, dann aber systematisch nach den KTB-führenden Stellen und Abteilungen in Eingangslisten erfasst wurden. Diese Listen (so genannte "Potsdam-...

  17. Schonberg-Ubersfeld family. Collection

    This collection contains two family photos, taken in 1922 and 1935, of Abraham Herschel Schonberg, his wife Victoria Ubersfeld and their seven children.

  18. Mickal E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mickal E., who was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1926, the younger of two children. She recounts her family's assimilated lifestyle; attending a Czech school; cordial relations with non-Jews; participating in a Zionist youth group; expulsion from school in March 1939 due to German occupation; confiscation of the family's business; moving in with her grandparents; her father's deportation for forced labor, her mother leaving to earn money in Prague, and her brother moving to a hachshara; forming a subgroup with four other girls within th...

  19. Mémorial national aux Martyrs juifs de Belgique – Nationaal Gedenkteken aan de Joodse Martelaren van België. Collection

    KD_00947_01: Extracts from the Belgisch Staatsblad – Moniteur belge [Belgian Official Journal] regarding the statutes and composition of the (Fondation) Mémorial national aux Martyrs juifs de Belgique – (Stichting) Nationaal Gedenkteken aan de Joodse Martelaren van België [National Memorial (Foundation) to the Jewish Martyrs of Belgium], 1965-1985 KD_00947_02: File regarding the composition of the national committee, the Brussels committee and the Antwerp committee, including lists of board members and documents regarding the death of co-president Bernard Tarnowski, 1965-1987 KD_00947_03: M...

  20. Bălți district prefecture and its subordinated preturas and town halls

    • Бельцкая уездная префектура и подчиненные ей претуры и примарии
    • Bel'tskaya uyezdnaya prefektura i podchinennyye yey pretury i primarii
    • Județul Bălți: prefecturile judeţene, subprefecturile plaselor/preturilor şi comunele subordinate

    Files on the issue of permit residents for foreign citizens to stay in Bălți. Correspondence with the sub-prefectures on the work of schools and churches. Lists of schools opened in county Bălți, 1920-1921. Lists of residents of villages: Fălești, Limbeni, Logofeni, Albineț, Catranîc, Năvîrneț, Obreja Veche, Obreja Nouă. Certificates that allow Jews to leave the country starting from 1932 until 1940. Files of Prefecture fight against speculation in food insdustry and other essential goods, 1940. The list of residents of county Bălți, where is indicated their residence and profession in 1928...