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  1. Walter Materna war diaries and personal documents

    The Walter Materna war diaries and personal documents includes Materna’s World War I diaries (four volumes); World War II and immediate post-war diaries, including inserted World War II photographs (volumes 1-3, 5-10, 13-17); and World War II and immediate post-war documents such as leaflets, telegrams, and personal documents. Materna’s World War II diaries describe events in Poland (Generalgouvernement), Ukraine (Kharkiv, Berdychiv, Donetsk, Dnipro), and Russia (Voronezh, Livny). The diaries include numerous antisemitic statements and descriptions of local Jewish populations by Materna, in...

  2. Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection

    The Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection contains primarily photographs of Arthur Gelbart, who was a resident of Częstochowa ghetto and several labor camps, and Rose Grosman, who was kept hidden throughout the war. The photographs show both at several separate displaced persons camps as well as life prior to the war.

  3. Jellinek, Hansjörg

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1449
    • German
    • 1930-1992
    • Nachlässe 46 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Jellinek, Hansjörg Alexander, Dr. Geb.: 04.11.1919 in Kiel Gest.: 15.07.1993 in Bonn Eltern: Prof. Dr. Walter Jellinek (siehe N 1242) Irmgard Jellinek geb. Wiener Großeltern: Georg Jellinek (1851 - 1911) (siehe N 1136) Camilla Jellinek geb. (1860 - 1940) (siehe N 1137) Familie: Verheiratet, 3 Kinder Werdegang 1926-1929 Volksschule Kiel 1929-1934 human. Gymnasium Heidelberg 1934-1937 ev. Landschulheim Urspring, Blaubeuren bei Ulm 1934: Eintritt in die Hitler-Jugend, 1937, dort Rottenführer 03.04. bis 23.10.1937 Reichsarbeitsdienst, Abt. 6/274 Huttenheim II 03....

  4. Statistisches Bundesamt

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 128
    • German
    • Schriftgut 5061 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 258,1 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Aufgaben und Organisation Nach der reichsgründung wurde 1872 das dem Reichsamt des Innern nachgeordnete "Kaiserliche Statistische Amt" als zentrales statistisches errichtet, das unter anderem die statistischen Aufgaben des "Centralbureaus des Zollvereins" übernahm. Im Laufe der Jahre erwuchsen diesem auf dem Gebiet der Bevölkerungsstatistik, der Landwirtschaftsstatistik, der Verkehrsstatistik, der Bautätigkeitsstatistik, der industriellen Produktionsstatistik und in Zusammenhang mit der Sozialgesetzgebung weitere Aufgaben. Eine wichtige Aufgabe war die Koordi...

  5. German town; Degenerate Art exhibit in Munich

    In the medieval German town of Eisenach, passersby, civilians, artist painting quaint scene outdoors. EXTs Wartburg fortress walls. LS, hillside. 00:13:52 Industrial exhibition in Dusseldorf, high angle views. Visitors at displays, including farm equipment: "Stahl-Kombinus" and "Leichte Maschinen". Fountain inside exhibition, crowds. 00:15:25 Very crowded city square in Weimar in summer. Throngs of people, many seated at tables outdoors, men in uniform, women in summer dresses. Large group dancing, ballroom style (motion is slowed down in film). Banners with swastikas surround the square. 0...

  6. Joseph Tenenbaum papers

    The collection documents the career of urologist, author, and activist Joseph Tenenbaum, originally of Sasów, Poland. Included are biographical materials, correspondence, writings, subject files, photographs, and scrapbooks that document his medical career; his writings on medical topics, Judaism, and the Holocaust; his involvement in Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and the Zionist Organization of America; and his work as the founder and chairman of the Joint Boycott Council of the American Jewish Congress (1933-1941...

  7. Archief van het Gemeente Vervoer Bedrijf

    Inleiding In 1870 bleek de tijd rijp voor de oprichting van een vervoersonderneming: de 'Amsterdamse Omnibus Onderneming' (AOO), als resultaat van een initiatief van een aantal bewoners van de plantagebuurt, die hun zaken midden in de stad hadden en plannen bedachten voor vervoer voor gezamenlijke rekening. Door deze toevallige afspraak werd de grondslag gelegd voor de paardentram: de 'Amsterdamsche Omnibus Maatschappij' (AOM), waar de AOO in opging. Ingaande 1900 werd de concessie van de AOM ingetrokken en werd de tramexploitatie na de naasting in beheer door de gemeente Amsterdam genomen ...

  8. Alexander and Gina Dimant fonds

    • Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
    • RA016
    • English
    • 11.7 cm of textual records4 postcards71 photographs : prints ; black and white, colour7 coins2 bank notes2 thimbles : silver, glass1 pane (20 postage stamps)

    Fonds is comprised of correspondence, photographs, identity and personal documents, society registration documents, minutes, clippings, memorabilia and ephemera created or collected by Alexander and Gina Dimant in Poland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Italy and Canada. Records pertain to their family history, work, school, and social and volunteer activities prior to and after the Second World War.Records have been arranged into the following series: Correspondence (1941–2019), Photographs ([1920?]–[2016], Personal records (1938–2013), Artefacts (1940–[before 1948], 1997),...

  9. Zbiór afiszów, plakatów i druków ulotnych z lat 1939-1945

    • Zbiór plakatów okupacyjnych
    • Collection of bills, posters and printed ephemera
    1. organizacja władz niemieckich; 1939-1944, sygn. 1-3, 313-314, 569; obwieszczenie o wkroczeniu wojsk niemieckich i objęciu władzy wykonawczej przez jej dowódców, proklamacja generalnego gubernatorstwa, tworzenie struktur NSDAP. 2. propaganda zwycięstw Niemców, 1939-1945, sygn. 4-17, 315-317, 320-338, 339-347, 528-529, 557-559, 562; afisze anonsujące filmy propagandowe, komunikaty z frontu, mapy z zaznaczonymi zamierzonymi podbojami i sukcesami wojsk niemieckich, gazetki ścienne, wezwania do poparcia wojny z ZSRR, fragmenty przemówień Hitlera, wezwania do zbiórek na pomoc wojenną, apele do...

  10. Notice to ghetto residents to turn over all jewelry

    Notice to residents of Łódź Ghetto that they must turn in all their jewelry. It was issued by Mordechai Rumkowski, chairman of the Judenrat [Jewish Council] that administered the Ghetto for the German occupation authorities..Łódź was occupied by Germany a week after the September 1, 1939, invasion of Poland. It was renamed Litzmannstadt and, in February 1940, the Jewish population, about 160,000 people, was confined to a small sealed off ghetto. Due to the severe overcrowding and scarce food, disease and starvation were common. In January 1942, mass deportations to Chelmno killing center be...

  11. Barbie Trial -- Day 9 -- Witness depositions are read; a civil party testifies

    17:13 The clerk continues reading the deposition of witness Jacqueline Modier, née Rozenfarb; the witness lived in Paris until the Vel d'Hiv raid, when she moved with her family to Lyon; her father was deported to Auschwitz and died there; the witness was present at the UGIF raid, where she unknowingly entered a room and was greeted by a uniformed soldier; the witness recounts the proceedings of the raid; after 9 pm, the witness was released because she had falsified French papers and was younger than 15 17:19 The Attorney General presents two medical certificates pertaining to the next wit...

  12. Eva and Otto Pfister papers

    Accretion to the Eva and Otto Pfister Papers including correspondence, documents, booklet, papers, clippings, translations, pamphlets, leaflets, speeches, writings, tickets, passes, photos, and other materials.

  13. Blake and Anna Schiff papers

    Documents, correspondence, identification papers, and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of Blake and Anna Schiff in the Warsaw Ghetto, Grodno, and in hiding in Novosiolki. Biographical material includes documents regarding Blake’s education and employment in the United States, Blake’s false identity card under the name Stephan Podolski used in post-war Poland, and social security cards. Correspondence includes letters sent by Blake to Mary and Helene Daily, his aunt and cousin in the United States, regarding his efforts to immigrate to the U.S. in 1939 as a student, and sc...

  14. Swaab-Tygel family. Collection

    This collection contains: three pre-war photos of members of the Antwerp sports club Joodse Arbeiders Sportklub or JASK [English: Jewish Workers Sports Club (Antwerp) or YASK], including Philip Swaab and possibly a brother or future brother-in-law called Marcel ; a pre-war group photo of pupils at a school or colony, including Bertha and Eugenie alias Jennie Tygel ; two pre-war photos of Philip Schwaab with friends ; one post-war portrait of Philip Schwaab ; a certificate issued by the Dutch branche of the Red Cross in Switzerland to Philip Schwaab for passing an exam

  15. Documents of Persecution

    • Židovské muzeum v Praze
    • COLLECTION.JMP.SHOAH/DP
    • Czech, German, English
    • The collection contains 90 boxes of documents (9.79 bm) organised into 79 groups and cannot be considered closed, being added to with new acquisitions. New groups could also gradually be added.

    This collection originated as a documentation of the persecution and genocide of Jews in the Czech lands excluding the archival materials relating to the history of the Terezín ghetto, which forms a separate collection. The content of the collection comprises originals, copies and transcripts of official documents and personal estates, as well as prints, newspaper clippings, maps, memoirs and a small amount of non-written material. The Documents of Persecution collection is a source of information on Holocaust history of Bohemian and Moravia Jews, and to a lesser extent also Slovakian Jews....

  16. Akta gminy Goraj

    • Files of the commune of Goraj

    Protokóły Zarządu Gminnego i Gminnej Rady Narodowej (sygn. 1), dzienniki główna (sygn. 2-4),budżet (sygn. 5-9), księga dochodów budżetowych (sygn. 10), księgi wydatków budżetowych (sygn. 11-12), księgi sum przychodnich (sygn. 13-15), rozkład podatków gminnych, kontyngenty, użytki rolne (sygn. 16-18), kwartalne wykazy urodzonych parafii Goraj i Radzięcin (sygn. 19-20), sprawy organizacyjne (sygn. 21-23), sprawy osobowe (sygn. 24-26), zebrania i urzędowanie ciał samorządowych (sygn. 27), protokoły posiedzeń, zebrań i sesji Gminnej Rady Narodowej (sygn. 28-32), protokoły posiedzeń Prezydium GR...

  17. Index cards on Jews from Belgium interned in or deported from France. Collection

    This collection consists of index cards containing information on 9,765 Jewish men, women and children who in general lived in Belgium before the Second World War and who were interned in or deported from French internment camps during the war. The group of index cards for a specific person can contain a file card drafted by the Sicherheitspolizei-Sicherheitsdienst in 1941-1944 in case of a person who fled Belgium in or after 1941 and a research request filed by a relative. Every group of index cards for a specific person contains handwritten file cards with information gathered post-war by...

  18. Dienststellen und Kommandostellen der Kriegsmarine im Bereich Süd / Südost

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das Deutsche Marinekommando Italien bestand ab November 1941 in Rom, ab November 1943 in Levico, ab Januar 1944 in Montecatini Terme, ab Juli 1944 wieder in Levico, im April 1945 in Carersee, es wurde im Januar 1945 in Marineoberkommando Süd umbenannt. Ihm unterstellt waren erstens der Kommandant der Seeverteidigung italienische Riviera in La Spezia, dann in San Giuliano, später in Genua-Nervi und der Kommandant der Seeverteidigung Westadria in Venedig und Venedig-Lido, ab März 1944 in Treviso, ab April 1945 in Feltre, außerdem ab Dezember 1944 noch der Komma...

  19. Ewa Frenkel Przemyslawska photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs of Ewa Frenkel Przemyslawska's life immediately after World War II in Łódź, Poland, where she worked in a Jewish kindergarten and of members of a Jewish cooperative in Łódź demonstrating on May Day.

  20. Soviet parade; beach; Kharkov Trial verdict; US soldiers in Paris

    Title: UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL. SOVIET PARADES ITS ARMED MIGHT IN RECORD REVIEW. MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. Infantry units march in formation in Moscow’s Red Square. Soviet officers salute from platforms above. Narrator describes this as the “greatest display of might and power ever staged by Soviet Russia.” Artillery, motorcycles and tanks speed by, all meant to show the success of Russia’s mass production. Josef Stalin speaks and looks at the planes of the Russian Air Force flying in formation above. The narrator declares the parade “an assurance to communists and a warning to Russia’s enemies.” Men and...