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  1. Administration de la Sûreté Publique. Service de la Police des Étrangers. Dossiers généraux, troisième série.

    Ce fonds est riche et varié. On y trouve notamment les dossiers suivants : n°637 : Dossier d’informations sur l’admission de réfugiés juifs en Belgique pendant les années 1933-1940, demandé par le Centre national des hautes études juives (1964) ; n° 14 : Visa – Émigration des Juifs roumains vers Israël (transit par la Belgique) (1960-1978) ; nos 20-21 : Visa – Israéliens d’origine russe en transit en Belgique en attendant d’émigrer aux États-Unis ou désirant rester en Belgique (1974). Déclaration d’arrivée. Fondation Tolstoï ; nos 22-26 : Visa – Juifs d’origine russe en transit en Belgique ...

  2. Administration de la Sûreté Publique. Service de la Police des Étrangers. Dossiers individuels ouverts entre 1835 et 1912 (nos 1 – 999.999).)

    • Public Security Administration. Foreign Police Department. Individual files opened between 1835 and 1912 (no. 1 - 999.999.999).

    The Foreign Police opened an individual file on each foreigner who entered the country. The files are numbered in the order assigned to them when they were first opened. These files generally consisted of: a declaration of registration in a municipality, references to the family and professional situation and the period during which the foreigner wished to remain in Belgium; relocations and changes of residence; civil status records, including marriage, birth and death certificates; the files dating back to the 19th century contain few photos except for the files of so-called "dangerous" fo...

  3. Administration de la Sûreté Publique. Service de la Police des Étrangers. Dossiers individuels ouverts entre 1913 et 1930 (nos 1.000.000 – 1.668.399).

    La Police des Étrangers ouvrait un dossier individuel pour chaque étranger entrant sur le territoire. Ces dossiers se composent généralement comme suit : une déclaration d’inscription dans une commune, mentionnant la situation familiale, professionnelle et période durant laquelle l’étranger souhaitait rester en Belgique ; les déménagements et changements de résidence ; les actes de l’État civil, dont des actes de mariages, de naissances et de décès ; une ou plusieurs photographies de l’étranger ; une fiche de signalement décrivant la forme du visage, la morphologie, la couleur des yeux, des...

  4. Administration de la Sûreté Publique. Service de la Police des Étrangers. Série A. Dossiers individuels ouverts entre 1931 et 1943 (n°s 1 – 419.999).

    La Police des Étrangers ouvrait un dossier individuel pour chaque étranger entrant sur le territoire. Ces dossiers se composaient généralement comme suit : une déclaration d’inscription à la commune, mention de la situation familiale, professionnelle et période durant laquelle l’étranger souhaite rester en Belgique ; déménagements et changement de résidence ; actes de l’État civil, dont des actes de mariages, de naissances et de décès ; une ou plusieurs photographies de l’étranger ; … Enfin, la page de garde du dossier renvoie vers les noms, prénoms et numéros de dossiers de proches et memb...

  5. Administration of Holoby district

    • Районна управа с. Голоби
    • Raionna uprava sela Holoby

    Collection includes: information from Holoby district administration to Kovel city administration from 13 August 1941 containing statistics of the population in Holoby district, particularly Jewish population of Holoby district (file 1, p. 3); order from Lutsk oblast (region) administration to the heads of district administrations translating the order issued by the German military authorities prohibiting the Jews to run religious activities and requiring from them to submit all the liturgical things made of precious materials to the local Ortskommandanturen (file 1, p. 8); order by Holoby ...

  6. Administration of KL Lublin Administracja KL Lublin

    Contains records of the KL Lublin Administration on prisoners and staff: the orders of chief officers, statistics of prisoners, reports of transports of prisoners, death notices, name-lists of transported prisoners, card files, lists of labor commands and prisoners who died in the camp, lists of prisoners hired by the German Arms Works on Lipowa St. in Lublin, documents on deliveries of Zyklon B, correspondence regarding contacts with the trade enterprise in Reich III, reports of the number of camp staff, and personal files of SS officers. Also contains card files listing goods taken from p...

  7. Administration of the 4th district of Kharkiv

    • Управа 4-го району м. Харкова
    • Uprava 4-ho raionu Kharkova

    Collection includes Instruction on registration of the population of the city of Kharkov ordering all the Jews to be registered in separate lists disregarding their faith (inventory 1, file 179, p. 79).

  8. Administration of the 5th district of Kharkiv

    • Управа 5-го району м. Харкова
    • Uprava 5-ho raionu Kharkova

    Collection includes: Note from November 14, 1941 by the head of the Kharkiv City Council about the arrest of 50 Communists and Jews as hostages (inventory 2, file 7, p. 9).

  9. Administration of the 6th district of Kharkiv

    • Управа 6-го району м. Харкова

    Collection includes Circular from vice-mayor of the 6th district of Kharkiv to caretakers of residential houses on the calculation of the property in the apartments belonging to the Jews, March 1942 (inventory 1, file 7, p. 21).

  10. Administration of the city of Feodosiya during the Nazi occupation (Fond p 1458)

    Contains records of the city of Feodosiya, Ukraine, including orders, public announcements, information regarding Jewish populations, and lists of Jews and Jewish property.

  11. Administration of the city of Kerch during the Nazi occupation (Fond p1457)

    Contains records of the local administration, including orders, public announcements, information regarding Jewish populations, and lists of Jews and Jewish property.

  12. Administration of towns in Ksanti, Thrace (Fond 649, Opis 1)

    Contains information relating to the personnel of the municipal administration of towns in Thrace. Also includes statements, declarations, correspondence relating to the insurance and assistance fund for employees, and wage record books.

  13. Administrative documentation from the Oberlandesgericht (Regional Upper Court of Law) of Hamburg

    Documentation from the Oberlandesgericht (Regional Upper Court of Law) of Hamburg

  14. Administrative office of Bessarabia, Bukovina and "Transnistra"

    • Кабинет по администрации Бессарабии, Буковины и „Транснистрии”
    • Kabinet po administratsii Bessarabii, Bukoviny i „Transnistrii”
    • Cabinetul civil-militar pentru administrarea Basarabiei, Bucovinei și Transnistriei

    Orders and Dispositions issued by the Romanian government and Romanian Army Headquarters to General George Alexeianu about taking the control in Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transnistria, about the disposal of military units, nationalization of population inspection of ghettos, and about the situation of prisoners of war. The memorandum on the Jewish issue of Bessarabia. Regulations related to the organization of the ghettos. Materials about the confiscation of Jewish property. Documents and reports about inspections conducted in Bessarabia and Bukovina in 1941. Statistical data on violations ...

  15. Admiralstab der Marine / Seekriegsleitung der Kaiserlichen Marine

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Durch Kabinettsordre vom 14. März 1899 wurde die Admiralstabsabteilung des Oberkommandos der Marine verselbständigt und als Admiralstab der Marine dem Kaiser unmittelbar unterstellt. Friedensmäßig gehörten zu den Admiralstabsaufgaben die operative Planung der Kriegführung zur See, Mobilmachung, Seekriegsspiele, Seekriegsgeschichte, die Sammlung und Bearbeitung der Nachrichten über fremde Marinen sowie über Wirtschaft und Militärpolitik fremder Staaten. Der Admiralstab bearbeitete alle taktischen Angelegenheiten der Flotte, die Aus- und Weiterbildung von Admir...

  16. Admor letter

    Contains a letter written by a prominent Admor near the end of WWII; a notation on the back of the letter states (in translation) "Erev Shabbos Kodesh, Vayakhel, in the morning 8:00, Tel Aviv." The author describes the deaths of his forefathers, family members, and friends, and his troubles during the Holocaust including the many attempts on his life and times he was saved from certain death. The back of the letter features a prayer in his hand. The letter reads (in translation): "Baruch Hash-m who took us out of the hands of murderers and the netherworld of destruction of the death camps ....

  17. Ado K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ado K., who was born in Visoko, Yugoslavia in 1915. He recounts cordial relations between the small Jewish community and Muslims, Serbs, and Croats; serving in the Yugoslav army; creation of Croatia in 1941; his capture in Doboj; anti-Jewish regulations enforced by the Ustas?a; deportations of Serbs and Jews; his deportation to Jasenovac in October 1941; forced labor in Lonjsko Polje; mass killings of prisoners; transfer to Gradis?ka in January 1942; observing the horrendous conditions of the women and children (his mother and sisters were there); sadistic public kill...

  18. The Adolf Abraham Berman Collection: Polish-Jewish Underground Welfare Activity in Occupied Warsaw and Outlying Cities and in Camps, 1943–1945

    The Adolf Abraham Berman collection contains underground press and publications and official press printed after the failure of the Polish uprising; official and forged personal documents; overviews, reports, correspondences, radio broadcasts transcripts, operation and work plans, orders, order of battle and casualty lists; diaries, memoirs, testimonies, speeches, essays and manifestos; aid requests and financial support confirmations and receipts. The collection also contains material related to the Kielce pogrom of July 1946.

  19. Adolf Adam and Ryszarda Rosenstrauss Luks collection

    Collection of documents relating to Adolf (Dolek) Adam Luks (b. March 27, 1912 in Krakow) and Ryszarda Rosenstrauss Luks (b. April 28, 1917 in Nadworna). The documents relate to the imprisonment and return of Dolek and Ryszarda from concentration camps including Ryszarda's time in Płaszów, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lichtenwerde and Dolek's experiences in Gross Rosen, Buchenwald, Sonneberg (sub-camp of Buchenwald), Krakow, and their later time in Walbrzych and their subsequent emigration to Australia in September 1947. Includes two Polish passports; an ID photograph Adam Luks; an undated manuscrip...

  20. Adolf and Bettina Liebermann family collection

    The collection consists of a nameplate and correspondence relating to the experiences of Adolf and Bettina Liebermann, who fled from Vienna to Prague in 1939, and their children, Hedi and Hans, who emigrated to Great Britain in 1938 and 1939.