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  1. Dječačka narodna osnovna škola Travnik

    • Primary school for boys Travnik

    Contains class books/registers from 1921 to 1945. Registers contain information about students: names, family names, parent's names, adresses, DOB, etc.

  2. Djevojačka narodna osnovna škola Travnik

    • Primary public school for girls

    Contains class books/registers from 1917 to 1922. Registers contain information about students: names, family names, parent's names, adresses, DOB, etc.

  3. Djordje (Djura) Rajs papers

    The Djordje (Djura) Rajs papers include a diary written by Djordje (Djura) Rajs in a former military barracks in Petrovgrad, Yugoslavia (currently Zrenjanin, Serbia). In the diary, Djura details the Nazi occupation of Petrovgrad and forced conscription of Jewish men as well as being forced to move to a dilapidated former Army barracks in May 1941. He further describes that he writes "not something imaginary but rather a complete truth which I lived through..."

  4. Djordje L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Djordje L., who was born in Sombor, Yugoslavia in 1928. He describes in extraordinary detail cordial relations among ethnic groups; Hungarian occupation in 1941; the deaths of Jewish resisters; conscription of men, including his father, as slave laborers in June 1942; learning his father had been killed; German occupation in March 1944; deportation with his family to Baja, then Wiener Neustadt; choosing deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau when his mother would not leave her sister and niece; spotting his mother after selection; transfer to a children's barrack; escaping...

  5. Dmitrii M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dmitrii M., who was born in Cherkasy, Ukraine in 1927. He recalls his prosperous family; observing Jewish holidays; German invasion in 1941; the influx of refugees; fleeing, with his parents and sister, to Kremenchuk in July and Poltava in August; his father's draft; German occupation in September; fleeing alone to Gradizhsk, then Cherkasy; losing contact with his mother and sister; living with his grandmother and cousin; learning his grandmother was shot in November and of the Babi Yar massacre; living in an orphanage in Kiev as a non-Jew; acquaintances who did not r...

  7. Doba Drezner and Oscar Albert and Bernard and Herman Jezower collection

    The collection consists of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Herman and Bernard Jezower, and a wooden cover, metal box, toolbox, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Oscar Albert, who was deported from the Rzeszow ghetto and imprisoned Plaszow forced labor camp, Mielec slave labor camp, and Flossenburg concentration camp, after the war in a displaced persons camp, and a metal box, wooden cover, and poesie album relating to the experiences of Doba Drezner in an orphanage in Czestochowa, Poland. An accretion of documents, photographs, correspondence...

  8. Doba Drezner and Oscar Albert and Bernard and Herman Jezower collection

    The collection consists of documents, books, a camera and a kippah.

  9. Doba-Necha Cukierman collection

    Consists of original and photocopied wartime documents, dated April 1942 to December 1943, between Doba Necha (Zajfsztajn) Cukierman and her friends and family, including correspondence conducted under false names. Includes correspondence from Doba-Necha's brother Boruch, letters to the Prokop family who took over Doba's husband Szyja's fruit business, and between Doba (using her false name Zofia) and Szyja (using his false name Janek). Also included is a pamphlet and photograph of the Głusk Jewish Cemetery, where Doba's parents were murdered and a drawing created by Doba-Necha of the barn ...

  10. Dobeles pilsētas valde

    • Dobele City Council
    • Stadtverwaltung Dobeln

    The fonds contains information about the administration of the town since 1918. The wartime documents include lists of Jewish belongings and purchases of Jewish property (February 1942).

  11. Dobiecki family papers

    The collection documents Barech and Golda Dobiecki and their daughter Bella’s experiences as they emigrated from Essen, Germany on the MS St. Louis 1939, their disembarkation in England, their immigration to Brazil, and their eventual immigration to the United States. The collection also documents the earlier immigrations of the Dobiecki’s daughters Hella to Brazil and the United States, and Bronia to the United States. Included are identification papers, restitution papers, immigration and travel documents, letters from the Jewish Refugees Committee while they were in England, corresponden...

  12. Dobka W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dobka W., who was born in Golice, Poland in approximately 1920. She recounts marriage in 1939; fleeing with her husband to Khodoriv, then Buchach during the German invasion; Soviet occupation; moving to Vilnius via Lida and Eis?is?ke?s, where local Jews assisted them; German invasion in June 1941; escaping as a non-Jew; finding her husband; living near Trakai until February 1943; moving to the Vilna ghetto; forced relocation to Ries?e?; public hangings; separation from her husband; deportation to Kaiserwald; slave labor for A.E.G.; volunteering for difficult jobs to o...

  13. Dobrotvorno društvo "Prehrana" Zagreb

    • The Jewish charity society "Prehrana" in Zagreb

    Founded by Šandor Alexander pl. Sesvetski (April 5, 1866 – December 17, 1929), a Croatian nobleman, industrialist, and philanthropist; he was the younger brother of Samuel David Alexander and a member of the prominent Alexander family of Zagreb.

  14. Dobroye collection

    Consists of one memoir, written by Arkadiy Pilnik, describing the town of Dobroye, Nikolayevskaya oblast, Ukraine, and the aktion on August 28, 1941, which resulted in the deaths of the Jewish residents of the town, including many members of Mr. Pilnik's family. Included are copyprints of photographs of his father, sister, and grandmother, who perished in the aktion; copyprints of photographs of the memorial headstone to commemorate the victims; and a copy of a letter informing Mr. Pilnik of the deaths.

  15. Doctor and Gestapo prisoner testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 489) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Thomas J. Dodd, US prosecution, introducing witness Dr. Franz Blaha. Dodd reads Dr. Blaha's signed affidavit telling of his career as head of a hospital in Czechoslovakia and his experiences as a Gestapo prisoner. The affidavit reveals that the Germans used healthy prisoners for various medical experiments. If the prisoners did not die in the experiments they were later killed. Additional trial footage missing from NARA original documentation: (Lieutenant Breshnen?) Prosecutor (from behind) reads an affidavit of someone de...

  16. Doctor testifies about Frick at Nuremberg Trial

    War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Dr. Franz Blaha testifying on stand and being cross examined by several defense attorneys. One defense attorney questions Blaha as to Funk's visit to Dachau: when exactly he had visited. Attorney of Frick says that his defendant claims not to have ever been to Dachau. He asks Blaha from which distance he thinks to have seen Frick there. Blaha responds Frick passed by him with several people. Attorney asks if Blaha recognized Frick himself or was told by other prisoners that this was Frick. Blaha responds he had seen Frick before in se...

  17. Doctor's bag

  18. Docu-drama on the Nuremberg trials

    Stanley Kramer's docu-drama examining Nazism and the Nuremberg Trials.

  19. Document

    The Jewish Communities of Shanghai collection comprises photocopies of a sample of archival materials about the Jewish communities of Shanghai from archival and private sources in Taipei, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Materials include records from the Kuomintang Archives and Shanghai Municipal Archives and from individuals Regina Strubreiter, Annemarie Pordes, and Tess Johnston. Records from the Kuomintang Archives include catalogs, foreign ministry records, Shanghai city government announcements, Shanghai Kuomintang Party records, newspapers, and clippings. Records from the Shanghai Municipal ...

  20. Document