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Confirmation of Citizenship
Deportees From France
Gestapo - Secret State Police
Guardianship
Icrc - International Committee of the Red Cross
Aliya
Information Regarding Relatives and Friends
Jewish Schools - Poland
Last Letters
British Government
Concentration Camps
Deportation to Camps
Emigration
Expulsion From Germany
German Jews
Mail
Knowledge Concerning the Murder of Relatives and Acquaintances
Mass Burial
Deportation From the Netherlands
Deportation to Extermination Camps
Emigration After the War
Holocaust Survivors
Burial
Death Certificates
Jewish Soldiers - Red Army
Jews of Romania
Letters
Certificate
Deportation of Dutch Jews
Exchange of Jews for Germans