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Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 55, 17/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Murder of Josef Hornitzky, of Volksdeutsche (German minority) origin, who served as mayor of the city of Eisnern in the Kaernten and Kraine area, Yugoslavia; carrying out the murder by Communists on account of the murdered man's ties with the Gestapo; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen: Einsatzgruppe C: Presence in Pervomaysk; propaganda of...

File Number : 163.55

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Documentation regarding the persecution of the Jews of Georgensgmuend including the sale of Jewish property, liquidation of the old Jewish cemetery and more, 1925-1967

Documentation regarding the persecution of the Jews of Georgensgmuend including the sale of Jewish property, liquidation of the old Jewish cemetery and more, 1925-1967 Page 2: Letter from the Buergermeister (mayor) of Georgensgmuend to four Jews notifying them that they may no longer live in Georgensgmuend and therefore they must negotiate with an official legal representative regarding the sale of their property; there is punishment for negotiation with any other body; on the letter there are signatures of the addressees confirming receipt of the letter, 29 November 1938; Page 3: Letter from the...

File Number : 402

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation

Language : German

Confirmation that the merchant, Leyzor Rozencwajg, and his family do not have criminal records, issued by the Mayor of Teterow, 06 July 1938

Confirmation that the merchant, Leyzor Rozencwajg, and his family do not have criminal records, issued by the Mayor of Teterow, 06 July 1938 Confirmation that the merchant, Leyzor Rozencwajg, his wife, Chaje Liebe Rozencwajg, and their four children Else, Siegmund, Annemarie and Traudi, all Polish citizens, do not have criminal records; the confirmation is issued by the Mayor of Teterow as the Ortspolizeibehoerde (local police authority) for the purpose of the emigration of Leyzor Rozencwajg and his family, 06 July 1938.

File Number : 387

Type of Material : Document, Record of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation, Personal Records

Language : German

Testimony of Zvi Shnitzer, regarding his experiences in the Kolomyja Ghetto

Testimony of Zvi Shnitzer, regarding his experiences in the Kolomyja Ghetto Life before the war. Hungarian occupation; restrictions on Jews including confiscation of gold and silver; deportation of Jews to Szeparowce; deportation to the Kolomyja Ghetto, 06 April 1942; ghetto life including robbery of property by the Ukrainians; draft to forced labor; deportation of Jews from Kitev, Roznow and Kosow to the ghetto; rescue from deportation to Belzec as a skilled professional; escape of Jews to the Romanian border; deportation of Jews and rescue, 11 October 1942; escape of Jews to Hungary and their capture by...

File Number : 400

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish

Documentation written by a senior member of the Gebietskommissariat (District commission) of Siauliai, regarding the taking of control over Jewish property in Raseiniai by the SS, 1941

Documentation written by a senior member of the Gebietskommissariat (District commission) of Siauliai, regarding the taking of control over Jewish property in Raseiniai by the SS, 1941 The document (Aktenbermerk - a comment to a file) was written a senior member of the district (Gebietskommissariat), and not by the Gebietskommissar (District commissioner); the document constitutes part of the correspondence between the Reichskommissar Ostland (Reichs commissioner in Ostland), and the regional commissioners and the Reichs Ministry for the Occupied Territories in the East, regarding the struggle over authority...

File Number : 143

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation regarding the directives for propaganda in the press in preparation for Operation Barbarossa, and regarding the transfer of part of the Ukraine area to civil administration, 1941

Documentation regarding the directives for propaganda in the press in preparation for Operation Barbarossa, and regarding the transfer of part of the Ukraine area to civil administration, 1941 Directives for propaganda in the press in preparation for Operation Barbarossa: There is no change in the outlook toward the Soviet Union and the Bolsheviks, but Germany abstains from the struggle against the Soviet Union and the Bolsheviks for the purpose of preventing war on two fronts; request that the press relate to the attack in the East as a type of struggle against the Bolshevik ideology and the danger...

File Number : 114

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Contacts with Jews in Nazi occupied countries and reports on events there, by country: Germany, 1933-1945

Contacts with Jews in Nazi occupied countries and reports on events there, by country: Germany, 1933-1945 The file contains: Pages 1-7: Report regarding persecution and situation of the Jews in Germany, in the years 1933-1941, (with no information regarding the author or date); Pages 8-9: Report regarding the situation in Germany, and the economic, military-political and moral situation of the population, with reference to the Jews at the end of the report, 1942, (with no information regarding the author or date); Pages 10-14: Copy of a letter from a German Jew, describing events in Germany and...

File Number : 50

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Protocol, Survey Report

Language : German

Documentation regarding the evacuation of the population in the Noordholland region, 1943-1945

Documentation regarding the evacuation of the population in the Noordholland region, 1943-1945 - Underground announcement including a report regarding an attack on an SS patrol vehicle by residents of the village of Akersloot; escape of five Jews from the patrol vehicle; freeing of two Dutch workers who had been arrested in the past by the SS because they had failed to report for Arbeitseinsatz (forced labor) (p. 1); - List of the names of citizens evacuated to the village of Koedijk; the list was sent by the mayor of Koedijk to the director of the Evacuatiebureau (Evacuation Office) in Alkmaar; there are...

File Number : 71

Type of Material : List of Names, Official Documentation

Language : Dutch

Documentation regarding the administration of the Litzmannstadt (Lodz) Ghetto, 1940-1944

Documentation regarding the administration of the Litzmannstadt (Lodz) Ghetto, 1940-1944 Included in the file: 24/09/1941 Excerpt from a letter addressed to the District Governor, with an appeal to take protective measures concerning a planned deportation of Gypsies to the Lodz Ghetto, (page 3), 08/11/1940 Report by the Deputy Director of Administration of the Lodz Ghetto, Alexander Palfinger, addressed to the mayor of Lodz, concerning the administration of the Lodz Ghetto, including an organization plan for the Lodz Ghetto, prepared by himself; significant excerpts include: "...even an...

File Number : 78

Type of Material : Note, List of Names, Official Documentation, Letter(s), Lists, Reports, Administrative Documentation

Language : German

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Documentation from the Merzig municipality in the Saar region Documentation from the Kultusministerium (Ministry of Religions and Education) of the Saar region

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Laws and Decrees, Survey Report, Statistical Data

Language : German

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