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Documentation including circulars regarding Martin Bormann and photographs from the Warsaw Ghetto, from 1935-1941

Documentation including circulars regarding Martin Bormann and photographs from the Warsaw Ghetto, from 1935-1941 - circular signed by Heinrich Himmler from Berlin that was distributed to all police stations in the Reich on 26 June 1935, with an instruction to approve the collection of funds from the Jews by the National Zionist Committee for the purpose of the emigration of the Jews to Eretz Israel; - circular from Cologne dated 5 November 1935 to the national police station in Cologne, the heads of the region, the mayor of Bonn and the Cologne police chief regarding the lifting of the ban on Dr. Martin...

File Number : 653

Type of Material : Circular, Administrative Documentation, Photograph

Language : German

Personal documentation: A notebook written in Yiddish during the war by Eliezer Shapiro who fought with the partisans in Belorussian forests

Personal documentation: A notebook written in Yiddish during the war by Eliezer Shapiro who fought with the partisans in Belorussian forests The notebook contains training material for the fighters, a mission command from command headquarters, 25 October 1943, certificates indicating his membership in the partisans battallion and documents from his stay in Eretz Israel; Included in the file: Newspaper clippings, photographs of certificates and medals of recognition, and a slideshow of all the documents and the Hebrew translation of some of these documents.

File Number : 364

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Certification, Order, Instruction, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian, Yiddish

Issues of the RSHA internal bulletin "Befehlsblatt des Chefs der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD", Berlin, 11/05/1940 - 12/03/1945

Issues of the RSHA internal bulletin "Befehlsblatt des Chefs der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD", Berlin, 11/05/1940 - 12/03/1945 These internal bulletins included official information especially about the personnel of the Gestapo and about new edicts and official instructions. The file is divided into two folders - reference file 6/I (pp. 1-131; 11.05.1940 - 30.12.1942) and 6/II (pp. 132- 274;29.01.1943 - 12.03.1945).

File Number : 101

Language : German

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 14 October 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 14 October 1949 Important note: The following statement is from the point of view of the Defense. Charge 4: The inhumane treatment of POWs: Number of POWs; There were a total of 430,000 POWs between 09/1941 until von Manstein left the Crimea in July 1942 (p. 4); History of the campaign (pp. 4-5); Food situation (pp. 5-9); Handing over of POWs to the SD: Persons in the hands of the SD were not candidates for a death sentence; Employment of persons, even Jews, by the SD;...

File Number : 27

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Indictment

Language : English

Testimony of Eitan Porat, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Chust Ghetto, Buna, a death march and Dora

Testimony

Testimony of Eitan Porat, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Chust Ghetto, Buna, a death march and Dora His family; his father is a tailor; his father's hobbies include nature, birds and sports. Hungarian occupation and deterioration of the situation, 1939; restrictions on the Jews from 1942; excommunication by the Jewish community of Jews involved in Zionist activities and who plan to make aliya to Eretz Israel; establishment of the Chust Ghetto, 1944; confiscation of Jewish property; deportation of the family to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection; separation from his...

File Number : 9578

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lucille (Landau) Eichengreen, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Birkenau, Hamburg, Sasel and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Lucille (Landau) Eichengreen, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Birkenau, Hamburg, Sasel and a death march Her family's life until 1933; her parents were originally from Poland and emigrated to Germany after World War I; financially secure; witness attends a Jewish school; change in the general mood, from 1933; anti-Jewish legislation; changes in the attitude of the local population; yellow badge, from 1941. Deportation of her father to Dachau where he perished, 1941; deportation of the family to Poland due to the parents' Polish origin, August...

File Number : 9556

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

"The German Penal System under the Nazi Regime", essay written by Dr. Bruno Blau

"The German Penal System under the Nazi Regime", essay written by Dr. Bruno Blau In the file: 2-Scanned File: Postwar "The German Penal System under the Nazi Regime", essay by Dr. Bruno Blau, New York, describing the history of Nazi law from its early days undermining lawful procedures to its totally arbitrary approach to prosecution: - Executions of politically undesirable persons during the "Night of the Long Knives"; - Death penalties, based on overriding of court decisions by direct intervention of Hitler; - The "Nacht und Nebel Erlass" (Night and Fog Decree), 1941; - Nazi...

File Number : 325

Type of Material : Research Article, Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Documentation from the State Archives of the Volyn Region, from 1919-1946

Documentation from the State Archives of the Volyn Region, from 1919-1946. The archives were founded in December, 1939 and named the Volyn Regional Historical Archive, reporting to the Volyn Regional Archive Department of the Ukrainian People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. In 1941 it was given a new name – the State Archives of the Volyn Region. The archive was closed from June 1941 until March 1944, during the Nazi occupation. During the post-war years, archive employees conducted a great deal of work concerning systematization, scientific and technical documents processing, improvement of their...

Type of Material : Financial Accounts, List of Healthcare Workers, List of Jewish Homeowners, List of Forced Laborers, Lists of Businesses and Skilled Workers, Death Certificate, List of Homeowners, Names, List of Jewish Pharmacists, List of Pharmacy Workers, Correspondence, Card File, List of Voters, List of Jewish Physicians, Official Documentation, List of Jewish Residents, List of Ghetto Inmates, List of Clinic Workers, List of Persecuted Persons, List of Residents, Birth Certificate, List of Jewish Pupils, Vouchers, Work Permit

Language : Polish, Russian, Ukrainian

Letters sent by Red Army Captain Yakov Khryakovski from the front, to his wife Vera Agranat and his children in the evacuation in Kostino Otdelets in 1942; documentation related to Vera Agranat and her husband, who died in battle in January 1943 Documentation issued by the Military Archive in Podolsk during 1933-2016: - Letters sent by Red Army Captain Yakov Khryakovski from the front, to his wife Vera Agranat and his children in the evacuation in Kostino Otdelets in the Voronezh region during 25/03-04/12/1942; - Letter sent to Vera Agranat in Kostino Otdelets by Ivan Petrov, commander of a Red Army...

File Number : 4061

Type of Material : Postcard, Official Documentation, Letter, Certification, Newspaper Clippings, Order, Personal Documents, Birth Certificate

Language : Russian

Declaration submitted by Bercu Comunisteanu, regarding wearing a yellow badge in Harlau during 1941-1943, and documentation regarding the experiences of Bercu Comunisteanu during the Holocaust period, including the persecution of Jews in Dorohoi - Declaration submitted by Bercu Comunisteanu, regarding wearing a yellow badge in Harlau during 27/08/1941-31/12/1943, dated, 02/08/2011 (in Hebrew); - Document regarding the payment of compensation to Bercu Comunisteanu, issued in Koblenz, in German (undated), including comments written by Bercu Comunisteanu, in Hebrew; - Order addressed to the Jews of...

File Number : 482

Type of Material : Certification, Order, Declaration

Language : Hebrew, Romanian, German

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