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Collection of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, the Netherlands, 1945-1967

Collection of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, the Netherlands, 1945-1967 Establishment of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, in July 1945, in order to locate Dutch property - personal property and state property - such as: diamonds, machinery, art collections, stamp collections, banking securities, church bells and other items that were "purchased" or stolen and transferred to Germany and to other countries during the German occupation; Included in the...

Type of Material : Survey Report, Lists, Reports, Document

Language : Dutch, German

Documentation of the Skopje Jewish community, 1941-1943

Documentation of the Skopje Jewish community, 1941-1943 Documentation of the Skopje Jewish community from occupation of Skopje by the Bulgarian Army until summer, 1943. -The anti-Jewish legislation; - Lists of poor Jews and foreign citizens; - German documents regarding deportation of the Jews; - Blank forms regarding confiscation of property after the deportation; - Government decisions; - Photographs of the deportation including deportation of the Jews of Thrace.

File Number : 26

Type of Material : List of Persecuted Persons, List of Jews, Official Documentation, Photograph

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew, German, Serbian-Croatian

Personal documentation belonging to Dr. Alexander Farkas and Edith Farkas, who were deported from the Protectorate to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1942-1945

Personal documentation belonging to Dr. Alexander Farkas and Edith Farkas, who were deported from the Protectorate to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1942-1945 Also in the file: - Letters written by Dr. Alexander Farkas and Edith Farkas from the Theresienstadt Ghetto to Ms. Wilhelmine Kulka from Předmostí, 1944; - Letters written by Dr. Alexander Farkas from the Sachsenhausen camp and the Oranienburg camp to Ms. Wilhelmine Kulka from Předmostí, 1944-1945; - Identification papers issued to Dr. Alexander Farkas by the Czech Repatriation Office, July, November 1945; - Letter from Dr. Alexander Farkas from...

File Number : 429

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Czech, German

Article by Jerzy Tokar regarding the activities of the Jewish Post Office in the ghettos in the Lodz Region during the period of the German occupation of Poland

Article by Jerzy Tokar regarding the activities of the Jewish Post Office in the ghettos in the Lodz Region during the period of the German occupation of Poland Circumstances behind the establishment of the Jewish Post Office during the war; Jewish Post Office activities in the ghettos; limitations on the activities of the Jewish Post Office, and censorship of the letters; statistics from Jewish Post Office branches in the Lodz Region; map of the Lodz Ghetto; history of the Post Office in the Lodz Ghetto; lists of post office rubber stamps and postal stamps from the Lodz Ghetto; examples of post office...

File Number : 210

Type of Material : Article, Research Article

Language : Polish

Letters, postcards and documents from the Second World War and books about mail during the Holocaust

Letters, postcards and documents from the Second World War and books about mail during the Holocaust Also in the file: - a book titled "Handbook of the mail in the concentration camps 1933-1945 and related material” - “A Postal History" written by Sam Simon; - A book titled "Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust as seen through postage stamps" [in Hebrew] written by Aryeh Hin-Lindenbaum, published in Tel Aviv in 2010; - Stamps on the subject of commemorating the Holocaust; [The postcards, letters and documents were collected by the submitter of the material. Their origin is unknown]

File Number : 5306

Type of Material : Research Literature, Postcard, Letter, Personal Records, Certification, Envelope

Language : Polish, French, English, Russian, German

Documentation demonstrating the functioning of the postal services in Europe during the war period

Documentation demonstrating the functioning of the postal services in Europe during the war period 1) Red Cross letter sent by Margot Seiferth from Altenburg camp to Edith Portje in Zichron Yaakov on 06/12/1942, including the addressees' reply, without indication of the date, in German; 2) Postcards and envelopes documenting the functioning of the postal services in camps in France: - Postcard sent to Jose Neves in Vernet camp by Mme. de Sousa in Paris on 10/06/1941, and [postcard sent to Jose Neves in Vernet camp] by Mme. Chambert in Paris on 29/09/1941; - Postcard sent to Mme. Wagner in Bale (Basle)...

File Number : 3443

Type of Material : Red Cross Letter, Postcard, Letter, Investigation Report, Caricatures, Legal Documentation, Identity Card, Order, Propaganda, Poster

Language : Bulgarian, Polish, Czech, French, Romanian, German, Hungarian

Postcard sent by members of the Schlieszer family in Budapest to Magda Federer in Jánosháza, and a collection belonging to Dr. Henry Fenigstein, including postcards, letters and envelopes that were sent in most part by Jews from camps, ghettos and army units during 1938-1947 - Postcard sent by members of the Schlieszer family in Budapest to Magda (Schlieszer) Federer in Jánosháza; the date is indecipherable (after 1943); - Letter sent to Dr. Henry Fenigstein in Toronto by the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research in New York, with a request for the use of rare stamp marks (related to the Warsaw Ghetto in...

File Number : 4099

Type of Material : Envelope, Personal Documents, Letter, Names, Postcard

Language : Multiple Languages, English, German, Hungarian

Documentation from William Wolfgang Brickman’s term of service in the United States Army in 1943–1946

Documentation from William Wolfgang Brickman’s term of service in the United States Army in 1943–1946 - documents pertaining to William W. Brickman’s military service, issued in 1942–1946; - materials associated with the Nazi regime, gathered by William W. Brickman, during his military service in Germany. The collection includes envelopes, stamps, banknotes, coupons, and certificates of members of the NSDAP and the Sudetendeutsche Heimatfront (including stamps that certify payment of membership dues), etc.

File Number : 53

Type of Material : Stamp, Personal Documents, Envelope, Money, Administrative Documentation

Language : English, German

Documentation regarding the Grin, Factor and Kahana families during 1939-1949

Documentation regarding the Grin, Factor and Kahana families during 1939-1949 - Segment of a letter written by Fishel Efraim Factor, the son of Yitzhak Leib and Chana from Lodz; - Announcement from the United National Fund for Israel and for the Interests of the Jews in Havana, expressing their thanks to Ignace Grin for his support and a certificate of appreciation with a map of Israel, 11/05/1949; - Postcard sent to M. Factor in Theresienstadt camp by his wife, from Vysoke Myto, Czechoslovakia on 26/0/8/1943; Hitler's portrait appears on the stamps; - Photograph from the wedding of Efraim Fishel...

File Number : 3791

Type of Material : Journal, Letter, Postcard

Language : German, Yiddish, Hungarian

Letters and various documents related to members of the Marcus and Matteman families from Amsterdam, 1942-1945

Letters and various documents related to members of the Marcus and Matteman families from Amsterdam, 1942-1945 Correspondence between the brother of the submitter of the material Jacob Jaapje Hijman Marcus, born in Amsterdam in 1934, as a child, with his parents and grandparents (the correspondence is in Dutch and with a translation to English by the submitter of the material); her brother was deported from his hiding place to the Westerbork transit camp and was transferred from there to Auschwitz camp, where he perished; his parents and grandparents were in various hiding places including in Vinkeveen and...

File Number : 3062

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Memoirs Literature

Language : English, Dutch

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