Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

The Stockholm Collection contains the records of JDC’s Stockholm office during the years 1941-1967. The majority of the materials focus on the Stockholm office’s activities during World War II and in the postwar period from 1944-1949. In wartime, JDC’s Stockholm office, strategically located in neutral Sweden, was well-placed to coordinate the delivery of supplies to survivors and refugees in Europe, ...

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) is an international organization founded by resolution of the First World jewish Congress, which took place in August 1936 in Geneva. The organization goal is to defend the political, social, and economic rights of Jews throughout the world. Its governing bodies were elected at the First World Jewish Congress: the executive committee headed by Stephen Wise (also the ...

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) is an international organization founded by resolution of the First World jewish Congress, which took place in August 1936 in Geneva. The organization goal is to defend the political, social, and economic rights of Jews throughout the world. Its governing bodies were elected at the First World Jewish Congress: the executive committee headed by Stephen Wise (also the ...

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), Geneva Office, relating to global overseas operations in the immediate post-World War II (WWII) period: global rescue and relief efforts, primarily focused on resettling Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors around the world; facilitating the renewal of Jewish life in Europe; rebuilding Jewish communal institutions; and providing ...

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) is an international organization founded by resolution of the First World jewish Congress, which took place in August 1936 in Geneva. The organization goal is to defend the political, social, and economic rights of Jews throughout the world. Its governing bodies were elected at the First World Jewish Congress: the executive committee headed by Stephen Wise (also the ...

Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section

This collection contains lists of Polish civilians murdered by the Germans during the occupation. The booklet contains lists submitted by the families of people killed in Częstochowa and during the September campaign, and the German occupation. Contains also a list of widows, orphans and other family members of fallen participants in the resistance movement. The lists include also Jewish names. Lists ...

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) is an international organization founded by resolution of the First World jewish Congress, which took place in August 1936 in Geneva. The organization goal is to defend the political, social, and economic rights of Jews throughout the world. Its governing bodies were elected at the First World Jewish Congress: the executive committee headed by Stephen Wise (also the ...

Selected files from the UK National Archives relating to the British investigation and prosecution of war crimes immediately after World War II (WO 309: War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office, British Army of the Rhine War Crimes Group (North West Europe) and predecessors: Registered Files (BAOR and other series) & WO 311: Judge Advocate General's Office, Military Deputy's Department, and War ...

Contains information about the life of Arthur Seyss-Inquart; the indictment of Seyss-Inquart; and general information about the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.

This collection contains selected files created by the County Prosecutor’s Office concerning Articles 1 and 2 of the decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”). These inquiries did not find their way to trial because the perpetrator could not be found, was found dead, or had escaped abroad, or the evidence was not sufficient to bring the case to the court, etc. The files of each case contains: information ...

The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was created on June 13, 1942, to centralize and control the content and production of government information and propaganda about the war. It coordinated the release of war news for domestic use, and using posters along with radio broadcasts, worked to promote patriotism, warn about foreign spies, and recruit women into war work. The office also established ...

Prep. for the War Office by the Ministry of Information. 59 p. : ill. ; 35 cm

The Central Files (1919-1971) contain the history of the World Jewish Congress (especially prior to 1940); correspondence and other materials of important World Jewish Congress leaders (Stephen S. Wise, Nahum Goldman, Israel Goldstein and Administrative/Executive directors of the New York office: Abraham S. Hyman, Monty Jacobs, Yehuda Ebstein, Greta Beigel); and minutes and other records of plenary ...

No. 1 (Jan. 30, 1943)-no. 7 (Feb. 15, 1946). 7 volumes ; 28 cm

The Military Intelligence Division (MID) was established in the War Department in 1918. It became one of the five General Staff divisions in 1921 and was assigned the additional designation of "G-2." One function of the MID was the maintenance of information files on foreign countries. Documents for the files were collected from a variety of sources in various parts of the world. After the entry of ...

In order to deal with numerous complaints, the Belgian Government-in-exile in Poitiers established the Office for the Identification and Liquidation of Belgian Goods through a decree passed by ministers in council on 3 June 1940. The mission of this office was to identify goods and preserve the property rights of Belgian goods in France whose owners were absent as a result of the war; to follow up ...

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) is an international organization founded by resolution of the First World jewish Congress, which took place in August 1936 in Geneva. The organization goal is to defend the political, social, and economic rights of Jews throughout the world. Its governing bodies were elected at the First World Jewish Congress: the executive committee headed by Stephen Wise (also the ...

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) is an international organization founded by resolution of the First World jewish Congress, which took place in August 1936 in Geneva. The organization goal is to defend the political, social, and economic rights of Jews throughout the world. Its governing bodies were elected at the First World Jewish Congress: the executive committee headed by Stephen Wise (also the ...

Poster created by Ben Shahn for the US Office of War Information as a response to the Nazi-led annihilation and destruction of communities throughout the Czech Republic, including Lidice. It also protests the retaliatory measures taken for the attempted assassination by Czech resistance members of Reinhard Heydrich, director of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, under the Nazi occupation.

This collection was processed by Ayala Levin-Kruss in 2011. Its finding aid was produced by Tamar Zeffren in 2015.