These two postcards offer a brief insight into conditions at Gurs internment camp experienced by Berta Kahnheimer, a German (?) Jewish inmate.

Librement communicable

The collection contains the central card index of camp, payment cards, and correspondence of the camp administration.

Documentation from concentration camps and POW camps in Germany from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1938-1944
 
 The collection contains files regarding personnel matters, among them reports concerning transfers of staff members (including members of the Totenkopf units), promotion and the awarding of medals, and personal files of staff members; guidelines for Inspektion der Konzentrationslager ...

Mention obligatoire : Mémorial de la Shoah. Pas d’utilisation sans autorisation préalable.

Copyright Holder: NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies

This collection covers topics such as the “Jewish religion,” converted Jews, internment of Jews in camps, deportation of Jews to Transnistria, Jews accused of communism, the Jews of Czernovitz (Cernăuţi), and repatriation of deported Jews.

Gurs was a major internment camp in France, near Oloron-Sainte-Marie and 80 kilometers from the Spanish border. Established in 1939 to absorb Republican refugees from Spain, Gurs served later as a concentration camp for Jews from France and refugees from other countries. While under the administration of Vichy France (1940-1942) most non-Jewish prisoners were released and approximately 2000 Jews were ...

Consists of copies of Auschwitz administration records and copies of log books of prisoners' names. The documents relate to general camp operations, distribution of labor, orders from the Kommandant, transfer of prisoners to and from other camps, and biographical information concerning several Auschwitz prisoners. See RG list for titles of RG-04.013*01 through RG-04.013*06.

Copyright Holder: United States. National Archives and Records Administration

Description of the files are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room/

Saul Sorrin (1919-1995) was recruited to work for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). Sorrin initially worked as a supply officer based at the Neu Freimann camp outside of Munich before becoming area director of the Munich region in 1946. He oversaw the closing of the Neu Freimann camp when UNRRA transferred its operation to the International Refugee Organization (IRO) ...

Documentation of the Kerch municipal administration, from the first occupation period 
 
 Directives and orders issued by the municipal administration, lists of municipal workers, lists of German Army soldiers, lists of local residents, and circulars on various subjects: Karaites and more, work documents.
 
 German Army forces occupied Kerch for the first time on 16 November 1941. ...

Contains three series of original German records identifying inmates of the Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, for the period April 1944 to April 1945. The first group is a name series, and the other two smaller series consist of cards organized by block (barrack) number to which the inmate was assigned, and occupations or trades to which some of the ...

Copyright Holder: United States. National Archives and Records Administration

http://voices.iit.edu/ Description of the files are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room

Little girl and other female inmates look beyond barbed wire at a lorry and a trailer filled with dead. In the trailer there are two SS prisoners, including Dr. Klein. MS of little girl watching female bodies being dragged/buried (on other side of barbed wire). Cut to waiting trucks with bodies and diggers. MLS across open grave where British guards and Burgermeisters stand around pit. MS local dignitaries ...

M.1.D - Documentation of the Dachau concentration camp
 
 In the collection there are files from the Dachau concentration camp which were transferred to Yad Vashem by the Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied zone.
 In the collection there is administrational documentation including a few files kept by the camp administration.
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Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Selected files from the following departments of the Ministry of Public Administration in Warsaw: The Cabinet of the Minister (Gabinet Ministra), Political Department (Departament Polityczny), Department of Administration and Law (Departament Administracyjno-Prawny), Department of Religious Denominations (Departament Wyznaniowy). The materials refer to: repatriation, the organization and activities ...

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Hans Pfeiffer (July 20, 1910 – Dec.11, 1998), was born in Zürich, Switzerland. He was an insurance agent, inspector for the Eidgenössische Zentralstelle der Heime und Lager (Swiss Central Administration of Asylums and Camps). The co-founder of several youth organizations against the frontist movement and national-socialist infiltration in Switzerland; 1938 to 1939 involved with the Tatgemeinschaft ...

This article presents a methodology designed to yield a comprehensive and nuanced analysis of the behaviour of prisoner-functionaries in Nazi camps: the coercion-resistance spectrum. After a short discussion of historiographical trends related to Jewish functionaries and to Jewish resistance to the Nazis, the article details this new analytical approach to these figures whose assigned tasks facilitated ...

Clinton Gardner was born in 1922 in New York. He attended Exeter Academy in New Hampshire before enrolling in Dartmouth University in 1940. With the prospect of war looming, he volunteered for service with the U.S. Army. He attended Officer Candidate School, and was placed in an anti-aircraft unit, and eventually reached the rank of First Lieutenant. Gardner served as part of the D-Day Operation on ...