Documentation of the area office for recruitment of laborers in Grodno, 1942-1944
 
 The Collection includes work summons for Jews in the Grodno Ghetto for work in various companies in the city; correspondence of various factories in Grodno with the local employment office (Arbeitsamt) regarding Jewish laborers from the Grodno Ghetto, procedures for payment of wages and requests for Jewish ...

Documentation of the German rule in Grodno, 1941-1942
 
 The Collection includes an appeal by the Jewish community to the municipal administration asking to install a sewer system in the main synagogue; an appeal by the person in charge of the Polish cemetery to the municipal administration regarding the payment of salaries to Jewish workers; permit granted by the mayor of Grodno to have ...

Documentation of the commissioner of the Grodno district affiliated with the Zivilverwaltung (civilian administration) of the Bialystok region, 1941-1944
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 Correspondence regarding industrial factories and skilled professionals in the Bialystok region; directive of the Reichskommissar fuer das Ostland (Reichs commissioner for Ostland) in Riga, given ...

Philip Chaleff was born in Poland in 1910. He immigrated to the United States in 1923.

M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground 
 
 The archive gets its name from Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff, who set up the archive in early 1943, and Zvi Mersik, one of Mordechai Tenenbaum's outstanding aides, who continued to maintain the archive after Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff's death.
 
 Most of the documentation, which was ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Irene Weiner

Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov, Scranton - London 2010.

Consists of a baptismal certificate for Sophia Balitzer, originally issued in 1935 and reissued in 1947; a marriage certificate, dated 1936 at the parish of Sw. Magdaleny in Grodno; a 1945 identity card with photograph issued to Regina Balitzer, originally of Radom; and a postcard sent from Z. Baltizer in the Tarnow ghetto to his sister, M. Adout, in Lausanne, Switzerland, dated 1942. The baptismal ...

Documentation of the German authorities and the local authorities in Belorussia, 1941-1944
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 List of Jewish residents from Skidel who paid taxes; list of Jews from Mosty, prepared by the Judenrat, 20/11/1941; documentation regarding investigations of Jews by the Ortskommandatur Grodno, 1941; list of Jews from the Korelichi Ghetto, 1942; documentation ...

Collection of Belorussian sources regarding various matters, from the 1920s until the 1990s
 
 In the collection is a list of owners of apartments in Minsk [used] for hiding, who were active during 1941-1944; newspaper clippings from the Red Army newspaper, "Boyevoy listok", regarding Nazi war criminals in Belorussia during 1941-1944; (the number of people who perished in the Belorussia and ...

Engraved marker for the grave of Chaja Gitla Fortunska recovered in Łódź, Poland, after the war by her daughter Alicja Dworzecka. On January 28, 1943, Chaja, 55, was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Łódź Ghetto, having passed away after unsuccessful intestinal surgery at the ghetto hospital. Chaja, husband Jankiel, children Dawid, Alicja, and Moniek, with their spouses, were residents of Łódź, which ...

Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan
 
 Memorial booklet - "Les Enfants de La Hille - 1942" (excerpts of testimonies in French and German);
 
 Testimonies/ interviews/ experiences/ memoirs:
 
 1. Shlomit Enzel;
 2. Lea Bahat;
 3. ...

The Josef Baur papers consists of correspondence, identification documents, photographs, and two photo albums relating to Josef Baur (b. 1907) and his family. The papers relate to Josef Baur’s military experiences as a member of the Police Battalion 131 and the 14th SS Police Regiment during World War II. The majority of the correspondence is between Josef Baur and his wife, Agnes Baur (b. 1910) and ...

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Assembled color negative rolls containing location filming of Poland and Israel for SHOAH. The original color negatives were received in cans labeled "Tu Ne Commetras Pas Le Crime," 1991. The prints were in cans marked "Retirages de Shoah" which roughly translates to "Miscellaneous Reprints of Shoah". FILM ID 3196 -- Bobine 3. Retirages de Shoah (43:16) [Tu ne commetras pas de crime Boite G. Łódź] ...

Copyright Holder: Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv

This documentary in the style of a Wochenschau [weekly newsreel] depicts the 'irresistible' military advance of the German army on the Eastern front of WWII, its reception as 'liberators' by the respective populations, & the scorched earth left behind by the retreating Soviet troops. Scenes show the German-Finnish border & the polar circle the German army crossed in summer 1941 as they advanced toward ...

Christopher R. Browning (b. 1944) is an American historian of the Holocaust. A longtime faculty member of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (1999-2004) and Pacific Lutheran University (1974-1999), he is best known as the author of "Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland" (1992). During the 1990s, he served as an expert witness in criminal proceedings ...

Contains information about the experiences of Nina Kaleska in Auschwitz and her thoughts on Jewish-Christian relations in the years since the Holocaust. Also included is a copy of a love poem in German written during the Holocaust.

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Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...