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"Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler's art looting agency in Paris, he went on to help supervise the systematic theft and distribution of more than thirty thousand artworks, taken largely from French Jews, and to assist Göring in amassing an enormous private art collection. By the 1950s Lohse was officially de-Nazified ...

"In this pioneering study, Ingrid de Zwarte examines the causes and demographic impact of the Dutch 'Hunger Winter' that occurred in the Netherlands during the final months of German occupation in the Second World War. She offers a comprehensive and multifaceted view of the sociopolitical context in which the famine emerged and considers how the famine was confronted at different societal levels, including ...

The Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, CKŻP (Central Committee of Jews in Poland) was the most prominent official Jewish institution in Poland following the Holocaust. CKŻP attended to the needs of Jews from fall 1944 until 1950. It sponsored a variety of programs, providing food, shelter, education, medical assistance, cultural activities, and employment services and vocational training. The CKŻP also ...

Nechama Shneorson was born Nechama Santocki in 1929 in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania to butcher shop owner Jacob Santocki and his wife Ethel. She had three sisters: Zlata, Ida, and Genya. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union they were sent to the Seventh Fort and then to the Kovno ghetto in August 1941. Ida was killed in a fire during the liquidation of the ghetto in July 1944. The rest of the family ...

Josef Fǐsera was active in the Czech organization "Relief Committee for Republican Spain," which sent fully equipped hospitals with doctors and nurses to help those fighting against Franco during the Spanish Civil War. Fišera volunteered in Spain for several months and traveled about Czechoslovakia and other countries raising support for Republican Spain. After the 1938 Munich Pact, the Czech government ...

This collection contains materials relating to the Vilna ghetto, its daily life and living conditions in the ghetto, social and cultural work, activities of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) and the Jewish interaction with the German and Lithuanian authorities.The records consists of: maps of the ghetto, 1942, diaries, chronicles and manuscripts on the history of the ghetto by Zelig Kalmanovitch, Herman ...

Information on salaries to workers of workshops, studios and other enterprises owned by individuals of Jewish nationality [inventory 1, file 485]. Documents on the organizational and economic activities of Jewish communities in the ghetto: permission for shoemaking, tailoring and pottery workshops, opening barbershops, sofas, bakeries, buffets and grocery stores, production of sausage wares, fur trade, ...

Adolf “Dolf” Ringel was born in Mainz, Germany in 1910 to Meilach and Taube Ringel. Meilach worked in an import/export business, mainly dealing with eggs and dairy. In 1933, Dolf attended medical school, before laws prevented him from attending university due to his Jewish background. The family decided to escape the now rampant anti-Semitism, fleeing to Spain in 1933. In the meantime, Dolf assisted ...

A broad selection of the Holocaust-related records is available at the USHMMA (Selected Records of the Holocaust in Nógrád County, Hungary, 1934‐1948; RG‐68.109M)

M.54- Documentation regarding the Holocaust from State Archives in Poland
 
 In the Record Group there is material selected from collections in various State Archives in Poland (Archiwa Państwowe) and other regional archives. The material was initially copied onto microfilm and partially on paper. Eventually scanned documentation will also be added to the Record Group. The Collection was ...