Copyright Holder: Odesʹkyĭ oblasnyĭ derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv

Sub-collection, referring to the work of the Department of Justice holds both the secret and general records of the General Judicial Department, drafts and bills, laws and orders, rules and circulars and interpretations, personal correspondence of clerks, judges, clerks and general legal staff, financial records of the Judicial Foundation, with individual and group payments to the Judicial Foundation; ...

Discusses covert and overt expressions of antisemitism in present-day Germany, giving many recent examples. Traces the history of German antisemitism: religious, racist, political. Evaluates polls, showing that ca. 20% of Germans are antisemitic to a greater or lesser degree, but points to a decrease among younger people. Distinguishes between legitimate criticism of Israel and anti-Zionism as a cover ...

Village boards were the lowest level administrative bodies responsible for implementation of the German orders on the ground and facilitation of the occupation policies. Some of the files included in the Inventory 2 of the collection are connected to the German population policies and the Holocaust. Inventory 2 (Opys 2) File 1. Orders of the chef of district board in Apostolovo district, Soldatovo ...

The archival material covers the 19th and 20th centuries and includes the proceedings and decisions taken by the Metropolitan Council; general correspondence with the Greek authorities, foreign consulates, local ecclesiastical councils, other religious communities, as well as the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki and individuals. Among other topics are the relations with the Jewish community and cases ...

This book explores the subject of genocide through key debates and case studies. It analyses the dynamics of genocide - the processes and mechanisms of acts committed with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, religious or racial group - in order to shed light upon its origins, characteristics and consequences. Debating Genocide begins with an introduction to the concept ...

Criticizes "foreshadowing" in literary works on the Shoah which view it as inevitable, as a foreordained culmination of the entire brutal history of European antisemitism. States that the Shoah was not an unavoidable tragedy, in the literary sense, because the genocide was part of an ongoing political process, and the fate of individuals sometimes depended on their own resourcefulness or on "accidental" ...

Selected records from the record group MfS IX/11 compiled by the former East German Security Service "Stasi." Materials of mixed provenance, primarily papers generated by the German Security Police and SD between 1933 and 1945. Included are routine, periodic reports of local Gestapo surveillance of suspect political, religious, or fraternal groups; records of police documents such as circular letters, ...

This collection includes documents relating mainly to matters as: Communists movements; maters of neighboring states; the Hungarian Nationalists Party movements; Arrow Cross Party activities; Passport and naturalization issues; minority affairs; press affairs; parties and associations affairs; banning Jewish affairs meetings, and “Hungarista movements”. Contains signed and anonymous denunciations; ...

George Kadish, born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (1910- 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania ...

M.1.P - She’erit Hapletah Collection -Displaced persons life in the camps, 1945-1948
 
 In this Collection there is documentation regarding the lives of the displaced persons (DPs) in the camps. It contains thousands of placards from the camps, mainly concerning cultural and artistic matters, religious life, sport, elections and political parties.
 
 Additionally, there are announcements ...

Notes of the guards about the Jews who were deported to the Soviet Union and those suspected of communist activity. Personal files of accused Jews of loyalty to the Soviet state who stayed in Bessarabia during the Soviet occupation. Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate orders about surveillance of foreigners, lists of people with foreign citizenship in Rezina. Copies of orders of Bessarabian Regional ...

Public access, no restrictions on access

Collection includes: Circulars and correspondence between Lutsk Gebietskommissariat to heads of Lutsk district administrations from February 1942 discussing rules of using of the Jewish labourers. Lists of the Jewish workers (inventory 1, file 33). Correspondence between Lutsk Judenrat and Lutsk city administration regarding assignment Jewish skilled workers to various labor objects (inventory 1, file ...

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

The collection holds the records of the Rožňava city administration between 1939 and 1944/45. It contains various files which document the anti-Jewish measures, the ghettoization and the deportation of Jews of Rožňava, as well as the Aryanization of their real estate property and their values. Researchers might find in the collection the personal files of Jewish inhabitants who applied for an exception ...

Examines Jewish religiosity as an important dimension of the reality of the Nazi concentration camps. Death, fear, despair, starvation, and disease changed the religious thinking and practices of Jewish prisoners. Quotes excerpts from survivors' testimonies which describe attempts to observe the rituals of Jewish festivals, prayers, kashruth, etc., which were sometimes perceived as fanaticism, but ...

Historical accounts of the Great Calcutta Riots (1946) emphasize their role in making Indian Partitian an inevitable outcome of nationalist-religious politics in colonical India. It is seen as a critical event in the religious wars, conventionally known as the Partition riots of communal riots, in the Indian sub-continent in 1945-47. This article, views the Great Calcutta Killings as a remarkable event ...

Copyright Holder: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung

The files relating to the Jewish religion originating from the "Worship Department" of the Ministry of Justice naturally fall within the scope of the powers exercised by department: namely, recognition of the Jewish religion, synagogues and local communities, relations between the State and representatives of the religion, appointments and salaries of rabbis and cantors and management of religious ...

This collection is from the archives of the men’s’ religious order of Notre-Dame de Sion (NDS) in Paris and documents the monastery’s efforts in saving European Jews, especially children, during the rise of Nazism and the period of the German Occupation during World War II. It consists of printed publications by the order in French, handwritten ledgers keeping track of children entrusted to NDS during ...

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

According to the newsletter, the <em> Zentralvereinigung Österreichischer Emigranten </em>was a non-political organisation with no party or religious affiliations, the objective of which was to help all Austrians in exile after the outbreak of war. It was based in Paris and the advisory council comprised Alfred Polgar (the author?), Frederike Zweig and Berthe Zückerkandl. Its principal activities ...