The George Silviu family papers document George Silviu, a Romanian poet, playwright, translator and lawyer. Records include administrative and professional documents, official letters, Silviu articles and poems published in journals, personal letters, and press clippings. The collection also includes copies of extensive files now held in the Securitate Archives in Bucharest that document how Silviu ...

Reports and correspondence from American attorney Alfred Jaretzki, Jr., reporting on visits to Vienna and efforts to work with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to assist Austrian Jews with emigration, 1938. Includes one report, undated, 11 pages, describing his trip to Vienna in June 1938, including meetings with American diplomats, journalists, members of the Viennese Jewish community, ...

Universal Newsreel Vol. 5, No. 125, Part 1. Release date, 03/04/1933. Presidential inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd president of the US) [first sound pictures ever shown of a presidential inauguration]. Shots include Roosevelt and Hoover riding, with congressional escort, down Pennsylvania Avenue; Mr. Roosevelt reciting the Oath of Office at the Capitol; the stirring inaugural address; the ...

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

International Red Cross (IRC), Central Agency for War Prisoners. Mail arriving (the Agency received 3,000 letters a day from prisoners, refugees, missing persons, or governments and are sorted by object or country). Meeting of the IRC Committee. Etienne Clouzot, head of the IRC secretariat, has his back to the camera. To his left is Rodolphe de Haller, treasurer of the IRC, Lucie Odier, principal of ...

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The Series E (Culture Department) consists of correspondence of the department directors, Simon Federbush and Wolf Blattberg, together with reports, publications, and other material pertaining to the activities of the New York branch of the Culture Department. Material in the series includes correspondence of the first director, Simon Federbush (1945–circa 1950) and the second director, Wolf Blattberg ...

The Nuremberg trials were the series of military trials held for the prosecution of prominent Nazi leaders in Germany after the WWII. The first and most known trial of 24 “major war criminals” such as Martin Bormann, Hermann Göring or Rudolf Hess etc. was held before the International Military Tribunal from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946. This major trial was followed by 12 trials (known as subsequent ...

Dramatic coverage of newsboys rushing to deliver bundles of the newspaper Diario de Lisboa on the day the Americans invaded North Africa. Extensive scenes of movement, newstands, publications, and close-ups of the front pages of papers in Portugal. Some of the newspapers are English-language. LIFE magazine and SIGNAL. INT of a barbershop, where a news vendor distributes copies of the paper to men getting ...

Wilbur John Carr, Former Assistant Secretary of State, was the Minister to Czechoslovakia (US Department of State) when German forces occupied Prague on March 15, 1939. Carr closed the Legation in Prague on March 21, 1939 and left his post on April 6, 1939. He died in 1942. Robert Bittrick served with the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. He enlisted on February 3, 1941 in Baltimor ...

Dorothea (Dora) Dressel (1897-1993) married Fritz Dressel in 1916, and was active politically in Munich during the years following World War I. When her husband, a leading member of the Communist Party in Bavaria, protested the violence of the SA in Munich, she was arrested and held as hostage in the weeks prior to her husband’s arrest, being detained in the Stadelheim prison in Munich. She was ultimately ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Dienststelle "Der Berater für den Marshallplan beim Vorsitzer des Verwaltungsrates des Vereinigten Wirtschaftsgebietes - ERP Executive Office -" wurde auf Wunsch der Alliierten durch Beschluss des Verwaltungsrates vom 23. März 1948 mit Sitz in Frankfurt/Main gegründet. Der Berater sollte Planungen und Programme der Verwaltungen für Wirtschaft, Ernährung, Verkehr ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Geboren 24. Februar 1912 in Stade; gestorben 26. August 2006 in Bonn. Kindheit und Schulausbildung in Hannover; Tod des Vaters im Oktober 1915; April 1930 Beginn der Offiziersausbildung in Greifswald beim 5. Preußischen Infanterieregiment; August 1933 Ernennung zum Leutnant, Dienst in Neuruppin; Oktober 1935 Beförderung zum Oberleutnant und Adjutant des I. Bataillons ...

The Jacob Robinson Collection contains documentation and publications dealing with the capture of Adolf Eichmann and the Eichmann Trial, and especially with international legal aspects regarding this event; a copy of the interview Willem Sassen conducted with Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in the middle 1950s; documentation regarding criminals and trials conducted against them, mainly the Nuremberg Trials; ...

Bestandsbeschreibung 31. Dezember 1910 Geburt in Schönnewitz, Saalkreis 1917-1925 Besuch der Volksschule, Halle 1925-1928 Besuch der Berufsschule, Halle 1927 Mitglied des KJVD 1929-1932 Arbeit als Linierer in Halle 1931 Mitglied der KPD 1932 Delegation zum EK der KJI nach Moskau 1933 Rückkehr nach Deutschland, Oberinstrukteur der sächs. Bezirke des KJVD 1934 Leiter des KJVD Berlin-Brandenburg, Mitglied ...

The collection contains: Postwar documentation from the time of the US occupation of Germany regarding reparations for Jewish cultural property looted during World War II, 1945-1947.The main documentation: - Monthly reports by the Offenbach Archival Depot, Office of Military Government, Greater Hesse, Economics Division, regarding Jewish cultural property that was collected;- Letters, memos, reports ...

Large, lidded wooden chest used by Rada Pomocy Zydom (Council to Aid Jews), called Zegota, to hide false identity documents for Jews in German occupied Poland. Zegota was an underground organization, most active in the Warsaw region, where its members, Jewish and non-Jewish, helped Jews go into or remain in hiding. It found them hiding places and provided them with medical care, food, money, and false ...

Katalog der Konzentrationslager-Dokumente, die sich bei dem International Tracing Service Allied High Commission for Germany befinden. Hrsg. v. d. Allied High Commission for Germany (HIOG), Bad Arolsen 1951. Catalogue of Concentration Camp Records held by the International Tracing Service, ed. Allied High Commission for Germany, Bad Arolsen 1951. Namen sind in der Zentralen Namenskartei (ZNK) des ITS ...

This class picture shows a group of girls around the age of six attending Tachkemoni school in Antwerp in 1939. The teacher on the right has been identified as Sura Breindel Schwarz.

O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat
 
 Dr. Jacob Robinson was born in Seirijai, a village in the Alytus district in southeastern Lithuania on 28 November 1889, and received a traditional Jewish education. In 1910 he completed his studies at the Suwalki high school and in the summer of 1914, he completed his studies for the title of Doctorate in Law (LL.D.) at the University ...

The collection pertains to the activities of the American, British, and French Quakers in France and North Africa, from 1933-1950. The collection encompasses the Paris-based office of the Commissioner for Europe, the AFSC's liaison with the Allied occupation governments in Germany, Austria and North Africa as of 1943; and the Quaker delegations in Paris, Bordeaux, Caen, Le Havre, Lyon, Marseille, Montauban, ...

F. STRUBBE, Ministerie van Justitie. Algemene Directie Openbare Veiligheid. Dienst Vreemdelingenzaken (en rechtsvoorgangers). Grensinspectie, Bordereau de versement n°232, Bruxelles, ARA-AGR, s.d.

The use of the material is for research purposes only. The material also contains personal data that is inaccessible under archive law. The material or the protected personal data contained therein will become accessible 75 years after the creation of the material or 10 years after the death of the person concerned if the date of death is known.

O.20 - Collection of Max Lowenthal who served in the Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US forces in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany 
 
 Max Lowenthal was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1888; a graduate of Harvard Law School, an attorney and a lifelong public servant; he served as an advisor and personal friend of President Harry S. Truman. In 1946, General ...