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The collection contains reproductions and translations of testimonies of Holocaust survivors from Zaglembia (Zagłębie Dąbrowskie region of Poland). The testimonies are in two volumes and describe experiences in camps and ghettos, Jews in hiding, resistance efforts, death marches, and pre-war Jewish life. Additionally, there are pictures of Albrecht Schmelt and the “Schmelt Organization” who were responsible ...

Joseph Harmatz was born January 23, 1925 to Abrasha (Abraham) and Dora (Dvora) Baron Harmatz of Rokiskis, Lithuania and had two brothers, Zvi Hirsch (b. 1923) and Efraim (b. 1927). Joseph's father was a wholesale merchant, who owned a warehouse in Rokiskis' market square. The Harmatz family moved to Vilna in 1940, where Abrasha purchased several factories. Joseph was enrolled in a Lithuanian gymnasium ...

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 ...

Analyzes wartime correspondence and postwar testimony of officials of the SS, Sicherheitspolizei, and military and civil administrations in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, especially those concerned with deportation of the Jews, in order to gauge the extent of their awareness of the aim of the deportations. Officially they were not informed, and most of their superiors in Berlin adhered strictly ...

Selected records on activities of the office of the Higher SS and Police Leader in the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral (Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland, OZAK), a district of Nazi Germany created in 1943 after Italian capitulation following the Allied invasion of Italy. Includes a fragmentary list of local residents detailed by German police. The area of the OZAK with its capital in ...

Registration cards of the Jewish families residing in Rhodes in 1939, registered by the local authorities in accordance with Italian Racial Laws of November 17, 1938.

Selected records of the Sozialbehörde I (Social Welfare Authority) related to the law for protection of German “blood and honor”, regulations for the Jewish housing, the cost for the care of disabled people, Jewish doctors, and Jewish forced laborers, admission of Jewish "mixed race" in day care homes, resettlement of residents displaced during redesigning of Hamburg, adoption of Jewish children, trainings ...

Correspondence, memos, statistics, publications, circulars, bulletins, financial documents, and reports relating to the Displaced Persons Operations, medical care, education and recreation, vocational trainings, emigration and resettlement.

. Les archives du Bureau d'Etudes (n°2607-2339) restent les plus abondantes. Outre les minutes du courrier général au départ, qui, de mai 1941 à octobre 1944, constituent une série chronologique à peu près complète, la correspondance avec différents organismes, tels que ministères, Croix-Rouge et surtout O.K.W., elles comportaient une série d'articles classés par sujets et portant des cotes constituées ...

Amalia Malka Schwimmer (later Maria) was born on August 10, 1914 in Jazłowiec, near Buczacz, in Poland. She was the second daughter of Natan Karp Schwimmer, who owned a foundry and a metal works shop and Chana Finkelman Schwimmer. Amalia had three siblings: Rosa (b. 1913), Josef (b. 1916), and Feliks (b. 1926). Amalia attended a Jewish trade school for girls, which she graduated as a licensed dressmaker. ...