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Selected records of the Oberpostdirektion (Central Postal Directorate) relating to the post and land traffic supervision in Hamburg. Contains files from the various fields: Central Organization and Administration, Procurement and Household, Personnel, Post -, telecommunications, sea and ship mail, sea and coastal radio. Includes national Socialist Press advertisements, instructions and regulations, ...

Collection of De Nederlandsche Landstand - The Netherlands Agriculture and Fishing Authority, 1941-1945
 
 De Nederlandsche Landstand - The Netherlands Agriculture and Fishing Authority was established in the Netherlands by the Germans in 1941, in order to take control over all matters related to agriculture and fishing; at the head of the authority stood E. J. Roskam, who was also the head ...

Born in Sebastopol, Russia, in 1918, he was educated in the Hebrew high school in Vilna and in the school of the arts. At a very young age he became a trainee in the "Hashomer Hatzair" Youth Movement. In 1940-41 when Vilna wast the capital of the Soviet Republic of Lithuania, Kovner was a member of the undergorund organization. After the German occupation in June 1941, Kovner hid with a few friends ...

Handbill, printed in New York City, with fraudulent quotes on the front and an antisemitic cartoon on the back. The cartoon shows two men with stereotypical Jewish features outfitting a Christian American man for combat, while the radio broadcasts Jewish pro-war messages. The Talmud quote is ripped from its original context and used to legitimize the antisemitic canard that Jews sought exemption from ...

At the time of the Anschluss, Walter Nitsche was 20 years old and a student at the Höhere Staats-Gewerbeschule at Schellinggasse 13 in Vienna's 1st district. He graduated from school in June 1938 and shortly thereafter took up a job as a local construction supervisor at the "Road Administration of the Province of Lower Austria." At the end of November 1938, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. Walter ...

The collection's contents are catalogued in two inventories, which are arranged by document type in order of the collection originators' surnames. The collection constitutes an accumulation of various individuals' documents united only by authorship or by the documents' belonging to a particular individual. This collection of documents was compiled by archival staff from unsystematized files. The collection ...

The World Jewish Congress (WJC), an international Jewish representative organization, was formed in 1936. The Organization Department of WJC was originally established in Paris, ca. 1937, under Baruch Zuckerman to increase membership, strengthen relations with and between affiliates, maintain contacts with branch offices, and improve the image of the WJC with its affiliates. When rescue activities ...

Rena Berliner was born Rena Schönthal in 1925 in Lvov (now Lviv, Ukraine) to Salomon Schönthal (1890-1943) and Klara Rapp Schönthal. Her family lived in the ghetto in Lvov from 1941-1943, but after her father died, she and her mother went into hiding in Warsaw using false papers. After liberation, they spent several months in Krakow before being smuggled into Germany with the help of the Bricha. They ...

There is diverse documentation from the Wehrmacht (German Army) regarding the Jews, Jewish communities and the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust in the collection, including reports, memos, telegrams and personal documents, encompassing a wide variety of organizations and units that worked within the Wehrmacht framework. The files cover different areas of activity and organizations: partisan activity, ...

At the time of the trials of war criminals before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and the American military courts in 1945-1948, the press and radio performed an extremely important task in the field of communicating information about the ongoing trials. The press agencies sent special correspondents to Nuremberg to keep the flow of information regular and as informed as possible. ...

The photographs include one photoprint depicting George Salton at age 17 in Lubeck in June 1945; one a copy print depicting Salton’s parents soon after their marriage; two photoprints depicting members of Bricha in Łódź in 1947; one photoprint depicting members of Bricha in Szczecin in 1947, and one photoprint of survivors in front of the Kibbutz DROR in Szczecin in 1947.

1941-1944 Armaments specialists at conferences and weapons demonstrations, including Armaments Minister Albert Speer, Hitler, Himmer, military and industrial leaders. Reel 2: Events of 6 and 7 June, 1943, in Hillersleben, Germany. Participants in front of the conference building, talking to each other and posing for the camera. Goebbels, Speer, others, exit the building. Conference participants watch ...