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1. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (formerly Russian Empire): General Correspondence (FO 181)
Document | Accession Number: 2010.333 | RG Number: RG-59.064
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1946
…Contains general correspondence and reports from the British Embassy and Consulates in the former Soviet Union relating to Jews, including…
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 … and Consulates in the former Soviet Union relating to Jews, including liquidation in Riga, the joint allied declaration condemning Nazi atrocities…
2. Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Riga (Fond 504)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.6 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.05
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Alternate Title:
Chief of the Security Police and SD in the Occupied Soviet Baltic Territories (Riga)
… addition to intelligence activities with "special treatments" (e.g. the murder) of the Jews involved. For each occupied country a commander of the security…
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 … Wehrmacht and SS; Schutzmannschaften activities; Jewish partisan activities; the slave labor of Jews, Soviet POWs, and others; the collaboration of Polish and…
3. Mug used by a young Jewish man in the Riga ghetto and in hiding
1990.230.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.230.1
Date:
use: 1941-1945
… had been annexed by the Soviets in 1940. A vicious pogrom was unleashed upon the Jews of Riga by German killing squads joined by roving gangs of Latvian…
4. Sia Hertsberg photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2009.408.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1980
…Jews--Latvia--Rīga.…
5. Engraved ring made from a spoon for a Jewish Latvian boy in Riga ghetto
2013.474.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.474.3
Date:
commemoration: 1941 December 08
use: 1942-1945
creation: 1942
… at night and work in the day. The Soviets began deporting the wealthy, Jews and non-Jews, to Siberia and Isaak’s boss and his wife were taken overnight…
6. Handmade prisoner badge worn by a Latvian Jewish concentration camp inmate
2005.567.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.567.3
Date:
use: 1944 August-1945 April
…), assisted by local Latvian auxiliaries, shot several thousand Jews. Jewish homes were raided and property destroyed during the pogroms. On July 4, several…
7. Handmade prisoner badge worn by a Latvian Jewish concentration camp inmate
2005.567.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.567.4
Date:
use: 1944 August-1945 April
…), assisted by local Latvian auxiliaries, shot several thousand Jews. Jewish homes were raided and property destroyed during the pogroms. On July 4, several…
8. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Jewish Latvian prisoner
2003.174.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.174.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944 October-1945 February
… (or Faivušs, 1918-1945). Jews made up about a quarter of Rēzekne’s population, and Ber attended a Jewish day school and acquired Zionist beliefs. He did…
9. Friendship ring engraved GG made from silver spoons in the Riga ghetto
2003.407.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.407.1
Date:
creation: 1943 March 13
use: 1943 March-1945 March
… Brno. Jews were persecuted and Jewish businesses were confiscated. The family lost their businesses. Her maternal grandfather Hugo had a stroke and died…
10. Edith Brandon papers
1996.A.0070.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0070.1 | RG Number: RG-10.250
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1994
bulk: 
…. They sought refuge with a local Danish family who sheltered them as they resumed their identities as German Jews. Only after intense interrogation by the…
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 … their identities as German Jews. Only after intense interrogation by the Soviets were they recognized as victims of the Nazis and allowed to stay and work…
11. Herman Neudorf papers
1994.83.2 Box 1 Folder 26 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1994.83.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1949
…, the Germans began to deport Jews of Polish descent back to Poland. At first they were arresting only men, so Hermann’s father left on October 28, 1938…
12. White patch with prisoner number 82609 worn by German Jewish inmate
1995.A.0274.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0274.2
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1945 May
…, the Germans began to deport Jews of Polish descent back to Poland. At first they were arresting only men, so Hermann’s father left on October 28, 1938…
13. George Schwab photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2005.94.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1948
… followed by anti-Jewish excesses, mass arrests, and massacres. In a mass action against Jews, Arkadi Jakob Schwab was among those arrested in July 1941…
14. Wooden comb and handmade paper case given to a prisoner by a friend in Kaiserwald concentration camp
2012.310.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.310.1 a-b
Date:
received: 1944 December 27
… born in 1933. Esther attended a Jewish school. Jews had fewer rights than Polish citizens and antisemitism was a common experience. After a lengthy…
15. Ingeborg B. Weinberger papers
1993.A.0004 Box 1 004 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0004 | RG Number: RG-14.008
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1959
…Jews--Germany--Leipzig.…
16. Concentration camp uniform dress with number 94593 worn by a German Jewish inmate
1994.24.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.24.1
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 January
…’s maternal grandmother Edith also died. In January 1933, Hitler came to power in Germany. Anti-Semitism increased and it became difficult for Jews to live in…
17. Central Archives of the Federal Security Services (former KGB) of the Russian Federation records relating to war crime trials in the Soviet Union
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0510 | RG Number: RG-06.025
Date:
1939-1992
bulk: 1945-1947
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 …, Strauch, regarding the inhabitants of Audrina Street (no date). 52. Directive (in German) about the distribution of identity cards for Jews from August 13…