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1. Government Code and Cypher School: German Police Section: Decrypts of German Police Communications during Second World War (HW 16)
Document | Accession Number: 2010.21 | RG Number: RG-59.029M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
…Government Code and Cypher School: German Police Section: Decrypts of German Police Communications during Second World War (HW 16)…
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 …Government Code and Cypher School: German Police Section: Decrypts of German Police Communications during Second World War (HW 16) RG-59.029M United…
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 …RG-59.029M RG-59.029M Government Code and Cypher School: German Police Section: Decrypts of German Police Communications during Second World War (HW…
2. SS and police officials speaking among themselves during a roll call of Polish prisoners.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 13129
Date:
1939 - 1940
…SS and police officials speaking among themselves during a roll call of Polish prisoners.…
3. Heinrich Stern collection
1995.A.0363 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0363
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1986
bulk: 1909-1944
… lived until they moved to the United States in 1944. Documents include visa applications, identity cards, police documents, letters of recommendation…
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 … 1944. Documents include visa applications, identity cards, police documents, letters of recommendation, and other documents needed to immigrate…
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4. Herman Neudorf papers
1994.83.2 Box 1 Folder 26 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1994.83.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1949
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 … military and motor vehicle passes. Other documents include police and military government registration. The “Immigration” series consists of primarily…
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5. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
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 … – Official Police Permit, approximately 1941- 1985 Envelope addressed to Mr. Hans Israel Hirschberg in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Sent by Rudolf Dymak in…
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6. Alfred Büchler papers
1999.119 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1999.119
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
bulk: 1937-1942
…The Alfred Büchler papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and police and Buchenwald Kommandantur certificates documenting the…
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 … materials, correspondence, and police and Buchenwald Kommandantur certificates documenting the Büchler family of Gleiwitz; Heinrich Büchler’s incarceration…
7. Maurice and Elisabeth La Kerr papers
2016.287.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.287.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1960
bulk: 1945-1951
… responsible for assisting the German police on how to fingerprint German citizens. After the project ended, he was transferred in early 1946 to the American…
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 … responsible for assisting the German police on how to fingerprint German citizens. After the project ended, he was transferred in early 1946 to the American…
8. Buchenwald concentration camp scrip, -.50 Reichsmark note, inscribed by an inmate
2003.413.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.34
Date:
issue: 1937 July 19-1945 April 11
… in July 1937, mainly to confine political prisoners. Jewish prisoners did not arrive at the camp until November 1938, when German SS and police…
9. Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.661.2 Cover
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.2
Date:
emigration: 1939-1947
… arrested by the Nordhausen Gestapo. Although they were released the next day, Käthe returned to the police headquarters daily to enquire about Hugo…
10. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… families to live in a single room; food quickly became scarce. When German SS and police began mass killings of the Jews in Dokszyce in 1942, Rachel and…
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 … town by walls and barbed wire. German authorities forced several families to live in a single room; food quickly became scarce. When German SS and police…
11. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
… German identification and work papers and returned to work at Freege. On May 30, 1942, Henryk was stopped by the German Security Police. Even though Henryk…
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 … (Henryk) Zguda (1917-2003) was born in Krakow, Poland, to Wincenty and Karolina Zguda. In 1942, Henry was stopped by the German Security Police and taken to…
12. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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  • Series 4: Photographs Approximate 1937-Approximate 1962
    • File 1: Buchenwald (5 folders) (Pressed flowers and negatives stored separately) Approximate 1937-Approximate 1945
13. Carl Gärtig collection
2007.72 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2007.72
Date:
creation: 1922-1999
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 …. If you want to visit me in Halle, you have to ask for a visitor’s petition. Address: State Police, Halle. In the upper left hand corner, you have to…
14. Erna Ketchie collection
1999.205.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 1999.205.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1951
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 … Document; preprinted in black ink, issued by the Police in Frankfurt; Frankfurt, Germany; in German page 4 of 4 .10 Envelope; blue paper with address…
15. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
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 … police commissioner. In the fall of 1939, the Bergs purchased a 375-acre farm in Limuru and an additional 125 acres in Maguga. The large family lived in…
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 … conscripted for war service. Throughout the war, the Bergs had the status of enemy aliens and could leave their homes only with the permission of a police…
16. Randolph Braham collection
Document | RG Number: RG-52.000
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2011
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 …); county, district and city, town or village administrations; national, county and local headquarters of police and gendarmerie; courts of law; local Jewish…
17. Michael Grauman collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.274
Date:
inclusive: 1881-1945
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 … children born between 1815 and 1830 to Itzig Moses Graumann and his wife [first name illegible] neé Mattersdorf, dated December 28, 1881, issued by police of…
18. Konzentrations- und Kriegsgefangenenlager in Deutschland und in den besetzen Gebieten (Fond 1367)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.20 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.20
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1945
bulk: 1937-1945
Alternate Title:
Concentration and POW camps in Germany and the Occupied Territories
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 … governmental and police organizations of Prussia regarding removal from Germany to KL of persons having no citizenship. Letter of Obersturmführer Maurer, Chief…
19. Dr. Bruno Kriss correspondence
Document | Accession Number: 2003.379
Date:
1939
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 … concentration camp directly, but were put into a partitioned part of the police prison camp. Here we were housed in emergency barracks, where one was lying in 4…