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1. Jewish police
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Film | Accession Number: 1992.262.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0718 | Film ID: 247
Film Title:
Warsaw Ghetto R1
Date:
Event: 1942
Duration:
00:01:20
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Jewish Police sequence: CU of commander; double line of police at attention (all turn their heads, German military style). CUs of several…
2. Warsaw ghetto and Stutthof liberated
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Film | Accession Number: 2001.355.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3160 | Film ID: 2489
Date:
Event: 1942; 1945
Production: 1986
Duration:
00:02:03
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… liberated it. "Zyklon" - poison for gas chambers. Ash from the ovens was used at greenhouses. Flowers from the greenhouses went to the commandant Hoppe…
3. Research files of a Swedish author Staffan Thorsell relating to Nazi war crimes in Poland
Document | Accession Number: 2019.226.1 | RG Number: RG-66.008
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
… permission from German Commander for Sven Norrman to visit a powerplant in Włocławek, Poland.…
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 …th 1939 Permission from the German commander for Sven Norrman to visit the ASEA power plant in Wloclawek October 30th 1939 Two letters on the situation in…
4. Rudolph Daniel Sichel papers
2003.149.1 Box 6 Folder 15 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2003.149.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-1978
bulk: 1934-1952
… Service to Interrogation of Prisoners of War (IPW) Team 13 as Chief Interrogator. He was second in command of his team, which was attached to the 104…
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 … of War (IPW) Team 13 as Chief Interrogator. He was second in command of his team, which was attached to the 104th (Timberwolf) Infantry Division in…
5. Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Hermansbad (Ciechocinek, Poland) (Sygn. 71)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0016 | RG Number: RG-15.013M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
… espionage and political units of the Prussian police and proceeded to staff them with thousands of Nazis. On April 26, 1933, Göring became the commander of…
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 …: report of the commandant of the police concerning the robbery murder in the village of Dembolenko. 1940. 3 pages. 1Police district Hermannsbad, county…
6. Hafftka and Jonisch families photographs
2016.545.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2016.545.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-1952
…. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the family sought ways to escape Warsaw. Aleksander was able to commandeer a car from a police station, and…
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 …. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the family sought ways to escape Warsaw. Aleksander was able to commandeer a car from a police station, and…
7. Vladimir Lewin papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.361.2
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2018
… coal mining school, but left soon after and went to Uzbekistan to join the Polish army under Władysław Anders’ command (Anders’ Army), but was rejected…
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 … Uzbekistan to join the Polish army under Władysław Anders’ command (Anders’ Army), but was rejected for being Jewish. He then ended up in Siberia in a labor…
8. Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers
2004.331.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.331.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1969
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… September 15, 1942, Witek was sent to a resistance unit commanded by Pole Franchisek, in the village of Lusheviza-Mala. He lived in a one room apartment; his…
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 … and all members were killed. On September 15, 1942, Witek was sent to a resistance unit commanded by Pole Franchisek, in the village of Lusheviza-Mala…
9. Paul Vaderlind collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.251.1
Date:
creation: 1942 October 15-1944 May 21
… liberation. In November 1944 Janeta wrote a letter to Auschwitz trying to locate Tadeusz, and received a response from the commandant, dated 15 January 1945…
10. White cloth armband worn by a Roman Catholic Polish firefighter in Warsaw
2014.450.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.3
Date:
use: 1939 September 27-1944 August 07
…front, left and right sides, hand stamped, dark blue ink : * Kommando der Schutzpolizei * / Abschnitt / S[?] / im Warschau [Police Command…
11. Warsaw liquidation photographs
2005.470 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2005.470
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1945
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  • Warsaw liquidation photographs
    • Pages: 3
12. Tabaczyński and Asz families papers
1999.312.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.312.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1947
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 … Asz” by the commander of the security police and SD, December 30, 1939, Warsaw, Poland. Folder 2. Tabaczyńska, Eugenia, 1943-1947 1. Partial identity…
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  • Series 1: Biographical materials 1939-1947
    • File 1: Asz family 1939
      • Pages: 3
13. Archiv Horst von Wächter
Document | Accession Number: 2014.103 | RG Number: RG-17.049
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1984
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 … just spoke with the former City Commander of Lemberg Dr. Egon Ambros Höller yesterday, that the former secretary of her husband who is now 80 is alive as…
14. Organizacje Syjonistyczne (Sygn. 333)
Document | Accession Number: 2012.295 | RG Number: RG-15.254
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1950
Alternate Title:
Zionist Organizations
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
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 …. The Chief Command started to establish that school in summer 1947, due to the great importance of fishing industry for the future state if Israel. Ha…
15. Szliferstejn and Mitelsbach family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.486.1 | RG Number: RG-10.248
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1943
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 … should not despair – her command was – hold on! To accept the fact that she is no longer here. I have not given up that we should still meet this year. I…
16. Konspiracyjne archiwum getta Warszawskiego : Archiwum Ringelbluma
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0229 | RG Number: RG-15.079M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1943
Alternate Title:
Underground archives of the Warsaw Ghetto : Ringelblum Archives
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
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 … http://collections.ushmm.org Introduction xxi who would later become the commander of the Jewish Fight- ing Organization. Two other leaders of Hashomer…
17. German occupation records from the Archive of New Records, Poland (Syg 1335)
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0032 | RG Number: RG-15.008M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
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 … booklets of that organization. 1942 ‐ 1943. 214/I‐6 Special commands from Dirlewanger, orders, and reports. 1942 ‐ 1943. 214/I‐7 Evacuation of…
18. Selected records from the French Diplomatic Archives Nantes : Embassies and Consulates
Document | Accession Number: 2019.423.1 | RG Number: RG-43.172
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1970
bulk: 1938-1946
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 … Politique britannique en Palestine: Commission d'enquête anglo-américaine sur la Palestine 1945-1946, "Middle east supply centre" 1945, Commandant en chef des…
19. Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Schrimm (Sygn.72)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0081 | RG Number: RG-15.012M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
inclusive: 1939-1945
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 … into Germany after 1939. 1940. 5 pages 6 Collection of daily instructions of the commander of the SS and Police in Poznań concerning regular agenda and…
20. Wojskowa Służba Kobiet (WSK). Lublin Dystrykt (Sygn. XIII)
Document | Accession Number: 2013.244 | RG Number: RG-15.273M
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1944
Alternate Title:
Women's Military Service (WSK). District of Lublin
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
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 … formally established in February 1942 under the order of the Commander of the Home Army, General Stefan Rowecki, pseudonym “Grot” . The chief of the WSK was…