ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 4436225
• English, Hebrew
• Official documentation
• Updated 11 months ago

Plaut Collection, regarding the Jewish Community of Hamburg

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 4442657
• English, Hebrew
• 1941-1996
• Legal documentation
• Updated 11 months ago

TR.18 - Documentation from Committee for State Security (KGB) archives in Ukraine In the collection there are files selected from the State Archives of the Ukrainian Security Service in Kiev and its branches by regions: Chernigov, Chernovtsy, Khmelnitskiy, Ternopol, Sumy, Rovno, Poltava, Nikolayev, Lvov, Kirovograd, Ivano-Frankovsk, Zaporozye, Zhitomir, Donetsk, Simferopol, Vinnitsa, Odessa and Drogobych. Collection description Files of investigations conducted by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Counter-Intelligence Department (SMERSH [Death to Spies]), and the Mi...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 4548521
• English, Hebrew
• 1941-1944
• Official documentation
• Updated 11 months ago

Documentation from the Reich Ministry for Propaganda The collection contains files that were photographed in the National Archives in Potsdam, East Germany, including part of the material for this Record Group. The entire Record Group was transferred to the Bundesarchiv Berlin (Berlin Federal Archives), where it is being held under the original signature NS18. The microfilm collection that was transferred to Yad Vashem following a systematic investigation of the Record Group, is recorded in the collection description No. 5338698 in Sapir.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 4689488
• English, Hebrew
• Official documentation
• Updated 11 months ago

Documentation from the Croatian State Archives: Croatian Ministry of State Treasury, Office for Nationalized Property, Jewish Section, 1941 This collection includes in most part documents from two Ustasha government agencies charged with the supervision and then the confiscation of Jewish property: The Office for the Renewal of the Economy (May and June 1941), and its successor, the State Directorate for Economic Renewal (July-December 1941). The collection consists of correspondence between these central agencies and their local offices and other government and/or Ustasha party offices. Th...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 4689491
• English, Hebrew
• Official documentation Questionnaire Record of persecuted persons
• Updated 11 months ago

Documentation from the Croatian State Archives: Branch Office of the Ustasha Intelligence Service in Zagreb - Jewish Section, 1941-1942 This collection includes approximately 3,000 pages of questionnaires completed by Jews from Zagreb, which were submitted to the Ustasha police in Zagreb. The questionnaires are organized in alphabetical order, in three sections; A-H, H-R and S-Z, and include the following information: first name, last name, date of birth, place of birth, citizenship, profession, marital status, the names of children under the age of 21, and information regarding property. T...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 4842704
• English, Hebrew
• Official documentation
• Updated 11 months ago

Correspondence between the Insel-Verlag publishing company in Leipzig and the writer Stefan Zweig regarding the publication of his books, 1912-1937 Diverse correspondence by the publisher with the writer (and during the later years, also with Stefan Zweig's wife, Friederike Maria Zweig) in Vienna and later on in Salzburg. The correspondence relates to the publication, proofreading and translation to other languages of the works of Stefan Zweig, and likewise to the articles and series of books that Zweig edited for the publisher. Included in the files, among other matters, are the publisher'...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5083393
• English, Hebrew
• 1962
• Administrative documentation
• Updated 11 months ago

TR.3.M - Eichmann Trial Administration

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5083408
• English, Hebrew
• 1986-1988
• Book Indictment Investigation report Legal documentation Lists Sentence
• Updated 11 months ago

TR. 15 - Protocols and historical documentation from the Demjanjuk Trial, 1986-1988 In 1987, Ivan Demjanjuk was placed on trial in Jerusalem in accordance with the Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law. Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who immigrated to the United States and was extradited to Israel, was accused of serving as a guard in the Treblinka extermination camp during the war. The inmates of the camp referred to him as "Ivan the Terrible". The Jerusalem District Court, in session with the special panel of Judges Dov Levin, Tzvi Tal and Dalia Dorner, found Demjanjuk guilty and sentenced...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5083410
• English, Hebrew
• Legal documentation
• Updated 11 months ago

TR.20- Documentation of trials conducted against war criminals submitted by the United States Department of Justice The Record Group is comprised of microfilms that contain documentation of trials against war criminals and collaborators conducted by American courts in the US Occupation Zone in Germany. The original material is preserved in the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and the copies were given to Yad Vashem by the United States Department of Justice. Among the trials included in the Record Group (In File No. O300/203, there is a detailed entry of ma...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5083430
• English, Hebrew
• Letter List of names Memoirs Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Protocol Testimony
• Updated 11 months ago

O.90 - Documentation of Holocaust survivors in Israel, mainly from kibbutzim This Record Group includes documentation, mainly copies of documentation preserved in the archives of kibbutzim throughout Israel. The documentation is mostly the personal documentation of Holocaust survivors who arrived to Eretz Israel and afterwards to the State of Israel from the end of World War II until the early 1960s. The material is comprised mainly of personal documentation, including letters, testimonies, dairies, photographs and various documents.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5083561
• English, Hebrew
• Article(s), list(s), text(s) Letter Newspaper clippings Personal documents
• Updated 11 months ago

P.28- Personal documentation of Michal Borwicz

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5083562
• English, Hebrew
• 1939-1944
• Administrative documentation Application Balance sheet Correspondence Financial accounts List of Jews List of names Lists Report Reports Statistical data Statistical report Survey report
• Updated 11 months ago

Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943 The Jewish Self Aid organization (in Polish: Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna [ZSS]; in German: Juedische Soziale Selbshilfe) was set up in Krakow in 1940; it went by this name until July 1942. After that date, the organization's welfare activities were cut back by order of the German authorities, and they mainly consisted of the transferring of medicines to Jews in labor camps until this activity, too, was discontinued in mid-1944. ZSS documentation includes correspondence between the administra...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5083566
• English, Hebrew
• 1939-2007
• Article Newspaper Personal documents Reports Survey
• Updated 11 months ago

P.42 - Jan Karski Collection Jan Karski, an emissary of the Polish underground in Paris and London, submitted important reports regarding the murder of the Jews of Poland to the representatives of the Polish government-in-exile in London in 1942. Along with other documentation, these reports served as the basis for a joint statement by the Allies which was made on 17 December 1942. Jan Karski remained in the west until the end of the war and worked to persuade the government heads and the public leaders to act in order to rescue the Jews of Poland from extermination. After the war Jan Karsk...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5083615
• English, Hebrew
• 1933-1950
• Official documentation Survey report
• Updated 11 months ago

P.35 - The Collection of Nathan Schwalb, the representative of the World Center of the Hechalutz movement in Geneva, Switzerland during World War II Nathan Schwalb was born in Stanislawow, Poland (today Ivano Frankovsk, Ukraine) in 1908. He made aliya to Eretz Israel and was member of Kibbutz Hulda. He spent World War II in Geneva as the representative of the World Hechalutz movement, serving as contact person and a financial welfare source for the Jews. He corresponded with hundreds of people in the occupied countries and was active in many areas including the sending of parcels via the Re...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5083626
• English, Hebrew
• Documentary Official documentation Personal documents
• Updated 9 months ago

P.37- Archive of Benjamin Arditti: Documentation Regarding the History of Bulgarian Jewry, 1850-1964 Benjamin Arditti was born in Vienna in 1897. He lived in Sofia (except for two years during World War II) from 1916-1949. He was one of the outstanding activists in the Zionist movement in Bulgaria: he served as a member of the Central Committee of the Zionist Union in Bulgaria, 1919-1923; he held five terms of office as the representative to the World Zionist Congress; he served as the chairman of the Zionist Organization in Sofia; he was one of the founders of the Revisionist movement in B...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5083650
• English, Hebrew
• 1939-1947
• Letter Official documentation Record of persecuted persons
• Updated 11 months ago

M.23 - Benno Kaufmann Collection - Documentation of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany, Basel, 1939-1947 Correspondence of Benno Kaufmann from Basel, Switzerland, regarding aid to Jewish refugees from Germany, 1939-1947. The Record Group contains personal letters belonging to the persecuted detainees in the camps in France, such as the Gurs camp.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5083661
• English, Hebrew
• Documentation Personal documents
• Updated 11 months ago

O.46 - Documentation from the Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives: Activities of the Hashomer Hatzair Movement in Europe during World War II Hashomer Hatsair is a Socialist–Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary. By 1939, Hashomer Hatzair had 70,000 members worldwide. The movement's membership base was in Eastern Europe. With the advent of World War II and the Holocaust, members of Hashomer Hatzair focused their attention on resistance against the Nazis. Mordechaj Anielewicz, the leader of Hashomer Hatzair's Warsaw branch, became head of the Jewish Fightin...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5083705
• English, Hebrew
• Article Diary Letter Memoirs Newspaper Survey Survey report
• Updated 11 months ago

M.35: Documentation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAF) in the Soviet Union Established at the height of World War II, the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (EAK - Yevreyskiy antifashistskiy komitet) was a Soviet Jewish organization set up in order to provide assistance to the Soviet Union in its war against Nazi Germany. Headed by the actor and theatrical director Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels as Committee Chairman and Shakhne Epshteyn, the newspaperman, as Secretary, the Committee was established at the initiative of the Soviet Secret Police in Samara in 1942. The purpose of the Committee...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5084062
• English, Hebrew
• 1945-1954
• Card file Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons
• Updated 11 months ago

Card file of members of Hungarian labor battalions who perished The card file was collected and compiled by the Hungarian Ministry of Defense (Honvédelmi Minisztérium) between the years 1945-1954, and includes the personal cards of Hungarian Jewish victims. Some of the documents are photocopies of death certificates which were issued by local courts on the basis of lists and publications of various bodies such as the International Tracing Service, the US army, declarations by individuals regarding Hungarian Jews who had perished, and lists prepared by former prisoners. The card file, which ...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5084381
• English, Hebrew
• Letter Lists Memoirs Official documentation Testimony
• Updated 11 months ago

O.84 - Documentation gathered in preparation of the "Pinkas HaKehillot, Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Hungary" published by Yad Vashem The ""Pinkas HaKehillot, Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Hungary" Project and a history of the Record Group: "Pinkas HaKehillot, Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Hungary", which was published in 1975 was the third volume in the Yad Vashem "Communities Registry" series. The editorial board members (Theodore Lavi, Nathaniel Katzburg, Shmuel Shichor, Neta Perach and Avraham Shein) wrote in the introduction to the book: "This volume […] went through...