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Country: Israel

  1. O.72- Menachem Kaufmann Collection: Documentation regarding Communities in Germany, mainly in Hessen

    O.72- Menachem Kaufmann Collection: Documentation regarding Communities in Germany, mainly in Hessen In the collection there are files submitted to Yad Vashem by Menachem Kaufmann, who gathered documentation regarding Jewish communities, mainly in the Hessen area. The files include information regarding the Jewish communities (including Jewish community-owned property) and the lives of the Jews.

  2. P.37- Archive of Benjamin Arditti: Documentation Regarding the History of Bulgarian Jewry, 1850-1964

    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...

  3. O.68 - Personal Files of SS Members from the Berlin Document Center

    O.68 - Personal Files of SS Members from the Berlin Document Center The documentation in this Record Group came to Yad Vashem from the Berlin Document Center (BDC), which was established on 10 May 1945, immediately after the occupation of Berlin by the Allied forces. The purpose of the BDC was to concentrate the archival documentation of the German government institutions, the Nazi party and the organizations associated with the party. The Collection was officially returned to German ownership in the 1990s. The documentation in this Record Group came to Yad Vashem from the Berlin Document C...

  4. TR.25 - Trial documentation - Latvia

    TR.25 - Trial documentation - Latvia Trial documentation from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives (USHMM), from the sub-record groups of the Latvian State Archives of the former Latvian KGB

  5. O.86 - Switzerland Collection

    O.86 - Switzerland Collection The Collection was opened recently; until now it has consisted of only one file (See also Yad Vashem Record Group M.63 - Documentation from Provincial Archives in Switzerland).

  6. P.58 - Jonas Eckstein Collection

    Documentation regarding the activities of Jonas Eckstein who hid scores of people in the cellar of his house in Bratislava during the war and worked to rescue Jewish children from Poland

  7. M.56 - Central British Fund

    M.56 - Documantation of the Central British Fund The Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief (CBF) known variously in the 1930's as the CBF for German Jewry (1933), the Council for German Jewry (1936), and the Central Council for Jewish Refugees (1939), was founded in Britain in early 1933 by a group of Anglo-Jewish communal leaders who represented the breadth of the liturgical spectrum and widely diverse political loyalties of the community. CBF action was a direct response to the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany on 30 January1933 on a political platform of anti-Se...

  8. TR.26 - Trial documentation - Estonia

    TR.26 - Trial documentation - Estonia Trial documentation from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives (USHMM), from the sub-record groups of the Estonian State Archives of the former Estonian KGB

  10. O.104 - אוסף לוכסמבורג

    1. Robert Serebrenik, personal and famuly documents and letters. 2. Esra Hilfsverein fuer beduerftige Juden Luxemburg, correspondence and statutes. 3. Letters and other documents concerning the appointment of Robert Serebrenik as Chief Rabbi of Luxemburg. 4. Essay on the Jewish Community Ramath Orah, New York. 5. Correspondence of Robert and Julia Serebrenik. 6. Statement by Robert Serebrenik, Chief Rabbi of Luxemburg, on his meetings with Adolf Eichmann 7. Letters of condolences, eulogies and obituaries on the occasion of Robert Serebrenik's death. 8. Julia Serebrenik's correspondence conc...

  11. P.66 - Rachel and Rafael Olewski Collection

    Collection of Rachel and Rafael Olewski, including documentation regarding the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp and the organization of survivors there, gathered during Rafael Olewski's period of activity in the central committee of the Bergen-Belsen camp and the organization of survivors from the British occupation zone in Germany in Eretz Israel. The collection contains photographs, documents, publications, and press clippings about activity in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp and the organization of Holocaust survivors from the British occupation zone in Germany in Eretz Israel.

  12. P.45 - Pinkhof-Waterman Family Archive

    P.45 - Pinkhof-Waterman Family Archive

  13. P.52 - Yehuda Bauer Collection

    Yehuda Bauer is one of the most respected authorities on the subjects of the Holocaust, antisemitism and the Jewish resistance movement during the Shoah He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, emigrated with his family to Palestine in 1939. Bauer attended high school in Haifa and then joined the Palmach. He attended Cardiff University in Wales, interrupting his studies to fight in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, after which he completed his degree. He returned to Israel to continue his studies and received his doctorate from Hebrew University in 1960 for a thesis on the British Mandate of Palesti...

  14. P.30 - Personal Archive of Matilde Finzi-Bassani, Italy

    P.30 - Personal Archive of Matilde Finzi-Bassani, Italy Born in Ferrara, Italy, Matilde Finzi-Bassani was active in the anti-Fascist underground in northern Italy and Rome. The Collection contains Matilde Finzi-Bassani's personal documentation as well as much documentation regarding the anti-Fascist underground in Italy.

  15. O.85 - Austrian Communities Registry

    O.85 - Documentation collected for the Austrian Communities Registry The purpose of the Yad Vashem Communities Registry Project is to perpetuate the history of the communities destroyed during the Holocaust. The historiography of the communities focused on countries, and sometimes on districts, but not the history of the local communities. With the increase of interest in the local communities, this Record Group also serves as a very important source for historians and researchers working in this field. The task of preparation of the Austrian Communities Registry was assigned to Dr. Herbert...

  16. TR. 19: Documentation from the Trial against Bovensiepen and others

    TR. 19: Documentation from the Trial against Bovensiepen and others Otto Bovensiepen served as a Gestapo commander in several places. On 18 March 1941, he was appointed head of the Gestapo in Berlin. In 1943 he was also appointed Inspekteur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (Chief of the Security Police and SD) in Berlin; in 1944 he was appointed Chief of the Security Police and SD in Denmark as well. In 1969, he was brought to trial at the initiation of the RSHA Work Group (a body which worked within the framework of the Attorney General's Office investigating criminals who had been part o...

  17. P.33: Theodor Feldmann Collection

    P.33: Theodor Feldmann Collection Theodor Feldman was born in Oradea Mare, Romania, in 1922. During World War II he was drafted to a labor battalion, and later deported to Theresienstadt. After the liberation, he collected documents, stamps (including franked stamps) and artifacts (primarily in Hungarian, Romanian and German) from the Holocaust and relating to the Holocaust.

  18. O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection

    O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection Mordechai Friedman was born in Pultusk, Poland, in 1937. At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, his family escaped to the Soviet Union. At the end of the war, his family returned to Poland, and some time later they escaped to Germany with the She’erith Hapletah. Friedman attended elementary school in Germany, and in 1949 made aliya to Eretz Israel. As part of his studies for his Master's degree in the History of the Jewish People, Friedman submitted a Master's thesis on Orthodox Jewry in New York, 1891-1914; his advisor was Professor Uriel Tal. Friedma...

  20. M.63 - Documentation from archives in Switzerland

    M.63 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from provincial archives in Switzerland, 1930-1950 The documentation is composed mainly of material received by Yad Vashem from the archives of cantons and Jewish communities in Switzerland. Documentation received from the Federal Archive of Switzerland and the State Archive of Lichtenstein is also included in the Record Group. There is also material from various institutions that dealt with Jewish refugees in Switzerland, personal files of thousands of Jewish refugees who escaped to Switzerland as well as the files of Jewish refugees who were de...