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Language of Description: English
Country: Israel

  1. M.52.DAChrvO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Chernovtsy Region

    M.52.DAChrvO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Chernovtsy Region History of the Archives The State Archives of the Chernovtsy Region was established in November 1907, but it was closed in early 1918 along with other government institutions following the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The northern area of Bukovina and the Khotin district in the Bessarabia region were included in the Kingdom of Romania. By order of the Romanian Ministry of Education and the General State Directorate of the Archives of Romania, the State Archives of Bukovina in Chernovtsy was established in ...

  2. החלטות על הכרה במוות (Todeserklaerungen) של קרבנות יהודיים של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Gladbeck (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12424690
    • English, Hebrew
    • Legal documentation Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files include the applications including details regarding those who p...

  3. Documentation of the Municipal and District Order Police (Ordnungsdienst) in Borisov, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the Municipal and District Order Police (Ordnungsdienst) in Borisov, 1941-1942 The Collection includes instructions from the Commander of the area administration in Borisov regarding confiscated Jewish property; instructions regarding the manner of confiscating Jewish property; documentation regarding the confiscated Jewish property; documentation of the Order Police in the Borisov District regarding the detention of Jews and their deportation to a ghetto; appeals to the authorities by residents of Novo-Borisov regarding the illegal occupation of homes that were confiscated...

  4. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Skidel, 1940-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Skidel, 1940-1941 The Collection includes reports of the District Committee to the Communist Party's Regional Committee regarding preparations and management of the elections; protocols from meetings of the District Committee; reports of the District Committee's Propaganda Department regarding the state of the propaganda activity in the District.

  5. Documentation regarding Liquidation of Jewish Associations and Organizations, 1939 - 1941

  6. Documentation of the Head Office for Technology and of the Reichs Directorate of the National-Socialist Association of German Technology, Germany

    Documentation of the Head Office for Technology and of the Reichs Directorate of the National-Socialist Association of German Technology, Germany

  7. Documentation of the Landratsamt (District authority) of the Ahaus district, Westphalia

    Documentation of the Landratsamt (District authority) of the Ahaus district, Westphalia

  8. Documentation of the Ivan Franko National University of Lwow, 1939-1941 and 1944

    Documentation of the Ivan Franko National University of Lwow, 1939-1941 and 1944 Included in the collection, among other material, are personal files of Jewish students and university employees, and a list of employees from Lwow at institutions for higher education who were murdered during 1941-1944.

  9. Lists of residents of Brest, 1940-1941

    Lists of residents of Brest, 1940-1941

  10. Documentation of the Nazi Party in Westphalia

    Documentation of the Nazi Party in Westphalia

  11. Documentation from municipal institutions in Kiev, 1931-1941 and 1952

    Documentation from municipal institutions in Kiev, 1931-1941 and 1952 Included in the collection: - List of workers in the municipal hospital; - Lists of students and diplomas issued at Medical School no. 2; - List of workers at the Aeronautics Engineering Institute.

  12. Collection of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - AJDC in the Netherlands, 1934-1944

    Collection of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - AJDC in the Netherlands, 1934-1944 The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, known as the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - AJDC, was established in the United States in 1914 in order to help the victims of World War I; the head office is located in New York; Included in the collection: Letters and activity reports prepared by the JDC, regarding financial help to victims of the Holocaust, and correspondence by the JDC branch offices in Lisbon and Paris with people and institutions, regarding help to Jews d...

  13. Documentation regarding activities of the underground and the partisans movement in the Cherkassy region, 1944-1991

    Documentation regarding activities of the underground and the partisans movement in the Cherkassy region, 1944-1991 Included in the collection is documentation of the Communist Party regional committee, regarding activities of the partisans and the underground in the Cherkassy region: - Protocols and decisions of the Communist Party committees of the Cherkassy region and the city of Uman, regarding activities of the underground and the partisans movement in the area of the city of Uman and the Uman district during the war, prepared during February-May 1964; - Documentation regarding undergr...

  14. Documentation of the Borisov Region Commissioner, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the Borisov Region Commissioner, 1941-1942 The Collection includes instructions of the Ostland Reich Commissioner (Reichskommissar Ostland) to the various military departments; documentation regarding the confiscation of property; instructions of the Commissioner to local authorities regarding the Jews; list of women and children detained by the Police in Begoml, 27 December 1941; instructions regarding entry into the Borisov Ghetto; notice regarding the murder of Jews in Borisov.

  15. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Lomzha, 1939-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Lomzha, 1939-1941 The Collection includes documentation of the Municipal Department of the NKVD; statistical reports regarding the socio-economic situation of the District; reports and correspondence regarding the activities of the various Party organizations; character reference certificates of Jewish Communists; decision handed down by the prosecutor regarding closure of the file against Lerner Naum Shulimovich; documentation of officials regarding various topics; lists of candidates for management positions.

  16. M.52.DARO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Rivne Region

    M.52.DARO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Rivne Region History of the Archives The archives was established in March 1940 as the historical archives of the region, and as of 1941 it was called the State Archives of the Rovno Region. The material for the archives was collected gradually. At the start, the archives received documents from local institutions and from factories, non-profit organizations, associations, and from educational and healthcare institutions that were in existence from the period when Rovno still belonged to Poland. By 1940, collections that dated from 1921...

  17. Collection of W. Drees, a Social Democratic politician in the Netherlands, including documents from 1933-1945

    Collection of W. Drees, a Social Democratic politician in the Netherlands, including documents from 1933-1945 W. Drees was born in 1886; he was a member of the Dutch Parliament on behalf of the Social Democratic Workers' Party - SDAP during 1933-1940; he was a hostage in Sint Michielsgestel and Buchenwald camps during 1940-1941; he stood as the head of the Dutch resistance organizations, het Vaderlandsch Comité and Contactcommissie der Illegaliteit, during the occupation period and was a secret member of the College van Vertrouwensmannen organization; he was appointed as the Minister of Wel...

  18. Documentation of the Council and the Executive committee of the city of Baranovici, 1945-1947

    Documentation of the Council and the Executive committee of the city of Baranovici, 1945-1947 Included in the collection is a list of residents of Baranichi who were murdered during 1941-1944, and protocols and decisions of the Executive committee, 1947.

  19. Documentation of the prison in Bobruysk, 1942-1943

    Documentation of the prison in Bobruysk, 1942-1943 Included in the collection: - List of inmates and detainees in the prison; - Instructions of the Kommandantur.

  20. Collection of De Nederlandsche Landstand - The Netherlands Agriculture and Fishing Authority, 1941-1945

    Collection of De Nederlandsche Landstand - The Netherlands Agriculture and Fishing Authority, 1941-1945 De Nederlandsche Landstand - The Netherlands Agriculture and Fishing Authority was established in the Netherlands by the Germans in 1941, in order to take control over all matters related to agriculture and fishing; at the head of the authority stood E. J. Roskam, who was also the head of the Agrarisch Front, a section of an organization of collaborators with the Germans in the Netherlands.