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Country: Israel

  1. TR.17.WUiADwBy - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1946-1959

    TR.17.WUiADwBy - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1946-1959 Included in the collection are appeals by relatives of Jews who perished during the war period, submitted to the Polish Courts of Law in the Bydgoszcz district in order to receive declarations of death.

  2. Collection of the Amersfoort transit camp in the Netherlands, dated, 1942-1964

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6094601
    • English, Hebrew
    • Announcement Certification Diary Document Legal documentation Letter List of camp inmates List of murdered persons Official documentation Questionnaire Reports Testimony

    Collection of the Amersfoort transit camp in the Netherlands, dated, 1942-1964 Amersfoort camp was built by the Dutch Army in 1939; following the German occupation in 1940, the Germans started to use the camp as a rest place for the German soldiers; the German authorities decided to expand the camp in 1941 and to turn it into a transit camp, called Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort; approximately 35,000 inmates passed through Amersfoort camp during the war, most of them political prisoners, but also Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, marginal people, people who refused to do labor, hostages,...

  3. Documentation of the Oberpostdirktion II (Post Directorate II) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Oberpostdirktion II (Post Directorate II) in Hamburg

  4. Documentation of the Romanian occupation authorities in the Mogilev Podolskiy district, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Romanian occupation authorities in the Mogilev Podolskiy district, 1941-1944

  5. M.49 - Żydowski Instytut Historyczny (ŻIH): Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw

    M.49 - Żydowski Instytut Historyczny (ŻIH): Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw In the Record Group there are copies of documentation that was handed over to Yad Vashem by the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. The Record Group is divided into two Subsections: Subsection M.49.E. is comprised of a collection of testimonies taken down by the Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna (Central Jewish Historical Committee); Subsection M.49.P. contains a collection of diaries.

  6. Documentation of the auxiliary Ukrainian administration in Dnipropetrovsk, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the auxiliary Ukrainian administration in Dnipropetrovsk, 1941-1943 Included in the collection: - Documentation regarding Jewish elderly people and orphans in the municipal home for the disabled in Dnipropetrovsk, and registration of the Jews of the city before their deportation to the ghetto; - Documentation of the local authorities in Pyatikhatki regarding Jews, 1942-1943; - Instruction by the mayor of the city of Dnipropetrovsk to the chief physicians of the hospitals and clinics, including the ban against giving treatment to Jews, 1941; - Appeal to the Stadtkomissar by ...

  7. Documentation from the Croatian State Archives: Branch Office of the Ustasha Intelligence Service in Zagreb - Jewish Section, 1941-1942

    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...

  8. Documentation from the Gestapo Staatspolizeistelle Saarbruecken, 1937-1944

    Documentation from the Gestapo Staatspolizeistelle Saarbruecken, 1937-1944 In the documentation that was copied for Yad Vashem, there are files that deal with supervision over the clergy; training of candidates for the position of supervisor; examination [inspection] of members of the Foreign Legion in Metz, on suspicion of spying; foreign workers; people who are in need of special police protection; The documentation was copied for Yad Vashem in 2012.

  9. Documentation of the Handelsstatistisches Amt (Commercial Statistics Office) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Handelsstatistisches Amt (Commercial Statistics Office) in Hamburg

  10. M.46 - Documentation from the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF), 1939-1960

    M.46- Documentation from the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF), 1939-1960 In the RG there is documentation from the following organizations: - The Council for Religious Affairs of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, 1943-1953, and the Council for Religious Affairs of the Government of the Soviet Union, 1943-1954 The documentation includes protocols, official correspondence and reports concerning religious life and the Soviet Jewish communities during the war and afterwards, the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust, statistical data regarding the Jewish population and...

  11. Documentation of the German and local authorities in the Gomel Region, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the German and local authorities in the Gomel Region, 1941-1943 In the Collection there is documentation from the district and municipal administrations in the Gomel Region, documentation from the prisons in Rechitsa and Bobruysk, a list of residents in Rechitsa, directives issued by the Reichskommissar-Ukraine regarding the setting of prices, documentation from Hans Rothke, the Petrikov Gebietskommissar, directives from the Mozyr Gebietskommissar, correspondence and directives of the German authorities in Mozyr, Zhitkovichi and Petrikov, documentation of the municipal admi...

  12. Documentation of the Estonian Jewish Cultural Council Board of Trustees in Pärnu, 1926 - 1934

  13. תיעוד על יהודים ועסקים יהודיים מבית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Bochum-Langendreer (ווסטפליה)

    Repertory Amtsgericht (district court) Bochum-Langendreer Sifted: Nr. 306-797 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 perished and their deportation; corresponden...

  14. Documentation of the regional and municipal auxiliary committee to the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding Nazi war crimes in the Kiev region, 1944-1945

    Documentation of the regional and municipal auxiliary committee to the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding Nazi war crimes in the Kiev region, 1944-1945 Included in the collection: - List of the committee's documentation regarding the murder of Jews and non-Jews in Kiev, in Syrets camp and in the Zhaskov district; - Confirmations regarding the number of residents in neighborhoods in the city of Kiev in December 1943; - Lists of residents from Kiev who were deported to Germany and arrested by the Gestapo; - List of POWs who perished in a POW camp in Darnitsa, 1941-1943.

  15. Documentation of the Reich Ministry of Justice: Wehrmacht and Foreign Affairs, 1933-1945

    Documentation of the Reich Ministry of Justice: Wehrmacht and Foreign Affairs, 1933-1945 The Reich Ministry of Justice became the central authority for the administration of justice in Germany, 1933-1935, thus taking control over this domain. With the Nazi rise to power, Franz Guertner, who had already served as State Minister of Justice under Papen and Schleicher, abandoned the principles of state justice, and supplied the SA, SS, and Gestapo with legal cover for their activities by introducing the deprivation of rights of Jews and special wartime penal codes. Following Guertner's death, o...

  16. Documentation of the Jewish community and Jewish organizations in Leipzig, from the Polizeipraesidium Leipzig (Leipzig Police)

    Documentation of the Jewish community and Jewish organizations in Leipzig, from the Polizeipraesidium Leipzig (Leipzig Police)

  17. Documentation of the Bezirksaemter (Regional offices) in Oberpfalz (Upper Palatinate)

    Documentation of the Bezirksaemter (Regional offices) in Oberpfalz (Upper Palatinate) - Bezirksamt Amberg JM/12679 (frames 319-448) - Bezirksamt Eschenbach JM/12679 (frames 449-615); JM/12680 (frames 2-474).

  18. Documentation of the Bundeskanzleramt (Office of the Prime Minster) in Vienna

    Documentation of the Bundeskanzleramt (Office of the Prime Minster) in Vienna The collection contains files on various subjects, before and after the Anschluss (annexation of Austria to Germany): files regarding Nazi, anti-Nazi and Socialist propaganda in various places (based on reports from the Austrian Embassies), the Vaterländische Front (the Austrian Party in power until the Anschluss), surveys of the German press and what it has to say regarding Austria, and more. One of the files (Microfilm JM/29036, Scans 112-128) surveys the relatives of Adolf Hitler in Austria.

  19. Documentation of the Jewish Community in Tallinn, 1859 - 1941

  20. Documents of the Reich Committee for the Battle Against Tuberculosis (Reichstuberkuloseausschuss), 1941-1945

    Documents of the Reich Committee for the Battle Against Tuberculosis (Reichstuberkuloseausschuss), 1941-1945 Documents of the Reich Tuberculosis Committee from the war period. Most of the documents relate to activities to eradicate tuberculosis among forced laborers. Some of the documents relate to Jews (orders regarding tuberculosis among Jews, reference to a vaccine against tuberculosis that was developed by a Jewish doctor, and more).