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Country: Israel

  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. 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...

  5. P.11 - Moshe Keller Collection: The Finaly Children Affair

    P.11 -The Moshe Keller Collection: The Finaly Children Affair The event known as the "Finaly Children Affair" took place in France in the early 1950s. Jewish relatives of two orphaned Jewish brothers who had been baptized as Catholics and were living in a monastery in Spain, demanded that they be given custody of the children. The Catholic Church used the baptism as justification for letting the children remain in the Catholic faith. After a struggle mounted by the relatives against the French authorities, the Church finally gave up its demands, and the children were turned over to their Je...

  6. P.55 - Personal Papers of Dr. Heinz E.Samson

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 7894262
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Balance sheet Booklet(s) Brochure Death certificate Envelope Financial accounts Genealogy Journals Legal documentation Letter List of deportees List of murdered Jews from Germany Maps Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Postcard Poster Speech

    P.55 - Personal Archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson In the collection there are files from the private archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson. Description of the collection: The documentation deals with a part of the estate of the Samson family, originally from the city of Norden in Northern Germany. There is pre-war documentation on tax issues and the assets of the Samson family, pre- and postwar correspondence with German authorities, personal documents and certificates, documents on the restoration of the Norden Jewish cemetery supported by the Samson family after WW II, the dedication of a memorial ...

  7. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The "Anti-Nazi Resistance and Opposition" collection consists of pamphlets, flyers, and booklets published across Europe during World War II. These publications document the atrocities committed by the Nazis and by their collaborators, and were originally aimed to unite the oppressed populations in spiritual and armed resistance. The opposition to the Nazis was led by people from different social backgrounds: peasants, workers, teachers, business owners, as well as aristocrats. Most operated underground, and individuals often sacrificed their freedom or even their own lives to ensure the pr...

  8. Documentation of the Romanian branch of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) pertaining to survivors and those who perished in the Holocaust from all the areas of Romania, 1945

    Documentation of the Romanian branch of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) pertaining to survivors and those who perished in the Holocaust from all the areas of Romania, 1945

  9. Documentation of the Deputation fuer Handel, Schiffahrt und Gewerbe (Deputation for Trade, Shipping and Industry) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Deputation fuer Handel, Schiffahrt und Gewerbe (Deputation for Trade, Shipping and Industry) in Hamburg

  10. Documentation of the municipal administration of Brest, 1941-1944

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 13234955
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1944
    • Correspondence Declaration Instruction List of craftspeople List of forced laborers List of Jewish physicians Official documentation Survey report

    Documentation of the municipal administration of Brest, 1941-1944 Personal forms completed by Jews from Brest in order to receive identity cards, November 1941-October 1942; documentation regarding tax payments by the Jews, 1941-1942; orders and directives issued by the municipal administration commander regarding Jewish forced laborers, and prohibitions and limitations pertaining to Jews; correspondence between the Judenrat and the Brest municipal administration; lists of Jewish names and lists of Jewish family men from Brest; reports regarding the supply and allotment of food to Jews; lis...

  11. Documentation from the Allgemeines Krankenhaus (General Hospital) in Barmbeck (a suburb of Hamburg)

    Documentation from the Allgemeines Krankenhaus (General Hospital) in Barmbeck (a suburb of Hamburg) The General Hospital in Barmbeck started to be partially active in November 1913, and it opened completely in August 1914 with a capacity of 2,400 beds. The hospital was a part of the system of regional hospitals of Hamburg State. For several years during World War II, the hospital was subjugated to military command, as part of the military medical system. The hospital was damaged by air-raids in 1942. The building was evacuated in May 1945 by order of the British occupation authorities, and ...

  12. Documentation of the district committees of the Communist Party in the Bialystok region, 1939-1941

    Documentation of the district committees of the Communist Party in the Bialystok region, 1939-1941 Included in the collection: - Questionnaires of delegates to the Communist Party convention; - List of residents and documentation of the neighborhood committee in Bialystok; - Lists of Communists and Soviet activists; - Documentation of the NKVD; - Documentation from the first convention of the Communist Party in Bialystok; - Instructions of the Communist Party regional committee; - Protocols of meetings; - Documentation of the Police and the NKVD, regarding political opinions and the propaga...

  13. Documentation of the underground organizations of the Communist Party and the Komsomol movement in Belorussia, 1941-1944

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12796915
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1944
    • Investigation report Legal documentation List of Communists List of Komsomol members List of partisans List of residents List of underground members Official documentation Protocol Statistical report Survey report

    Documentation of the underground organizations of the Communist Party and the Komsomol movement in Belorussia, 1941-1944 Included in the collection, among other material: - Survey reports and investigation reports regarding the activities of the partisans units in Belorussia; - Statistical reports regarding partisans units; - Lists of partisans; - Reports regarding underground activities of the Party organizations and the Komsomol movement; - Lists of Communists and members of the Komsomol movement; - Documentation and intelligence reports; - Reports regarding the persecution and murder of ...

  14. Documentation of the Verband der juedischen Kaufleute und Gewerbetreibende (Association of Jewish Merchants and Tradespeople) in Vienna from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1928-1935

    Documentation of the Verband der juedischen Kaufleute und Gewerbetreibende (Association of Jewish Merchants and Tradespeople) in Vienna from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1928-1935 In the collection there is mainly Verband correspondence and circulars from 1928-1935, including internal Verband correspondence with its members (and candidates for membership), along with much information regarding the possibilities for commercial connections abroad, and correspondence with outside bodies on various matters, such as guidelines to the Verband members on various businesses, correspondence with gov...

  15. Documentation from the Badisches Finanzministerium (Baden Finance Ministry), regarding Aryanization

    Documentation from the Badisches Finanzministerium (Baden Finance Ministry), regarding Aryanization

  16. Documentation of the State Police Headquarters in the Suwalki district, 1937-1939

    Documentation of the State Police Headquarters in the Suwalki district, 1937-1939 The Collection includes documentation and correspondence of various entities in the Suwalki District Police regarding persons suspected of anti-State activity; list of our residents in hotels, guesthouses and inns in Suwalki.

  17. Documentation of the regional Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Kielce, dated 1947-1991

    Documentation of the regional Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Kielce, dated 1947-1991 Included in the collection is documentation regarding the murder of Poles and Jews by German policemen in Nowy Korczyn during 1939-1945; murder of Jews and Poles in the Opatow district during 1941-1944; crimes committed by workers in the Radom concentration camp during 1940-1944; abuse and murder of Jewish and Polish forced laborers in the HASAG company factory in Skarzysko-Kamienna camp during 1939-1945; investigation documents and documentation regarding crimes com...

  18. Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Berufliche Schulen (State and private vocational schools) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Berufliche Schulen (State and private vocational schools) in Hamburg The Collection is comprised of sub-record groups that deal with specific schools. Included in the material, among others, are lists of pupils and matriculation certificates of boys and girls who were pupils in certain schools. Included are the sub-record groups: - 362-4/7 - Handelsschule Holzdamm 1934-1940, - 362-4/9 - Handels- und Berufsschule Harburg 1895-1982.

  19. Documentation of the Muzey-arkhiv perekhodovoi doby (Kiev Archive Museum of Transitional Period [History]) in Kiev, 1942

    Documentation of the Muzey-arkhiv perekhodovoi doby (Kiev Archive Museum of Transitional Period [History]) in Kiev, 1942 The Kiev Archive Museum of Transitional Period [History] was established under the auspices of the German authorities and was active during April-October 1942 with the aim of presenting the [history of the] transitional period from the Soviet occupation period until the period of Nazi rule; Included in the collection: - Decisions taken by the mayor of Kiev regarding the opening of the museum; - Decision by the Kiev municipality regarding the registration of the books left...

  20. Documentation of the Zdolbunow municipality, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the Zdolbunow municipality, 1941-1943 Included in the collection are lists of residents, homeowners, skilled professionals, owners of herds, clinic workers and others, including Jews.