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  1. TR.16 - Legal documentation- Romania

    TR.16 - Legal documentation - Romania Legal documentation regarding Romanian and Hungarian war criminals who collaborated with the Germans during the Holocaust period. The trials were conducted in Romania at the end of World War II, during the years 1945-1946, and they include correspondence, indictments, verdicts and appeals concerning these trials. The indictments include testimonies of survivors regarding the crimes of the defendants.

  2. O.52 - German Communities Registry

    O.52 - German 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 on the history of the local communities. With the increase of interest in the local communities, this Record Group serves as a very important source for historians and researchers working in this field. As part of the preparation of the volumes of the German Communities Registry during the 1960s, many sources were gathered re...

  3. P.63 - David Kranzler Collection

    P.63 - David Kranzler Collection Dr. David Kranzler dedicated himself for many years to the research of the rescue of Jews in occupied Europe, and published many books regarding organizations and people active on behalf of this aim. Dr. Kranzler collected, for the purpose of his research, a vast amount of detailed documentation regarding various rescue activities: - Rescue activities by George Mantello, the First Secretary at the El Salvador Consulate in Geneva, who issued 10,000 El Salvador citizenship certificates and sent them to Jews living in the occupied areas; - Rescue activities by ...

  4. 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 ...

  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.76 - The Esther Lurie Collection

    The artist and painter Esther Lurie (1913-1998) grew up in Latvia. She studied in Belgium and made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1934. In 1938 she won the Dizengoff Prize. She traveled to visit her relatives in Latvia and Lithuania in 1939, and was unable to return to Eretz Israel. In June 1941 she was in Kaunas. She was deported to the Kaunas Ghetto and documented life in the Kaunas Ghetto in her paintings. She was deported later to Stutthof camp. Esther returned to Eretz Israel in 1945, married Dr. Yosef Shapira, and continued her artistic activities. She participated in many exhibitions and w...

  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 municipal committee for planning and construction in Riga, 1887-1944

    Documentation of the municipal committee for planning and construction in Riga, 1887-1944 Planning and construction documents, and materials regarding the management of buildings belonging to the area of the Riga Ghetto (the data is taken from the official list of real estate properties in Riga for the year of 1939).

  9. Documentation from the Informationsamt (Information office) of the Saar region, 1949-1956

    Documentation from the Informationsamt (Information office) of the Saar region, 1949-1956 In the material that was copied for Yad Vashem, there are four files that deal with the handling of victims of persecution; list of newspapers and periodicals [journals] sold in the Saar region, including the Jüdische Rundschau; visit by Professor Helmut Hirsch, an historian (perhaps Jewish) from the United States, who researched the Saar region and took special interest in the People's Left from 1935 [in which it was decided regarding the annexation of the Saar region to Nazi Germany] and proposed the...

  10. Documentation of the Klooga Camp Administration, 1943 - 1944

  11. Lists of children and youth, prepared by the Sumy municipal administration, 1941-1943

    Lists of children and youth, prepared by the Sumy municipal administration, 1941-1943

  12. Documentation of the security office in Romny, 1945

    Documentation of the security office in Romny, 1945 Included in the collection are requests and testimonies of Romny residents, regarding inheritance rights.

  13. תיעוד של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Witten (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12429515
    • 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...

  15. Documentation of The "Licht" Jewish Cultural Society in Tallinn, 1926 - 1940

  16. Collection of the Ministerie van Algemene Zaken (Ministry for General Affairs), regarding the treatment of the Jews in the Netherlands by the Dutch government, 1938-1942

    Collection of the Ministerie van Algemene Zaken (Ministry for General Affairs), regarding the treatment of the Jews in the Netherlands by the Dutch government, 1938-1942 The Ministerie van Algemene Zaken (Ministry for General Affairs) in The Hague dealt during 1938-1942 with the governing of the Netherlands during the German occupation, economic [general?] matters related to war, Nazi issues, and the organization of relief by het Nederlandsche Roode Kruis (the Dutch Red Cross) and Winterhulp; the Ministry for General Affairs dealt with the matter of the strikes in February 1941 and May 1943...

  17. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Nikolayev region, 1944-1949

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Nikolayev region, 1944-1949

  18. Collection of the Departement van Justitie - Department of Justice of the Netherlands, regarding the deportation of Jews in 1943

    Collection of the Departement van Justitie - Department of Justice of the Netherlands, regarding the deportation of Jews in 1943 Included in the collection: Telegrams received by the Police commander in the Departement van Justitie of the Netherlands, including reports regarding the deportations of Jews from the various cities, 1943.

  19. Documentation of Reichsgruppen (Reich Economic Groups), Germany, 1933-1945

    Documentation of Reichsgruppen (Reich Economic Groups), Germany, 1933-1945 The collection included the following Record Groups: R 12 I - Reichsgruppe Industrie (reels JM/34594-JM/34598, JM/34800, and files and also in reels JM/34599 and JM/34601) R 12 II - Reichsgruppe Energiewirtschaft (inside reel JM/34599) R 12 III - Reichsgruppe Handel (reels JM/34706-JM/34707, and files and also in reels JM/34599, JM/34601 and JM/34708) R 12 IV - Reichsgruppe Versicherungen (reels JM/34708 and [part of the reel] JM/34709).

  20. Documentation, mainly of the Gestapo, regarding Soviet and Polish foreign laborers in Germany from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1941-1943

    Documentation, mainly of the Gestapo, regarding Soviet and Polish foreign laborers in Germany from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1941-1943 Most of the files in the collection are files from the Duesseldorf Gestapo and its neighboring branches (Krefeld and Moenchen-Gladbach) relating to specific foreign laborers for whom Gestapo intervention was requested. - File of the Krefeld Gestapo regarding foreign laborers from eastern Europe, including correspondence concerning police handling of specific laborers, and documentation regarding the implementation of the guideline from the Duesseldorf Ges...