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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Documentation of the Lwow municipality, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Lwow municipality, 1941-1944 Included in the collection: - Correspondence by the mayor of Lwow with the State Attorney's office and the German Security Police; - Instructions published by the mayor of Lwow regarding the Jews and Jewish property; - Correspondence regarding the establishment of the Lwow Ghetto; - Instructions published by the housing department of the Lwow municipality, regarding the deportation of Jews from their apartments to the Lwow Ghetto; - Instruction published by the mayor of Lwow in July 1942, regarding the arrangements for the borders of the Lwo...

  2. Documentation of Das Ahnenerbe (The Ancestral Heritage) Society, 1935-1945

    Documentation of Das Ahnenerbe (The Ancestral Heritage) Society, 1935-1945 Documentation of Das Ahnenerbe Society, a pseudo-scientific organization founded through the initiative of Heinrich Himmler and Darre, in 1935, which dealt with the study of ancient German history and in anthropological research in order to decide on various issues in Nazi ideology. At the peak of its activities, the organization included 40 scientific departments headed by Wolfram Sivers, who was executed as a result of the Nurenberg Trials. Following 1939, the organization frequently used the results of medical exp...

  3. Documentation of the Kleck District administration, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Kleck District administration, 1941-1944 The Collection includes lists of refugees residing in Kleck, from the years 1943-1944; documentation regarding the confiscation of Jewish property; an appeal regarding the closing of the bakery in Halynka following the murder of Jewish workers; correspondence with the District Commissioner (Gebietskommissariat) in Baranowitschy regarding the purchase of houses in Kletsk that were owned by Jews; list of residents in Kletsk and the surrounding villages; list of workers in a textile plant in Kletsk.

  4. Documentation from estates in the State Archives in Saarbruecken, 1932-1951

    Documentation from estates in the State Archives in Saarbruecken, 1932-1951 Included in the collection is documentation from the estates of the following persons: Becker family - file with certificates of honor received by Miss Becker for her assistance in volunteering for the "Winter Help" campaign (the German campaign, not the Jewish one) during 1936-1938; Bock family - two files regarding the acting career of Albert Bock in various theaters; Johannes Hoffmann - who served as the head of the government in the Saar region following the war [World War I]. Nine files that deal with his conta...

  5. Documentation of the Senatskommssion fuer die Kunstpflege (Senate Committee for the Cultivation of the Arts) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Senatskommssion fuer die Kunstpflege (Senate Committee for the Cultivation of the Arts) in Hamburg

  6. Documentation of the University of Hamburg

    Documentation of the University of Hamburg

  7. Collection of the Staatscommissie Bezettingsrecht committee for legislation in the Netherlands after the war, 1946-1955

    Collection of the Staatscommissie Bezettingsrecht committee for legislation in the Netherlands after the war, 1946-1955 Establishment of the Staatscommissie Bezettingsrecht as a government committee in the Netherlands in 1946; the aim of the committee was to advise the Netherlands government regarding the revocation of the Nazi occupation legislation, and regarding legislation for the transition period in order to return the Dutch legal system to order; Included in the collection: Survey by the Staatscommissie Bezettingsrecht, regarding subjects related to the anti-Jewish legislation in the...

  8. Documentation of the regional Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Bialystok, dated 1945-2003

    Documentation of the regional Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Bialystok, dated 1945-2003 Included in the collection: Lists of residents of the Bialystok region who perished in camps and prisons, including in Mauthausen, Dachau, Ravensbrueck, Dzialdowo, Bialystok, Gross-Rosen, Stutthof, Bergen-Belsen, Dora, Buchenwald, Majdanek and Auschwitz camps; official documentation of the regional Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Bialystok, including lists of people who perished; confirmations of death of residents who perished during the wa...

  9. Documentation from the Reichsnaehrstand (Reich Food Manufacturers Organization) and the Landesbauernschaft Bayern (Farmers Organization) in Bavaria

    Documentation from the Reichsnaehrstand (Reich Food Manufacturers Organization) and the Landesbauernschaft Bayern (Farmers Organization) in Bavaria

  10. Documentation of the Nowogrodek Communist Party Municipal Committee, 1939-1941

    Documentation of the Nowogrodek Communist Party Municipal Committee, 1939-1941

  11. Financial reports of the Commerz- und Privat-Bank Aktiengesellschaft from Berlin and from Hamburg from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1939

    Financial reports of the Commerz- und Privat-Bank Aktiengesellschaft from Berlin and from Hamburg from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1939 In the collection there are files of financial reports of the Commerz- und Privat-Bank Aktiengesellschaft from Berlin and from Hamburg, 1936-1939, prepared by the Deutsche Revisions und Treuhand Aktiengesellschaft Company. The original title assigned to this Record Group by the Osoby Archive, referring to the company that prepared the reports, is erroneous.

  12. Personal files of the Senatskanzlei (Senate Chamber) in Hamburg

    Personal files of the Senatskanzlei (Senate Chamber) in Hamburg

  13. Documentation of the area office for recruitment of laborers in Grodno, 1942-1944

    Documentation of the area office for recruitment of laborers in Grodno, 1942-1944 The Collection includes work summons for Jews in the Grodno Ghetto for work in various companies in the city; correspondence of various factories in Grodno with the local employment office (Arbeitsamt) regarding Jewish laborers from the Grodno Ghetto, procedures for payment of wages and requests for Jewish craftsmen, exit permits for Jewish laborers and fleeing Polish laborers.

  14. Documentation of the Jugendbehoerde I (Youth Office I) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Jugendbehoerde I (Youth Office I) in Hamburg

  15. Documentation of the local authorities in the Kolomyja district, 1942

    Documentation of the local authorities in the Kolomyja district, 1942 Included in the collection are instructions regarding the confiscation of winter clothing from the Jews and the resettlement of the Jews in the Distrikt Galizien (Galicia region).

  16. Documentation of the rural administrations in the Sumy region, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the rural administrations in the Sumy region, 1941-1943

  17. Documentation from the Wedding Magistrates Court in Berlin

    Documentation from the Wedding Magistrates Court in Berlin Files of individual Jews, regarding mainly wills and listings in the Land Registration Book (Grundbuch).

  18. Documentation of the National-Socialist Union of Law Defenders and of the Reich Legal Office, Germany

    Documentation of the National-Socialist Union of Law Defenders and of the Reich Legal Office, Germany

  19. Documentation of the Konzentrationslager (Concentration camps administration), Germany

    Documentation of the Konzentrationslager (Concentration camps administration), Germany

  20. M.41.GAMn - Documentation from the Minsk Region State Archive

    M.41.GAMn - Documentation from the Minsk Region State Archive History of the Archive The Minsk Region State Archive (GAMn Archive) was established in 1938. The Archive was not active during the period of the German occupation, 1941-1944. All the documents describing the period before the October Revolution (the Bolshevik Revolution) were transferred to the Belorussian Central State Historical Archive in 1963. 600,000 files from the Minsk Region Communist Party Archive were given to GAMO in 1996. Material from the period of the October Revolution in 1917 until the present time has been prese...