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

  1. Collection of Kapitän Michael Sommer en Fa. Union, for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, 1942-1922

    Collection of Kapitän Michael Sommer en Fa. Union, for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, 1942-1922 Two companies purchased goods by command of Oberst Veltjens, Goering's representative in the Netherlands, 1942-1944; Kapitän Michael Sommer served as the person responsible for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, which was carried out in the context of the Vierjahresplan of the Blau-Aktion (black market); Included in the collection: Correspondence between Kapitän Michael Sommer and various...

  2. Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Textiel (Textiles Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1945

    Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Textiel (Textiles Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1945 Included in the collection: Official documentation of the Omnia Treuhandgesellschaft, the German Office for the Aryanization of Jewish Businesses in the Netherlands, 1940-1945; Official documentation of the Wirtschaftspruefstelle - German Ministry of the Treasury, Department for the Confiscation of Businesses, 1940-1945; Lists of businesses owned by Jews in the Netherlands; Documents of the Rijksbureau voor Textiel, regarding compensation to Jews in the Netherlands for the confiscation of merchandise ...

  3. Documentation of the Zentrale Vereinigung osterreichischer Emigranten (Central Association of Austrian Emigrants) in Paris, 1938-1940

    Documentation of the Zentrale Vereinigung osterreichischer Emigranten (Central Association of Austrian Emigrants) in Paris, 1938-1940 The Association was founded in Paris, France, in May 1938, with the goal of uniting the Austrian emigrant organizations under one roof. The documentation contains correspondence and organization fliers, reports regarding activities of Austrian emigrant organizations in various places, as well as diaries and memoirs of the emigrants and lists of Austrian citizens in camps.

  4. Collection of Schoorl camp in the Netherlands, 1940-1941, and correspondence regarding Schoorl camp until 1979

    Collection of Schoorl camp in the Netherlands, 1940-1941, and correspondence regarding Schoorl camp until 1979 Included in the collection: Personal documents, including letters, poems/songs and paintings; Photographs of Schoorl camp and a map of Schoorl camp and the surrounding area; Orders by the Schoorl camp administration, regarding discipline, freedom of movement, cleanliness, the receipt of postal items, and other matters; List of inmates in Schoorl camp, 1940-1941; Documents including a statement of defense by K. Berg, commander of Schoorl camp and Amersfoort camp; Appeals to various ...

  5. Documentation of the district administration in Kostopol, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the district administration in Kostopol, 1941-1942 - Instructions by the Gebietskommissariat (district commissioner) in Kostopol; - Statistical data regarding the nationalization of property and the sale of Jewish homes, 19/12/1941-29/09/1942; - Appeals to the Kostopol municipality by two Jews, regarding receiving a food allotment, 04-05/1942; - List of children born in the Kostopol district, 1937-1938; - Instructions by the mayor of Kostopol, regarding the sale of clothing and shoes of Jews that were left in the municipal area, and the sale of clothing and shoes to poor pe...

  6. M.41.TsNANANB - Documentation from the Central Scientific Archive of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

    M.41.TsNANANB - Documentation from the Central Scientific Archive of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus The collection includes testimonies and memoirs of residents of Belorussia regarding their experiences in the ghettos, including the establishment of Judenraten, forced labor, starvation and murder of Jews, underground activities, and service in various partisan detachments and in the Red Army, 1941-1944.

  7. Documentation of the Jewish community in Cernauti, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Jewish community in Cernauti, 1941-1944 Included in the collection is documentation of the Centrala Evreilor din Romania (Jewish Center in Romania) in Cernauti, including: - List of names of Jews; - Request by the Jewish community to cancel the transfer of Jews to forced labor and to receive work permits; - Information regarding sending help to the Transnistria area; - Lists with names of senders and receivers of banking securities from cities in the region of Balta and Mogilev Podolski; - Request to receive help by the Jew, Alfred Sigal, referred to the administration ...

  8. Documentation of the Magistrates Court of Law in Neunkirchen (Amtsgericht Neunkirchen) in the Saar region, 1925-1935

    Documentation of the Magistrates Court of Law in Neunkirchen (Amtsgericht Neunkirchen) in the Saar region, 1925-1935 Included in the collection are excerpts from regulations of German and Nazi organizations, in which they ban the membership of Jews.

  9. Documentation handed over to the Osoby Archive in Moscow from the Pushkin State Museum in Moscow regarding the confiscation of books and art

    Documentation handed over to the Osoby Archive in Moscow from the Pushkin State Museum in Moscow regarding the confiscation of books and art

  10. תיעוד של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Warendorf (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12421296
    • English, Hebrew
    • Legal documentation Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Bestand: Amtsgericht (district court) Warendorf 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; correspondence with German authorities, in...

  11. Materials from the Judaica Memoiren (Jewish Memoirs) Collection, from the Archive of the City of Munich

    Materials from the Judaica Memoiren (Jewish Memoirs) Collection, from the Archive of the City of Munich

  12. Documentation of the Deutscher Gemeindetag (German Municipal Associations), 1933-1945

    Documentation of the Deutscher Gemeindetag (German Municipal Associations), 1933-1945 Documentation of the Deutscher Gemeindetag (German Municipal Associations), an association imposed on the local German municipalities and authorities established by the Nazis in December 1933. The files contain documents that relate primarily to the implementation of Nazi policies towards Jews, among others, on the municipal level.

  13. Documentation of the SS- und Polizeiführer commander affiliated with the office of the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Rushin, 1942-1943

    Documentation of the SS- und Polizeiführer commander affiliated with the office of the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Rushin, 1942-1943 Included in the collection: - Instructions of the Police commander; - Survey reports regarding the organization of the Ukrainian Police, the arrest of Ukrainian Nationalists who support Stepan Bandera (leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - OUN), combat against the partisans, and attacks by the partisans; - List of heads of villages, their deputies and their accountants; - Files regarding the arrest of Communists, partisans, POWs an...

  14. Documentation of the (Heeresgruppe Mitte) Central Armia Group, in Belorussia, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the (Heeresgruppe Mitte) Central Armia Group, in Belorussia, 1941-1944 The Collection contains instructions of the German Army Headquarters regarding the fight against partisan units, reports regarding the situation of the Einsatzgruppen B and their activity, reports regarding the propaganda among the local population and reports of German Army units regarding the activity of the partisans.

  15. Documentation of the administration of the Shargorod district, 1942-1944

    Documentation of the administration of the Shargorod district, 1942-1944 Included in the collection are instructions and orders by the prefecture and governor of Transnistria, regarding the supply and distribution of the agricultural produce; instructions and directives by the district administration regarding the sowing of grain; documentation regarding the payment of salaries to the workers in the district administration and the rural administrations; reports by government clerks.

  16. Documentation of the Municipal Department for Social Sevices in Tallinn, 1919 - 1944

  17. M.52.TsDIALU - Documentation from the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv

    M.52.TsDIALU - Documentation from the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv Documentation in this Sub-Record Group includes many documents from the period before World War II, including personal files of professors from the University of Lwow, letters and documentation of Metropolite Andrzej Szeptycki, official documentation and legal documentation regarding members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), lists of Jewish residents who voted [in the elections] for the Polish Sejm, lists of voters in the elections for the Jewish Community Council in Lwow, lists of ...

  18. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Vinnitsa region, 1944

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Vinnitsa region, 1944 The collection includes documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Vinnitsa region, June-November 1944, and includes documents, testimonies and survey reports regarding the murder of Jews during the German occupation. The documentation includes statistical reports, arranged according to the districts of the Vinnitsa region; information regarding the mass murder of the Jews of Vinnitsa, including the dates, methods of murder and the murder sites; number of people murdered, and numbe...

  19. M.41.GAOOGO - Documentation from the State Archive of the Public Organizations in the Gomel Region

    M.41.GAOOGO - Documentation from the State Archive of the Public Organizations in the Gomel Region History of the State Archive of the Public Organizations in the Gomel Region The regional authority established the Archive of the Communist Party in March 1940. The Archive was evacuated to the eastern areas of the Soviet Union in August 1941. Much of the documentation was destroyed during the evacuation as a result of the Germans' air-raids. After the liberation of the occupied areas of the Soviet Union, the central committee of Communist Party in Belorussia transferred some of the documenta...

  20. Documentation from regional authorities in Westphalia

    Documentation from regional authorities in Westphalia