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

  1. Documentation of the Magistrates Court of Law in Völklingen (Amtsgericht Völklingen) in the Saar region, 1933-1943

    Documentation of the Magistrates Court of Law in Völklingen (Amtsgericht Völklingen) in the Saar region, 1933-1943 Included in the material that was photocopied for Yad Vashem are, in most part, orders and instructions given by the law authorities, including the German Ministry of Justice and the Courts of Law and authorities in the Saar region. The orders relate to Jews and to inmates and to their handling, among other matters. Included in the collection are two files that deal with trials that were held during 1933-1934, in which a Jewish lawyer participated.

  2. Documentation from the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) which was active in Crimea, 1944

    Documentation from the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) which was active in Crimea, 1944 The State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK), 1942-1951, was established by order of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union, 02 November 1942. The ChGK was responsible for the collection of documentary data and the preparation of material regarding the atrocities committed by Nazi criminals and the damage caused to Soviet citizens, kolkhozes and the State as a result of the occupation of ...

  3. Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1927-1947

    Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1927-1947 In the collection there are various files created by Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (on each file the Code Number "33" appears, [an indication of] documents pertaining to the Jewish Question). Also in the collection: Files pertaining to the legal status of the Romanian Jews (already in 1927); propaganda material; correspondence with Romanian diplomatic delegations abroad and foreign delegations in Romania; reports concerning the activities of Jewish organizations outside of Romania (mainly in the Un...

  4. Documentation of the municipal Jewish high school in Riga, 1921-1940

    Documentation of the municipal Jewish high school in Riga, 1921-1940 Circulars, orders and instructions of the Riga municipality's education department; the Jewish education administration and other institutions; correspondence with the department of middle schools, regarding educational activities and the composition of the teachers and pupils; reports of meetings and the teachers committee; lists of teachers; lists of pupils; elementary school diplomas; record books of grades [marks]; copies of matriculation certificates.

  5. Documentation from the Schutzhaftlager (Protective detention) camp in the Stutthof concentration camp, 1941-1945

    Documentation from the Schutzhaftlager (Protective detention) camp in the Stutthof concentration camp, 1941-1945 Included in the collection is documentation, including administrative announcements regarding the organization of the camp, regulations, regarding the arrival of inmates and transfers of inmates; list of Jewish female inmates who were transferred to the camp; registration of inmates in various labor battalions; work cards of inmates and exit certificates from the camp; documentation regarding transfers of inmates; documentation regarding the punishment of inmates for various offe...

  6. Collection of A-Dossiers, files of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, regarding the arrest of Dutch citizens outside the borders of the Netherlands during 1921-1925

    Collection of A-Dossiers, files of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, regarding the arrest of Dutch citizens outside the borders of the Netherlands during 1921-1925 Included in the file: Documents with a political character, regarding the arrest of Dutch citizens outside the borders of the Netherlands during 1921-1925.

  8. Documentation of the faculties of the University of Hamburg

    Documentation of the faculties of the University of Hamburg

  9. Documentation of the People's Court in Tallinn, 1945 - 1952

  10. Documentation of the State Police Headquarters in the Grodno District, 1938-1939

    Documentation of the State Police Headquarters in the Grodno District, 1938-1939 The Collection includes reports of the Grodno Mayor regarding the political, social and economic situation in the area; correspondence with the Regional State Police Headquarters regarding the search for suspects and stolen property.

  11. Data from the "Minority Census" in Germany (Volkszaehlung 1939), from materials of the Reichssippenamt, May 1939

    Data from the "Minority Census" in Germany (Volkszaehlung 1939), from materials of the Reichssippenamt, May 1939 The collection includes personal data of Jewish families that was collected during the population census. The Record Group was located in the State Archives of East Germany in Potsdam, under Archive signature 1/82. Following the reunification of Germany, this Archive was added to the Bundesarchiv (Federal Archive) in Berlin. The Reichssippenamt materials have been included in the R 1509 Record Group in this Archive. The data is listed alphabetically more or less according to the ...

  12. The K. F. Mannheimer archives, 1900-1994

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6082686
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1900-1994
    • Committee request Correspondence Document Financial accounts Indictment Inventory list Laws and decrees Legal documentation Letter Letter of testimony Medical documentation Newspaper Notepad Passport Personal documents Protocol Questionnaire Reports Sentence

    Documentation of K. F. Mannheimer, a lawyer for claims for compensation by Holocaust survivors in Germany and in Amsterdam; documentation dated, 1897-1978 K. F. Mannheimer, a Jewish lawyer, was born in Germany in 1897; he was married to B. A. E. Weisel in a mixed marriage; following the Nazi rise to power, Mannheimer was forced to cease his work as a lawyer in Berlin; he emigrated to the Netherlands with his wife, who was also a lawyer, in 1936; in the Netherlands, Mannheimer served as a lawyer, prosecutor, translator and advisor to students, until the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands whi...

  13. Documentation from the Amtsgericht Aalen

    Documentation from the Amtsgericht Aalen Included in the Collection are files regarding trials, the grand majority of them against non-Jewish forced laborers.

  14. Documentation of the elementary education institutions directorate of the department of schools, of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Latvia, 1927-1938

    Documentation of the elementary education institutions directorate of the department of schools, of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Latvia, 1927-1938 Included in the collection is historical information regarding a Jewish kindergarten, and files regarding work disputes in Jewish schools.

  15. Documentation of the Zdolbunow municipality, 1941-1943

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12834256
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1943
    • Appeal to the authorities Certification List of craftspeople List of homeowners List of residents List of workers Official documentation

    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.

  16. Documentation from the Main Elections Office (Hauptwahlamt) in Berlin

    Documentation from the Main Elections Office (Hauptwahlamt) in Berlin The Elections Office in Berlin was established in 1873 with the aim of supervising the elections process in the city. Following the unification of all of the city's suburbs into one municipal framework, the office was subdivided in 1920 into the main elections office in the central municipal office, and elections offices that were established in the city's various districts. The purpose of the main elections office was the unified administration of the elections on a local and a national level, to prepare the election for...

  17. Files of the Amstergericht (Magistrates Court) of the Charlottenburg neighborhood in Berlin

    Files of the Amstergericht (Magistrates Court) of the Charlottenburg neighborhood in Berlin Included in the files are: Official correspondence regarding the handling of the estates of Jews (some of the files include lists of the property in the estate); files related to Jewish owned companies and the bankruptcy (Konkurs) of Jewish owned companies; files related to declarations of incompetence (Entmuendigung) of Jews due to mental illness or cognitive disability; files related to the transfer of problematic (anti-social) young people, most of them Jewish, to special education settings and su...

  18. M.41. ZGABob - Documentation from the Zonal State Archive in Bobruysk, Belorussia

    M.41. ZGABobr - Documentation from the Zonal State Archive in Bobruysk, Belorussia History of the Archive In December 1944 the Bobruysk Region State Archive was established; it was reorganized as the Bobruysk State Municipal Archive in 1954, when the Bobruysk Region was abolished; a branch of the Mogilev Region Regional State Archive in Bobruysk was established in 1963 on the foundation of the Bobruysk State Municipal Archive and the District Archives of the Bobruysk, Kirov, Osipovichi, Klichev, and Glusk Districts; this Archive has been working under a new name since March 1996: Zonalny Go...

  19. Documentation of the Sentaskommission f. d. Hoehere Verwaltungsdienst (Senate Committee for the Higher Civil Service) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Sentaskommission f. d. Hoehere Verwaltungsdienst (Senate Committee for the Higher Civil Service) in Hamburg The Collection includes in most part the files of senior clerks who are of Jewish origin. Included in the Collection is a file that deals with suspicions regarding the Jewish origin of the city's mayor.

  20. Documentation from the Auswanderungsberatungsstelle (Emigration Counseling Office) for Lippe and Westfallen in Muenster

    Documentation from the Auswanderungsberatungsstelle (Emigration Counseling Office) for Lippe and Westfallen in Muenster