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

  1. Documentation of the Main Office for Educators and of the Reich Administration of the National Socialist Teachers League (Hauptamt fuer Erzieher/National-Sozialistische Lehrerbund-NSLB), Germany, 1932-1942

    Documentation of the Main Office for Educators and of the Reich Administration of the National Socialist Teachers League (Hauptamt fuer Erzieher/National-Sozialistische Lehrerbund-NSLB), Germany, 1932-1942 Hauptamt fuer Erzieher was a department in the NSDAP National Leadership while the NSLB was an organization under Party auspices, but not officially part of it; In 1934, the Nazi authorities began to integrate all the teachers into the NSLB by, among others, disbanding the other teachers' organizations (including academic ones) and integrating them into the NSLB. By late 1935, approximate...

  2. Documentation of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in Riga, regarding the organization's members and donors, 1921-1940

    Documentation of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in Riga, regarding the organization's members and donors, 1921-1940 Including in the collection are personal records of members of the JNF, arranged in alphabetical order according to the Latvian alphabet; lists of donors to the JNF who gave donations in memory of their parents who are buried in the large cemetery or in the municipal cemetery in Riga; lists of members, and questionnaires; lists of people who paid membership dues.

  3. Documentation of the Reichswirtschaftsministerium (Reich Ministry of Economy), Germany, 1933-1945

    Documentation of the Reichswirtschaftsministerium (Reich Ministry of Economy), Germany, 1933-1945

  4. M.41.GABr - Documentation from the State Archive of the Brest Region

    M.41.GABr - Documentation from the State Archive of the Brest Region History of the State Archive of the Brest Region: The State Archive of the Brest Region was created on 11 February 1940 as part of the system of the People's Commissariat for Interior Matters. The Archive stores the documentation of the Polish state institutions and organizations that were active in the Polesie region during 1919-1939 (and which were annulled by the Soviets during the same period), including also the documentation of the military authorities, the social and political organizations and associations, and sta...

  5. Documentation of German Occupation Authorities from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1944

    Documentation of German Occupation Authorities from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1944 There are two files in the collection: - A file containing correspondence of the Kreiskommissar Garten (administration of the Garten district) (from 1943 Kreiskommissar Grodno [the administration of the Grodno district]) in the Bialystok region regarding administrative and financial matters, including factories that were moved over to German trusteeships and investigations on black market matters, October 1941-June 1944; - A file of the Staatskommissar beim Reichsstatthalter in Wien (State Commissione...

  6. Collection of Jewish newspapers in Estonia, 1919 - 1920

  7. Documentation regarding payment of taxes by Jews from Brest, 1941-1942

    Documentation regarding payment of taxes by Jews from Brest, 1941-1942 In the Collection there is documentation regarding the payment of taxes by Jews.

  8. Documentation from the Prosecution Office of the Staatsanwaltschaft beim Sondergericht Dortmund (Special Court of Law in Dortmund), 1933-1945

    Documentation from the Prosecution Office of the Staatsanwaltschaft beim Sondergericht Dortmund (Special Court of Law in Dortmund), 1933-1945

  9. Documentation of the Ministry of Social Affairs in Tallinn, 1920 - 1941

  10. 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.

  11. Documentation of the Senatskanzlei - Staatsamt (Senate Chamber - State office) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Senatskanzlei - Staatsamt (Senate Chamber - State office) in Hamburg

  12. Documentation of Olim, the Association of Latvian Jews for the Advancement of Settlement in Palestine

    Documentation of Olim, the Association of Latvian Jews for the Advancement of Settlement in Palestine The Association platform, and protocols of Directorate meetings; lists of members of the Olim Association; survey reports and information regarding news from Eretz Israel; surveys concerning the activities of Zionist organizations in the Europe countries and the United States; information for the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) regarding the condition of the agricultural estates in Latvia, and correspondence with Zionist organizations abroad on organizational and general topics; articles...

  13. Personal files of Jewish teachers and lecturers at the University of Hamburg

    Personal files of Jewish teachers and lecturers at the University of Hamburg The Collection includes personal files of well-known persons such as Ernst Cassirer. The files also document the proceedings of the dismissal from work of the Jewish teachers and lecturers following the Nazi rise to power.

  14. Documentation of authorities in the Stanislawow district, 1934-1938

    Documentation of authorities in the Stanislawow district, 1934-1938 Included in the collection: - Correspondence regarding the registration and activities of the "Yad Charutzim" organization of Jewish skilled professionals and small merchants in Halicz; - Correspondence regarding the activities and conduct of the Stanislawow branch of the Poalei Zion party; - Announcements and correspondence of Jewish organizations; - Announcements regarding meetings of Jewish organizations; - Reports prepared by the investigation department of the Police in the Stanislawow region, regarding various activit...

  15. Documentation regarding Jews, from various record groups in the Stadtarchiv Bremerhaven (Municipal Archives)

    Documentation regarding Jews, from various record groups in the Stadtarchiv Bremerhaven (Municipal Archives)

  16. Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12421174
    • English, Hebrew
    • Birth certificate Legal documentation Marriage certificate Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors Survey report

    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...

  17. Collection of the Nationaal Steun Fonds, a fund that supported Jews during and after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, 1941-1946

    Collection of the Nationaal Steun Fonds, a fund that supported Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, 1942-1945 The fund paid stipends to Jews who were in hiding; Included in the collection are lists of hundreds of Jews who received stipends.

  18. Collection of Hanns Albin Rauter, the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of Hanns Albin Rauter, the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Hanns Albin Rauter was the head of the security system in the Netherlands, the Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen en Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, the HSSPF during 1940-1945; operating beneath him were the SS, the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei, the SD and the Dutch Police; despite his subordination to Seyss-Inquart, he had direct contact with Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, in a relatively independent status; Rauter was also the supervisor ...

  19. Documentation of the Minsk City Governor, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Minsk City Governor, 1941-1944 The Collection includes correspondence with the Regional Commissioner (Generalkommissariat) in Belorussia and the German Military Command including regarding the ghetto and regarding Jewish physicians and a request to place them in a local hospital in Minsk; receipts for the distribution to Germans and local residents of clothing and assets taken from Jews; report of the House Committee regarding the recruitment of Jewish workers to renovate the building; appeals by residents to the Minsk City Governor to receive clothing for the Uzda Ghet...

  20. Documentation from the Archive of Stepan Shukhevych, 1930

    Documentation from the Archive of Stepan Shukhevych, 1930 Included in the collection is an article from the "Lwowski Kurier" newspaper, regarding the arrest of a group of Ukrainian pupils who participated in sabotage activities in the Tarnopol region, 29/08/1930.