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

  1. Collection of the Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled (Le-Ezrat Ha-Yeled, Help to the Child) organization, the Netherlands, 1945-1964

    Collection of the Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled (Le-Ezrat Ha-Yeled, Help to the Child) organization, the Netherlands, 1945-1964 The Jewish non-profit organization, Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled (Help to the Child), was established after the war with the aim of taking care of Jewish foster children; the children were hurled into a sensitive situation concerning their Judaism, being that many of them had lived in non-Jewish surroundings while in hiding places during the years of the occupation in the Netherlands; in order to restore the children's identity, the non-profit organization Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled was active...

  2. Documentation of the Lower Municipal Court in Czersk, 1948-1950

    Documentation of the Lower Municipal Court in Czersk, 1948-1950 Included in the collection are appeals by relatives of Jews who were murdered during the war period, submitted to the Lower Municipal Court in Czersk district in order to receive declarations of death.

  3. Documentation from the Finanzamt Witzenhausen

    Documentation from the Finanzamt Witzenhausen

  4. Documentation from the Gebietskommissariat (District Government), 1941-1944

    Documentation from the Gebietskommissariat (District Government), 1941-1944 The Collection includes reports and instructions regarding the confiscation of homes, synagogues, books and works of art belonging to Jews, documentation relating to Jewish craftsmen and supplies to Jewish forced laborers, instructions of the Mitte Heeres-Gebietes (Central Armia Zone) regarding the tasks and goals of the Judenrat, instructions of the Gebietskommissariat regarding the replacement of Jewish and Polish physicians by Belorussian physicians, prohibition in selling houses and personal items belonging to J...

  5. Documentation from the Brzesc nad Bugiem municipality, 1929-1939

    Documentation from the Brzesc nad Bugiem municipality, 1929-1939 Included in the file, among other material: - Documentation regarding renovation of the synagogue; - Documentation regarding properties of the Jewish community of Brzesc nad Bugiem; - Documentation regarding the "Tachkemoni" organization for national religious education.

  6. Collection of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden, 1940-1943

    Collection of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden, 1940-1943 The role of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden was the determination of damages and payment of compensation to German citizens who suffered from war damages in the Netherlands; the Hilfsausschuß was based on VO 21/41; Germans outside of the Netherlands were also entitled to compensation, on condition that the damage to property was caused in the Netherlands; most of the claims related to the property of Jewish refugees from Germany who had stored their household contents in storage rooms of...

  7. Documentation of the "Herzliya" Jewish youth movement in Riga, 1928-1940

    Documentation of the "Herzliya" Jewish youth movement in Riga, 1928-1940 Covenant of the Herzliya youth movement and protocols of meetings of the central committee; receipt books; lists of members of the movement; summaries of meetings and gatherings; reports regarding the activities of various Zionist organizations and activities of the aliya training agricultural farm; monthly inspections regarding the movement's activities; lists of donors; survey and pamphlet of the World Organization of the General Zionists in Latvia and overseas; correspondence by the Herzliya movement with the Jewish...

  8. Card files and personal documentation of Stutthof camp inmates from various countries and nationalities, 1939-1945

    Card files and personal documentation of Stutthof camp inmates from various countries and nationalities, 1939-1945 Stutthof camp was a Nazi concentration camp located 37 kilometers east of Danzig, near the city of Sztutowo in Poland. The camp, established in September 1939, was the first concentration camp established outside the borders of Germany. It was the last camp to be liberated by the Allied forces. During the period that Stutthof camp was active it had approximately 110,000 inmates imprisoned there, including 28,000 Jews. More than 80,000 of the inmates perished in the camp.

  9. Collection of M. H. Bregstein in the Netherlands, 1940-1956

    Collection of M. H. Bregstein in the Netherlands, 1940-1956 Bregstein was born in 1900. He was a lecturer in Law at the Hogeschool van Rotterdam during 1934-1939. He was appointed Attorney General of the Netherlands in 1940. He was dismissed from this position in the same year, due to his Jewish origin. After the war, he was accepted to the Council for the Restitution of Justice and Law in the banking securities registration department and was an advisor to the Netherlands Ministry of the Treasury in the matter of the property which had been confiscated by the Nazis.

  10. Collection of Dr. Hans Max Hirschfeld, secretary of the Commerce, Industry, Shipping and Agriculture departments in the Netherlands, 1940-1941

    Collection of Dr. Hans Max Hirschfeld, secretary of the Commerce, Industry, Shipping and Agriculture departments in the Netherlands, 1940-1941 Collection that documents the administration of the Dutch economy by the Germans and the attitude toward the Jews in that context in 1940-1941; Included in the collection: Circulars, correspondence and protocols of meetings of the Departement van Binnenlandsche Zaken in The Hague, regarding the dismissal of Jews from public positions, examination of the Aryan origin of clerks, and reports regarding the status of the Jews in the Dutch economy and in t...

  11. Documentation regarding refugees from Poland who arrived to Mogilev and Bobruysk, 1940

    Documentation regarding refugees from Poland who arrived to Mogilev and Bobruysk, 1940 Included in the collection are lists and questionnaires of Jewish refugees who arrived from Poland during 1939-1940.

  12. Documentation of the Gauwirtschaftskammer (Nazi Gau Economic Chamber) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Gauwirtschaftskammer (Nazi Gau Economic Chamber) in Hamburg

  13. Documentation of the Community Policy Head Office, 1933-1945

    Documentation of the Community Policy Head Office, 1933-1945 Documentation of the Head Office for Community Policy from the Nazi period; The majority of the documents in the collection include references to policies towards Jews in the area of housing or excerpts of antisemitic propaganda.

  14. Documentation of the Waffen-SS, 1942 - 1945

  15. Documentation regarding the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in Riga, 1921-1940

    Documentation regarding the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in Riga, 1921-1940 Description of the Collection: The Jewish National Fund (JNF) covenant; reports of meetings of the JNF administration and meetings of members of the JNF; work regulations; diaries of the JNF and Keren Hayesod; lists of members of the board and members of JNF branches; correspondence with the press department regarding the publication of the fund's periodical; lists of JNF members, and correspondence regarding donations; lists of donors; receipt books; diagrams; personal cards of members, arranged according to the Latv...

  16. Documentation of the Estonian Cooperative Health Insurance Fund branches, 1923 - 1940

  17. Documentation belonging to the gendarmerie unit in the Khoyniki district, 1942-1943

    Documentation belonging to the gendarmerie unit in the Khoyniki district, 1942-1943 The Collection includes primarily reports and instructions from the Gendarmerie Headquarters in Zhitomir, as well as instructions from the (Gebietskommissar) district commissioner in Reytschitza and correspondence of the unit, particularly with the regional Gendarmerie Headquarters in Reytschitza. The material contains, among others, research reports regarding partisans, reports regarding partisan activity and regarding the activities of the German units against the partisans and documentation regarding volu...

  18. TR.17.OBUiADwRz - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Rzeszow, Poland, 1945-1946

    TR.17.OBUiADwRz - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Rzeszow, Poland, 1945-1946 Included in the collection are appeals by relatives of Jews who perished during the war period, submitted to the Court of Law in Przemyśl for first proceedings in order to receive declarations of death, 1945-1946.

  19. Documentation of the Landratsamt (District authority) of the Meschede district, Westphalia

    Documentation of the Landratsamt (District authority) of the Meschede district, Westphalia

  20. Documentation of the Criminal Police in Shitomir, 1942

    Documentation of the Criminal Police in Shitomir, 1942 Included in the collection: - Orders by the Gebietskomissar (district governor) in Shitomir regarding the fight against the partisans, regulations regarding detention and the treatment of detainees; - Article from a weekly (publication).