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

  1. Documentation of the handicrafts schools directorate of the department of schools, of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Latvia, 1926-1940

    Documentation of the handicrafts schools directorate of the department of schools, of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Latvia, 1926-1940 Included in the collection is correspondence with the handicrafts school in Riga and correspondence with the association for Jewish education; correspondence with the handicrafts school in Liepaja regarding the educational process, the budget, the practical work during the summer and the appointment of new teachers; correspondence with the "Bikur Cholim" hospital school for nurses.

  2. Documentation of the Belorussian Institute of Agriculture in Gorki, 1916-1941

    Documentation of the Belorussian Institute of Agriculture in Gorki, 1916-1941 Included in the collection are lists of students, lecturers and employees at the institute; personal documents of students and employees at the institute, requests to receive salaries, and instructions by the administration regarding students and employees at the institute.

  3. Documentation from the Court of Law (Amstgericht) in the Neukoelln neighborhood in Berlin: Wills of Jews, 1935-1939

    Documentation from the Court of Law (Amstgericht) in the Neukoelln neighborhood in Berlin: Wills of Jews, 1935-1939 Files of the Court of Law, that deal with the handling of the Wills of Jews, most of whom resided in the Neukoelln neighborhood in Berlin (and a minority of them in the Treptow neighborhood in Berlin). The files include details regarding the possible inheritors, death certificates, and other personal documentation of the family members (mainly birth certificates and marriage certificates), and Inheritance Orders (Erbscheine) from the Court of Law. In several files there are de...

  4. Documentation of the Magistrates Court of Law in St. Wendel (Amtsgericht St. Wendel) in the Saar region, 1933-1939

    Documentation of the Magistrates Court of Law in St. Wendel (Amtsgericht St. Wendel) in the Saar region, 1933-1939 Included in the collection are, in most part, the regulations of local associations (the Red Cross organization, Volunteer Firefighters, and sports organizations), including a clause that bans the membership of "non-Aryans" in the organization. Also in the collection: a file that includes an order from 1933 that details the conditions of the detainees in the prison in St. Wendel; the file mentions Jewish detainees.

  5. Documentation of the Innere Verwaltung (Internal Administration) in Hamburg, 1933-1939

    Documentation of the Innere Verwaltung (Internal Administration) in Hamburg, 1933-1939

  6. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Voronovo, 1940-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Voronovo, 1940-1941 The Collection includes a list of election committee members in the Baranowichi Region; special messages of the RO NKVD (the District Department of the NKVD) regarding anti-Soviet activity; reports of the District Committee to the Communist Party's Central and Regional Committee in Belorussia.

  7. M. 51 - Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of the Jews in Germany)

    M. 51 - Documantation of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of the Jews in Germany) History of the Organization The organization was apparently founded in early 1939 by representatives of the Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden (Reich's Deputation of the German Jews). In July 1939, an ordinance was published by the authorities concerning the establishment of the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany, which replaced the Reich's Deputation of the German Jews. In the words of its Chairman, "... [it will serve as] a new organizational basis for the dwindling p...

  8. Documentation of the C. N. Bialik Hebrew High School next to the Herzliya Company in Wołkowysk, 1938-1939

    Documentation of the C. N. Bialik Hebrew High School next to the Herzliya Company in Wołkowysk, 1938-1939 The Collection includes class logs for the 1938/1939 school year.

  9. Files from the Dokument Center in the Archive of Wuerzburg, Bavaria

    Files from the Dokument Center in the Archive of Wuerzburg, Bavaria

  10. Documentation regarding Jews in Eldagsen, from the Niedersaechsischen Hauptstaatsarchiv in Hannover

    Documentation regarding Jews in Eldagsen, from the Niedersaechsischen Hauptstaatsarchiv in Hannover

  11. Lists of Riga residents who received food ration coupons from the municipal commercial administration, 1939-1940

    Lists of Riga residents who received food ration coupons from the municipal commercial administration, 1939-1940

  12. Official documentation, memoirs and letters from the Holocaust Period collected by the Museum "Jews in Latvia"

    Official documentation, memoirs and letters from the Holocaust Period collected by the Museum "Jews in Latvia" The Collection includes letters from Red Army soldiers sent from the front during 1941-1945, and memoirs of former Soviet prisoners regarding Salaspils, Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps; testimonies and memoirs regarding the Riga Ghetto life and Salaspils camp life; excerpts from Latvian newspapers, from the 1990s, regarding the murder of the Jews of Latvia and the perpetuation of the memory of the murdered Jews of Latvia; diagram of the large Riga Ghetto and the small Riga Ghetto, an...

  13. Lists of transports from Lodz to annihilation camps and concentration camps, 1942-1944

    Lists of transports from Lodz to annihilation camps and concentration camps, 1942-1944

  14. Documentation of the Greek-Orthodox Metropolite Consistory in Lwow, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the Greek-Orthodox Metropolite Consistory in Lwow, 1941-1943 Included in the collection: - Correspondence regarding the burial of a Jewish woman who converted to Christianity; - Letter sent by Metropolite Andrzej Szeptycki to Papal Legate Peter Vergun in Berlin in December 1942; - Correspondence by the Priest Laba Vasil, the representative of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the SS-Galizien Division, with the office of Metropolite Andrzej Szeptycki; - Letter sent by Andrey Melnik, the head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), to the Metropolite of the Ukrain...

  15. Documentation of the Tlumacz district authorities, 1933-1939

    Documentation of the Tlumacz district authorities, 1933-1939 Included in the collection are appeals to the district authorities by Jewish residents, for the purpose of leaving the country.

  16. Documentation of the Senatskanzlei - Praesidialabteilung (Senate Chamber - Presidential department) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Senatskanzlei - Praesidialabteilung (Senate Chamber - Presidential department) in Hamburg

  17. Documentation of the Soviet authorities in Slonim, 1939-1941

    Documentation of the Soviet authorities in Slonim, 1939-1941 Included in the collection are legal files against the Jews, lists of people obligated for the draft, and appeals by Jewish residents to the lands department in the municipality.

  18. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Volkovysk, 1940-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Volkovysk, 1940-1941 The Collection includes lists of Communist Party members and candidates; protocols from District Committee meetings; statistical reports of Party members and candidates; reports concerning preparations for the elections.

  19. Documentation regarding anti-Jewish decrees, from the Amtsgericht Medebach (District Court) (Westphalia), 1933 and 1936

    Documentation regarding anti-Jewish decrees, from the Amtsgericht Medebach (District Court) (Westphalia), 1933 and 1936 The sub-record group includes two files: 1. Original title of the file: Geschäftsinstruktionen allgemeiner Art, 1920-1936 Original signature: Amtsgericht Medebach I Nr. 12 The material that was photocopied for Yad Vashem: Beiordnung von Armenanwälten, Amtsverteidigern und dergl. für Juden, 1936 2. Original title of the file: Kanzleiangestellte, 1922-1936 Original signature: Amtsgericht Medebach I Nr. 27 The material that was photocopied for Yad Vashem: Entlassene Angestell...

  20. Documentation of the supervisor over the schools in Stanislawow, 1927-1939

    Documentation of the supervisor over the schools in Stanislawow, 1927-1939