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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. M.52.DAKherO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Kherson Region

    M.52.DAKherO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Kherson Region History of the Archives: The special archival committee of the Kherson district was established in April 1922, which was subordinate to the archival committee of the Mykolaiv sub-division. The committee became subordinate to the archival committee of the Odessa sub-division in 1922. In November 1925 the archival committee became subordinate to the regional archival administration of Kherson, which began its work in October 1926. The regional archival administration underwent reorganizing and became a local archival a...

  2. Collection of the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6100287
    • English, Hebrew
    • Certification Document Financial accounts Laws and decrees Letter Lists of businesses and skilled workers Names Protocol Questionnaire Report Reports Survey report

    Collection of the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 The Wirtschaftsprüfstelle (Economics Research office) was part of the Generalkommissariat für Finanz und Wirtschaft, and it supervised the implementation of the Aryanization of the Dutch economy; the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle started the Aryanization in The Hague in October 1940 with the registration of all of the Jewish businesses in the Netherlands, according to order VO 189/40 given on 22/10/1940; later on, according to order VO 48/41 given on 12/03/1941, the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle was authorized to appoint a Treuhander (tr...

  3. Files of the Oberfinanzpraesident Berlin-Brandenburg

    Files of the Oberfinanzpraesident Berlin-Brandenburg The local (Finanzamt) and regional (Oberfinanzpraesidium) finance offices were the central offices for the registration of Jewish property by the Nazi authorities. The Jewish property was later seized by means of very high emigration taxes and confiscation. Special importance was given to the Finanzamt Moabit-West in Berlin, headed by Willy Bötcher, which received the responsibility for the confiscation of property of political emigres (whose citizenship was revoked) throughout the German Reich on 30/08/1933. The function of the offices w...

  4. Lists of residents evacuated from Belorussia to the internal areas of the Soviet Union

    Lists of residents evacuated from Belorussia to the internal areas of the Soviet Union Lists of people evacuated from Belorussia to the Kuybyshev, Yaroslavl, Bashkirskaya ASSR, Mordovskaya ASSR, Chuvashskaya ASSR, and other regions of the Soviet Union.

  5. Documentation of the Council and the Executive committee of the city of Baranovici, 1945-1947

    Documentation of the Council and the Executive committee of the city of Baranovici, 1945-1947 Included in the collection is a list of residents of Baranichi who were murdered during 1941-1944, and protocols and decisions of the Executive committee, 1947.

  6. Collection of documents of the German occupying authorities, in Belorussia, 1941-1945

    Collection of documents of the German occupying authorities, in Belorussia, 1941-1945 The Collection contains orders regarding the establishment of a paramilitary SS Division made up of Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian volunteer units; procedures regarding propaganda among Soviet POWs; news regarding people serving in the Grenadier Division No. 30 and the Guardian Battalion No. 118, regarding POW camps in German Reich territory; instructions and reports of the SS und Polizeiführer für Weissruthenien (Supreme Commander of the Police and SS in Belorussia), command of Grenadier Division No. ...

  7. M.52.DAKhO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Kharkov Region

    M.52.DAKhO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Kharkov Region History of the Archives: The archive was established in 1880 by members of the Historical-Philological Society of the University of Kharkiv, and was called the Historical Archives of Kharkiv. In 1920 the archive received the name, the Central Historical Archives affiliated with the education department of the Kharkiv sub-division. The Regional Historical Archives of Kharkiv was established in 1926, to which documentation was transferred from the Central Historical Archive. In March 1932 the Regional Historical Archives...

  8. Collection regarding the trials of Zoepf, Harster and Slottke in Munich during 1966-1968

    Collection regarding the trials of Zoepf, Harster and Slottke in Munich during 1966-1968 SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Zoepf was head of the Referat IV B4 in The Hague in 1942. He administered the system of transports from Westerbork camp to the East, including the decisions regarding exemptions and deportations; Wilhelm Harster was commander of de Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (the German Security and Police forces); Fraulein Slottke gave orders to the Police in The Hague, in order to locate Jews and their property; Included in the collection: Documents regarding the death of...

  9. Documentation of the Kryzhopil municipality, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the Kryzhopil municipality, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Instructions of the governor of Transnistria and the Kryzhopil district administration, regarding the manner of administration of the local commerce; - Tax rates; - Lists of skilled professionals.

  10. Documentation of authorities of the city of Kiev, 1941-1942

    Documentation of authorities of the city of Kiev, 1941-1942 Documentation regarding the handing over of property whose owners are unknown (in most part, Jewish property), the registration of the property, and the selling of the property; excerpts from a file of the statistical department of the city of Kiev, including data regarding the national origin of the residents of Kiev, 1942; announcement by the Stadtkommissar (governor of the city) of Kiev regarding the start of the payment of health insurance for citizens, except for Jews and Gypsies, 30/10/1942; announcement regarding the organiz...

  11. Documentation of the municipal administration in Vitebsk, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the municipal administration in Vitebsk, 1941-1942 The Collection includes appeals by local residents to the municipal administration regarding the confiscated Jewish property; instructions regarding the transfer of confiscated Jewish property to German Army units.

  12. Documentation of the Stettin Gestapo, 1933-1943

    Documentation of the Stettin Gestapo from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1933-1943

  13. M.52.DAmK - Documentation of the State Archives of the City of Kiev

    M.52.DAmK - Documentation of the State Archives of the City of Kiev History of the Archives: The Archives was established in 1932 by order of the People's Commissioners Council and the central general Ukrainian Executive Committee. During 1932-1958 it was called the Archives of the City of Kiev affiliated with the City Council. During 1958-1962 it was active as the Municipal State Archives, without a storeroom for permanent collections. From 1962 it was active as the Municipal State Archives, with a storeroom for permanent collections. Since 1980 it has been called the State Archives of the...

  14. Documentation from the Landratsamt Hersfeld

    Documentation from the Landratsamt Hersfeld

  15. Documentation of Ukrainian and German government authorities in the Kamyanits Podilskyi region, 1941-1942

    Documentation of Ukrainian and German government authorities in the Kamyanits Podilskyi region, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Lists of residents of various cities in the region; - Orders given by the mayor of Slavuta, and Nazi propaganda; - Documentation of the district administration in Slavuta, and Nazi and antisemitic propaganda; - Survey reports regarding Jewish property in Kamyanits Podilskyi, prepared by the Gebietskommissariat (district commissioner) financial department, 1941-1942; - Orders and instructions of the municipal administration in Kamyanits Podilskyi and the Geb...

  16. Collection of C. J. M. Schaepman, the College van Secretarissen-Generaal (Secretary General), regarding the public service in the Netherlands, 1940-1947

    Collection of C. J. M. Schaepman, the College van Secretarissen-Generaal (Secretary General), regarding the public service in the Netherlands, 1940-1947 Establishment of the College van Secretarissen-Generaal for the administration of the internal matters of the government offices, such as the salaries of the clerks in the Netherlands, in 1902; transfer of the authorities of the Dutch Government in Exile in London, to the College van Secretarissen-Generaal in 1940; the public service succeeded to administer the various government offices in the Netherlands until 1943; Included in the collec...

  17. Documentation of the Communist Party committees in the Pinsk region, 1940-1941 and 1950-1959

    Documentation of the Communist Party committees in the Pinsk region, 1940-1941 and 1950-1959 The Collection contains personal file cards of the Communists, including Jews, in the Pinsk region; lists of Communists and candidates; questionnaires filled out by Jewish Communists, 1940; documentation of the NKVD; documentation of the Communist Party committees in the Pinsk region.

  18. Documentation of the Reichsministerium der Justiz (Reich Ministry of Justice), Germany, 1933-1945

    Documentation of the Reichsministerium der Justiz (Reich Ministry of Justice), Germany, 1933-1945 In the years 1933-1935, the Reich Ministry of Justice became the central authority in the judicial system in Germany, and as such assumed management of the system. Upon the seizure of control by the Nazis, Franz Guertner, who had been appointed to the position of Reich Justice Minister in 1932 under Franz von Papen, abandoned the principles of State Law, and provided legal means for the activities of the SA, SS and the Gestapo. During his time, the rights of Jews were revoked and a special crim...

  19. Documentation of the Schul und Hochschulabteilung (Schools and Universities Department) of the Hamburg municipality

    Documentation of the Schul und Hochschulabteilung (Schools and Universities Department) of the Hamburg municipality

  20. Documentation of the finance department of the regional Executive committee in Mogilev, 1940-1941

    Documentation of the finance department of the regional Executive committee in Mogilev, 1940-1941 Included in the collection are instructions regarding the manpower of the finance department.