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

  1. Documentation of the Senatskanzlei - Personalabteilung II (Senate Chamber - Personnel Department II) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Senatskanzlei - Personalabteilung II (Senate Chamber - Personnel Department II) in Hamburg

  2. Documentation from the Berlin Police Headquarters (Polizeipraesidium Berlin)

    Documentation from the Berlin Police Headquarters (Polizeipraesidium Berlin) The Prussian city ordinance (Städteordnung) of 19 November 1808 provided for the establishment of a state police administration in the larger cities. Accordingly, a Royal Police headquarters (Königliches Polizeipräsidium) was built in Berlin on 25 March 1809, to which the existing state police department was linked. At the time the greater Berlin area included several independent townships. Berlin was not one large city and the police forces were divided. A law implemented on 13 June 1900 created the Provincial Pol...

  3. Documentation of the writer, Arthur Rosenberg, 1932

    Documentation of the writer, Arthur Rosenberg, 1932 In the collection there is correspondence from 1932 of the writer, Arthur Rosenberg, who lived in Paris, with acquaintances, publishers and the editorial boards of newspapers in Germany, proposing that he work for them as a journalist or requesting that they publish his books and articles, many of which were about the current situation in France.

  4. Documentation of the International Jewish Young Women's Zionist Organization WIZO in Tallinn, 1931 - 1933

  5. Documentation of the municipal committee of the Communist Party in Slonim, 1939-1944

    Documentation of the municipal committee of the Communist Party in Slonim, 1939-1944 Included in the collection is documentation of the regional and the district committee of the Communist Party in Slonim.

  6. M.40.RCM - Documentation from the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History, 1941-1948

    M.40.RCM - Documentation from the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History, 1941-1948 In the collection there is documentation regarding the administration of the Central Committee of the Communist party (Tsk VKP(b)-Tsentralny Komitet Vsesoyuznoy Kommunisticheskoy Partii Bolshevikov), including information, official correspondence and reports regarding partisan and underground activity in the occupied areas of the Soviet Union, 1941-1944, lists of Jewish partisans and Red Army soldiers, lists of the Jews from Hungary who served in Hungarian Army forced labor battalions and wer...

  7. Collection of Westerbork camp, 1940-1945

    Collection of Westerbork camp, 1940-1945 Westerbork camp was established by the Dutch authorities as a refugee camp, following the influx of Jewish refugees who arrived from Germany in 1933; the refugees were permitted to leave the camp until 1940, when the Germans surrounded Westerbork camp with a fence and established that the camp would be transferred to the auspices of the Ministry of Justice; the Germans changed the designation of the camp to a transit camp for deported Jews, under the supervision of the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in 1941; 101,525 persons were regis...

  8. Collection of the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Office for the Deportation of Jews), the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer - HSSPF department, Amsterdam, 1942-1944

    Collection of the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Office for the Deportation of Jews), the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer - HSSPF department, Amsterdam, 1942-1944 The Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung, Office for the Deportation/ Emigration of Jews, was a Nazi organization that was active at the start in Vienna and later on also in Amsterdam; the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung had close ties with the German security forces, the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer Nord-West, and had a legitimate image of encouragement of emigration; at the head of the HSSPF stood Generalkommissa...

  9. M.41.GAOOGr - Documentation of the State Archives of the Public Unions in the Grodno region

    Documentation of the State Archives of the Public Unions in the Grodno region A History of the Archives The Communist Party regional archive was established in Grodno in March 1940; in February 1992 it became the Union and Public Organizations Department of the State Archives of the Grodno Region. In June 1992, a branch of the State Archives of the Grodno Region was established in the city of Grodno based on the regional archive department of the Communist Party. In 1996, it became the State Archives of the Public Unions in the Grodno region. From July 2012 it underwent further changes, and...

  10. Correspondence between the Insel-Verlag publishing company in Leipzig and the writer Stefan Zweig regarding the publication of his books, 1912-1937

    Correspondence between the Insel-Verlag publishing company in Leipzig and the writer Stefan Zweig regarding the publication of his books, 1912-1937 Diverse correspondence by the publisher with the writer (and during the later years, also with Stefan Zweig's wife, Friederike Maria Zweig) in Vienna and later on in Salzburg. The correspondence relates to the publication, proofreading and translation to other languages of the works of Stefan Zweig, and likewise to the articles and series of books that Zweig edited for the publisher. Included in the files, among other matters, are the publisher'...

  11. Documentation of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbuerger juedischen Glaubens ((Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith) (CV) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow

    Documentation of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbuerger juedischen Glaubens ((Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith) (CV) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow

  12. Documentation of the Reichsfinanzministerium (Reich Ministry of Finance), Germany, 1933-1945

    Documentation of the Reichsfinanzministerium (Reich Ministry of Finance), Germany, 1933-1945

  13. Documentation from the Regierung Arnsberg (Regional government) in Arnsberg

    Documentation from the Regierung Arnsberg (Regional government) in Arnsberg

  14. Documentation of the municipal branch of the (Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft) National Socialist Women's League in Grodno, 1943-1944

    Documentation of the municipal branch of the (Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft) National Socialist Women's League in Grodno, 1943-1944

  15. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Rovno region, 1944-1945

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Rovno region, 1944-1945 Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, May-December 1944, including documentation regarding the murder of Jews in Dubno, and including the results of examinations of mass burial places in Rovno and the Rovno region, and the dates of the murder, the number of Jews and POWs who were murdered, and other matters; documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of Jews in Dubno, including the results of examinations in the mass burial sites in Dub...

  16. M.52.DAIFO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region

    M.52.DAIFO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region History of the Archives: The Archives was established in December 1939 and was called the Regional Historical Archives of Stanislawow until 1941. Before its establishment, all of the documentation was kept in institutions of the authorities and in public institutions. This documentation began to be collected by the Stanislawow UNKVD as of November 1939 in the new regional Archives after the same institutions and organizations were cancelled by the Soviet authorities. The name of the Archives was changed during ...

  17. Documentation from the Polizeipraesidien (Police Headquarters) in Bochum and Hamm (Westphalia region)

    Documentation from the Polizeipraesidien (Police Headquarters) in Bochum and Hamm (Westphalia region)

  18. Collection of De Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council of Amsterdam) in the Netherlands, 1941-1944

    Collection of De Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council of Amsterdam) in the Netherlands, 1941-1944 The Nazis ordered the Jewish communities in many of the occupied countries to establish a Jewish council; following the anti-Jewish riots in Amsterdam on 12/02/1941, Dr. Hans Böhmcker ordered industrialist Abraham Asscher to establish a Jewish council, De Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam, which would represent city's Jews at its start. Later on, the Jewish council, under the leadership of Abraham Asscher and Dr. David Cohen, handled the matters of all of the Jews in the Netherlands opposite...

  19. Documentation of the district council in Mogilev and its executive committee, 1926-1941

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 13615301
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1926-1941
    • Appeal to the authorities List of elections committee members List of Jews List of occupants List of officials List of representatives to the Elections Committee List of workers List of workers engaged in commerce Official documentation Personal records Questionnaire

    Documentation of the district council in Mogilev and its executive committee, 1926-1941 Included in the collection are appeals for the restitution of the right to vote; lists of officials; delegates who work in the various departments of the district council, and residents; documentation regarding the elections for the Supreme Council in the Soviet Union, 1937; personal documentation of Jews.

  20. M.1.S. - Questionnaires completed by Holocaust survivors regarding their fate and the fate of their communities, 1946-1948

    M.1.S. - Questionnaires completed by Holocaust survivors regarding their fate and the fate of their communities, 1946-1948