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

  1. Collection of the Kabinet van het Departement van Binnenlandse Zaken (Cabinet for Internal and Foreign Affairs) of the Netherlands, 1940-1944

    Collection of the Kabinet van het Departement van Binnenlandse Zaken (Cabinet for Internal and Foreign Affairs) of the Netherlands, 1940-1944 Dutchman Karel Johannes Frederiks was the secretary general of the German leadership in the Netherlands, the Afdeling Kabinet, during 1940-1945. In order to rescue some of the Jews in the Netherlands, Frederiks proposed to the Germans to administer a list of privileged Jews who would be permitted to reside in three designated areas in the Gelderland region; Frederiks, along with the secretary general of the Ministry of Education, composed lists of 675...

  2. Documentation from the Archive of the City of Bremen, regarding the Jews of Bremen during the Nazi regime and after 1945

    Documentation from the Archive of the City of Bremen, regarding the Jews of Bremen during the Nazi regime and after 1945

  3. Material from the Bundesarchiv-Militaerarchiv Freiburg

    Material from the Bundesarchiv-Militaerarchiv Freiburg

  4. O.24 Reinhard Strecker Collection: Judges and Trials in Nazi Sondergerichte (Special Courts)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 7202720
    • English, Hebrew
    • Indictment Legal documentation Names of perpetrators Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Record of persecuted persons Sentence

    O.24 Reinhard Strecker Collection: Judges and Trials in Nazi Sondergerichte (Special Courts) Included in the Collection: - Microfilms JM/1750-JM/1752: Verdicts from trials held in special courts in Germany, Poland and the Protectorate; the trials usually were conducted against non-Jews, and in most cases, the sentence was death. Besides the verdict and verdicts rendered for appeals, in some instances the collection also contains correspondence regarding the carrying out of the sentences, including official notification that the verdict has been carried out; - Microfilm JM/1753: Reports rega...

  5. O.20 - Collection of Max Lowenthal who served in the Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US forces in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany

    O.20 - Collection of Max Lowenthal who served in the Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US forces in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany Max Lowenthal was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1888; a graduate of Harvard Law School, an attorney and a lifelong public servant; he served as an advisor and personal friend of President Harry S. Truman. In 1946, General Lucius D. Clay, the Deputy Governor of the US Military Government in Occupied Germany, asked various representatives of American Jewish organizations to suggest an advisor who could help Clay in drafting ...

  6. Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Intelligence Service, 1936-1948

    Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Intelligence Service, 1936-1948 Documentation from the Romanian Intelligence Service regarding the trials of Romanian war criminals. In the collection there is material from the Siguranta (Security Police), which was collected within the context of the trails of Romanian war criminals. The trials were conducted by "People's Tribunals" which were established and conducted in accordance with the regulations of Law No. 312 issued by the Romanian Justice Ministry, 21 April 1945. In addition to the legal material, there are many documents in the co...

  7. O.70 - Josef Rosensaft Bergen-Belsen POW Camp Archive

    O.70 - Josef Rosensaft Bergen-Berlsen DP Camp Archives Bergen-Belsen was liberated by the British Army, 15 April 1945. There were approximately 58,000 survivors at the time of the liberation, of whom approximately 28,000 died from disease and starvation during the first weeks after the liberation. A Displaced Persons (DP) camp was established in Bergen-Belsen and the survivors immediately began to organize themselves. They set up the Central Jewish Committee (CJC) for the camp, headed by Josef Rosensaft. The CJC and its various departments took responsibility for the physical and spiritual ...

  8. Collection of Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, secretary general of the Wereldraad der Kerken (Council of Churches) in Geneva, 1940-1946

    Collection of Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, secretary general of the Wereldraad der Kerken (Council of Churches) in Geneva, 1940-1946 During the war Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft conducted close ties with the Dutch underground and with the Dutch Government in Exile in London; he was active in the promotion of the connection between the Dutch Government in Exile and the Dutch people; he prepared reports regarding underground activities using the code GC, a sign for the Church connection, in order to transfer the reports to London; he updated the activists in the Netherlands in the same manner; Incl...

  9. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Beit Zera

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Beit Zera Books: 1. Chaim Kovetz: "Personal stories - members of Kibbutz Beit Zera, 1997", Kibbutz Beit Zera, 1997; 2. Yosh Rorman, "Achoti" ("My sister"); 3. Yosh Rorman, "Farewell from Schwarzwald"; Booklets: 1. Yehuda Gershoni, "Notebooks of a youth, 1939"; 2. Aharon Feigenblum, "En route for nine years, 05/03/1939-05/03/1948"; 3. "The Jubilee: Issue dedicated to mark 50 years since the concentration of the Vilna Hashomer Hatzair during 1...

  10. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Eilon

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Eilon Book: Collection of testimonies produced in Kibbutz Eilon in the context of the project (Editorial board: Dvora Nevo, Sima Shimoni and Dan Zinger, November 1995), including testimonies by: Chanaleh Goldberg, Yochanan Cohen, Yaakov Karmi, Shimon Maneski, Malka Nir, Ida Sivan, Frumkah Paritzi, Dov Shivo, Pnina Perl (Schlossberg) Schmidt, and Grisha Shefer; Nine issues of "Zeh Asher" (the newspaper of the Asher Regional Council): Issue no...

  11. M.39 - Documentation from the State Archive in the Odessa Region, 1939-1945

    M. 39- Documentation from the State Archive in the Odessa Region, 1939-1945 In the collection there is official documentation from the Romanian regime in Transnistria, including the decision made by Marshal Ion Antonescu regarding Romanian military officials in Transnistria and a list of names of the government officials. Additionally, there is documentation regarding the deportation of Jews to camps in Transnistria, lists of Jews deported to Transnistria and where they were located in 1942, prepared by the Jewish Center, lists of Gypsies deported from Romania to Transnistria, documentation...

  12. Collection of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), 1935-1944

    Collection of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), 1935-1944 Documentation regarding help given by American Jews to Jews in Europe including financial support to refugees, acting as agents to obtain visas and immigration certificates from governments in Europe, help in obtaining consular services and in emigrating from Europe.

  13. M.12: Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (CDJC - Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) in Paris

    M.12: Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (CDJC - Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) in Paris The Record Collection contains documentation housed at the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CCJD) in Paris which was received by Yad Vashem Archives as microfilm during the 1950s and 1960s following the Schneerson-Di Nur Agreement. The Archives contain documentation of the Gestapo, the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ-Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs), the Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF...

  14. TR. 21: Documentation from trials conducted against war criminals that were held in Austria after the war

    TR. 21: Documentation from trials conducted against war criminals that were held in Austria after the war In the Records Group there is documentation from trials conducted against war criminals in Austria after the war. The main body of the Record Group consists of verdicts and short items regarding trials conducted in the People's Courts after the war. Additionally, in the Record Group there is much documentation from the trials of Ernst Lerch and others, SSPF(SS-und Polizeifuehrer- SS and police) commanders in Lublin, including important information regarding the mass murder of the Europe...

  15. O.12 - Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943

    O.12- Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943 The Perlman Collection consists of 64 testimonies gathered by Jewish Agency representatives during the years 1942-1943, mainly from Jews who arrived to Eretz Israel during World War II. Most of the testimonies were given by Jews who held Mandatory Palestine citizenship, were married to Mandatory Palestine citizens or were related to them. These Jews were included in exchange agreements of foreign citizens for German citizens, and they succeeded in reaching Eretz Israel. Another group of witn...

  16. O.52.3 - Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - General Documentation

    O.52.3 - Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - General Documentation The purpose of the Yad Vashem project - to prepare an Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - is to perpetuate the history of the communities that were destroyed during the Holocaust. The historiography of the communities focused on countries and sometimes on districts, but not on the history of the local communities. With the increase of interest in the local communities, this Record Group serves as a very important source for historians and researchers working in this field. As part of the preparation o...

  17. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Bialystok Ghetto Uprising

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Bialystok Ghetto Uprising Most of the documentation in this Collection comes from Haika Grossman and includes her testimonies regarding the Uprising in Bialystok, a report concerning the activities of the fighters from the Hechalutz Movement, which was submitted to the main headquarters of the Partisan Movement in 1944 and more. The description is based on the original description that was written by Emanuel Berand at the time when the collection was submitted to Yad Vashem, 03 November 1958 (the original description has been attached to the multim...

  18. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Sarid

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Sarid Testimonies/ interviews: 1. Siomka Danzig; 2. Rachel Danzig; 3. Shulamit Tuvin; 4. Riko Lupesko Lupi; 5. Yosef Leichter; 6. Mila Leichter; 7. Ineka Peker; 8. Yehuda Peker; 9. Zvi Hirshel Kaplinsky; 10. Henia Rosenfeld; 11. Noah Rosenfeld; Memorial booklet: "Yehuda Peker - About him and his [family]"; Articles: 1. Efraim Ofir, "Parachutists in Enemy Territory"; 2. Moni Ben-Yakir, "Enemy Territory"; 3. Organization of workers in Eretz Is...

  19. O.41.1 - Names of victims on memorial tablets and ritual objects in synagogues and study halls in Israel

    O.41.1 - Names of victims on memorial tablets and ritual objects in synagogues and study halls in Israel

  20. O.64.2/SCH.7 - Karl Löwenstein, Head of Security Services

    O.64.2/SCH.7 - Karl Löwenstein, Head of Security Services