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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. P.67 - Personal documentation collection of the Bodenheimer family from Darmstadt

    P.67 - Personal documentation collection of the Bodenheimer family from Darmstadt Collection of letters, documents and official certificates collected by members of the Bodenheimer family who lived in Darmstadt. In the collection there are letters to and from the family members, official documents and personal certificates gathered over the years. The collection was brought to Eretz Israel in 1938 by Max and Louisa Bodenheimer, and submitted to Yad Vashem by their grandson Aryeh Bodenheimer.

  2. M.1.PF - War time Jewish Folklore Collection

    M.1.PF - Documantation on Jewish folklore during the second world war This collection is part of the collections compiled by the Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Zone in Munich (M.1). The CHC collected much material from the Holocaust survivors, including testimonies, documentary material in their possession and more. When the CHC was disbanded, the CHC archive was transferred to Yad Vashem. There are 353 poems/songs in the collection, mostly in Yiddish. Most of the poems/songs were written by inmates of the camps and ghettos during th...

  3. O.51 - Nazi Documentation Collection, 1933-1944

    O.51 - Nazi Documentation Collection, 1933-1944 Nazi documentation of different kinds and from different sources which arrived at Yad Vashem as individual documents and not as part of concentrated collections. In the Collection there is documentation from the Nazi authorities in Germany, the occupation authorities in various countries, local governments, camps and systems for repression and murder of the Jews and opponents of the regime, such as the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police), the Sicherheitsdienst (SD-Security Service) and Adolf Eichmann's office. The documentation includes ...

  4. Westermann Collection: Documentation of the Jewish organizations from the period before the German occupation

    Westermann Collection: Documentation of the Yiddish organizations from the period before the German occupation Annual reports regarding activities of the Linat Zedek Hospital and the Gemilut Chasadim Association, 1924-1926; documentation of the HaGymnasia HaIvrit (Hebrew High School) in Riga, Latvia and documentation regarding its closing during the Soviet occupation in 1940.

  5. R.1 - German Foreign Office

    R.1 - Documantation of the German Foreign Office, 1870-1945 Research conducted from the year 2000 and following regarding Nazi Germany has demonstrated that as opposed to the image promoted after the war, the German Foreign Ministry workers were actively involved in the extermination of the Jews of Europe. Almost all of them were working towards strengthening Germany and implementation of its goals, including the Nazis who joined the Foreign Ministry following the Nazi rise to power and the veteran Foreign Ministry workers. Among the goals of the Foreign Ministry was the amplification of an...

  6. P.65 - Yaffa Eliach Collection

    P.65 - Yaffa Eliach Collection Professor Yaffa Eliach was born Yaffa (Sheinla) Sonenson in the village of Ejszyszki, Poland (in Yiddish: Eyshishok; today Eišiškės, Lithuania) in 1935. Nazi Germany occupied the village in June 1941. Within two days in late September, almost all 3,500 Jews of the village were murdered in the local cemetery by Einsatzgruppe A. Yaffa escaped to a hiding place with her family just before the massacre. Until the liberation of Eyshishok by the Red Army in July 1944, the family moved from one hiding place to another, escaping death many times. Yaffa made aliya to E...

  7. Documentation from the Haigerloch Municipal Archives, 1929-1999

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11983692
    • English, Hebrew
    • Financial accounts Interview(s) Legal documentation Official documentation Protocol Record of deportees Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Documentation from the Haigerloch Municipal Archives The collection includes, among other material: Collection of interviews with survivors, conducted by the University of Tuebingen; excerpts from protocols of the Gemeindevertretung (Municipal representation) dealing with Jews, 1929-1951; municipal files regarding various subjects related to the life of the Jews in the city and their persecution, from the Weimar Republic and until the 1950s, including the confiscation of Jewish property (including many details); trials against Jews; deportations; permits for the purpose of emigration; place...

  8. 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...

  10. Collection of general documentation from the “Jews in Latvia” Museum, photocopied, 1993

    Collection of general documentation from the “Jews in Latvia” Museum, photocopied, 1993

  11. Official documentation from Italian government offices from the World War II period

    Official documentation from Italian government offices from the World War II period - Correspondence between the Italian Foreign Ministry and various Italian embassies; - Italian Foreign Ministry reports regarding the situation of the Jews in Italy after the commencement of the Race Laws; - Correspondence between the Italian Foreign Ministry and the army regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees under Italian protection.

  12. Documentation regarding Jews, from the Lehrte Municipal Archives

    Documentation regarding Jews, from the Lehrte Municipal Archives

  13. M.59- documentation from the US National Archives

    M.59- Alexandria Collection: Nazi documentation from the US National Archives The Record Group contains Nazi documentation confiscated by the US Army and transferred to the US National Archives in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. The documentation includes documents from German government offices, Nazi organizations (including the Nazi party), SS Headquarters and the German Police, as well as German Army units on various levels, from Army Groups to Divisions. Additionally, copies of documentation regarding the persecution of the Jews of Germany, some of them from Nuremberg Trial files, have been ...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Beit Oren Description of the material: 1. Diary of the father of the submitter of the material, the late Naftali Landa, secretary of Kibbutz Beit Oren during 1943-1945 (handwritten, original, in Hebrew); 2. Page of a ceremony held on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of the establishment and settling of Kibbutz Beit Oren, including the "Buchenwald song" (original); 3. Page with the "Buchenwald song", in German (handwritten, original).

  15. Documentation of government offices in Wuerttemberg, regarding the Jews, 1931-1945

    Documentation of government offices in Wuerttemberg, regarding the Jews, 1931-1945 Included in the collection are government office files, mainly from the Interior Ministry, which relate to various aspects of the life of the Jews in Wuerttemberg. The files deal with the Nazi period, but several of them - mainly those relating to Jewish institutions - relate also to the years preceding the Nazi period. The files deal with: Jewish emigration from Wuerttemberg; various certificates and permits, such as visas and identity cards; housing matters; use of public transportation; welfare institution...

  16. O.67 - Documentation from the Labor Party Archives, 1942-1945

    O.67 - Documentation from the Labor Party Archives, 1942-1945 The documentation in this record group includes reports, letters, newspaper clippings and lists regarding the situation of the Jews of Europe in the German occupied areas, and documentation of organizations related to the and to the rescue activities of these organizations; This record group includes documentation regarding the Holocaust, photocopied in the Labor Party Archives in 1979; The documentation comprises three containers with 10 files; The record group is arranged chronologically, from 1942 until 1945.

  17. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ma'anit

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ma'anit Personal documentation of Rachel Zaiontz: 1. "Testimony of Sala Zilberbaum - born in Zamosc, Poland (Rachel Zaiontz, today)", 15/01/1946; a. Handwritten, in Polish (photocopy); b. Translation of the above to Hebrew (computer printout); 2. Photographs (scans): a. Rachel Zaiontz' mother; b. Photograph, while they were hidden by a Polish family; c. Photograph, in an UNRRA camp in Germany (1946); d. Two photographs: Anna, from the villag...

  18. O.64.2/SCH.4 - Zeev Scheck: Articles, Manuscripts, Drafts for Lectures

    O.64.2/SCH.4 - Zeev Scheck: Articles, Manuscripts, Drafts for Lectures

  20. Documentation of the government offices in Hamburg regarding Jews and the persecution of Jews

    Documentation of the government offices in Hamburg regarding Jews and the persecution of Jews List of contents of the microfilms (inside the parentheses are the record group numbers of the official institutions): JM/12659 Senat (111-1) (Collection 12665617) JM/12660 [bad quality microfilm - dark pictures] (frames 2-2169) Innere Verwaltung (Buero Senator Richter) (113-2) (Collection 12666235) JM/12661 + JM/12662 Staatsverwaltung (Allgemeine Abteilung) (113-5) (Collection 12628222) JM/12663 (frames 2-86) Buergerschaft (121-3) (Collection 12672597) JM/12663 (frames 87-203) Ratsherrenkanzlei (1...