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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. M.1.PC- Questionnaires filled out by children in the Foehrenwald DP camp, 1945-1946

    M.1.PC- Questionnaires filled out by children in the Foehrenwald DP camp, 1945-1946 The Central Historical Committee (CHC) distributed questionnaires among the children (some from Hungary, and the rest from Poland) in DP camps, in order to collect information by asking questions regarding the fate of the children and the fate of their families during the Nazi period. The questionnaires include questions concerning the names of family members, their places of origin and the general background of the children. On the reverse side of each questionnaire there is a short survey regarding the his...

  2. Testimony regarding the experiences of children on the Aryan side during the war and in children's homes in Poland after the liberation

    Testimony regarding the experiences of children on the Aryan side during the war and in children's homes in Poland after the liberation Wanderings and suffering of children on the Aryan side; atrocities committed by the Nazis; help from nuns and Polish, Ukrainian and especially Czech farmers. Jewish children's homes in Poland (Krakow, Bielski, Lodz and Czestochowa) after the liberation; feelings of isolation and alienation of the children.

  3. O.64.2/WSZ.4 - Lists of deportees from various areas to the Theresienstadt Ghetto

    O.64.2/WSZ.4 - Lists of deportees from various areas to the Theresienstadt Ghetto

  4. Documentation of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of Romania, 1940-1944

    Documentation of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of Romania, 1940-1944 The collection includes requests submitted to Ion Antonescu by Jews in Romania, in which they request the return of property confiscated from them and equal rights regardless of religion; the collection includes information regarding forced labor and the deportation of Jews from Romania to Transnistria.

  5. Collection of H. Aa. Jacques: Statistical reports regarding the Jewish population in the Netherlands, 1941-1942

    Collection of H. Aa. Jacques: Statistical reports regarding the Jewish population in the Netherlands, 1941-1942 H. Aa. Jacques, from Amsterdam, composed statistical reports regarding the Jewish population in the Netherlands during the 1940s, including detailed cross-sections according to age, gender, profession and so forth; research regarding the Jewish community in Amsterdam, and the composition of a document regarding education in the Jewish sector during 1941-1942; H. Aa. Jacques served as the head of the Commissie van Onderwijs (Committee on Education) of the Joodsche Raad (Jewish Coun...

  6. Heinz Prossnitz Collection

    Heinz Prossnitz Collection Heinz Prossnitz was born in Czechoslovakia in 1926. Following the German occupation of Czechia and Moravia in March 1939, Heinz joined the Maccabi Hatzair movement in Prague. His "Forbearance" group numbered ten members and it was led by Fredy Hirsch, who was much admired among the Jewish youth in the Protectorate. During the 1940/1941 school year Heinz studied in the Jugend-Aliya [Youth Aliyah] school, which prepared pupils for aliya to Eretz Israel and was therefore permitted by the German authorities. The school was closed in summer 1941 and the situation of th...

  7. O.52.1 - Documentation prepared for the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - the Communities of Bavaria

    O.52.1 - Documentation prepared for the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - the Communities of Bavaria 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...

  8. M.21.6 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich

    M.21.6 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich The War Criminals Department was established in the American Occupation Zone shortly after the end of World War II. It was active from 1946-1951 as the Legal Department of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich, in cooperation with the Central Historical Commission in Munich and other survivor organizations. The purpose of the Department was to locate war criminals and collaborators, to gather documentary material, to collect testimonies from survivors and to bring the crimin...

  9. Romania - Ministry of the Interior - Passports Office, 1940-1944

    Romania - Ministry of the Interior - Passports Office, 1940-1944

  10. P.21 - Collection of Ilya Ehrenburg, author and member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC), 1941-1967

    P.21 - Collection of Ilya Ehrenburg, author and member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC), 1941-1967 Ilya Ehrenburg was born into a Jewish family in Kiev in 1891. He was exiled to France in 1908 after being arrested for his activities against the Czarist regime. In Paris, he gradually dissociated himself from the Bolsheviks, associating himself with modern artists, publishing his poems and working at translation. After the Socialist revolution in 1917, he returned to his native country. From 1923 Ehrenburg worked as a journalist for the "Izvestia" newspaper. The Soviet authorities u...

  11. P.51 - Personal Archive of Rabbi Shaul Veingert, who helped many Jews in occupied Europe and refugees in Switzerland, 1941-1948

    P.51 - Personal Archive of Rabbi Shaul Veingert, who helped many Jews in occupied Europe and refugees in Switzerland, 1941-1948 The Veingert family transferred the archives to Bar Ilan University. Mr. Adler, a worker at the University, wanted to prepare comprehensive research regarding Rabbi Veingert and his activities, and he began by arranging the principal material of the Collection, the letters which were in numbered envelopes. Additionally, he began to catalog the basic information in each letter according to the order of the envelopes (This catalogue is located in File Number 1of the ...

  12. Documentation from the Oberfinanzdirektion Karlsruhe, the Rueckerstattung (Restitution of property) department

    Documentation from the Oberfinanzdirektion Karlsruhe, the Rueckerstattung (Restitution of property) department

  13. O.64.2/SCH.2 - Documents of the Jewish Self-Government Departments

    O.64.2/SCH.2 - Documents of the Jewish Self-Government Departments - Zentralsekretariat (Central Secretariat) - Post und Verkehr (Postal and Transport) - postal services - Bank der Jüdischen Selbstverwaltung (Jewish Self-Government Bank) - Das Recht des jüdischen Siedlungsgebietes (the Jewish Self-Government Constitution) - Raumwirtschaft, Gebäudeverwaltung, Matrik und Beerdigungswesen (Housing and Population Registry) - Zentralevidenz (Central Registration Unit) - Arbeitszentrale (Work Center) - Technische Abteilung (Technical Department) - Transportabteilung (Transport Department) - Gesun...

  14. Collection of protocols from the Population Registry, compiled in the Lodz Ghetto

    Collection of protocols from the Population Registry, compiled in the Lodz Ghetto

  15. Files from the Foreigners Police in the Nidwalden, Switzerland canton (region) regarding five families of Jewish refugees, 1935-1946

    Files from the Foreigners Police in the Nidwalden, Switzerland canton (region) regarding five families of Jewish refugees, 1935-1946

  16. Collection of Belorussian sources regarding various matters, from the 1920s until the 1990s

    Collection of Belorussian sources regarding various matters, from the 1920s until the 1990s In the collection is a list of owners of apartments in Minsk [used] for hiding, who were active during 1941-1944; newspaper clippings from the Red Army newspaper, "Boyevoy listok", regarding Nazi war criminals in Belorussia during 1941-1944; (the number of people who perished in the Belorussia and Grodno regions); documentation of the partisans detachments under the command of Zorin during 1943-1944; memoirs regarding the activities of the underground in the Minsk Ghetto during 1941-1943; and, statis...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz HaHotrim Memorial booklets: 1. "Ari Terasi 1922-1998", "HaHotrim", 1999; 2. "Yehuda Fulda Hupert: Circles of love, creation and research", "HaHotrim", 1997; 3. "Zvizko - Life story", "HaHotrim", 1999; 4. "Chapters of my life", Chanan Eder, "HaHotrim", 1998; 5. "Story of my life", Shlomo Kidron, "HaHotrim", January 2000; Collection of testimonies: 1. "Testimonies from the Holocaust in Hungary by HaHotrim members 1944-1994", "HaHotrim", 1994; ...

  18. M.26.2 - Correspondence of the World Jewish Congress - Relatives Search Department, Stockholm, 1945-1962

    M.26.2 - Correspondence of the World Jewish Congress - Relatives Search Department, Stockholm, 1945-1962

  19. M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York

    M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York The Central Location Index (CLI) was established by various relief organizations in May 1944. The goal of the CLI was to concentrate data regarding refugees and those missing. After the organization (CLI administration) disbanded in May 1949, the documentation was stored in the cellars of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York; in 1957 the documentation was transferred to Yad Vashem. In the collection there are documents, lists and index cards. There are two main sectio...

  20. P.21.1 - Ilya Ehrenburg Collection - Original documentation of the Soviet writer on the subject of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union

    Ilya Ehrenburg Collection - Original documentation of the Soviet writer on the subject of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union Original documentation of the famous Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg: Articles, testimonies, photographs and letters on the subject of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, some of which were put in "The Black Book"; letters from Jews regarding expressions of antisemitism in the Soviet countries during the postwar period.