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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. O.8 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Germany, mainly during the Holocaust

    O.8 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Germany, mainly during the Holocaust Most of the documentation is from Jewish sources. The first 106 files are remnants from the archives of Jewish institutions, organizations and communities in Germany. Some of this Record Group consists of documentation photocopied from municipal archives in Germany regarding the Jews and including personal documents, surveys and articles regarding the destruction of the communities in Germany and more. There is also documentation included in the Collection regarding the Jewish school in Harlingen, 1933-1939, subm...

  2. Documentation from the National Archives in Geneva regarding the fate of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1945

    Documentation from the National Archives in Geneva regarding the fate of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1945

  3. Newspaper clippings, documents and photographs from the Belorussian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War History in Minsk, Belorussia, 1943-1944

    Newspaper clippings, documents and photographs from the Belorussian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War History in Minsk, Belorussia, 1943-1944 Included are the "Mstitel", "Krasny Partizan", "Put Partizana" and "Smert Fashizmu" publications, and newspapers written by hand by partisans from the Chkalov, Chapayev, Ponomarenko, Kutuzov and Voronenskiy partisans detachments active in the Baranovichi, Mogilev, Minsk and Gomel regions, 1943-1944; propaganda material, cartoons, partisans songs and poetry, and a book written in honor of the partisans who were members of the VLKSM ("Lenin Youth ...

  4. O.64.2/SCH - The Zeev Scheck Collection

    O.64.2/SCH - The Zeev Scheck Collection Provenance of the Collection: Born in Olomouc (Czechoslovakia) in 1920, Zeev (Wilhelm) Sheck was active in the Maccabi Hatzair youth movement, and worked as a Hebrew teacher in Prague. On 19 November 1943, he was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, and from there to concentration camps. He was liberated in the spring of 1945 and he returned to Prague. Zeev Sheck founded and directed Dokumentační Akcee (The Prague Documentation Project). The Project documented the fate of the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia during the Holocaust, and [concentrated] mainl...

  5. Files regarding Jewish lawyers in Bremen

    Files regarding Jewish lawyers in Bremen

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan Memorial booklet - "Les Enfants de La Hille - 1942" (excerpts of testimonies in French and German); Testimonies/ interviews/ experiences/ memoirs: 1. Shlomit Enzel; 2. Lea Bahat; 3. Miriam Buz-Melamed; 4. Heini Bornstein ("The Kasztner Affair: Description of the facts from the viewpoint of a rescue activist in Switzerland"); 5. Chasia Bornstein-Bielicka (Speeches given at the Grodno-Vilna Galilean activists conference held a...

  7. M.1.L - Questionnaires completed by Landraete (Districts) in Germany regarding the Jewish communities throughout Germany, 1946-1947

    M.1.L - Questionnaires completed by Landraete (Districts) in Germany regarding the Jewish communities throughout Germany, 1946-1947 The Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich distributed questionnaires among the regional and municipal authorities, mainly in the American Occupied Zone in Germany. The purpose of these questionnaires was to gather information regarding the number of Jews living in various places in 1933 and during the Nazi period, as well as the number of Jews who perished. The questionnaires also contain questions regarding Na...

  8. Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Stuttgart (Municipal Archives)

    Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Stuttgart (Municipal Archives)

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Yehiam Testimonies/ experiences/ memoirs: 1. Moshe Opatovski; 2. Chanania Einhorn Arnon; 3. Ilana (Tanenbaum) Ben Israel; 4. Asher Bentuv; 5. Edna Bentuv; 6. Lea Baram; 7. Tamar Gavish; 8. Yitzhak Zimmerman Degan; 9. Chaya Harari; 10. Miriam Vardi; 11. Abri Sela; 12. Ruthi Sela; 13. Nechama (Shuster) Rahav; 14. Aharon Rahav.

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Nahsholim Memorial booklet: 1. "A man's years are his life" - booklet in memory of Yoshke Kagan, Kibbutz Nahsholim, July 1993; Testimonies/ interviews: 2. Chaya and Zeev Avni; 3. Ora Renata (Friedlander) Aloni; 4. Shmulik Katz; 5. Hesho-Zvi Levkovitz; 6. Chanaleh Levkovitz; 7. Elizabet Kedem-Frank; 8. Zvika Kazanski; 9. Netka Kitai; Eulogy, and experiences: Nachum Zlonka; Regina Kagan; Hesho-Zvi Levkovitz; Memoirs: Simcha Kahana, "My story",...

  11. Documentation of the German and the local authorities in Ukraine, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the German and the local authorities in Ukraine, 1941-1943 Included in the collection: - Announcement by the commander of the Police in Vinnitsa to the Jewish population, regarding the establishment of a ghetto; - Report prepared by the commander of the Ukrainian Police in Dimer, regarding the murder of Jews, 1942; - Lists of Ukrainian policemen; - Report prepared by Minister Muller, regarding the evacuation of residents from Kiev and the evacuation of forced laborers to Germany, 15/10/1943.

  12. M.1 - Documentation of the Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone, Munich

    M.1 - Documentation of the The Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone of Germany The Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone of Germany was the official representative body of displaced Jews in the American zone of Germany from 1945 to 1950. The Central Committee was founded on July 1, 1945, at the first meeting of representatives of Jewish DP camps held in Feldafing. It came into being through the joint effort of Dr. Zalman Grinberg, the head of the St. Ottilien hospital DP camp and former director of the Kovno ghetto hospital, and Rabbi Abraham Klausner,...

  13. Documentation regarding Jews, from local archives in the State of Thueringen

    Documentation regarding Jews, from local archives in the State of Thueringen Documentation from archives in Altenburg (Kreisarchiv), Apolda (Stadtarchiv, Kreisarchiv), Arnstadt, Bad Langensalza, Bad Salzungen (Kreisarchiv), Barchfeld, Eisenach, Erfurt, Geisa, Gotha (Kreisarchiv), Friedrichroda, Heiligenstadt, Ilmenau (Stadtarchiv, Kreisarchiv), Jena, Universität-Jena, Kranichfeld, Meiningen (Stadtarchiv, Kreisarchiv), Meuselwitz, Nordhausen (Stadtarchiv, Kreisarchiv), Pößneck (Poessneck), Rudolstadt, Saale-Orla-Kreis, Sondershausen, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreisarchiv (Mühlhausen), Weimar.

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael Testimonies/ interviews: 1. Yehoshua Eilon; 2. Shoshana Engel; 3. Heini Glazer; 4. Miriam Dror; 5. Tamar Singer; 6. Eli Zamir; 7. Malka Cohen; 8. Chaya Canaani; 9. Mordechai Magnus; 10. Avner Kedem; 11. Ossi Raz; 12. Zipora Shomron (three [copies of] unidentified interviews); Letters (photocopy): 1. 11 letters from 1939-1944, in German; 2. Two letters relating to relatives of Shoshana Engel, from the Nazi occupation period in...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Beit Alfa Experiences/ memoirs of: 1. Etti Agmon; 2. Menachem Agmon; 3. Elsa; 4. Roza Brenman, "To remember and speak, and not forget"; 5. Yehuda Gutman; 6. Gina Degan; 7. Doda Hadas; 8. Peretz Har-Arieh; 9. Zvika Harpaz; 10. Rachel Zorek Ziv (1994); 11. Rachel Ziv, "To rescue Shaul" (1979); 12. Shaul Zinger; 13. Mordechai Mann; 14. Sedko; 15. Elsa Slomnizki 16. Yitzhak Weintraub Einav; 17. Zipora Einav; 18. Shoshana Pivnik; 19. Shoshana Fel...

  16. TR.5 - Trials of Jews in Israel accused of collaboration with the Nazis, 1947-1969

    TR.5 - Trials of Jews in Israel accused of collaboration with the Nazis, 1947-1969 In the Record Group there are legal files of Jews accused of collaboration with the Nazis while performing their jobs as Jewish policemen, informers and personnel in the labor and concentration camps. Most of the trials were conducted in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, while in specific cases, appeals were reviewed in the higher courts. In the files there are indictments, verdicts, court proceedings, testimonies and additional legal material.

  17. Collection pertaining to Polish-Jewish relations

    Collection pertaining to Polish-Jewish relations

  18. Collection of Soviet documents, from before the war

    Collection of Soviet documents, from before the war Included in the collection is documentation regarding residents who were deported from the Kostyukovichi district by the Soviet authorities in 1941; Maps of various areas of Belorussia, from 1927.

  19. Documentation from the National Archives of Moldova, 1941-1944

    Documentation from the National Archives of Moldova, 1941-1944 In the collection there are files created by government bodies in Bessarabia and Bukovina. In the files there is information regarding the establishment of the Cernauti, Moghilev and Chisinau Ghettos; the camps and forced labor, and the deportation of Jews to Transnistria. In the files there are also lists of names and statistical data.

  20. M.82 - Documentation from the State Archives of Saint Petersburg

    M.82 - Documentation from the State Archives of Saint Petersburg In the Record Group there is documentation selected from the TSGA SPb (Central State Archive of St. Petersburg) from the years 1918-1955, and from the Central State Archive of Historical and Political Documentation (the former archive of the Communist Party), 1941-1973. The Records Group in Yad Vashem contains 3,136 files. In the Records Group there is documentation from the following collections: The Collection of the Department for Nationalist Minority Matters of the Regional Executive Committee of St. Petersburg, 1918-1923:...