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  1. Bequest Hermann Weinkauff

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Hermann Weinkauff from his granddaughter in June 2023. Hermann Weinkauff (1894-1981) was born in Trippstadt in Rhenish Palatinate on February 10, 1984. Until his Abitur in 1912, he attended the classical language high school in Speyer. He then studied law in Munich, Heidelberg and Würzburg. In Munich, he became a member of the fraternity Corps Hubertia Munich. Weinkauff participated in the First World War as a Bavarian field artillery volunteer at the Western Front and since 1917 as a reserve lieutenant. In 1920, he passed his first juridica...

  2. Bequest Jan Sehn

    Jan Sehn (1909-1965) was born in Tuszów Maly in former Austria-Hungary on April 22, 1909. He graduated high school in Mielec and became involved in the youth organization Legion Mlodych (Legion of the Youth) of President Józef Pilsudski. He then studied law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. After graduating in 1933, Sehn obtained a position first as a judicial clerk and later as an assessor at Kraków District Court. During the German invasion in September 1939, Sehn participated in the defence of Poland. To avoid collaborating with the judicial apparatus of the new rulers, he then c...

  3. Documentation of the municipal committee for planning and construction in Riga, 1887-1944

    Documentation of the municipal committee for planning and construction in Riga, 1887-1944 Planning and construction documents, and materials regarding the management of buildings belonging to the area of the Riga Ghetto (the data is taken from the official list of real estate properties in Riga for the year of 1939).

  4. Documentation from the Informationsamt (Information office) of the Saar region, 1949-1956

    Documentation from the Informationsamt (Information office) of the Saar region, 1949-1956 In the material that was copied for Yad Vashem, there are four files that deal with the handling of victims of persecution; list of newspapers and periodicals [journals] sold in the Saar region, including the Jüdische Rundschau; visit by Professor Helmut Hirsch, an historian (perhaps Jewish) from the United States, who researched the Saar region and took special interest in the People's Left from 1935 [in which it was decided regarding the annexation of the Saar region to Nazi Germany] and proposed the...

  5. Documentation of the Klooga Camp Administration, 1943 - 1944

  6. Lists of children and youth, prepared by the Sumy municipal administration, 1941-1943

    Lists of children and youth, prepared by the Sumy municipal administration, 1941-1943

  7. Documentation of the security office in Romny, 1945

    Documentation of the security office in Romny, 1945 Included in the collection are requests and testimonies of Romny residents, regarding inheritance rights.

  8. תיעוד של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Witten (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12429515
    • English, Hebrew
    • Legal documentation Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files include the applications including details regarding those who p...

  10. Documentation of The "Licht" Jewish Cultural Society in Tallinn, 1926 - 1940

  11. Collection of the Ministerie van Algemene Zaken (Ministry for General Affairs), regarding the treatment of the Jews in the Netherlands by the Dutch government, 1938-1942

    Collection of the Ministerie van Algemene Zaken (Ministry for General Affairs), regarding the treatment of the Jews in the Netherlands by the Dutch government, 1938-1942 The Ministerie van Algemene Zaken (Ministry for General Affairs) in The Hague dealt during 1938-1942 with the governing of the Netherlands during the German occupation, economic [general?] matters related to war, Nazi issues, and the organization of relief by het Nederlandsche Roode Kruis (the Dutch Red Cross) and Winterhulp; the Ministry for General Affairs dealt with the matter of the strikes in February 1941 and May 1943...

  12. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Nikolayev region, 1944-1949

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Nikolayev region, 1944-1949

  13. Collection of the Departement van Justitie - Department of Justice of the Netherlands, regarding the deportation of Jews in 1943

    Collection of the Departement van Justitie - Department of Justice of the Netherlands, regarding the deportation of Jews in 1943 Included in the collection: Telegrams received by the Police commander in the Departement van Justitie of the Netherlands, including reports regarding the deportations of Jews from the various cities, 1943.

  14. Documentation of Reichsgruppen (Reich Economic Groups), Germany, 1933-1945

    Documentation of Reichsgruppen (Reich Economic Groups), Germany, 1933-1945 The collection included the following Record Groups: R 12 I - Reichsgruppe Industrie (reels JM/34594-JM/34598, JM/34800, and files and also in reels JM/34599 and JM/34601) R 12 II - Reichsgruppe Energiewirtschaft (inside reel JM/34599) R 12 III - Reichsgruppe Handel (reels JM/34706-JM/34707, and files and also in reels JM/34599, JM/34601 and JM/34708) R 12 IV - Reichsgruppe Versicherungen (reels JM/34708 and [part of the reel] JM/34709).

  15. Documentation, mainly of the Gestapo, regarding Soviet and Polish foreign laborers in Germany from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1941-1943

    Documentation, mainly of the Gestapo, regarding Soviet and Polish foreign laborers in Germany from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1941-1943 Most of the files in the collection are files from the Duesseldorf Gestapo and its neighboring branches (Krefeld and Moenchen-Gladbach) relating to specific foreign laborers for whom Gestapo intervention was requested. - File of the Krefeld Gestapo regarding foreign laborers from eastern Europe, including correspondence concerning police handling of specific laborers, and documentation regarding the implementation of the guideline from the Duesseldorf Ges...

  16. M.52.DAKO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Kiev Region

    M.52.DAKO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Kiev Region The State Archives of the Kiev Region was established in 1922 as the Central Historical Archives of Kiev. As of 1932, it was called the Historical Archives of the Kiev Region, and in 1943 it was named the State Archives of the Kiev Region. This Archives preserves many documents from the 17th century, and it also includes documents from contemporary times; much of the documentation regards the history of the Great Patriotic War [World War II] and the German occupation of the Kiev region during 1941-1943; The Sub-Record Grou...

  18. Documentation of the administration of the Bershad district, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the administration of the Bershad district, 1941-1943 Included in the collection: - Receipts for payment to Jews who arrived from the Jewish Committee of Romania; - Follow-up reports following disease among Bershad district residents.

  19. Documentation of the Mogilev Podolskiy municipality, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the Mogilev Podolskiy municipality, 1941-1943 Included in the collection are instructions by the governor of Transnistria, regarding the establishment of an office for the organization of work for Jews; correspondence with the district prefecture and the Police regarding the transfer of Jews to public works; appeals by Jews to the municipality for the purpose of receiving work permits; announcements regarding the transfer of a payment to Jews sent by the "Jewish Committee"; appeals by residents to the city's authorities regarding receiving an apartment; documentation regard...

  20. Documentation of the Ukrainian authorities in the Rivne region, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the Ukrainian authorities in the Rivne region, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Documentation regarding the Radziwillow area, including statistical data regarding the area's residents, names of Jews in the area, and the location of the ghettos in the area, 1941-1942; - Statistical data regarding the population in the villages in the Klevan district; - List of Jewish residents from Tuchin.