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  1. Correspondence regarding radios confiscated from Jews in Herzfelde, 1939-1940

    Correspondence regarding radios confiscated from Jews in Herzfelde, 1939-1940

  3. Documentation of the Romanian authorities in the Cernauti district, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the Romanian authorities in the Cernauti district, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Documentation regarding the transfer of Jewish craftsmen and skilled professionals to forced labor; - Reports prepared by the local authorities, regarding the location of Jews on their territory; - Reports prepared by the Romanian authorities, regarding the mood among the local population following the liberation from the Soviet occupation.

  4. Documentation of Jewish organizations from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1933-1945

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11143431
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Circular Diagram Diary Envelope Financial accounts Letter List of soldiers Lists Maps Newspaper Note Official documentation Photograph Postcard Statistical data Survey report Telegram

    Documentation of Jewish organizations from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1933-1945 JM/29512: - Documents of Jewish students associations in Vienna, among them Vereinigung juedicher Hoerer an der Hochschule fuer Juedoscher Hochschulauschuss, Welthandel and other associations, mainly of students in specific professions (medicine, philosophy, law, technical professions and so on) or of Polish students, 1929-1931 (Frames 6-160).

  5. Documentation of the Romanian Police headquarters in Cernauti, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Romanian Police headquarters in Cernauti, 1941-1944

  6. Materials from the Reichssippenamt (Reich Genealogy Certification Office)

    Materials from the Reichssippenamt (Reich Genealogy Certification Office) Included in the collection, among other documentation, are security photographs of the Registration Books (Matrikel und Personenstandsregister) of Jewish communities in Germany, prepared in winter 1944 by the Gatermann company in Duisburg-Hamborn - Part A of the materials, which includes a variety of personal documents of communities to the east of the Oder-Neisse Line (reels JM/22659 - JM/22668). In addition to these materials, the Record-Group also includes a collection of personal data of Jewish families that was c...

  7. החלטות על הכרה במוות (Todeserklaerungen) של קרבנות יהודיים של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Borken (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12423661
    • 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...

  8. Documentation from the Wuerttembergische Verwaltungsgerichtshof

    Documentation from the Wuerttembergische Verwaltungsgerichtshof

  9. Documentation from the "Ukrainska Dumka" newspaper in Cherkasy, 1941

    Documentation from the "Ukrainska Dumka" newspaper in Cherkasy, 1941 Included in the collection are orders given by the authorities and the Police in Cherkasy, regarding the Jews and people hiding Jews.

  10. Documentation of the Schools Superintendent for the Grodno region, 1929-1939

    Documentation of the Schools Superintendent for the Grodno region, 1929-1939 The Collection includes documentation of the Regional Councils of the Education Ministry in Grodno and Vilna, 1929-1939; documentation of the Superintendent of Jewish schools of the Religious Ministry in Grodno; annual budgets of the elementary schools in the Grodno district, 1939/1940; list of teachers in the Grodno district, 1939; list of retired teachers in the Grodno district, 1935-1939.

  11. Documentation of the local economy and administration office in Kharkov, 1942-1943

    Documentation of the local economy and administration office in Kharkov, 1942-1943

  12. Collection of J. G. Van Niftrik, an activist in the Netherlands and Switzerland in the transfer of intelligence and the smuggle of underground people and Jews from the Netherlands to England during 1942-1945

    Collection of J. G. Van Niftrik, an activist in the Netherlands and Switzerland in the transfer of intelligence and the smuggle of underground people and Jews from the Netherlands to England during 1942-1945 Van Niftrik was an activist in the Dutch underground who was forced to escape from the Germans; he arrived to Switzerland and established the Zwitserse Weg B, for the purpose of smuggling people in the underground to England and other destinations, and he helped Jews who escaped from the Netherlands to arrive to shelter in other countries; upon his return to the Netherlands after the wa...

  13. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Lwow region, 1944-1946

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Lwow region, 1944-1946 Included in the collection: Documentation of the municipal committee of the city of Stanislawow, collected in the context of the work of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of Jews in Stanislawow, 03 August 1941-05 May 1943, according to testimonies of Jewish community representatives; documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, 1944-1946, regarding the Nazi war crimes in Sambor; survey and information transferred by the Communist Party committee in the...

  14. תיקי בדיקת רכוש (Vermoegenskontrollakten) של Finanzamt Wuerzburg, בואריה

    Finanzamt (tax authority) Wuerzburg: property control files In 1946, the Bavarian State Office for Asset Management and Restitution was set up in Munich. It served for the supervision and execution of the property control ordered by the occupying power, for the administration of the assets confiscated under the law for the liberation from national socialism and militarism or under fiduciary administration and for the accomplishment of the reparations. The office was initially reporting to the prime minister, since 1948 to the Ministry of Finance. Since 1948, an independent State Office for ...

  15. Collection of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor Rotterdam - Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1933-1950

    Collection of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor Rotterdam - Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1933-1950 Included in the collection: Official documentation of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor Rotterdam, regarding anti-Jewish legislation, 1933-1950; Documents regarding archives of Jewish businesses after the war; Correspondence by the Kamer van Koophandel Rotterdam with Jewish businesses in the Netherlands after the war.

  16. Documentation of the Gestapo, from the documentation of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt - RSHA (Reich Main Security Office), 1939-1945

    Documentation of the Gestapo, from the documentation of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt - RSHA (Reich Main Security Office), 1939-1945

  17. Documentation of the Landratsamt (District authority) of the Tecklenburg district, Westphalia

    Documentation of the Landratsamt (District authority) of the Tecklenburg district, Westphalia

  18. Files of Jewish Rechtskonsulenten (Legal Advisors) offices in Hamburg

    Files of Jewish Rechtskonsulenten (Legal Advisors) offices in Hamburg Following the events of Kristallnacht, activities by Jewish lawyers were forbidden in Germany. The Nazis permitted a limited number of Jewish lawyers to continue to be active as Rechtskonsulenten (Legal Advisors), but only for Jewish clients, and without permission to appear before a Court of Law (a Jew who was required to appear in a Court of Law was forced to search for an Aryan lawyer to represent him). In the Collection are files of six Jewish legal advisors offices that were active in Hamburg: - Walter Schuler (JM/12...

  19. Documentation of the Generalbauinspekteur fuer die Reichshauptstadt (Construction Inspector General for the Reich's Capital) in Berlin from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1938-1942

    Documentation of the Generalbauinspekteur fuer die Reichshauptstadt (Construction Inspector General for the Reich's Capital) in Berlin from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1938-1942 The institution of the Generalbauinspekteur für die Reichshauptstadt was created by a special order of Adolf Hitler, 30 January 1937. This was the title bestowed on Albert Speer with the goal of initiating grandiose construction plans that would redesign parts of Berlin and acquire for Berlin a dominant standing in the world. Later on, the authority delegated to Speer was expanded both in Berlin itself and in other...

  20. Documentation from the Politische Polizei (Political Police) in the Muenster district (Westphalia region)

    Documentation from the Politische Polizei (Political Police) in the Muenster district (Westphalia region)