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  1. Documentation of German companies in the Distrikt Galizien (Galicia region), 1941-1943

    Documentation of German companies in the Distrikt Galizien (Galicia region), 1941-1943 Included in the collection: - Documentation of the "Hobag Holzbau Aktiengesellschaft" company, and lists of Jewish forced laborers who worked in the company's factories; - Correspondence by the "Karpathen Oel Aktiengesellschaft" company with the Kommissariat of Boryslaw, regarding Jewish forced laborers; - Documentation regarding entrance permits for Jewish laborers in the company's factories; - Lists of Jewish forced laborers in the company's factories; - Orders issued by the labor office in Drohobycz to...

  2. Documentation of the German Police Headquarters in the occupied territories, 1938-1944

    Documentation of the German Police Headquarters in the occupied territories, 1938-1944 Documentation of the German Police Headquarters in Norway, Greece, Luxembourg, France (including Alsace and Lothringia separately), Slovakia (JM 22458-22484), Bohemia and Moravia and in the Generalgouvernement. The Collection contains reports regarding arrests and situation reports, including many references to Jews and Gypsies, documents relating to the arrest and deportation of Jews, police campaigns against Jews, and other documentation.

  3. Documentation of the SS Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt (RuSHA-SS Main Office for Race and Resettlement), 1934-1945

    Documentation of the SS Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt (RuSHA-SS Main Office for Race and Resettlement), 1934-1945 The SS Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt (RuSHA-SS Main Office for Race and Resettlement) was founded in 1931; its functions included maintaining the purity of race of members of the SS, dealing with matters pertaining to farmers and settlement, and education of the population in the spirit of Nazi ideology. Richard Walther Darre, who at the time also served as Reichsbauernfuehrer (Reich Farmers' Leader), was appointed to head the organization. Darre's independent world view brought him...

  4. Documentation regarding Jewish organizations and companies active in the Tarnopol region, 1921-1939

    Documentation regarding Jewish organizations and companies active in the Tarnopol region, 1921-1939 Included in the collection are regulations of the organizations and companies; reports prepared by the Polish Police regarding the activities of the organizations and companies.

  5. Collection of the Departement van Bijzondere Economische Zaken - Office for Special Economic Matters in the Netherlands, 1941-1945

    Collection of the Departement van Bijzondere Economische Zaken - Office for Special Economic Matters in the Netherlands, 1941-1945 The Departement van Bijzondere Economische Zaken - Office for Special Economic Matters in the Netherlands was administered by Mr. M. M. Rost van Tonningen and was responsible for matters related to insurance, credit and other financial matters; the department joined the Aryanization department in 1942; Included in the collection: Protocols of meetings of the Verzekeringsraad (Insurance Council), established in accordance with the decision of the Treasury directo...

  6. Collection of personal files of Jewish teachers employed in the Riga municipal education system, 1923-1941

    Collection of personal files of Jewish teachers employed in the Riga municipal education system, 1923-1941 In the collection there are personal files of Jews, teachers and educational system workers in Riga, arranged according to the Latvian alphabet.

  7. M.79 - Documentation of the Jewish community of Luxembourg regarding the persecution of Luxembourg Jews during the Holocaust, 1932-1990

    M.79 - Documentation of the Jewish community of Luxembourg regarding the persecution of Luxembourg Jews during the Holocaust, 1932-1990 The files extend from 1932 to 1990, but the core period is 1940 to 1947. The documentation deals with Jewish daily life under the German occupation: - Confiscations; - The yellow badge and marking of Jewish houses; - Compulsory addition of first names; - Restrictions on mobility; - Deportations to ghettos and extermination camps, including lists and orders, and expulsion to France; - Looted Jewish property, as well as Aryanization and liquidation of Jewish ...

  8. Documentation of the administration of the municipal branch of the state bank in Rovno, 1940-1941

    Documentation of the administration of the municipal branch of the state bank in Rovno, 1940-1941 Included in the collection are lists of Jews from Rovno and documentation of the finance department of the Jewish school in Rovno.

  9. Documentation of the Jewish Education Department of the Latvian Education Ministry, 1920-1940

    Documentation of the Jewish Education Department of the Latvian Education Ministry, 1920-1940 In the collection: Statistical documentation regarding the activities of Jewish elementary schools, high schools and nursery schools in Latvia, and concerning the numbers of students and teachers; statistical documentation regarding vocational schools, yeshivas and teacher training courses.

  10. Files of the arbitrator for claims for compensation in Ulm

    Files of the arbitrator for claims for compensation in Ulm: The legal basis for the work of the arbitrator for reparations in the American zone was Law No. 59 of the Military Government (American Control Area) of November 10, 1947. According to this, the confiscated property, firm, bank account or other property was to be returned or compensation for it was to be paid. For this, the injured party or his legal successor had to conduct contentious proceedings against the individual or institution liable for restitution, which had seized the property. In order to prevent every claim for reimbu...

  11. Documentation of the regional auxiliary committee of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Baranovichi region, 1944-1945

    Documentation of the regional auxiliary committee of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Baranovichi region, 1944-1945 Included in the collection is documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission regarding the extermination of Jews in the Baranowicze region, and lists of names of Nazi war criminals and Russian and Belorussian collaborators; documentation regarding the damage caused by the Nazis in the region and in the Kletsk district.

  12. Documentation regarding the persecution of Jews by the Nazis from the record group: Der Polizeipraesident in Berlin (The President of the Police in Berlin, in the postwar years), dated, 1933-1947

    Documentation regarding the persecution of Jews by the Nazis from the record group: Der Polizeipraesident in Berlin (The President of the Police in Berlin, in the postwar years), dated, 1933-1947 The collection concerns materials from the division of the post-WWII Police force of Berlin (for materials regarding the Berlin Police under the Nazi regime, see collection 4423357 in "Sapir"). Following the order given by the Soviet City Commander of Berlin, the city's Police headquarters were re-established on 20 May 1945. Based on an order given by the Allied headquarters, special Police offices...

  13. Documentation of the local Soviet authorities in the Mogilev region, 1941-1980

    Documentation of the local Soviet authorities in the Mogilev region, 1941-1980 Included in the collection is a list of homeowners in Bobruysk in 1941, a list of Jewish soldiers from Bobruysk who were killed or listed as missing in action during 1939-1944, and documentation regarding the murder of residents of the Osipovichi district during 1941-1944.

  14. Collection of the Bureau Joodsche Zaken - the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943

    Collection of the Bureau Joodsche Zaken - the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943 Included in the collection: Log books and reports produced by the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943; the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police handled violations of the Germans' decrees, such as the obligation on Jews to wear a yellow badge, the ban on Jews against travelling on public transportation, the obligation for Jews to hand over their bicycles and radios, the giving of shelter to Jews and other anti-Jewish persecutions such as hiding Jews...

  15. Documentation of the authorities in Putivl, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the authorities in Putivl, 1941-1943 Orders and instructions of the authorities in Putivl, regarding the collection of taxes from the local population, punishments, and the transfer of residents to forced labor in Germany, 1941-1943.

  16. TR.17.WUiADwBy - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1946-1959

    TR.17.WUiADwBy - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1946-1959 Included in the collection are appeals by relatives of Jews who perished during the war period, submitted to the Polish Courts of Law in the Bydgoszcz district in order to receive declarations of death.

  17. Collection of the Amersfoort transit camp in the Netherlands, dated, 1942-1964

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6094601
    • English, Hebrew
    • Announcement Certification Diary Document Legal documentation Letter List of camp inmates List of murdered persons Official documentation Questionnaire Reports Testimony

    Collection of the Amersfoort transit camp in the Netherlands, dated, 1942-1964 Amersfoort camp was built by the Dutch Army in 1939; following the German occupation in 1940, the Germans started to use the camp as a rest place for the German soldiers; the German authorities decided to expand the camp in 1941 and to turn it into a transit camp, called Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort; approximately 35,000 inmates passed through Amersfoort camp during the war, most of them political prisoners, but also Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, marginal people, people who refused to do labor, hostages,...

  18. Documentation of the Oberpostdirktion II (Post Directorate II) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Oberpostdirktion II (Post Directorate II) in Hamburg

  19. Documentation of the Romanian occupation authorities in the Mogilev Podolskiy district, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Romanian occupation authorities in the Mogilev Podolskiy district, 1941-1944

  20. M.49 - Żydowski Instytut Historyczny (ŻIH): Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw

    M.49 - Żydowski Instytut Historyczny (ŻIH): Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw In the Record Group there are copies of documentation that was handed over to Yad Vashem by the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. The Record Group is divided into two Subsections: Subsection M.49.E. is comprised of a collection of testimonies taken down by the Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna (Central Jewish Historical Committee); Subsection M.49.P. contains a collection of diaries.