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  1. Documentation from the Kinderrettungsverein of the Berliner Stadtmission in Berlin

    Documentation from the Kinderrettungsverein of the Berliner Stadtmission in Berlin The Kinderrettungsverein (Child Rescue Association) was established in 1905 by the priest Wilhelm Pfeiffer, a priest at the Evangelist Innere Mission (Inner Mission) in Berlin. The Association was meant to care for children who were born out of wedlock in the large "Charite" hospital in Berlin. The Association also took care of orphans and half-orphaned children. The Association received custody over the children, took care of their education and vocational training, and attempted to find foster [adoptive] pa...

  2. Lists of residents from electoral area no. 58 in Sarny who voted for the Sejm, the Polish parliament, 1938

    Lists of residents from electoral area no. 58 in Sarny who voted for the Sejm, the Polish parliament, 1938

  3. Documentation of the Estonian Jewish Cultural Council Board of Trustees in Tartu, 1925 - 1940

  4. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Belostok, 1939-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Belostok, 1939-1941 The Collection includes reports of propaganda activity among the local population.

  5. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Voronovo, 1940-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Voronovo, 1940-1941 The Collection includes a list of election committee members in the Baranowichi Region; special messages of the RO NKVD (the District Department of the NKVD) regarding anti-Soviet activity; reports of the District Committee to the Communist Party's Central and Regional Committee in Belorussia.

  6. Documentation of the Landratsamt (District authority) of the Brilon district, Westphalia

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

  7. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Sokolka, 1939-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Sokolka, 1939-1941 The Collection includes protocols from District Committee meetings; reports of the District Committee to the Communist Party Regional Committee; documentation of the General Assembly; information, lists and statistical reports regarding workers and various institutions and factories in the District; list of candidates for Mayor of Sokolka; reports of the NKVD and the Police regarding the political situation among the local population; unusual events and other topics.

  8. 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...

  9. Documentation of the Narodnaya Samopomoshch association in Mogilev, 1942-1944

    Documentation of the Narodnaya Samopomoshch association in Mogilev, 1942-1944 Included in the collection: - List of members of the association; - Regulations; - Budget; - List of property; - Instructions.

  10. Documentation from the Amtsgericht Perl (Magistrates Court in Perl) in the Saar region, 1936-1958

    Documentation from the Amtsgericht Perl (Magistrates Court in Perl) in the Saar region

  11. Documentation of the municipal administration of Mogilev, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the municipal administration of Mogilev, 1941-1944 In the collection there is documentation of the municipal administration of Mogilev, including requests from the public to the administration on various matters, correspondence between various bodies and lists of residents. Bibliography 1. Mогилев: Энцикл/ справ./Сов.Энцикл.; Rедкол. И.П. Шамякин (гл. ред.) и др. Мн.:Бел СЭ, 1990-472 стр; 2. http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/holocaust/about/04/baltic.asp

  12. Lists of residents evacuated from Belorussia to the internal areas of the Soviet Union

    Lists of residents evacuated from Belorussia to the internal areas of the Soviet Union Lists of people evacuated from Belorussia to the Kuybyshev, Yaroslavl, Bashkirskaya ASSR, Mordovskaya ASSR, Chuvashskaya ASSR, and other regions of the Soviet Union.

  13. 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...

  14. Documentation from the Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Saarlouis (Public Prosecutor's Office in Saarlouis), 1928-1938

    Documentation from the Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Saarlouis (Public Prosecutor's Office in Saarlouis), 1928-1938 The documentation that was copied for Yad Vashem includes details regarding Jewish jurists, trials against Jews, Jewish prisoners, anti-Jewish legislation in the Saar region, examinations of the Aryan origin of workers in the legal system, proceedings against Germans accused of friendly relationships with Jews, attacks on Jews and on Jewish property, and Jewish businesses that were in contact with the judicial system; The documentation was copied for Yad Vashem in 2012.

  15. Collection of Meyer Sluyser, regarding the Dutch Government in Exile and the fate of the Jews in the Netherlands during 1940-1945

    Collection of Meyer Sluyser, regarding the Dutch Government in Exile and the fate of the Jews in the Netherlands during 1940-1945 Journalist Meyer Sluyser dealt in information publicity for the Dutch Government in Exile, and followed the fate of the Jews in the occupied Netherlands and the deportation of the Jews to Eastern Europe during 1940-1945; Included in the collection: Documents collected by M. Sluyser, including a professional opinion by the BRvA Council in London regarding various proposals for legislation, 1943-1944; Texts of the "De Flitspuit" radio program broadcasts in the Neth...

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

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12424769
    • 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...

  17. Collection of M. H. Bregstein in the Netherlands, 1940-1956

    Collection of M. H. Bregstein in the Netherlands, 1940-1956 Bregstein was born in 1900. He was a lecturer in Law at the Hogeschool van Rotterdam during 1934-1939. He was appointed Attorney General of the Netherlands in 1940. He was dismissed from this position in the same year, due to his Jewish origin. After the war, he was accepted to the Council for the Restitution of Justice and Law in the banking securities registration department and was an advisor to the Netherlands Ministry of the Treasury in the matter of the property which had been confiscated by the Nazis.

  18. Documentation of the Kleck District administration, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Kleck District administration, 1941-1944 The Collection includes lists of refugees residing in Kleck, from the years 1943-1944; documentation regarding the confiscation of Jewish property; an appeal regarding the closing of the bakery in Halynka following the murder of Jewish workers; correspondence with the District Commissioner (Gebietskommissariat) in Baranowitschy regarding the purchase of houses in Kletsk that were owned by Jews; list of residents in Kletsk and the surrounding villages; list of workers in a textile plant in Kletsk.

  19. Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Volksschulen (State and private elementary schools) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Volksschulen (State and private elementary schools) in Hamburg Included are files from the following schools: - Fritz-Schumacher-Schule - Schule Wohldorf-Ohlstedt - Schule Moorkamp 3 - Mädchenschule Angerstraße - Volksschule Barmbeker Straße 30/32 - Schule Altenwerder - Schule Turmweg - Schule Von-Essen-Straße - Sammelschule I (Maretstraße) - Volksschule Bunatwiete (Maretstraße) - Heinrich-Wolgast-Schule.

  20. Files of Jews, from the Amtsgericht Tiergarten in Berlin

    Files of Jews, from the Amtsgericht Tiergarten in Berlin The Amtsgericht Tiergarten was the Central Criminal Court (Zentrale Strafgericht) for all of Berlin - a unique phenomenon in Germany. At the Amtsgericht Tiergarten in Berlin, deliberations were held regarding files that arrived from all parts of the city. The files in this collection are therefore not files of the Court of Law in Tiergarten itself, but rather, files that arrived from the Amtsgerichte (Magistrate Courts) in Berlin, in most part from the Court of Law in Charlottenburg, and other files from the Berlin-Lichterfelde and Be...