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  1. Documentation of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture from 1938-1944, regarding the confiscation of Jewish owned land in various villages and towns in Hungary

    Documentation of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture from 1939-1944, regarding the confiscation of Jewish owned land in various villages and towns in Hungary The files in this collection were created in the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture from 1938-1944. The original documents are now located in the Magyar Országos Levéltár (Hungarian National Archives) where they were copied for Yad Vashem. The Ministry of Agriculture files are arranged according to the towns in Hungary and include the official documents which were accumulated as a result of the promulgation of the laws against the Jew...

  2. Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Hoehere Schulen (State and private high schools) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Hoehere Schulen (State and private high schools) in Hamburg The Collection is comprised of sub-record groups that deal with specific schools. Included in the material, among others, are lists of pupils and matriculation certificates of boys and girls who were pupils in certain schools.

  3. Documentation from the Wedding Magistrates Court in Berlin

    Documentation from the Wedding Magistrates Court in Berlin Files of individual Jews, regarding mainly wills and listings in the Land Registration Book (Grundbuch).

  4. Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Amtsgericht Altena (Westphalia)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12421535
    • 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 Amtsgericht Altena (Westphalia) Bestand: Amtsgericht Altena 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 includi...

  5. Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamonds Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954

    Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamonds Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954 Included in the collection: Official documentation regarding diamond dealers in the Netherlands, most of them Jews, 1940-1954; Lists of diamond dealers, a newspaper article regarding Jewish diamond dealers in the Netherlands, and documentation regarding an incident of concealment; Documents of the Schade-Enquete-Commissies - compensation committee regarding diamond dealers during the postwar period in the Netherlands, 1946-1954; Documents of the Ministry of Transportation of the Netherlands; Documents...

  6. TR.17.OBUiADwRz - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Rzeszow, Poland, 1945-1946

    TR.17.OBUiADwRz - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Rzeszow, Poland, 1945-1946 Included in the collection are appeals by relatives of Jews who perished during the war period, submitted to the Court of Law in Przemyśl for first proceedings in order to receive declarations of death, 1945-1946.

  7. Materials from the Judaica Varia Collection, from the Archive of the City of Munich

    Materials from the Judaica Varia Collection, from the Archive of the City of Munich

  8. Documentation from the Stutthof concentration camp headquarters, 1941-1945

    Documentation from the Stutthof concentration camp headquarters, 1941-1945 Included in the collection are orders and instructions by the camp commander, brochures from the camp, correspondence with the SS authorities, issues of the "Heeresverordnungsblatt" newspaper, personal documents and lists of “SS-Totenkopfsturmbann” men, a eulogy for Theodor Eicke, orders regarding the draft of German inmates to the "Sonderkommando Dirlewanger", and special orders regarding the evacuation of the camp in January 1945.

  9. Documentation of the municipal administration in Kostopol, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the municipal administration in Kostopol, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Applications of Kostopol municipality workers requesting to receive residence permits in apartments and homes that were owned by Jews; - Documentation regarding the Jews in Kostopol, including the number of Jews in the ghetto, places of work, and the burial of murdered Jews.

  10. TR.17.OBUiADwSz - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Szczecin, Poland, 1964-1981

    TR.17.OBUiADwSz - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Szczecin, Poland, 1964-1981 Included in the collection are information pamphlets of the State Museum of Auschwitz Camp, 1976-1981; list of places of Nazi criminals in Police; documentation regarding Nazi criminals suspected of the murder of inmates in the Police labor camp (a sub-camp of the Stutthof concentration camp); list of labor camps in the area of the Szczecin region; documentation regarding German camps in Poland during 1939-1945, including documentation regarding gh...

  11. Documentation from the Bezirksamt Schoenberg in Berlin, 1926-1935

    Documentation from the Bezirksamt Schoenberg in Berlin, 1926-1935 The city of Schoeneberg and the town of Friedenau were incorporated into the city of Berlin in 1920, as the Bezirk (municipal district of) Schoeneberg. In this Record Group are files related to the construction sector, regarding synagogues and buildings belonging to Jewish institutions in the district's area.

  12. Documentation of the Jewish community in Lwow, 1885 - 1942

    Collection of files containing documentation of the Jewish community in Lwow

  13. Documentation of the partisans movement headquarters in Belorussia, 1941-1944

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12796532
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1944
    • Investigation report Letter List of partisans Official documentation Order Personal documents Questionnaire Statistical report Survey report Testimony

    Documentation of the partisans movement headquarters in Belorussia, 1941-1944 Included in the collection, among other material: - Lists of partisans from various units that were active in Belorussia; - Personal cards and questionnaires of Jewish partisans; - Statistical data regarding the partisans movement in Belorussia; - Professional opinions of partisans commanders, regarding the fighters; - Lists of Soviet sappers; - Plans for action of the partisans movement headquarters; - Report to Platon, the general headquarters representative, regarding the participation of many Jews in the parti...

  14. Census of the Jews of Budapest, 1941

    Census of the Jews of Budapest, 1941 The historical background to the Hungarian census: In January-February 1941 a national population census was conducted in Hungary in accordance with Law No. 30, "The 1941 Census", enacted in 1940. By law a census should be conducted in every city and town throughout Hungary in the apartments of the residents or their houses. The Budapest Székesfőváros Statisztikai Hivatala (Budapest Metropolitan Statistical Office) organized the census in Budapest in accordance with the law. For this purpose, the Statistical Office prepared a special questionnaire includ...

  15. Documentation regarding the persecution of Jews, from Estates in the State Archive in Muenster

    Documentation regarding the persecution of Jews, from Estates in the State Archive in Muenster In the Collection are two files from Estates (see the list of files in the "Multimedia" page, regarding the content): - Adolf ten Hompel (1874-1943) Dr. jur., Rechtsanwalt und völkischer Schriftsteller.

  16. Documentation of the General Commissioner in Reval [Tallinn], 1941 - 1944

  17. M.52.DAIFO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region

    M.52.DAIFO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region History of the Archives: The Archives was established in December 1939 and was called the Regional Historical Archives of Stanislawow until 1941. Before its establishment, all of the documentation was kept in institutions of the authorities and in public institutions. This documentation began to be collected by the Stanislawow UNKVD as of November 1939 in the new regional Archives after the same institutions and organizations were cancelled by the Soviet authorities. The name of the Archives was changed during ...

  18. Documentation of the Senatskommssion fuer die Kunstpflege (Senate Committee for Religious Unions' Matters) in Hamburg, 1927-1933

    Documentation of the Senatskommssion fuer die Kunstpflege (Senate Committee for Religious Unions' Matters) in Hamburg, 1927-1933 The sub-record Collection includes two files: one deals with the transfer of a section of the Jewish cemetery in Rentzelstraße for the needs of the city, and the other file deals with the boycott of the Jewish businesses in 1933.

  19. Collection of the Directie van Handel en Nijverheid - Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands, 1905-1943

    Collection of the Directie van Handel en Nijverheid - Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands, 1905-1943 In the collection of the Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands there is much information regarding the economic development in the Netherlands before and during the Nazi occupation, including the labor market in the Netherlands during the 1930s, the draft of reserve forces among Dutch merchants in 1940, and the removal of Jews from the Dutch economy, for instance Jewish clerks and Jewish businesses such as Bijenkorf, Hollandia Kattenburg & Co, Zwanenburg, Orga...

  20. Documentation of the Jugendbehoerde I (Youth Office I) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Jugendbehoerde I (Youth Office I) in Hamburg