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  1. Correspondence between the Insel-Verlag publishing company in Leipzig and the writer Stefan Zweig regarding the publication of his books, 1912-1937

    Correspondence between the Insel-Verlag publishing company in Leipzig and the writer Stefan Zweig regarding the publication of his books, 1912-1937 Diverse correspondence by the publisher with the writer (and during the later years, also with Stefan Zweig's wife, Friederike Maria Zweig) in Vienna and later on in Salzburg. The correspondence relates to the publication, proofreading and translation to other languages of the works of Stefan Zweig, and likewise to the articles and series of books that Zweig edited for the publisher. Included in the files, among other matters, are the publisher'...

  2. Collection of Hauptabteilung Inneres, the Department of the Interior of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz in The Hague, 1940-1941

    Collection of Hauptabteilung Inneres, the Department of the Interior of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz in The Hague, 1940-1941 The Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (German Minister of Justice), Dr. Friedrich Wimmer, established the Hauptabteilung Inneres (Department of the Interior), which was subordinate to his office, in 1940; the department was headed by Dr. Carl Stüler at the start, and was headed by Dr. H. Krell later on; various departments operated under the Hauptabteilung Inneres, including the Abteilung innere Verwaltung; Dr. H. Calmeyer was appointe...

  3. Official documentation of the German occupation authorities in Latvia, from the Westermann Collection in Riga

    Official documentation of the German occupation authorities in Latvia, from the Westermann Collection in Riga The Westermann Collection includes official documentation of the municipal administration of the Rigas Prefekturas (Riga Prefecture) Police; official documentation of Einsatzgruppe A active in Latvia in 1941; orders and instructions by the Sicherheitspolizei to the SD and SS in Latvia; instructions of the Generalkommissar and Giebitskommissar of Riga; Latvian antisemitic newspapers, from 1939-1940 and from the German occupation period; lists of Jews who were deported from Hamburg, D...

  4. Documentation of the regional Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Szczecin, dated 1964-1981

    Documentation of the regional Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Szczecin, dated 1964-1981 Included in the collection: Information booklets of the State Museum of Auschwitz Camp, 1976-1981; list of places of Nazi crimes in Police; documentation regarding crimes by Nazis suspected of murdering 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 ghettos, POW camps, prisons and detention plac...

  5. Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12421174
    • English, Hebrew
    • Birth certificate Legal documentation Marriage certificate Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors Survey report

    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...

  6. Documentation of the commissioner of the Grodno district affiliated with the Zivilverwaltung (civilian administration) of the Bialystok region, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the commissioner of the Grodno district affiliated with the Zivilverwaltung (civilian administration) of the Bialystok region, 1941-1944 Included in the collection: Correspondence regarding industrial factories and skilled professionals in the Bialystok region; directive of the Reichskommissar fuer das Ostland (Reichs commissioner for Ostland) in Riga, given to the Generalkommissar (general commissioner) of Belorussia in Minsk, regarding the confiscation of property of cultural value in the Belorussia area by Einsatzstab Rosenberg; investigation and imprisonment of Polish c...

  7. Documentation of the district committee of the representatives of the workers, farmers and soldiers in Mogilev, 1923-1924

    Documentation of the district committee of the representatives of the workers, farmers and soldiers in Mogilev, 1923-1924 In the collection: Lists of members of the executive committee of the representatives of the workers and the police workers in the Mogilev district during 1923-1924.

  8. M. 33- The ChGK Collection: Documentation collected by the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union, 1943-1945

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019619
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1943-1945
    • Diary Exhumation report Investigation report List of collaborators List of Jewish residents List of murdered persons List of perpetrators Maps Memoirs Names of perpetrators Newspaper clippings Official documentation Questionnaire Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Statistical report Survey report

    M. 33- The ChGK Collection: Documentation collected by the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union, 1943-1945 The State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes (ChGK) was established in the Soviet Union in 1942. Its representatives operated in places that had been occupied by the Nazis a short time after their liberation, and the reports prepared by the Commission regarding the places it investigated describe the Nazi crimes in detail. The ChGK (in Yad Vashem terminology: “the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigat...

  9. Documentation of the Weltwirtschaftsarchiv (World Economy Archive) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Weltwirtschaftsarchiv (World Economy Archive) in Hamburg

  10. Documentation of the Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda), Germany, 1934-1944

    Documentation of the Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda), Germany, 1934-1944 The ministry was established by law, on 13 March 1933, and received its authority by virtue of an order published, 30 June 1933; its areas of responsibility were defined as Geistigen Einwirkung auf die Nation, der Werbung fuer Staat, Kultur und Wirtschaft, der Unterrichtung der Oeffentlichkeit (emotional impact on the nation, the advertising for State, Culture and Economy, information to the public: The materials that reached Yad Vashem include cor...

  11. Collection of the Dutch Intelligence in London, England, regarding the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands, 1942-1944

    Collection of the Dutch Intelligence in London, England, regarding the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands, 1942-1944 Included in the collection: Reports and testimonies collected by the Dutch intelligence services in London, 1942-1944; List of names of Jews from the Netherlands who made aliya to Eretz Israel in July 1944 in the context of the exchange of Jews for Germans, Palestina-Austausch.

  12. Documentation of the Gestapa (Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt-Secret State Police Office), 1932-1939

    Documentation of the Gestapa (Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt-Secret State Police Office) [predecessor of the Gestapo], 1932-1939 The documentation includes files from the Gestapa headquarters and files from the Gestapo headquarters from 1939 (prior to the establishment of the Reich Security Head Office ([RSHA]), when it was called by the double name Geheimes Staatspolizei and Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt, Some of the files contain police materials from the period before the Nazi rise to power and the establishment of the Gestapa; these materials were later handled by the Gestapa.

  13. Documentation of the Court of Law in Kielce (first proceedings), 1948-1960

    Documentation of the Court of Law in Kielce (first proceedings), 1948-1960 Included in the collection are appeals and requests to the Court of Law in Kielce (first proceedings), submitted by Jewish residents in order to receive death certificates of relatives who perished during the war period.

  14. Documentation of the Jewish Community in Tartu, 1861 - 1940

  15. Documentation of the Council and the Executive committee of the Novaya Mysh district, 1940

    Documentation of the Council and the Executive committee of the Novaya Mysh district, 1940 Included in the collection is a list of voters in the Nowa Mysz [Novaya Mysh] district, prepared in 1940, and a professional opinion regarding a Jewish teacher named Abram Rozen who worked in the Baranovichi region.

  16. Documentation of the rural administration in Stetseva, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the rural administration in Stetseva, 1941-1943 Included in the collection are lists of Jewish residents, instructions regarding the confiscation of Jewish property, and statistical reports regarding the local population.

  17. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committees in the Gomel Region, 1938-1939, 1945-1946

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committees in the Gomel Region, 1938-1939, 1945-1946 The Collection includes a list of Jewish workers; documentation regarding candidates for the course of secretaries for the Communist organizations; reports of the Communist Party District Committee meetings in Rechitsa regarding the appointments of Communists.

  18. Documentation from a brick factory in Vendichany, 1943

    Documentation from a brick factory in Vendichany, 1943 Included in the collection: - Attendance reports of laborers, including Jewish laborers; - Lists of workers in the factory; - Documentation regarding the payment of salaries to the laborers.

  19. Collection of A. Flesche, Trustee of the Lippmann, Rosenthal & Company in Amsterdam, 1940-1945

    Collection of A. Flesche, Trustee of the Lippmann, Rosenthal & Company in Amsterdam, 1940-1945 Correspondence between the Wirtschaft abd Alfred Flesche, a German banker and Abwehr employee, who was appointed as the Trustee of the Lippmann, Rosenthal & Company in 1940 for the purpose of the Aryanization of Jewish property; most of the correspondence is from the Sarphatistraat Collection, including documentation of the policies of the Nazi leadership regarding the confiscation of Jewish property in the Netherlands; the correspondence demonstrates the cooperation between various Nazi o...

  20. Documentation of the operational committee in the Rovno region, 1939 and 1944-1945

    Documentation of the operational committee in the Rovno region, 1939 and 1944-1945 Included in the collection: - Reports from meetings of the operational committees of the Kostopol and Lyudvipol districts, 1939; - Appeals sent to the authorities by evacuated Jews requesting to return to the Rovno region; - Correspondence with the People's Commissioners Committee of Ukraine, regarding the return of Soviet Union citizens to their homeland.