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  1. Documentation from the Main Elections Office (Hauptwahlamt) in Berlin

    Documentation from the Main Elections Office (Hauptwahlamt) in Berlin The Elections Office in Berlin was established in 1873 with the aim of supervising the elections process in the city. Following the unification of all of the city's suburbs into one municipal framework, the office was subdivided in 1920 into the main elections office in the central municipal office, and elections offices that were established in the city's various districts. The purpose of the main elections office was the unified administration of the elections on a local and a national level, to prepare the election for...

  2. Various materials from the Saarbruecken State Archives (without a central organization that produced them)

    Various materials from the Saarbruecken State Archives (without a central organization that produced them)

  3. Documentation of the Gauwirtschaftskammer (Nazi Gau Economic Chamber) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Gauwirtschaftskammer (Nazi Gau Economic Chamber) in Hamburg

  4. 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...

  5. Documentation from the Bobruysk district administration, 1941-1944

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10440674
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1944
    • Application Correspondence List of healthcare workers List of Jewish residents List of livestock owners List of residents List of skilled professionals Official documentation

    Documentation from the Bobruysk district administration, 1941-1944 The Mogilev and Vitebsk regions, a large part of the Gomel region, the eastern districts of the Minsk region and part of Polesye belonged to the outlying area under the control of the Heeresgruppe Mitte (Army Group Centre). The occupying regime established local administrations in the city as auxiliary power. Included in the documentation from the district administration of Bobruysk are directives from the District Director on the following subjects: funding for Bobruysk municipal institutions; commerce arrangements in the c...

  6. M.41.GAMog - Documentation from the State Archive of the Mogilev Region

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10431971
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1944
    • Appeal to the authorities Application Correspondence List of forced laborers List of healthcare workers List of Jewish residents List of residents List of workers Official documentation

    M.41.GAMog - Documentation from the State Archive of the Mogilev Region History of the State Archive of the Mogilev Region The Archive was established on 05 July 1938, and its documentation is comprised of documentation that was found in the regional archives of Mogilev and Kalinin. In 1941, it included 1,316 original collections that contained 650,000 conservation units. During the war, some of the documents were evacuated but most were destroyed (1,200 original collections). The Archive resumed its activity in the city of Krichev in 1943, and in Mogilev in 1944. During the same time all o...

  7. Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Sonderschulen (State and private special education schools) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Sonderschulen (State and private special education schools) in Hamburg In this Collection are copies of two files from the Hilfsschule Carsten-Rehder Strasse - 362-10/1 sub-collection. The files do not deal with the school itself, but include however general material that was sent to all of the special education schools. In particular, there is a file with directives given by the German Ministry of Education regarding Jewish pupils, Mischlinge pupils and pupils who are not German citizens, and a file with circulars and directives given by the H...

  8. Collection of documents from documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Kirovograd region, 1944-1946

    Collection of documents from documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Kirovograd region, 1944-1946 The collection includes documentation from the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Kirovograd region during 1944-1946, regarding the murder of the local population, including Jews and Soviet POWs; documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Ustinovka, Malaya Viska, Novo Arkhangelsk and Podvysokoye districts, 1941-1944.

  9. Documentation of the area office for recruitment of laborers in Grodno, 1942-1944

    Documentation of the area office for recruitment of laborers in Grodno, 1942-1944 The Collection includes work summons for Jews in the Grodno Ghetto for work in various companies in the city; correspondence of various factories in Grodno with the local employment office (Arbeitsamt) regarding Jewish laborers from the Grodno Ghetto, procedures for payment of wages and requests for Jewish craftsmen, exit permits for Jewish laborers and fleeing Polish laborers.

  10. Documentation from the Stutthof concentration camp administration, 1943-1945

    Documentation from the Stutthof concentration camp administration, 1943-1945 Included in the collection is correspondence regarding the property of Jewish inmates, and the supply of clothing and food to sub-camps.

  11. Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamond Industry Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954

    Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamond Industry Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954 Establishment of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant by the Germans, as a department of the Rüstungsinspektion Niederlande for the promotion of the industry in the Netherlands in 1940; the Rijksbureau voor Diamant was given the responsibility for the registration of all of the diamonds in the Netherlands and the issuing of permits for all actions related to the diamond industry and diamond trade; Included in the collection: Forms/questionnaires of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (government bureau for d...

  12. Documentation from the Stutthof concentration camp political department, 1940-1945

    Documentation from the Stutthof concentration camp political department, 1940-1945 Included in the collection is documentation of the political department administrators regarding the camp's inmates, an announcement regarding the transfer of inmates to the Stutthof concentration camp from other camps, documentation regarding the deportation of Jewish inmates from Riga, Auschwitz camp and Plaszow camp to the Stutthof concentration camp including transport lists from 1944, card files of inmates and their registration books, and correspondence regarding the transfer of 500 female inmates to Ha...

  13. Documentation of the Executive Committee of the Molotovskiy neighborhood, in Belostok, 1941

    Documentation of the Executive Committee of the Molotovskiy neighborhood, in Belostok, 1941 The Collection includes lists of delegates of the City Council in Bialystok; list of residents in the city; documentation regarding employment in the city and other matters.

  14. Collection of the Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled (Le-Ezrat Ha-Yeled, Help to the Child) organization, the Netherlands, 1945-1964

    Collection of the Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled (Le-Ezrat Ha-Yeled, Help to the Child) organization, the Netherlands, 1945-1964 The Jewish non-profit organization, Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled (Help to the Child), was established after the war with the aim of taking care of Jewish foster children; the children were hurled into a sensitive situation concerning their Judaism, being that many of them had lived in non-Jewish surroundings while in hiding places during the years of the occupation in the Netherlands; in order to restore the children's identity, the non-profit organization Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled was active...

  15. Documentation of the Gauwirtschaftsberater (Economic Affairs Advisor) of the NSDAP-Gauleitung Westfalen-Sued

    Documentation of the Gauwirtschaftsberater (Economic Affairs Advisor) of the NSDAP-Gauleitung Westfalen-Sued

  16. Documentation of the Auswanderungsamt I (Immigration office I) in the Hamburg municipality

    Documentation of the Auswanderungsamt I (Immigration office I) in the Hamburg municipality Microfilm JM/28517 has personal files of Jews who emigrated.

  17. Collection of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (the German Office for Administration and Justice) in the Netherlands, 1940-1944

    Collection of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (the German Office for Administration and Justice) in the Netherlands, 1940-1944 The Germans established a system for civil administration in 1940; Arthur Seyss-Inquart stood as the Reichskommissar - head of the civil administration; establishment of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (German Office for Administration and Justice) under Seyss-Inquart, and under the administration of Friedrich Wimmer in The Hague; among the office's functions were administration and justice: legislation, internal matters, justice,...

  18. Documentation of the German Police headquarters in the occupied countries, 1938-1945

    Documentation of the German Police headquarters in the occupied countries, 1938-1945 The documentation on microfilm JM/29064 includes files of the gendarmerie and the police in the occupied areas of Poland dealing with various subjects, as well as a file from the Breslau police from 1933-1935, dealing with anti-Nazi propaganda.

  19. Census of the Jewish population of Latvia, August-September 1941

    Census of the Jewish population of Latvia, August-September 1941 Lists of residents compiled as part of the census conducted in Latvia, August-September 1941, including the names of Jews.

  20. Documentation of the regional Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Bialystok, dated 1945-2003

    Documentation of the regional Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Bialystok, dated 1945-2003 Included in the collection: Lists of residents of the Bialystok region who perished in camps and prisons, including in Mauthausen, Dachau, Ravensbrueck, Dzialdowo, Bialystok, Gross-Rosen, Stutthof, Bergen-Belsen, Dora, Buchenwald, Majdanek and Auschwitz camps; official documentation of the regional Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Bialystok, including lists of people who perished; confirmations of death of residents who perished during the wa...