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  1. O. 64.2 - Theresienstadt Collection: Original documentation from the Theresienstadt Ghetto

    O. 64.2 - Theresienstadt Collection: Original documentation from the Theresienstadt Ghetto The Documentation Collection from the Theresienstadt Ghetto is comprised of three principle collections: A. The Zeev Sheck Collection, also known as the Dokumentační Akce-Praha (Prague Documentation Project) Collection [Files 1-110]; B. The Hermann Weisz Collection [Files 111-422]; C. The Miscellaneous Collection including documentation from the ghetto submitted to the Yad Vashem Archives by private bodies and others [Files 423-469]. A. The Zeev Sheck Collection Provenance of the Collection: Born in O...

  2. Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Ministry of Defense, 1941-1944

    Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Ministry of Defense, 1941-1944 In the collection there are files that were created by various bodies within the Romanian Army, some of which deal with internal security and some of which deal with intelligence reports pertaining to Hungary and Transylvania. In the files there is propaganda material; surveillance of the legionnaire insurgents (after January 1941); surveillance of bodies hostile to the regime in Romania (Communists, Jews); intelligence reports regarding what was happening in Hungary in 1944 (in these reports there is information...

  3. O.53 - Ludwigsburg Collection: Documentation regarding Nazi war crimes, collected by the West Germany legal system

    O.53 Ludwigsburg Collection: Documentation regarding Nazi war crimes, collected by the West Germany legal system The collection contains documentation received mainly from the Zentrale Stelle de Landesjustizverwaltungen (Central Office of the State Judicial Administration) in Ludwigsburg, the body that assembled the material for the Nazi War Criminal Trials in West Germany. The documentation concentrates mainly on areas of the Soviet Union and Poland and to a degree on Czechoslovakia. The collection contains important information regarding many Nazi war crimes reported by the groups that ac...

  4. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 5263688
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1904-2002
    • Annotations Article(s), list(s), text(s) Bibliography Booklet(s) Brochure Calendar Lectures Lists Manuscript Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Research article Statistical data Syllabus Thesis/Dissertation

    P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002 Prof. Leni Yahil, the historian, donated the collection to Yad Vashem on 30 December 2004; Sarit Shavit, the researcher, submitted additional material (from File 36 on) to Yad Vashem in October 2009. The collection includes documentation, newspaper clippings, lists, articles, booklets, doctoral dissertations, notes, Leni Yahil's correspondence and more. The documentation relates to the following subjects: the Jews of Denmark during the Holocaust; the Jews of Germany from the 1930s until the Holocaust; the Jews of Sweden, Norway an...

  5. Documentation of the Liechtensteinisches Landesarchiv in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, including lists of names of Jews, Police documentation against Jews, the deportation of the Jews from Liechtenstein, transports, the care of Holocaust survivors after the liberation, and other matters, 1937-1947

    Documentation of the Liechtensteinisches Landesarchiv in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, including lists of names of Jews, Police documentation against Jews, the deportation of the Jews from Liechtenstein, transports, the care of Holocaust survivors after the liberation, and other matters, 1937-1947

  6. Files from the Kommunalreferat jued. Vermoegen in Munich

    Files from the Kommunalreferat jued. Vermoegen in Munich

  7. Documentation regarding the Jewish communities in Italy from the World Jewish Congress Archives, 1943-1945

    Documentation regarding the Jewish communities in Italy from the World Jewish Congress Archives, 1943-1945 - World Jewish Congress (WJC) correspondence with the offices of various communities in Italy on the following subjects: - The situation of the Jews in the Fossoli di Carpi and Ferramonti di Tarsia camps; - Rescue of Jews from camps in Italy; - Rescue and support of orphaned children; - Arranging emigration permits to Palestine; - Arranging visas for emigration to the United States; - Protocols of WJC meetings regarding support for the Jews in Italy. - Key names that appear in the docu...

  8. O.64.2/SCH.10 - Documentation of the Ghetto Headquarters

    O.64.2/SCH.10 - Documentation of the Ghetto Headquarters

  9. Documentation of the Special Court (Sondergericht) in Munich

    Documentation of the Special Court (Sondergericht) in Munich The Special Court (Sondergericht) in Munich was one of the regional courts of law established in Germany to try charges of crimes against the Nazi regime and Nazi ideology. The collection includes files of trials and investigation proceedings against Jewish and non-Jewish Germans who were charged with crimes, such as expressing criticism of the Reich and its leaders and the Reich's attitude toward the Jews, and "race defilement" crimes. The Special Courts (Sondergerichte) were established in the spring of 1933. At first, 25 courts...

  10. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Kiryat Anavim

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Kiryat Anavim Testimonies/ experiences/ memoirs: 1. Mordechai Dror; 2. Henia Vasiak; 3. Zvi Nieviadomski; 4. Chaim Naftali; 5. Rachel Philip; 6. Shlomo Philip; 7. Arnold Kerner;; 8. Aliza Shushan; 9. Arieh Spiegel.

  11. M.26.1 - Search for relatives forms printed by the Relative Search Department of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Stockholm, 1944-1947

    M.26.1 - Search for relatives forms printed by the Relative Search Department of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Stockholm, 1944-1947 Alphabetized questionnaires completed by survivors in order to search for their relatives; the questionnaires contain details regarding the survivor requesting the search and his/her experiences during the war.

  12. O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981

    O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981 Leyb Koniuchowsky was born in Lithuania on 18 November 1910. An engineer by profession, he resided in Kaunas (Kovno). During the German occupation he lived in the Kaunas Ghetto and worked there until his escape. He found shelter in a bunker at a farmer's home where he remained until the liberation of Lithuania by the Red Army in 1944. From 1944-46, he wandered through the war battered towns of Lithuania, collecting testimonies from the few Jews that survived. The testimonies focus on the exterm...

  13. Documentation from official institutions and offices in Hamburg, regarding Jews and the persecution of Jews

    Documentation from official institutions and offices in Hamburg, regarding Jews and the persecution of Jews List of contents of the microfilms (the number in parentheses is the record group number of the official institute): JM/14529 (frames 76-1469) + JM/17009 (frames 3-203) Staatliche Pressestelle I - IV (135-1 I-IV) (collection 12622667) JM/17009 (frames 204-2248) + JM/17010 - JM/17014 + JM/17015 (frames 3-183) Gerichtsvollzieherwesen (214-1) (collection 12633244) JM/17015 (frames 184-497) Polizeidisziplinskammer (221-9) (collection 12679826) JM/17015 (frames 498-518) Erbhofgericht (222-...

  14. M.16 - Collection of the Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie (Jewish Coordination Committee-JCC) of Dutch Jewry in Geneva, 1943-1960

    M.16 - Collection of the Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie (JCC-Jewish Coordination Committee) of Dutch Jewry in Geneva, 1943-1945 The Coordination Committee for the Jews of the Netherlands in Switzerland was established in 1943 at the initiative of several of the Dutch refugees in Switzerland, including Mr. M. Gans. The owner of a jewelry and antiquities business in Amsterdam, Gans had escaped from the Netherlands to Switzerland with his wife in the summer of 1942. The Committee mainly dealt with offering assistance (by sending parcels of food and medicine) to deportees from the Netherlands i...

  15. R.2 - National Socialist Party documentation from the Gau Wien (Vienna District), 1938-1945

    R.2 - National Socialist Party documentation from the Gau Wien (Vienna District), 1938-1945 NSDAP Gau Wien was established in 1926. The last Gauleiter (District Director) before the annexation of Austria to Germany was Dr. Leopold Tavs, who was appointed to this position in 1937. On 22 May 1938, after the Anschluss, when all the institutions in Austria, including the Nazi institutions were reorganized, SS-Standartenführer Odilo Globocnik was given that position. He was removed from his job after suspicions of corruption on his part arose, and Josef Bürckel was appointed in his place on 31 J...

  16. Police documentation from the Graubünden, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1937-1944

    Police documentation from the Graubünden, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1937-1944 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  17. M.40 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Central Archives in Moscow, 1939-1945

    M.40 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Central Archives in Moscow, 1939-1945 Official documentation from the Archives in Moscow, not including documentation from the State Archive of the Russian Federation which is located in a separate Records Group: Yad Vashem Archives M.46. Records Group M.40 is divided into subsections according to the archive of origin from which the documentation was selected. There are three subsections in the Collection: - M.40MAP - Documentation from the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defense; - M.40.RCM - Documentation from the Russian S...

  18. M.19 - The Friesland District Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) Collection, the Netherlands, 1940-1943

    M.19 - The Friesland District Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) Collection, the Netherlands, 1940-1943 The Collection contains correspondence between the Friesland district Joodse Raad and the Amsterdam Joodse Raad on various issues, and correspondence of the Joodse Raad with various organizations regarding help to Dutch Jews in camps and help to Jewish refugees from Germany. There are also reports received from the Amsterdam Joodse Raad regarding the Jews, documentation of decrees and restrictions on Dutch Jews, Jewish education, Jewish owned property, mixed marriages, persecution and deportati...

  19. Documentation of Jewish refugees in Switzerland who made aliya to Eretz Israel after the war, dated 1945

    Documentation of Jewish refugees in Switzerland who made aliya to Eretz Israel after the war, dated 1945 - Personal files of Jewish refugees from the Swiss Federal Archive in Bern [including?] the Gaon and Majrovitz families; - List of candidates for aliya from the Youth Aliyah House in Bex, in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

  20. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ein Harod (Meuhad)

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ein Harod (Meuhad) Memoirs booklets: 1. Tova and Yehiel Ovshani; 2. Yitzhak Haber; 3. Yaakov Yankele Netel; 4. Sara Kolton-Haber; 5. Eliezer Klein; 6. Eliahu Shaki; 7. Bela Shpivak; 8. Yaakov Shpivak; Testimonies: 1. "Story of Sara Har-Havradi" (27/11/2000); 2. "To return to Auschwitz", Chana Lipman (02/05/1989); 3. Aviva (Feldman) Maromi (18/02/2002); 4. "Childhood", Shmuel Ervin Bogner; 5. Dina Amami (1993).