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  1. Collection of various testimonies regarding the war years (in Italian)

    Collection of various testimonies regarding the olocaust and WWII (in Italian)

  2. Documentation regarding the activities of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the Wolyn region, 1936-1949

    Documentation regarding the activities of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the Wolyn region, 1936-1949 Included in the collection is documentation regarding the antisemitic activities of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the Wolyn region.

  3. Correspondence by German companies on subjects related to the Jews

    Correspondence by German companies on subjects related to the Jews Files from various record groups in the Landesarchiv Berlin, which deal with subjects related to the Jews. Most of the files deal with private companies and industrial factories, including a description of the attitude toward Jewish workers and Jewish administration people, or the purchase of Jewish companies and property. Included in the collection are files regarding municipality departments or public institutions of cities, which describe various aspects of the persecution of the Jews of Berlin by the authorities, such as...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Mizra Memorial booklet: "Memoirs of wandering, 1942-1945", by Zila Kitron and Sonia Shabtai (the daughters of Yocheved and Aharon Schwartz), 1991; Condensed testimony: Yitzhak Antos Kveler.

  5. M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York

    M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York The Central Location Index (CLI) was established by various relief organizations in May 1944. The goal of the CLI was to concentrate data regarding refugees and those missing. After the organization (CLI administration) disbanded in May 1949, the documentation was stored in the cellars of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York; in 1957 the documentation was transferred to Yad Vashem. In the collection there are documents, lists and index cards. There are two main sectio...

  6. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957

    O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957 In 1957 the Yad Vashem administration held an essay competition in which participants were to write about their personal experiences during the Holocaust. The collection includes 200 of these essays.

  7. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951 Born in 1882, in Lwow, Poland, Dr. Abraham Silberschein was an attorney who dedicated himself to public service. He was one of the outstanding leaders of the Labor Zionist movement in Poland, and in 1922, he was elected by the movement to serve in the Polish Sejm as the Labor Zionist representative . In 1930 he arrived in Geneva as a representative to the Zionist Congress. Due to the outbreak of World War II, Dr. Silberschein did not return to Poland, but he remained in Switzerla...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Yehiam Testimonies/ experiences/ memoirs: 1. Moshe Opatovski; 2. Chanania Einhorn Arnon; 3. Ilana (Tanenbaum) Ben Israel; 4. Asher Bentuv; 5. Edna Bentuv; 6. Lea Baram; 7. Tamar Gavish; 8. Yitzhak Zimmerman Degan; 9. Chaya Harari; 10. Miriam Vardi; 11. Abri Sela; 12. Ruthi Sela; 13. Nechama (Shuster) Rahav; 14. Aharon Rahav.

  9. Documentation of the government offices in Hamburg regarding Jews and the persecution of Jews

    Documentation of the government offices in Hamburg regarding Jews and the persecution of Jews List of contents of the microfilms (inside the parentheses are the record group numbers of the official institutions): JM/12659 Senat (111-1) (Collection 12665617) JM/12660 [bad quality microfilm - dark pictures] (frames 2-2169) Innere Verwaltung (Buero Senator Richter) (113-2) (Collection 12666235) JM/12661 + JM/12662 Staatsverwaltung (Allgemeine Abteilung) (113-5) (Collection 12628222) JM/12663 (frames 2-86) Buergerschaft (121-3) (Collection 12672597) JM/12663 (frames 87-203) Ratsherrenkanzlei (1...

  11. O.1 - Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960

    O.1 - Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960 Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri was born in Berlin in 1891. A lawyer and legal adviser to the Prussian government, he was also active in Jewish affairs. He made aliya to Eretz Israel in December 1938. Dr. Ball-Kaduri, who was active in collecting material and writing about German Jewry, became aware that much material that reached the archives regarding Jewish life in Germany from 1933 to 1945 was incomplete, and that there were large information gaps. From hi...

  12. O.2 - Wiener Library Collection of Testimonies, London, 1940-1957

    O.2 - Wiener Library Collection of Testimonies, London, 1940-1957 Alfred Wiener (1885-1964), the man who planned and established the Wiener Library, was born in Potsdam Germany; by profession, he was an expert in Middle East affairs and researcher of Islam. From 1919 he served as the legal advisor for the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), and published many articles about the Jews of Germany. When the Nazis rose to power in 1933, Wiener immigrated to the Netherlands and lived in Amsterdam. He began to collec...

  13. Collection of testimonies of Holocaust survivors from Greece recorded at the Jewish community in Thessaloniki

    Collection of testimonies of Holocaust survivors from Greece recorded at the Jewish community in Thessaloniki

  14. Collection of postcards sent from the occupied areas to the Relico Organization in Geneva and Lisbon as confirmation of receipt of parcels

    Collection of postcards sent from the occupied areas to the Relico Organization in Geneva and Lisbon as confirmation of receipt of parcels The postcards were sent as confirmation of receipt of parcels in accordance with the request of the family members outside occupied Europe. - 600 postcards were sent to Lisbon, Portugal; - 3,700 postcards were sent from Poland to Geneva, Switzerland; 2,800 from France; 2,800 from various camps; 1,950 from Germany; 800 from Czechoslovakia; 1,600 from Vienna; 800 from Belgium; and 800 from other places.

  15. M.43 - Documentation from archives in Latvia, 1918-1946

    M.43 - Documentation from archives in Latvia, 1918-1946 In the collection there are files selected from the Latvian State Historical Archives in Riga and other files received from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Description of the collection Included in the documentation from the Latvian State Historical Archives in Riga is correspondence between the educational institutions in Latvia and various bodies regarding the budget, teachers' salaries, and matriculation exams, 1921-1940. In the collection there is documentation of the Association of Latvian Jews for the A...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Erez Experiences of: 1. Batya Barash; 2. David Dov-Miklos Klein; 3. Zvi Hesho Levkovitz; Regarding the "Sharsheret" ["Chain"] group: 1. Nachum Zelonka, "History of the 'Sharsheret' group that arrived to Nahsholim in March 1949"; 2. "The 'Sharsheret' group on the illegal immigrants' "Ulua-Chaim Arlosoroff " ship in winter 1946", written by Arieh Fried, April 2000; Original letters by Moshe Zeiri, who established and directed the children's ho...

  17. P.1 - Archive of Recha Freier, the founder of Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1935-1951

    P.1 - Archive of Recha Freier, the founder of Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1935-1951 Recha Freier was born in Norden, in the northwestern part of Germany, in 1892. On completion of her University Language studies, she worked as a teacher and folklore researcher. In 1932 she conceived of the idea of organizing the sending of Jewish youth to Eretz Israel for education in the kibbutzim. She gathered funds for this purpose and saw her idea become a reality when the first group of Jewish youth left Berlin in late 1932. The World Jewish Congress approved the idea in 1933, however initially Recha Frei...

  18. Collection of lists of members of various movements, refugees in the DP camp in Vienna, prepared before aliya to Eretz Israel

    Collection of lists of members of various movements, refugees in the DP camp in Vienna, prepared before aliya to Eretz Israel

  19. M.21.3 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich

    M.21.3 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich The War Criminals Department was established in the American Occupied Zone shortly after the end of World War II. It was active from 1946-1951 as the Legal Department of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich, in cooperation with the Central Historical Commission in Munich and other survivor organizations. The purpose of the Department was to locate war criminals and collaborators, to gather documentary material, to collect testimonies from survivors and to bring the criminal...

  20. TR.5 - Trials of Jews in Israel accused of collaboration with the Nazis, 1947-1969

    TR.5 - Trials of Jews in Israel accused of collaboration with the Nazis, 1947-1969 In the Record Group there are legal files of Jews accused of collaboration with the Nazis while performing their jobs as Jewish policemen, informers and personnel in the labor and concentration camps. Most of the trials were conducted in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, while in specific cases, appeals were reviewed in the higher courts. In the files there are indictments, verdicts, court proceedings, testimonies and additional legal material.