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  1. O.64.2/WSZ.1 - Lists of deportees from Bohemia and Moravia to the Theresienstadt Ghetto

    O.64.2/WSZ.1 - Lists of deportees from Bohemia and Moravia to the Theresienstadt Ghetto

  2. Documentation (microfilms) from the State Archive in Geneva, Switzerland

    Documentation (microfilms) from the State Archive in Geneva, Switzerland

  3. Documentation from the Israel Police unit for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes

    Documentation from the Israel Police unit for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes The Israel Police Department for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes was established following the enactment of the "Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law" in 1950. At its inception, the Department concentrated on Jews who were being investigated on suspicion of collaboration with the Nazis. However, the area was expanded, and the Department gathered testimonies regarding the crimes of the Nazis and their collaborators throughout Europe, testimonies which aided in investigative proceedings and trials conduct...

  4. P.69 - Archive of the Levy family, from Essen, Germany, 1863-1993

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10568932
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Article Balance sheet Book Brochure Certification Correspondence Curriculum Vitae (CV) Death certificate Diary Diploma Draft Drawing Envelope Financial accounts Identity card Invitation Journal Lecture Legal documentation Letter(s) Libretto Medical documentation Money Newspaper clippings Note Notebook Obituary Papercut Passport Personal records Photocopy Photograph Play Play(s), script(s) Poems/Songs Postcard Protocol Record of deportees Record of persecuted persons Research article Speech Telegram Telephone directory Thesis/Dissertation Travel ticket Will

    P.69 - Archive of the Levy family, from Essen, Germany, 1863-1993 About the Levy family: Dr. Ernst Levy (b.1872) was the eldest son of physician Dr. Hermann Levy (b. 1838) and his wife Emma, née Hirschland (b. 1847). Dr. Ernst Levy and his wife, the former Martha Ruthenburg (b. 1878) lived in Essen, Germany, where Dr. Levy was a general practitioner and researcher. They had four children, Hermann (b. 1906), Rudolf (b. 1908), Hans (b. 1911) and Eva (b. 1914). A year after the rise of nazism, Hermann Levy, a lawyer by training, went to study a new career in Paris, France, since he was banned ...

  5. Card file of the Jewish community in the Lemberg Ghetto, 1941-1943

    Card file of the Jewish community in the Lemberg Ghetto, 1941-1943

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ruhama Memorial booklet: 1. "Yosef Shamir, 1916-2001, a man of the movement, of vision, and action", August 2003; Testimonies: 1. David David, "Story of my life", summer 1993; 2. Sara Kaplun, "Life was given to me as a gift"; 3. "Memoirs of Rachel Shamir, regarding the German occupation of the city of Tarnow in September 1939, and her departure to the city of Lwow, two months later" (14/12/2003); Photographs (photocopy): 1. David David (16/0...

  7. O.64.2/WSZ.6 - Orders of the Day, reports and statistical data

    O.64.2/WSZ.6 - Orders of the Day, reports and statistical data

  8. M.7 - Relico Collection - Documentation of the World Jewish Congress Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population, Geneva

    M.7 - Relico Collection - Documentation of the World Jewish Congress Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population, Geneva The Relico Organization, the World Jewish Congress Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population, Geneva, was founded in Geneva in 1939 by Dr. Abraham Silberschein, and funded by the World Jewish Congress. The Committee was active until 1947. Its main purpose was to assist the persecuted Jews in the areas occupied by the Nazis. The organization also assisted in locating family members and provided relief to Jewish refugees who had lost their homes an...

  9. Documentation from the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv

    Documentation from the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv

  10. M.62 - Documentation from the Regional Archives of the Russian Federation, 1934-1946

    M.62 - Documentation from Regional Archives of the Russian Federation, 1934-1946 In the collection there are files selected from the Regional Archives of the Russian Federation: the State Archives in the Tver, Kaluga, Pskov, Orel, Smolensk, Novgorod and Bryansk regions, the State Archives of the Republics of Kalmykia and Mordovia and the State Archive for Records of Contemporary History in the Kaluga, Smolensk and Tver Regions. Description of the collection The collection includes documentation from the local committees of the Communist Party in various regions of Russia, 1917-1929, documen...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Mahanayim Testimonies: 1. Chaya Slutzki; 2. Menachem Perlmutter.

  12. Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Leer, regarding the forced sale, confiscation and restitution of Jewish owned real estate in Leer and the surrounding area, 1938-1981

    Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Leer, regarding the forced sale, confiscation and restitution of Jewish owned real estate in Leer and the surrounding area, 1938-1981 Included in the Collection: - Sub-Record Group Rep 01: Files from the Nazi period regarding the takeover of Jewish owned real estate, 1938-1944; - Sub-Record Group Rep 02: Requests from the postwar period for the restitution of or compensation for property that was confiscated or obtained by means of a forced sale, including a special file for requests from the Jewish Trust Corporation, and a file that includes lists of Jewi...

  13. M.44 - Documentation from archives in Estonia, 1941-1946

    M.44 Documentation from archives in Estonia, 1941-1946 A. Documentation from the Estonian State Central Archives (ERA) in Tallinn, Estonia Examples: - Collection of the autonomous leadership regarding Jewish culture in Estonia; - Collection of the Valga Juudi Spordiselts Makkabi (Maccabi Sports Association) in Valga; - Collection of the Tartu Akadeemiline Juudi Ajaloo ja Kirjanduse Selts ülikooli juures (Association for Jewish Culture and History) in Tartu; - Collection of the Tartu-Juudi üliõpilaste Kassa (Jewish Students' Fund) in Tartu, 1887-1928; - Collection of the Tartu Juudi Usuühing...

  14. M.52.NMIUuDSV - Documentation of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War in Kyiv

    M.52.NMIUuDSV - Documentation from the National Museum of the History of Ukraine during World War II in Kyiv History of the Archives: The idea regarding the establishment of a Museum of the History of World War II was born already in 1943 but its construction was delayed until the 1970s. An important stage on the way to the establishment of the museum was an exhibition held in April 1946, called "The Ukrainian Partisans' Struggle against the Nazi Occupiers". In early 1950 the documentation from the exhibition was transferred to the State Historical Museum, and in 1970 a team for the establi...

  15. M.41.TsAKDB - Documentation of the State Security Committee Archive in Belorussia

    M.41.TsAKDB - Documentation of the State Security Committee Archive in Belorussia Investigative reports regarding the establishment of ghettos in Borisov, Zembin and Minsk; indictments of Belorussian collaborators who participated in the murder of Jews, and survey reports concerning the murder of Jews in Minsk and Borisov.

  16. M.85 - Documentation from archives in Bosnia regarding the Jews of the former Yugoslavia mainly during the Holocaust period

    M.85 - Documentation from archives in Bosnia regarding the Jews of the former Yugoslavia mainly during the Holocaust period In the collection there is documentation including statistical data regarding the Jews of Bosnia, lists of Jewish partisans, documentation from the State Commission for Investigation of War Criminals in Yugoslavia and more.

  17. O.33- Testimonies, diaries and memoirs from the Holocaust period and regarding the Holocaust

    O.33- Testimonies, diaries and memoirs from the Holocaust period and regarding the Holocaust In the collection there are diaries, testimonies and memoirs written mostly by survivors with some material written by Jews who perished in the Holocaust. The content of the documentation is varied and multi-lingual. Most of the documentation was written and documented after the war, and the rest, mainly diaries, during the Holocaust. Those who were persecuted have documented their personal experiences, and through this documentation it is possible to closely follow the personal stories of the write...

  18. O.9 - France Collection: Documentation regarding the Jews of France , mostly from the Holocaust period

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019604
    • English, Hebrew
    • Article(s), list(s), text(s) Diagram Drawing Identity card Letter Manifesto Names Newspaper Official documentation Personal documents Personal records Poster Work permit

    O.9 - Documentation regarding the Jews of France , mostly from the Holocaust period The collection contains hundreds of files, including documentation received from the Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France). Most of the documentation is original material, some from German sources. There is also much documentation regarding the Jewish underground in France, including material from the Jewish and non-Jewish underground press, the personal archives of Jewish leaders, such as the Joseph Fischer-Ariel Collection, the Charles Wittenberg Collection and the ...

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

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

  20. Documentation regarding David Frankfurter and his trial in Switzerland following an attempt to assassinate Wilhelm Gustloff, 1936

    Documentation regarding David Frankfurter and his trial in Switzerland following an attempt to assassinate Wilhelm Gustloff, 1936 In the Collection there is documentation regarding the assassination of Wilhelm Gustloff, Landesgruppenleiter Schweiz NSDAP (head of the Nazi party in Switzerland) in his home in Davos by David Frankfurter, a Jewish citizen of Yugoslavia, who was a medical student in Berne, 04 February 1936. David Frankfurter was the youngest of the three sons of an Orthodox rabbi with an excellent general education, who served as a community rabbi in Yugoslavia. His oldest broth...