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  1. O.64.2/SCH.7 - Karl Löwenstein, Head of Security Services

    O.64.2/SCH.7 - Karl Löwenstein, Head of Security Services

  2. Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 5083562
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1939-1944
    • Administrative documentation Application Balance sheet Correspondence Financial accounts List of Jews List of names Lists Report Reports Statistical data Statistical report Survey report

    Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943 The Jewish Self Aid organization (in Polish: Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna [ZSS]; in German: Juedische Soziale Selbshilfe) was set up in Krakow in 1940; it went by this name until July 1942. After that date, the organization's welfare activities were cut back by order of the German authorities, and they mainly consisted of the transferring of medicines to Jews in labor camps until this activity, too, was discontinued in mid-1944. ZSS documentation includes correspondence between the administra...

  3. TR.23:- Legal documentation from KGB Archives in Moldavia, 1944-1945

    TR.23 - Legal documentation from KGB Archives in Moldavia, 1944-1945 In the collection there is legal documentation from the Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB- Committee for State Security) Archive of Moldavia including investigative files of war criminals in the areas of Moldavia and Ukraine. The documentation includes detention orders, interrogation reports of local residents accused of the persecution of the Jews and murder of Jews in Moldavia and Ukraine, indictments and court rulings regarding the search for a specific criminal throughout the Soviet Union.

  4. Documentation from the Wirtschaftsarchiv Darmstadt, regarding in main the Aryanization of Jewish businesses, 1936-1941

    Documentation from the Wirtschaftsarchiv Darmstadt, regarding in main the Aryanization of Jewish businesses, 1936-1941

  5. O.27 - Denmark Collection: Documentation regarding the Jews of Denmark during the Holocaust period

    O.27 - Denmark Collection: Documentation regarding the Jews of Denmark during the Holocaust period In the Record Group there is official documentation and personal documentation including testimonies, letters and personal documents on subjects related to the history of the Jews of Denmark and Norway during the Holocaust period, including displays of antisemitism, smuggling Jews out of Denmark, deportation of Jews from Denmark to Theresienstadt, rescue of the Danish Jews and lists of Jews deported from Norway. The Record Group also includes a collection of thank you letters sent to Cecilia P...

  6. O.64.2/WSZ.7 - Personal documentation belonging to Hermann Weisz

    O.64.2/WSZ.7 - Personal documentation belonging to Hermann Weisz

  7. 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.

  8. M.41.BGOMIVOv-Documentation of the Belorussian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War (World War II)

    M.41.BGOMIVOv - Documentation of the Belorussian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War (World War II) The history of the museum starts with the establishment of a Documentation Collection Committee regarding the Great Patriotic War, 02 June 1942. The museum was established by the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Belorussia which was in Moscow at that time. V. D. Stalnov, the Committee Secretary, was appointed the first director of the museum. A short while after the liberation of Belorussia, the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Belorussia decided to es...

  9. 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...

  10. O.75: Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period or regarding the Holocaust

    O.75: Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period or regarding the Holocaust In the Record Group are personal letters collected by Yad Vashem since its establishment. The letters were written before, during and after the Holocaust period in the Nazi occupied countries - in ghettos, camps and hiding places, and in the countries to which the Jewish refugees from Europe succeeded in escaping before and during the Holocaust. The letters were sent to family members, relatives, acquaintances, friends and close friends in European countries and countries overseas. In the collection are letters...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Sa'ad Booklets: Booklet regarding the life story of Gusta Geifman; Testimonies: 1. Gusta Geifman; 2. Aharon Wlodawer Dvir; 3. Michael Hamel; 4. Sabina Kaufman.

  12. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Hashomer Hatzair Movement in Hungary and Slovakia

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Hashomer Hatzair Movement in Hungary and Slovakia In the Record Group there are seven files containing Hashomer Hatzair documentation from Hungary and Slovakia. In the Collection there is a journal kept by the "Hahagshama" group in Budapest, conducted from 1939 until the murder of the Jews of Hungary, including a description of the events and underground activities. The journal was transferred to Eretz Israel by Zvi Erez, one of the survivors of the group. In the Collection there is also documentation regarding the activities of the parachutists [f...

  13. P.29- Personal Archive of Attorney Jean Brunschvig - Certificates from the San Salvador Consulate in Geneva, 1942-1944

    P.29- Personal Archive of Attorney Jean Brunschvig - Certificates from the San Salvador Consulate in Geneva, 1942-1944 Jean Brunschvig was a young Jewish attorney who lived in Geneva, Switzerland during World War II. During the war, he helped Jewish refugees who escaped to Switzerland. He cooperated with George Mantello, the First Secretary of the San Salvador Consulate in Geneva, and other people in obtaining San Salvadorian protective passes for persecuted Jews, principally in Hungary. The collection is composed of documents signed by Mantello certifying that the bearer of the document is...

  15. Collection of the Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft Archive, regarding the administration of Jewish property in the Netherlands, 1940-1951

    Collection of the Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft Archive, regarding the administration of Jewish property in the Netherlands, 1940-1951 The source of the collection are the archives of the Dutch branch of Omnia and the Deutsche Revisions-und Treuhandgesellschaft, and the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle archive; the collection was rearranged into files by the NIOD during the postwar period, and with the help of the Schade Enquête Commissie - SEC; SEC was responsible for the evaluation of the damage caused to the Jews due to the confiscation of their businesses; the files are numbered from 1 to 6,798; info...

  16. Documentation from the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin

    Documentation from the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin

  17. Documentation regarding the fate of Jewish refugees in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, 1933-1945

    Documentation regarding the fate of Jewish refugees in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, 1933-1945 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  18. M.45 - Documentation from archives in Lithuania, 1941-1945

    M.45- Documentation from archives in Lithuania, 1941-1945 The documentation includes records groups from the following archives: Gebietskommissar Wilno-Land (the District Commissioner of Vilna), Oberfeldkommandatur 396, Gebietskommissar Stadtkommandant Wilno Kaunas, Wilno Stadt und Land SS, Wilno Sipo und SD, Sipo und SD Kommandant Kaunas, the SD prison in Stadtkommandatura Marjampol, Vilna and more. In the collection there is also documentation from various organizations, including lists of members of the Judenrat departments in the Vilna Ghetto, lists of the Jewish police in the Vilna Ghe...

  19. Documentation from the former Federal Archive in Koblenz (Bundesarchiv Koblenz), regarding government offices and various Nazi frameworks

    Documentation from the former Federal Archive in Koblenz (Bundesarchiv Koblenz), regarding government offices and various Nazi frameworks

  20. M.83 - Documentation from archives in Kazakhstan, 1926-1972

    M.83 - Documentation from archives in Kazakhstan, 1926-1972 In the Records Group there are collections selected from archives in Kazakhstan. Included in the Record Group: Documentation of the Municipal Council of Workers' Representatives and its Executive Committee in Karaganda, 1926-1972: Orders issued by the People's Commission of the Coal industry (NKUP), 1939-1943; statements by the staff and the organization regarding workers in the Industry for the Production of Flammable Materials; documentation of the academic education institutions (for example, documentation of the medical school ...