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  1. M.26.2 - Correspondence of the World Jewish Congress - Relatives Search Department, Stockholm, 1945-1962

    M.26.2 - Correspondence of the World Jewish Congress - Relatives Search Department, Stockholm, 1945-1962

  2. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France Documentation regarding Jewish underground heroes who died in France or were deported from France to extermination camps collected by the Association of Jewish Resistance Veterans (ARJF). Copies of the original material have been transferred to the Museum. The original documentation is located in the Yad Vashem Archives; the photographs have been transferred to the Yad vashem Photo Archives. The original numbering of the files has been preserved despite the fact that many files are empty.

  3. TR.18 - Documentation from Committee for State Security (KGB) archives in Ukraine

    TR.18 - Documentation from Committee for State Security (KGB) archives in Ukraine In the collection there are files selected from the State Archives of the Ukrainian Security Service in Kiev and its branches by regions: Chernigov, Chernovtsy, Khmelnitskiy, Ternopol, Sumy, Rovno, Poltava, Nikolayev, Lvov, Kirovograd, Ivano-Frankovsk, Zaporozye, Zhitomir, Donetsk, Simferopol, Vinnitsa, Odessa and Drogobych. Collection description Files of investigations conducted by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Counter-Intelligence Department (SMERSH [Death to Spies]), and the Mi...

  4. TR. 15 - Protocols and historical documentation from the Demjanjuk Trial, 1986-1988

    TR. 15 - Protocols and historical documentation from the Demjanjuk Trial, 1986-1988 In 1987, Ivan Demjanjuk was placed on trial in Jerusalem in accordance with the Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law. Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who immigrated to the United States and was extradited to Israel, was accused of serving as a guard in the Treblinka extermination camp during the war. The inmates of the camp referred to him as "Ivan the Terrible". The Jerusalem District Court, in session with the special panel of Judges Dov Levin, Tzvi Tal and Dalia Dorner, found Demjanjuk guilty and sentenced...

  5. File Collection: Correspondence of Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwalb regarding reparations

    File Collection: Correspondence of Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwalb regarding reparations

  6. R.4 - Documentation from Economic Archives in Germany, 1933-1945

    R.4 - Documentation from Economic Archives in Germany, 1933-1945 In the Collection there is documentation regarding the confiscation of Jewish property including: - Documentation from Wirtschaftsarchiv Baden-Wuertemberg containing correspondence regarding the Aryanization of Jewish shops and companies, and directives from the Finanzministerium (Finance ministry) regarding the distancing of Jews from economic life; - Documentation from the Oberfinanzdirektion Berlin (Financial Directorate in Berlin) regarding Jewish property, including a list of Jews expelled from their homes, property and t...

  7. O.67 - Documentation from the Labor Party Archives, 1942-1945

    O.67 - Documentation from the Labor Party Archives, 1942-1945 The documentation in this record group includes reports, letters, newspaper clippings and lists regarding the situation of the Jews of Europe in the German occupied areas, and documentation of organizations related to the and to the rescue activities of these organizations; This record group includes documentation regarding the Holocaust, photocopied in the Labor Party Archives in 1979; The documentation comprises three containers with 10 files; The record group is arranged chronologically, from 1942 until 1945.

  8. Documentation from the Kreisarchiv Rottweil, regarding Jews

    Documentation from the Kreisarchiv Rottweil, regarding Jews

  9. Various lists of the Jews in Italy mainly during the period of World War II

    Various lists of the Jews in Italy mainly during the period of World War II - List of last names used by the Jews in the past and currently, compiled for racial research; the date of issue is unknown; - Lists of names of those who declared themselves to be Jewish, 1938-1942; - Lists of names compiled for detention purposes, 1943-1944; - Lists of deportees, 1943-1945; - Lists of those arrested, 1943-1944; - Lists of those who perished, gathered 1945-1953; - Lists of those submitting reparation claims for the events of the war, dated 1968.

  10. Collection of the Commissaris voor niet-commerciele Verenigingen en Stichtingen – Committee for the Supervision over Non-Profit Organizations in the Netherlands, 1941-1944

    Collection of the Commissaris voor niet-commerciele Verenigingen en Stichtingen – Committee for the Supervision over Non-Profit Organizations in the Netherlands, 1941-1944 The Reichskommissar started the obligation for all of the non-profit organizations in the Netherlands to register themselves in 1940; VO 41/41 established that the control over the organizations would be by the Germans; the Commissaris voor niet-commerciele Verenigingen en Stichtingen registered all of the organizations' details, including financial matters, and among the 120,000 organizations registered during 1941, the ...

  11. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969

    P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969 The estate of Benjamin Sagalowitz was submitted to Yad Vashem by B. Froehlich, the executor of the estate in 1972; it was transferred to Israel by Herbert Rosenkranz. In the Record Group: - Drafts and galley proofs of Benjamin Sagalowitz's book, "The Way to Majdanek"; - Documentation regarding the Jewish communities in Switzerland, 1929-1956; - Documentation regarding JUNA, 1935-1964; - Documentation regarding the attitude of the Swiss authorities towards the Jewish ...

  12. Newspaper clippings, documents and photographs from the Belorussian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War History in Minsk, Belorussia, 1943-1944

    Newspaper clippings, documents and photographs from the Belorussian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War History in Minsk, Belorussia, 1943-1944 Included are the "Mstitel", "Krasny Partizan", "Put Partizana" and "Smert Fashizmu" publications, and newspapers written by hand by partisans from the Chkalov, Chapayev, Ponomarenko, Kutuzov and Voronenskiy partisans detachments active in the Baranovichi, Mogilev, Minsk and Gomel regions, 1943-1944; propaganda material, cartoons, partisans songs and poetry, and a book written in honor of the partisans who were members of the VLKSM ("Lenin Youth ...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Gan Shmuel Booklet/ collection of testimonies (photocopy, 62 pages); "Group of redeemed people," Hashomer Hatzair organization in detention in Cyprus, 1947.

  14. R.5 - Card catalog of German emigrants expatriated by the Nazis (Ausbürgerungskartei)

    R.5 - The German emigrants card catalog expatriated by the Nazis (Ausbürgerungskartei) The Nazi regime in Germany revoked the citizenship of German citizens who emigrated from Germany, and criticized the regime. Revocation of citizenship also meant confiscation of property, an action which turned many of the emigrants (who had escaped from Germany without managing to sell their property) into people with nothing at all. The lists of those whose citizenship had been revoked were published in the "Deutscher Reichsanzeiger", the official State publication. The first list was published on 25 Au...

  15. Files from the Landratsaemter (District financial offices) in the Unterfranken region, Bavaria

    Files from the Landratsaemter (District financial offices) in the Unterfranken region, Bavaria Alzennau JM/22199 Aschaffenburg Abgabe 1972, 1976, 1986 - JM/22200 Bad Brückenau Abgabe 1949/1953 – JM/ 22201 (Frames 1-1907) Bad Brückenau Abgabe 1972 ff - JM/ 22201 (Frames 1908ff) – JM/ 22204 Bad Kissingen – JM/ 22205 - JM/ 22207 Bad Neustadt a.d. Saale Abgabe 1976-1984 – JM/ 22208 - JM/ 22209 Ebern – JM/ 22210 Gemünden Abgabe 1952 – JM/ 22211 (Frames 1-1557) Gemünden Abgabe 1975 bis 1988 – JM/ 22211 (Frames 1558ff) Gerolzhofen Abgabe 1950-1973 – JM/ 22212 Hammelburg Abgabe 1978/79 – JM/ 22213 ...

  16. M.82 - Documentation from the State Archives of Saint Petersburg

    M.82 - Documentation from the State Archives of Saint Petersburg In the Record Group there is documentation selected from the TSGA SPb (Central State Archive of St. Petersburg) from the years 1918-1955, and from the Central State Archive of Historical and Political Documentation (the former archive of the Communist Party), 1941-1973. The Records Group in Yad Vashem contains 3,136 files. In the Records Group there is documentation from the following collections: The Collection of the Department for Nationalist Minority Matters of the Regional Executive Committee of St. Petersburg, 1918-1923:...

  17. 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 ...

  18. P.16 - Collection of Rachel Auerbach, author and founder of the Oral Testimonies Department at Yad Vashem

    P.16 - Collection of Rachel Auerbach, author and founder of the Oral Testimonies Department at Yad Vashem archives Rachel Auerbach was born on 18 December 1903 in the village of Lanowce in the Borszczow district of eastern Galicia. She completed her elementary school studies in 1913 , and her high school studies in 1920 in Lwow. Afterwards she studied philosophy and history. In 1925, Rachel Auerbach began to publish articles in the Polish-Jewish newspaper "Chwila" in Lwow. Two years later she was accepted onto the Editorial Board of the "Der Nayer Morgan" newspaper, and she edited journals ...

  19. TR.11 - Israeli Police Investigations of Nazi Crimes: Documentation of the Israel Police unit assigned to investigate Nazi war crimes

    TR.11 - Israeli Police Investigations of Nazi Crimes: Documentation of the Israel Police unit assigned to investigate Nazi war crimes In the Record Group there are files prepared by the Israel Police unit assigned to investigate Nazi war crimes for use in Nazi war criminal trials. In the files there is documentation regarding criminals or locations where crimes were committed (such as camps) including protocols of testimonies, information collected by the police, and much administrative documentation regarding the investigations and the unit itself.

  20. Gemeetearchief Amsterdam (Municipal Archive of Amsterdam) - 88 microfilm reels

    Gemeetearchief Amsterdam (Municipal Archive of Amsterdam) - 88 microfilm reels