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  1. Documentation regarding the evacuation to Uzbekistan and the evacuees

    Documentation regarding the evacuation to Uzbekistan and the evacuees

  2. O.54 - The Jewish Press Agency in Switzerland- JUNA - newspaper clippings collection, 1936-1965

    O.54 - The Jewish Press Agency in Switzerland- JUNA - newspaper clippings collection, 1936-1965 The JUNA (Juedische Nachrichten-Presseagentur) was set up in 1936 by the Federation of Swiss Jewish communities in an effort to counteract antisemitic and pro-Nazi activity in Switzerland. Dr. Benjamin Sagalowitz was its director until 1965 (see record group P.13). This collections consists of newspaper clippings, mainly about the condition of the Jewish people in Nazi occupied Europe.

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin Book: Razia Ben-Gurion and Menachem Gilead: "Chapters in my life", [Kibbutz] Kfar Ruppin, 1998.

  5. Collection of documents from the Rabbi of the village of Rejowiec

    Collection of documents from the Rabbi of the village of Rejowiec

  6. Documentation of the Soviet security organizations, regarding the murder of the Jews in the territory of Belorussia, dated, 1944-1948

    Documentation of the Soviet security organizations, regarding the murder of the Jews in the territory of Belorussia, dated, 1944-1948 Included in the collection are testimonies regarding the murder of the Jews in the various places, including in the Borisov Ghetto; documentation regarding the Minsk Ghetto; bill of indictment against a Belorussian collaborator.

  7. O.24 Reinhard Strecker Collection: Judges and Trials in Nazi Sondergerichte (Special Courts)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 7202720
    • English, Hebrew
    • Indictment Legal documentation Names of perpetrators Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Record of persecuted persons Sentence

    O.24 Reinhard Strecker Collection: Judges and Trials in Nazi Sondergerichte (Special Courts) Included in the Collection: - Microfilms JM/1750-JM/1752: Verdicts from trials held in special courts in Germany, Poland and the Protectorate; the trials usually were conducted against non-Jews, and in most cases, the sentence was death. Besides the verdict and verdicts rendered for appeals, in some instances the collection also contains correspondence regarding the carrying out of the sentences, including official notification that the verdict has been carried out; - Microfilm JM/1753: Reports rega...

  8. M.5 - The Documentation Center of the Central Union of Jewish Communities in Bratislava

    M.5 - The Documentation Center of the Central Union of Jewish Communities in Bratislava The Documentation Center of the Central Union of Jewish Communities in Bratislava was founded following the liberation of Czechoslovakia at the initiative of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, the Zionist Federation and the Association of Jewish Communities in Slovakia. The purpose of the Documentation Center was to collect documentation regarding the Jews of Slovakia during the Holocaust and record their experiences. Towards the end of their activities in 1949, the Documentation Center published the bo...

  9. Personal files of workers at the "Charite" University Hospital in Berlin

    Personal files of workers at the "Charite" University Hospital in Berlin The files are arranged in alphabetic order, and relate to the medical staff as well the administrative personnel. Most of the files deal with the period before the Nazi rise to power.

  10. M.29: Documentation from the Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives) regarding the Holocaust

    M.29: Documentation from the Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives) regarding the Holocaust History of the Archives Known as the Reichsarchive, the Central State Archive was first established in Potsdam, Germany in 1919. Documentation of the German state institutions beginning with the establishment of the Norddeutscher Bund (The North German Confederation) in 1867, were gathered in the archive, as well as historical documentation from the German Empire and Prussia dating back to the Middle Ages. After World War II, the archive in Potsdam, which was located in the Soviet Occupation Zone, wa...

  11. Documentation from the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart (Main State Archives)

    Documentation from the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart (Main State Archives)

  12. O.96 - Testimonies of Holocaust survivors, the Jewish Agency for Israel, 2006

    O.96: Testimonies of Holocaust survivors, the Jewish Agency for Israel, 2006 In the collection there are short testimonies taken from Holocaust survivors living in Amigur housing (housing provided by the Jewish Agency) as part of the Amigur "Book of Life" Project. In their testimonies, the survivors who lived in areas belonging to the former Soviet Union describe their experiences from the time of the Holocaust and afterwards.

  13. 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...

  14. Borgs-Maciejewski collection of newspapers on the subject of the Nazis, 1921-1950

    Borgs-Maciejewski collection of newspapers on the subject of the Nazis, 1921-1950 Dr. Hans Borgs-Maciejewski was a Catholic philologist and educator. He was born in Duesseldorf in 1898, and resided in Wuppertal-Elberfeld for most of his life. He became interested in newspapers at an early age and collected newspaper clippings, in most part from Catholic newspapers in the Rhineland. Upon Hitler's rise to power, Borgs-Maciejewski decided to focus mainly on the Nazi regime, dedicating his efforts to the collection of newspaper clippings from publications in the Rhineland and Berlin that dealt ...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Mishmar HaNegev Interviews/ testimonies: 1. Ilana Arad; 2. Yosef Erez; 3. Momos Bonim; 4. Jacques Borstein; 5. Zvika Blustein; 6. Fanni Bar-Alon; 7. Esther Gutkind; 8. Ben-Zion Degani; 9. Dorit Dekel; 10. Mordechai Voloshchovski; 11. Shula Wechsler; 12. Yosef Tanzer; 13. Terez Lev; 14. Dora Magril; 15. Meir Soker; 16. Meir Soker; 17. Arush Poznanski; 18. -- Kelert; 19. Yoel Roizman; 20. Michael Rapaport; 21. Yishai Shtikman; 22. Stuki Shteff...

  16. Documentation of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss Workers' Social-Welfare Organization, Department for Refugees Relief), regarding refugees and emigrants from Germany

    Documentation of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss Workers' Social-Welfare Organization, Department for Refugees Relief), regarding refugees and emigrants from Germany Reports from the regional relief organizations and the directors of camps and residences of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss workers' social-welfare organization, Department for refugees relief), regarding the refugees' recreational activities including detailed reports from several refugee camps and residences concerning lectures and cultural ...

  17. TR.13 - Documentation of the UN Committee about War Crimes

    TR.13 - Documentation of the UN Committee about War Crimes This Record Group contains documentation created by the UN Committee about War Crimes, 1944-1949. The job of the Committee was to assist the various governments in bringing World War II war criminals to trial by collecting documentation, conducting investigations and giving legal counsel. The Record Group reflects the work of the Committee and its sub-committees and includes protocols and reports of the committees' meetings, documentation collected by the Committee and reports regarding the trials of war criminals held in the variou...

  18. P.67 - Personal documentation collection of the Bodenheimer family from Darmstadt

    P.67 - Personal documentation collection of the Bodenheimer family from Darmstadt Collection of letters, documents and official certificates collected by members of the Bodenheimer family who lived in Darmstadt. In the collection there are letters to and from the family members, official documents and personal certificates gathered over the years. The collection was brought to Eretz Israel in 1938 by Max and Louisa Bodenheimer, and submitted to Yad Vashem by their grandson Aryeh Bodenheimer.

  19. M.1.PF - War time Jewish Folklore Collection

    M.1.PF - Documantation on Jewish folklore during the second world war This collection is part of the collections compiled by the Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Zone in Munich (M.1). The CHC collected much material from the Holocaust survivors, including testimonies, documentary material in their possession and more. When the CHC was disbanded, the CHC archive was transferred to Yad Vashem. There are 353 poems/songs in the collection, mostly in Yiddish. Most of the poems/songs were written by inmates of the camps and ghettos during th...

  20. O.51 - Nazi Documentation Collection, 1933-1944

    O.51 - Nazi Documentation Collection, 1933-1944 Nazi documentation of different kinds and from different sources which arrived at Yad Vashem as individual documents and not as part of concentrated collections. In the Collection there is documentation from the Nazi authorities in Germany, the occupation authorities in various countries, local governments, camps and systems for repression and murder of the Jews and opponents of the regime, such as the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police), the Sicherheitsdienst (SD-Security Service) and Adolf Eichmann's office. The documentation includes ...