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  1. 33 testimonies of children, written in Bergen-Belsen after the liberation

    33 testimonies of children, written in Bergen-Belsen after the liberation. The testimonies were given in Polish.

  2. O.76 - Songs/Poems regarding the Holocaust from the Holocaust period

    O.76 - Songs/Poems regarding the Holocaust from the Holocaust period This Record Group is comprised of two Sub-Record Groups: O.76.1 - Collection of Yiddish folk songs sung by the Jews in the ghettos in the Transnistria and Moldova area O.76.2 - Songs/Poems mostly written by Holocaust survivors

  3. R.1 - German Foreign Office

    R.1 - Documantation of the German Foreign Office, 1870-1945 Research conducted from the year 2000 and following regarding Nazi Germany has demonstrated that as opposed to the image promoted after the war, the German Foreign Ministry workers were actively involved in the extermination of the Jews of Europe. Almost all of them were working towards strengthening Germany and implementation of its goals, including the Nazis who joined the Foreign Ministry following the Nazi rise to power and the veteran Foreign Ministry workers. Among the goals of the Foreign Ministry was the amplification of an...

  4. TR.7- Gruenwald-Kasztner Trial, 1954

    TR.7- Gruenwald-Kastner Trial 1954 In 1954, the Attorney General of Israel, Haim Cohen, filed a lawsuit against Malkiel Gruenwald, the Jerusalem journalist of Hungarian origin, on the charge of publishing a pamphlet which claimed that Dr. Rudolf Kastner, who was serving then in a public position, had collaborated with the German occupation forces in Hungary. Kastner had been a Jewish public leader in Hungary and a member of the Vaad Hatzala in Budapest at the time of the war. At the end of the war, Kastner had emigrated to Israel, become integrated as an active member of the Mapai Party (Wo...

  5. O.88 - Documentation regarding commemoration of the Holocaust

    O.88 - Documentation regarding commemoration of the Holocaust The Collection includes documentation from the period after the war pertaining to commemoration and memorialization of the Holocaust. The material in the Collection is varied and multi-lingual; it could be official documentation regarding the establishment of monuments and memorial sites in places where there were mass murders, correspondence of private people with the authorities or correspondence with various bodies regarding the struggle to memorialize those who perished during the Holocaust, memorialization articles and speec...

  6. P.18 - Kaczerginski Collection: Documentation regarding the Vilna Ghetto, 1941-1954

    P.18 - Kaczerginski Collection: Documentation regarding the Vilna Ghetto, 1941-1954 Shmaryahu Kaczerginski was born in Vilna in 1908. From a very young age, he started to write and publish poetry and stories. Kaczerginski was one of the founders and activists in "Young Vilna", a group of young Yiddish poets in Vilna, and he was also active in the Communist movement. Even when he was a young man, some of his poems were adopted by the Jews of Vilna and Poland, and these poems became the folk songs sung by many of the Jews. In 1942, after about a year of hiding from the Germans, Kaczerginski r...

  7. M.61.MZsML - Documentation from the Hungarian Jewish Archives (Magyar Zsidó Múzeum és Levéltár), Budapest, from 1938-1945

    M.61.MZsML - Documentation from the Hungarian Jewish Archives (Magyar Zsidó Múzeum és Levéltár), Budapest, from 1938-1945 Contents: Reel 11933 - Office of the Jewish community of Baja: lists, property Reel 11934 - Properties, documents from the Supervisor over Estates - related to places such as Velence, Seregelyes Reel 11935 - Kecskemet, conversion to Christianity, offices of the Baja community Reel 11938 - Documents from the National Archive - MOLVT - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Schutzpass certificates, passports, protective documents Reels 11939-11940 (Lists) - List of persons who p...

  8. Documentation of the Romanian authorities in the Bukovina and Transnistria area, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the Romanian authorities in the Bukovina and Transnistria area, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Letters sent by inmates in camps in the Bukovina area to their family members in Cernauti, regarding life in the camps, 1941; - Regulation of Sadagura camp, regarding inmates in the area of northern Bukovina; - Report prepared by commander Chelmeniti, regarding the abuse of Jews who were transferred from Edineti camp to forced labor; - Instruction by the Minister of the Interior of Romania, sent to the Police detachment in Sadagura, regarding the use of POWs and Jews from...

  9. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) The documentation is from 1939-1950. Most of the documentation describes the activities of Saly Mayer as the (unofficial) representative of the JDC in Switzerland during World War II. Saly Mayer transferred JDC funds to persecuted Jews in Europe and Shanghai in various ways. He also distributed money for the care of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland. As part of his activities, he received info...

  10. TR.4 - Documentation from the Erich von Manstein Trial, 1949

    TR.4 - Documentation from the Erich von Manstein Trial, 1949 FieldMarshall Erich von Manstein was one of the senior German Army officers who served in various positions in the Soviet Union. War crimes and mass murders took place in the areas under the command of von Manstein, and he was therefore brought to trial after the war. The Record Group contains protocols of the trial, which was held in Hamburg, 23 August-19 December 1949. A protocol of the court session for each of day of the trial can be found in each of the 62 files in the Record Group.

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ma'ayan Tzvi Interviews/ testimonies: 1. "Hagarin HaAngli" ("The English settlement group") (Beno Nussbaum, Vered Grad, Dolfi Eilat, Alfredo Zeron, Walter Braun, Avi Haber); 2. "Hakvutza HaTurkit" ("The Turkish group") (Yaffa Kaufman, Dvora Carmeli, Avi Ashkenazi, Yehudit Kenias); 3. Walter Braun; 4. Rita Even; 5. Edith Avraham; 6. Peter Adorian; 7. Yehudit Engers; 8. Yehoshua Artheno; 9. Micha Bachan; 10. Bernard Bik; 11. Miriam Bik; 12. Ze...

  12. P.20 - Zorach Warhaftig Archive: Documentation of rescue and aid extended to refugees who escaped from Poland and Lithuania to Japan, 1939-1990

    P.20 - Zorach Warhaftig Archive: Documentation of rescue and aid extended to refugees who escaped from Poland and Lithuania to Japan, 1939-1990 Zorach Warhaftig was born in Wolkowisk, White Russia. While still a youth, he was an active member of the Hamizrachi movement. He acquired a traditional Jewish education and a general education, earning his Law degree at Warsaw University. From 1936-1939 he served as Chairman of the Eretz Israel office in Warsaw and a representative at the 17th through the 21st Zionist Congresses. When World War II broke out, he escaped to Lithuania, and there he ai...

  13. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Nir David (Tel Amal)

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Nir David (Tel Amal) Testimonies/ interviews/ experiences/ memoirs: 1. Zila Unger; 2. Moshe Eisenberg; 3. Pola Eisenberg; 4. Yaakov Arazi; 5. Yitzhak Arazi; 6. Michal Arazi; 7. Yaakov Arazi; 8. Yaakov Erner; 9. Rachel Erner; 10. Noah Ashkenazi; 11. Zvi Bahir; 12. Moshe Ben Meiri; 13. Sala Barkai; 14. Nachman Moshe Berkovitz; 15. Yehiel Goldbender; 16. Mirka (Stahl) Gofer; 17. Zvi Gofer; 18. Jadzia Geist; 19. Tova Edith (Mannheimer) Glazer; 2...

  15. Documentation from the Thueringisches Staatsarchiv in Altenburg

    Documentation from the Thueringisches Staatsarchiv in Altenburg

  16. TR.10 - Indictments, verdicts and investigatory reports from the trials of Nazi criminals, Germany

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019677
    • English, Hebrew
    • Indictment Investigation report Legal documentation List of perpetrators Maps Names of perpetrators Official documentation Photograph Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors Sentence Survey report

    TR.10 - Indictments, verdicts and investigatory reports from the trials of Nazi criminals, Germany The Record Group contains extensive legal documentation prepared during criminal investigations and trials conducted against Nazi criminals in West Germany and East Germany. The documentation is mainly from two sources: 1. The Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizwaltungen (Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes) in Ludwigsburg, West Germany: The basic investigatory materials that were transferred afterwards to the local States Attorne...

  17. Police documentation from the Schaffhausen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to Jewish refugees and personal files of refugees, 1938-1949

    Police documentation from the Schaffhausen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to Jewish refugees and personal files of refugees, 1938-1949 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  18. O.13 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Bulgaria, mainly from the Holocaust period

    O.13 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Bulgaria, mainly from the Holocaust period In the Record Group there is documentation regarding what happened to Bulgarian Jewry during the 20th century, primarily regarding various subjects from the Holocaust period. The documentation was submitted mainly by private individuals, and it includes: - Documentation regarding anti-Jewish legislation in Bulgaria and Commissariat for Jewish Questions (KEV) activities; - Documentation of Jewish Community institutions and various government offices; - Lists of Jews according to their places of residence an...

  19. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Gvar'am

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Gvar'am Collection of testimonies - booklet: "From the stories of [kibbutz] members: Stories of survivors and rescuers", Holocaust Remembrance and Heroism Day ceremony, Gvar'am, 5758 [1998]; 1. Irit Van-Eso; 2. Ayala Vaknin; 3. Raya Wahl; 4. Sona (Haber) Lind.

  20. P.65 - Yaffa Eliach Collection

    P.65 - Yaffa Eliach Collection Professor Yaffa Eliach was born Yaffa (Sheinla) Sonenson in the village of Ejszyszki, Poland (in Yiddish: Eyshishok; today Eišiškės, Lithuania) in 1935. Nazi Germany occupied the village in June 1941. Within two days in late September, almost all 3,500 Jews of the village were murdered in the local cemetery by Einsatzgruppe A. Yaffa escaped to a hiding place with her family just before the massacre. Until the liberation of Eyshishok by the Red Army in July 1944, the family moved from one hiding place to another, escaping death many times. Yaffa made aliya to E...