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  1. Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Ludwigsburg (Ludwigsburg Municipal Archives)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11054802
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1890-2011
    • Financial accounts food card Legal documentation Letter List of Jewish residents Newspaper clippings Official documentation Orders Photograph Protocol Questionnaire Record of persecuted persons

    Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Ludwigsburg (Ludwigsburg Municipal Archives) The collection includes varied and detailed documentation regarding the persecution of the Jews of Ludwigsburg during the Nazi regime, from various angles. The material includes: protocols of municipality departments, orders published against Jews, Jewish businesses and their closure, the confiscation of Jewish property including estimations of the value of many plots of land, tax files, files of local organizations, files regarding construction, photographs, a collection of a local historian who corresponded wi...

  2. 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...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Yad Mordechai Testimonies/ experiences/ memoirs/ articles (from the personal files of the kibbutz members): 1. Moshe Bar-Semakh; 2. Gavriel Koren; 3. Avraham Stern-Kochavi.

  4. Collection of Ukrainian newspapers published in the Rivne region, 1941-1943

    Collection of Ukrainian newspapers published in the Rivne region, 1941-1943 - Issue of the "Vozrozhdeniye" newspaper, published by the Romen municipality; - Issues of the "Gaydamaka" newspaper, published by the Military Organization of the Ukrainian Nationalists (Polesskaya Sech) headed by Bulba Taras; - Issues of the "Volyn" newspaper, published in Rivne.

  5. P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author

    P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author Erich Schon, who was born in the village of Vsetin, Moravia (today in the Czech Republic), 18 February 1911, and died in Jerusalem, 12 July 1995, was the son of Malvina and Siegbert Schon. After World War II Schon changed his last name to Kulka, the last name of his first wife, Elly Kulka, who did not survive the Holocaust. The history of the arrests of Erich Kulka began in July 1939, first with arrest by the Gestapo in Brno and afterwards with imprisonment in the Dachau, Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme camps until November 1942...

  6. Documentation from the Archive of the Landrat of the Ludwigslust district (Mecklenburg Province, Germany)

    Documentation from the Archive of the Landrat of the Ludwigslust district (Mecklenburg Province, Germany) In the18th century the rulers of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Herzogtum (Duchies) established their residential palace in Ludwigslust. In the 19th century barracks were also established in the city, which housed the Duchies' army units. The district, with the city of Ludwigslust at its center, was established in 1922. In the Mecklenburg-Schwerin State, its administrative unit was defined and called the Amt (office). In 1933, when the Nazis acted in order to create uniformity among the local...

  8. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ein Harod (Ihud)

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ein Harod (Ihud) Excerpt from the text: "Testimonies of Holocaust survivors (regarding the decrees of 5702/1942)".

  9. M.37 - Documentation from the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine, 1941-1977

    M.37 - Documentation from the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine, 1941-1977 There are files in the collection which were selected from among the 60 records groups in the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine. Previously, the Central Archive was known as the Party Archive of the Institute for the History of the Communist Party in Ukraine (the Institute was a branch of the Tsentralny Komitet Komunisticheskoy Partiy Ukrainy [Ukrainian Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Communist Party]). Until 1989, foreign researchers were not given access to the A...

  10. O.41.2 - Names of people who perished during the Holocaust, on gravestones in cemeteries

    Names of people who perished during the Holocaust, on gravestones in cemeteries

  11. M.21.5 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich

    M.21.5 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich The War Criminals Department was established in the American Occupation 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 crimin...

  12. 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...

  13. P.4 - Dr. Eliezer Yerushalmi Collection: Documentation from the Siauliai Ghetto

    P.4 - Dr. Eliezer Yerushalmi Collection: Documentation from the Siauliai Ghetto Dr. Eliezer Yerushalmi was born in Gorodishche (Horodyszcze), Belorussia, in 1900. He studied Science and Hebrew Literature at Kaunas University, and worked as a teacher, always conducting his educational activities in Hebrew. An active member of the Zeirei Zion movement and Hechalutz, he served as a teacher and principal at the school in the Siauliai Ghetto from 1941. He described his work in the ghetto in his book, "Children of the Holocaust". Dr. Yerushalmi served as a technical advisor to the Judenrat, colle...

  14. Collection of the Stichting Centraal Bureau van Onderzoek inzake de Vererving van de Nalatenschappen van Vermiste Personen, the fund for the administration of the property of missing persons in the Netherlands, 1949-1956

    Collection of the Stichting Centraal Bureau van Onderzoek inzake de Vererving van de Nalatenschappen van Vermiste Personen, the fund for the administration of the property of missing persons in the Netherlands, 1949-1956 Establishment of the Stichting Centraal Bureau van Onderzoek inzake de Vererving van de Nalatenschappen van Vermiste Personen, the fund for the administration of the property of missing persons in the Netherlands, on the initiative of the Brotherhood of Notaries in the Netherlands in 1949; the aim of the fund: to collect and administer information regarding the inheritances...

  15. P.23 - Lucie Begov Collection: Correspondence and newspaper clippings regarding Jewish life and antisemitism in Austria, 1927-1960

    P.23 - Lucie Begov Collection: Correspondence and newspaper clippings regarding Jewish life and antisemitism in Austria, 1927-1960

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Afek Testimonies/ interviews/ memoirs: 1. Booklet, "[Kibbutz] Members tell about the illegal immigration", Afek, July 1964; 2. Moshe Sharfstein - his experiences; 3. Shalom Perlovitz - testimony.

  17. O.64.2/SCH - The Zeev Scheck Collection

    O.64.2/SCH - The Zeev Scheck Collection Provenance of the Collection: Born in Olomouc (Czechoslovakia) in 1920, Zeev (Wilhelm) Sheck was active in the Maccabi Hatzair youth movement, and worked as a Hebrew teacher in Prague. On 19 November 1943, he was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, and from there to concentration camps. He was liberated in the spring of 1945 and he returned to Prague. Zeev Sheck founded and directed Dokumentační Akcee (The Prague Documentation Project). The Project documented the fate of the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia during the Holocaust, and [concentrated] mainl...

  18. M.70 - Documentation from Archives in Croatia regarding the Holocaust

    M.70 - Documentation from Archives in Croatia regarding the Holocaust There was official documentation from archives in Yugoslavia in the original Record Group; however the disintegration of Yugoslavia into various countries necessitated the creation of new Record Groups. This Record Group contains documentation from various archives in Croatia alone. Included in the Record Group: -Correspondence among various institutions in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II; - Reports submitted by Ustasha institutions regarding Jewish affairs; - Documentation regarding Jewish refugees; ...

  19. Documentation from the Oberfinanzdirektion Karlsruhe, the Rueckerstattung (Restitution of property) department

    Documentation from the Oberfinanzdirektion Karlsruhe, the Rueckerstattung (Restitution of property) department

  20. Police documentation from the Bern, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1941-1944

    Police documentation from the Bern, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1941-1944 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.