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  1. O.6 - Polish Collection

    O.6 - Polish Collection The Polish Collection is a record group composed of various materials dealing with Polish Jewry during the Holocaust. The numerous and varied materials arrived at the Yad Vashem Archives from many sources, mainly private people. The documentation reflects the multiple and varied aspects, both personal and public, of the lives of the Jews in Poland at the start of, during and after the German occupation. - Among the documents pertaining to personal fate there are memoirs and testimonies, journals written during the war and after the liberation, correspondence between ...

  2. Anti-Jewish legislation in Italy

    Anti-Jewish legislation in Italy - Anti-Jewish legislation as published for the public in the governmental leaflet and by various government offices.

  3. Collection of documentation from private sources regarding the Jews of Italy, mainly during the period of World War II

    Collection of documentation from private sources regarding the Jews of Italy, mainly during the period of World War II - Official, personal and family documentation of the Jews in Italy during the Holocaust; - Diaries kept during the Holocaust in Italy; - Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period in Italy; - Documentation regarding stories of rescue of Jews in Italy during the Holocaust; - Documentation regarding Jewish fighters in the resistance and serving in the Italian Army; - Collection containing material from Gianfranco Moscati from Naples.

  4. Personal files of the Zelikowski family, Jewish refugees from France who arrived in Switzerland, June 1944

    Personal files of the Zelikowski family, Jewish refugees from France who arrived in Switzerland, June 1944

  5. 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

  6. O.64.2/SCH.5 - Documentation regarding Personalities in ghetto Theresienstadt

    O.64.2/SCH.5 - Documentation regarding Personalities in ghetto Theresienstadt

  7. Card file of the Jewish community in the Lemberg Ghetto, 1941-1943

    Card file of the Jewish community in the Lemberg Ghetto, 1941-1943

  8. Documentation from the Center for the Study of the History of Romanian Jews, 1940-1944

    Documentation from the Center for the Study of the History of Romanian Jews, 1940-1944 In the collection there is documentation of the Centrala Evreilor (Federation of Jewish Communities; the Judenrat) in Romania and information regarding the relief activities of the Federation on behalf of the Romanian Jews and the Jews who were deported to Transnistria.

  9. Documentation from the Niedersaechsische Staatsarchiv Stade

    Documentation from the Niedersaechsische Staatsarchiv Stade Included in the collection among other documents are requests submitted to the regional assistance committee, the Sonderhilfsausschuss fuer den Reb.-Bezirk Stade, by persecuted people, to receive a stipend or assistance.

  10. O.43- Ilyinski Collection: Documentation regarding Jews in the arms industry in the former Soviet Union, 1937-1992

    O.43- Ilyinski Collection: Documentation regarding Jews in the arms industry in the former Soviet Union, 1937-1992 The Collection contains personal and official documentation, biographies, lists of names of the leaders and their photographs, and publications about them. The material was collected by Dmitri Ilyinski.

  11. O.5 - אוסף ט. פרידמן, וינה

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019590
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1934-1953
    • Legal documentation Names of perpetrators Official documentation Questionnaire Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors Statistical data Survey report Testimony

    The "Juedische Historische Dokumentation", founded by Tuvia Friedman in mid 1946 in Vienna, collected a large quantity of material over a number of years for use in the prosecution of Nazi war criminals. The institution was transferred to Haifa after 1948. The record group includes eye witness testimony, survivors statements and correspondence.

  12. TR.6 - Documentation of the People's Court in Bulgaria, 1944-1945

    TR.6 - Documentation of the People's Court in Bulgaria, 1944-1945 The People's Court was active in Bulgaria from 19 December 1944 until April 1945. It was set up as a special court with the purpose of bringing to trial those people accused of collaboration with the authorities between 01 January 1941 and 09 September 1944. While it was in session, the People's Court handed down approximately 9,550 verdicts leading to the execution of 2,680 people, while the rest of the defendants were sentenced to terms in prison. Among those found guilty was Dimitar Peshev, the Deputy Speaker of the Nation...

  13. O.84 - Documentation gathered in preparation of the "Hungarian Communities Registry" published by Yad Vashem

    O.84 - Documentation gathered in preparation of the "Pinkas HaKehillot, Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Hungary" published by Yad Vashem The ""Pinkas HaKehillot, Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Hungary" Project and a history of the Record Group: "Pinkas HaKehillot, Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Hungary", which was published in 1975 was the third volume in the Yad Vashem "Communities Registry" series. The editorial board members (Theodore Lavi, Nathaniel Katzburg, Shmuel Shichor, Neta Perach and Avraham Shein) wrote in the introduction to the book: "This volume […] went through...

  14. Documentation from the archives of the Jewish community in Geneva, Switzerland, regarding the activities of the Jewish Community Welfare Office on behalf of the Jewish refugees in Geneva

    Documentation from the archives of the Jewish community in Geneva, Switzerland, regarding the activities of the Jewish Community Welfare Office on behalf of the Jewish refugees in Geneva - Correspondence regarding the Jewish refugees, 1944-1950; - Accounting from the years, 1930-1971.

  15. P.21.2 - Speeches and letters of Ilya Ehrenburg, 1941-1964

    P.21.2 - Speeches and letters of Ilya Ehrenburg, 1941-1964 Subsection P. 21.2 includes original documentation belonging to the well-known Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg: speeches by Ilya Ehrenburg starting with his appeal to world Jewry at the anti-fascist rally, 24 August 1941, and ending with his speech marking the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Soviet Jewish writer, Isaak Babel in 1964; in the subsection there are many letters from Soviet Jews regarding displays of antisemitism in their everyday lives and condemnation of the "Murderous Physicians" (The Doctors' Plot, 1953), memoirs o...

  16. P.10 - Archive of Mark Dworzecki, physician, Vilna Ghetto underground member and researcher of Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust, 1945-1975

    P.10 - Archive of Mark Dworzecki, physician, Vilna Ghetto underground member and researcher of Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust, 1945-1975 Dr. Meier (Mark) Dworzecki was born in Vilna in 1908 and died in Tel Aviv in 1975. He completed his high school studies in Vilna, and was active in its public life. He wrote for the "Zeit" newspaper in Vilna, as well as for "Hazifira" and "Heint". He served as the chairman of the SSRP (Zionist Socialist Workers Party) from 1933, and worked as a physician in the Novogrod workers' suburb from 1935. In 1939, he was elected as the Jewish representative ...

  17. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Hashomer Hatzair Movement activity in Poland during World War II

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Hashomer Hatzair Movement activity in Poland during World War II The Collection is comprised of six files containing letters, testimonies and original memoirs of movement members from the Rowne, Zdunska Wola, Krakow, Czestochowa, Bendin, Zaglebie and Osziany Ghettos which were written during the war and immediately afterwards regarding the situation of the Jews and the movement in these ghettos. The description is based on the original description that was written by Emanuel Berand at the time when the collection was submitted to Yad Vashem, 03 Novembe...

  18. Testimonies and memoirs regarding Nazi war crimes in Belorussia during World War II

    Testimonies and memoirs regarding Nazi war crimes in Belorussia during World War II Included in the collection: - Testimonies regarding the Minsk Ghetto and Nazi war crimes; - Memoirs of the partisans commissar Boris Khaimovich; - Article regarding Nazi actions in the occupied areas of Belorussia; - Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the city of Kiev.

  19. M.40.MAP - The Military Archive in Podolsk - Documentation from the Central Archive of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense

    M.40.MAP - The Military Archive in Podolsk - Documentation from the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence The collection contains documentation from TSAMO (Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence ) including information regarding the murder of the Jews of Moldavia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Belorussia, Ukraine and more. There is also information regarding the Gypsies, such as the concentration of Gypsies, their living conditions and their murder. Description of the collection: 1. Camps Concentration camps, extermin...

  20. 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...