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  1. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: She’erith Hapletah, the rescue of children and the Bericha Organization

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: She’erith Hapletah, the rescue of children and the Bricha Organization The documentation (nine folders) contains: - Memoirs of Hasia Bornstein-Bilitzka, of Blessed Memory (one of the founders of Kibbutz Lahavot Habashan), regarding the initial organization of the movement by ghetto survivors, educational work with children as part of the Zionist Coordinating Group for the Redemption of Children in Poland and the rescue of children from non-Jews; - Two letters from children who were rescued from non-Jews; - Survey-report prepared by Yosef Indig regardin...

  2. P.39 - Bernardo Grosser Collection: Bernado Grosser was active in Delasem, the relief organization for the Jews in Italy

    P.39 - Bernardo Grosser Collection: Bernado Grosser was active in Delasem, the relief organization for the Jews in Italy Correspondence and personal documentation belonging to Delasem (Delegazione per l'Assistenza degli Emigranti Ebrei- Delegation for the Assistance of Jewish Emigrants) activist Bernardo (Berl) Grosser who escaped to Switzerland during the war and was an activist on behalf of the Jewish refugees from Italy in Switzerland. Included in the Record Group is documentation from the Galpi (gratitude to the Italian population) Organization which Bernardo Grosser and Yugoslavian sur...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Degania Alef

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

    File Collection: Correspondence of Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwalb regarding reparations

  5. O.76.2 - Songs/Poems mostly written by Holocaust survivors

    O.76.2 - Songs/Poems mostly written by Holocaust survivors Most of the songs and poems gathered in this Sub-Records Group were written by Holocaust survivors in various languages, mainly during the Holocaust period and afterwards. A small number of the songs and poems were written by Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Many poems describe experiences and events from the Holocaust period, as well as longings for home and the people from whom they were forced to part. Some of the poems that were written after the Holocaust are dedicated to the memory of family members, friends and acquaintanc...

  6. M.12: Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (CDJC - Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) in Paris

    M.12: Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (CDJC - Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) in Paris The Record Collection contains documentation housed at the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CCJD) in Paris which was received by Yad Vashem Archives as microfilm during the 1950s and 1960s following the Schneerson-Di Nur Agreement. The Archives contain documentation of the Gestapo, the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ-Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs), the Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Erez Experiences of: 1. Batya Barash; 2. David Dov-Miklos Klein; 3. Zvi Hesho Levkovitz; Regarding the "Sharsheret" ["Chain"] group: 1. Nachum Zelonka, "History of the 'Sharsheret' group that arrived to Nahsholim in March 1949"; 2. "The 'Sharsheret' group on the illegal immigrants' "Ulua-Chaim Arlosoroff " ship in winter 1946", written by Arieh Fried, April 2000; Original letters by Moshe Zeiri, who established and directed the children's ho...

  8. M.43.LVA - Documentation from the State Archives of Latvia

    M.43 - Documentation from the State Archives of Latvia The collection includes documentation of the Gebietskommissariat (representative) of the Riga district, the Reichskommisariat (Reich representative) of Ostland, the Generalkommissariat of the region, and documentation of the SS, SD, and the Wehrmacht in Ostland; there is also documentation of the Kommandatura (command headquarters) of cities of Riga, Kaunas, Ludza, Liepaja, and other places; Included in the collection is documentation of the municipal administrations of cities in Latvia, reports prepared by the Soviet Extraordinary Stat...

  9. M.52.DAVO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Wolyn Region in Lutsk

    M.52.DAVO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Wolyn Region in Lutsk The archives was established in 1939 as the Historical Archives of the People's Commission for Ukrainian Internal Matters - UNKVD. In 1941, the archives became the State Archives of the Volyn Region. During the years of the German occupation, 1941-1944, the archives was inactive; the archives includes, however, documentation from the occupation period and regarding the activities of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the Volyn region. This Sub-Record Group i...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ein Harod (Meuhad) Memoirs booklets: 1. Tova and Yehiel Ovshani; 2. Yitzhak Haber; 3. Yaakov Yankele Netel; 4. Sara Kolton-Haber; 5. Eliezer Klein; 6. Eliahu Shaki; 7. Bela Shpivak; 8. Yaakov Shpivak; Testimonies: 1. "Story of Sara Har-Havradi" (27/11/2000); 2. "To return to Auschwitz", Chana Lipman (02/05/1989); 3. Aviva (Feldman) Maromi (18/02/2002); 4. "Childhood", Shmuel Ervin Bogner; 5. Dina Amami (1993).

  11. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Hashomer Hatzair Movement Chapter in the Lodz Ghetto

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Hashomer Hatzair Movement in the Lodz Ghetto This Record Group is one of the most important Record Groups in the Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection. The documentation regarding the Lodz Ghetto is extremely rich, but this material is unique and complements our knowledge of the lives of the Jews in the Lodz Ghetto. The material was gathered, organized and brought to Eretz Israel by Feival Podmesky. The documents were arranged in 35 files containing hundreds of original documents (thousands of pages), which were written in the ghetto by Feivel Podm...

  12. Polish documentation regarding Rowne, from before the war period, 1910-1938

    Polish documentation regarding Rowne, from before the war period, 1910-1938 Included in the collection: - Map of the city of Rowne, 1938; - List of graduates of the school for women in Rowne who completed their studies in 1910.

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ramot Menashe Description of the material: 1. Baptism and birth certificate of the wife of the submitter of the material, Nina Boniowka (false identity); 2. Interview with Nina Boniowka, in Polish (printed from the book, "Maria Dzieci Oskarzaja", by Marianska Hochberg, Krakow-Lodz-Warszawa, 1947); 3. Interview with Nina Boniowka (printed from the book, "Children Accuse, 1947", edited by Maria Mariska and Noah Gris); 4. Testimony of Nina Boni...

  14. Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding the activities taking place in the Soviet Union including the activities of the Einsatzgruppen

    Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding the activities taking place in the Soviet Union including the activities of the Einsatzgruppen The initial reports are reports (Referat) from the Director of the IVA1 (Gestapo-struggle against the Communists) in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA-Reich Security Headquarters) that were distributed among officials in the RSHA, with Himmler foremost among them; beginning with Report No. 4, the reports received the SIPO and SD Headquarters heading, with the acronym IVA...

  15. M.21 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich

    M.21 - 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 criminal...

  16. Documentation from the Landesarchiv (Provincial Archive) in Appenzell, Switzerland

    Documentation from the Landesarchiv (Provincial Archive) in Appenzell, Switzerland

  17. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kvutzat Yavne

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kvutzat Yavne Testimonies/experiences: 1. Chana Asher; 2. Yaakov Gadish; 3. Yosef Gottlieb; 4. Sara Donenfeld; 5. Ruchama Chayut; 6. Sara Tessler - "Leyaldei" ["To my children"]; 7. Yitzhak Kaphan Sarid, "From Kaphan to Sarid: Grandfather's stories - these lines were written in their memory ... and on your behalf", Kvutzat Yavne, 1992; Essay (in Hungarian), from the estate of Israel Kattan (handwritten, photocopy).

  18. Documentation from the Thueringisches Staatsarchiv in Altenburg

    Documentation from the Thueringisches Staatsarchiv in Altenburg

  19. Files of Jews in the Muenchen Police

  20. M. 71-Documentation regarding the Holocaust from archives in Romania and Moldova

    M. 71-Documentation regarding the Holocaust from archives in Romania and Moldova Information regarding the persecution of the Jews in Romania; deportations from Bessarabia and Bukovina; the establishment of ghettos in Transnistria; anti-Jewish legislation and orders, and drafting of Jews for forced labor under the Antonescu regime, and more.