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  1. M.21.1 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich

    M.21.1 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich The War Criminals Department was established in the American Occupied Zone a short time after the end of World War II. From 1946-1951 it was active as the legal division of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich, in cooperation with the Central Historical Commission in Munich and other survivor organizations. The role of the division was to locate war criminals and collaborators, to gather documentary material, to collect testimony from survivors and to bring the criminals to...

  2. O.53 - Ludwigsburg Collection: Documentation regarding Nazi war crimes, collected by the West Germany legal system

    O.53 Ludwigsburg Collection: Documentation regarding Nazi war crimes, collected by the West Germany legal system The collection contains documentation received mainly from the Zentrale Stelle de Landesjustizverwaltungen (Central Office of the State Judicial Administration) in Ludwigsburg, the body that assembled the material for the Nazi War Criminal Trials in West Germany. The documentation concentrates mainly on areas of the Soviet Union and Poland and to a degree on Czechoslovakia. The collection contains important information regarding many Nazi war crimes reported by the groups that ac...

  3. O.64.2/SCH.8 -Testimonies and Memoirs

    O.64.2/SCH.8 -Testimonies and Memoirs

  4. P.31 - Collection of Ottó (Natan) Komoly, Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség (Hungarian Zionist Organization), 1941-1944

    P.31 - Collection of Ottó (Natan) Komoly, Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség (Hungarian Zionist Organization), 1941-1944 Biography of Ottó Komoly: Ottó Komoly (Hebrew name: Natan-Zeev Kahan) was born in Budapest in 1892; by profession he was an engineer. In 1940 he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség, and in 1941, he was elected as its Chairman. In 1943, the Budapesti Mentőbizottság (Budapest Relief and Rescue Committee) was established in Budapest and Komoly served as its chairman. In this capacity, he was involved with relief activities and attempts to smug...

  5. 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...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Regavim Experiences: 1. Erna Weintraub; 2. Israel Weintraub; 3. Daniel Zilberman; 4. Eliezer Finkelstein; 5. Lilian Lea (Schwartzman) Rohatin.

  7. P. 71- Collection of Blanka Tauber, artist, native of Hungary and Holocaust survivor

    P. 71- Collection of Blanka Tauber, artist, native of Hungary and Holocaust survivor The artist, Blanka Tauber was born in Somorja, Hungary, in 1910. She studied drawing and graphics at the Art Academy in Prague and exhibited her works in Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Israel and the United States. She lived in Israel from 1950 until her death [in 1989] and was one of the founders of the Safed Artists' Colony. Tauber and her family, among them her sister, Dr. Julia Tauber, were deported to Auschwitz. A large part of the Collection pertains to Julia Tauber. There is documentation in the C...

  8. M.1.E - Collection of testimonies gathered by the Central Historic Committee of the Liberated Jews in Munich, 1946-1948

    M.1.E - Collection of testimonies gathered by the Central Historic Committee of the Liberated Jews in Munich, 1946-1948 During the three years of its existence, the Central Historic Committee (CHC) gathered approximately 2,550 testimonies from Holocaust survivors from different countries within occupied Europe. The testimonies deal with the fate of the survivors in various countries during the Nazi occupation.

  9. Documentation regarding Jews, from the Stadtarchiv Lueneburg

    Documentation regarding Jews, from the Stadtarchiv Lueneburg

  10. 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...

  11. Documentation regarding Ukrainian Nationalist organizations in the Distrikt Galizien (Galicia district), 1941-1944

    Documentation regarding Ukrainian Nationalist organizations in the Distrikt Galizien (Galicia district), 1941-1944 Included in the collection: - Correspondence regarding the Ukrainian Nationalist movement and an appeal by Ukrainian Nationalist institutions to Hitler and Rosenberg; - Secret report written by the governor of the Stanislawow area to the governor of the Galicia region, regarding his meeting with representatives of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN); - Secret report sent by the head of the German Security Police in Lwow to senior factors in the German Police in Ber...

  12. O.11 - Documentation, mostly from the Holocaust period, regarding the fate of the Romanian Jews

    O.11 - Documentation, mostly from the Holocaust period, regarding the fate of the Romanian Jews The first 82 files in the Record Group include documentation of the Jewish organizations which were active in Romania, 1941-1947: The Central Council of Romanian Jews; The Federation of the Union of Communities; The Joint Distribution Committee; The Union of Romanian Jews; The Jewish Party; the General Jewish Council and the Jewish Democratic Committee. The rest of the files contain mainly personal documentation submitted to the Yad Vashem Archive by private people on an on-going basis.

  13. Mordechai Tamir (Lipski) Collection - Documentation of the Organization of Former Residents of Lowicz

    Mordechai Tamir (Lipski) Collection - Documentation of the Organization of Former Residents of Lowicz

  14. Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Ulm (Municipal Archives)

    Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Ulm (Municipal Archives)

  15. TR. 15 - Protocols and historical documentation from the Demjanjuk Trial, 1986-1988

    TR. 15 - Protocols and historical documentation from the Demjanjuk Trial, 1986-1988 In 1987, Ivan Demjanjuk was placed on trial in Jerusalem in accordance with the Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law. Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who immigrated to the United States and was extradited to Israel, was accused of serving as a guard in the Treblinka extermination camp during the war. The inmates of the camp referred to him as "Ivan the Terrible". The Jerusalem District Court, in session with the special panel of Judges Dov Levin, Tzvi Tal and Dalia Dorner, found Demjanjuk guilty and sentenced...

  16. 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

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Givat Brenner Testimonies and interviews: 1. "Testimony [under oath] of Julius Viener, regarding Oskar Schindler" (translation from Polish, 10/10/1956); 2. "Testimony [under oath] of Werzel, regarding Oskar Schindler" (26/11/1956); 60. Chaya Altman; 3. Gabriella Alter; 4. Nathan Alter; 5. Yoel Amsterdamer; 6. Benjamin Epstein; 61. Moshe Bongart; 7. Gita Bechner; 62. Yosef Ben Shlomo; 8. Frida Braunstein; 9. Yitzhak Brody; 10. Rachel Gatnau; ...

  18. M.55 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from regional and local archives in Germany

    M.55 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from regional and local archives in Germany The Record Group contains documentation gathered from state, regional and local archives in Germany. In the documentation there is much information regarding the persecution of the Jews on the local level, including deportations, as well as information regarding life in the Jewish communities, Jewish property and sometimes, lists of local Jews.

  19. Documentation of the Liechtensteinisches Landesarchiv in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, including lists of names of Jews, Police documentation against Jews, the deportation of the Jews from Liechtenstein, transports, the care of Holocaust survivors after the liberation, and other matters, 1937-1947

    Documentation of the Liechtensteinisches Landesarchiv in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, including lists of names of Jews, Police documentation against Jews, the deportation of the Jews from Liechtenstein, transports, the care of Holocaust survivors after the liberation, and other matters, 1937-1947

  20. Files of the Wuerzburg Gestapo

    Files of the Wuerzburg Gestapo