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  1. Pensionnat des Religieuses Servantes de Marie in Erps-Kwerps. Collection

    This collection consists of three photos of pupils of the Pensionnat des Religieuses Servantes de Marie in Erps-Kwerps, including several Jewish girls hidden there (among who Marie, Sara and Louise Goldberg).

  2. Kagan-Sztern family. Collection

    This collection contains seven photos, including several pictures of Tauba (Thérèse) Sztern and her children Fanny and Alain Kagan at their hiding place with the De Winter family in Tremelo.

  3. Steiner-Kunstler family. Collection

    This collection contains 13 photos of the Steiner-Kunstler family, including a picture taken during a vacation at the beach, a wedding photo of Kornelia (Nelly) Steiner, a photo of the employees of a carpenter's workshop in Hungary, a photo of the Hungarian violinist "Tibi", and several studio portraits of the Steiner children and grandchildren.

  4. Luttinger-Ohrwaschel family. Collection

    This collection contains five pre-war photos of Cilli Ohrwaschel, her children Lea and Max Singer, and Cilli's second husband Wolfgang Luttinger.

  5. Klein-Silberstein family. Collection

    This collection contains twelve photos, among which a wedding photo of Josef Klein and Lotte Silberstein, photos of Silberstein and Kantorowicz family members including one under the Eiffel tower, photos of the Klein sisters including one taken at the monastery in Sugny where they were hidden and a post-war photo of the Klein sisters taken upon arrival in Canada.

  6. Orenbuch-Aspich family. Collection

    This collection contains four photos of the Orenbuch family, depicting Benjamin Orenbuch and his wife Rywka Laja Aspich, their daughters Tauba alias Thérèse Orenbuch (married Paciorkowski), Fajga alias Fanny Orenbuch (married Ajzenberg) and Roza Orenbuch, and their granddaughter Josiane Ajzenberg (married Traum).

  7. Anna Poznanski. Collection

    This collection contains: two photos of Anna Poznanski at the beach with her aunt Sura Chana Schwartzberg and maternal cousin Anna Foleider ; a photo of the sisters Frida Birnbaum, Fanny alias Hanna Birnbaum (married Dorn) and Helene Birnbaum (married Hirschorn) at their mother's grave ; a studio portrait of sisters Frida and Helene Birnbaum.

  8. Jochem-Ebeler family. Collection

    This photo shows the Jochem-Ebeler family, including father Jacob Jochem, mother Gertrude Ebeler and their sons Emile and Jozef Jochem

  9. Reichman-Lipschitz family. Collection

    This collection contains: a pre-war class photograph of the Tachkemoni school ; pre-war wedding photos of the Reichman siblings and the Lipschitz siblings ; pre-war photos of the Reichman siblings and Lipschitz siblings with their spouses, children and friends ; a pre-war photo of Israel Lipschitz playing the violin ; wartime photos of Israel Lipschitz and his wife Rachel Mandel recta Kwadrat, including a photo of them wearing the yellow star ; a wartime photo of Jacob Marcovici, future husband of the donor, with the group of children he was hidden with ; wartime photos of Sam Lipschitz whi...

  10. Staf De Clercq. Collection

    A photo of Staf De Clercq in uniform which was distributed after the death of the founder and leader of the Flemish nationalist/fascist party Vlaams Nationaal Verbond (VNV) on 22 October 1942.

  11. Give Them a Face portrait collection. Collection

    This collection contains over 19,650 portraits of Roma, Sinti and Jewish men, women and children from Belgium and the north of France, whom have been deported from the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks) to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück, Bergen-Belsen and Vittel between August 1942 and July 1944.

  12. Awret-Spicker family. Collection

    This collection consists of: KD_00356_0001: Original items donated by Irene Spicker-Awret, including a war-time photo of her with friends, five oil paintings created by Irene during her internment at the Dossin barracks, a puppet and a drawing for the opera Carmen, both created by artist Leon (Lon) Landau while he was detained at the Dossin barracks. KD_00356_0002: Original items donated by Uziel Awret, son of Azriel Awret and Irene Spicker, including Irene’s war-time paint box and Azriel’s series of 37 post-war drawings on the Holocaust.

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  14. Ministerstvo vnitra I - stará registratura, Praha

    • Ministry of Interior I - old registry, Prague / NAD 1075/2
    • Národní archiv
    • 1075/2
    • Czech, English
    • 1918-1944
    • Textual material 965,15 linear meters

    The fonds as a whole provides information on the activities of the state authorities during the first Czechoslovak Republic and the so-called autonomous administration at the beginning of the Nazi occupation. For researchers, the most valuable part is the legislative issues, issues of organization of political administration, federal affairs, elections, and national and autonomous affairs. The fonds also stores valuable material on economic history. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: reports on the activities of national committees and the memorandum of the Jewish Nat...

  15. Zemský úřad Praha – prezidium

    • Provincial Office in Prague / NAD 753/1
    • Národní archiv
    • 753/1
    • Czech, English
    • 1921-1945
    • Textual material 363,9 linear meters

    The fonds is mainly of an administrative nature. The Presidium of the Provincial Office (hereinafter PPO) monitored the economic, financial and personnel agenda of district authorities and district commissions, and provincial institutions. The personnel agenda is located in all departments of the PPO registry. The PPO-RAV files (the Reich administration) mainly concern German citizenship, name changes, requests for exemptions from the Nuremberg Laws, etc. The individual files also contain orders on the status of Jews in public life, salary suspension of Jewish employees and additional entri...

  16. Česká liga proti bolševismu, Praha

    • Czech League against Bolshevism
    • ČLB
    • ČLpB
    • Národní archiv
    • 739
    • Czech, English
    • 1944-1945
    • The collection consists out of 0,5 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.

    The official reason for the founding of the Czech League against Bolshevism (Česká liga proti bolševismu) was the Czechoslovak-Soviet treaty of alliance in December 1943 signed by Edvard Beneš in Moscow. The Founding General Meeting of the Czech League against Bolshevism (Česká liga proti bolševismu) was held 23rd January 1944 in Prague. The organization reported directly to the Ministry of Education and Propaganda, led by Emanuel Moravec. Since its founding until January 1945 the Liga organized 231 public speeches and lectures. The Propaganda of the Czech League against Bolshevism was not ...

  17. O.72- Menachem Kaufmann Collection: Documentation regarding Communities in Germany, mainly in Hessen

    O.72- Menachem Kaufmann Collection: Documentation regarding Communities in Germany, mainly in Hessen In the collection there are files submitted to Yad Vashem by Menachem Kaufmann, who gathered documentation regarding Jewish communities, mainly in the Hessen area. The files include information regarding the Jewish communities (including Jewish community-owned property) and the lives of the Jews.

  18. P.37- Archive of Benjamin Arditti: Documentation Regarding the History of Bulgarian Jewry, 1850-1964

    P.37- Archive of Benjamin Arditti: Documentation Regarding the History of Bulgarian Jewry, 1850-1964 Benjamin Arditti was born in Vienna in 1897. He lived in Sofia (except for two years during World War II) from 1916-1949. He was one of the outstanding activists in the Zionist movement in Bulgaria: he served as a member of the Central Committee of the Zionist Union in Bulgaria, 1919-1923; he held five terms of office as the representative to the World Zionist Congress; he served as the chairman of the Zionist Organization in Sofia; he was one of the founders of the Revisionist movement in B...

  19. P.66 - Rachel and Rafael Olewski Collection

    Collection of Rachel and Rafael Olewski, including documentation regarding the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp and the organization of survivors there, gathered during Rafael Olewski's period of activity in the central committee of the Bergen-Belsen camp and the organization of survivors from the British occupation zone in Germany in Eretz Israel. The collection contains photographs, documents, publications, and press clippings about activity in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp and the organization of Holocaust survivors from the British occupation zone in Germany in Eretz Israel.

  20. O.68 - Personal Files of SS Members from the Berlin Document Center

    O.68 - Personal Files of SS Members from the Berlin Document Center The documentation in this Record Group came to Yad Vashem from the Berlin Document Center (BDC), which was established on 10 May 1945, immediately after the occupation of Berlin by the Allied forces. The purpose of the BDC was to concentrate the archival documentation of the German government institutions, the Nazi party and the organizations associated with the party. The Collection was officially returned to German ownership in the 1990s. The documentation in this Record Group came to Yad Vashem from the Berlin Document C...