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  1. M.41.GAVt - Documentation of the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region

    M.41.GAVt - Documentation of the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region The State Archives of the Vitebsk Region was established in 1919. In 1927, documents pertaining to the region were transferred there from the State Archive of Belorussia. In 1947, the documentation from the period prior to the Revolution, which had been in the Regional Archive of Vitebsk, was transferred to the State Historical Archive in Mogilev. In 1992, the documentation in the Regional Archive of the Communist Party in Belorussia was transferred to the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region. In the Collection there is S...

  2. Documentation of the City Council Committe of the Communist Party in Vitebsk, 1939-1941

    Soviet documentation from before the occupation of Vitebsk, 1939-1941, and State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) documentation from 1944 In the Collection there is a list of the Communists in Vitebsk, 1940-1941; a report submitted by the head of the Party Committee in Polotsk to the director of the Belorussian History Museum regarding the extermination of the Jews in Polotsk; a report from the Notarization Committee of the Municipal Party Conference in Vitebsk; a list of factory and organization managers in Vitebsk, prepared in 1941; ...

  3. M.41.ZGABar - Documentation from the Regional State Archive of Baranovichi

    M.41.ZGABar - Documentation from the Regional State Archive of Baranovichi History of the Regional State Archive of Baranovichi The Regional Archive of Baranovichi was established in 1940. During the German occupation, the Archive's activities were halted from 1941-1944. Following the dissolution of the Baranovichi region, the Archive became the Municipal State Archive of Baranovichi in 1954. In November 1963, a branch of the State Archive of the Brest Region in Baranovichi was established, based on several regional archives and on the Municipal Archive of Baranovichi. In September 1996, th...

  4. M.41.ZGAPin - Documentation from the Regional State Archive in Pinsk

    M.41.ZGAPin - Documentation from the Regional State Archive in Pinsk The Regional Archive of Pinsk was established in 1940. During the German occupation, the Archive's activity was halted during 1941-1944 and was renewed only in August 1944. The Archive changed its mission following the dissolution of the Pinsk region, and it became the Municipal State Archive of Pinsk in 1954. In September 1996, the Archive changed its definition again, and it became the Local State Archive of Pinsk. As of 30 June 2001 and following, the Archive has been known as the "Scientific-Methodological Institution ...

  5. Documentation of Executive Committee of Pinsk City Council regarding nationalization of Jewish property, 1939-1941

    Documentation of Executive Committee of Pinsk City Council regarding nationalization of Jewish property, 1939-1941 On 17 September 1939 in the evening, the first tanks of the Soviet striker force raced into the Pinsk city limits (following the Ribbentrop-Molotov Agreement). Their arrival brought feelings of joy, but some doubts among the observant Jews, activists in various parties, within the Zionist youth movements and among the landowners and business people. The Communists who had been underground left the city to receive the striker force. In the documentation which has reached Yad Vas...

  6. Card file of the Jewish residents and refugees from Pinsk in alphabetical order, 1939-1941

    Card file of the Jewish residents and refugees from Pinsk in alphabetical order, 1939-1941

  7. M.41.GAGr - Documentation from the State Archive of the Grodno Region

    M.41.GAGr - Documentation from the State Archive of the Grodno Region History of the State Archive of the Grodno Region Following the handing over of most of the area of the Belostok region to Poland and the establishment of the Grodno region inside the Belorussian Republic, the Archive of the Grodno Region was established as part of the system of the People's Commissariat for Interior Affairs (NKVD) in September 1944. In 2007, the Archive acted under the head administration of the Ministry of Justice in the regional Executive committee. Included in the collection: Soviet documentation from...

  8. M.41.GAOOGr - Documentation of the State Archives of the Public Unions in the Grodno region

    Documentation of the State Archives of the Public Unions in the Grodno region A History of the Archives The Communist Party regional archive was established in Grodno in March 1940; in February 1992 it became the Union and Public Organizations Department of the State Archives of the Grodno Region. In June 1992, a branch of the State Archives of the Grodno Region was established in the city of Grodno based on the regional archive department of the Communist Party. In 1996, it became the State Archives of the Public Unions in the Grodno region. From July 2012 it underwent further changes, and...

  9. Lists of transports from Lodz to annihilation camps and concentration camps, 1942-1944

    Lists of transports from Lodz to annihilation camps and concentration camps, 1942-1944

  10. Documentation of the Romanian branch of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) pertaining to survivors and those who perished in the Holocaust from all the areas of Romania, 1945

    Documentation of the Romanian branch of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) pertaining to survivors and those who perished in the Holocaust from all the areas of Romania, 1945

  11. Documentation of the Jewish Democratic Committee Association of Jewish Widows and [War] Orphans (IOVR) in Romania, 1948

    Documentation of the Jewish Democratic Committee Association of Jewish Widows and [War] Orphans (IOVR) in Romania, 1948

  12. Materials from the Reichssippenamt (Reich Genealogy Certification Office)

    Materials from the Reichssippenamt (Reich Genealogy Certification Office) Included in the collection, among other documentation, are security photographs of the Registration Books (Matrikel und Personenstandsregister) of Jewish communities in Germany, prepared in winter 1944 by the Gatermann company in Duisburg-Hamborn - Part A of the materials, which includes a variety of personal documents of communities to the east of the Oder-Neisse Line (reels JM/22659 - JM/22668). In addition to these materials, the Record-Group also includes a collection of personal data of Jewish families that was c...

  13. Administrative documentation from the Oberlandesgericht (Regional Upper Court of Law) of Hamburg

    Documentation from the Oberlandesgericht (Regional Upper Court of Law) of Hamburg

  14. Documentation from the Hamburg Police

    Documentation from the Hamburg Police

  15. M.52.DAIFO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region

    M.52.DAIFO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region History of the Archives: The Archives was established in December 1939 and was called the Regional Historical Archives of Stanislawow until 1941. Before its establishment, all of the documentation was kept in institutions of the authorities and in public institutions. This documentation began to be collected by the Stanislawow UNKVD as of November 1939 in the new regional Archives after the same institutions and organizations were cancelled by the Soviet authorities. The name of the Archives was changed during ...

  16. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of the Jewish population in the Stanislawow region during the German occupation, from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region, 1941-1945

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of the Jewish population in the Stanislawow region during the German occupation, from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region, 1941-1945 Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, including data regarding the overall number of people who perished in the cities and districts of the Stanislawow region, and announcements by representatives of the Jewish community regarding the abuse and murder of Jews in the Stanislawow Ghetto and in Bolszowce, Halicz, Kosow, Rohatyn and Gorodenka during ...

  17. M.52.DALO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Lwow Region

    M.52.DALO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Lwow Region History of the Archives: The State Archives of the Lwow Region was established in December 1939 on the basis of the State Archives of Lwow. The archive was called the Regional Historical Archives in Lwow until 1941. It was called the State Archive of the Lwow Region during 1941-1958, and was called the Regional State Archives in Lwow during 1958-1980. As of 1959 the documentation that was in the Regional Archives in Drogobych was transferred to it. Since 1980 it has been called the State Archives of the Lwow Region. The Sub-...

  18. O.104 - אוסף לוכסמבורג

    1. Robert Serebrenik, personal and famuly documents and letters. 2. Esra Hilfsverein fuer beduerftige Juden Luxemburg, correspondence and statutes. 3. Letters and other documents concerning the appointment of Robert Serebrenik as Chief Rabbi of Luxemburg. 4. Essay on the Jewish Community Ramath Orah, New York. 5. Correspondence of Robert and Julia Serebrenik. 6. Statement by Robert Serebrenik, Chief Rabbi of Luxemburg, on his meetings with Adolf Eichmann 7. Letters of condolences, eulogies and obituaries on the occasion of Robert Serebrenik's death. 8. Julia Serebrenik's correspondence conc...

  19. Documentation of the Judenrats in the Lwow region, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Judenrats in the Lwow region, 1941-1944 Included in the collection: Correspondence between the vehicle repair workshops in Drohobycz and the Judenrat, regarding economic matters and the use of the Jewish labor force; requests to the Stadtkommissar by the Judenrat of the city of Boryslaw, regarding various subjects; establishment of Jewish businesses; collection of a tax from the Jews, by the Judenrat; destruction of buildings whose condition is dangerous; confiscation of furniture; refusal to rent a pharmacy to the Judenrat; establishment of a post office branch; list o...

  20. P.69 - Archive of the Levy family, from Essen, Germany, 1863-1993

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10568932
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Article Balance sheet Book Brochure Certification Correspondence Curriculum Vitae (CV) Death certificate Diary Diploma Draft Drawing Envelope Financial accounts Identity card Invitation Journal Lecture Legal documentation Letter(s) Libretto Medical documentation Money Newspaper clippings Note Notebook Obituary Papercut Passport Personal records Photocopy Photograph Play Play(s), script(s) Poems/Songs Postcard Protocol Record of deportees Record of persecuted persons Research article Speech Telegram Telephone directory Thesis/Dissertation Travel ticket Will

    P.69 - Archive of the Levy family, from Essen, Germany, 1863-1993 About the Levy family: Dr. Ernst Levy (b.1872) was the eldest son of physician Dr. Hermann Levy (b. 1838) and his wife Emma, née Hirschland (b. 1847). Dr. Ernst Levy and his wife, the former Martha Ruthenburg (b. 1878) lived in Essen, Germany, where Dr. Levy was a general practitioner and researcher. They had four children, Hermann (b. 1906), Rudolf (b. 1908), Hans (b. 1911) and Eva (b. 1914). A year after the rise of nazism, Hermann Levy, a lawyer by training, went to study a new career in Paris, France, since he was banned ...