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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. O.52 - German Communities Registry

    O.52 - German Communities Registry The purpose of the Yad Vashem Communities Registry Project is to perpetuate the history of the communities destroyed during the Holocaust. The historiography of the communities focused on countries, and sometimes on districts, but not on the history of the local communities. With the increase of interest in the local communities, this Record Group serves as a very important source for historians and researchers working in this field. As part of the preparation of the volumes of the German Communities Registry during the 1960s, many sources were gathered re...

  2. P.63 - David Kranzler Collection

    P.63 - David Kranzler Collection Dr. David Kranzler dedicated himself for many years to the research of the rescue of Jews in occupied Europe, and published many books regarding organizations and people active on behalf of this aim. Dr. Kranzler collected, for the purpose of his research, a vast amount of detailed documentation regarding various rescue activities: - Rescue activities by George Mantello, the First Secretary at the El Salvador Consulate in Geneva, who issued 10,000 El Salvador citizenship certificates and sent them to Jews living in the occupied areas; - Rescue activities by ...

  3. P.76 - The Esther Lurie Collection

    The artist and painter Esther Lurie (1913-1998) grew up in Latvia. She studied in Belgium and made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1934. In 1938 she won the Dizengoff Prize. She traveled to visit her relatives in Latvia and Lithuania in 1939, and was unable to return to Eretz Israel. In June 1941 she was in Kaunas. She was deported to the Kaunas Ghetto and documented life in the Kaunas Ghetto in her paintings. She was deported later to Stutthof camp. Esther returned to Eretz Israel in 1945, married Dr. Yosef Shapira, and continued her artistic activities. She participated in many exhibitions and w...

  4. 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...

  5. TR.25 - Trial documentation - Latvia

    TR.25 - Trial documentation - Latvia Trial documentation from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives (USHMM), from the sub-record groups of the Latvian State Archives of the former Latvian KGB

  6. O.86 - Switzerland Collection

    O.86 - Switzerland Collection The Collection was opened recently; until now it has consisted of only one file (See also Yad Vashem Record Group M.63 - Documentation from Provincial Archives in Switzerland).

  7. P.58 - Jonas Eckstein Collection

    Documentation regarding the activities of Jonas Eckstein who hid scores of people in the cellar of his house in Bratislava during the war and worked to rescue Jewish children from Poland

  8. M.56 - Central British Fund

    M.56 - Documantation of the Central British Fund The Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief (CBF) known variously in the 1930's as the CBF for German Jewry (1933), the Council for German Jewry (1936), and the Central Council for Jewish Refugees (1939), was founded in Britain in early 1933 by a group of Anglo-Jewish communal leaders who represented the breadth of the liturgical spectrum and widely diverse political loyalties of the community. CBF action was a direct response to the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany on 30 January1933 on a political platform of anti-Se...

  9. TR.26 - Trial documentation - Estonia

    TR.26 - Trial documentation - Estonia Trial documentation from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives (USHMM), from the sub-record groups of the Estonian State Archives of the former Estonian KGB

  11. 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...

  12. 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.

  13. P.45 - Pinkhof-Waterman Family Archive

    P.45 - Pinkhof-Waterman Family Archive

  14. P.52 - Yehuda Bauer Collection

    Yehuda Bauer is one of the most respected authorities on the subjects of the Holocaust, antisemitism and the Jewish resistance movement during the Shoah He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, emigrated with his family to Palestine in 1939. Bauer attended high school in Haifa and then joined the Palmach. He attended Cardiff University in Wales, interrupting his studies to fight in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, after which he completed his degree. He returned to Israel to continue his studies and received his doctorate from Hebrew University in 1960 for a thesis on the British Mandate of Palesti...

  15. 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.