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814-oji karo lauko komendantūra
- Feldkommandantur 814
- Military Field Commander Number 814 in Vilnius
- Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybės Archyvas
- F. R-677
- English
- 1941-1944
- 3 subfonds and 166 files. Some files are microfilmed.
- Updated 10 years ago
This collection contains "the 4 July 1941 announcement by S. Žakevičius, chairperson of the Lithuanian citizens' committee of the city of Vilnius and regions concerning the obligation to wear special badges, the introduction of a ban for Jews to leave home after a definite hour and other documents restricting Jews' civil rights" (Galina Žirikova, Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fondai: holokausto Lietuvoje tyrimo šaltinis (The Collections of the State Archive of Lithuania: a Source of Research on the Holocaust in Lithuania), Vilnius: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydų Muziejus, 2011,...
Andre Weingarten, born in Nancy, France, 1913; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II
1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 5247313
- English, Hebrew
- xerox 13 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Andre Weingarten, born in Nancy, France, 1913; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Membership in La Sixieme (the Sixth) of the EIF (French Jewish Scouts); membership in Joseph Bass' Reseau Andre (Service Andre); rescue of Jews in the Marseilles area; providing forged documents and finding hiding places; arrested with his wife at the time of the liberation when his neighbors inform on him; transfer to the Presentines prison in Marseilles with his wife; death in prison following severe torture; 14 September 1944. In the file: - Photograph of A...
Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 409, dated 12 February 1944 regarding the sending of 1,500 workers outside the ghetto
1. O.34 - Zonabend Collection: Documentation From the Lodz Ghetto
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.34/420
- English, Hebrew
- pages 1 Placards Typewritten original
- Updated 10 years ago
Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 409, dated 12 February 1944 regarding the sending of 1,500 workers outside the ghetto Those concerned must report to a committee, which will sit in the central prison, 12 February 1944; those found unfit for work will be released by the committee; those who do not report will be severely punished; Rumkowski repeats Announcement Number 407 from 09 February 1944 stating that it is forbidden to give lodging or a place to sleep to relatives or strangers who are not registered tenants of the building.
Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 419, dated 05 August 1944: By order of the Mayor, all those employed in tailoring factories1 and 2 must report at once with their families to the central prison
1. O.34 - Zonabend Collection: Documentation From the Lodz Ghetto
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.34/428
- English, Hebrew
- pages 1 Placards Typewritten original
- Updated 10 years ago
Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 419, dated 05 August 1944: By order of the Mayor, all those employed in tailoring factories1 and 2 must report at once with their families to the central prison
Ārkārtēja komisija lvva
- The Soviet State Extraordinary Commission for Ascertaining and Investigating the Crimes Committed by the German-Fascist Invaders and their Accomplices
- Чрезвычайная республиканская комиссия Латвийской ССР
- Latvijas Nacionālā arhīva Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs
- P-132
- English
- 1944-1946
- 285 files
- Updated 2 years ago
Organization of the Commission’s work, including information about staff, reports, collection of information; lists of victims on Latvian territory, including Abrene district, Aizpute district, and Aizpute city; list of Jews killed in 1941 in Bauska district, Valmiera district, Ventspils district and Ventspils city, Valka district, Daugavpils district and Daugavpils city; list of Jews killed in Livani, Dagda, Jekabpils district, Jelgava district, Liepaja district, Ludza district, Liepaja district, and Liepaja city; lists of Jews killed in 1941 in Riga district and Riga city; list of Jews ki...
Card file of inmates registered in the prison in Slutsk during 1941-1943
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 12156194
- English, Hebrew
- 1941-1943
- Lists Official documentation
- Updated 10 months ago
Card file of inmates registered in the prison in Slutsk during 1941-1943 Registered in the card file are names of inmates (most of them, Jews) in the prison in Slutsk; the names are arranged alphabetically according to the Belarusian alphabet.
Marianne Cohn, born in Mannheim, Germany, 1922, known as Marianne Colin: details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II
1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 4419681
- English, Hebrew
- xerox 45 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Marianne Cohn, born in Mannheim, Germany, 1922, known as Marianne Colin: details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Jewish underground activities in France; OSE (Children's Aid Society) activities; illegally crosses the border between Switzerland and France with a group of orphaned children, 31 May 1944; detention by the Germans while crossing the border; deportation to the La Pax prison in Annemasse with the children; removal of the children from the prison by Deffaugt, the mayor, later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations; murder by the Ge...
Collection of documents of Dutch inmates in German camps outside the Netherlands, 1933-1945, including documentation of the Red Cross, until 1950
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 6330176
- English, Hebrew
- Administrative documentation Diary Document Financial accounts List Lists Map Newspaper Poems/Songs Reports Statistical reports Testimony
- Updated 10 months ago
Collection of documents of Dutch inmates in German camps outside the Netherlands, 1933-1945, including documentation of the Red Cross, until 1950 Included in the collection: Lists of survivors and lists of inmates who perished in Dachau, Mauthausen, Gross Rosen, Theresienstadt and Natzweiler camps during 1940-1945; Testimonies of Dutch survivors, regarding their detention and living conditions in camps and while on marches during 1933-1945; Documents of the Red Cross in Allersdorf and other places during the postwar period, including protocols of investigations of Dutch criminals and Nazi w...
Collection of the Ministerie van Sociale Zaken - Ministry of Welfare in the Netherlands, regarding concentration camps and prisons, dated, 1945-1947
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 6351237
- English, Hebrew
- Official documentation Questionnaire Reports Study Testimony
- Updated 10 months ago
Collection of the Ministerie van Sociale Zaken - Ministry of Welfare in the Netherlands, regarding concentration camps and prisons, dated, 1945-1947 Included in the collection: Documents, testimonies, reports, research, questionnaires, official documentation of the Ministerie van Sociale Zaken and others, regarding the camps.
Collective testimony of Abraham Tewie Chaimovitz, Sonia Grad and others, regarding the experiences of the Jews in Seduva
1. O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3552466
- English, Hebrew
- 1947-1948
- Handwritten, original 13 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Collective testimony of Abraham Tewie Chaimovitz, Sonia Grad and others, regarding the experiences of the Jews in Seduva Sonia Grad: Life in Siauliai before the war. Outbreak of the war, 22 June 1941; escape with her husband in the direction of the Soviet Union; escape to Seduva, 25 June 1941; life in Seduva; German occupation, 26 June 1941; restrictions on the Jews including the yellow badge; deportation of Jews to a camp; abuse of the youths; escape with documents her husband obtained; escape to Siauliai; receives information about the deportation of the Seduva Jews to Panevczys. Abraham ...
Collective testimony of Avraham Vidlanski, Lipe Skolsky, Shmuel Ingel and Yehuda Levo, regarding their experiences in Varena, Radun and the experiences of Ingel in Alytus, the underground, the Launas Ghetto and other places
1. O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3552518
- English, Hebrew
- Handwritten, original 66 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Collective testimony of Avraham Vidlanski, Lipe Skolsky, Shmuel Ingel and Yehuda Levo, regarding their experiences in Varena, Radun and the experiences of Ingel in Alytus, the underground, the Launas Ghetto and other places Life before the war in Varena. German occupation, 23 June 1941; establishment of a local authority by Lithuanians; local Lithuanian leadership included Jarmulevicius, Adolf Petrusys and Jonas Tareila; looting of Jewish owned property; arrest and murder of Jews; includes a list of names of those murdered; deportation of Jews to forced labor; murder of the Jews from Varena...
Collective testimony of Chaim Goldsztejn, born in Erzvilkas, Lithuania, 1903, and Menucha Goldsztejn, born in Erzvilkas, Lithuania, 1910, regarding their experiences in Ervilkas, Karklote, Palabauksciai and other places; Testimony of Akiva Libman, born in
1. O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3552414
- English, Hebrew
- 1946-1948
- Handwritten copy Handwritten, original 33 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Collective testimony of Chaim Goldsztejn, born in Erzvilkas, Lithuania, 1903, and Menucha Goldsztejn, born in Erzvilkas, Lithuania, 1910, regarding their experiences in Ervilkas, Karklote, Palabauksciai and other places; Testimony of Akiva Libman, born in 1911, regarding his experiences in Erzvilkas, in hiding in Cipaiciai and other places Chaim and Menucha Goldsztejn: Life before the war. Looting of property by Lithuanians; activities against the Jews led by the Mayor Klimas Skilnskas and others; abuse of Jews; receives information about the forthcoming deportation to Batakiai camp; escape...
Collective testimony of Pesach Aronowicz, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1913 and Gershon Rozovski, born in Seduva, Lithuania, 1909, regarding their experiences in Pakruojis, Siauliai, Landesberg and other places
1. O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3552515
- English, Hebrew
- Handwritten, original 6 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Collective testimony of Pesach Aronowicz, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1913 and Gershon Rozovski, born in Seduva, Lithuania, 1909, regarding their experiences in Pakruojis, Siauliai, Landesberg and other places Pesach Aranowicz: Life before the war; life in Kaunas. Outbreak of the war; escape on a train to Baisogala, 23 July 1941; air-raids on the train by the German Air Force; escape by foot to Pakruojis. Gershon Rozovski: Life before the war; move to Pakruojis, 1932; life in Pakruojis. Unsuccessful escape attempt by Jews; German occupation in Pakruojis; restrictions on Jews; harm to the J...
Collective testimony of Yashke Milikowski and Dr. Yisrael Shperling regarding their experiences in Slonim
1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3714559
- English, Hebrew
- Typewritten copy מקור וקסרוקס 16 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Collective testimony of Yashke Milikowski and Dr. Yisrael Shperling regarding their experiences in Slonim
Copy papers re Rudolf Hess in Spandau
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL1582
- English
- 1939-1985
- 1 folder
- Updated 2 years ago
This collection consists of copy papers relating to the imprisonment of Rudolf Hess in Spandau. The collection includes correspondence between Alfred Seidl, Hess's former defence attorney at Nuremberg and author of a number of books on Hess, and prominent politicians and public figures, who had some influence over or interestin Hess's continued imprisonment. In addition there is an affidavit from Hess' wife who testifies to a meeting shortly before Hess' flight to Scotland between Hess and Hitler. Included also are copies of contemporary documents relating to Hess.
Correspondence between the Lodz Ghetto community system and various organizations and institutions: Daily schedule and behavior regulations in the prison for juvenile offenders
1. O.34 - Zonabend Collection: Documentation From the Lodz Ghetto
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.34/576
- English, Hebrew
- pages 2 Official documentation Original
- Updated 10 years ago
Correspondence between the Lodz Ghetto community system and various organizations and institutions: Daily schedule and behavior regulations in the prison for juvenile offenders
Hersch Cymerman, born in Stryj, Poland, 1910; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II
1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 5248064
- English, Hebrew
- xerox 5 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Hersch Cymerman, born in Stryj, Poland, 1910; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Education in Belgium. Life in France including arrest; deportation to the Saint Cyprien camp; transfer to additional camps; transfer to a prison in Foix; escape to Paris; joins a founding group within the framework of the FTP (French Fighters and Partisans) Communist underground, 1941; life in the FTP Jewish unit; acquaintance with Salek Bot; sets up an explosives laboratory with Salek; his death with Salek in an unexpected explosion ("work accident"), 1942. In...
David Rappoport, born in Proskurov, Ukraine, 1883: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II
1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 4438503
- English, Hebrew
- xerox 73 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
David Rappoport, born in Proskurov, Ukraine, 1883: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Work as a journalist; underground activities; leader of the Comite Rue Amelot (Amelot Street Committee) in Paris; arrest by Danneker, a Gestapo commander, 01 June 1943; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz; death in Auschwitz, 02 July 1944. Also in the file: - Booklet entitled "L'un des Trente Six" (One of the Thirty-six), published by Kyoum, Paris, 1946.
Documentation from files of the Polizeipraesidium Leipzig (Leipzig Police), regarding Jewish inmates in the Police prison (Polizeigefaengniss) in Leipzig, 1935-1941
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 13416672
- English, Hebrew
- 1935-1941
- List of detainees Official documentation Police file
- Updated 10 months ago
Documentation from files of the Polizeipraesidium Leipzig (Leipzig Police), regarding Jewish inmates in the Police prison (Polizeigefaengniss) in Leipzig, 1935-1941 Included in the collection are four files of Jewish inmates (see their names on a list of the files in the "Multimedia" page), and a section of the prison's Gefangenentagebuch (Log of inmates).
Documentation from the Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Saarlouis (Public Prosecutor's Office in Saarlouis), 1928-1938
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 11637985
- English, Hebrew
- 1928-1938
- Legal documentation Official documentation Record of persecuted persons
- Updated 10 months ago
Documentation from the Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Saarlouis (Public Prosecutor's Office in Saarlouis), 1928-1938 The documentation that was copied for Yad Vashem includes details regarding Jewish jurists, trials against Jews, Jewish prisoners, anti-Jewish legislation in the Saar region, examinations of the Aryan origin of workers in the legal system, proceedings against Germans accused of friendly relationships with Jews, attacks on Jews and on Jewish property, and Jewish businesses that were in contact with the judicial system; The documentation was copied for Yad Vashem in 2012.