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  1. Documentation of the Klooga Camp Administration, 1943 - 1944

  2. Documentation of the Gebr. Arnhold Bank in Dresden and Berlin and the Adler & Co. Bank in Zurich from the Osoby Archive in Moscow

    Documentation of the Gebr. Arnhold Bank in Dresden and Berlin and the Adler & Co. Bank in Zurich from the Osoby Archive in Moscow The documentation was photocopied from two collections regarding the two banks, from Opis 2 of the Fond 1322: Banken, Firmen, Aktiengesellschaften record group in the Osoby Archive. The material photocopied from the Adler & Co. Bank mainly deals with art trading houses in Berlin.

  3. Police documentation from the Bern, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1941-1944

    Police documentation from the Bern, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1941-1944 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  4. Documentation of the Ukrainian Police in the Lwow region, 1942-1944

    Documentation of the Ukrainian Police in the Lwow region, 1942-1944 The Ukrainian Police force was established following the German occupation of the Ukrainian territories. The Ukrainian policemen participated in the perpetration of pogroms against the Jews in Lwow and in other cities in Eastern Galicia. Afterwards, the Ukrainian policemen took part in escorting groups of Jews to forced labor, served as guards in the ghettos, and participated in the implementation of "Aktions"; Included in the collection is official correspondence by the Ukrainian Police in the Lwow region, regarding the bu...

  5. Collection of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (the German Office for Administration and Justice) in the Netherlands, 1940-1944

    Collection of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (the German Office for Administration and Justice) in the Netherlands, 1940-1944 The Germans established a system for civil administration in 1940; Arthur Seyss-Inquart stood as the Reichskommissar - head of the civil administration; establishment of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (German Office for Administration and Justice) under Seyss-Inquart, and under the administration of Friedrich Wimmer in The Hague; among the office's functions were administration and justice: legislation, internal matters, justice,...

  6. O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem

    O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem The testimony department of Yad Vashem started gathering testimonies in 1954 in Tel Aviv. It is currently located at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. The survivors interviewed are recorded on audio or video tape, and most of the testimonies have been transcribed. Quantity of material: Over 83 meters shelving: There are over 9000 testimonies in this record group, and the number continues to grow. Main languages: Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Polish, German, English, Hungarian, Romanian, French, Serb

  7. M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York

    M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York The Central Location Index (CLI) was established by various relief organizations in May 1944. The goal of the CLI was to concentrate data regarding refugees and those missing. After the organization (CLI administration) disbanded in May 1949, the documentation was stored in the cellars of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York; in 1957 the documentation was transferred to Yad Vashem. In the collection there are documents, lists and index cards. There are two main sectio...

  8. M.52.DADpO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Dnepropetrovsk Region

    M.52.DADpO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Dnepropetrovsk Region This Sub-Record Group includes documentation of the Dnepropetrovsk municipality regarding the function and composition of the Judenrat (including the names of the Judenrat members and the name of the Judenrat representative in the municipality), 02 October 1941; appeal by the mayor of Dnepropetrovsk to the Stadtkomissar, regarding the establishment of the Dnepropetrovsk Ghetto, 1941; documentation of the municipality, regarding Jewish elderly people and orphans in the municipal home for disabled people in Dnepro...

  9. Documentation of the Ministry of the Interior in Tallinn, 1918 - 1940

  10. M.43.LVVA - Documentation from the State Historical Archives of Latvia in Riga

    M.43.LVVA - Documentation from the State Historical Archives of Latvia in Riga This sub-record group contains files selected from the State Historical Archives of Latvia in Riga and files received from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington DC. Description of the sub-record group: The documentation of the State Historical Archives of Latvia includes correspondence between educational institutions in Latvia and several organizations regarding matters concerning budgets, teachers' salaries and matriculation exams during 1921-1940: reports of teachers' committees mee...

  11. תיעוד של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Wattenscheid (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12421314
    • English, Hebrew
    • Legal documentation Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Repertory: Amtsgericht (district court) Wattenscheid In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files include the applications including details regarding those who perished and their deportation; correspondence with German authoritie...

  12. O.64.2/WSZ.3 - List of deportees from Theresienstadt to the East

    O.64.2/WSZ.3 - List of deportees from Theresienstadt to the East

  13. Documentation of the high school of the "Association for Elementary and High Schools" in Stanislawow, 1938-1939

    Documentation of the high school of the "Association for Elementary and High Schools" in Stanislawow, 1938-1939 Included in the collection are protocols of the final exams and lists of graduates of the high schools for the 1937-1938 and 1938-1939 school years.

  14. Documentation from the Regierung Arnsberg (Regional government) in Arnsberg

    Documentation from the Regierung Arnsberg (Regional government) in Arnsberg

  15. Documentation from the Reich Ministry for Propaganda

    Documentation from the Reich Ministry for Propaganda The collection contains files that were photographed in the National Archives in Potsdam, East Germany, including part of the material for this Record Group. The entire Record Group was transferred to the Bundesarchiv Berlin (Berlin Federal Archives), where it is being held under the original signature NS18. The microfilm collection that was transferred to Yad Vashem following a systematic investigation of the Record Group, is recorded in the collection description No. 5338698 in Sapir.

  16. Collection of documents from the Rabbi of the village of Rejowiec

    Collection of documents from the Rabbi of the village of Rejowiec

  17. M.49.E- Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors collected by the Central Jewish Historical Committee in Poland, 1944-1947

    M.49.E- Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors collected by the Central Jewish Historical Committee in Poland, 1944-1947 The collection consists of approximately 7,200 testimonies collected by the Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna (Central Jewish Historical Committee) in Poland during its active years, 1944-1947. After the establishment of the ZIH (Jewish Historical Institute) the documentation was transferred to the ZIH Archives, and catalogued as Records Group 301. In the collection there is a large variety of testimonies given by Holocaust survivors regarding their lives in the ghettos,...

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

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

  19. Documentation of the central bureau of statistics of Belorussia, regarding the Jewish population in Cherikov, 1920-1935

    Documentation of the central bureau of statistics of Belorussia, regarding the Jewish population in Cherikov, 1920-1935 Included in the collection: - Lists of Jewish business owners in Cherikov; - List of Jews who are members of the municipal council in Cherikov; - Statistical reports regarding Jewish educational and cultural institutions.

  20. Collection of articles from the local Ukrainian press, 1941-1944

    Collection of articles from the local Ukrainian press, 1941-1944 The collection includes articles published in the local Ukrainian press during 1941-1944, regarding the "Jewish Question" and German orders.