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  1. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Lomzha, 1939-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Lomzha, 1939-1941 The Collection includes documentation of the Municipal Department of the NKVD; statistical reports regarding the socio-economic situation of the District; reports and correspondence regarding the activities of the various Party organizations; character reference certificates of Jewish Communists; decision handed down by the prosecutor regarding closure of the file against Lerner Naum Shulimovich; documentation of officials regarding various topics; lists of candidates for management positions.

  2. M.1.PF - War time Jewish Folklore Collection

    M.1.PF - Documantation on Jewish folklore during the second world war This collection is part of the collections compiled by the Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Zone in Munich (M.1). The CHC collected much material from the Holocaust survivors, including testimonies, documentary material in their possession and more. When the CHC was disbanded, the CHC archive was transferred to Yad Vashem. There are 353 poems/songs in the collection, mostly in Yiddish. Most of the poems/songs were written by inmates of the camps and ghettos during th...

  3. Documentation of the Bikur Cholim Association in Graz from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1923-1938

    Documentation of the Bikur Cholim Association in Graz from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1923-1938 The Association was founded in 1923 (a time of intense economic crisis) with the goal of providing assistance to the sick and giving charity to those in need. In the collection there is correspondence of the Association and of its Chairman, Elias Gruenschlag (who was active in the Zionist Movement in Austria as well), among other correspondence, with the Graz community and with Jewish and Zionist organizations in Austria; correspondence regarding matters pertaining to welfare and assistance (in...

  4. Documentation of the local economy and administration office in Kharkov, 1942-1943

    Documentation of the local economy and administration office in Kharkov, 1942-1943

  5. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Skidel, 1940-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Skidel, 1940-1941 The Collection includes reports of the District Committee to the Communist Party's Regional Committee regarding preparations and management of the elections; protocols from meetings of the District Committee; reports of the District Committee's Propaganda Department regarding the state of the propaganda activity in the District.

  6. Documentation of the Bezirksamt (Regional office) of Guenzburg in the Schwaben area in Bavaria

    Documentation of the Bezirksamt (Regional office) of Guenzburg in the Schwaben area in Bavaria

  7. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Shomrat

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Shomrat Survivors forms and accompanying documents: 1. Document attesting that Shoshana Gibor was sent to Jasenovac camp in 1942, dated, 01/03/1966, in Slovakian (original); 2. Chapter from a book: Testimony of Shaul David, including maps and material from the internet (in Romanian).

  8. Documentation of the Reichsministerium des Innern (Reich Ministry of the Interior) from the OSOBY archive, 1939-1942

    Documentation of the Reichsministerium des Innern (Reich Ministry of the Interior), 1939-1942 The collection includes correspondence on various subjects. Microfilm JM/29052, Frames 1952-2187, includes a file catalogue of names of Germans whose citizenship was revoked.

  9. Documentation of the Reich Ministry of Justice: Wehrmacht and Foreign Affairs, 1933-1945

    Documentation of the Reich Ministry of Justice: Wehrmacht and Foreign Affairs, 1933-1945 The Reich Ministry of Justice became the central authority for the administration of justice in Germany, 1933-1935, thus taking control over this domain. With the Nazi rise to power, Franz Guertner, who had already served as State Minister of Justice under Papen and Schleicher, abandoned the principles of state justice, and supplied the SA, SS, and Gestapo with legal cover for their activities by introducing the deprivation of rights of Jews and special wartime penal codes. Following Guertner's death, o...

  10. Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Sonderschulen (State and private special education schools) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Sonderschulen (State and private special education schools) in Hamburg In this Collection are copies of two files from the Hilfsschule Carsten-Rehder Strasse - 362-10/1 sub-collection. The files do not deal with the school itself, but include however general material that was sent to all of the special education schools. In particular, there is a file with directives given by the German Ministry of Education regarding Jewish pupils, Mischlinge pupils and pupils who are not German citizens, and a file with circulars and directives given by the H...

  11. Documentation of the Belorussian General Commissioner (Generalkommissar fuer Weissruthenien), 1942-1945

    Documentation of the Belorussian General Commissioner (Generalkommissar fuer Weissruthenien), 1942-1945

  12. Materials from the Judaica Varia Collection, from the Archive of the City of Munich

    Materials from the Judaica Varia Collection, from the Archive of the City of Munich

  13. Documentation of the Polish Prosecutor's Office in the Gdansk region, 1949-1990

    Documentation of the Polish Prosecutor's Office in the Gdansk region, 1949-1990 Included in the collection are prosecution files against Polish collaborators with the Nazi authorities during the occupation period, which were submitted to the Courts of Law in the Gdansk region.

  14. Documentation of the German Police headquarters in the occupied countries, 1938-1945

    Documentation of the German Police headquarters in the occupied countries, 1938-1945 The documentation on microfilm JM/29064 includes files of the gendarmerie and the police in the occupied areas of Poland dealing with various subjects, as well as a file from the Breslau police from 1933-1935, dealing with anti-Nazi propaganda.

  15. Documentation of the Reichschatzmeister (State Finance Minister) of the Nazi Party, 1934-1944

    Documentation of the Reichschatzmeister (State Finance Minister) of the Nazi Party, 1934-1944 The Office of the Reichschatzmeister (State Finance Minister) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP-Nazi Party) was derived from the Finance Committee of the National Socialist German Workers Union whose Treasurer since 1925, Franz Xaver Schwartz, also became the head of that office. The Office was given its final legal structure on 29 March 1935, through the Verordnung zur Durchfuehrung des Gesetzes zur Sicherung der Einheit von Partei und Staat (Ordinance on Enforcement of the Law...

  16. Card file of the OFD-Muenchen (OFD Munich)

    Card file of the OFD-Muenchen (OFD Munich) In the Collection: Microfilm JM/ 22704 - Card files from July 1943 with authorizations by Jews for the transfer of monies from bank accounts to the OFD; Microfilm JM/ 22705, JM/ 22708 - Card files with details regarding deposits and withdrawals of monies, mainly from 1942; Microfilm JM/ 22706 - Card files with names and (apparently) file numbers, which include information regarding former places of residence or names of inheritors; Microfilm JM/ 22707 - Handwritten or typewritten notes with names and (apparently) file numbers, some of which have ad...

  17. Documentation of the Stiftungsaufsicht (Funds Inspectorate) of the Amtsgericht (Court of Law) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Stiftungsaufsicht (Funds Inspectorate) of the Amtsgericht (Court of Law) in Hamburg

  18. Newspaper clippings, books, surveys and articles regarding the Jews in Italy during the Holocaust

    Newspaper clippings, books, surveys and articles regarding the Jews in Italy during the Holocaust - Newspaper clippings from the World War II period in Italy; - Newspaper clippings regarding the World War II period in Italy. Articles and surveys on the following topics: - Anti-Jewish legislation in Italy and its implications on various aspects of the lives of the Jews in Italy; - The Fascist Party in Italy and its attitude towards the Jews before and after the anti-Jewish legislation; - The Jews in the Italian resistance; - Persecution of the Jews in Italy; - The stand taken by the Vatican ...

  19. Documentation from the Court of Law (Amstgericht) in the Neukoelln neighborhood in Berlin: Wills of Jews, 1935-1939

    Documentation from the Court of Law (Amstgericht) in the Neukoelln neighborhood in Berlin: Wills of Jews, 1935-1939 Files of the Court of Law, that deal with the handling of the Wills of Jews, most of whom resided in the Neukoelln neighborhood in Berlin (and a minority of them in the Treptow neighborhood in Berlin). The files include details regarding the possible inheritors, death certificates, and other personal documentation of the family members (mainly birth certificates and marriage certificates), and Inheritance Orders (Erbscheine) from the Court of Law. In several files there are de...

  20. Documentation of Omnia DRT and the Schade Enquête Commissie - SEC in the Netherlands, regarding Jewish businesses, 1940-1951 (arranged according to the name of the business)

    Documentation of Omnia DRT and the Schade Enquête Commissie - SEC in the Netherlands, regarding Jewish businesses, 1940-1951 (arranged according to the name of the business) The source of the collection are the Archives of the Dutch branch of Omnia and the Deutsche Revisions und Treuhandgesellschaft - DRT and the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle Archive, and which accompanies Collection 94; the collection was rearranged in five card files by NIOD during the postwar period, and with the help of the Schade Enquête Commissie - SEC; the SEC had the responsibility in 1949 for the estimation of the damages ...