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  1. Documentation of the Romanian government in the Bukovina region, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Romanian government in the Bukovina region, 1941-1944 The Bukovina region was a territorial-administrative unit of the Romanian occupation authorities during the period of World War II. The region was created in the territory of the Chernovtsy region in 1941. The region was occupied by the Red Army as part of the Yassko-Kishiniovskaya operatsiya (Yassko-Kishiniovskaya Campaign) in late August 1944. Included in the collection, among other documentation: - Correspondence by the Romanian Army general headquarters, regarding the decisions of the National Center for Romaniza...

  2. Collection of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor's-Gravenhage (Bureau of Commerce and Industry) in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1941

    Collection of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor's-Gravenhage (Bureau of Commerce and Industry) in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1941 Included in the collection: Official documentation of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor's-Gravenhage (Bureau of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands) in 1941, regarding the registration of Jewish-owned land.

  3. Documentation of the regional operational committee in Drogobych, 1944-1945

    Documentation of the regional operational committee in Drogobych, 1944-1945 Included in the collection are declarations by residents of the Drogobych region regarding the damage caused to them during the German occupation period.

  4. Documentation from the archives of the Jewish community in Geneva, Switzerland, regarding the activities of the Jewish Community Welfare Office on behalf of the Jewish refugees in Geneva

    Documentation from the archives of the Jewish community in Geneva, Switzerland, regarding the activities of the Jewish Community Welfare Office on behalf of the Jewish refugees in Geneva - Correspondence regarding the Jewish refugees, 1944-1950; - Accounting from the years, 1930-1971.

  5. Card index of requests to issue identity cards for Jews in the Radom Ghetto from 1941

    Card index of requests to issue identity cards for Jews in the Radom Ghetto from 1941

  6. Documentation of the (Heeresgruppe Mitte) Central Armia Group, in Belorussia, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the (Heeresgruppe Mitte) Central Armia Group, in Belorussia, 1941-1944 The Collection contains instructions of the German Army Headquarters regarding the fight against partisan units, reports regarding the situation of the Einsatzgruppen B and their activity, reports regarding the propaganda among the local population and reports of German Army units regarding the activity of the partisans.

  7. M.29: Documentation from the Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives) regarding the Holocaust

    M.29: Documentation from the Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives) regarding the Holocaust History of the Archives Known as the Reichsarchive, the Central State Archive was first established in Potsdam, Germany in 1919. Documentation of the German state institutions beginning with the establishment of the Norddeutscher Bund (The North German Confederation) in 1867, were gathered in the archive, as well as historical documentation from the German Empire and Prussia dating back to the Middle Ages. After World War II, the archive in Potsdam, which was located in the Soviet Occupation Zone, wa...

  8. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ein Harod (Meuhad)

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ein Harod (Meuhad) Memoirs booklets: 1. Tova and Yehiel Ovshani; 2. Yitzhak Haber; 3. Yaakov Yankele Netel; 4. Sara Kolton-Haber; 5. Eliezer Klein; 6. Eliahu Shaki; 7. Bela Shpivak; 8. Yaakov Shpivak; Testimonies: 1. "Story of Sara Har-Havradi" (27/11/2000); 2. "To return to Auschwitz", Chana Lipman (02/05/1989); 3. Aviva (Feldman) Maromi (18/02/2002); 4. "Childhood", Shmuel Ervin Bogner; 5. Dina Amami (1993).

  9. Documentation of the regional operational committee in Stanislav, 1944-1945

    Documentation of the regional operational committee in Stanislav, 1944-1945 Included in the collection is documentation regarding activities by various religious institutions in the Stanislawow region during 1944-1945.

  10. Franciszka Oliwa Collection

    Franciszka Oliwa Collection Estate of Franciszka Oliwa, the principal of the Jewish children's home in Otwock during the first years after the liberation; Included in the collection: 1. Summary report written by Mrs. Oliwa; 2. Summaries regarding the children - 15 in total; 3. Memoirs of children; 4. Various documents (school certificates/diplomas, lists of children, poems/songs, and other documents); 5. Photographs (transferred to the Photos Archive); Following the liberation in January 1945, Mrs. Oliwa arrived to Otwock to search for relatives, but she did not locate anyone. On the other ...

  11. TR.9 - Documentation from the Auschwitz Trials in Frankfurt, 1965-1968

    TR.9 - Documentation from the Auschwitz Trials in Frankfurt, 1965-1968 The three Auschwitz trials were held in the District Court House in Frankfurt am Main from 1965-1968. The defendants at the trials were SS and Gestapo personnel who had served in Auschwitz and other people who had held positions in Auschwitz, including inmates who had held positions in the camp, such as Blockfuehrer ( block heads). The first Auschwitz Trial opened in December 1963, with 22 defendants being brought to trial, two of whom died during the proceedings. The most senior among them were Robert Mulka and Karl Hoe...

  12. תיועוד מעזבונו של Reiner Heinrich, ה-Reichsstatthalter ב-Hessen, שנים 1919-1943

    Heinrich Reiner (1892-1946), engeneer in his profession, joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) as early as 1923. After the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933, he was appointed to senior posts in the government of Hessen. From August 1934 to June 1937 Reiner officiated as deputy of the Gauleiter of the Nazi Gau (district) Hesse-Nassau. In April 1935 he became deputy of the leader of the Hessian state government and the State Commissioner (Führers der hessischen Landesregierung und des Reichsstatthalters). In January 1936, he was appointed Hessian State Councilor (Staatsrat) and in January 1...

  13. P.51 - Personal Archive of Rabbi Shaul Veingert, who helped many Jews in occupied Europe and refugees in Switzerland, 1941-1948

    P.51 - Personal Archive of Rabbi Shaul Veingert, who helped many Jews in occupied Europe and refugees in Switzerland, 1941-1948 The Veingert family transferred the archives to Bar Ilan University. Mr. Adler, a worker at the University, wanted to prepare comprehensive research regarding Rabbi Veingert and his activities, and he began by arranging the principal material of the Collection, the letters which were in numbered envelopes. Additionally, he began to catalog the basic information in each letter according to the order of the envelopes (This catalogue is located in File Number 1of the ...

  14. Files from the Devisenstelle (Foreign Currency Authority) in Frankfurt am Main and Kassel

    Record keeping authority: Foreign exchange offices Frankfurt a.M. and Kassel The state exchange control to avoid flight of capital with foreign currency, existed in the German Reich since 1931. The pertaining foreign exchange offices were established in June 1932. They were subject in the last instance to the economics ministry of the Reich (therein starting from 1934 the Reich office for currency control). The intermediate supervisory authorities were in the beginning the state tax offices and then from 1937 the Chief Finance Presidents (Oberfinanzpraesidenten). The official designation wa...

  15. Documentation of Das Ahnenerbe (The Ancestral Heritage) Society, 1935-1945

    Documentation of Das Ahnenerbe (The Ancestral Heritage) Society, 1935-1945 Documentation of Das Ahnenerbe Society, a pseudo-scientific organization founded through the initiative of Heinrich Himmler and Darre, in 1935, which dealt with the study of ancient German history and in anthropological research in order to decide on various issues in Nazi ideology. At the peak of its activities, the organization included 40 scientific departments headed by Wolfram Sivers, who was executed as a result of the Nurenberg Trials. Following 1939, the organization frequently used the results of medical exp...

  16. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Sopotskin, 1940-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Sopotskin, 1940-1941 The Collection includes lists of Communists; regulations of the Communist Party Regional Committee; statistical reports of members of the Communist Party; lists of candidates who were accepted to the Communist Party.

  17. O.81 - Kulka-Hildesheimer Collection: Documentation of the Reich Representation of German Jews, 1932-1938

    O.81 - Kulka-Hildesheimer Collection: Documentation of the Reich Representation of German Jews, 1932-1938 In the collection there are copies of documentation gathered by Otto Dov Kulka and Azriel Hildesheimer as part of their comprehensive research regarding the Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden (Reich Representation of German Jews), the central organization of German Jews during the Nazi period, in their attempt to reconstruct the organization archives. Included in the documentation is a huge number of documents regarding the organization starting from the preparation stages for its est...

  18. Documentation of Bielaruskaya Krayovaya Abarona (BKA-National Belorussian Defense Headquarters) in Minsk, 1944

    Documentation of Bielaruskaya Krayovaya Abarona (BKA-National Belorussian Defense Headquarters) in Minsk, 1944

  19. O.54 - The Jewish Press Agency in Switzerland- JUNA - newspaper clippings collection, 1936-1965

    O.54 - The Jewish Press Agency in Switzerland- JUNA - newspaper clippings collection, 1936-1965 The JUNA (Juedische Nachrichten-Presseagentur) was set up in 1936 by the Federation of Swiss Jewish communities in an effort to counteract antisemitic and pro-Nazi activity in Switzerland. Dr. Benjamin Sagalowitz was its director until 1965 (see record group P.13). This collections consists of newspaper clippings, mainly about the condition of the Jewish people in Nazi occupied Europe.

  20. Collection of the Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, 1924-1944

    Collection of the Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, 1924-1944 Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, was responsible for the administration of matters related to the regions, municipalities, and needy persons, Armwezen. The local Police, firefighters and air defense forces were subordinate to it and were transferred to the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice during the Nazi occupation period. A general draft of the Dutch Army was declared in June 1939. Binnenlands B...