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  1. M.21.1 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich

    M.21.1 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich The War Criminals Department was established in the American Occupied Zone a short time after the end of World War II. From 1946-1951 it was active as the legal division of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich, in cooperation with the Central Historical Commission in Munich and other survivor organizations. The role of the division was to locate war criminals and collaborators, to gather documentary material, to collect testimony from survivors and to bring the criminals to...

  2. Documents of the Generalkommissariat für Finanz und Wirtschaft, Abteilung Siedlung und Bauten (Department for Construction and Settlement) in the Netherlands, including documents related to Jews, 1941-1944

    Documents of the Generalkommissariat für Finanz und Wirtschaft, Abteilung Siedlung und Bauten (Department for Construction and Settlement) in the Netherlands, including documents related to Jews, 1941-1944 The function of the Abteilung Siedlung und Bauten was to plan and construct infrastructures for the Germans and to supervise the construction of houses and institutions during 1942-1944; The function of the Niederländische Grundstücksverwaltung was the registration and administration of Jewish real estate, a legal procedure called Aryanization, according to the VO/154/41 legislation, whic...

  3. Collection of Schoorl camp in the Netherlands, 1940-1941, and correspondence regarding Schoorl camp until 1979

    Collection of Schoorl camp in the Netherlands, 1940-1941, and correspondence regarding Schoorl camp until 1979 Included in the collection: Personal documents, including letters, poems/songs and paintings; Photographs of Schoorl camp and a map of Schoorl camp and the surrounding area; Orders by the Schoorl camp administration, regarding discipline, freedom of movement, cleanliness, the receipt of postal items, and other matters; List of inmates in Schoorl camp, 1940-1941; Documents including a statement of defense by K. Berg, commander of Schoorl camp and Amersfoort camp; Appeals to various ...

  4. Lists of children and youth, prepared by the Sumy municipal administration, 1941-1943

    Lists of children and youth, prepared by the Sumy municipal administration, 1941-1943

  5. Documentation of the municipal administration in Bila Tserkva, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the municipal administration in Bila Tserkva, 1941-1943 - Documentation regarding the registration of the population, confiscation of Jewish property and a list of the Jewish inmates in the local prison; - Information regarding the number of inmates in the prison taken for execution; - Information regarding the theft of abandoned Jewish property carried out by the local residents before the German occupation; - Documentation of the mayor of Bila Tserkva regarding life in the city and regarding Jewish property; - Announcement sent to the mayor of Bila Tserkva by the German I...

  6. Documentation of the Kryzhopil municipality, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the Kryzhopil municipality, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Instructions of the governor of Transnistria and the Kryzhopil district administration, regarding the manner of administration of the local commerce; - Tax rates; - Lists of skilled professionals.

  7. Files of the Hamburg Polizeibehoerde (Police Office) regarding cases of unnatural death, 1938-1945

    Files of the Hamburg Polizeibehoerde (Police Office) regarding cases of unnatural death, 1938-1945

  8. Documentation of the Jewish national organization "Trumpeldor" in Riga, 1929-1941

    Documentation of the Jewish national organization "Trumpeldor" in Riga, 1929-1941 History of the organization The organization was officially established on 20 August 1924. The aim of its establishment was the establishment of a Jewish country in Eretz Israel. The main focus of the organization was the education of youth toward national values, the study of Hebrew, physical labor, and the study of agricultural professions, handicrafts and seamanship. The organization declared that the Jewish citizens of Latvia be educated toward the spirit of a national state. Thus, on 15 May 1935, approxim...

  9. Documentation of the council and the Executive Committee of the Mogilev municipality, 1939-1940

    Documentation of the council and the Executive Committee of the Mogilev municipality, 1939-1940 Included in the collection: - List of Jewish residents and refugees from western Belorussia; - Personal files of Jews; - Survey report regarding the housing situation.

  10. Documentation regarding Jews, from the Lehrte Municipal Archives

    Documentation regarding Jews, from the Lehrte Municipal Archives

  11. Documentation of the regional Prosecutor's Office in Bialystok, 1947-1979

    Documentation of the regional Prosecutor's Office in Bialystok, 1947-1979 Included in the file are prosecution files against Polish collaborators and German policemen for their actions during the war period in the Bialystok region.

  13. Documentation related to the Jewish education administration of the Minorities education administration, 1920-1934

    Documentation related to the Jewish education administration of the Minorities education administration, 1920-1934 Regulations, instructions, circulars and correspondence of the Ministry of Education regarding the activities of Jewish schools; circulars regarding clerical matters, the notation of Jewish holidays and changes in the school program; protocols of meetings of various committees of the Jewish education administration; agreements with private Jewish schools and Jewish kindergartens; regulations of the central Latvian organization of communities; Jewish teachers organizations: HaMo...

  14. Documentation from the Landratsaemter (county district authorities) of Merzig, Saarlouis and St. Wendel in the Saar region, 1935-1947

    Documentation from the Landratsaemter of Merzig, Saarlouis and St. Wendel (district authorities) in the Saar region

  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.

  16. Documentation of German Army units from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1945

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10625907
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Circular Diagram Diary Envelope Financial accounts Letter List of soldiers Lists Maps Newspaper Note Official documentation Photograph Postcard Statistical data Survey report Telegram

    Documentation of German Army units from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1945 The documentation includes files from the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Supreme Command of the Armed Forces-OKW), the Oberkommando des Heeres (Supreme High Command of the German Army-OKH) and a few files from the Oberkommando der Marine (Supreme High Command of the Navy-OKM) (Microfilm JM/29059) and of the Reichswehrministerium (German Defense Ministry) during the Weimar period (Microfilm JM/29060). The documentation deals with financial matters, administration, intelligence, military justice, personnel, supplies a...

  17. Documentation from the Kreisarchiv Rottweil, regarding Jews

    Documentation from the Kreisarchiv Rottweil, regarding Jews

  18. Documentation from the Amtsgericht Aalen

    Documentation from the Amtsgericht Aalen Included in the Collection are files regarding trials, the grand majority of them against non-Jewish forced laborers.

  19. M.41. ZGABob - Documentation from the Zonal State Archive in Bobruysk, Belorussia

    M.41. ZGABobr - Documentation from the Zonal State Archive in Bobruysk, Belorussia History of the Archive In December 1944 the Bobruysk Region State Archive was established; it was reorganized as the Bobruysk State Municipal Archive in 1954, when the Bobruysk Region was abolished; a branch of the Mogilev Region Regional State Archive in Bobruysk was established in 1963 on the foundation of the Bobruysk State Municipal Archive and the District Archives of the Bobruysk, Kirov, Osipovichi, Klichev, and Glusk Districts; this Archive has been working under a new name since March 1996: Zonalny Go...

  20. Documentation of the The I.L. Peretz Jewish Literary and Drama Society in Valga in Valga, 1920 - 1939