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  2. M.40 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Central Archives in Moscow, 1939-1945

    M.40 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Central Archives in Moscow, 1939-1945 Official documentation from the Archives in Moscow, not including documentation from the State Archive of the Russian Federation which is located in a separate Records Group: Yad Vashem Archives M.46. Records Group M.40 is divided into subsections according to the archive of origin from which the documentation was selected. There are three subsections in the Collection: - M.40MAP - Documentation from the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defense; - M.40.RCM - Documentation from the Russian S...

  3. M.52.NMIUuDSV - Documentation of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War in Kyiv

    M.52.NMIUuDSV - Documentation from the National Museum of the History of Ukraine during World War II in Kyiv History of the Archives: The idea regarding the establishment of a Museum of the History of World War II was born already in 1943 but its construction was delayed until the 1970s. An important stage on the way to the establishment of the museum was an exhibition held in April 1946, called "The Ukrainian Partisans' Struggle against the Nazi Occupiers". In early 1950 the documentation from the exhibition was transferred to the State Historical Museum, and in 1970 a team for the establi...

  4. Documentation of the Jewish community in Cernauti, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Jewish community in Cernauti, 1941-1944 Included in the collection is documentation of the Centrala Evreilor din Romania (Jewish Center in Romania) in Cernauti, including: - List of names of Jews; - Request by the Jewish community to cancel the transfer of Jews to forced labor and to receive work permits; - Information regarding sending help to the Transnistria area; - Lists with names of senders and receivers of banking securities from cities in the region of Balta and Mogilev Podolski; - Request to receive help by the Jew, Alfred Sigal, referred to the administration ...

  5. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Sokolka, 1939-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Sokolka, 1939-1941 The Collection includes protocols from District Committee meetings; reports of the District Committee to the Communist Party Regional Committee; documentation of the General Assembly; information, lists and statistical reports regarding workers and various institutions and factories in the District; list of candidates for Mayor of Sokolka; reports of the NKVD and the Police regarding the political situation among the local population; unusual events and other topics.

  6. Newspaper clippings, documents and photographs from the Belorussian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War History in Minsk, Belorussia, 1943-1944

    Newspaper clippings, documents and photographs from the Belorussian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War History in Minsk, Belorussia, 1943-1944 Included are the "Mstitel", "Krasny Partizan", "Put Partizana" and "Smert Fashizmu" publications, and newspapers written by hand by partisans from the Chkalov, Chapayev, Ponomarenko, Kutuzov and Voronenskiy partisans detachments active in the Baranovichi, Mogilev, Minsk and Gomel regions, 1943-1944; propaganda material, cartoons, partisans songs and poetry, and a book written in honor of the partisans who were members of the VLKSM ("Lenin Youth ...

  7. Documentation of the University of Hamburg

    Documentation of the University of Hamburg

  8. Collection of Dr. Hans Max Hirschfeld, secretary of the Commerce, Industry, Shipping and Agriculture departments in the Netherlands, 1940-1941

    Collection of Dr. Hans Max Hirschfeld, secretary of the Commerce, Industry, Shipping and Agriculture departments in the Netherlands, 1940-1941 Collection that documents the administration of the Dutch economy by the Germans and the attitude toward the Jews in that context in 1940-1941; Included in the collection: Circulars, correspondence and protocols of meetings of the Departement van Binnenlandsche Zaken in The Hague, regarding the dismissal of Jews from public positions, examination of the Aryan origin of clerks, and reports regarding the status of the Jews in the Dutch economy and in t...

  9. Devisenreferat Collection: Foreign Exchange Department of the Hauptabteilung Wirtschaft (Economics Department) in The Hague, 1940-1942

    Devisenreferat Collection: Foreign Exchange Department of the Hauptabteilung Wirtschaft (Economics Department) in The Hague, 1940-1942 In the collection: Documents of the Deviseninstitut (Foreign Exchange Institute), in The Hague, from 1941, under the direction of Bauditz, regarding the assets of Jews who emigrated or are asking to emigrate from the Netherlands; letters written by Wimmer, Rauter, Calmeyer, Seyss Inquart and others, regarding the legal status of Dutch Jews during the German occupation, 1942-1944; correspondence regarding the Aryanization of Jewish companies in the Netherland...

  10. Documentation of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss Workers' Social-Welfare Organization, Department for Refugees Relief), regarding refugees and emigrants from Germany

    Documentation of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss Workers' Social-Welfare Organization, Department for Refugees Relief), regarding refugees and emigrants from Germany Reports from the regional relief organizations and the directors of camps and residences of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss workers' social-welfare organization, Department for refugees relief), regarding the refugees' recreational activities including detailed reports from several refugee camps and residences concerning lectures and cultural ...

  11. M.41.BGAMLI - Documentation of the Belorussian State Archive of Literature and Art

    M.41.BGAMLI - Documentation of the Belorussian State Archive of Literature and Art

  12. O.77 - Research papers, articles and student reports

    O.77 - Research papers, articles and student reports The Collection contains documentary material written during the period after World War II, based on secondary sources for reconstruction of the events being described, and not on the testimonies of Holocaust survivors or eyewitnesses. This material could be papers by pupils or students, research papers, newspaper articles, texts or excerpts from different types of texts pertaining to the Holocaust in various languages, except for those cases where it is expressly stated that the information being presented comes from a Holocaust survivor ...

  13. TR.20- Documentation of trials conducted against war criminals submitted by the United States Department of Justice

    TR.20- Documentation of trials conducted against war criminals submitted by the United States Department of Justice The Record Group is comprised of microfilms that contain documentation of trials against war criminals and collaborators conducted by American courts in the US Occupation Zone in Germany. The original material is preserved in the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and the copies were given to Yad Vashem by the United States Department of Justice. Among the trials included in the Record Group (In File No. O300/203, there is a detailed entry of ma...

  14. Documentation regarding Ukrainian Nationalist organizations in the Distrikt Galizien (Galicia district), 1941-1944

    Documentation regarding Ukrainian Nationalist organizations in the Distrikt Galizien (Galicia district), 1941-1944 Included in the collection: - Correspondence regarding the Ukrainian Nationalist movement and an appeal by Ukrainian Nationalist institutions to Hitler and Rosenberg; - Secret report written by the governor of the Stanislawow area to the governor of the Galicia region, regarding his meeting with representatives of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN); - Secret report sent by the head of the German Security Police in Lwow to senior factors in the German Police in Ber...

  15. Documentation from the Prosecution Office of the Staatsanwaltschaft beim Sondergericht Dortmund (Special Court of Law in Dortmund), 1933-1945

    Documentation from the Prosecution Office of the Staatsanwaltschaft beim Sondergericht Dortmund (Special Court of Law in Dortmund), 1933-1945

  16. Collection of S. Wijnbergen, commander of the Nederlandse Regeringscommissariaat voor Repatriëring (Committee for the Return of Missing Persons to the Netherlands), 1943-1949

    Collection of S. Wijnbergen, commander of the Nederlandse Regeringscommissariaat voor Repatriëring (Committee for the Return of Missing Persons to the Netherlands), 1943-1949 Included in the collection: Reports prepared by S. Wijnbergen in The Hague, regarding the subject of missing persons from the Netherlands and the establishment of institutions to search for them in 1948; Questionnaires for the search for missing persons, and documents regarding Dutchmen returning from Switzerland, 1945-1946; Reports received by S. Wijnbergen from his command in Eastern Europe, regarding the locating of...

  17. Documentation of the Generalkommissariat Weissruthenien (Belorussian District Government) in Minsk, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Generalkommissariat Weissruthenien (Belorussian District Government) in Minsk, 1941-1944 Generalkommissariat Weissruthenien (Generalbezirk Weißruthenien) is one of the territorial-administrative units in the (Reichskommissariat Ostland) Eastern District of the Reich. This administration existed between 01 September 1941-03 July 1944. The Collection contains instructions and orders of the District Governor situated in Minsk, an order from General Schenkendorff, German Army Home Front Commander, documentation regarding the establishment of an auxiliary police force in Bel...

  18. Documentation of the Polizeidisziplinskammer (Disciplinary Chamber) of the Hamburg Police

    Documentation of the Polizeidisziplinskammer (Disciplinary Chamber) of the Hamburg Police Included in the Collection are three disciplinary files against policemen: one file regarding an attack in a synagogue and two files regarding suspicion of opposition to the authorities, one of them also for hiding the Jewish origin of his wife.

  19. Collection of Dutch Jews and other Jews in Belgium, 1942-1957

    Collection of Dutch Jews and other Jews in Belgium, 1942-1956 Included in the collection: Card file of the Schade Enquête Commissie, SER in Belgium, including names of Jews in Belgium who were Dutch citizens, who were drafted to forced labor by the Germans during 1942-1945; Registration forms [most of them indecipherable] of Dutch Jews in Belgium, including statistics regarding these Jews, 1942-1956; Statistical data regarding Jews and Gypsies who were deported via Malines camp to camps in Poland, arranged according to transports, men, women and children, 1942-1944; Survey of the persecutio...

  20. The K. F. Mannheimer archives, 1900-1994

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6082686
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1900-1994
    • Committee request Correspondence Document Financial accounts Indictment Inventory list Laws and decrees Legal documentation Letter Letter of testimony Medical documentation Newspaper Notepad Passport Personal documents Protocol Questionnaire Reports Sentence

    Documentation of K. F. Mannheimer, a lawyer for claims for compensation by Holocaust survivors in Germany and in Amsterdam; documentation dated, 1897-1978 K. F. Mannheimer, a Jewish lawyer, was born in Germany in 1897; he was married to B. A. E. Weisel in a mixed marriage; following the Nazi rise to power, Mannheimer was forced to cease his work as a lawyer in Berlin; he emigrated to the Netherlands with his wife, who was also a lawyer, in 1936; in the Netherlands, Mannheimer served as a lawyer, prosecutor, translator and advisor to students, until the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands whi...