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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. 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 ...

  2. 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...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Collection of M. A. Tellegen, regarding violinist Alma Rose, dated, 1938-1948

    Collection of M. A. Tellegen, regarding violinist Alma Rose, dated, 1938-1948 M. A. Tellegen was an activist in the underground, including among other activities on the "Vrij Nederland" newspaper and the Nationaal Comité van Verzet organization; she was a friend of the Jewish violinist Alma Rose, and was responsible for the estate of Alma Rose after Rose perished in Auschwitz; Included in the collection: Documents related to the violinist Alma Rose, dated, 1938-1948; Alma Rose was born in Vienna; she was converted to Christianity in her childhood; she married a Dutch non-Jew and found her d...

  5. Documentation of the Rechtsamt I (Legal Department I) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Rechtsamt I (Legal Department I) in Hamburg

  6. Documentation from the Marks-Haindorf-Stiftung Jewish Teachers School and Seminary in Muenster

    Documentation from the Marks-Haindorf-Stiftung Jewish Teachers School and Seminary in Muenster

  7. Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Aardolieproducten - Ministry for Crude Oil Products in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Aardolieproducten - Ministry for Crude Oil Products in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Included in the collection: Official documentation regarding Jewish businesses in the Netherlands, 1940-1945.

  8. Documentation of the Tlumacz district authorities, 1933-1939

    Documentation of the Tlumacz district authorities, 1933-1939 Included in the collection are appeals to the district authorities by Jewish residents, for the purpose of leaving the country.

  9. M.40.MAP - The Military Archive in Podolsk - Documentation from the Central Archive of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense

    M.40.MAP - The Military Archive in Podolsk - Documentation from the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence The collection contains documentation from TSAMO (Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence ) including information regarding the murder of the Jews of Moldavia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Belorussia, Ukraine and more. There is also information regarding the Gypsies, such as the concentration of Gypsies, their living conditions and their murder. Description of the collection: 1. Camps Concentration camps, extermin...

  10. Documentation regarding Keren Hayesod in Riga, 1920-1940

    Documentation regarding Keren Hayesod in Riga, 1920-1940 Keren Hayesod was established at the annual conference of the World Zionist Organization held in London in July 1920, as the fundraising arm of the Zionist movement. The Keren Hayesod Manifest of 1920 reflected the determination and decisiveness of the new Zionist organization: "The time has arrived for the concentration of the Jewish effort on behalf of the establishment of the National Jewish Home". Keren Hayesod was charged with the responsibility for the financing of aliya and settlement in Eretz Israel; Before the establishment o...

  11. Documentation of the Gemeinde Farmsen (Farmsen Suburb Administration) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Gemeinde Farmsen (Farmsen Suburb Administration) in Hamburg

  12. Documentation from the Magistrates Courts of Law (Amtsgerichte) of Blieskastel, Merzig, Nohfelden and Tholey in the Saar region, 1930-1952

    Documentation from the Magistrates Courts of Law (Amtsgerichte) of Blieskastel, Merzig, Nohfelden and Tholey in the Saar region, 1930-1952 Included in the collection: Files of Jewish communities (Brotdorf, Sötern and Bosen) and files of various associations - mainly sports and Nazi associations, including excerpts from the regulations of the business association that ban membership by Jews.

  13. Reports prepared by the Hechalutz Center in Geneva for the World Jewish Congress (WJC) regarding the situation of the Jews in Slovakia and other countries, 1944-1945

    Reports prepared by the Hechalutz Center in Geneva for the World Jewish Congress (WJC) regarding the situation of the Jews in Slovakia and other countries, 1944-1945

  14. Documentation of the Landratsamt (District authority) of the Meschede district, Westphalia

    Documentation of the Landratsamt (District authority) of the Meschede district, Westphalia

  15. Documentation of the German rule in Grodno, 1941-1942

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 13242665
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1942
    • Appeal to the authorities Approval Correspondence Instruction List of craftspeople List of forced laborers List of Jewish residents List of workers Official documentation Questionnaire

    Documentation of the German rule in Grodno, 1941-1942 The Collection includes an appeal by the Jewish community to the municipal administration asking to install a sewer system in the main synagogue; an appeal by the person in charge of the Polish cemetery to the municipal administration regarding the payment of salaries to Jewish workers; permit granted by the mayor of Grodno to have a worker enter the ghetto for repair work; correspondence of the municipal administration with the Municipal Governor (Stadtkommissar-City Commissioner) regarding the confiscation of the Jewish bathhouse and i...

  16. Documentation of Soviet central government in Estonia, 1940 - 1998

  17. O.104 - אוסף לוכסמבורג

    1. Robert Serebrenik, personal and famuly documents and letters. 2. Esra Hilfsverein fuer beduerftige Juden Luxemburg, correspondence and statutes. 3. Letters and other documents concerning the appointment of Robert Serebrenik as Chief Rabbi of Luxemburg. 4. Essay on the Jewish Community Ramath Orah, New York. 5. Correspondence of Robert and Julia Serebrenik. 6. Statement by Robert Serebrenik, Chief Rabbi of Luxemburg, on his meetings with Adolf Eichmann 7. Letters of condolences, eulogies and obituaries on the occasion of Robert Serebrenik's death. 8. Julia Serebrenik's correspondence conc...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. 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 ...