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  1. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Zheludok, 1940 and 1945

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Zheludok, 1940 and 1945 The Collection includes protocols from meetings of the District Committee; documentation regarding preparations for the elections; appeals by residents to the District Committee; correspondence of the District Committee with the Regional Committee and the Central Committee regarding the approval of appointments; list of former Party members living in the District; personal file cards of Party members; list of residents who were murdered by the Germans, compiled in 1945.

  2. Collection of De Nederlandsche Landstand - The Netherlands Agriculture and Fishing Authority, 1941-1945

    Collection of De Nederlandsche Landstand - The Netherlands Agriculture and Fishing Authority, 1941-1945 De Nederlandsche Landstand - The Netherlands Agriculture and Fishing Authority was established in the Netherlands by the Germans in 1941, in order to take control over all matters related to agriculture and fishing; at the head of the authority stood E. J. Roskam, who was also the head of the Agrarisch Front, a section of an organization of collaborators with the Germans in the Netherlands.

  3. M.52.DAmK - Documentation of the State Archives of the City of Kiev

    M.52.DAmK - Documentation of the State Archives of the City of Kiev History of the Archives: The Archives was established in 1932 by order of the People's Commissioners Council and the central general Ukrainian Executive Committee. During 1932-1958 it was called the Archives of the City of Kiev affiliated with the City Council. During 1958-1962 it was active as the Municipal State Archives, without a storeroom for permanent collections. From 1962 it was active as the Municipal State Archives, with a storeroom for permanent collections. Since 1980 it has been called the State Archives of the...

  4. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Belostok, 1939-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Belostok, 1939-1941 The Collection includes reports of propaganda activity among the local population.

  5. Lists of residents evacuated from Belorussia to the internal areas of the Soviet Union

    Lists of residents evacuated from Belorussia to the internal areas of the Soviet Union Lists of people evacuated from Belorussia to the Kuybyshev, Yaroslavl, Bashkirskaya ASSR, Mordovskaya ASSR, Chuvashskaya ASSR, and other regions of the Soviet Union.

  6. Collection of protocols from the Population Registry, compiled in the Lodz Ghetto

    Collection of protocols from the Population Registry, compiled in the Lodz Ghetto

  7. Vormundschaftswesen (Custodianship) files of the Amtsgericht (Magistrates Court) in Hamburg

    Vormundschaftswesen (Custodianship) files of the Amtsgericht (Magistrates Court) in Hamburg Included in the Collection are files of Jews for whom Vormundschaftswesen (Custodianship) and Pflege (Shelter) proceedings were opened. Among other matters, the files relate to Jews who were property owners and whose property was confiscated by the State for various reasons (for instance, regarding emigres who left debts). The files include, among other material, lists of property of the Jews, and detailed reports of the Custodianship office regarding the activities and financial accounts of the Jews.

  8. Vormundschaftswesen (Custodianship) files of the Justizverwaltung I (Justice administration) in Hamburg

    Vormundschaftswesen (Custodianship) files of the Justizverwaltung I (Justice administration) in Hamburg

  9. Documentation of the women's high school affiliated with the "Jewish Association for Elementary and High Schools" in Kolomyja, 1939

    Documentation of the women's high school affiliated with the "Jewish Association for Elementary and High Schools" in Kolomyja, 1939 Included in the collection are protocols of the final exams for the 1938/1939 school year.

  10. Documentation from the local archives in Cluj and St. Gheorghe, Romania

    Documentation from the local archives in Cluj and St. Gheorghe, Romania Ten files, of which Files Nos. 1-8 and 10, include information in Hungarian. A few of the files are from the communities in the cities and towns in Transylvania in the area of Haromszek. The people in the communities wrote the history of the Jews of Haromszek and preserved the paperwork dealing with the life of the community. The main paperwork deals with matters pertaining to Kezdivasarhely and Sepsiszentgyorgy. In File No. 9 there are documents from Cluj in Romanian.

  11. Documentation of the regional draft office in Stanislav, 1944-1945

    Documentation of the regional draft office in Stanislav, 1944-1945 Included in the collection are reports regarding the "Aktions" of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in Ukraine during 1944-1945.

  12. Documentation from the Kinderrettungsverein of the Berliner Stadtmission in Berlin

    Documentation from the Kinderrettungsverein of the Berliner Stadtmission in Berlin The Kinderrettungsverein (Child Rescue Association) was established in 1905 by the priest Wilhelm Pfeiffer, a priest at the Evangelist Innere Mission (Inner Mission) in Berlin. The Association was meant to care for children who were born out of wedlock in the large "Charite" hospital in Berlin. The Association also took care of orphans and half-orphaned children. The Association received custody over the children, took care of their education and vocational training, and attempted to find foster [adoptive] pa...

  13. O.31 - Documentation of the Jews of Italy mainly from the Holocaust period

    O.31 - Documentation of the Jews of Italy mainly from the Holocaust period Personal documentation submitted to the Yad Vashem Archive containing testimonies, letters and personal documents of different kinds. Among the documentation in the Record Group there are also lists of Jews as well as other official documentation, most of it copies on microfilm spools of the documentation from the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem and the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CDEC) in Milan regarding the Jewish communities in Italy, antisemitic legislation, pe...

  14. Documentation of the Wilejka District Commissioner, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Wilejka District Commissioner, 1941-1944 The Collection includes documentation of the municipal administration in Molodeczno regarding the handing over to town residents of homes that were confiscated from Jews; appeal by the local Head of the Wilejka District to the District Commissioner (Gebietskommissar) requesting to release two Jews from detention; commands by the Molodetschno Commander (Kommandant) regarding the prohibition of turning on lights in the evening hours; official documentation of the Regional Commissioner (Generalkommissariat) in Minsk and the District...

  15. Documentation of the Belorussian Institute of Agriculture in Gorki, 1916-1941

    Documentation of the Belorussian Institute of Agriculture in Gorki, 1916-1941 Included in the collection are lists of students, lecturers and employees at the institute; personal documents of students and employees at the institute, requests to receive salaries, and instructions by the administration regarding students and employees at the institute.

  16. Documentation of the finance department of the municipal Executive committee in Gomel, 1930-1941

    Documentation of the finance department of the municipal Executive committee in Gomel, 1930-1941 Included in the collection is a list of taxpayers from Gomel during 1923-1941, and orders given by the mayor of Gomel in 1942.

  17. Documentation of the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Shitomir, 1943

    Documentation of the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Shitomir, 1943 Included in the collection is correspondence between the Reichskommissar der Ukraine (Reich commissioner of Ukraine) and the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Shitomir.

  18. Documentation of the partisans movement headquarters in Belorussia, 1941-1944

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12796532
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1944
    • Investigation report Letter List of partisans Official documentation Order Personal documents Questionnaire Statistical report Survey report Testimony

    Documentation of the partisans movement headquarters in Belorussia, 1941-1944 Included in the collection, among other material: - Lists of partisans from various units that were active in Belorussia; - Personal cards and questionnaires of Jewish partisans; - Statistical data regarding the partisans movement in Belorussia; - Professional opinions of partisans commanders, regarding the fighters; - Lists of Soviet sappers; - Plans for action of the partisans movement headquarters; - Report to Platon, the general headquarters representative, regarding the participation of many Jews in the parti...

  19. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Voronovo, 1940-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Voronovo, 1940-1941 The Collection includes a list of election committee members in the Baranowichi Region; special messages of the RO NKVD (the District Department of the NKVD) regarding anti-Soviet activity; reports of the District Committee to the Communist Party's Central and Regional Committee in Belorussia.

  20. Documentation of Jewish refugees in Switzerland who made aliya to Eretz Israel after the war, dated 1945

    Documentation of Jewish refugees in Switzerland who made aliya to Eretz Israel after the war, dated 1945 - Personal files of Jewish refugees from the Swiss Federal Archive in Bern [including?] the Gaon and Majrovitz families; - List of candidates for aliya from the Youth Aliyah House in Bex, in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.