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  1. Collection of Kapitän Michael Sommer en Fa. Union, for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, 1942-1922

    Collection of Kapitän Michael Sommer en Fa. Union, for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, 1942-1922 Two companies purchased goods by command of Oberst Veltjens, Goering's representative in the Netherlands, 1942-1944; Kapitän Michael Sommer served as the person responsible for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, which was carried out in the context of the Vierjahresplan of the Blau-Aktion (black market); Included in the collection: Correspondence between Kapitän Michael Sommer and various...

  2. Collection of various testimonies regarding the war years (in Italian)

    Collection of various testimonies regarding the olocaust and WWII (in Italian)

  3. P.16 - Collection of Rachel Auerbach, author and founder of the Oral Testimonies Department at Yad Vashem

    P.16 - Collection of Rachel Auerbach, author and founder of the Oral Testimonies Department at Yad Vashem archives Rachel Auerbach was born on 18 December 1903 in the village of Lanowce in the Borszczow district of eastern Galicia. She completed her elementary school studies in 1913 , and her high school studies in 1920 in Lwow. Afterwards she studied philosophy and history. In 1925, Rachel Auerbach began to publish articles in the Polish-Jewish newspaper "Chwila" in Lwow. Two years later she was accepted onto the Editorial Board of the "Der Nayer Morgan" newspaper, and she edited journals ...

  4. Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Fachschulen (State and private vocational schools) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Fachschulen (State and private vocational schools) in Hamburg The Collection is comprised of sub-record groups that deal with specific schools. Included in the material, among others, are lists of pupils and matriculation certificates of boys and girls who were pupils in certain schools. Included in the sub-collections are: - 362-5/2 - Sozialpädagogisches Institut 1929-1945 - 362-5/4 - Frauenfachschule 1908-1979.

  5. Documentation of the Ehemaligen Heersarchiv (former German Army Archive) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1945

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10615844
    • 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 the Ehemaligen Heersarchiv (former German Army Archive) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1945 The collection includes various materials from German Army units, mainly of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Supreme Command of the Armed Forces-OKW) on various matters, including operational reports, matters of leisure, finances, administration, military justice, personnel, supplies and equipment, weapons, uniforms, medals, logs and letters of fighters (many letters that have been preserved in a number of files) and more. Additionally, it contains editions of the journal, "Na...

  6. Estate of Richard Jakob Seligmann, in the Archive of the City of Munich, 1881-1941

    Estate of Richard Jakob Seligmann, in the Archive of the City of Munich, 1881-1941 Richard Seligmann was born in Munich in 1890. Following his service in the German Army during World War I, he was a manufacturer of Spiegelglass (mirror glass). During the Nazi regime he made all efforts to emigrate, but in vain. He was forced to relinquish his business in 1939 and in the same year he was evicted from his apartment and had to rent a smaller one. He was deported to Riga in 1941, from where he did not return. In the Collection are Seligmann's correspondence regarding, in main, his attempts to e...

  7. Documentation of People's Courts of Law in Konotop, 1944-1947

    Documentation of People's Courts of Law in Konotop, 1944-1947 Included in the collection are legal demands by Konotop residents for the restitution of [their] property.

  8. Documentation regarding David Frankfurter and his trial in Switzerland following an attempt to assassinate Wilhelm Gustloff, 1936

    Documentation regarding David Frankfurter and his trial in Switzerland following an attempt to assassinate Wilhelm Gustloff, 1936 In the Collection there is documentation regarding the assassination of Wilhelm Gustloff, Landesgruppenleiter Schweiz NSDAP (head of the Nazi party in Switzerland) in his home in Davos by David Frankfurter, a Jewish citizen of Yugoslavia, who was a medical student in Berne, 04 February 1936. David Frankfurter was the youngest of the three sons of an Orthodox rabbi with an excellent general education, who served as a community rabbi in Yugoslavia. His oldest broth...

  9. Documentation of the Court of Law in Przemyśl (first proceedings), 1945-1946

    Documentation of the Court of Law in Przemyśl (first proceedings), 1945-1946 Included in the collection are appeals by relatives of Jews who perished during the war period, submitted to the Court of Law in Przemyśl (first proceedings) during 1945-1946, in order to receive declarations of death.

  10. M.1.PC- Questionnaires filled out by children in the Foehrenwald DP camp, 1945-1946

    M.1.PC- Questionnaires filled out by children in the Foehrenwald DP camp, 1945-1946 The Central Historical Committee (CHC) distributed questionnaires among the children (some from Hungary, and the rest from Poland) in DP camps, in order to collect information by asking questions regarding the fate of the children and the fate of their families during the Nazi period. The questionnaires include questions concerning the names of family members, their places of origin and the general background of the children. On the reverse side of each questionnaire there is a short survey regarding the his...

  11. Documentation from the Finanzaemter 11 in the Duesseldorf region

    Documentation from the Finanzaemter 11 in the Duesseldorf region

  12. Card catalogue of those who perished from the labor battalions and deportees from Hungary

    Card file of members of Hungarian labor battalions who perished The card file was collected and compiled by the Hungarian Ministry of Defense (Honvédelmi Minisztérium) between the years 1945-1954, and includes the personal cards of Hungarian Jewish victims. Some of the documents are photocopies of death certificates which were issued by local courts on the basis of lists and publications of various bodies such as the International Tracing Service, the US army, declarations by individuals regarding Hungarian Jews who had perished, and lists prepared by former prisoners. The card file, which ...

  13. Documentation of the Senatskommssion fuer die Kunstpflege (Senate Committee for Religious Unions' Matters) in Hamburg, 1927-1933

    Documentation of the Senatskommssion fuer die Kunstpflege (Senate Committee for Religious Unions' Matters) in Hamburg, 1927-1933 The sub-record Collection includes two files: one deals with the transfer of a section of the Jewish cemetery in Rentzelstraße for the needs of the city, and the other file deals with the boycott of the Jewish businesses in 1933.

  14. Documentation of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce, which was responsible for the confiscation of artworks in the occupied areas), from the Osoby Archive in Moscow

    Documentation of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce, which was responsible for the confiscation of artworks in the occupied areas), from the Osoby Archive in Moscow

  15. O.36 - David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany

    O.36 - David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany This record group is a collection of testimonies recorded by David Boder, a Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in DP camps in Europe in 1946. The collection is comprised of testimonies of Jews and non-Jews, recorded in various languages and translated into English. The testimonies focus on the events in the lives of the survivors during the war in the ghettos and camps, while serving in the military, in hiding and in children's homes. The testimonies also contain information regardin...

  16. Documentation from the Oberfinanzdirektion Duesseldorf

    Documentation from the Oberfinanzdirektion Duesseldorf

  17. O.18 -Yitzhak Stone Collection: German documentation regarding German war crimes in the occupied countries

    O.18 -Yitzhak Stone Collection: German documentation regarding German war crimes in the occupied countries Yitzhak Stone was a senior aid to the American prosecutor in the Nazi War Crimes Trials at Nuremberg. There are copies of German documents used by the prosecution; sometimes there are also translations for these copies. The files in the collection were submitted to Yad Vashem in a number of shipments: - Files 1-65: Files handed over to Yad Vashem by D. Cohen from the Ministry of Defense in 1956. - Files 66-130: Files handed over to Yad Vashem by D. Cohen from the Ministry of Defense in...

  18. Documentation of the Lwow municipality, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Lwow municipality, 1941-1944 Included in the collection: - Correspondence by the mayor of Lwow with the State Attorney's office and the German Security Police; - Instructions published by the mayor of Lwow regarding the Jews and Jewish property; - Correspondence regarding the establishment of the Lwow Ghetto; - Instructions published by the housing department of the Lwow municipality, regarding the deportation of Jews from their apartments to the Lwow Ghetto; - Instruction published by the mayor of Lwow in July 1942, regarding the arrangements for the borders of the Lwo...

  19. TR.11 - Israeli Police Investigations of Nazi Crimes: Documentation of the Israel Police unit assigned to investigate Nazi war crimes

    TR.11 - Israeli Police Investigations of Nazi Crimes: Documentation of the Israel Police unit assigned to investigate Nazi war crimes In the Record Group there are files prepared by the Israel Police unit assigned to investigate Nazi war crimes for use in Nazi war criminal trials. In the files there is documentation regarding criminals or locations where crimes were committed (such as camps) including protocols of testimonies, information collected by the police, and much administrative documentation regarding the investigations and the unit itself.

  20. O.76 - Songs/Poems regarding the Holocaust from the Holocaust period

    O.76 - Songs/Poems regarding the Holocaust from the Holocaust period This Record Group is comprised of two Sub-Record Groups: O.76.1 - Collection of Yiddish folk songs sung by the Jews in the ghettos in the Transnistria and Moldova area O.76.2 - Songs/Poems mostly written by Holocaust survivors