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  1. Documentation of the German and local authorities in the Brest Litovsk region, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the German and local authorities in the Brest Litovsk region, 1941-1943 Included in the collection, among other material: - Documentation of the Gebietskommissar (district commissioner), regarding the transport of Jews; - Appeals and requests sent by the Judenrat in Brest to the German authorities, regarding the receipt of building materials; - Correspondence between the Gebietskommissariat (district commissary) and the Brest municipality, regarding the confiscation of Jewish homes.

  2. Documentation of Hermann Goering and the Four-year Plan, 1937-1944

    Documentation of Hermann Goering and the Four-year Plan, 1937-1944 The collection contains much varied documentation including correspondence and data regarding German Reich funds and foreign currency matters (including specific guidelines of Goering for the allocation of funds for various subjects); detailed statistical data regarding the financial situation and regarding the German economy throughout all its branches, related to the Four- year Plan for which Goering was responsible; information regarding the property from the occupied countries transferred to the Germans.

  3. Collection of the Van Leer Stichting (Van Leer Institute) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1941-1959

    Collection of the Van Leer Stichting (Van Leer Institute) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1941-1959 The Van Leer Stichting (Van Leer Institute) was established in 1941 following anti-Jewish legislation in the Netherlands; financing of the institute came from the dissolution of the factory of B. van Leer, a Jewish industrialist who emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States; the anti-Jewish legislation, whose implementation in the Netherlands was appointed to H. A. Rauter, isolated the Jews from the cultural life in the Netherlands as of 15/09/1941; the Van Leer Institute provided a ...

  4. Personal files of Jewish teachers and lecturers at the University of Hamburg

    Personal files of Jewish teachers and lecturers at the University of Hamburg The Collection includes personal files of well-known persons such as Ernst Cassirer. The files also document the proceedings of the dismissal from work of the Jewish teachers and lecturers following the Nazi rise to power.

  5. Documentation of the Sniatyn district authorities, 1928-1939

    Documentation of the Sniatyn district authorities, 1928-1939 Included in the collection: - Government documentation regarding the legal and administrative status of Jewish communities in the Stanislawow region; - List of names of Jews born in Sniatyn; - Lists including names of Jewish couples who married in Zablotow, and Jews who died in Zablotow; - List of members of the Zablotow community who owe tax payments to the community; - Documentation regarding tax payments for membership in the Sniatyn community, and regulations regarding elections in Sniatyn and Zablotow; - Correspondence by the...

  6. TR.17.OBUiADwLd - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Lodz, Poland, 1940-1980

    TR.17.OBUiADwLd - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Lodz, Poland, 1940-1980

  7. Files of Jewish businesses, from the municipal Gewerbeamt (Business office) in Munich

    Files of Jewish businesses, from the municipal Gewerbeamt (Business office) in Munich

  8. Documentation of various institutions in Mogilev, 1939-1945

    Documentation of various institutions in Mogilev, 1939-1945 Varied documentation, including among others: correspondence with various government organizations in the city of Mogilev, protocols of meetings regarding a pension for bereaved families, requests by residents to receive heating wood, lists of workers, and announcements regarding the payment of salaries.

  9. Files of Jewish businesses, from the Devisenstelle (Foreign Currency Department) of the Oberfinanzdirektion Nürnberg

    Files of Jewish businesses, from the Devisenstelle (Foreign Currency Department) of the Oberfinanzdirektion Nürnberg

  10. M.37 - Documentation from the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine, 1941-1977

    M.37 - Documentation from the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine, 1941-1977 There are files in the collection which were selected from among the 60 records groups in the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine. Previously, the Central Archive was known as the Party Archive of the Institute for the History of the Communist Party in Ukraine (the Institute was a branch of the Tsentralny Komitet Komunisticheskoy Partiy Ukrainy [Ukrainian Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Communist Party]). Until 1989, foreign researchers were not given access to the A...

  11. Heinz Prossnitz Collection

    Heinz Prossnitz Collection Heinz Prossnitz was born in Czechoslovakia in 1926. Following the German occupation of Czechia and Moravia in March 1939, Heinz joined the Maccabi Hatzair movement in Prague. His "Forbearance" group numbered ten members and it was led by Fredy Hirsch, who was much admired among the Jewish youth in the Protectorate. During the 1940/1941 school year Heinz studied in the Jugend-Aliya [Youth Aliyah] school, which prepared pupils for aliya to Eretz Israel and was therefore permitted by the German authorities. The school was closed in summer 1941 and the situation of th...

  12. Documentation regarding students and lecturers at the Belorussian State College of Education in Mogilev, 1939-1941

    Documentation regarding students and lecturers at the Belorussian State College of Education in Mogilev, 1939-1941 Included in the collection is documentation regarding the acceptance and dismissal of workers at the college, personal files of the lecturers and students, and lists of workers and students.

  13. Documentation of the Kinderlandverschickung (Children's Land Evacuation) campaign of Hamburg

    Documentation of the Kinderlandverschickung (Children's Land Evacuation) campaign of Hamburg

  14. Service Européen de Recherches (SER– European Search Service) card catalogue from France, for searching for relatives, 1940-1946

    Service Européen de Recherches (SER– European Search Service) card catalogue from France, for searching for relatives, 1940-1946 The following details appear in the card catalogue: The name being searched; place and date of birth; nationality; parents' names; profession; date of residence in France and last address; as well as date of arrest or deportation and deportation destination.

  15. O.41.1 - Names of victims on memorial tablets and ritual objects in synagogues and study halls in Israel

    O.41.1 - Names of victims on memorial tablets and ritual objects in synagogues and study halls in Israel

  16. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Gesher

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Gesher Material from the personal file of Holocaust survivor Dorit Peles (photocopy): 1. Her story regarding the uprising activity in Brzezinka [Birkenau] camp in Auschwitz; 2. "Escape from the Auschwitz railroad station"; 3. "Kol Nidrei": Letter written as a story to Rucheleh, by Yot.-Bet (Y. T. B.) [Yona Tussia Bouchan]; 4. Letters from Sweden and Cyprus (Hungarian, Hebrew and Yiddish); Booklet: "Yaakov Mandel: His experiences", Kibbutz Ge...

  17. O.92 - Kulka-Jaeckel Collection: Nazi reports regarding public opinion in Germany

    O.92 - Kulka-Jaeckel Collection: Nazi reports regarding public opinion in Germany The Collection includes reports regarding the Stimmungsberichte (atmosphere; mood) among the members of SD units, the Gestapo, the Nazi Party and local authorities throughout Germany. The reports in which there is information regarding the Jews served as the basis for the book, "Die Juden in den geheimen NS-Stimmungsberichten 1933-1945" (The Jews in the Secret Nazi Atmosphere Reports, 1933-1945), Kulka, Otto Dov and Jäckel, Eberhard, eds., Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2004. Professor Dov Otto Kulka submitted cop...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...