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Language of Description: English
Country: Israel

  1. Survey of the situation in various countries as reported in the Nazi and local press and from letters, with emphasis on the situation of the Jews, November-December 1942

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות - חומר להרצאה על מצב היהודים בארצות הכיבוש הנאצי - מס. 16

    Survey of the situation in various countries as reported in the Nazi and local press and from letters, with emphasis on the situation of the Jews, November-December 1942 Poland: Orders regarding the establishment of ghettos in the Generalgouvernement and putting the ghettos into use; division into 53 ghettos in the 5 districts: Warsaw; Lublin (assuming that the Lublin Ghetto has already been liquidated); Krakow; Radom and Galicia; granting of freedom of choice of ghetto in the district to the Jews; exemption of Jews working in war-related occupations from living in the ghetto; imposition of...

  2. Memoirs of Magda Ödönné (Komor) Lederer, born in Szabadka, Yugoslavia, 1900, regarding her experiences in the Szabadka Ghetto, Bácsalmás camp, in Budapest, and transfer on the Kasztner train to Bergen-Belsen and more

    1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957
    • Ahogy egy asszony látta

    Memoirs of Magda Ödönné (Komor) Lederer, born in Szabadka, Yugoslavia, 1900, regarding her experiences in the Szabadka Ghetto, Bácsalmás camp, in Budapest, and transport on the Kasztner train to Bergen-Belsen and more Life in Szabadka during the German occupation; restrictions on Jews including the yellow badge; sewing of valuables inside clothing; assembly of 350 men, including her husband, Ödön Lederer, and her brother, Ernő, night of 13 April 1944; deportation of the men, apparently to Germany, April 1944; receiving a farewell letter from her husband and a request to take care of their d...

  3. O.75: Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period or regarding the Holocaust

    O.75: Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period or regarding the Holocaust In the Record Group are personal letters collected by Yad Vashem since its establishment. The letters were written before, during and after the Holocaust period in the Nazi occupied countries - in ghettos, camps and hiding places, and in the countries to which the Jewish refugees from Europe succeeded in escaping before and during the Holocaust. The letters were sent to family members, relatives, acquaintances, friends and close friends in European countries and countries overseas. In the collection are letters...

  4. M.82 - Documentation from the State Archives of Saint Petersburg

    M.82 - Documentation from the State Archives of Saint Petersburg In the Record Group there is documentation selected from the TSGA SPb (Central State Archive of St. Petersburg) from the years 1918-1955, and from the Central State Archive of Historical and Political Documentation (the former archive of the Communist Party), 1941-1973. The Records Group in Yad Vashem contains 3,136 files. In the Records Group there is documentation from the following collections: The Collection of the Department for Nationalist Minority Matters of the Regional Executive Committee of St. Petersburg, 1918-1923:...

  5. P.75 - Rachel Minc collection

    P.75 - Rachel Minc collection Rachel Minc (born in Lodz, Poland, in 1899 and died in 1978) is a Polish-born French Jewish educator and writer who worked for the rescue of Jewish children during the Second World War. She studied educational psychology and pedagogy in Berlin, and then in the Scandinavian countries, where she met the anti-fascist pedagogue Minna Specht, founder, with Leonard Nelson, of the German resistance movement to Nazism, the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). This movement was banned by the Nazis in 1933 and after the war allied with the German Social Democ...

  6. 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...

  7. Documentation from the State Archives of Saint Petersburg

    In the Record Group there is documentation selected from the TSGA SPb (Central State Archive of St. Petersburg) from the years 1918-1955, and from the Central State Archive of Historical and Political Documentation (the former archive of the Communist Party), 1941-1973. The Records Group in Yad Vashem contains 3,136 files.In the Records Group there is documentation from the following collections: The Collection of the Department for Nationalist Minority Matters of the Regional Executive Committee of St. Petersburg, 1918-1923:Reports regarding the activities of Jewish schools, orphanages and...

  8. Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period and regarding it

    In the Records Group there are personal letters collected by Yad Vashem since its founding. The letters were written before, during and after the Holocaust period in the Nazi occupied countries in ghettos, camps and hiding places and in the countries to which the Jewish refugees from Europe succeeded in escaping to before and during the Holocaust. The letters were sent to family members, relatives, acquaintances, friends and close friends in European countries and countries across the sea.In the collection there are letters written outside the boundaries of Europe and sent to Jews living in...

  9. The Military Archive in Podolsk - Documentation from the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence

    1. Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Central Archives in Moscow, 1939-1945

    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, extermination camps, camps for forced laborers, POW camps and more, transports of Jews, robbery, selection, those running the ca...

  10. THE HERSH SEGAL COLLECTION

    The collection contains the following materials: 1. 85 questioners with testimonies of children. In each questionnaire the children were required to write down their names, place and year of birth and also share their experiences during the war. Because the children were deported to different places in Transnistria it is possible to form a comprehensive picture of the camps and ghettos in Transnistria. (85 testimonies, handwritten original in Yiddish [with Hebrew translation]). 2. Two Booklets with a selection of 25 testimonies in Yiddish [Written in Hebrew letters]. (120 pages, Handwritten...

  11. Book, "Holocaust of the Jews of Greece", by Michael Molho, the rabbi of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki, written in memory of the community; published in Essen, Germany, 1981

    1. P.26 - Heiner Lichtenstein Collection - Documentation collected by a Journalist who wrote about the Holocaust and about Trials of Nazi War Criminals, 1952-1987

    Book, "Holocaust of the Jews of Greece", by Michael Molho, the rabbi of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki, written in memory of the community; published in Essen, Germany, 1981 Book One Chapter One: Forward and Introduction: Survey of the history of the Jewish community in Thessaloniki, from the 4th century C.E. until its destruction, 1943, pp. 1-11; The Jewish community before World War II, including demography, residence, language, administration, matters relating to kashrut and ritual slaughter, the rabbinical court, religious ceremonies, schools, and "Batei Midrash" (religious study ...

  12. M.52.DAIFO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region

    M.52.DAIFO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region History of the Archives: The Archives was established in December 1939 and was called the Regional Historical Archives of Stanislawow until 1941. Before its establishment, all of the documentation was kept in institutions of the authorities and in public institutions. This documentation began to be collected by the Stanislawow UNKVD as of November 1939 in the new regional Archives after the same institutions and organizations were cancelled by the Soviet authorities. The name of the Archives was changed during ...

  13. Leo Frobenius

    1. Biographical press cuttings collection (1945-1970s)

    "Leo Viktor Frobenius (29 June 1873 – 9 August 1938) was an ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016). "Carl August Hugo Froelich (5 September 1875 – 12 February 1953) was a German film pioneer and film director. He was born and died in Berlin."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016). "Gustav Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis....

  14. M.52.DALO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Lwow Region

    M.52.DALO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Lwow Region History of the Archives: The State Archives of the Lwow Region was established in December 1939 on the basis of the State Archives of Lwow. The archive was called the Regional Historical Archives in Lwow until 1941. It was called the State Archive of the Lwow Region during 1941-1958, and was called the Regional State Archives in Lwow during 1958-1980. As of 1959 the documentation that was in the Regional Archives in Drogobych was transferred to it. Since 1980 it has been called the State Archives of the Lwow Region. The Sub-...

  15. Naum Gabo

    1. Biographical press cuttings collection (1945-1970s)

    "Naum Gabo, born Naum Neemia Pevsner (5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1890 – 23 August 1977) was a prominent Russian sculptor in the Constructivism movement and a pioneer of Kinetic Art."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 7/8/2016). "Alfons Goppel (1 October 1905 in Reinhausen, near Regensburg – 24 December 1991 in Johannesberg, near Aschaffenburg) was a German politician of the CSU party and Prime Minister of Bavaria (1962–1978)."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 7/8/2016). "Alfons Gorbach (2 September 1898 – 31 July 1972) was an Austrian politician of the conservative People's Party (ÖVP). He served as Chan...