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  1. Collection of the Stichting Centraal Bureau van Onderzoek inzake de Vererving van de Nalatenschappen van Vermiste Personen, the fund for the administration of the property of missing persons in the Netherlands, 1949-1956

    Collection of the Stichting Centraal Bureau van Onderzoek inzake de Vererving van de Nalatenschappen van Vermiste Personen, the fund for the administration of the property of missing persons in the Netherlands, 1949-1956 Establishment of the Stichting Centraal Bureau van Onderzoek inzake de Vererving van de Nalatenschappen van Vermiste Personen, the fund for the administration of the property of missing persons in the Netherlands, on the initiative of the Brotherhood of Notaries in the Netherlands in 1949; the aim of the fund: to collect and administer information regarding the inheritances...

  2. Collection of the Stichting Landelijke Organisatie voor Hulp aan Onderduikers en Landelijke Knokploegen - LO (Fund to Help Those In Hiding and the National Organization of Teams of Fighters in the Netherlands), regarding Jews, 1940-1945

    Collection of the Stichting Landelijke Organisatie voor Hulp aan Onderduikers en Landelijke Knokploegen - LO (Fund to Help Those In Hiding and the National Organization of Teams of Fighters in the Netherlands), regarding Jews, 1940-1945 Included in the collection: Documents collected by the Stichting Landelijke Organisatie voor Hulp aan Onderduikers en Landelijke Knokploegen - LO, after the war, for the purpose of writing a book regarding the resistance activities during the occupation period in the Netherlands during 1940-1945; Testimonies of members of the Dutch underground, regarding the...

  3. Collection of the Tribunal Général de Gouvernement pour la Zone Française d'occupation en Allemagne - General Court of Law of the Government in the French Occupation Zone in Germany, 1945-1949

    Collection of the Tribunal Général de Gouvernement pour la Zone Française d'occupation en Allemagne - General Court of Law of the Government in the French Occupation Zone in Germany, 1945-1949 Division of occupied Germany into four zones: Russian, American, British and French, following the Allied Forces victory in 1945; Included in the collection: Legal documentation, protocols and verdicts of the Tribunal Général de Gouvernement pour la Zone Française d'occupation en Allemagne - General Court of Law of the Government in the French Occupation Zone in Germany, 1945-1949; Documents and proto...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Collection of the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6100287
    • English, Hebrew
    • Certification Document Financial accounts Laws and decrees Letter Lists of businesses and skilled workers Names Protocol Questionnaire Report Reports Survey report

    Collection of the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 The Wirtschaftsprüfstelle (Economics Research office) was part of the Generalkommissariat für Finanz und Wirtschaft, and it supervised the implementation of the Aryanization of the Dutch economy; the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle started the Aryanization in The Hague in October 1940 with the registration of all of the Jewish businesses in the Netherlands, according to order VO 189/40 given on 22/10/1940; later on, according to order VO 48/41 given on 12/03/1941, the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle was authorized to appoint a Treuhander (tr...

  6. Collection of the Zentralauftragstelle in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1942-1943

    Collection of the Zentralauftragstelle in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1942-1943 The Zentralauftragstelle (Central Assignments office) - Zast [abbreviated name] was established by the Reichskomisar (Reichs commissioner) as the central office for public assignments (Zentralstelle für öffentliche Auftrage) together with the Deutsche Handelskammer für die Niederlande (German Bureau of Commerce in the Netherlands) in 1940; Dr. Anton Maly stood at its head; the aim of the organization was the coordination of the activities of the Wehrmacht and the great many other public organizations that were t...

  7. Collection of the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Office for the Deportation of Jews), the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer - HSSPF department, Amsterdam, 1942-1944

    Collection of the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Office for the Deportation of Jews), the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer - HSSPF department, Amsterdam, 1942-1944 The Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung, Office for the Deportation/ Emigration of Jews, was a Nazi organization that was active at the start in Vienna and later on also in Amsterdam; the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung had close ties with the German security forces, the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer Nord-West, and had a legitimate image of encouragement of emigration; at the head of the HSSPF stood Generalkommissa...

  8. Collection of Ukrainian newspapers published in the Rivne region, 1941-1943

    Collection of Ukrainian newspapers published in the Rivne region, 1941-1943 - Issue of the "Vozrozhdeniye" newspaper, published by the Romen municipality; - Issues of the "Gaydamaka" newspaper, published by the Military Organization of the Ukrainian Nationalists (Polesskaya Sech) headed by Bulba Taras; - Issues of the "Volyn" newspaper, published in Rivne.

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

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

  10. Collection of Vught camp: Testimonies regarding the concentration camp administered by the Germans in the Netherlands during 1943-1944, dated, 1943-1951

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6085435
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation List of deportees List of inmates List of Jewish skilled professionals Official documentation Reports Statistical reports Testimony

    Collection of Vught camp: Testimonies regarding the concentration camp administered by the Germans in the Netherlands during 1943-1944, dated, 1943-1951 Documentation from Vught camp in the Netherlands, known also by the name Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch, whose inmates were divided into categories of political prisoners, Jews, Mischlinge, and other inmates; Administrative documentation, regarding the organization and administration of Vught camp during 1943-1944, including medical records from a dental clinic, reports regarding the draft of forced laborers, inmate cards, and lists from...

  11. Collection of W. Drees, a Social Democratic politician in the Netherlands, including documents from 1933-1945

    Collection of W. Drees, a Social Democratic politician in the Netherlands, including documents from 1933-1945 W. Drees was born in 1886; he was a member of the Dutch Parliament on behalf of the Social Democratic Workers' Party - SDAP during 1933-1940; he was a hostage in Sint Michielsgestel and Buchenwald camps during 1940-1941; he stood as the head of the Dutch resistance organizations, het Vaderlandsch Comité and Contactcommissie der Illegaliteit, during the occupation period and was a secret member of the College van Vertrouwensmannen organization; he was appointed as the Minister of Wel...

  12. Collection of W. S. H. Elte, the principal of het Joodsch Lyceum te Amsterdam (Jewish School of Amsterdam) in the Netherlands, 1937-1947

    Collection of W. S. H. Elte, the principal of het Joodsch Lyceum te Amsterdam (Jewish School of Amsterdam) in the Netherlands, 1937-1947 Establishment of the Joodsch Lyceum te Amsterdam by the Amsterdam municipality in 1941; transfer of the Joodsch Lyceum te Amsterdam to the administration of the Joodsche Raad in 1942; the school's activities became impossible [to be carried out] due to the persecution of the Jews in 1942; the number of pupils in the Lyceum was 370 in June 1942; Included in the collection: Report regarding the Jewish schools that were active in the Netherlands during the Na...

  13. Collection of Westerbork camp, 1940-1945

    Collection of Westerbork camp, 1940-1945 Westerbork camp was established by the Dutch authorities as a refugee camp, following the influx of Jewish refugees who arrived from Germany in 1933; the refugees were permitted to leave the camp until 1940, when the Germans surrounded Westerbork camp with a fence and established that the camp would be transferred to the auspices of the Ministry of Justice; the Germans changed the designation of the camp to a transit camp for deported Jews, under the supervision of the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in 1941; 101,525 persons were regis...

  14. Collection of Zwitsersche Weg A, including documents regarding Jewish refugees from the Netherlands, 1940-1944

    Collection of Zwitsersche Weg A, including documents regarding Jewish refugees from the Netherlands, 1940-1944 Treatment of Jewish refugees who are citizens of the Netherlands, in Belgium, Switzerland and Poland, in the context of the persecution of Dutch Jewry and the anti-German underground in the Netherlands and Belgium, 1940-1944; Included in the collection: Letters from the Joodse Coordinatie Commissie [without indication of the addressees], regarding the collection of data concerning Jewish deportees, including children, May-August 1944; List of 281 Jews, titled, "Istanbul Exchanges" ...

  15. Collection pertaining to Polish-Jewish relations

    Collection pertaining to Polish-Jewish relations

  16. Collection Rabbi Salomon Ullmann.

    This fonds includes correspondence of the Chief Rabbi of Belgium during the Second World War (as representative and head of the Vereniging der Joden in België – Association des Juifs en Belgique) including a list of Jewish teachers in Brussels, a list of Jews from Ghent, and correspondence with imprisoned Jews in internment camps in Limburg. This fonds also includes documents such as activity reports and statutes of the Association des Juifs en Belgique, reports on the situation of the Jews in Belgium during the occupation (written in Lisbon by Maurice Benedictus), reports written by the Ch...

  17. Collection regarding the S. Liberman kindergarten, elementary school and private high school in Riga, 1932-1939

    Collection regarding the S. Liberman kindergarten, elementary school and private high school in Riga, 1932-1939 Included in the collection are reports of meetings of the teachers committee, and parents and pupils meetings; general documentation regarding the activities of the elementary school and high school; instructions and circulars of the education department of the Riga municipality, regarding the acceptance and dismissal of teachers; lists of teachers; classroom record books; protocols of examinations; documentation regarding the pupils' health situation.

  18. Collection regarding the trials of Zoepf, Harster and Slottke in Munich during 1966-1968

    Collection regarding the trials of Zoepf, Harster and Slottke in Munich during 1966-1968 SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Zoepf was head of the Referat IV B4 in The Hague in 1942. He administered the system of transports from Westerbork camp to the East, including the decisions regarding exemptions and deportations; Wilhelm Harster was commander of de Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (the German Security and Police forces); Fraulein Slottke gave orders to the Police in The Hague, in order to locate Jews and their property; Included in the collection: Documents regarding the death of...

  19. Collection Reichskommissar für die besetzten niederländischen Gebiete, 1940-1944

    Collection of the Deutsche Theater in den Niederlanden, regarding theater and opera presentations in the Netherlands, June-August 1944 The theater was subjugated to the Reichskommissar; Dr. W. Nufer administered the German theater in the Netherlands with the help of Dr. J. Bergfeld, the head of the culture department of the Generalkommissar zur besonderen Verwendung; Included in the collection: Correspondence by Nufer with various people, regarding theater and opera presentations in the Netherlands, June-August 1944.

  20. Correspondence between the Insel-Verlag publishing company in Leipzig and the writer Stefan Zweig regarding the publication of his books, 1912-1937

    Correspondence between the Insel-Verlag publishing company in Leipzig and the writer Stefan Zweig regarding the publication of his books, 1912-1937 Diverse correspondence by the publisher with the writer (and during the later years, also with Stefan Zweig's wife, Friederike Maria Zweig) in Vienna and later on in Salzburg. The correspondence relates to the publication, proofreading and translation to other languages of the works of Stefan Zweig, and likewise to the articles and series of books that Zweig edited for the publisher. Included in the files, among other matters, are the publisher'...