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Country: Israel

  1. Reports regarding salaries received by workers in the Jewish education system in Latvia, 1920-1940

    Reports regarding salaries received by workers in the Jewish education system in Latvia, 1920-1940

  2. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, 1944-1946

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, 1944-1946 Included in the collection is documentation regarding the murder of Jews in the Gomel region and the Rechitsa, Petrikov, Yelsk and Narovlya districts.

  3. TR.7- Gruenwald-Kasztner Trial, 1954

    TR.7- Gruenwald-Kastner Trial 1954 In 1954, the Attorney General of Israel, Haim Cohen, filed a lawsuit against Malkiel Gruenwald, the Jerusalem journalist of Hungarian origin, on the charge of publishing a pamphlet which claimed that Dr. Rudolf Kastner, who was serving then in a public position, had collaborated with the German occupation forces in Hungary. Kastner had been a Jewish public leader in Hungary and a member of the Vaad Hatzala in Budapest at the time of the war. At the end of the war, Kastner had emigrated to Israel, become integrated as an active member of the Mapai Party (Wo...

  4. Documentation from the Terezin Memorial Site

    Subsection O.64.1- Documentation from the Terezin Memorial Site The documentation in this subsection was copied in the 1990s in the Archives of the Theresienstadt Ghetto Memorial Site in Czechoslovakia. The documentation includes diaries, memoirs, letters and documentation from the ghetto headquarters. The documentation is in German, Czech and the Yiddish that was unique to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, a blend of German, Yiddish and Czech.

  5. Documentation from the Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Saarlouis (Public Prosecutor's Office in Saarlouis), 1928-1938

    Documentation from the Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Saarlouis (Public Prosecutor's Office in Saarlouis), 1928-1938 The documentation that was copied for Yad Vashem includes details regarding Jewish jurists, trials against Jews, Jewish prisoners, anti-Jewish legislation in the Saar region, examinations of the Aryan origin of workers in the legal system, proceedings against Germans accused of friendly relationships with Jews, attacks on Jews and on Jewish property, and Jewish businesses that were in contact with the judicial system; The documentation was copied for Yad Vashem in 2012.

  6. Documentation from the Bayerische Staatskanzlei (Bavarian State Office)

    Documentation from the Bayerische Staatskanzlei (Bavarian State Office)

  8. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Givat Haim (Ihud)

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Givat Haim (Ihud) Experiences/ memoirs: 1. Olga Banai; 2. Shaul Bar-Lev; 3. Mina Bresler; 4. Shoshana Grinspan; 5. Chaya Flushnik; Eulogies: 1. Aleks Banai; 2. Chaim Hecht; 3. Yona Flushnik; Articles: 1. Arnon Lapid, "79235 - a strong number", from: "The green page in the kibbutz movement", no. 135, 1984; 2. Brief biography of the late Moshe Grinspan (unknown source).

  9. Documentation of the SS Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt (RuSHA-SS Main Office for Race and Resettlement), 1934-1945

    Documentation of the SS Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt (RuSHA-SS Main Office for Race and Resettlement), 1934-1945 The SS Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt (RuSHA-SS Main Office for Race and Resettlement) was founded in 1931; its functions included maintaining the purity of race of members of the SS, dealing with matters pertaining to farmers and settlement, and education of the population in the spirit of Nazi ideology. Richard Walther Darre, who at the time also served as Reichsbauernfuehrer (Reich Farmers' Leader), was appointed to head the organization. Darre's independent world view brought him...

  10. Documentation of the Landratsamt Erlangen (District authority of Erlangen) in Bavaria

    Documentation of the Landratsamt Erlangen (District authority of Erlangen) in Bavaria

  11. Courts of Law in Wurttemberg, Germany

    Courts of Law in Wurttemberg, Germany

  12. Documentation of the Konzentrationslager (Concentration camps administration), Germany

    Documentation of the Konzentrationslager (Concentration camps administration), Germany

  13. Documentation of the administration of the Rowne district, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the administration of the Rowne district, 1941-1943

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Beit Zera Books: 1. Chaim Kovetz: "Personal stories - members of Kibbutz Beit Zera, 1997", Kibbutz Beit Zera, 1997; 2. Yosh Rorman, "Achoti" ("My sister"); 3. Yosh Rorman, "Farewell from Schwarzwald"; Booklets: 1. Yehuda Gershoni, "Notebooks of a youth, 1939"; 2. Aharon Feigenblum, "En route for nine years, 05/03/1939-05/03/1948"; 3. "The Jubilee: Issue dedicated to mark 50 years since the concentration of the Vilna Hashomer Hatzair during 1...

  15. Documentation of the Estonian Cooperative Health Insurance Fund branches, 1923 - 1940

  16. P.35 - Nathan Schwalb Collection: Nathan Schwalb was the representative of the World Center of the Hechalutz movement in Geneva, Switzerland during World War II

    P.35 - The Collection of Nathan Schwalb, the representative of the World Center of the Hechalutz movement in Geneva, Switzerland during World War II Nathan Schwalb was born in Stanislawow, Poland (today Ivano Frankovsk, Ukraine) in 1908. He made aliya to Eretz Israel and was member of Kibbutz Hulda. He spent World War II in Geneva as the representative of the World Hechalutz movement, serving as contact person and a financial welfare source for the Jews. He corresponded with hundreds of people in the occupied countries and was active in many areas including the sending of parcels via the Re...

  17. Documentation of the Kleck District administration, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Kleck District administration, 1941-1944 The Collection includes lists of refugees residing in Kleck, from the years 1943-1944; documentation regarding the confiscation of Jewish property; an appeal regarding the closing of the bakery in Halynka following the murder of Jewish workers; correspondence with the District Commissioner (Gebietskommissariat) in Baranowitschy regarding the purchase of houses in Kletsk that were owned by Jews; list of residents in Kletsk and the surrounding villages; list of workers in a textile plant in Kletsk.

  18. Kharkov municipal administration documentation, 1941-1944

    Kharkov municipal administration documentation, 1941-1944 In the collection there are 13 microfilm reels selected from the Kharkov Region State Archive and handed over to Yad Vashem by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Most of the documentation consists of statistical reports and lists of the residents of Kharkov registered in the census conducted by the Kharkov municipal administration in December 1941. The German occupation of the city of Kharkov continued with interruptions from 24 October 1941 to 23 August 1943. From the beginning of the occupation until 09 Febr...

  19. M.21.6 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich

    M.21.6 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich The War Criminals Department was established in the American Occupation Zone shortly after the end of World War II. It was active from 1946-1951 as the Legal Department of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich, in cooperation with the Central Historical Commission in Munich and other survivor organizations. The purpose of the Department was to locate war criminals and collaborators, to gather documentary material, to collect testimonies from survivors and to bring the crimin...

  20. Documentation from the Archive of Andrey Sheptytsky, the Metropolitan Bishop of Galychyna, 1941

    Documentation from the Archive of Andrey Sheptytsky, the Metropolitan Bishop of Galychyna, 1941 Included in the collection: - Three appeals by Andrey Melnik, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) commander, against the group of Bandera (founder of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - UPA) and against other groups from Postojno, in the Rowne region; - Letter sent by the physician Markijan Dzerowycz - an OUN activist, to Andreyi Sheptytsky, regarding problems in the movement and disagreements between heads of the OUN from Vienna; - Letter written by Andreyi Sheptytsky to the clergy and t...