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Country: Israel

  1. M.30 - Kurt Grossmann Archives: Documentation regarding Kurt Grossman's activities as an advisor to the Jewish Agency and documentation regarding reparations

    M.30 - Kurt Grossmann Archives: Documentation regarding Kurt Grossman's activities as an advisor to the Jewish Agency and documentation regarding reparations Kurt Grossmann was born in Berlin, Germany. He served as the Executive Director of the League for Human Rights from 1926 to 1933. In February 1933, he left Germany and moved to Prague, Czechoslovakia where he founded the Democratic Refugee Relief Committee, an organization dedicated to providing relief to refugees. He also edited the news about Germany for a news service [news agency]. In 1939, he moved to the United States and worked ...

  2. Documentation of the rural administrations in the Kleck District, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the rural administrations in the Kleck District, 1941-1942 The Collection includes documentation of the Nagorna District administration; instructions of Wilhelm Kube regarding mixed marriages, identification of Jews, life in the occupied territories and selling of Jewish homes; instructions regarding the manner of confiscating Jewish property in the Baranowicze and Kleck areas; instructions by the area administrative Commander in Zaostrovichi regarding the confiscation of property from the Judenrat; list of Jewish residents living in Kletsk, from 02 February 1942; documenta...

  3. Maurice Frankenhuis Collection

    Maurice Frankenhuis Collection Publications and correspondence, newspaper clippings and pamphlets regarding the Nazi crimes and trials against Nazis; Included in the file: - "A Journey into Darkness" by Maurice Frankenhuis, regarding his life in the Netherlands during the German occupation, in Westerbork camp, and during his deportation to Theresienstadt; - Issue of "The Saturday Evening Post" newspaper, Oct. 22, 1966, including an article regarding the Eichmann Trial, "Historical Trial: Auschwitz", published by the "Hiroshima - Auschwitz Peace March" organization.

  4. Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12421174
    • English, Hebrew
    • Birth certificate Legal documentation Marriage certificate Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors Survey report

    Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files include the applications including details regarding those who p...

  5. Documentation of the Estonian Workers' Insurance Company in Tallinn, 1921 - 1940

  6. Documentation of the City Council Committe of the Communist Party in Vitebsk, 1939-1941

    Soviet documentation from before the occupation of Vitebsk, 1939-1941, and State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) documentation from 1944 In the Collection there is a list of the Communists in Vitebsk, 1940-1941; a report submitted by the head of the Party Committee in Polotsk to the director of the Belorussian History Museum regarding the extermination of the Jews in Polotsk; a report from the Notarization Committee of the Municipal Party Conference in Vitebsk; a list of factory and organization managers in Vitebsk, prepared in 1941; ...

  7. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Porechye, 1940

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Porechye, 1940 The Collection includes instructions for the establishment of the Porechye District in the Belostok Region; instructions and regulations of the Communist Party Regional Committee; protocols from the District Committee meetings; reports of the District Committee [that were sent] to the Regional Committee on various subjects; appeal of workers to the committee; statistical reports regarding kholkhozes and sovkhozes (communal and Soviet farms); lists of workers in the District Committee ; documentation regarding election...

  8. Westermann Collection: Documentation of the Jewish organizations from the period before the German occupation

    Westermann Collection: Documentation of the Yiddish organizations from the period before the German occupation Annual reports regarding activities of the Linat Zedek Hospital and the Gemilut Chasadim Association, 1924-1926; documentation of the HaGymnasia HaIvrit (Hebrew High School) in Riga, Latvia and documentation regarding its closing during the Soviet occupation in 1940.

  9. Documentation of Jewish financial institutions in Estonia, 1921 - 1942

  10. Documentation of the Generalbauinspekteur fuer die Reichshauptstadt (Construction Inspector General for the Reich's Capital) in Berlin from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1938-1942

    Documentation of the Generalbauinspekteur fuer die Reichshauptstadt (Construction Inspector General for the Reich's Capital) in Berlin from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1938-1942 The institution of the Generalbauinspekteur für die Reichshauptstadt was created by a special order of Adolf Hitler, 30 January 1937. This was the title bestowed on Albert Speer with the goal of initiating grandiose construction plans that would redesign parts of Berlin and acquire for Berlin a dominant standing in the world. Later on, the authority delegated to Speer was expanded both in Berlin itself and in other...

  11. Files of the Sozialbehoerde I (Social Agency I) in Hamburg

    Files of the Sozialbehoerde I (Social Agency I) in Hamburg

  12. O.90 - Documentation of Holocaust survivors in Israel, mainly from kibbutzim

    O.90 - Documentation of Holocaust survivors in Israel, mainly from kibbutzim This Record Group includes documentation, mainly copies of documentation preserved in the archives of kibbutzim throughout Israel. The documentation is mostly the personal documentation of Holocaust survivors who arrived to Eretz Israel and afterwards to the State of Israel from the end of World War II until the early 1960s. The material is comprised mainly of personal documentation, including letters, testimonies, dairies, photographs and various documents.

  13. Documentation of the Senatskanzlei - Verawltungsabteilung (Senate Chamber - Administration department) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Senatskanzlei - Verawltungsabteilung (Senate Chamber - Administration department) in Hamburg

  14. Documentation of the Lower Municipal Court in Czersk, 1948-1950

    Documentation of the Lower Municipal Court in Czersk, 1948-1950 Included in the collection are appeals by relatives of Jews who were murdered during the war period, submitted to the Lower Municipal Court in Czersk district in order to receive declarations of death.

  15. Documentation of the area Commissioners in northern Russia and the Baltic countries, 1942-1944

    Documentation of the area Commissioners in northern Russia and the Baltic countries, 1942-1944

  16. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ashdot Ya'akov Ihud

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ashdot Ya'akov Ihud Testimonies: 1. "The escape from the ghetto - from the story of Zipora Weissblit"; 2. Klara Ehrlich (January 1985); 3. "Excerpts from the words of Klara Ehrlich, regarding Auschwitz and the day of liberation from the Nazis" (Eve of Holocaust Day, 5745 [1985]); 4. Yaakov Grinstein, "Minsk during the Holocaust"; 5. Michael Ben Artzi; 6. Henia Barkai; 7. Aviva Niv; 8. Chaim Vardi; Lists: 1. Female youth members who married i...

  17. Files from the Finance Ministry (Finanzaemter) in the Unterfranken region, Bavaria

    Files from the Finance Ministry (Finanzaemter) in the Unterfranken region, Bavaria Including files from the following Record Groups: Amorbach, Veranlagungssteuer (Microfilm JM/20778-20781, additional material in JM/22139, frames 1-279) Aschaffenburg, Verwaltungsschriftgut (Microfilm JM/20782) Aschaffenburg, Veranlagungssteuer (Microfilm JM/20783-20784) Bad Brueckenau, Verwaltungsschriftgut (Microfilm JM/20785) Bad Brueckenau, Fruehere Abgaben (Microfilm JM/20786-20787, additional material in JM/22139, frame 544 and ff.) Bad Kissingen, Verwaltungsschriftgut (Microfilm JM/20788) Bad Kissingen...

  18. Collection of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden, 1940-1943

    Collection of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden, 1940-1943 The role of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden was the determination of damages and payment of compensation to German citizens who suffered from war damages in the Netherlands; the Hilfsausschuß was based on VO 21/41; Germans outside of the Netherlands were also entitled to compensation, on condition that the damage to property was caused in the Netherlands; most of the claims related to the property of Jewish refugees from Germany who had stored their household contents in storage rooms of...

  19. Documentation of the Mogilev Podolskiy municipality, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the Mogilev Podolskiy municipality, 1941-1943 Included in the collection are instructions by the governor of Transnistria, regarding the establishment of an office for the organization of work for Jews; correspondence with the district prefecture and the Police regarding the transfer of Jews to public works; appeals by Jews to the municipality for the purpose of receiving work permits; announcements regarding the transfer of a payment to Jews sent by the "Jewish Committee"; appeals by residents to the city's authorities regarding receiving an apartment; documentation regard...

  20. Testimony regarding the experiences of children on the Aryan side during the war and in children's homes in Poland after the liberation

    Testimony regarding the experiences of children on the Aryan side during the war and in children's homes in Poland after the liberation Wanderings and suffering of children on the Aryan side; atrocities committed by the Nazis; help from nuns and Polish, Ukrainian and especially Czech farmers. Jewish children's homes in Poland (Krakow, Bielski, Lodz and Czestochowa) after the liberation; feelings of isolation and alienation of the children.