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Country: Israel

  1. P.37- Archive of Benjamin Arditti: Documentation Regarding the History of Bulgarian Jewry, 1850-1964

    P.37- Archive of Benjamin Arditti: Documentation Regarding the History of Bulgarian Jewry, 1850-1964 Benjamin Arditti was born in Vienna in 1897. He lived in Sofia (except for two years during World War II) from 1916-1949. He was one of the outstanding activists in the Zionist movement in Bulgaria: he served as a member of the Central Committee of the Zionist Union in Bulgaria, 1919-1923; he held five terms of office as the representative to the World Zionist Congress; he served as the chairman of the Zionist Organization in Sofia; he was one of the founders of the Revisionist movement in B...

  2. M.16 - Collection of the Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie (Jewish Coordination Committee-JCC) of Dutch Jewry in Geneva, 1943-1960

    M.16 - Collection of the Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie (JCC-Jewish Coordination Committee) of Dutch Jewry in Geneva, 1943-1945 The Coordination Committee for the Jews of the Netherlands in Switzerland was established in 1943 at the initiative of several of the Dutch refugees in Switzerland, including Mr. M. Gans. The owner of a jewelry and antiquities business in Amsterdam, Gans had escaped from the Netherlands to Switzerland with his wife in the summer of 1942. The Committee mainly dealt with offering assistance (by sending parcels of food and medicine) to deportees from the Netherlands i...

  3. P.9 - Archive of Siegfried Jaegendorf, President of the Jewish Coordinating Committee for the Deported Jews in Transnistria, 1941-1967

    P.9 - Archive of Siegfried Jaegendorf, President of the Jewish Coordinating Committee for the Deported Jews in Transnistria, 1941-1967 Siegfried Jaegendorf was born in Czernowitz, 01 August 1895. He attended local elementary and high schools, and afterwards travelled to Vienna and Berlin where he studied engineering at a technical college, completing his studies as a mechanical engineer. His first position as an engineer was at the Siemens Schucker Werke in Berlin. In time, he was promoted and sent to serve as managing director for the Eastern Europe area at the Siemens factory in Vienna. A...

  4. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The "Anti-Nazi Resistance and Opposition" collection consists of pamphlets, flyers, and booklets published across Europe during World War II. These publications document the atrocities committed by the Nazis and by their collaborators, and were originally aimed to unite the oppressed populations in spiritual and armed resistance. The opposition to the Nazis was led by people from different social backgrounds: peasants, workers, teachers, business owners, as well as aristocrats. Most operated underground, and individuals often sacrificed their freedom or even their own lives to ensure the pr...

  5. The Benjamin Tenenbaum (Tene) collection: testimonies of child survivors of the Holocaust

    The GFH Tenenbaum collection includes hundreds of unedited testimonies of Holocaust survivor children, collected in 1946 and 1947 in Poland and Germany. Some eighty of the testimonies were published in his book "One of a City and Two of a Family". However, as Tenenbaum himself admitted, they were edited, and carried some bias in favor of Zionism and the USSR. The GFH collection holds about 650 unedited testimonies in Russian, Polish and Yiddish. The material has been fully catalogued, indexed and scanned. For further information, see Cohen, Boaz. “The Children’s Voice: Postwar Collection of...

  6. THE LENA KUECHLER-SILBERMAN COLLECTION

    • 13 stories of children written by Lena with her evaluation of their condition. • 4 testimonies and a memoir of children who were in Lena's children's home. • Postcards and letters Kuechler wrote to Edith Zierer, a former child in Kuechler's children's house. • Letters written by Kuechler to Frances - Zipora Schaff (Fanka Beder) a former child in Kuechler's children's house. • 2 files with items belonging to children who were in Lena's children's home. • 2 files with different items: Biographical essay, recommendation, notes, personal documents, newspaper articles, excerpts from manuscript...

  7. 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...

  8. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The documents were collected by Dr. Wiener and his assistants from the early 1930s, during the war and its aftermath, until the late 1970s. As they constitute the library’s core, these documents were the first to be digitized and accessible online. They include the correspondence and decrees of various Nazi agencies, documents from concentration camps, and documentation of the activities, the life and the fate of Jewish associations, communities, and individuals before, during and after the Holocaust.

  9. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

    The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – or Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion - is an anti-Semitic forgery, detailing in 24 chapters the "Jewish plan" to take over the world. The fake document is a compilation from various sources, issued in Russia by Sergei Nilus in 1905, and since then, published in various languages around the globe. The collection includes documents on the origins and the development of the myth.

  10. United Restitution Organization (URO): Rundschreiben 1961-1973

    The collection contains circulars (“Rundschreiben”) that the main office of the United Restitution Organization in Frankfurt/Main sent out to the various offices of the organization between 1961 and 1973. The circulars detail judgements of the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) on claims of Holocaust survivors to individual indemnification for damages caused by Nazi persecution. Each circular is prefaced by a summary of the court’s decision and its significance for the jurisprudence of personal indemnification, which in Germany was regulated by the Federal Law on Compensati...

  11. The Nazi Justice collection

    The Nazi Justice collection provides information on the judiciary of the Third Reich and hundreds of trial transcripts. One part of the collection (Box I) contains registers of convicts, laws and regulations, information on judges and attorneys, a detailed report of executions in Brandenburg (from October 1944 to April 1945) and a list of Nazis who had been active in Auschwitz. The other part (Boxes II to IX) contains trial transcripts in alphabetical order, mainly from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, from 1942 to 1945. Alleged crimes range from illegal slaughtering of animals to l...

  12. The Ludwig Dische papers : Bukovina’s Jewish history

    The Ludwig Dische papers address the history of the Bukovina before 1918, when Czernowitz was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Dr. Dische was the chairperson of the Committee for internal affairs (“Communicates Evreilor”) of the Jewish community in Czernowitz, Bukovina, in the war years from December 1941 to March 1944, when the Soviet army re-occupied the city. The collection contains letters, drafts, bulletins, pictures, prints, newspapers clips, and information about well-known Jews from Czernowitz, as well as Dr. Dische’s personal papers. Dische gathered these materials after ...

  13. The Key to the Mystery

    The Key to the Mystery, or Clé du Mystère, was a virulently anti-Semitic pamphlet, in the shape of a 32-pages booklet, published in Canada in French and English, and distributed in several countries in Europe in the 1930s. Adrien Arcand, the leader of the fascist Canadian paramilitary organization “Blue Shirts”, edited and published the pamphlet. By quoting distorted versions of texts written by prominent Jews, the Key aimed to prove the authenticity of the theories put forward in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It accused the Jews of a worldwide domination plot and of communism. The c...

  14. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    These files are the results of research enquiries the JCIO (Jewish Center Information Office) in Amsterdam, and later the Wiener Library in London, received and compiled during the war. The material was culled from books, periodicals and press cuttings, to form reliable documentation on specialized subjects. The files have been arranged under broad subject headings.

  15. Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto collection 1926-2018

    The collection contains the documents collected by Judge Ben-Itto during years of research for her book The Lie That Wouldn't Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The book tells the story of those who forged the Protocols, distributed it around the world and used it as an antisemitic weapon. It also pays tribute to those who exposed and disproved it; with special emphasis given to the two major trials, both initiated in 1934 by Jewish communities in Switzerland and in South Africa against local Nazi distributors of the document.

  16. Grahamstown Trial, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1934

    The "Grahamstown Trial" which took place in 1934 in Port Elizabeth (ZA) deals with several issues; a document crudely forged by Harry Victor Inch, the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion and a Jewish world conspiracy. "Die Rapport" (an anti-Semitic newspaper) published a document allegedly stolen from the Western Road Synagogue in Port Elizabeth: This fake document contains a series of antigentile writings including a vague plan of Jewish world domination. The forgery pretends to be a record of an address delivered by Abraham Levy (the Minister of the Port Elizabeth Hebrew Congregation) to th...

  17. Carl Schmitt – The Confidential File

    This collection contains the contents of a confidential dossier on Carl Schmitt, a prominent German jurist, political theorist, and ostensibly loyal member of the Nazi Party. At the time at which the Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführer SS – SD Hauptamt put together this dossier, documenting a campaign aiming to discredit Schmitt, he was considered the most outstanding legal scholar of National Socialism. He served on the leadership council of the Academy for German Law, was chairperson of the Committee for State and Administrative Law, member of the Prussian State Council, editor-in-chief of...

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

    The biographical files (close to 3,000) are arranged in alphabetical order and include information about different persons, mainly non-Jews, in the post-war world: political leaders, politicians, philosophers, writers, scientists, high ranking officers (including Nazis) and more, in Israel, the USA and different European countries. The documentation was gathered between 1945 and 1970s. It includes material from periodicals and press cuttings. Some files include biographical information from other sources.

  19. Bern Trial, Bern, Switzerland, 1934-1935

    The Bern Trial that was held in Bern, Switzerland between 1934 and 1935. The plaintiffs sued and won the Bund Nationalsozialistischer Eidgenossen (BNSE) which distributed anti-Semitic pamphlets during a meeting of June 13, 1933 organized by the National Front and the Heimatwehr in the Casino of Bern, notably "Die zionistischen Protokolle". This section includes documents on the public and legal campaigns before and during the trial.

  20. Documentation from the Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives) regarding the Holocaust

    The Yad Vashem Archives has systematically gathered documentation from the Bundesarchiv, as well as documentation from the Militärarchiv in subsection M.29.Fr. The Records Groups in the Central Archive from which Yad Vashem gathers this documentation belongs to two Abteilungen (sections) of the Archives: - The R -Deutsches Reich Section which houses documentation from state institutions. In this section, only files from the 1920s until the end of World War II regarding Jews and the persecution of Jews are checked;- The NS Section is which the documentation regarding the Nazi party instituti...