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Language of Description: Czech
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Language of Description: Polish
Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. O.64.2/MISC - Documentation submitted by Private People

    O.64.2/MISC - Documentation submitted by Private People

  2. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: She’erith Hapletah, the rescue of children and the Bericha Organization

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: She’erith Hapletah, the rescue of children and the Bricha Organization The documentation (nine folders) contains: - Memoirs of Hasia Bornstein-Bilitzka, of Blessed Memory (one of the founders of Kibbutz Lahavot Habashan), regarding the initial organization of the movement by ghetto survivors, educational work with children as part of the Zionist Coordinating Group for the Redemption of Children in Poland and the rescue of children from non-Jews; - Two letters from children who were rescued from non-Jews; - Survey-report prepared by Yosef Indig regardin...

  3. Documentation of the regional auxiliary committee of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Baranovichi region, 1944-1945

    Documentation of the regional auxiliary committee of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Baranovichi region, 1944-1945 Included in the collection is documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission regarding the extermination of Jews in the Baranowicze region, and lists of names of Nazi war criminals and Russian and Belorussian collaborators; documentation regarding the damage caused by the Nazis in the region and in the Kletsk district.

  4. Collection of the Jewish community of Pekela, the Netherlands, 1940-1942

    Collection of the Jewish community of Pekela, the Netherlands, 1940-1942 Protocols of meetings of the members of the Nederlands-Israëlitische Gemeente (Netherlands Jewish community) in Pekela in the Groningen province of the Netherlands, 1940-1942; the protocols, from the archive of the Jewish community in Pekela, include in most part reports regarding the financial administration of the community, and only in individual cases is there mention of anti-Jewish measures by the Nazi rulers; registration of the protocols ceased in late 1942, following the large Razzia (round-up) on the night of ...

  5. M.43.LVA - Documentation from the State Archives of Latvia

    M.43 - Documentation from the State Archives of Latvia The collection includes documentation of the Gebietskommissariat (representative) of the Riga district, the Reichskommisariat (Reich representative) of Ostland, the Generalkommissariat of the region, and documentation of the SS, SD, and the Wehrmacht in Ostland; there is also documentation of the Kommandatura (command headquarters) of cities of Riga, Kaunas, Ludza, Liepaja, and other places; Included in the collection is documentation of the municipal administrations of cities in Latvia, reports prepared by the Soviet Extraordinary Stat...

  6. Documentation of the Communist Party committee in the Sitkovtsy district, 1942-1943

    Documentation of the Communist Party committee in the Sitkovtsy district, 1942-1943 Included in the collection are personal questionnaires of Jewish Red Army officers.

  7. P.30 - Personal Archive of Matilde Finzi-Bassani, Italy

    P.30 - Personal Archive of Matilde Finzi-Bassani, Italy Born in Ferrara, Italy, Matilde Finzi-Bassani was active in the anti-Fascist underground in northern Italy and Rome. The Collection contains Matilde Finzi-Bassani's personal documentation as well as much documentation regarding the anti-Fascist underground in Italy.

  8. O.64 - Documentation regarding the Theresienstadt camp

    O.64 - Documentation regarding the Theresienstadt camp In this Record Group there are two Sub-Record groups: O.64.1 - In this Sub-Record group there are copies of documentation regarding the camp that were received from the Theresienstadt Camp Memorial Site O.64.2 - In this Sub-Record Group there is original documentation from the Theresienstadt camp

  9. O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection

    O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection Mordechai Friedman was born in Pultusk, Poland, in 1937. At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, his family escaped to the Soviet Union. At the end of the war, his family returned to Poland, and some time later they escaped to Germany with the She’erith Hapletah. Friedman attended elementary school in Germany, and in 1949 made aliya to Eretz Israel. As part of his studies for his Master's degree in the History of the Jewish People, Friedman submitted a Master's thesis on Orthodox Jewry in New York, 1891-1914; his advisor was Professor Uriel Tal. Friedma...

  10. P.32 - Collection of Hansi and Joel Brand, activists in the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest during World War II

    P.32 - Collection of Hansi and Joel Brand, activists in the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest during World War II Biographies of Joel Jenő Brand and his wife Hansi (Hartmann) Brand Joel Brand was born in Naszód, Transylvania in 1906. In 1934, after a stay in Germany, he settled in Budapest, Hungary, where he joined the Poalei Zion Party. In 1935 he married Hansi Hartmann and together they set up a glove factory. In 1942 Joel and Hansi were among the founders of the Relief and Rescue Committee, the Budapest-based underground organization, which worked on behalf of Jewish refugees in Hu...

  11. P.11 - Moshe Keller Collection: The Finaly Children Affair

    P.11 -The Moshe Keller Collection: The Finaly Children Affair The event known as the "Finaly Children Affair" took place in France in the early 1950s. Jewish relatives of two orphaned Jewish brothers who had been baptized as Catholics and were living in a monastery in Spain, demanded that they be given custody of the children. The Catholic Church used the baptism as justification for letting the children remain in the Catholic faith. After a struggle mounted by the relatives against the French authorities, the Church finally gave up its demands, and the children were turned over to their Je...

  12. P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years Rabbi Eli Munk was the son of Rabbi Azriel Munk, the rabbi of the Adass Yisroel community, the separatist Orthodox congregation in Berlin. In 1938, he emigrated to England and established a community of former German Jews in Golders Green, London, serving as its leader. He was active in Jewish affairs and organized, among other projects, camps for Jewish youth. Along with his brother, Rabbi Yechiel Aryeh Munk, he edited the book, "Faithful Testimony"...

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

    P.26 - Heiner Lichtenstein Collection - Documentation collected by a Journalist who wrote about the Holocaust and about Trials of Nazi War Criminals, 1952-1987 Heiner Lichtenstein was a journalist in West Germany who was active in many subjects relating to the Holocaust. Following his retirement, he donated the documentation he had collected to Yad Vashem, 1992.

  14. R.3 - Documentation of the Nazi Party (National Socialist Party - NSDAP) in Eretz Israel, 1928-1939

    R.3 - Documentation of the Nazi Party (National Socialist Party - NSDAP) in Eretz Israel, 1928-1939 The first two chapters of the Nazi Party in Eretz Israel were established in Sharona and Jaffa in March 1933. Karl Ruf from Haifa set the chapters up, but during most of the time that the Nazi Party was active Cornelius Schwarz, from the Templar settlement, served as head of the party. In the summer of 1933 the party numbered 42 members, and in 1934, their numbers reached 239 (the largest chapter was in Jerusalem with 67 members). That same year, there were already active Nazi youth organizat...

  15. O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat

    O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat Dr. Jacob Robinson was born in Seirijai, a village in the Alytus district in southeastern Lithuania on 28 November 1889, and received a traditional Jewish education. In 1910 he completed his studies at the Suwalki high school and in the summer of 1914, he completed his studies for the title of Doctorate in Law (LL.D.) at the University of Warsaw. In May 1923 he was elected to the Sejm (Lithuanian Parliament), where he served as head of the Jewish faction and a leader of the minorities bloc. During the years 1925-1931, Robinson served ...

  16. P.54 - Archive of Dr. Israel Kasztner, one of the leaders of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, and Collection of Dov Dinur, Kasztner's Biographer

    P.54 - Archive of Dr. Israel Kasztner, one of the leaders of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, and Collection of Dov Dinur, Kasztner's biographer Biography of Dr. Israel Rezső Rudolf Kasztner: Israel Kasztner was born in Cluj, Transylvania, Romania in 1906. Between World War I and World War II, he worked as a journalist and an attorney at law, and, at the same time, he was an activist in the Zionist Labor Movement in Cluj. After the annexation of northern Transylvania to Hungary in 1940, Kasztner moved to Budapest and continued his Zionist Movement activities. He was one of the f...

  17. P.55 - Personal Papers of Dr. Heinz E.Samson

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 7894262
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Balance sheet Booklet(s) Brochure Death certificate Envelope Financial accounts Genealogy Journals Legal documentation Letter List of deportees List of murdered Jews from Germany Maps Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Postcard Poster Speech

    P.55 - Personal Archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson In the collection there are files from the private archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson. Description of the collection: The documentation deals with a part of the estate of the Samson family, originally from the city of Norden in Northern Germany. There is pre-war documentation on tax issues and the assets of the Samson family, pre- and postwar correspondence with German authorities, personal documents and certificates, documents on the restoration of the Norden Jewish cemetery supported by the Samson family after WW II, the dedication of a memorial ...

  18. P.62 - Peter Erben Collection: Documentation regarding the Jews of Czechoslovakia, and specifically the Jews of Ostrava, during the Holocaust period

    P.62 - Peter Erben Collection: Documentation regarding the Jews of Czechoslovakia, and specifically the Jews of Ostrava, during the Holocaust period Peter Erben, a native of Ostrava, was an inmate in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and other camps during the Holocaust period. After the war, he was greatly involved in the collection of materials related to the fate of the Jews of Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust in general and the fate of the Jews of Ostrava in particular. Erben submitted part of the collection of memoirs, letters, photographs and documents he gathered to Yad Vashem.

  19. P.48 - Aryeh Kubovy Personal Collection

    P.48 - Aryeh Kubovy Personal Collection The Collection includes mainly documentation from 1951-1952, the years when Dr. Aryeh Kubovy served as the Legate for Israel in Czechoslovakia and Poland. Aryeh Leon Kubovy (Kubovitzki) was born in Kursenai, Lithuania, in 1896. In 1906 his family emigrated to Belgium, where he acquired the rest of his education. He completed his studies for a Doctorate in Classical Philology and Law at the University of Brussels and Liége University. In 1926 he became a Belgian citizen. He worked as a lawyer from 1926-1940, first in Antwerp and afterwards in Brussels....

  20. P.4 - Dr. Eliezer Yerushalmi Collection: Documentation from the Siauliai Ghetto

    P.4 - Dr. Eliezer Yerushalmi Collection: Documentation from the Siauliai Ghetto Dr. Eliezer Yerushalmi was born in Gorodishche (Horodyszcze), Belorussia, in 1900. He studied Science and Hebrew Literature at Kaunas University, and worked as a teacher, always conducting his educational activities in Hebrew. An active member of the Zeirei Zion movement and Hechalutz, he served as a teacher and principal at the school in the Siauliai Ghetto from 1941. He described his work in the ghetto in his book, "Children of the Holocaust". Dr. Yerushalmi served as a technical advisor to the Judenrat, colle...