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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Collection of the Grond en Pachtzaken (Lands Administration) of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of the Grond en Pachtzaken (Lands Administration) of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Included in the collection: Documents, correspondence and reports of the Grond en Pachtzaken (Lands Administration) of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Netherlands, regarding the expropriation of Jewish-owned land in the context of the Aryanization policies in the Netherlands, 1940-1945.

  2. Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 5083562
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1939-1944
    • Administrative documentation Application Balance sheet Correspondence Financial accounts List of Jews List of names Lists Report Reports Statistical data Statistical report Survey report

    Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943 The Jewish Self Aid organization (in Polish: Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna [ZSS]; in German: Juedische Soziale Selbshilfe) was set up in Krakow in 1940; it went by this name until July 1942. After that date, the organization's welfare activities were cut back by order of the German authorities, and they mainly consisted of the transferring of medicines to Jews in labor camps until this activity, too, was discontinued in mid-1944. ZSS documentation includes correspondence between the administra...

  3. תיעוד של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Warendorf (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12421296
    • English, Hebrew
    • Legal documentation Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Bestand: Amtsgericht (district court) Warendorf 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 perished and their deportation; correspondence with German authorities, in...

  4. List of Jews of the Netherlands, in the Zentralstelle Fuer Juedische Auswanderung (Central Bureau for Jewish Emigration) - Record Group: M.68

    List of Jews of the Netherlands, in the Zentralstelle Fuer Juedische Auswanderung (Central Bureau for Jewish Emigration) - Record Group: M.68 This list has the names of Jews of the Netherlands, arranged according to their place of residence. Each category is arranged in alphabetical order according to the last names. There is additional data regarding last names and first names, and the list includes the person's date and place of birth, address (accurate as of 1941), citizenship, the religious community to whom they belong, profession, family status (G - married, O - single, W - widower), ...

  5. M.49.P - Memoirs and diaries from the Holocaust period collected by the Central Jewish Committee in Poland

    M.49.P - Memoirs and diaries from the Holocaust period collected by the Central Jewish Committee in Poland Memoirs and diaries submitted to the Jewish Historical Insitute in Warsaw and catalogued in Records Group 302. In the collection there is a great variety of diaries and memoirs regarding the Holocaust in Poland, Nazi Germany and other countries. Most of the documentation is in Polish; some of the material is in Yiddish and other languages.

  6. Documentation, mainly of the Gestapo, regarding Soviet and Polish foreign laborers in Germany from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1941-1943

    Documentation, mainly of the Gestapo, regarding Soviet and Polish foreign laborers in Germany from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1941-1943 Most of the files in the collection are files from the Duesseldorf Gestapo and its neighboring branches (Krefeld and Moenchen-Gladbach) relating to specific foreign laborers for whom Gestapo intervention was requested. - File of the Krefeld Gestapo regarding foreign laborers from eastern Europe, including correspondence concerning police handling of specific laborers, and documentation regarding the implementation of the guideline from the Duesseldorf Ges...

  7. Documentation from the DIP/SG Archives in Switzerland

    Documentation from the DIP/SG Archives in Switzerland

  8. Documentation of the Stadtkommandantur (municipal military headquarters) in Kharkov, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the Stadtkommandantur (municipal military headquarters) in Kharkov, 1941-1943

  9. Files of the Staatsangehoerigkeitsaufsicht (Citizenship Control) in Hamburg

    Files of the Staatsangehoerigkeitsaufsicht (Citizenship Control) in Hamburg Included in the Collection are personal files of Jews in the city who became citizens.

  10. Documentation from the Finanzdeputation IV, Finanzverwaltung (Financial administration) of Hamburg

    Documentation from the Finanzdeputation IV, Finanzverwaltung (Financial administration) of Hamburg

  11. 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" ...

  13. M.44 - Documentation from archives in Estonia, 1941-1946

    M.44 Documentation from archives in Estonia, 1941-1946 A. Documentation from the Estonian State Central Archives (ERA) in Tallinn, Estonia Examples: - Collection of the autonomous leadership regarding Jewish culture in Estonia; - Collection of the Valga Juudi Spordiselts Makkabi (Maccabi Sports Association) in Valga; - Collection of the Tartu Akadeemiline Juudi Ajaloo ja Kirjanduse Selts ülikooli juures (Association for Jewish Culture and History) in Tartu; - Collection of the Tartu-Juudi üliõpilaste Kassa (Jewish Students' Fund) in Tartu, 1887-1928; - Collection of the Tartu Juudi Usuühing...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Afikim Testimonies: 1. Daniel Asseo; 2. Zvi Ariav; 3. Margit Ben-Yitzhak; 4. Aharon Bar; 5. Ahuva Gottesman; 6. Nina Halachmi; 7. Shoshana Zuta Weiss; 8. Chaim Levithan; 9. Rivka Levithan; 10. Shosha Lazarovitz-Rimland; 11. Gershon Miniks; 12. Matitiyahu Mates Merkel; 13. Pinchas Moshe; 14. Stella Naar; 15. Sara Elem; 16. Aharon Amit; 17. Chaviva Pinkasi; 18. Oskar Kohl; 19. Dina Kohl; 20. Shlomo Kessler; 21. Shimon Kristal; 22. Miriam Krame...

  15. Collection of Kapitän Michael Sommer en Fa. Union, for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, 1942-1922

    Collection of Kapitän Michael Sommer en Fa. Union, for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, 1942-1922 Two companies purchased goods by command of Oberst Veltjens, Goering's representative in the Netherlands, 1942-1944; Kapitän Michael Sommer served as the person responsible for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, which was carried out in the context of the Vierjahresplan of the Blau-Aktion (black market); Included in the collection: Correspondence between Kapitän Michael Sommer and various...

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

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

  17. P.16 - Collection of Rachel Auerbach, author and founder of the Oral Testimonies Department at Yad Vashem

    P.16 - Collection of Rachel Auerbach, author and founder of the Oral Testimonies Department at Yad Vashem archives Rachel Auerbach was born on 18 December 1903 in the village of Lanowce in the Borszczow district of eastern Galicia. She completed her elementary school studies in 1913 , and her high school studies in 1920 in Lwow. Afterwards she studied philosophy and history. In 1925, Rachel Auerbach began to publish articles in the Polish-Jewish newspaper "Chwila" in Lwow. Two years later she was accepted onto the Editorial Board of the "Der Nayer Morgan" newspaper, and she edited journals ...

  18. Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Fachschulen (State and private vocational schools) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Fachschulen (State and private vocational schools) in Hamburg The Collection is comprised of sub-record groups that deal with specific schools. Included in the material, among others, are lists of pupils and matriculation certificates of boys and girls who were pupils in certain schools. Included in the sub-collections are: - 362-5/2 - Sozialpädagogisches Institut 1929-1945 - 362-5/4 - Frauenfachschule 1908-1979.

  19. Documentation of the Ehemaligen Heersarchiv (former German Army Archive) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1945

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10615844
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Circular Diagram Diary Envelope Financial accounts Letter List of soldiers Lists Maps Newspaper Note Official documentation Photograph Postcard Statistical data Survey report Telegram

    Documentation of the Ehemaligen Heersarchiv (former German Army Archive) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1945 The collection includes various materials from German Army units, mainly of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Supreme Command of the Armed Forces-OKW) on various matters, including operational reports, matters of leisure, finances, administration, military justice, personnel, supplies and equipment, weapons, uniforms, medals, logs and letters of fighters (many letters that have been preserved in a number of files) and more. Additionally, it contains editions of the journal, "Na...

  20. Estate of Richard Jakob Seligmann, in the Archive of the City of Munich, 1881-1941

    Estate of Richard Jakob Seligmann, in the Archive of the City of Munich, 1881-1941 Richard Seligmann was born in Munich in 1890. Following his service in the German Army during World War I, he was a manufacturer of Spiegelglass (mirror glass). During the Nazi regime he made all efforts to emigrate, but in vain. He was forced to relinquish his business in 1939 and in the same year he was evicted from his apartment and had to rent a smaller one. He was deported to Riga in 1941, from where he did not return. In the Collection are Seligmann's correspondence regarding, in main, his attempts to e...