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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Documentation regarding the Bnai Brith association in Stanislawow, 1928-1938

    Documentation regarding the Bnai Brith association in Stanislawow, 1928-1938 Included in the collection are protocols of the Bnai Brith association, 1928-1929; A branch of the Bnai Brith association was established in Stanislawow on 14/02/1928. The branch belonged to the "Association of Humanitarian Organizations of Bnai Brith in Poland". The association acted according to the statutes of Bnai Brith, which focused on matters related to charity, society and culture.

  2. O.99 - Julia Vajda Collection: Testimonies of Hungarian survivors, 2004-2004

    O.99 - Julia Vajda Collection: Testimonies of Hungarian survivors, 2004-2007 The collection contains interviews with survivors conducted by Dr. Júlia Vajda as part of the “Totalitarianism and Holocaust Project” of the University of Debrecen, Hungary, 2004-2007, and documentation regarding these interviews. There are 332 audio testimonies in the collection: 308 interviews with Jewish survivors and 24 with non-Jewish witnesses. Documentation regarding the interviews: - Completed questionnaires containing personal information regarding the survivor and information concerning the fate of the su...

  3. Documentation of the Workers' and Peasants' Militia in Tallinn, 1940 - 1941

  4. Documentation regarding the persecution of Jews by the Nazis from the record group: Der Polizeipraesident in Berlin (The President of the Police in Berlin, in the postwar years), dated, 1933-1947

    Documentation regarding the persecution of Jews by the Nazis from the record group: Der Polizeipraesident in Berlin (The President of the Police in Berlin, in the postwar years), dated, 1933-1947 The collection concerns materials from the division of the post-WWII Police force of Berlin (for materials regarding the Berlin Police under the Nazi regime, see collection 4423357 in "Sapir"). Following the order given by the Soviet City Commander of Berlin, the city's Police headquarters were re-established on 20 May 1945. Based on an order given by the Allied headquarters, special Police offices...

  5. Correspondence regarding radios confiscated from Jews in Herzfelde, 1939-1940

    Correspondence regarding radios confiscated from Jews in Herzfelde, 1939-1940

  6. M.52.GUOK - Documentation from the Main Department of Education of the Kiev City State Administration

    Documentation from the Archives of the Education Department of the Kiev Municipality Lists of orphan children who stayed in orphanage no. 4 in Kiev, 1941-1947; list of orphan children in the orphanages in Kiev, 1943; lists of children in special orphanage no. 6 in Kiev, including data regarding their place and date of birth, nationality, and the dates of the arrival and departure of each child (selected pages with names of Jews), 1945-1952.

  7. Documentation of the Reich Student Leadership-National Socialist German Students' League (Reichsstudentenfuehrung-Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund), Germany, 1927-1944

    Documentation of the Reich Student Leadership-National Socialist German Students' League (Reichsstudentenfuehrung-Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund), Germany, 1927-1944 The National Socialist Students' League was established, in 1926, as a branch of the Nazi Party. It obtained great support among the students, and won the leadership of the National Students Union in Germany, in 1931, increasing in power with the rise of the Nazis to power, and in May 1933, it organized a public book burning campaign which opposed "the German spirit"; in October 1935, the union became the only ...

  8. Documentation from Landratsaemter (District offices) in Westphalia

    Documentation from Landratsaemter (District offices) in Westphalia

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

    O.64.2/MISC - Documentation submitted by Private People

  10. 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...

  11. 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.

  12. 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 ...

  13. 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...

  14. 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.

  15. Collection of Historical Photographs.

    This is the largest collection in the world of historical photographs related to the Holocaust. It documents Jewish life before and during the Holocaust, the life of survivors in the post-war period, but also various activities and ceremonies commemorating the Holocaust all over the world. Searching for keywords such as ‘Belgium’, ‘Brussels’, ‘Antwerp’ etc. yields a result of over 1000 relevant images, from various collections. We find portraits and group photos (scenes of everyday life, Shoah victims, resistance members, partisans, rescuers); pictures of youth movements (i.a. Bar Kochba, H...

  16. Archives in Belgium.

    For the sake of completeness we mention this collection, which consists of copies of archival material from various official and institutional archives in Belgium (such as state, provincial or city archives). At the time of writing it mostly contains material from the city archives and provincial archives of Antwerp.

  17. Maxime Steinberg Collection.

    This collection contains photocopies of original archival documents collected by Maxime Steinberg and used to write his magnum opus L’étoile et le fusil. The documents concern topics such as Jewish resistance, rescue of Jews etc. during the German occupation.

  18. A. Werber Collection (Poale Zion Left Party in Belgium).

    In this fonds we find the following material: documents related to Linke Poale Zion in Belgium and Jewish associations during the war [JM/1038]; the newspaper Unzer Vort (1941-1944) and other newspapers published during the war [JM/1039]; personal documents, biographies and photographs of members of Linke Poale Zion [JM/1040]; documents on the situation of Jews in Belgium during the war, lists of communists and members of Poale Zion, documents on the resistance in Belgium, correspondence on the relations between Christians and Jews [JM/1041]; documents concerning Jewish life in Belgium afte...

  19. Dr. Arieh L. Kubovy Collection.

    This fonds firstly contains several files with correspondence concerning i.a. economic relations between Israel and Czechoslovakia, immigration from Poland, the Israeli embassies in Warsaw and Prague, the International Genocide convention, the trials of Mordechai Oren and Simon Orenstein, the indemnisation of Czechoslovakian Jews who immigrated to Israel, … and roughly covering the years 1949-1952. We also find correspondence of Kubowitzki with family and friends, and correspondence and notes mostly dating back to the war years (1941-1947). The fonds also contain notes on post-war Polish Je...

  20. Righteous Among the Nations Collection.

    The files concern rescuers recognized as Righteous Among the Nations and honoured by Yad Vashem. It is only an indication of the actual number of rescuers, since it is based on the cases brought to the attention of Yad Vashem. Most Righteous were recognised thanks to the requests made by rescued Jews. By January 1st 2014, there were 1665 files of Belgian rescuers. There is a file for every rescue case, containing the documents gathered through the process of recognition. One will find correspondence, notes, sometimes photographs, and material related to the recognition ceremonies.