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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. P.21 - Collection of Ilya Ehrenburg, author and member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC), 1941-1967

    P.21 - Collection of Ilya Ehrenburg, author and member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC), 1941-1967 Ilya Ehrenburg was born into a Jewish family in Kiev in 1891. He was exiled to France in 1908 after being arrested for his activities against the Czarist regime. In Paris, he gradually dissociated himself from the Bolsheviks, associating himself with modern artists, publishing his poems and working at translation. After the Socialist revolution in 1917, he returned to his native country. From 1923 Ehrenburg worked as a journalist for the "Izvestia" newspaper. The Soviet authorities u...

  2. Documentation of the municipal administration of Bobruysk, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the municipal administration of Bobruysk, 1941-1944 Included in the documentation: Directives from the municipal administration of Bobruysk; a census; obtaining winter clothes from the population; appointment of municipal workers; an inspection of the movements among the population in the city; organization of the work in the kolkhozes; municipal sanitation; directives from the Generalkommissar of Belorussia and the Kommandatur; directives from the Generalkommissar of Belorussia and the Kommandatur of Bobruysk including: draft of workers for labor in Germany; establishment ...

  3. P.20 - Zorach Warhaftig Archive: Documentation of rescue and aid extended to refugees who escaped from Poland and Lithuania to Japan, 1939-1990

    P.20 - Zorach Warhaftig Archive: Documentation of rescue and aid extended to refugees who escaped from Poland and Lithuania to Japan, 1939-1990 Zorach Warhaftig was born in Wolkowisk, White Russia. While still a youth, he was an active member of the Hamizrachi movement. He acquired a traditional Jewish education and a general education, earning his Law degree at Warsaw University. From 1936-1939 he served as Chairman of the Eretz Israel office in Warsaw and a representative at the 17th through the 21st Zionist Congresses. When World War II broke out, he escaped to Lithuania, and there he ai...

  4. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ma'anit

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ma'anit Personal documentation of Rachel Zaiontz: 1. "Testimony of Sala Zilberbaum - born in Zamosc, Poland (Rachel Zaiontz, today)", 15/01/1946; a. Handwritten, in Polish (photocopy); b. Translation of the above to Hebrew (computer printout); 2. Photographs (scans): a. Rachel Zaiontz' mother; b. Photograph, while they were hidden by a Polish family; c. Photograph, in an UNRRA camp in Germany (1946); d. Two photographs: Anna, from the villag...

  5. Documentation from Finanzaemter (Finance Ministry local units) in Hessen

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11983402
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1925-1961
    • Financial accounts Inventory list Official documentation Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Documentation from the Finanzaemter (Finance Ministry) local units in Hessen In the collection is documentation from Finanzaemter 11 in the Hessen-Darmstadt province: Bensheim, Beerfelden, Friedberg, Fuerth i. Odenwald, Giessen, Gross Gerau, Gruenberg, Hungen, Lauterbach, Michelstadt and Offenbach. For information regarding each of the Finance Ministry offices in the collection and the material that was copied from the office for Yad Vashem, see the file: "M.55\Hessen G 36 Finanzaemter Bestandsübersichten (alle).pdf" in the Multimedia page. The overall majority of the files in the collectio...

  7. Collection of Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft, the Deutsche Revisions und Treuhand A.G. and the Wirtschaftprüfstelle, regarding the administration of Jewish property in the Netherlands during 1940-1945

    Collection of Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft, the Deutsche Revisions und Treuhand A.G. and the Wirtschaftprüfstelle, regarding the administration of Jewish property in the Netherlands during 1940-1945 Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft, the German Office for the Aryanization of Jewish Businesses in the Netherlands, was a German trustee company in Berlin before the war; the Wirtschaftprüfstelle, the organization that supervised the Aryanization of Jewish businesses, gave the order to Omnia for the implementation of the Aryanization process in 1941; Omnia received approximately 16,000 orders for the diss...

  8. Collection of Ilya Ehrenburg, author and member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC), 1941-1967

    In the Collection there is original documentation including articles, testimonies, photographs and letters regarding the Holocaust within the Soviet Union; some of the documentation appears in"The Black Book". The Collection also contains letters from Jews written after the war regarding displays of antisemitism in Soviet policy.

  9. Collection of the Kabinet van het Departement van Binnenlandse Zaken (Cabinet for Internal and Foreign Affairs) of the Netherlands, 1940-1944

    Collection of the Kabinet van het Departement van Binnenlandse Zaken (Cabinet for Internal and Foreign Affairs) of the Netherlands, 1940-1944 Dutchman Karel Johannes Frederiks was the secretary general of the German leadership in the Netherlands, the Afdeling Kabinet, during 1940-1945. In order to rescue some of the Jews in the Netherlands, Frederiks proposed to the Germans to administer a list of privileged Jews who would be permitted to reside in three designated areas in the Gelderland region; Frederiks, along with the secretary general of the Ministry of Education, composed lists of 675...

  10. Documentation of the Historical Commission of Himmler, the SS leader, 1921-1942

    Documentation of the Historical Commission of Himmler, the SS leader, 1921-1942 The Commission was set up as part of Himmler's Personalstab (personal staff). Its primary purpose was to investigate the reasons for the failure of the Nazi revolutionary attempt in Austria in June 1934 (at that time, it was headed by Reinhard Heydrich). Afterwards, the Commission continued and gathered historic material about Austrian internal politics and National Socialism in Austria. Among the tasks Himmler assigned the Commission was also to collect and investigate evidence regarding SS personnel suspected ...

  11. The Yitzhak Stone Collection: German documentation regarding German war crimes in the occupied countries

    There are copies of German documents used by the prosecution; sometimes there are also translations for these copies. Files 131-199: Files submitted by Serge Klarsfeld from Paris including varied documentation regarding the Security police in Ostland from 1941-1942, a survey by Lefler regarding the SS, 1932-1936, the indictment against Dr. Thomas Vauberg, the war criminal (Yad Vashem Accessions Book Entry 4239);Files 200-245: Files submitted by Yitzhak Stone to Yad Vashem in December 1957, including varied documentation from the Nuremberg Trials (mainly Series PS), testimonies and two repor...

  12. Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Ministry of Defense, 1941-1944

    Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Ministry of Defense, 1941-1944 In the collection there are files that were created by various bodies within the Romanian Army, some of which deal with internal security and some of which deal with intelligence reports pertaining to Hungary and Transylvania. In the files there is propaganda material; surveillance of the legionnaire insurgents (after January 1941); surveillance of bodies hostile to the regime in Romania (Communists, Jews); intelligence reports regarding what was happening in Hungary in 1944 (in these reports there is information...

  13. TR.10 - Indictments, verdicts and investigatory reports from the trials of Nazi criminals, Germany

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019677
    • English, Hebrew
    • Indictment Investigation report Legal documentation List of perpetrators Maps Names of perpetrators Official documentation Photograph Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors Sentence Survey report

    TR.10 - Indictments, verdicts and investigatory reports from the trials of Nazi criminals, Germany The Record Group contains extensive legal documentation prepared during criminal investigations and trials conducted against Nazi criminals in West Germany and East Germany. The documentation is mainly from two sources: 1. The Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizwaltungen (Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes) in Ludwigsburg, West Germany: The basic investigatory materials that were transferred afterwards to the local States Attorne...

  14. Collection of the Adviescommissie voor de Zuivering van Notarissen in de provincie Noord-Holland - Committee for the Investigation of Notaries in the Noord-Holland region of the Netherlands, 1944-1951

    Collection of the Adviescommissie voor de Zuivering van Notarissen in de provincie Noord-Holland - Committee for the Investigation of Notaries in the Noord-Holland region of the Netherlands, 1944-1951 Establishment of the committee by the Military Government in the Netherlands on 20/07/1945; committee's function: investigation of the conduct of the Notaries in the Noord-Holland region during the Nazi occupation period; investigation by the committee of suspicions of collaboration by judicial officials with the Nazis regarding the deportation of Jews and the expropriation of Jewish property;...

  15. The Collection of Nathan Schwalb, the representative of the World Center of the Hechalutz movement in Geneva, Switzerland during World War II

    Schwalb spent World War II in Geneva as the representative of the World Hechalutz movement, serving as contact person and a financial welfare source for the Jews. He corresponded with hundreds of people in the occupied countries and was active in many areas including the sending of parcels via the Red Cross, mainly to Poland, and transferring funds via messengers whom he drafted for this purpose. The Collection contains correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings and more.

  16. Collection of the Van Leer Stichting (Van Leer Institute) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1941-1959

    Collection of the Van Leer Stichting (Van Leer Institute) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1941-1959 The Van Leer Stichting (Van Leer Institute) was established in 1941 following anti-Jewish legislation in the Netherlands; financing of the institute came from the dissolution of the factory of B. van Leer, a Jewish industrialist who emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States; the anti-Jewish legislation, whose implementation in the Netherlands was appointed to H. A. Rauter, isolated the Jews from the cultural life in the Netherlands as of 15/09/1941; the Van Leer Institute provided a ...

  17. Documentation regarding the fate of Jews in the Canton of Vaud, 1933-1945: Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss workers' social-welfare organization, Department for refugees relief), regarding emigrants from Germany, letters "A - C", 1937-1946

    Documentation regarding the fate of Jews in the Canton of Vaud, 1933-1945: Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss workers' social-welfare organization, Department for refugees relief), regarding emigrants from Germany, letters "A - C", 1937-1946 Correspondence between the refugees and the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss workers' social-welfare organization, Department for refugees relief) and other organizations, including the Verband Schweizerischer Jüdischer Fürsorge - VSJF (Swiss Jewish organization for refugees relie...

  18. Collection of the Abteilung für besondere wirtschaftliche Angelegenheiten - Department for Special Financial Matters of the German Ministry of the Treasury, Hauptabteilung Wirtschaft, in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of the Abteilung für besondere wirtschaftliche Angelegenheiten - Department for Special Financial Matters of the German Ministry of the Treasury, Hauptabteilung Wirtschaft, in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 The department was also called the Referat für besondere wirtschaftliche Angelegenheiten; the head of the department was Dr. Joachim Kessler, whose title was Der Sonderbeauftragte für wirtschaftliche Verflechtung (Supervisor over the Integration of the Dutch Economy with the Economy of Germany); his areas of work were the: exchange of stock portfolios between the Netherlands and G...

  19. Collection of Meyer Sluyser, regarding the Dutch Government in Exile and the fate of the Jews in the Netherlands during 1940-1945

    Collection of Meyer Sluyser, regarding the Dutch Government in Exile and the fate of the Jews in the Netherlands during 1940-1945 Journalist Meyer Sluyser dealt in information publicity for the Dutch Government in Exile, and followed the fate of the Jews in the occupied Netherlands and the deportation of the Jews to Eastern Europe during 1940-1945; Included in the collection: Documents collected by M. Sluyser, including a professional opinion by the BRvA Council in London regarding various proposals for legislation, 1943-1944; Texts of the "De Flitspuit" radio program broadcasts in the Neth...

  20. M.52.DAKherO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Kherson Region

    M.52.DAKherO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Kherson Region History of the Archives: The special archival committee of the Kherson district was established in April 1922, which was subordinate to the archival committee of the Mykolaiv sub-division. The committee became subordinate to the archival committee of the Odessa sub-division in 1922. In November 1925 the archival committee became subordinate to the regional archival administration of Kherson, which began its work in October 1926. The regional archival administration underwent reorganizing and became a local archival a...