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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Documentation on matters pertaining to administration, finance, personnel and service conditions in the SS and the Waffen SS from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1943

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11001960
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1936-1943
    • Book Booklet(s) Financial accounts Form Journal Laws and decrees List of Nazi war criminals Names of perpetrators Official documentation Photograph Survey report

    Documentation on matters pertaining to administration, finance, personnel and service conditions in the SS and the Waffen SS from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1943 Among other items, the collection contains correspondence, circulars and guidelines of various bodies within the SS and the Waffen SS regarding matters pertaining to administration, finance, personnel and the service conditions of their people. In the material there are reports regarding promotions and postings to new positions; general guidelines concerning SS and Waffen SS personnel and their service conditions, some of si...

  2. Documentation of the Generalbauinspekteur fuer die Reichshauptstadt (Construction Inspector General for the Reich's Capital) in Berlin from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1938-1942

    Documentation of the Generalbauinspekteur fuer die Reichshauptstadt (Construction Inspector General for the Reich's Capital) in Berlin from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1938-1942 The institution of the Generalbauinspekteur für die Reichshauptstadt was created by a special order of Adolf Hitler, 30 January 1937. This was the title bestowed on Albert Speer with the goal of initiating grandiose construction plans that would redesign parts of Berlin and acquire for Berlin a dominant standing in the world. Later on, the authority delegated to Speer was expanded both in Berlin itself and in other...

  3. Documentation of German Occupation Authorities from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1944

    Documentation of German Occupation Authorities from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1944 There are two files in the collection: - A file containing correspondence of the Kreiskommissar Garten (administration of the Garten district) (from 1943 Kreiskommissar Grodno [the administration of the Grodno district]) in the Bialystok region regarding administrative and financial matters, including factories that were moved over to German trusteeships and investigations on black market matters, October 1941-June 1944; - A file of the Staatskommissar beim Reichsstatthalter in Wien (State Commissione...

  4. Documentation of the I. G. Farbenindustrie Company from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1928-1943

    Documentation of the I. G. Farbenindustrie Company from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1928-1943 The I. G. Farbenindustrie Company was established in 1925 from the amalgamation of several chemical industry companies, and it was, in its time, the largest company in this field in the west. During World War II it was notorious due to its involvement in the Nazi oppression and murder process, and mainly due to the production and supply of the gas Zyklon B which was used for mass murders in Auschwitz, and for the establishment of the Buna factory for synthetic fuel as part of the Auschwitz camps c...

  5. Documentation from the Reichswirtschaftministerium (Reich Ministry of Economy) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1942

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11026735
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1936-1942
    • Balance sheet Financial accounts Names of perpetrators Official documentation Record of persecuted persons Statistical data Survey report

    Documentation from the Reichswirtschaftministerium (Reich Ministry of Economy) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1942 The following files are preserved in the collection: - A file dealing with insurance taken out by Jews, 1938-1939, including subjects such as the treatment of insurance claims submitted by Jews after the Kristallnacht riots (including a copy of the "Reichsgesetzblatt" [Reich Legal Gazette] from March 1939 containing the wording of the law on this matter - frame 1451, statistical reports and correspondence from December 1938 regarding the limit on claims pertaining to ri...

  6. Financial reports of the Commerz- und Privat-Bank Aktiengesellschaft from Berlin and from Hamburg from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1939

    Financial reports of the Commerz- und Privat-Bank Aktiengesellschaft from Berlin and from Hamburg from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1939 In the collection there are files of financial reports of the Commerz- und Privat-Bank Aktiengesellschaft from Berlin and from Hamburg, 1936-1939, prepared by the Deutsche Revisions und Treuhand Aktiengesellschaft Company. The original title assigned to this Record Group by the Osoby Archive, referring to the company that prepared the reports, is erroneous.

  7. M.43.LVVA - Documentation from the State Historical Archives of Latvia in Riga

    M.43.LVVA - Documentation from the State Historical Archives of Latvia in Riga This sub-record group contains files selected from the State Historical Archives of Latvia in Riga and files received from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington DC. Description of the sub-record group: The documentation of the State Historical Archives of Latvia includes correspondence between educational institutions in Latvia and several organizations regarding matters concerning budgets, teachers' salaries and matriculation exams during 1921-1940: reports of teachers' committees mee...

  8. Official documentation of the German occupation authorities in Latvia, from the Westermann Collection in Riga

    Official documentation of the German occupation authorities in Latvia, from the Westermann Collection in Riga The Westermann Collection includes official documentation of the municipal administration of the Rigas Prefekturas (Riga Prefecture) Police; official documentation of Einsatzgruppe A active in Latvia in 1941; orders and instructions by the Sicherheitspolizei to the SD and SS in Latvia; instructions of the Generalkommissar and Giebitskommissar of Riga; Latvian antisemitic newspapers, from 1939-1940 and from the German occupation period; lists of Jews who were deported from Hamburg, D...

  9. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission regarding the murder of the Jews in the Valka district and Ventspils, and a reply by the chairman of the Latvian Ministry of Religions to a request by the Jewish community in Riga regarding the ban on the burial of Jewish victims of the Holocaust according to the Jewish tradition

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission regarding the murder of the Jews in the Valka district and Ventspils, and a reply by the chairman of the Latvian Ministry of Religions to a request by the Jewish community in Riga regarding the ban on the burial of Jewish victims of the Holocaust according to the Jewish tradition

  10. 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...

  11. Estate of Ilse von Twardowski-Conrat, in the Archive of the City of Munich, 1898-1942

    Estate of Ilse von Twardowski-Conrat, in the Archive of the City of Munich, 1898-1942 Painter Ilse Beate von Twardowski was born in Vienna on 20/01/1880. Her parents, who converted to Christianity in 1852, had her baptized to Christianity (Evangelist) when she was a baby. She received her art training in Brussels. She married Ernst von Twardowski in 1910 and moved in his footsteps from Rome to Munich in 1914. During the Nazi regime, she was forbidden to work in her profession due to her Jewish origin, and in 1936 she was expelled from the Reichskammer für bildende Künste. She committed suic...

  12. O.29 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Belgium during the Holocaust period

    O.29 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Belgium during the Holocaust period This Record group is comprised of three Sub-Record groups: O.29.1 - The Maxime Steinberg Collection O.29.2 - The Shifra Verber Collection O.29.3 - Personal documentation regarding the Holocaust period in Belgium

  13. Documentation of material from Austrian government offices (mainly of the politician Karl von Karwinsky) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1935-1936

    Documentation of material from Austrian government offices (mainly of the politician Karl von Karwinsky) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1935-1936 The files in the collection: - Report for the year 1934 submitted by the National Bank of Yugoslavia, sent to the Austro-Yugoslavian Office of Commerce (Microfilm JM/29558, Scans 1975-2060); - Report for the year 1934 submitted by the Wiener freiwillige Rettungs-Gesellschaft, containing mainly statistical charts and a financial report (Microfilm JM/29558, Scans 2063-2087); - Report for the year 1934 submitted by the Generaldirektion fuer die Po...

  14. Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Ludwigsburg (Ludwigsburg Municipal Archives)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11054802
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1890-2011
    • Financial accounts food card Legal documentation Letter List of Jewish residents Newspaper clippings Official documentation Orders Photograph Protocol Questionnaire Record of persecuted persons

    Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Ludwigsburg (Ludwigsburg Municipal Archives) The collection includes varied and detailed documentation regarding the persecution of the Jews of Ludwigsburg during the Nazi regime, from various angles. The material includes: protocols of municipality departments, orders published against Jews, Jewish businesses and their closure, the confiscation of Jewish property including estimations of the value of many plots of land, tax files, files of local organizations, files regarding construction, photographs, a collection of a local historian who corresponded wi...

  15. 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...

  16. Documentation of Jewish organizations from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1933-1945

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11143431
    • 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 Jewish organizations from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1933-1945 JM/29512: - Documents of Jewish students associations in Vienna, among them Vereinigung juedicher Hoerer an der Hochschule fuer Juedoscher Hochschulauschuss, Welthandel and other associations, mainly of students in specific professions (medicine, philosophy, law, technical professions and so on) or of Polish students, 1929-1931 (Frames 6-160).

  17. Documentation of the Verband der juedischen Kaufleute und Gewerbetreibende (Association of Jewish Merchants and Tradespeople) in Vienna from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1928-1935

    Documentation of the Verband der juedischen Kaufleute und Gewerbetreibende (Association of Jewish Merchants and Tradespeople) in Vienna from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1928-1935 In the collection there is mainly Verband correspondence and circulars from 1928-1935, including internal Verband correspondence with its members (and candidates for membership), along with much information regarding the possibilities for commercial connections abroad, and correspondence with outside bodies on various matters, such as guidelines to the Verband members on various businesses, correspondence with gov...

  18. Documentation of the Bikur Cholim Association in Graz from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1923-1938

    Documentation of the Bikur Cholim Association in Graz from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1923-1938 The Association was founded in 1923 (a time of intense economic crisis) with the goal of providing assistance to the sick and giving charity to those in need. In the collection there is correspondence of the Association and of its Chairman, Elias Gruenschlag (who was active in the Zionist Movement in Austria as well), among other correspondence, with the Graz community and with Jewish and Zionist organizations in Austria; correspondence regarding matters pertaining to welfare and assistance (in...

  19. Documentation of the Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft (Southeastern Europe Company) in Vienna, from the Bundesarchiv (Federal Archive) in Germany, 1940-1944

    Documentation of the Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft (Southeastern Europe Company) in Vienna, from the Bundesarchiv (Federal Archive) in Germany, 1940-1944.

  20. O.52.1 - Documentation prepared for the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - the Communities of Bavaria

    O.52.1 - Documentation prepared for the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - the Communities of Bavaria The purpose of the Yad Vashem project - to prepare an Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - is to perpetuate the history of the communities that were destroyed during the Holocaust. The historiography of the communities focused on countries and sometimes on districts, but not on the history of the local communities. With the increase of interest in the local communities, this Record Group serves as a very important source for historians and researchers working in this...