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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. O.52.3 - Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - General Documentation

    O.52.3 - Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - General Documentation 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 field. As part of the preparation o...

  2. Aldo Toscano Collection

    Aldo Toscano Collection Documentation pertaining to the mass murder of the Jews in various cities of the Novara region in the Piemonte area of Italy by the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, 12 September-10 October 1943. The documentation was collected and written by Aldo Toscano. - "L'Olocausto del Lago Maggiore" (The Holocaust of Lake Maggiore), the book by Aldo Toscano, regarding the mass murder of the Jews in the cities on the banks of Lake Maggiore in the Novara region in the Piemonte area of Italy; - Collection of testimonies regarding the murder of the Jews in the cities in the Novara re...

  3. Files of the Oberfinanzpraesident Berlin-Brandenburg

    Files of the Oberfinanzpraesident Berlin-Brandenburg The local (Finanzamt) and regional (Oberfinanzpraesidium) finance offices were the central offices for the registration of Jewish property by the Nazi authorities. The Jewish property was later seized by means of very high emigration taxes and confiscation. Special importance was given to the Finanzamt Moabit-West in Berlin, headed by Willy Bötcher, which received the responsibility for the confiscation of property of political emigres (whose citizenship was revoked) throughout the German Reich on 30/08/1933. The function of the offices w...

  4. Documentation of the municipal Jewish high school in Riga, 1921-1940

    Documentation of the municipal Jewish high school in Riga, 1921-1940 Circulars, orders and instructions of the Riga municipality's education department; the Jewish education administration and other institutions; correspondence with the department of middle schools, regarding educational activities and the composition of the teachers and pupils; reports of meetings and the teachers committee; lists of teachers; lists of pupils; elementary school diplomas; record books of grades [marks]; copies of matriculation certificates.

  5. O.33- Testimonies, diaries and memoirs from the Holocaust period and regarding the Holocaust

    O.33- Testimonies, diaries and memoirs from the Holocaust period and regarding the Holocaust In the collection there are diaries, testimonies and memoirs written mostly by survivors with some material written by Jews who perished in the Holocaust. The content of the documentation is varied and multi-lingual. Most of the documentation was written and documented after the war, and the rest, mainly diaries, during the Holocaust. Those who were persecuted have documented their personal experiences, and through this documentation it is possible to closely follow the personal stories of the write...

  6. M.52.DATO - Documentation of the State Archive of the Ternopil Region

    M.52.DATO - Documentation of the State Archive of the Ternopil Region History of the Archive: The archive was established in 1939 as the Regional Historical Archive of Ternopil. In 1941 and until the present it has been called the State Archive of the Ternopil Region, except for the period of 1958-1980 when it served as the Regional State Archive of Ternopil. During the period of World War II some of the documentation was transferred to Uzbekistan, but most of its collections were destroyed during the war. Following the liberation in late 1944, the archive renewed its work. The Sub-Record G...

  7. M.63 - Documentation from archives in Switzerland

    M.63 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from provincial archives in Switzerland, 1930-1950 The documentation is composed mainly of material received by Yad Vashem from the archives of cantons and Jewish communities in Switzerland. Documentation received from the Federal Archive of Switzerland and the State Archive of Lichtenstein is also included in the Record Group. There is also material from various institutions that dealt with Jewish refugees in Switzerland, personal files of thousands of Jewish refugees who escaped to Switzerland as well as the files of Jewish refugees who were de...

  8. Documentation from the Bezirksamt Schoenberg in Berlin, 1926-1935

    Documentation from the Bezirksamt Schoenberg in Berlin, 1926-1935 The city of Schoeneberg and the town of Friedenau were incorporated into the city of Berlin in 1920, as the Bezirk (municipal district of) Schoeneberg. In this Record Group are files related to the construction sector, regarding synagogues and buildings belonging to Jewish institutions in the district's area.

  9. Documentation of the Soviet authorities in Slonim, 1939-1941

    Documentation of the Soviet authorities in Slonim, 1939-1941 Included in the collection are legal files against the Jews, lists of people obligated for the draft, and appeals by Jewish residents to the lands department in the municipality.

  10. Documentation of the Minsk District administration, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Minsk District administration, 1941-1944 The Collection includes commands and orders for restricting the rights of Jews in the Minsk area; correspondence of the area administrations regarding two Jews; list of Jews from the Ostroshitskiy Gorodek Ghetto; list of Jews who paid an agricultural tax to the District administration in Ostroshitskiy Gorodek, 1941-1942; correspondence of the Minsk District Police with the (Gebietskommissar) District Commissioner regarding Jews and children of mixed marriages residing in the Minsk District, 1942; official documentation regarding ...

  11. Documentation from the Wuerttembergische Verwaltungsgerichtshof

    Documentation from the Wuerttembergische Verwaltungsgerichtshof

  12. Collection of the Commissie-Clevering committee, which examined the attitude toward refugees by the authorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1950

    Collection of the Commissie-Clevering committee, which examined the attitude toward refugees by the authorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1950 Official documentation of the Commissie-Clevering committee, established by the Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands in 1946 for the purpose of examining the attitude of the embassies toward Dutch citizens who escaped to Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal and other countries during the war period: Included in the collection: Testimonies of: A. Cohen E. Elzas L. Flesseman M.H. Gans A.J. Goedkoop E.H. van Hasselt M.H.J. Hedeman-Joosten J.M. Kijzer J. P...

  13. Documentation of the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Owrutsch, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Owrutsch, 1941-1943 Included in the collection are instructions of the Reichskommissar (Reich commissioner) of Ukraine and the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Owrutsch, lists of Ukrainian policemen, and other documentation.

  14. M.55 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from regional and local archives in Germany

    M.55 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from regional and local archives in Germany The Record Group contains documentation gathered from state, regional and local archives in Germany. In the documentation there is much information regarding the persecution of the Jews on the local level, including deportations, as well as information regarding life in the Jewish communities, Jewish property and sometimes, lists of local Jews.

  15. Documentation from the Bobruysk district administration, 1941-1944

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10440674
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1944
    • Application Correspondence List of healthcare workers List of Jewish residents List of livestock owners List of residents List of skilled professionals Official documentation

    Documentation from the Bobruysk district administration, 1941-1944 The Mogilev and Vitebsk regions, a large part of the Gomel region, the eastern districts of the Minsk region and part of Polesye belonged to the outlying area under the control of the Heeresgruppe Mitte (Army Group Centre). The occupying regime established local administrations in the city as auxiliary power. Included in the documentation from the district administration of Bobruysk are directives from the District Director on the following subjects: funding for Bobruysk municipal institutions; commerce arrangements in the c...

  16. P.39 - Bernardo Grosser Collection: Bernado Grosser was active in Delasem, the relief organization for the Jews in Italy

    P.39 - Bernardo Grosser Collection: Bernado Grosser was active in Delasem, the relief organization for the Jews in Italy Correspondence and personal documentation belonging to Delasem (Delegazione per l'Assistenza degli Emigranti Ebrei- Delegation for the Assistance of Jewish Emigrants) activist Bernardo (Berl) Grosser who escaped to Switzerland during the war and was an activist on behalf of the Jewish refugees from Italy in Switzerland. Included in the Record Group is documentation from the Galpi (gratitude to the Italian population) Organization which Bernardo Grosser and Yugoslavian sur...

  17. Files from the Reichskanzlei (Reich Office) in Germany

    Files from the Reichskanzlei (Reich Office) in Germany

  18. TR. 15 - Protocols and historical documentation from the Demjanjuk Trial, 1986-1988

    TR. 15 - Protocols and historical documentation from the Demjanjuk Trial, 1986-1988 In 1987, Ivan Demjanjuk was placed on trial in Jerusalem in accordance with the Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law. Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who immigrated to the United States and was extradited to Israel, was accused of serving as a guard in the Treblinka extermination camp during the war. The inmates of the camp referred to him as "Ivan the Terrible". The Jerusalem District Court, in session with the special panel of Judges Dov Levin, Tzvi Tal and Dalia Dorner, found Demjanjuk guilty and sentenced...

  19. Documentation of the Landesherrenschaften - Landesausschussangelegenheiten (Land Authorities - Land Committee Matters) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Landesherrenschaften - Landesausschussangelegenheiten (Land Authorities - Land Committee Matters) in Hamburg

  20. M.1.DNA -The German Academy of Science: Lexicon regarding outstanding economists (not including Jews), 1930-1941

    M.1.DNA -The German Academy of Science: Lexicon regarding outstanding economists (not including Jews), 1930-1941 This Subsection contains pre-World War II files of the German Academy of Science in Munich, including documentation for a lexicon of outstanding German economists and industrialists (Deutsche Wirtschfsfuehrer), since 1801 excluding Jews. The files contain correspondence about the project and the files of the project itself as well as an information page with a few lines regarding each person, arranged alphabetically.