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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Documentation of the regional committee of the Communist Party in Mogilev, 1938-1947

    Documentation of the regional committee of the Communist Party in Mogilev, 1938-1947 Included in the collection: - Documentation of the regional committee and the district committees; - Lists of Communists, propagandists, partisans, released soldiers, lecturers and Jewish refugees.

  2. Collection of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), 1935-1944

    Collection of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), 1935-1944 Documentation regarding help given by American Jews to Jews in Europe including financial support to refugees, acting as agents to obtain visas and immigration certificates from governments in Europe, help in obtaining consular services and in emigrating from Europe.

  3. Documentation of the temporary administration in Rovno, 1939-1940

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12833700
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1939-1940
    • Administrative documentation Appeal to the authorities List of healthcare workers List of physicians List of residents List of voters Order Statistical report

    Documentation of the temporary administration in Rovno, 1939-1940 Included in the collection: - Statistical reports regarding refugees residing in the Rovno region, 1939; - Lists of voters for the National Council of Western Ukraine; - Lists of physicians and healthcare workers; - Appeals to the municipality regarding various matters; - Appeals by residents from Rovno regarding their acceptance to work.

  4. Memoirs by Abraham Izbitzky regarding his experiences in Poland and Hungary, written in 1950s

    1. P.54 - Archive of Dr. Israel Kasztner, one of the leaders of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, and Collection of Dov Dinur, Kasztner's Biographer

    Memoirs by Abraham Izbitzky regarding his experiences in Poland and Hungary, written in 1950s Included in the file: - Summary of his memoirs in Hungarian.

  5. Memoirs of Aharon Glazer, regarding his experiences in the Netherlands as a Jewish refugee from Germany and his deportation to Westerbork

    1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957

    Memoirs of Aharon Glazer, regarding his experiences in the Netherlands as a Jewish refugee from Germany and his deportation to Westerbork

  7. Collection of David Cohen, head of the Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council) and leader of the Jewish community in the Netherlands, 1922-1954

    Collection of David Cohen, head of the Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council) and leader of the Jewish community in the Netherlands, 1922-1954 Included in the collection: Testimonies in favor of Professor David Cohen, from a trial held against him after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, 1947-1948; Various documents submitted by Professor David Cohen to his lawyers during the trial held against him and against A. Asscher in the Netherlands after the war, 1947-1949; Documents regarding the possibilities for emigration for Jews from the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation perio...

  8. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

    M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959 There are 220 files in the record group, which includes various publications, such as bulletins, reports, letters and surveys, containing information regarding the condition of the Jews in occupied Europe during World War II. The information was gathered, collated and distributed by Jewish organizations in Eretz Israel, Turkey (Istanbul) and Switzerland during the war and the early postwar years. Some of the communications were intended for distribution solely among the members of the or...

  9. Documentation regarding relief activities by the JDC organization with the OSE organization, TOZ organization and Red Cross organization, including newspaper clippings about TOZ activities in Poland, correspondence between Dr. Boris Tschlenoff - head of t

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Documentation regarding relief activities by the JDC organization with the OSE organization, TOZ organization and Red Cross organization, including newspaper clippings about TOZ activities in Poland, correspondence between Dr. Boris Tschlenoff - head of the OSE in Geneva and Saly Mayer, and other matters, 1942-1945 - Issue of the "American OSE Review" publication, March-April 1942, including an excerpt regarding the cooperation between the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants - OSE organization and the JDC, in the obtaining of medical help for Jewish refugees in Russia; - Newspaper clippings regar...

  10. Documentation regarding the transfer of relief to persecuted Jews in Poland, Polish Jews in Switzerland, and Polish Jews in the Soviet Union, 1940-1944

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Documentation regarding the transfer of relief to persecuted Jews in Poland, Polish Jews in Switzerland, and Polish Jews in the Soviet Union, 1940-1944 1) Documentation regarding the transfer of relief to persecuted Jews in the Generalgouvernement in Poland, mainly with the help of the Juedische Soziale Selbsthilfe - JSS (Jewish Social Self-help) organization in Krakow, 1940-1942, and with the help of the JUS-Juedische Unterstuetzungsstelle fuer das GG (Jewish welfare office in the Generalgouvernement) in Krakow, 1943-1944: - List prepared by Avraham Zilberstein - chairman of the RELICO Com...

  11. O.36 - David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany

    O.36 - David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany This record group is a collection of testimonies recorded by David Boder, a Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in DP camps in Europe in 1946. The collection is comprised of testimonies of Jews and non-Jews, recorded in various languages and translated into English. The testimonies focus on the events in the lives of the survivors during the war in the ghettos and camps, while serving in the military, in hiding and in children's homes. The testimonies also contain information regardin...

  12. M.2 - Archive of Itzhak Schwarzbart, member of the Polish Government-in-Exile in London, 1939-1958

    M.2 - Archive of Itzhak Schwarzbart, member of the Polish Government-in-Exile in London, 1939-1958 Dr. Itzhak Ignacy Schwarzbart was born in Chrzanow, Poland, in 1888. He studied to be a lawyer and began his legal career in 1913. He served as the Assistant Editor-in-Chief of a daily newspaper that appeared in Krakow, 1921-1925, while writing for other daily newspapers as well. During the period between World War I and World War II, he served as a representative at Zionist Congresses and was active in the Jewish faction in the Krakow Municipal Council and the leadership of the Jewish communi...

  13. Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Committee for the Jews in Occupied Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in the occupied countries of Europe, December 1944

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • הועד ליהודי אירופה הכבושה שעל יד הסוכנות היהודית לארץ ישראל, ביולטין, דצמבר 1944

    Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Committee for the Jews in Occupied Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in the occupied countries of Europe, December 1944 Situation of the Jews in Belgium; situation of the Jews in Czernowitz; Jewish children in Transnistria; testimony of Jewish refugees regarding the situation of the Jews in the areas annexed to Hungary, 1939; situation of the Jewish refugees from Poland in Romania; testimony of a survivor who escaped to Sweden; information regarding the Janowska camp submitted by a witness ...

  14. Testimony of Ludvik Kain Kalina, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Britain, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier and in combat at Dunkirk

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Ludvik Kain Kalina, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Britain, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier and in combat at Dunkirk Born in Uzhorod. Occupation of Slovakia by Hungary; persecution of Jews in Hungarian-occupied Slovakia, 1939; activities of Jewish Communists in Slovakia; transfer to Poland; activities of Jewish Communists in the Katowice refugee center, 1939; persecution of Jewish refugees by Polish police; protection of Jewish refugees by British Consulate; move to Britain, 1939; leading Jewish Communist refugees in England, 1939; impact ...

  15. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Venja Pomerantz and Menachem Bader, representatives of the Jewish Agency United Vaad Hatzala in Istanbul

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Venja Pomerantz and Menachem Bader, representatives of the Jewish Agency United Vaad Hatzala in Istanbul Correspondence regarding organizing relief activities and rescue of members of the Zionist movement in the occupied countries, raising money and sending passports. Also in the file: - Letter regarding the establishment of a relief committee in Geneva which would include all relief, contact and rescue activities, and would be under the Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency with representatives on the Rescue Committee in Istanbul,...

  16. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland) in Zurich regarding sending relief to Holocaust survivors in Poland and Austria and bringing youth and children in poor health for treatment in Switzerl

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland) in Zurich regarding sending relief to Holocaust survivors in Poland and Austria and bringing youth and children in poor health for treatment in Switzerland Incomplete folder regarding sending relief to Holocaust survivors in Poland and Austria and bringing youth and children in poor health for treatment in Switzerland. Also in the file: - Speech delivered by Dr. Paul Guggenheim regarding contemporary problems of Swiss Jewry; - Speech delivered by the President of the Bern Jewish community ...

  17. Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and neighboring countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, October 1943

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות 19/50

    Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and neighboring countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press and according to witnesses and letters, October 1943 Poland: Report on the treatment of the Jews in Tarnopol by the Germans according to a French POW; hard labor and deportation in cattle cars; the "The Jewish World Plague" exhibition in Krakow; celebration of the 4th anniversary of the Generalgouvernement; Goebbels' speeches in the newspapers; Slovakia: Fate of the assimilated Jews; labor camps; identifying assimilated Jews; Slovakian Jewish refuge...

  18. Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and world press, late October-early November 1943

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות 22/53

    Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and world press, late October-early November 1943 Conjecture regarding liquidation of labor camps in the vicinity of Lublin and murder of 15,000 Jews; transfer of the last of the Jewish inmates to Krakow; survival of approximately 300,000 out of close to 4,000,000 Jews in Poland before the war; condition of the Polish workers in the Reich; food supply situation in Poland; escape of German citizens to the Reich. Vienna: The lives of approximately 2,000 Jews in Vienna, most...

  19. Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: JUNA (Juedische Nachrichten, press agency of SIG [Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland]) announcements in Jewish newspapers in Switzerland regarding the activities of the central SIG institutions, 1946-1963

    1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969

    Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: JUNA (Juedische Nachrichten, press agency of SIG [Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland]) announcements in Jewish newspapers in Switzerland regarding the activities of the central SIG institutions, 1946-1963 In the file: - JUNA announcements in Jewish newspapers in Switzerland regarding activities of the SIG Central Committee and Geschaeftsleitung (admistration), as well as drafts of the notices; clippings from newspapers in which the notices were published, such as "Israelitisches Wochenblatt" from Zurich and "Juedische Rundschau-Maccabi" from Basel. Also ...

  20. Collection of Het Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen - The Committee for Special Jewish Interests in the Netherlands, 1933-1939

    Collection of Het Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen - The Committee for Special Jewish Interests in the Netherlands, 1933-1939 Het Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen – The Committee for Special Jewish Interests in the Netherlands was established in the Netherlands in 1933, in order to promote the matters of the Jews in the Netherlands; David Cohen and Abraham Asscher stood at its head; following the influx of Jewish refugees who arrived to the Netherlands shortly thereafter, a sub-committee named the Het Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen was established; Included in the collec...