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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. תקים של עורכי דין יהודיים שפעלו בפני בית המשפט העל-מחוזי (Oberlandesgericht) ובית המשפט המחוזי (Landgericht) ב-Frankfurt a.Main

    The inventory contains all surviving manuals, general ledgers and process registers of the Jewish lawyers and consultants (Konsulenten) working in Frankfurt a.M., who were admitted to the regional court or the regional appeal court of Frankfurt a.M., namely Dr. Joseph Cahn (1935-39, 1m, Abt. 474/1), Dr. Robert Cahn (1933-41, 3,5 m, Abt. 474/2), Dr. Siegfried aka Fritz Gutenstein and Dr. Ing. Siegfried Popper (1926-43, 18 m, Abt 474/3), Dr. Julius Gruenebaum (1931-41, 5.5 m, Abt. 474/4), Siegfried Katzenstein (Abt. 474/5) and to a lesser extent of Max Kowalski, Julius Meyer, Richard Eilbott,...

  2. P.1 - Archive of Recha Freier, the founder of Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1935-1951

    P.1 - Archive of Recha Freier, the founder of Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1935-1951 Recha Freier was born in Norden, in the northwestern part of Germany, in 1892. On completion of her University Language studies, she worked as a teacher and folklore researcher. In 1932 she conceived of the idea of organizing the sending of Jewish youth to Eretz Israel for education in the kibbutzim. She gathered funds for this purpose and saw her idea become a reality when the first group of Jewish youth left Berlin in late 1932. The World Jewish Congress approved the idea in 1933, however initially Recha Frei...

  3. O.85 - Austrian Communities Registry

    O.85 - Documentation collected for the Austrian Communities Registry The purpose of the Yad Vashem Communities Registry Project is to perpetuate the history of the communities destroyed during the Holocaust. The historiography of the communities focused on countries, and sometimes on districts, but not the history of the local communities. With the increase of interest in the local communities, this Record Group also serves as a very important source for historians and researchers working in this field. The task of preparation of the Austrian Communities Registry was assigned to Dr. Herbert...

  4. M.59- documentation from the US National Archives

    M.59- Alexandria Collection: Nazi documentation from the US National Archives The Record Group contains Nazi documentation confiscated by the US Army and transferred to the US National Archives in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. The documentation includes documents from German government offices, Nazi organizations (including the Nazi party), SS Headquarters and the German Police, as well as German Army units on various levels, from Army Groups to Divisions. Additionally, copies of documentation regarding the persecution of the Jews of Germany, some of them from Nuremberg Trial files, have been ...

  5. Documentation regarding the Jews of the Baltic States, mainly during the Holocaust period

    In this Record Group there is personal documentation of inmates of ghettos, survivors, partisans and Red Army soldiers. The documentation includes telegrams, private letters, documentation from yeshivas, statistical reports and survey reports from the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) regarding the persecution of Jews and the murder of Jews, survey-reports regarding the deportation of Jews from German occupied countries to German occupied areas in the Soviet Union and their murder in its boundaries, a list of Jews who received vis...

  6. Documentation from the Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives: Activities of the Hashomer Hatzair Movement in Europe during World War II

    The collection contains mainly documentation regarding the activities of the Hashomer Hatzair Movement during the war in various countries in Europe. The Collection was gathered and brought to Eretz Israel by members of the movement. The documentation from the Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives was originally arranged and organized in Record Groups: 1. The Vilna Ghetto Record Group; 2. The Warsaw Record Group; 3. The Bialystok Record Group; 4. The Hashomer Hatzair Movement in cities and ghettos in Poland during the war; 5. The Movement in Hungary, Slovakia, parachutists; 6. The PCh"Ch Archive in Ge...

  7. Documentation from Regional Archives of the Russian Federation, 1934-1946

    In the collection there are files selected from the Regional Archives of the Russian Federation: the State Archives in the Tver, Kaluga, Pskov, Orel, Smolensk, Novgorod and Bryansk regions, the State Archives of the Republics of Kalmykia and Mordovia and the State Archive for Records of Contemporary History in the Kaluga, Smolensk and Tver Regions. Description of the collectionThe collection includes documentation from the local committees of the Communist Party in various regions of Russia, 1917-1929, documentation from the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission Committee (ChGK) and the reg...

  8. Collection regarding the trials of Zoepf, Harster and Slottke in Munich during 1966-1968

    Collection regarding the trials of Zoepf, Harster and Slottke in Munich during 1966-1968 SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Zoepf was head of the Referat IV B4 in The Hague in 1942. He administered the system of transports from Westerbork camp to the East, including the decisions regarding exemptions and deportations; Wilhelm Harster was commander of de Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (the German Security and Police forces); Fraulein Slottke gave orders to the Police in The Hague, in order to locate Jews and their property; Included in the collection: Documents regarding the death of...

  9. Personal Archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson

    The documentation deals with a part of the estate of the Samson family, originally from the city of Norden in Northern Germany. There is pre-war documentation on tax issues and the assets of the Samson family, pre- and postwar correspondence with German authorities, personal documents and certificates, documents on the restoration of the Norden Jewish cemetery supported by the Samson family after WW II, the dedication of a memorial on the Norden Jewish cemetery, charity work, brochures and magazines related to the history of the Norden Jews.

  10. The Recha Freier Archive: Founder of Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1935-1951

    The collection contains Recha Freier's personal files, including correspondence with various international organizations, among them the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of the United States, which directed its main efforts to the project to rescue Jewish children during the Holocaust.

  11. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Gat

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Gat Experiences of: 1. Lili Itayi; 2. Sara Dotan; 3. Moshe Harel; 4. Gershon Gerhard Weiss Livni; 5. Stella Esther Livni; 6. Naomi Montilia; 7. Zvia Eshet; 8. Shalom Rimer; 9. Lea Shachar; Testimonies/ interviews: 1. Yoshke Yosef Itayi; 2. Bernard Zelishovski; 3. Tova Saltzberg; 4. Israel Eshet; Eulogies: 1. Words spoken at the grave of Yoshke [Yosef Itayi] at the Kibbutz Gat cemetery on 02/06/1998; 2. In memory of Israel Karsh; 3. "Israel -...

  12. O.24 Reinhard Strecker Collection: Judges and Trials in Nazi Sondergerichte (Special Courts)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 7202720
    • English, Hebrew
    • Indictment Legal documentation Names of perpetrators Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Record of persecuted persons Sentence

    O.24 Reinhard Strecker Collection: Judges and Trials in Nazi Sondergerichte (Special Courts) Included in the Collection: - Microfilms JM/1750-JM/1752: Verdicts from trials held in special courts in Germany, Poland and the Protectorate; the trials usually were conducted against non-Jews, and in most cases, the sentence was death. Besides the verdict and verdicts rendered for appeals, in some instances the collection also contains correspondence regarding the carrying out of the sentences, including official notification that the verdict has been carried out; - Microfilm JM/1753: Reports rega...

  13. Card catalogue of those who perished from the labor battalions and deportees from Hungary

    Card file of members of Hungarian labor battalions who perished The card file was collected and compiled by the Hungarian Ministry of Defense (Honvédelmi Minisztérium) between the years 1945-1954, and includes the personal cards of Hungarian Jewish victims. Some of the documents are photocopies of death certificates which were issued by local courts on the basis of lists and publications of various bodies such as the International Tracing Service, the US army, declarations by individuals regarding Hungarian Jews who had perished, and lists prepared by former prisoners. The card file, which ...

  14. O.82 - Documentation regarding the Jews of the Baltic States, mainly during the Holocaust period

    O.82: Documentation regarding the Jews of the Baltic States, mainly during the Holocaust period In the Record Group there are files selected from the Latvian State Historical Archives, the Lithuanian State Historical Archives in Vilna and the Tartu Branch of the Estonian Historical Archives Description of the Record Group: In the Record Group there is personal documentation of inmates of ghettos, survivors, partisans and Red Army soldiers. The documentation includes telegrams, private letters, documentation from yeshivas, statistical reports and survey reports from the State Extraordinary C...

  15. M.29.FR - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Federal German Military Archives in Freiburg, 1936-1945

    M.29.FR - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Federal German Military Archives in Freiburg, 1936-1945 There is diverse documentation from the Wehrmacht (German Army) regarding the Jews, Jewish communities and the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust in the collection, including reports, memos, telegrams and personal documents, encompassing a wide variety of organizations and units that worked within the Wehrmacht framework. The files cover different areas of activity and organizations: partisan activity, administration of the occupied areas, activities of combat units, cooperati...

  16. Documentation of the Special Court (Sondergericht) in Munich

    Documentation of the Special Court (Sondergericht) in Munich The Special Court (Sondergericht) in Munich was one of the regional courts of law established in Germany to try charges of crimes against the Nazi regime and Nazi ideology. The collection includes files of trials and investigation proceedings against Jewish and non-Jewish Germans who were charged with crimes, such as expressing criticism of the Reich and its leaders and the Reich's attitude toward the Jews, and "race defilement" crimes. The Special Courts (Sondergerichte) were established in the spring of 1933. At first, 25 courts...

  17. 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...

  18. Collection of Max Lowenthal who served in the Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US forces in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany

    The collection contains: Postwar documentation from the time of the US occupation of Germany regarding reparations for Jewish cultural property looted during World War II, 1945-1947.The main documentation: - Monthly reports by the Offenbach Archival Depot, Office of Military Government, Greater Hesse, Economics Division, regarding Jewish cultural property that was collected;- Letters, memos, reports and similar documents regarding questions concerning the restitution of Jewish cultural property collected in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany; - Correspondence between Max Lowenthal (as US Gov...

  19. Documentation from the Medizinalkollegium (Medical Council) in Hamburg

    Documentation from the Medizinalkollegium (Medical Council) in Hamburg The Medizinalkollegium (Medical Council) replaced the Gesundheitsrat (Health Council) in 1870 as the organization which supervised the administration of the entire healthcare system. A new organization - the Gesundheitsbehörde, was created in 1920 for the supervision of health matters, to which its functions were transferred and, to which the functions that had previously belonged to the Krankenhauskollegium (Hospitals Council) and the Polizeiärztlichem Dienst der Polizeibehörde (Police-Medical Services of the Police Sup...

  20. Documentation from the “Jews in Latvia” Museum

    The O.80 record group is composed of 159 files in Latvian, German, Russian and Hebrew. The record group includes official German documentation photocopied by Westermann in various archives in Germany, and documentation from the Central Archives of Latvia; Description of the O.80 record group: The material in the O.80 record group includes reports, instructions, summaries and orders by local administration personnel, including official documentation of Reichskommissariat Ostland. The second part of the O.80 collection includes memoirs and letters by individual Jews collected by the Westerman...