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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Documentation from the Allgemeines Krankenhaus (General Hospital) in Barmbeck (a suburb of Hamburg)

    Documentation from the Allgemeines Krankenhaus (General Hospital) in Barmbeck (a suburb of Hamburg) The General Hospital in Barmbeck started to be partially active in November 1913, and it opened completely in August 1914 with a capacity of 2,400 beds. The hospital was a part of the system of regional hospitals of Hamburg State. For several years during World War II, the hospital was subjugated to military command, as part of the military medical system. The hospital was damaged by air-raids in 1942. The building was evacuated in May 1945 by order of the British occupation authorities, and ...

  2. Documentation from the Amt fuer das Siedlungs- und Wohnungswesen (Office for Matters related to Settlement and Residence) in Berlin, 1935-1945

    Documentation from the Amt fuer das Siedlungs- und Wohnungswesen (Office for Matters related to Settlement and Residence) in Berlin, 1935-1945 The Deputation fuer das Siedlungs und Wohnungswesen was established in association with the Magistrat of the city of Berlin in 1920, following the establishment of several public organizations in the preceding years which had handled the increasingly deteriorating problems of housing and housing conditions in Berlin. The department's functions included the implementation and supervision of construction projects, the construction of housing, and the e...

  3. Documentation from the Amt Illingen (Regional Authority of Illingen)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11638021
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1806-1972
    • Charter Financial accounts List of deportees List of Jewish community council members List of Jewish community members List of Jewish residents List of party members Newspaper clippings Official documentation Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors Survey report

    Documentation from the Amt Illingen (Regional Authority of Illingen)

  4. Documentation from the Amt Merzig-Land in the Saar region, 1901-1944

    Documentation from the Amt Merzig-Land in the Saar region

  5. Documentation from the Amt Nohfelden / Türkismühle in the Saar region, 1920-1944

    Documentation from the Amt Nohfelden / Türkismühle in the Saar region Documentation from the Amt Merzig-Land in the Saar region

  6. Documentation from the Amtsgericht Aalen

    Documentation from the Amtsgericht Aalen Included in the Collection are files regarding trials, the grand majority of them against non-Jewish forced laborers.

  7. Documentation from the Amtsgericht Lichterfelde

    Documentation from the Amtsgericht Lichterfelde Files from two Record Groups of the Landesarchiv Berlin: Files from the A Rep. 345 Record Group: in most part, files of estates and wills of Jews, from the years 1933-1939; Files from the B Rep. 045 Record Group: in most part, personal files of Jews, from the years 1946-1961, and lists of those who withdrew from the Evangelist Church.

  8. Documentation from the Amtsgericht Perl (Magistrates Court in Perl) in the Saar region, 1936-1958

    Documentation from the Amtsgericht Perl (Magistrates Court in Perl) in the Saar region

  9. Documentation from the Amtsgericht Spandau

    Documentation from the Amtsgericht Spandau Files that relate to Jews as individuals, in most part regarding wills and estates.

  10. Documentation from the Amtsgericht Wedding: Declarations of Death

    Documentation from the Amtsgericht Wedding: Declarations of Death Declarations of Death (Todeserklaerungen) that were given regarding Jews during the postwar years.

  12. M.38 - Documentation from the Archive for the Study of Austrian Resistance

    M.38 - Documentation from the Archive for the Study of Austrian Resistance There is much documentation regarding the persecution of opponents of the regime by the Nazi authorities in the Austrian Resistance Movement Archives (Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen Widerstands). Within the documentation copied for Yad Vashem, there is material regarding the persecution of the Jews in Austria: orders and official directives, lists of people dismissed from their places of employment due to their Jewishness, reports and surveys regarding specific persecutions written during the period of th...

  13. Documentation from the Archive of Andrey Sheptytsky, the Metropolitan Bishop of Galychyna, 1941

    Documentation from the Archive of Andrey Sheptytsky, the Metropolitan Bishop of Galychyna, 1941 Included in the collection: - Three appeals by Andrey Melnik, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) commander, against the group of Bandera (founder of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - UPA) and against other groups from Postojno, in the Rowne region; - Letter sent by the physician Markijan Dzerowycz - an OUN activist, to Andreyi Sheptytsky, regarding problems in the movement and disagreements between heads of the OUN from Vienna; - Letter written by Andreyi Sheptytsky to the clergy and t...

  14. Documentation from the Archive of Stepan Shukhevych, 1930

    Documentation from the Archive of Stepan Shukhevych, 1930 Included in the collection is an article from the "Lwowski Kurier" newspaper, regarding the arrest of a group of Ukrainian pupils who participated in sabotage activities in the Tarnopol region, 29/08/1930.

  15. Documentation from the Archive of the City of Bremen, regarding the Jews of Bremen during the Nazi regime and after 1945

    Documentation from the Archive of the City of Bremen, regarding the Jews of Bremen during the Nazi regime and after 1945

  16. Documentation from the Archive of the Landrat of the Ludwigslust district (Mecklenburg Province, Germany)

    Documentation from the Archive of the Landrat of the Ludwigslust district (Mecklenburg Province, Germany) In the18th century the rulers of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Herzogtum (Duchies) established their residential palace in Ludwigslust. In the 19th century barracks were also established in the city, which housed the Duchies' army units. The district, with the city of Ludwigslust at its center, was established in 1922. In the Mecklenburg-Schwerin State, its administrative unit was defined and called the Amt (office). In 1933, when the Nazis acted in order to create uniformity among the local...

  17. Documentation from the Archive of the Main Commission for Investigation of Crimes against the Polish People, the Institute of National Remembrance in Poland

    The Commission gathered much documentation from various sources: documentation from the offices of the German authorities that left Poland with the withdrawal of the Wehrmacht, as well as loot and documentation that came into the hands of the Allied forces. Additionally, the Commission itself gathered much documentation during its visits to persecution sites in Poland, and it received documentation from various bodies, for instance completed questionnaires regarding the persecution of the Jews.

  18. Documentation from the archives of the Jewish community in Geneva, Switzerland, regarding the activities of the Jewish Community Welfare Office on behalf of the Jewish refugees in Geneva

    Documentation from the archives of the Jewish community in Geneva, Switzerland, regarding the activities of the Jewish Community Welfare Office on behalf of the Jewish refugees in Geneva - Correspondence regarding the Jewish refugees, 1944-1950; - Accounting from the years, 1930-1971.

  19. Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Intelligence Service, 1936-1948

    Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Intelligence Service, 1936-1948 Documentation from the Romanian Intelligence Service regarding the trials of Romanian war criminals. In the collection there is material from the Siguranta (Security Police), which was collected within the context of the trails of Romanian war criminals. The trials were conducted by "People's Tribunals" which were established and conducted in accordance with the regulations of Law No. 312 issued by the Romanian Justice Ministry, 21 April 1945. In addition to the legal material, there are many documents in the co...

  20. 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...