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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Documentation of the Industrie und Handelskammer (Chamber of Industry and Commerce) in Zittau, from the Saechsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv (Saxony State Archive) in Dresden, 1935-1945

    Documentation of the Industrie und Handelskammer (Chamber of Industry and Commerce) in Zittau, from the Saechsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv (Saxony State Archive) in Dresden, 1935-1945 The Gewerbegesetz (Commerce Legislation) of the Kingdom of Saxony, dated 15/10/1861, ordered the establishment of Handelskammern (Chambers of Commerce) and Gewerbekammern (Chambers of Industry) in every Amtshauptmannschaft (district) in the Kingdom starting on 01/01/1862. These organizations underwent unification and became the Industrie und Handelskammern (Chamber of Industry and Commerce) in 1931, including in Z...

  2. Documentation from the Landratsamt St. Ingbert (St. Ingbert district authority) in the Saar region, 1900-1955

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11662093
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1900-1955
    • Financial accounts List of Jewish residents Newspaper Official documentation Orders Questionnaire Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors Survey report

    Documentation from the Landratsamt St. Ingbert (St. Ingbert district authority) in the Saar region

  3. O.12 - Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943

    O.12- Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943 The Perlman Collection consists of 64 testimonies gathered by Jewish Agency representatives during the years 1942-1943, mainly from Jews who arrived to Eretz Israel during World War II. Most of the testimonies were given by Jews who held Mandatory Palestine citizenship, were married to Mandatory Palestine citizens or were related to them. These Jews were included in exchange agreements of foreign citizens for German citizens, and they succeeded in reaching Eretz Israel. Another group of witn...

  4. Documentation from the Israel Police unit for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes

    Documentation from the Israel Police unit for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes The Israel Police Department for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes was established following the enactment of the "Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law" in 1950. At its inception, the Department concentrated on Jews who were being investigated on suspicion of collaboration with the Nazis. However, the area was expanded, and the Department gathered testimonies regarding the crimes of the Nazis and their collaborators throughout Europe, testimonies which aided in investigative proceedings and trials conduct...

  5. תיקי בדיקת רכוש (Vermoegenskontrollakten) של Finanzamt Wuerzburg, בואריה

    Finanzamt (tax authority) Wuerzburg: property control files In 1946, the Bavarian State Office for Asset Management and Restitution was set up in Munich. It served for the supervision and execution of the property control ordered by the occupying power, for the administration of the assets confiscated under the law for the liberation from national socialism and militarism or under fiduciary administration and for the accomplishment of the reparations. The office was initially reporting to the prime minister, since 1948 to the Ministry of Finance. Since 1948, an independent State Office for ...

  6. תיקי SD-Hauptaußenstelle Würzburg, בואריה

    SD Hauptaussenstelle (main branch office) Wuerzburg (until summer 1939 SD subsection Mainfranken, then until autumn 1942 at the latest, SD section Wuerzburg) The typewritten inventory "SD main branch office Wuerzburg" (5051 sheets) from the years 1939 - 1944 was first acquired in February 1966 in poor condition (leaves severely damaged by fire) by the City Archives Wuerzburg. How it got there is unclear, possibly the police had handed it over. The sheets were restored by lamination and reopened except for a small percentage. The inventory consists mainly of field reports from the branch off...

  7. M.83 - Documentation from archives in Kazakhstan, 1926-1972

    M.83 - Documentation from archives in Kazakhstan, 1926-1972 In the Records Group there are collections selected from archives in Kazakhstan. Included in the Record Group: Documentation of the Municipal Council of Workers' Representatives and its Executive Committee in Karaganda, 1926-1972: Orders issued by the People's Commission of the Coal industry (NKUP), 1939-1943; statements by the staff and the organization regarding workers in the Industry for the Production of Flammable Materials; documentation of the academic education institutions (for example, documentation of the medical school ...

  8. 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...

  9. Documentation of the Rivne municipality, 1941-1943

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12833699
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1943
    • Application Certification Correspondence Instruction List of clerks List of craftspeople List of healthcare workers List of homeowners List of Jews List of residents List of teachers Official documentation Statistical report Survey report הודעה

    Documentation of the Rivne municipality, 1941-1943 Included in the collection: - Instructions by the mayor of Rivne and the Reichskommissar (Reich commissioner) of Ukraine; - Instructions given by the Gebietskommissar (district commissioner) in Rivne to the heads of the districts, regarding arrangements by the local authorities and their activities including regulations regarding the transmission of documents to Jews; - Statistical data arranged according to nationality and race, prepared by the Rivne municipality, regarding the local population in Rivne during 1939-1942; - Documentation of...

  10. M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York

    M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York The Central Location Index (CLI) was established by various relief organizations in May 1944. The goal of the CLI was to concentrate data regarding refugees and those missing. After the organization (CLI administration) disbanded in May 1949, the documentation was stored in the cellars of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York; in 1957 the documentation was transferred to Yad Vashem. In the collection there are documents, lists and index cards. There are two main sectio...

  11. Collection of the Niederlandische Aktiengesellschaft für Abwicklung von Unternehmungen, NAGU in the Netherlands, 1941-1944

    Collection of the Niederlandische Aktiengesellschaft für Abwicklung von Unternehmungen, NAGU in the Netherlands, 1941-1944 The Niederlandische Aktiengesellschaft für Abwicklung von Unternehmungen, NAGU was established by the Germans as a company for the handling of Jewish businesses, in accordance with the law in the Netherlands; the NAGU was, in actual fact, a body that served as a middleman in financial deals during the Aryanization process; NAGU received work orders from the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle, a department in the Ministry of the Economy and Economics, the Wirtschaft of the Reichskomm...

  12. Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Leer, regarding the forced sale, confiscation and restitution of Jewish owned real estate in Leer and the surrounding area, 1938-1981

    Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Leer, regarding the forced sale, confiscation and restitution of Jewish owned real estate in Leer and the surrounding area, 1938-1981 Included in the Collection: - Sub-Record Group Rep 01: Files from the Nazi period regarding the takeover of Jewish owned real estate, 1938-1944; - Sub-Record Group Rep 02: Requests from the postwar period for the restitution of or compensation for property that was confiscated or obtained by means of a forced sale, including a special file for requests from the Jewish Trust Corporation, and a file that includes lists of Jewi...

  13. Collection of the Tribunal Général de Gouvernement pour la Zone Française d'occupation en Allemagne - General Court of Law of the Government in the French Occupation Zone in Germany, 1945-1949

    Collection of the Tribunal Général de Gouvernement pour la Zone Française d'occupation en Allemagne - General Court of Law of the Government in the French Occupation Zone in Germany, 1945-1949 Division of occupied Germany into four zones: Russian, American, British and French, following the Allied Forces victory in 1945; Included in the collection: Legal documentation, protocols and verdicts of the Tribunal Général de Gouvernement pour la Zone Française d'occupation en Allemagne - General Court of Law of the Government in the French Occupation Zone in Germany, 1945-1949; Documents and proto...

  14. Documentation from the Preussische Bau und Finanzdirektion in Berlin, 1933-1943

    Documentation from the Preussische Bau und Finanzdirektion in Berlin, 1933-1943 Following the dissolution of the regional government in Berlin by the Prussian State in 1821, the Ministerial Militaer und Baukommission was established, which fulfilled the functions of the regional government in the Prussian State for the city. These functions included the administration of military matters, the construction of public works, the administration of state lands, and other similar functions. Following the end of World War I, the military functions were cancelled; despite this, however, financial m...

  15. Collection of W. S. H. Elte, the principal of het Joodsch Lyceum te Amsterdam (Jewish School of Amsterdam) in the Netherlands, 1937-1947

    Collection of W. S. H. Elte, the principal of het Joodsch Lyceum te Amsterdam (Jewish School of Amsterdam) in the Netherlands, 1937-1947 Establishment of the Joodsch Lyceum te Amsterdam by the Amsterdam municipality in 1941; transfer of the Joodsch Lyceum te Amsterdam to the administration of the Joodsche Raad in 1942; the school's activities became impossible [to be carried out] due to the persecution of the Jews in 1942; the number of pupils in the Lyceum was 370 in June 1942; Included in the collection: Report regarding the Jewish schools that were active in the Netherlands during the Na...

  16. The Arvid Elstoft Collection - Documents of the underground resistance movements in Denmark in WWII

    Content of the folders: 1. Forged personal documents, illegal newspapers of the various underground movements, illegal flyers and pamphlets, brochures and propaganda material, lists of various underground publications. 2. Letter answering condolences by Lise Munk, hectographed lists of underground publications of the "Frit Nordisk Forlag", flyers with news concerning resistance activities, printed material with instructions on street fighting, essay by Kaj Munk on the objectives of the underground, Poems, songs and a drawing "Liberté mort". 3. Propaganda material: satirical post cards, cart...

  17. The Kulka-Hildesheimer Collection: Documentation of the Reich Representation of German Jews, 1932-1938

    Included in the documentation is a huge number of documents regarding the organization starting from the preparation stages for its establishment and through its dissolution, protocols of meetings held by administrative bodies and organization committees, documents and letters, letters received by the organization from Jewish communities and organizations and documents about the Reich Representation, clippings from the Jewish press concerning the organization, documents of Jewish communities regarding implementation of the guidelines of the Reich Representation and more.

  18. Documentation from the Haigerloch Municipal Archives, 1929-1999

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11983692
    • English, Hebrew
    • Financial accounts Interview(s) Legal documentation Official documentation Protocol Record of deportees Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Documentation from the Haigerloch Municipal Archives The collection includes, among other material: Collection of interviews with survivors, conducted by the University of Tuebingen; excerpts from protocols of the Gemeindevertretung (Municipal representation) dealing with Jews, 1929-1951; municipal files regarding various subjects related to the life of the Jews in the city and their persecution, from the Weimar Republic and until the 1950s, including the confiscation of Jewish property (including many details); trials against Jews; deportations; permits for the purpose of emigration; place...

  19. 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 ...

  20. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ga'aton

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ga'aton Yizkor Book: "Before we forget", Kibbutz Ga'aton Archive, 1985 - Testimonies/ excerpts of interviews/ memoirs/ excerpts of diaries of: Gita (Schwartz) Avzon; Yehudit (Shisha) Arnon; Yedidya Ehrenfeld Arnon; Shoshana (Shumlo) Beer; Menachem Bar Beer; Dvora (Krauss) Beeri; Yosef Bloch Beeri; Sara (Moshkovitz) Blau; David Blau; Chava (Auslander) Ben-Porath; Yosef Shenberger Ben-Porath; Rachel (Grinvald-Goldberger) Gadish; Arieh Grinvald...