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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1927-1947

    Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1927-1947 In the collection there are various files created by Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (on each file the Code Number "33" appears, [an indication of] documents pertaining to the Jewish Question). Also in the collection: Files pertaining to the legal status of the Romanian Jews (already in 1927); propaganda material; correspondence with Romanian diplomatic delegations abroad and foreign delegations in Romania; reports concerning the activities of Jewish organizations outside of Romania (mainly in the Un...

  2. Documentation from the Auschwitz Trials in Frankfurt, 1965-1968

    The Record Group includes documents gathered within the framework of the prosecution as preparation for the trials, the testimonies taken and the protocols of the trials themselves.

  3. Documentation from the Auswanderungsberatungsstelle (Emigration Counseling Office) for Lippe and Westfallen in Muenster

    Documentation from the Auswanderungsberatungsstelle (Emigration Counseling Office) for Lippe and Westfallen in Muenster

  4. Documentation from the Badisches Finanzministerium (Baden Finance Ministry), regarding Aryanization

    Documentation from the Badisches Finanzministerium (Baden Finance Ministry), regarding Aryanization

  5. Documentation from the Bayerische Staatskanzlei (Bavarian State Office)

    Documentation from the Bayerische Staatskanzlei (Bavarian State Office)

  6. Documentation from the Berlin Police Headquarters (Polizeipraesidium Berlin)

    Documentation from the Berlin Police Headquarters (Polizeipraesidium Berlin) The Prussian city ordinance (Städteordnung) of 19 November 1808 provided for the establishment of a state police administration in the larger cities. Accordingly, a Royal Police headquarters (Königliches Polizeipräsidium) was built in Berlin on 25 March 1809, to which the existing state police department was linked. At the time the greater Berlin area included several independent townships. Berlin was not one large city and the police forces were divided. A law implemented on 13 June 1900 created the Provincial Pol...

  7. Documentation from the Betreuungsstelle für politisch, rassisch und religiös Verfolgte (Support Office for politically, religiously and racially persecuted people) in Friedberg in Hessen, Germany

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11972368
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1933-1962
    • Names of perpetrators Official documentation Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Documentation from the Betreuungsstelle für politisch, rassisch und religiös Verfolgte (Support Office for politically, religiously and racially persecuted people) in Friedberg in Hessen, Germany The office was established in July 1945 by former political prisoners, most of them members of the Communist Party. The office was intended to serve as a self-help organization dealing in all areas of life. As of April 1946, the office became subordinate to the local government of the region (the department for rehabilitation, the social services branch). An Order given by the Minister für politisc...

  8. Documentation from the Bezirksamt Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin, 1939-1943

    Documentation from the Bezirksamt Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin, 1939-1943 Most of the northeastern parts of old Berlin were incorporated into the city of Berlin in 1920 (when all of Berlin's suburbs were incorporated into the city), as the Bezirk (municipal district of) Prenzlauer Tor, whose name was changed to Prenzlauer Berg in 1921. The district's offices became active in April 1921.

  9. 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.

  10. Documentation from the Bezirksamt Spandau in Berlin, 1933-1943

    Documentation from the Bezirksamt Spandau in Berlin, 1933-1943 The city of Spandau and the villages of Gatow, Kladow, Pichelsdorf, Staaken and Tiefwerder were incorporated into the city of Berlin in 1920, as the Bezirk (municipal district of) Spandau. In the Record Group are files regarding the transfer of Jewish businesses and property to Aryan owners; dismissals from work of public employees who were married to Jewish women; Jewish religious education (during 1916-1936); Jewish employees in the municipal district offices.

  11. Documentation from the Bezirksamt Steglitz in Berlin, 1933-1943

    Documentation from the Bezirksamt Steglitz in Berlin, 1933-1943 The towns of Steglitz, Gross-Lichterfelde and Lankwitz and the Suedende settlement were incorporated into the city of Berlin in 1920, as the Bezirk (municipal district of) Steglitz. In this Record Group are files related to the construction sector, regarding synagogues and buildings belonging to Jewish institutions and organizations in the district's area; included are files regarding the implementation of the "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service" (Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums) in the...

  12. 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...

  13. Documentation from the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv

    Documentation from the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv

  14. Documentation from the Brzesc nad Bugiem municipality, 1929-1939

    Documentation from the Brzesc nad Bugiem municipality, 1929-1939 Included in the file, among other material: - Documentation regarding renovation of the synagogue; - Documentation regarding properties of the Jewish community of Brzesc nad Bugiem; - Documentation regarding the "Tachkemoni" organization for national religious education.

  15. Documentation from the Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives) regarding the Holocaust

    The Yad Vashem Archives has systematically gathered documentation from the Bundesarchiv, as well as documentation from the Militärarchiv in subsection M.29.Fr. The Records Groups in the Central Archive from which Yad Vashem gathers this documentation belongs to two Abteilungen (sections) of the Archives: - The R -Deutsches Reich Section which houses documentation from state institutions. In this section, only files from the 1920s until the end of World War II regarding Jews and the persecution of Jews are checked;- The NS Section is which the documentation regarding the Nazi party instituti...

  16. Documentation from the Bundesarchiv Bern, Switzerland, regarding the policies of the Swiss government toward refugees, 1933-1955, and a report by Dr. Carl Ludwig, 1957

    Documentation from the Bundesarchiv Bern, Switzerland, regarding the policies of the Swiss government toward refugees, 1933-1955, and a report by Dr. Carl Ludwig, 1957

  17. Documentation from the Center for the Study of the History of Romanian Jews, 1940-1944

    Documentation from the Center for the Study of the History of Romanian Jews, 1940-1944 In the collection there is documentation of the Centrala Evreilor (Federation of Jewish Communities; the Judenrat) in Romania and information regarding the relief activities of the Federation on behalf of the Romanian Jews and the Jews who were deported to Transnistria.

  18. Documentation from the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine, 1941-1977

    There are files in the coolection which were selected from among the 60 records groups in the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine. Previously, the Central Archive was known as the Party Archive of the Institute for the History of the Communist Party in Ukraine (the Institute was a branch of the Tsentralny Komitet Komunisticheskoy Partiy Ukrainy [Ukrainian Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Communist Party]). Until 1989, foreign researchers were not given access to the Archive, and access granted to Soviet researchers was limited.In 1991, an agreement was reached for ...

  19. Documentation from the concentration camps and the POW camps in Germany from the OSOBY Archive in Moscow, 1938-1944

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10633850
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1938-1944
    • Administrative documentation Financial accounts List of Nazi war criminals List of POWs Map Names of perpetrators Official documentation Order Personal documents Statistical data

    Documentation from concentration camps and POW camps in Germany from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1938-1944 The collection contains files regarding personnel matters, among them reports concerning transfers of staff members (including members of the Totenkopf units), promotion and the awarding of medals, and personal files of staff members; guidelines for Inspektion der Konzentrationslager (the supervision of the concentration camps) and guidelines issued by the Reichsfuehrer SS concerning administration of the concentration camps and the handling of the inmates, including matters pertainin...

  20. Documentation from the Court of Law (Amstgericht) in the Neukoelln neighborhood in Berlin: Wills of Jews, 1935-1939

    Documentation from the Court of Law (Amstgericht) in the Neukoelln neighborhood in Berlin: Wills of Jews, 1935-1939 Files of the Court of Law, that deal with the handling of the Wills of Jews, most of whom resided in the Neukoelln neighborhood in Berlin (and a minority of them in the Treptow neighborhood in Berlin). The files include details regarding the possible inheritors, death certificates, and other personal documentation of the family members (mainly birth certificates and marriage certificates), and Inheritance Orders (Erbscheine) from the Court of Law. In several files there are de...