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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

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

    P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969 The estate of Benjamin Sagalowitz was submitted to Yad Vashem by B. Froehlich, the executor of the estate in 1972; it was transferred to Israel by Herbert Rosenkranz. In the Record Group: - Drafts and galley proofs of Benjamin Sagalowitz's book, "The Way to Majdanek"; - Documentation regarding the Jewish communities in Switzerland, 1929-1956; - Documentation regarding JUNA, 1935-1964; - Documentation regarding the attitude of the Swiss authorities towards the Jewish ...

  2. The Benno Kaufmann Collection - Documentation of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany, Basel, 1939-1947

    Correspondence of Benno Kaufmann from Basel, Switzerland, regarding aid to Jewish refugees from Germany, 1939-1947. The collection contains personal letters belonging to the persecuted detainees in the camps in France, such as the Gurs camp.

  3. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground The archive gets its name from Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff, who set up the archive in early 1943, and Zvi Mersik, one of Mordechai Tenenbaum's outstanding aides, who continued to maintain the archive after Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff's death. Most of the documentation, which was created between July 1941 and April 1943, is located in the Yad Vashem Archive. The original material is not concentrated in one place: some of it is housed in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, and the rest of th...

  4. Borgs-Maciejewski collection of newspapers on the subject of the Nazis, 1921-1950

    Borgs-Maciejewski collection of newspapers on the subject of the Nazis, 1921-1950 Dr. Hans Borgs-Maciejewski was a Catholic philologist and educator. He was born in Duesseldorf in 1898, and resided in Wuppertal-Elberfeld for most of his life. He became interested in newspapers at an early age and collected newspaper clippings, in most part from Catholic newspapers in the Rhineland. Upon Hitler's rise to power, Borgs-Maciejewski decided to focus mainly on the Nazi regime, dedicating his efforts to the collection of newspaper clippings from publications in the Rhineland and Berlin that dealt ...

  5. O.62 - Borwicz Collection: Testimonies recorded by the Jewish Historical Commission in Poland

    O.62 - Borwicz Collection: Testimonies recorded by the Jewish Historical Commission in Poland, 1944-1947 Michal Borwicz (Maksymilian Boruchowicz) was born in Krakow in 1911, and died in Paris in 1987. A graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, he was a Jewish Polish author and historian, who studied the history of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust. Borwicz was an inmate in the Janowska camp in Lwow from 1942-1943. He was sentenced to death by hanging, however when the sentence was being carried out, the rope broke. He escaped from the camp and joined the partisans and commanded an...

  6. 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...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Card file of inmates registered in the prison in Slutsk during 1941-1943

    Card file of inmates registered in the prison in Slutsk during 1941-1943 Registered in the card file are names of inmates (most of them, Jews) in the prison in Slutsk; the names are arranged alphabetically according to the Belarusian alphabet.

  9. 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 was used for legal, and other, purposes includes information abou...

  10. Card file of the German Ministry of Justice, regarding revocation of citizenship

    Card file of the German Ministry of Justice, regarding revocation of citizenship The card file includes names and basic details of emigrants from Germany, whose citizenship was revoked following their emigration due to their being considered Enemies of Germany. During the first stage, this applied in most part to members of the Left, but later on the Jews constituted the majority of the people in this group; The card file is arranged in alphabetical order, according to the last names.

  11. Card file of the Jewish community in the Lemberg Ghetto, 1941-1943

    Card file of the Jewish community in the Lemberg Ghetto, 1941-1943

  12. Card file of the Jewish residents and refugees from Pinsk in alphabetical order, 1939-1941

    Card file of the Jewish residents and refugees from Pinsk in alphabetical order, 1939-1941

  13. Card file of the OFD-Muenchen (OFD Munich)

    Card file of the OFD-Muenchen (OFD Munich) In the Collection: Microfilm JM/ 22704 - Card files from July 1943 with authorizations by Jews for the transfer of monies from bank accounts to the OFD; Microfilm JM/ 22705, JM/ 22708 - Card files with details regarding deposits and withdrawals of monies, mainly from 1942; Microfilm JM/ 22706 - Card files with names and (apparently) file numbers, which include information regarding former places of residence or names of inheritors; Microfilm JM/ 22707 - Handwritten or typewritten notes with names and (apparently) file numbers, some of which have ad...

  14. Card files and personal documentation of Stutthof camp inmates from various countries and nationalities, 1939-1945

    Card files and personal documentation of Stutthof camp inmates from various countries and nationalities, 1939-1945 Stutthof camp was a Nazi concentration camp located 37 kilometers east of Danzig, near the city of Sztutowo in Poland. The camp, established in September 1939, was the first concentration camp established outside the borders of Germany. It was the last camp to be liberated by the Allied forces. During the period that Stutthof camp was active it had approximately 110,000 inmates imprisoned there, including 28,000 Jews. More than 80,000 of the inmates perished in the camp.

  15. Card index of Jews murdered in the Iaşi pogrom (June-July 1941) and a card index of survivors (former deportees), compiled by the Romanian branch of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) after the Holocaust

    Card index of Jews murdered in the Iaşi pogrom (June-July 1941) and a card index of survivors (former deportees), compiled by the Romanian branch of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) after the Holocaust A. Card index of Jews murdered in the Iaşi pogrom (June-July 1941) In the collection there are 465 file cards, including personal information regarding the victims of the pogrom in Iaşi. In addition to the name of the victim and the date of his/her murder, data regarding the cause of death is also written on the file cards, as well as data regarding the person making the declaration (that is t...

  16. Card index of requests to issue identity cards for Jews in the Radom Ghetto from 1941

    Card index of requests to issue identity cards for Jews in the Radom Ghetto from 1941

  17. P.19 Collection of Carl Lutz, Swiss Diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations, 1935-1970

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019608
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1935-1970
    • Album Letter List of names Newspaper clippings Official documentation Passport Personal documents Photograph Research article Survey report

    P.19 Collection of Carl Lutz, Swiss Diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations, 1935-1970 Carl Lutz (1895-1975) was the Swiss Vice Consul in Jaffa, Eretz Israel, 1935-1941, and in Budapest, Hungary, 1942-1945. Following the German occupation of Hungary, 1944, he was extremely active in rescuing Jews with United States, British, Romanian, El Salvadorian and other citizenships, as well as on behalf of those with certificates to make aliya to Eretz Israel. - The collection was submitted to Yad Vashem in 1981, through the generosity of Agnes Hirschi, Lutz's adopted daughter; - The collection is c...

  18. Census of the Jewish population of Latvia, 1935

    Census of the Jewish population of Latvia, 1935 Personal cards of Jews completed as part of the 4th National Population Census conducted in Latvia, 1935

  19. Census of the Jewish population of Latvia, August-September 1941

    Census of the Jewish population of Latvia, August-September 1941 Lists of residents compiled as part of the census conducted in Latvia, August-September 1941, including the names of Jews.

  20. Census of the Jews of Budapest, 1941

    Census of the Jews of Budapest, 1941 The historical background to the Hungarian census: In January-February 1941 a national population census was conducted in Hungary in accordance with Law No. 30, "The 1941 Census", enacted in 1940. By law a census should be conducted in every city and town throughout Hungary in the apartments of the residents or their houses. The Budapest Székesfőváros Statisztikai Hivatala (Budapest Metropolitan Statistical Office) organized the census in Budapest in accordance with the law. For this purpose, the Statistical Office prepared a special questionnaire includ...