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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Testimony of Michael Potashnik, born in Adutiskis, Lithuania, 1910, regarding his experiences in the Adutiskis Ghetto, the Swir Ghetto, the Luki forest, with the Red Army and other places

    1. O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981

    Testimony of Michael Potashnik, born in Adutiskis, Lithuania, 1910, regarding his experiences in the Adutiskis Ghetto, the Swir Ghetto, the Luki forest, with the Red Army and other places Life in Adutiskis before the war; attends an elementary school; work processing linen and as a farmer. Escape attempt by Jews with the retreating Red Army; escape of refugees to Adutiskis, 25 June 1941; looting of Jewish owned property by Lithuanians; German occupation, 02 July 1941; restrictions on the Jews including deportation to forced labor; riots against the Jews; deportation to the Adutiskis Ghetto,...

  2. Testimony of Dwora (Jankelewicz) Lazarsky, born in Arcogala, Lithuania, 1909, and Frida Perec, born in Vaiguva, Lithuania, 1924, regarding their experiences in Raseiniai, the Kaunas Ghetto and in hiding in Pabaltonis

    1. O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981

    Testimony of Dwora (Jankelewicz) Lazarsky, born in Arcogala, Lithuania, 1909, and Frida Perec, born in Vaiguva, Lithuania, 1924, regarding their experiences in Raseiniai, the Kaunas Ghetto and in hiding in Pabaltonis Frida Perec: Life before the war in Vaiguva; move to Uzventis; learns in a high school; move to Kraziai; move to Taurage. Outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; escape to her mother-in-law Dwora Lazarsky in Raseiniai. Dwora Lazarsky: Life before the war; move to Raseiniai, 1920. Soviet occupation; escape of refugees Raseiniai, 22 June 1941; air-raids; German ...

  3. Collective testimony of Abraham Tewie Chaimovitz, Sonia Grad and others, regarding the experiences of the Jews in Seduva

    1. O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981

    Collective testimony of Abraham Tewie Chaimovitz, Sonia Grad and others, regarding the experiences of the Jews in Seduva Sonia Grad: Life in Siauliai before the war. Outbreak of the war, 22 June 1941; escape with her husband in the direction of the Soviet Union; escape to Seduva, 25 June 1941; life in Seduva; German occupation, 26 June 1941; restrictions on the Jews including the yellow badge; deportation of Jews to a camp; abuse of the youths; escape with documents her husband obtained; escape to Siauliai; receives information about the deportation of the Seduva Jews to Panevczys. Abraham ...

  4. Collection of Historical Photographs.

    This is the largest collection in the world of historical photographs related to the Holocaust. It documents Jewish life before and during the Holocaust, the life of survivors in the post-war period, but also various activities and ceremonies commemorating the Holocaust all over the world. Searching for keywords such as ‘Belgium’, ‘Brussels’, ‘Antwerp’ etc. yields a result of over 1000 relevant images, from various collections. We find portraits and group photos (scenes of everyday life, Shoah victims, resistance members, partisans, rescuers); pictures of youth movements (i.a. Bar Kochba, H...

  5. P.35 - Nathan Schwalb Collection: Nathan Schwalb was the representative of the World Center of the Hechalutz movement in Geneva, Switzerland during World War II

    P.35 - The Collection of Nathan Schwalb, the representative of the World Center of the Hechalutz movement in Geneva, Switzerland during World War II Nathan Schwalb was born in Stanislawow, Poland (today Ivano Frankovsk, Ukraine) in 1908. He made aliya to Eretz Israel and was member of Kibbutz Hulda. He spent World War II in Geneva as the representative of the World Hechalutz movement, serving as contact person and a financial welfare source for the Jews. He corresponded with hundreds of people in the occupied countries and was active in many areas including the sending of parcels via the Re...

  6. M.7 - Relico Collection - Documentation of the World Jewish Congress Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population, Geneva

    M.7 - Relico Collection - Documentation of the World Jewish Congress Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population, Geneva The Relico Organization, the World Jewish Congress Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population, Geneva, was founded in Geneva in 1939 by Dr. Abraham Silberschein, and funded by the World Jewish Congress. The Committee was active until 1947. Its main purpose was to assist the persecuted Jews in the areas occupied by the Nazis. The organization also assisted in locating family members and provided relief to Jewish refugees who had lost their homes an...

  7. O.10 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Yugoslavia, mainly during the Holocaust period

    O.10: Documentation regarding the Jews of Yugoslavia, mainly during the Holocaust period In the Record Group there is documentation regarding the Jews of the former Yugoslavia (according to the April 1941 boundaries) during the 20th century, and concerning various topics from the Holocaust period. Some of the documentation was photocopied from material in various archives in Yugoslavia and in other countries, including Israel, and some of the documentation was submitted to Yad Vashem by private individuals. Among the sources for the documentation are the Federation of Jewish Communities in ...

  8. Documentation regarding the Jewish community in Athens, Greece

    Documentation regarding the Jewish community in Athens, Greece Included in the collection are community registration documents; regulations of the Jewish community of Athens; regulations of the community's Rabbinical Court, minutes of Rabbinical Court sessions, Rabbinical Court decisions, marriage contracts and divorces filed at the Rabbinical Court, and related documents; financial documentation of the Jewish community of Athens, as well as documentation regarding religious education at Jewish community schools and the teaching of Judaism at Jewish secular schools; Also included in the col...

  9. 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...

  10. Documentation of the municipal administration of Bobruysk, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the municipal administration of Bobruysk, 1941-1944 Included in the documentation: Directives from the municipal administration of Bobruysk; a census; obtaining winter clothes from the population; appointment of municipal workers; an inspection of the movements among the population in the city; organization of the work in the kolkhozes; municipal sanitation; directives from the Generalkommissar of Belorussia and the Kommandatur; directives from the Generalkommissar of Belorussia and the Kommandatur of Bobruysk including: draft of workers for labor in Germany; establishment ...

  11. Yugoslavia Collection: Documentation regarding the Jews of Yugoslavia, mainly during the Holocaust period

    In the Record Group there is documentation regarding the Jews of the former Yugoslavia (according to the April 1941 boundaries) during the 20th century, and concerning various topics from the Holocaust period. Some of the documentation was photocopied from material in various archives in Yugoslavia and in other countries, including Israel, and some of the documentation was submitted to Yad Vashem by private individuals. Among the sources for the documentation are the Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia, the Association of Yugoslav Immigrants in Israel, Hakeren Hakayemet Le-israel...

  12. The Collection of Nathan Schwalb, the representative of the World Center of the Hechalutz movement in Geneva, Switzerland during World War II

    Schwalb spent World War II in Geneva as the representative of the World Hechalutz movement, serving as contact person and a financial welfare source for the Jews. He corresponded with hundreds of people in the occupied countries and was active in many areas including the sending of parcels via the Red Cross, mainly to Poland, and transferring funds via messengers whom he drafted for this purpose. The Collection contains correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings and more.

  13. 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.

  14. 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...

  15. P.32 - Collection of Hansi and Joel Brand, activists in the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest during World War II

    P.32 - Collection of Hansi and Joel Brand, activists in the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest during World War II Biographies of Joel Jenő Brand and his wife Hansi (Hartmann) Brand Joel Brand was born in Naszód, Transylvania in 1906. In 1934, after a stay in Germany, he settled in Budapest, Hungary, where he joined the Poalei Zion Party. In 1935 he married Hansi Hartmann and together they set up a glove factory. In 1942 Joel and Hansi were among the founders of the Relief and Rescue Committee, the Budapest-based underground organization, which worked on behalf of Jewish refugees in Hu...

  16. P.54 - Archive of Dr. Israel Kasztner, one of the leaders of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, and Collection of Dov Dinur, Kasztner's Biographer

    P.54 - Archive of Dr. Israel Kasztner, one of the leaders of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, and Collection of Dov Dinur, Kasztner's biographer Biography of Dr. Israel Rezső Rudolf Kasztner: Israel Kasztner was born in Cluj, Transylvania, Romania in 1906. Between World War I and World War II, he worked as a journalist and an attorney at law, and, at the same time, he was an activist in the Zionist Labor Movement in Cluj. After the annexation of northern Transylvania to Hungary in 1940, Kasztner moved to Budapest and continued his Zionist Movement activities. He was one of the f...

  17. P.31 - Collection of Ottó (Natan) Komoly, Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség (Hungarian Zionist Organization), 1941-1944

    P.31 - Collection of Ottó (Natan) Komoly, Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség (Hungarian Zionist Organization), 1941-1944 Biography of Ottó Komoly: Ottó Komoly (Hebrew name: Natan-Zeev Kahan) was born in Budapest in 1892; by profession he was an engineer. In 1940 he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség, and in 1941, he was elected as its Chairman. In 1943, the Budapesti Mentőbizottság (Budapest Relief and Rescue Committee) was established in Budapest and Komoly served as its chairman. In this capacity, he was involved with relief activities and attempts to smug...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ein Gev Testimonies/ interviews: 1. Willi Bechner; 2. Rivka Grinberger; 3. Shragai Degani; 4. Michael Werner; 5. Baruch Zeira; 6. Zvi Mor; 7. Mordechai Neustadt (testimony, from an unknown source); 8. Rachel Sobol; Booklet: 1. Uri Yanai, "Excerpts of memoirs", Kibbutz Ein Gev, 1990; 2. "Saltzseleufer leben zeit shrift", Aroibegegebn durchen kultur-amt beim Yiddishen Komitet in Bad Salzuflen-Fulder [?] Kriz, Amerikaner Zone ("Journal of my li...

  19. Archive of Dr. Israel Kasztner, one of the leaders of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, and Collection of Dov Dinur, Kasztner's biographer

    in the Collection there are 4,500 pages of original documentation, mostly regarding the following subjects: A. The history of the Jews of Hungary during the Holocaust;B. Efforts of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Hungary in whose framework Dr. Israel Kasztner was active, 1942-1944; C. The role of the Jewish institutions that were active in the Free World countries working to rescue Jews;D. Documentation regarding the Nuremberg Trial at which Dr. Kasztner testified on behalf of Kurt Becher; E. Documentation regarding the Kasztner Affair in Israel, 1952-1958;F. Documentation regarding the ...

  20. Collection of Hansi and Joel Brand, activists in the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest during World War II

    In the Collection there are 97 files containing original documentation mainly regarding the following subjects: A. The history of the Jews of Hungary during the Holocaust;B. Efforts of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Hungary throguh which Hansi and Joel Brand conducted their activities, 1942-1944; G."Joel Brand: Die Geschichte eines Geschäfts"(Joel Brand, the Story of a Businessman), a radio play written by Heinar Kipphardt based on Joel Brand's life. C. The roles of various Jewish institutions which were active in the Free World whose goal it was to rescue the Jews of Hungary;D. Documen...