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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Documentation of the municipal hospital in Mogilev, 1942

    Documentation of the municipal hospital in Mogilev, 1942 Included in the collection are medical files of Jews.

  2. Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in the Amtsgericht (Magistrates Court) in Soest (Westphalia)

    Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in the Amtsgericht (Magistrates Court) in Soest (Westphalia) In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files include the applications including...

  3. P.65 - Yaffa Eliach Collection

    P.65 - Yaffa Eliach Collection Professor Yaffa Eliach was born Yaffa (Sheinla) Sonenson in the village of Ejszyszki, Poland (in Yiddish: Eyshishok; today Eišiškės, Lithuania) in 1935. Nazi Germany occupied the village in June 1941. Within two days in late September, almost all 3,500 Jews of the village were murdered in the local cemetery by Einsatzgruppe A. Yaffa escaped to a hiding place with her family just before the massacre. Until the liberation of Eyshishok by the Red Army in July 1944, the family moved from one hiding place to another, escaping death many times. Yaffa made aliya to E...

  4. Collection of general documentation from the “Jews in Latvia” Museum, photocopied, 1993

    Collection of general documentation from the “Jews in Latvia” Museum, photocopied, 1993

  5. Documentation from the Stutthof concentration camp physician, 1943-1944

    Documentation from the Stutthof concentration camp physician, 1943-1944 Included in the collection is documentation regarding inmates who died, lists of female inmates including their medical history and their diagnoses, and a card file regarding sick inmates.

  6. Documentation of the health department of the Executive committee in Mogilev, 1939-1940

    Documentation of the health department of the Executive committee in Mogilev, 1939-1940

  7. Documentation from material in the Reichsstatthalter (State Treasury) in Bavaria, regarding Franz Ritter von Epp

    Documentation from material in the Reichsstatthalter (State Treasury) in Bavaria, regarding Franz Ritter von Epp

  8. החלטות על הכרה במוות (Todeserklaerungen) של קרבנות יהודיים של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Gladbeck (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12424690
    • English, Hebrew
    • Legal documentation Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files include the applications including details regarding those who p...

  9. P.28- Personal documentation of Michal Borwicz

    P.28- Personal documentation of Michal Borwicz

  10. Collection of Belorussian sources regarding various matters, from the 1920s until the 1990s

    Collection of Belorussian sources regarding various matters, from the 1920s until the 1990s In the collection is a list of owners of apartments in Minsk [used] for hiding, who were active during 1941-1944; newspaper clippings from the Red Army newspaper, "Boyevoy listok", regarding Nazi war criminals in Belorussia during 1941-1944; (the number of people who perished in the Belorussia and Grodno regions); documentation of the partisans detachments under the command of Zorin during 1943-1944; memoirs regarding the activities of the underground in the Minsk Ghetto during 1941-1943; and, statis...

  11. Documentation from the Landratsamt Marburg

    Documentation from the Landratsamt Marburg

  12. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Mogilev region, 1944-1946

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Mogilev region, 1944-1946 - Reports prepared by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the damage caused to the economy and the population in the Mogilev region; included in the report is a survey of the history of Mogilev and calculation of the damage caused to institutions in the city; information regarding the mass murder of civilians in Krichev, Merkulovichi. Gorodets, Palykhovichi and Shklov; calculation of the damage caused to agricultural institutions, according to areas and the types of damage; estimatio...

  13. Situation reports prepared by the Gestapo, from materials of the Preußische Staatsministerium in the Geh. Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz

    Situation reports prepared by the Gestapo, from materials of the Preußische Staatsministerium in the Geh. Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz The Preußische Staatsministerium was an organization of the Prussian State governmental authority. It served in the past in particular as the State government, and during the period of the Weimar Republic and afterwards it served as a uniting body (Kollegium) of the government's Ministers, and as the personal office (Kanzlei - Bureau) of the Prime Minister of the State. The material that was copied for Yad Vashem includes situation reports (Lageber...

  14. Documentation of the Stadtkommissar (city governor) in Shitomir, 1942-1943

    Documentation of the Stadtkommissar (city governor) in Shitomir, 1942-1943 Included in the collection: - Instructions by the Stadtkommissar (city governor) in Shitomir to the newspaper editorial staff; - Appeals by residents, to receive housing.

  15. Documentation of the operational committee in the Nikolayev region, 1945-1946

    Documentation of the operational committee in the Nikolayev region, 1945-1946 Included in the collection is documentation regarding the release of Polish citizens including Jews for the purpose of returning to Poland, following the agreement signed between the Soviet Union and the Polish government in 1945.

  16. Documentation of the Soviet government authorities, regarding war crimes by the Nazis and their collaborators in the Zaporozhye region, 1944

    Documentation of the Soviet government authorities, regarding war crimes by the Nazis and their collaborators in the Zaporozhye region, 1944 Included in the collection: - Survey report of the regional commission for the investigation of war crimes by the Nazis and their collaborators in the Zaporozhye region, regarding the German occupation period; - Exhumation report prepared by the regional commission for the investigation of war crimes by the Nazis and their collaborators in the Zaporozhye region and the surrounding area; - Testimony of members of the Komunar Kolkhoz, regarding the murde...

  17. Documentation from the Indura municipality, 1937-1938

    Documentation from the Indura municipality, 1937-1938 Included in the collection is list of the residents who paid municipal taxes in 1937-1938; documentation of the Police in Indura regarding fines imposed on the Indura residents.

  18. Documentation of the supervisor over the schools in Stanislawow, 1927-1939

    Documentation of the supervisor over the schools in Stanislawow, 1927-1939

  19. O.80 - Documentation from the “Jews in Latvia” Museum

    O.80 - Documentation from the “Jews in Latvia” Museum The “Jews in Latvia” Museum was established in 1989 on the initiative of Holocaust survivors headed by well-known historian Marger Westermann. In the beginning the museum acted as a center for documentation. Its first permanent collection was opened in 1996. At present its collection is displayed in three galleries; the third gallery is dedicated to Latvian Jewry during the Holocaust and there is a special department dedicated to the Righteous Among the Nations. The Record Group is composed of 159 files in Latvian, German, Russian and He...

  20. Collection of the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging, NSB - the Nazi Movement in the Netherlands, 1933-1945

    Collection of the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging, NSB - the Nazi Movement in the Netherlands, 1933-1945 The Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging - NSB was established in the Netherlands by ir. A.A. Mussert and C. van Geelkerken in 1931; The rise to power of Hitler in Germany in 1933 contributed to the large rise of the NSB in the Netherlands; the NSB joined the government as a fascist party in 1937; during the war, the NSB was the main political partner of the German occupation authorities; Seyss-Inquart declared the NSB as the only legal party in the Netherlands in 1941; the NSB establishe...