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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. P.69 - Archive of the Levy family, from Essen, Germany, 1863-1993

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10568932
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Article Balance sheet Book Brochure Certification Correspondence Curriculum Vitae (CV) Death certificate Diary Diploma Draft Drawing Envelope Financial accounts Identity card Invitation Journal Lecture Legal documentation Letter(s) Libretto Medical documentation Money Newspaper clippings Note Notebook Obituary Papercut Passport Personal records Photocopy Photograph Play Play(s), script(s) Poems/Songs Postcard Protocol Record of deportees Record of persecuted persons Research article Speech Telegram Telephone directory Thesis/Dissertation Travel ticket Will

    P.69 - Archive of the Levy family, from Essen, Germany, 1863-1993 About the Levy family: Dr. Ernst Levy (b.1872) was the eldest son of physician Dr. Hermann Levy (b. 1838) and his wife Emma, née Hirschland (b. 1847). Dr. Ernst Levy and his wife, the former Martha Ruthenburg (b. 1878) lived in Essen, Germany, where Dr. Levy was a general practitioner and researcher. They had four children, Hermann (b. 1906), Rudolf (b. 1908), Hans (b. 1911) and Eva (b. 1914). A year after the rise of nazism, Hermann Levy, a lawyer by training, went to study a new career in Paris, France, since he was banned ...

  2. P.75 - Rachel Minc collection

    P.75 - Rachel Minc collection Rachel Minc (born in Lodz, Poland, in 1899 and died in 1978) is a Polish-born French Jewish educator and writer who worked for the rescue of Jewish children during the Second World War. She studied educational psychology and pedagogy in Berlin, and then in the Scandinavian countries, where she met the anti-fascist pedagogue Minna Specht, founder, with Leonard Nelson, of the German resistance movement to Nazism, the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). This movement was banned by the Nazis in 1933 and after the war allied with the German Social Democ...

  3. P.76 - The Esther Lurie Collection

    The artist and painter Esther Lurie (1913-1998) grew up in Latvia. She studied in Belgium and made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1934. In 1938 she won the Dizengoff Prize. She traveled to visit her relatives in Latvia and Lithuania in 1939, and was unable to return to Eretz Israel. In June 1941 she was in Kaunas. She was deported to the Kaunas Ghetto and documented life in the Kaunas Ghetto in her paintings. She was deported later to Stutthof camp. Esther returned to Eretz Israel in 1945, married Dr. Yosef Shapira, and continued her artistic activities. She participated in many exhibitions and w...

  4. Personal Archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson

    The documentation deals with a part of the estate of the Samson family, originally from the city of Norden in Northern Germany. There is pre-war documentation on tax issues and the assets of the Samson family, pre- and postwar correspondence with German authorities, personal documents and certificates, documents on the restoration of the Norden Jewish cemetery supported by the Samson family after WW II, the dedication of a memorial on the Norden Jewish cemetery, charity work, brochures and magazines related to the history of the Norden Jews.

  5. Personal collection of Dr. Nosson Gens, 1887 - 1940

  6. Personal documents of Jews, from the Stadtarchiv Muenchen (Munich)

    Personal documents of Jews, from the Stadtarchiv Muenchen (Munich) In the Collection: Three reels from the Bestand Volkskarteikarten - Card file with personal details (reels 31171-31173); Three reels from the Bestand Kennkarten-Doppel, including identity cards of Jews (reels 31170 and 31174-31175) An additional reel with Kennkarten (Identity cards), not attributed to a record group in the Archive (reel 31168); Two reels from the Bestand Kennkarten Antraege, including requests to receive identity cards (reels 31167 and 31169); One reel with Fremdenpaesse - Passports for foreign residents (re...

  7. Personal documents of workers at the district office for commerce and food of the Belorussian Railroad Line in Mogilev, 1940-1941

    Personal documents of workers at the district office for commerce and food of the Belorussian Railroad Line in Mogilev, 1940-1941

  8. Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1930-1950

    Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1930-1950 The files are located in the N-Serie section in the Police department of the Swiss Ministry of Justice and the Police; the section contains approximately 45,000 personal files of civilian refugees who were absorbed by Switzerland from 1936 and until after World War II; approximately half of the refugees were Jews.

  9. Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1956

    Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1956

  10. Personal files of Jewish refugees who were deported back across the border in Geneva, 1940-1944

    Personal files of Jewish refugees who were deported back across the border in Geneva, 1940-1944

  11. Personal files of Jewish teachers and lecturers at the University of Hamburg

    Personal files of Jewish teachers and lecturers at the University of Hamburg The Collection includes personal files of well-known persons such as Ernst Cassirer. The files also document the proceedings of the dismissal from work of the Jewish teachers and lecturers following the Nazi rise to power.

  12. Personal files of Jewish teachers in Hamburg

    Personal files of Jewish teachers in Hamburg

  13. Personal files of Jews, in the Bavarian Ministry of Justice

    Personal files of Jews, in the Bavarian Ministry of Justice

  14. Personal files of prisoners, in the Gefaengnisverwaltung II (Prisons II administration) in Hamburg

    Personal files of prisoners, in the Gefaengnisverwaltung II (Prisons II administration) in Hamburg

  15. Personal files of the Senatskanzlei (Senate Chamber) in Hamburg

    Personal files of the Senatskanzlei (Senate Chamber) in Hamburg

  16. Personal files of the Zelikowski family, Jewish refugees from France who arrived in Switzerland, June 1944

    Personal files of the Zelikowski family, Jewish refugees from France who arrived in Switzerland, June 1944

  17. Personal files of workers at the "Charite" University Hospital in Berlin

    Personal files of workers at the "Charite" University Hospital in Berlin The files are arranged in alphabetic order, and relate to the medical staff as well the administrative personnel. Most of the files deal with the period before the Nazi rise to power.

  18. Personal files related to Jews, in the Bavarian Finanzministerium (Ministry of Finance)

    Personal files related to Jews, in the Bavarian Finanzministerium (Ministry of Finance)

  19. Personal files related to Jews, in the Bavarian Kultusministerium (Ministry of Religions)

    Personal files related to Jews, in the Bavarian Kultusministerium (Ministry of Religions)

  20. Personal forms filled out by Jews in Brest in order to receive identity cards in the Brest Ghetto, arranged in alphabetical order, 11/1941-10/1942

    Personal forms filled out by Jews in Brest in order to receive identity cards in the Brest Ghetto, arranged in alphabetical order, 11/1941-10/1942 11,226 [12,226 ?] personal forms filled out by Jews in Brest in order to receive identity cards in the Brest Ghetto, arranged in alphabetical order, 11/1941-10/1942; included are the person's date of birth, place of birth, profession, and names of family members; passport photographs and finger prints of the people who filled out the forms are included.