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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. M.52.DAVO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Wolyn Region in Lutsk

    M.52.DAVO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Wolyn Region in Lutsk The archives was established in 1939 as the Historical Archives of the People's Commission for Ukrainian Internal Matters - UNKVD. In 1941, the archives became the State Archives of the Volyn Region. During the years of the German occupation, 1941-1944, the archives was inactive; the archives includes, however, documentation from the occupation period and regarding the activities of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the Volyn region. This Sub-Record Group i...

  2. O.2 - Wiener Library Collection of Testimonies, London, 1940-1957

    O.2 - Wiener Library Collection of Testimonies, London, 1940-1957 Alfred Wiener (1885-1964), the man who planned and established the Wiener Library, was born in Potsdam Germany; by profession, he was an expert in Middle East affairs and researcher of Islam. From 1919 he served as the legal advisor for the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), and published many articles about the Jews of Germany. When the Nazis rose to power in 1933, Wiener immigrated to the Netherlands and lived in Amsterdam. He began to collec...

  3. M.41.BGOMIVOv-Documentation of the Belorussian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War (World War II)

    M.41.BGOMIVOv - Documentation of the Belorussian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War (World War II) The history of the museum starts with the establishment of a Documentation Collection Committee regarding the Great Patriotic War, 02 June 1942. The museum was established by the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Belorussia which was in Moscow at that time. V. D. Stalnov, the Committee Secretary, was appointed the first director of the museum. A short while after the liberation of Belorussia, the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Belorussia decided to es...

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

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12424844
    • 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...

  5. Official documentation of the German occupation authorities in Latvia, from the Westermann Collection in Riga

    Official documentation of the German occupation authorities in Latvia, from the Westermann Collection in Riga The Westermann Collection includes official documentation of the municipal administration of the Rigas Prefekturas (Riga Prefecture) Police; official documentation of Einsatzgruppe A active in Latvia in 1941; orders and instructions by the Sicherheitspolizei to the SD and SS in Latvia; instructions of the Generalkommissar and Giebitskommissar of Riga; Latvian antisemitic newspapers, from 1939-1940 and from the German occupation period; lists of Jews who were deported from Hamburg, D...

  6. Collection of J. G. Van Niftrik, an activist in the Netherlands and Switzerland in the transfer of intelligence and the smuggle of underground people and Jews from the Netherlands to England during 1942-1945

    Collection of J. G. Van Niftrik, an activist in the Netherlands and Switzerland in the transfer of intelligence and the smuggle of underground people and Jews from the Netherlands to England during 1942-1945 Van Niftrik was an activist in the Dutch underground who was forced to escape from the Germans; he arrived to Switzerland and established the Zwitserse Weg B, for the purpose of smuggling people in the underground to England and other destinations, and he helped Jews who escaped from the Netherlands to arrive to shelter in other countries; upon his return to the Netherlands after the wa...

  7. M.52.DAKO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Kiev Region

    M.52.DAKO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Kiev Region The State Archives of the Kiev Region was established in 1922 as the Central Historical Archives of Kiev. As of 1932, it was called the Historical Archives of the Kiev Region, and in 1943 it was named the State Archives of the Kiev Region. This Archives preserves many documents from the 17th century, and it also includes documents from contemporary times; much of the documentation regards the history of the Great Patriotic War [World War II] and the German occupation of the Kiev region during 1941-1943; The Sub-Record Grou...

  8. Collection of Vught camp: Testimonies regarding the concentration camp administered by the Germans in the Netherlands during 1943-1944, dated, 1943-1951

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6085435
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation List of deportees List of inmates List of Jewish skilled professionals Official documentation Reports Statistical reports Testimony

    Collection of Vught camp: Testimonies regarding the concentration camp administered by the Germans in the Netherlands during 1943-1944, dated, 1943-1951 Documentation from Vught camp in the Netherlands, known also by the name Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch, whose inmates were divided into categories of political prisoners, Jews, Mischlinge, and other inmates; Administrative documentation, regarding the organization and administration of Vught camp during 1943-1944, including medical records from a dental clinic, reports regarding the draft of forced laborers, inmate cards, and lists from...

  9. Collection of Afdeling Kabinet, Onderwijs - Netherlands Ministry of Education, Government department, 1940-1945

    Collection of Afdeling Kabinet, Onderwijs - Netherlands Ministry of Education, Government department, 1940-1945 Netherlands Ministry of Education, Government department in The Hague, responsible for contacts and the implementation of orders given by the Reichskommissar für die besetzten Niederländischen gebiete (German government in the Netherlands) in the area of education, 1940-1945; Included in the collection: Official documentation of the Departement van Opvoeding, Wetenschap en Cultuurbescherming: Afdeling Kabinet; Consequences [ramifications] of the anti-Jewish legislation in the Neth...

  10. Documentation of the Verband der österreichen Zionisten (League of Austrian Zionists) in Vienna, 1936-1937

    Documentation of the Verband der österreichen Zionisten (League of Austrian Zionists) in Vienna, 1936-1937 The collection includes publicity (placards and leaflets) and correspondence of the Verband der österreichen Zionisten, which was the Austrian branch of the Revisionist Movement, and of accompanying organizations, such as the Brit HaKanaim Youth Federation; the correspondence was with the Austrian authorities, the Jewish community in Vienna and with Jewish and Zionist organizations. Among other items in the collection, there is correspondence with the police regarding permission to hol...

  11. M.52.DADpO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Dnepropetrovsk Region

    M.52.DADpO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Dnepropetrovsk Region This Sub-Record Group includes documentation of the Dnepropetrovsk municipality regarding the function and composition of the Judenrat (including the names of the Judenrat members and the name of the Judenrat representative in the municipality), 02 October 1941; appeal by the mayor of Dnepropetrovsk to the Stadtkomissar, regarding the establishment of the Dnepropetrovsk Ghetto, 1941; documentation of the municipality, regarding Jewish elderly people and orphans in the municipal home for disabled people in Dnepro...

  12. Collection of documents of Dutch inmates in German camps outside the Netherlands, 1933-1945, including documentation of the Red Cross, until 1950

    Collection of documents of Dutch inmates in German camps outside the Netherlands, 1933-1945, including documentation of the Red Cross, until 1950 Included in the collection: Lists of survivors and lists of inmates who perished in Dachau, Mauthausen, Gross Rosen, Theresienstadt and Natzweiler camps during 1940-1945; Testimonies of Dutch survivors, regarding their detention and living conditions in camps and while on marches during 1933-1945; Documents of the Red Cross in Allersdorf and other places during the postwar period, including protocols of investigations of Dutch criminals and Nazi w...

  13. Collection of Einsatzstab Rosenberg, the unit for the emptying of the household contents belonging to Jews who were deported in the Netherlands during 1942-1943, and claims for compensation, Oorlogsschade, 1958

    Collection of Einsatzstab Rosenberg, the unit for the emptying of the household contents belonging to Jews who were deported in the Netherlands during 1942-1943, and claims for compensation, Oorlogsschade, 1958 Einsatzstab Rosenberg, a member of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei - NDAP (Nazi Party), dealt, among other matters, with the collection of the household contents of Jews who were deported from the Netherlands during 1942-1943; the contents of the homes were sent to Germany; considerable use was made of these documents for the purpose of claims for compensation dur...

  14. Collection of the Zentralauftragstelle in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1942-1943

    Collection of the Zentralauftragstelle in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1942-1943 The Zentralauftragstelle (Central Assignments office) - Zast [abbreviated name] was established by the Reichskomisar (Reichs commissioner) as the central office for public assignments (Zentralstelle für öffentliche Auftrage) together with the Deutsche Handelskammer für die Niederlande (German Bureau of Commerce in the Netherlands) in 1940; Dr. Anton Maly stood at its head; the aim of the organization was the coordination of the activities of the Wehrmacht and the great many other public organizations that were t...

  15. Reinhard Strecker Collection: Judges and Trials in Nazi Sondergerichte (Special Courts)

    Included in the Collection: - Microfilms JM/1750-JM/1752: Verdicts from trials held in special courts in Germany, Poland and the Protectorate; the trials usually were conducted against non-Jews, and in most cases, the sentence was death. Besides the verdict and verdicts rendered for appeals, in some instances the collection also contains correspondence regarding the carrying out of the sentences, including official notification that the verdict has been carried out;- Microfilm JM/1753: Reports regarding the executions carried out in the Brandenburg prison, 1943-1945; - Microfilm JM/1754: Fi...

  16. Documentation of the Gerichtsvollzieherwesen (Execution office) of the Court of Law in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Gerichtsvollzieherwesen (Execution office) of the Court of Law in Hamburg Included in the Collection are files from the Execution office regarding Jews, arranged in alphabetical order, including detailed lists of property.

  17. The Relico Collection: Documentation of the Committee for Relief of the War-Stricken Jewish Population, World Jewish Congress, Geneva

    The Collection contains documentation regarding the activities of the Committee during the war as well as its post-war activities. In the Collection from the war period, there is correspondence between Committee members and Jews living under the German regime and correspondence with family members living in the free world and trying to help their Jewish relatives living under the German regime. In the letters sent from ghettos and camps there is information regarding the condition of the Jews. Sometimes these were the last letters of the Jews who perished afterwards. Included in the documen...

  18. Documentation regarding the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in Riga, 1921-1940

    Documentation regarding the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in Riga, 1921-1940 Description of the Collection: The Jewish National Fund (JNF) covenant; reports of meetings of the JNF administration and meetings of members of the JNF; work regulations; diaries of the JNF and Keren Hayesod; lists of members of the board and members of JNF branches; correspondence with the press department regarding the publication of the fund's periodical; lists of JNF members, and correspondence regarding donations; lists of donors; receipt books; diagrams; personal cards of members, arranged according to the Latv...

  19. TR.9 - Documentation from the Auschwitz Trials in Frankfurt, 1965-1968

    TR.9 - Documentation from the Auschwitz Trials in Frankfurt, 1965-1968 The three Auschwitz trials were held in the District Court House in Frankfurt am Main from 1965-1968. The defendants at the trials were SS and Gestapo personnel who had served in Auschwitz and other people who had held positions in Auschwitz, including inmates who had held positions in the camp, such as Blockfuehrer ( block heads). The first Auschwitz Trial opened in December 1963, with 22 defendants being brought to trial, two of whom died during the proceedings. The most senior among them were Robert Mulka and Karl Hoe...

  20. P.46- Kaelter Collection: Documentation from the estate of David and Judith (Edith) Kaelter, residents of Germany, who emigrated to Eretz Israel in 1939

    P.46- Kaelter Collection: Documentation from the estate of David and Judith (Edith) Kaelter, residents of Germany, who emigrated to Eretz Israel in 1939 David Kaelter served as a teacher in a few Jewish communities in the Saxony region of Germany and subsequently in Berlin. In 1935 he established and administered a Jewish elementary school in Koenigsberg. In 1939, David and Judith (Edith) Kaelter made aliya to Eretz Israel, where David continued in the teaching profession. The material includes: - Details regarding David and Judith Kaelter's families (File 1); - Personal documents belonging...