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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Documentation from the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF), 1939-1960

    In the collection there is documentation from the following organizations: - The Council for Religious Affairs of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, 1943-1953, and the Council for Religious Affairs of the Government of the Soviet Union, 1943-1954The documentation includes protocols, official correspondence and reports concerning religious life and the Soviet Jewish communities during the war and afterwards, the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust, statistical data regarding the Jewish population and the Jewish communities and the antisemitic policy in the Soviet Union; -TASS (t...

  2. P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019707
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Draft Excerpt(s) Letter List of refugees Memoirs Newspaper clippings Note Passport Personal documents Poems/Songs Record of persecuted persons Reports Research article Testimony

    P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976 In the collection there are files from the private archive of Dr. Nathan Eck. Description of the collection: The documentation mainly deals with research on various aspects of the Holocaust period in Poland and France. There are research papers, testimonies, newspaper clippings, correspondence and documentation concerning the emigration of Jews to Latin American countries. About Dr. Nathan Eck: - Dr. Nathan Eck was born in Janow, Poland, 19 March 1896. He was a Gordonia youth movement activist and a Zionist activist, as w...

  3. Kharkov municipal administration documentation, 1941-1944

    Kharkov municipal administration documentation, 1941-1944 In the collection there are 13 microfilm reels selected from the Kharkov Region State Archive and handed over to Yad Vashem by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Most of the documentation consists of statistical reports and lists of the residents of Kharkov registered in the census conducted by the Kharkov municipal administration in December 1941. The German occupation of the city of Kharkov continued with interruptions from 24 October 1941 to 23 August 1943. From the beginning of the occupation until 09 Febr...

  4. P.55 - Personal Papers of Dr. Heinz E.Samson

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 7894262
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Balance sheet Booklet(s) Brochure Death certificate Envelope Financial accounts Genealogy Journals Legal documentation Letter List of deportees List of murdered Jews from Germany Maps Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Postcard Poster Speech

    P.55 - Personal Archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson In the collection there are files from the private archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson. Description of the collection: 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 ...

  5. Data from the "Minority Census" in Germany (Volkszaehlung 1939), from materials of the Reichssippenamt, May 1939

    Data from the "Minority Census" in Germany (Volkszaehlung 1939), from materials of the Reichssippenamt, May 1939 The collection includes personal data of Jewish families that was collected during the population census. The Record Group was located in the State Archives of East Germany in Potsdam, under Archive signature 1/82. Following the reunification of Germany, this Archive was added to the Bundesarchiv (Federal Archive) in Berlin. The Reichssippenamt materials have been included in the R 1509 Record Group in this Archive. The data is listed alphabetically more or less according to the ...

  6. M.37 - Documentation from the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine, 1941-1977

    M.37 - Documentation from the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine, 1941-1977 There are files in the collection which were selected from among the 60 records groups in the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine. Previously, the Central Archive was known as the Party Archive of the Institute for the History of the Communist Party in Ukraine (the Institute was a branch of the Tsentralny Komitet Komunisticheskoy Partiy Ukrainy [Ukrainian Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Communist Party]). Until 1989, foreign researchers were not given access to the A...

  7. M.52.DAKhO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Kharkov Region

    M.52.DAKhO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Kharkov Region History of the Archives: The archive was established in 1880 by members of the Historical-Philological Society of the University of Kharkiv, and was called the Historical Archives of Kharkiv. In 1920 the archive received the name, the Central Historical Archives affiliated with the education department of the Kharkiv sub-division. The Regional Historical Archives of Kharkiv was established in 1926, to which documentation was transferred from the Central Historical Archive. In March 1932 the Regional Historical Archives...

  8. Documentation from the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) which was active in Crimea, 1944

    Documentation from the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) which was active in Crimea, 1944 The State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK), 1942-1951, was established by order of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union, 02 November 1942. The ChGK was responsible for the collection of documentary data and the preparation of material regarding the atrocities committed by Nazi criminals and the damage caused to Soviet citizens, kolkhozes and the State as a result of the occupation of ...

  9. 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...

  10. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

    O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period The collection is primarily comprised of original documents: typewritten documents, manuscripts, surveys and duplicated reports entrusted to the Yad Vashem Archives over the years, mostly by private bodies. The internal division of the Record group was changed a few years ago, and the original division has been entered in the "Previous File" field. The diverse material contains official documents, personal documentation, statistical material, reports and surveys, articles and journalistic pieces from Jewi...

  11. M.40.MAP - The Military Archive in Podolsk - Documentation from the Central Archive of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense

    M.40.MAP - The Military Archive in Podolsk - Documentation from the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence The collection contains documentation from TSAMO (Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence ) including information regarding the murder of the Jews of Moldavia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Belorussia, Ukraine and more. There is also information regarding the Gypsies, such as the concentration of Gypsies, their living conditions and their murder. Description of the collection: 1. Camps Concentration camps, extermin...

  12. Documentation from archives in Belorussia, 1930-1960

    In the record group there are files selected from the State Archive of Belorussia and the Archive of the Public Associations (the archives of the former Communist Party) of Belorussia, the State Archive of the Grodno Region, the State Archive of Belorussia which was attached to the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia, the State Archive of the Public Associations of the Grodno Region, the State Archive of the Gomel Region, the State Archive of the Public Associations of the Mogilev Region; the Historical Museum of the Great War for the Motherland (the Great Patriotic War - World W...

  13. Documentation of the Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone, Munich

    The Central Historical Commission in Munich began collecting historical documentation in Germany in December 1945. Much work was invested in involving Jewish survivors of concentration camps in Germany in the collection activity, and the response was great. It could be that the survivors' response was an expression of their spontaneous desire to perpetuate the memories of those who perished and document the terrors of the Holocaust. The 50 CHC branches established in the American Occupied Zone in Germany filled an important role. Indeed, much documentation arrived at the CHC in Munich via t...

  14. Documentation from the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine, 1941-1977

    There are files in the coolection which were selected from among the 60 records groups in the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine. Previously, the Central Archive was known as the Party Archive of the Institute for the History of the Communist Party in Ukraine (the Institute was a branch of the Tsentralny Komitet Komunisticheskoy Partiy Ukrainy [Ukrainian Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Communist Party]). Until 1989, foreign researchers were not given access to the Archive, and access granted to Soviet researchers was limited.In 1991, an agreement was reached for ...

  15. 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...

  16. O. 21 - M. Weichert Collection about Jewish Social Welfare in the Generalgouvernement: Documentation regarding the activities of the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS - Jewish Social Self-Help Organization) in Poland during the German occupation, and documentation regarding Michal Weichert

    O. 21 - M. Weichert Collection about Jewish Social Welfare in the Generalgouvernement: Documentation regarding the activities of the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS - Jewish Social Self-Help Organization) in Poland during the German occupation, and documentation regarding Michal Weichert Michal Weichert was born in Podhajce, eastern Galicia, Poland, 1890. He attended Polish schools, earned a degree in law at the University of Vienna, and also attended the Theater Arts Academy in Berlin. Upon his return to Poland, he established the Young Yiddish Theater in Warsaw. He served as a Yiddish t...

  17. M.82 - Documentation from the State Archives of Saint Petersburg

    M.82 - Documentation from the State Archives of Saint Petersburg In the Record Group there is documentation selected from the TSGA SPb (Central State Archive of St. Petersburg) from the years 1918-1955, and from the Central State Archive of Historical and Political Documentation (the former archive of the Communist Party), 1941-1973. The Records Group in Yad Vashem contains 3,136 files. In the Records Group there is documentation from the following collections: The Collection of the Department for Nationalist Minority Matters of the Regional Executive Committee of St. Petersburg, 1918-1923:...

  18. 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...

  19. M.52 - Documentation from Regional Archives in Ukraine, 1934-1966

    M.52 - Documentation from Regional Archives in Ukraine, 1934-1966 In the Record Group there are files from the following regional archives in Ukraine: the State Archive in the Lvov region, the State Archive in the Ivano-Frankovsk region, the State Archive in the Chervovtsy region, the State Archive in the Khmelnitskiy region, the State Archive in the Vinnitsa region, the State Archive in the Kiev region, the State Archive in the Rovno region, the State Archive in the Ternopol region, the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine (Lvov), the State Archive of the Office of Internal Affairs...

  20. Documentation from the State Archives of Saint Petersburg

    In the Record Group there is documentation selected from the TSGA SPb (Central State Archive of St. Petersburg) from the years 1918-1955, and from the Central State Archive of Historical and Political Documentation (the former archive of the Communist Party), 1941-1973. The Records Group in Yad Vashem contains 3,136 files.In the Records Group there is documentation from the following collections: The Collection of the Department for Nationalist Minority Matters of the Regional Executive Committee of St. Petersburg, 1918-1923:Reports regarding the activities of Jewish schools, orphanages and...