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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

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

    Most of the collection is original and can be divided into two parts: A) The first part is Komoly's documentation from the period before World War II to the end of the war (Files 1-48). - Lectures and research papers prepared by Komoly in his professional area as an engineer and his activities as a Jewish Zionist leader;- Correspondence with Jewish organizations from Hungary and other countries, public figures and the Hungarian authorities regarding the rescue of the Jews of Hungary; - Eleven volumes of the work appointment book conducted by Komoly in Budapest, 1934-1944;- Newspaper clippin...

  2. 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...

  3. Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamonds Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954

    Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamonds Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954 Included in the collection: Official documentation regarding diamond dealers in the Netherlands, most of them Jews, 1940-1954; Lists of diamond dealers, a newspaper article regarding Jewish diamond dealers in the Netherlands, and documentation regarding an incident of concealment; Documents of the Schade-Enquete-Commissies - compensation committee regarding diamond dealers during the postwar period in the Netherlands, 1946-1954; Documents of the Ministry of Transportation of the Netherlands; Documents...

  4. Documentation of the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Krakow, Poland regarding the organization activities in Poland, 1939-1942

    The documentation includes the welfare and assistance activities of the AJDC to the Jews of Poland; it consists of four main parts: 1. AJDC correspondence with the German administration authorities in occupied Poland; 2. AJDC correspondence with Jewish institutions and organizations in Poland; 3. AJDC correspondence with Jewish institutions and organizations outside of Poland; 4. Survey reports, charts and statistical data. 1. Correspondence with the German administration authorities in occupied Poland, August 1940-January 1942, including requests for the issuing of various permits, such as...

  5. O.52.2 - Documentation prepared for the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - North-West Communities

    O.52.2 - Documentation prepared for the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - North-West Communities The purpose of the Yad Vashem project - to prepare an Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - is to perpetuate the history of the communities that were destroyed during the Holocaust. The historiography of the communities focused on countries and sometimes on districts, but not on the history of the local communities. This project is meant to fill in what is lacking in this area. With the increase of interest in the local communities, this Record Group serves as a very impo...

  6. Documentation from archives in Latvia, 1918-1946

    In the collection there are files selected from the Latvian State Historical Archives in Riga and other files received from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Description of the collection: Included in the documentation from the Latvian State Historical Archives in Riga is correspondence between the educational establishment in Latvia with various bodies regarding budget, salaries of the teachers and matriculation exams, 1921-1940. In the collection there is documentation of the Association of Latvian Jews for the Advancement of Settlement in Eretz Israel, correspond...

  7. M.35: Documentation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAF) in the Soviet Union

    M.35: Documentation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAF) in the Soviet Union Established at the height of World War II, the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (EAK - Yevreyskiy antifashistskiy komitet) was a Soviet Jewish organization set up in order to provide assistance to the Soviet Union in its war against Nazi Germany. Headed by the actor and theatrical director Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels as Committee Chairman and Shakhne Epshteyn, the newspaperman, as Secretary, the Committee was established at the initiative of the Soviet Secret Police in Samara in 1942. The purpose of the Committee...

  8. P.37- Archive of Benjamin Arditti: Documentation Regarding the History of Bulgarian Jewry, 1850-1964

    P.37- Archive of Benjamin Arditti: Documentation Regarding the History of Bulgarian Jewry, 1850-1964 Benjamin Arditti was born in Vienna in 1897. He lived in Sofia (except for two years during World War II) from 1916-1949. He was one of the outstanding activists in the Zionist movement in Bulgaria: he served as a member of the Central Committee of the Zionist Union in Bulgaria, 1919-1923; he held five terms of office as the representative to the World Zionist Congress; he served as the chairman of the Zionist Organization in Sofia; he was one of the founders of the Revisionist movement in B...

  9. Documentation of the Finanzministerium (Finance Ministry), related to Württemberg-Hohenzollern, 1945-1949

    Documentation of the Finanzministerium (Finance Ministry), related to Württemberg-Hohenzollern, 1945-1949 History of the organization [institution]: In autumn 1945, after the end of World War II, the State of Württemberg-Hohenzollern was established inside Germany, which included the French Occupied Zone of Württemberg and the Sigmaringen region. The government of the new state was comprised of six Landesdirektionen (administrative areas) that supervised various subjects (law, culture, interior matters, and other subjects), including finance. Its name was changed later to the Finanzminister...

  10. Joseph Kermish Collection, Director of the Yad Vashem Archives, 1953-1979

    Dr. Joseph Kermish's personal archive includes personal documentation that recounts his experiences during the war and following it. The archive also contains extensive correspondence with public figures in Israel and abroad and with various organizations and entities extending over a period of more than 50 years. The subjects covered in the correspondence include the Yad Vashem Communities Registry Project, collecting the material for the Eichmann Trial, publication of Emmanuel Ringelblum's archive, "Oneg Shabbat", publication of Adam Czerniakow's diary and the history of the Warsaw Ghetto...

  11. Heinz Prossnitz Collection

    Heinz Prossnitz Collection Heinz Prossnitz was born in Czechoslovakia in 1926. Following the German occupation of Czechia and Moravia in March 1939, Heinz joined the Maccabi Hatzair movement in Prague. His "Forbearance" group numbered ten members and it was led by Fredy Hirsch, who was much admired among the Jewish youth in the Protectorate. During the 1940/1941 school year Heinz studied in the Jugend-Aliya [Youth Aliyah] school, which prepared pupils for aliya to Eretz Israel and was therefore permitted by the German authorities. The school was closed in summer 1941 and the situation of th...

  12. M.53: Documentation from the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine, 1941-1945

    M.53: Documentation from the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine, 1941-1946 In the collection there is documentation regarding the Reichskommissariat (Regional Commissariat- occupation regime in Ukraine), 1941-1945. Additionally, there is documentation regarding the period prior to the German occupation, such as documentation from courts in Ukraine regarding Jews accused of anti-Soviet propaganda, theft and profiteering, reports of meetings of the Council for Religious Affairs (CRA) attached to the USSR Council of Ministers (SNK), including decisions ...

  13. Documentation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAF) in the Soviet Union

    Description of the collection : Official Committee documentation, testimonies of survivors, Red Army soldiers, underground members, lists of Jewish victims, notices and announcements, investigative reports against Nazi criminals, survey reports, letters, radio broadcasts, articles and photographs. There are three main collections in the records group:A. Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the"Black Book", including valuable testimonies, diaries and memoirs that were processed for literary presentation and others that were only published partially, testimonies and memoirs regarding th...

  14. O.62 - Borwicz Collection: Testimonies recorded by the Jewish Historical Commission in Poland

    O.62 - Borwicz Collection: Testimonies recorded by the Jewish Historical Commission in Poland, 1944-1947 Michal Borwicz (Maksymilian Boruchowicz) was born in Krakow in 1911, and died in Paris in 1987. A graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, he was a Jewish Polish author and historian, who studied the history of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust. Borwicz was an inmate in the Janowska camp in Lwow from 1942-1943. He was sentenced to death by hanging, however when the sentence was being carried out, the rope broke. He escaped from the camp and joined the partisans and commanded an...

  15. P.34: Collection of Rabbi Stephen Wise, American Zionist leader

    P.34: Collection of Rabbi Stephen Wise, American Zionist leader Stephen Samuel Wise (1874-1949), the son and grandson of rabbis, was born in Budapest in 1874. When Wise was an infant, his parents emigrated to the United States with their family. From a very young age, Wise aspired to be a rabbi, like his father Rabbi Aharon Wise. Wise completed his studies at Columbia University with Outstanding Honors at the age of 18, and was ordained as a rabbi in 1893. He served as the rabbi in several significant communities in New York and Oregon, and he was a trail-blazer in the area of inter-denomin...

  16. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground The archive gets its name from Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff, who set up the archive in early 1943, and Zvi Mersik, one of Mordechai Tenenbaum's outstanding aides, who continued to maintain the archive after Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff's death. Most of the documentation, which was created between July 1941 and April 1943, is located in the Yad Vashem Archive. The original material is not concentrated in one place: some of it is housed in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, and the rest of th...

  17. M. 33- The ChGK Collection: Documentation collected by the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union, 1943-1945

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019619
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1943-1945
    • Diary Exhumation report Investigation report List of collaborators List of Jewish residents List of murdered persons List of perpetrators Maps Memoirs Names of perpetrators Newspaper clippings Official documentation Questionnaire Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Statistical report Survey report

    M. 33- The ChGK Collection: Documentation collected by the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union, 1943-1945 The State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes (ChGK) was established in the Soviet Union in 1942. Its representatives operated in places that had been occupied by the Nazis a short time after their liberation, and the reports prepared by the Commission regarding the places it investigated describe the Nazi crimes in detail. The ChGK (in Yad Vashem terminology: “the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigat...

  18. P.60 - Dr. Joseph Kermish Collection, Director of the Yad Vashem Archives, 1953-1979

    P.60 - Joseph Kermish Collection, Director of the Yad Vashem Archives, 1953-1979 Dr. Joseph Kermish was born in the town of Zlotniki, in the Tarnopol district, 1907. He studied history at the University of Warsaw and completed his doctoral studies in 1937. He spent the years 1936-1939 preparing a book of bibliographies on the history of Warsaw and the history of the Jewish community in Warsaw, work that was suspended with the outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939, and his draft into the Polish Army. He spent the period of the German occupation, from 1941, in the town of Probuzna, not far f...

  19. Collection of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (the German Office for Administration and Justice) in the Netherlands, 1940-1944

    Collection of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (the German Office for Administration and Justice) in the Netherlands, 1940-1944 The Germans established a system for civil administration in 1940; Arthur Seyss-Inquart stood as the Reichskommissar - head of the civil administration; establishment of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (German Office for Administration and Justice) under Seyss-Inquart, and under the administration of Friedrich Wimmer in The Hague; among the office's functions were administration and justice: legislation, internal matters, justice,...

  20. TR.3 - Documentation collected in preparation for the Eichmann Trial, 1933-1962

    TR.3 - Documentation collected in preparation for the Eichmann Trial, 1933-1962 The Mossad (Israel Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations) discovered where Adolf Eichmann was residing in Argentina while using a false identity. Eichmann was captured and brought to Israel in early 1960. His trial, which was held in Beit Ha'am in Jerusalem [today, the Gerard Behar Center building], began in April 1961. The trial lasted for approximately three months, and Eichmann was subsequently sentenced to death for his part in the murder of the Jews of Europe. Eichmann submitted an appeal to the...