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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
  1. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan Memorial booklet - "Les Enfants de La Hille - 1942" (excerpts of testimonies in French and German); Testimonies/ interviews/ experiences/ memoirs: 1. Shlomit Enzel; 2. Lea Bahat; 3. Miriam Buz-Melamed; 4. Heini Bornstein ("The Kasztner Affair: Description of the facts from the viewpoint of a rescue activist in Switzerland"); 5. Chasia Bornstein-Bielicka (Speeches given at the Grodno-Vilna Galilean activists conference held a...

  2. Documentation from the Berlin Police Headquarters (Polizeipraesidium Berlin)

    Documentation from the Berlin Police Headquarters (Polizeipraesidium Berlin) The Prussian city ordinance (Städteordnung) of 19 November 1808 provided for the establishment of a state police administration in the larger cities. Accordingly, a Royal Police headquarters (Königliches Polizeipräsidium) was built in Berlin on 25 March 1809, to which the existing state police department was linked. At the time the greater Berlin area included several independent townships. Berlin was not one large city and the police forces were divided. A law implemented on 13 June 1900 created the Provincial Pol...

  3. Files of the arbitrator for claims for compensation in Stuttgart

    Files of the arbitrator for claims for compensation in Stuttgart: The legal basis for the work of the arbitrator for reparations in the American zone was Law No. 59 of the Military Government (American Control Area) of November 10, 1947. According to this, the confiscated property, firm, bank account or other property was to be returned or compensation for it was to be paid. For this, the injured party or his legal successor had to conduct contentious proceedings against the individual or institution liable for restitution, which had seized the property. In order to prevent every claim for ...

  4. German Communities Registry

    In the collection are files prepared for the writing of the Bavaria Communities Registry and the Northwest Germany Communities Registry, including the communities of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Oldenburg, Lippe and Hamburg. The Bavaria files are arranged by district, and within each district, by alphabetical order.The Northwestern Germany files are arranged by state or Prussian province, and they themselves are in alphabetical order. The material is an anthology of the most detailed information regarding German Jewry throughout the years of its existence until its destruction by the N...

  5. Hakibbutz Ha'artzi Archives Collection: the Vilna Ghetto

    Hakibbutz Ha'artzi Archives Collection: the Vilna Ghetto Material from the Vilna Ghetto was collected during the war and after the liberation, and brought to Eretz Israel by members of the Hashomer Hatzair movement, Vilna Ghetto Uprising activists and members of the partisan movement in the Vilna area . The material is divided into 39 files and contains hundreds of original documents dealing with the history of the establishment of the Fareynegte Partizaner Organizatsye (FPO-United Partisans Organization), the way it worked and the preparations for the uprising. The organization placards ca...

  6. O.1 - Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960

    O.1 - Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960 Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri was born in Berlin in 1891. A lawyer and legal adviser to the Prussian government, he was also active in Jewish affairs. He made aliya to Eretz Israel in December 1938. Dr. Ball-Kaduri, who was active in collecting material and writing about German Jewry, became aware that much material that reached the archives regarding Jewish life in Germany from 1933 to 1945 was incomplete, and that there were large information gaps. From hi...

  7. Documentation regarding Keren Hayesod in Riga, 1920-1940

    Documentation regarding Keren Hayesod in Riga, 1920-1940 Keren Hayesod was established at the annual conference of the World Zionist Organization held in London in July 1920, as the fundraising arm of the Zionist movement. The Keren Hayesod Manifest of 1920 reflected the determination and decisiveness of the new Zionist organization: "The time has arrived for the concentration of the Jewish effort on behalf of the establishment of the National Jewish Home". Keren Hayesod was charged with the responsibility for the financing of aliya and settlement in Eretz Israel; Before the establishment o...

  8. M.29: Documentation from the Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives) regarding the Holocaust

    M.29: Documentation from the Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives) regarding the Holocaust History of the Archives Known as the Reichsarchive, the Central State Archive was first established in Potsdam, Germany in 1919. Documentation of the German state institutions beginning with the establishment of the Norddeutscher Bund (The North German Confederation) in 1867, were gathered in the archive, as well as historical documentation from the German Empire and Prussia dating back to the Middle Ages. After World War II, the archive in Potsdam, which was located in the Soviet Occupation Zone, wa...

  9. Collection of the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6100287
    • English, Hebrew
    • Certification Document Financial accounts Laws and decrees Letter Lists of businesses and skilled workers Names Protocol Questionnaire Report Reports Survey report

    Collection of the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 The Wirtschaftsprüfstelle (Economics Research office) was part of the Generalkommissariat für Finanz und Wirtschaft, and it supervised the implementation of the Aryanization of the Dutch economy; the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle started the Aryanization in The Hague in October 1940 with the registration of all of the Jewish businesses in the Netherlands, according to order VO 189/40 given on 22/10/1940; later on, according to order VO 48/41 given on 12/03/1941, the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle was authorized to appoint a Treuhander (tr...

  10. P.9 - Archive of Siegfried Jaegendorf, President of the Jewish Coordinating Committee for the Deported Jews in Transnistria, 1941-1967

    P.9 - Archive of Siegfried Jaegendorf, President of the Jewish Coordinating Committee for the Deported Jews in Transnistria, 1941-1967 Siegfried Jaegendorf was born in Czernowitz, 01 August 1895. He attended local elementary and high schools, and afterwards travelled to Vienna and Berlin where he studied engineering at a technical college, completing his studies as a mechanical engineer. His first position as an engineer was at the Siemens Schucker Werke in Berlin. In time, he was promoted and sent to serve as managing director for the Eastern Europe area at the Siemens factory in Vienna. A...

  11. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951 Born in 1882, in Lwow, Poland, Dr. Abraham Silberschein was an attorney who dedicated himself to public service. He was one of the outstanding leaders of the Labor Zionist movement in Poland, and in 1922, he was elected by the movement to serve in the Polish Sejm as the Labor Zionist representative . In 1930 he arrived in Geneva as a representative to the Zionist Congress. Due to the outbreak of World War II, Dr. Silberschein did not return to Poland, but he remained in Switzerla...

  12. M.41.NARB - Documentation of the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia (Natsionalny Arkhiv Respubliki Belarus)

    M.41.NARB - Documentation of the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia (Natsionalny Arkhiv Respubliki Belarus) History of the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia The Central Archive for the October Revolution of the Belorussian Soviet Republic was established in the city of Minsk on 28 May 1927. The Archive moved to the city of Mogilev in 1930. The Archive underwent reorganization in 1938, and became the State Archive of the October Revolution and the Socialistic Construction. Following the outbreak of the war in 1941, the Archive's activities stopped. The Archive renewe...

  13. תיקים אישיים,בעיקר של יהודים, של Gestapo Staatspolizeileitstelle Duesseldorf

    Structure of the Gestapo Staatspolizeirektion Duesseldorf: Division II (Domestic Police) is subdivided into subdivisions, of which the Department of Culture (II B), Division II C (Reaction and Opposition), II H (Party Affairs) and II E, the Department of Economics, are mentioned. Head of the Cultural Department (II B) was from 1935 to 1943/44 police superintendent Wilhelm Friedrich. The cultural department was again subdivided into the department for the Catholic Church (II B 1), the department for the Protestant Church and sects (II B 2), the department for emigrants (II B 3) and the depar...

  14. Collection of the Stichting Centraal Bureau van Onderzoek inzake de Vererving van de Nalatenschappen van Vermiste Personen, the fund for the administration of the property of missing persons in the Netherlands, 1949-1956

    Collection of the Stichting Centraal Bureau van Onderzoek inzake de Vererving van de Nalatenschappen van Vermiste Personen, the fund for the administration of the property of missing persons in the Netherlands, 1949-1956 Establishment of the Stichting Centraal Bureau van Onderzoek inzake de Vererving van de Nalatenschappen van Vermiste Personen, the fund for the administration of the property of missing persons in the Netherlands, on the initiative of the Brotherhood of Notaries in the Netherlands in 1949; the aim of the fund: to collect and administer information regarding the inheritances...

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

    The collection contains documentation regarding the history of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, and serves as a source of information concerning the extermination of the Jews in the towns and villages throughout the Soviet Union that had been under Nazi occupation. The collection includes lists of those who perished, lists of Nazi criminals, lists of collaborators, maps, sketches of extermination sites, photographs of the faces of the criminals (low quality), investigative reports, surveys, protocols prepared by the investigators, statistical data and more. This documentation provides a d...

  16. O.18 -Yitzhak Stone Collection: German documentation regarding German war crimes in the occupied countries

    O.18 -Yitzhak Stone Collection: German documentation regarding German war crimes in the occupied countries Yitzhak Stone was a senior aid to the American prosecutor in the Nazi War Crimes Trials at Nuremberg. There are copies of German documents used by the prosecution; sometimes there are also translations for these copies. The files in the collection were submitted to Yad Vashem in a number of shipments: - Files 1-65: Files handed over to Yad Vashem by D. Cohen from the Ministry of Defense in 1956. - Files 66-130: Files handed over to Yad Vashem by D. Cohen from the Ministry of Defense in...

  17. Collection of H. G. Adler, 1937-1959

    Collection of H. G. Adler, 1937-1959 H. G. Adler was born in Prague in 1910; he was a poet, historian, sociologist and multidisciplinary researcher; he was an inmate in Niederorschel, Langenstein-Zwieberge, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz camps; after the war he wrote important books regarding Theresienstadt and regarding totalitarian regimes; he died in London in 1988; Included in the collection: List of senior officials who served in Nazi organizations and institutions; Subjects related to the handling of the "Jewish Problem" that were discussed by Nazi organizations, including among others ...

  18. Documentation of the Reichsministerium der Justiz (Reich Ministry of Justice), Germany, 1933-1945

    Documentation of the Reichsministerium der Justiz (Reich Ministry of Justice), Germany, 1933-1945 In the years 1933-1935, the Reich Ministry of Justice became the central authority in the judicial system in Germany, and as such assumed management of the system. Upon the seizure of control by the Nazis, Franz Guertner, who had been appointed to the position of Reich Justice Minister in 1932 under Franz von Papen, abandoned the principles of State Law, and provided legal means for the activities of the SA, SS and the Gestapo. During his time, the rights of Jews were revoked and a special crim...

  19. Documentation of anti-Nazi emigree organizations from Germany and Austria that were active in Paris, 1936-1940

    Documentation of anti-Nazi emigree organizations from Germany and Austria that were active in Paris, 1936-1940 This Record Group was set up in the Osoby Archive in Moscow and includes files of a number of German emigee organizations that were active in Paris. - Files of emigee organizations (Frames 1004-1151) including the Fédération des Emigrés provenant d'Autriche and the Ligue Autrichienne (in German: Oesterreichischen Liga) containing correspondence, fliers, administrative material and reports regarding the Austrian refugees in France, 1938-1940. One of the files (Frames 1026-1114) incl...

  20. O.46 - Documentation from the Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives: Activities of the Hashomer Hatzair Movement in Europe during World War II

    O.46 - Documentation from the Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives: Activities of the Hashomer Hatzair Movement in Europe during World War II Hashomer Hatsair is a Socialist–Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary. By 1939, Hashomer Hatzair had 70,000 members worldwide. The movement's membership base was in Eastern Europe. With the advent of World War II and the Holocaust, members of Hashomer Hatzair focused their attention on resistance against the Nazis. Mordechaj Anielewicz, the leader of Hashomer Hatzair's Warsaw branch, became head of the Jewish Fightin...