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  1. 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...

  2. O.12 - Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943

    O.12- Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943 The Perlman Collection consists of 64 testimonies gathered by Jewish Agency representatives during the years 1942-1943, mainly from Jews who arrived to Eretz Israel during World War II. Most of the testimonies were given by Jews who held Mandatory Palestine citizenship, were married to Mandatory Palestine citizens or were related to them. These Jews were included in exchange agreements of foreign citizens for German citizens, and they succeeded in reaching Eretz Israel. Another group of witn...

  3. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 5263688
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1904-2002
    • Annotations Article(s), list(s), text(s) Bibliography Booklet(s) Brochure Calendar Lectures Lists Manuscript Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Research article Statistical data Syllabus Thesis/Dissertation

    P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002 Prof. Leni Yahil, the historian, donated the collection to Yad Vashem on 30 December 2004; Sarit Shavit, the researcher, submitted additional material (from File 36 on) to Yad Vashem in October 2009. The collection includes documentation, newspaper clippings, lists, articles, booklets, doctoral dissertations, notes, Leni Yahil's correspondence and more. The documentation relates to the following subjects: the Jews of Denmark during the Holocaust; the Jews of Germany from the 1930s until the Holocaust; the Jews of Sweden, Norway an...

  4. P.20 - Zorach Warhaftig Archive: Documentation of rescue and aid extended to refugees who escaped from Poland and Lithuania to Japan, 1939-1990

    P.20 - Zorach Warhaftig Archive: Documentation of rescue and aid extended to refugees who escaped from Poland and Lithuania to Japan, 1939-1990 Zorach Warhaftig was born in Wolkowisk, White Russia. While still a youth, he was an active member of the Hamizrachi movement. He acquired a traditional Jewish education and a general education, earning his Law degree at Warsaw University. From 1936-1939 he served as Chairman of the Eretz Israel office in Warsaw and a representative at the 17th through the 21st Zionist Congresses. When World War II broke out, he escaped to Lithuania, and there he ai...

  5. Inspectoratul Regional de Poliție al Basarabiei. Poliţia centrelor județene. Orhei

    • Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Police Headquarters Orhei
    • Полиция города Оргеева
    • Politsiya goroda Orgeeva

    Fondul conține corespundența Poliției orașului Orhei cu Ministerul Afacerilor Interne, Direcția Generală a Poliției, Inspectoratul de Poliție din Chișinău, primăria orașului Orhei și cu Comisariatele despre activitatea poliţiei, despre listele de evrei cu vîrsta între 19-50 ani şi ale meşteşugarilor evrei şi ne-evrei. Listele evreilor din diferite judeţe ale României, care nu s-au prezentat în unităţile de muncă forţată. De asemenea, conține documente despre evacuarea populației, mobilizarea armatei, procese de judecată, eliberarea permiselor de trecere, acordarea pensiilor, rapoarte despre...

  6. Inspectoratului Regional de Poliție al Basarabiei. Poliţia centrelor județene. Orhei

    • Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Police Headquarters Orhei
    • Полиция города Оргеева
    • Politsiya goroda Orgeeva

    Ordine și circulare emise de Ministerul Afacerilor Interne și Inspectoratului Regional de Poliție din Basarabia cu privire la plasarea evreilor în lagăre şi ghetouri. Ordine care reglementează raporturile de interacţiune cu evreii. Corespondența dintre Poliția orașului Orhei cu Ministerul Afacerilor Interne al României, Inspectoratului Regional de Poliție din Basarabia, Chestura de Poliție orașului Chișinău, Prefectura orașului Orhei despre date statistice şi listele evreilor din judeţul Orhei, Basarabia. Copii ale documentelor referitoare la populaţia evreiască din Basarabia.

  7. Inspectoratului Regional de Poliție al Basarabiei. Poliţia centrelor județene. Chișinău

    • Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Police Headquarters Chișinău
    • Полиция города Кишинева (Кишинэу)
    • Politsiya goroda Kishineva

    Copii ale Ordinelor semnate de armată și de autorități civile în ceea ce privește tratamentul evreilor; materiale despre brigăzile de muncă evreiești din Chișinău; raportul evreilor uciși de GESTAPO; ghetoul din Chișinău – executarea evreilor învinuiți de colaborare cu bolșevicii; raportul Secție Siguranței privind atrocitățile comise pe 8 octombrie 1941 cînd un convoi de cca 2.000 de evrei au fost evacuați, rapoarte privind condițiile de trai și starea de spirit a evreilor în ghetou.

  8. Inspectoratul Regional de Siguranță din Basarabia

    • Arhiva Naţională a Republicii Moldova
    • 680.1
    • English, Romanian
    • 1918-1929
    • Inventarul 1 - 1443 dosare, Inventarul 2 - dosarele 1444-2953, Inventarul 3 - dosarele 2959-4014, Inventarul 4 - dosarele 4015-5179.

    Conține materiale despre evreii din Chișinău, date despre căsătoriile mixte, listele evreilor ce nu s-au convertit și a celor ce s-au convertit la altă religie, copia Ordinului semnat de Cartierul General al Armatei Române cu privire la evreii din brigăzile de muncă, informații cu privire la activitatea grupului condus de Filderman, recensămîntul evreilor, dosare personale ale funcționarilor instituțiilor polițienești din Basarabia, ale infomatorilor și ale evreilor învinuiție de activitate și spionaj pentru URSS. Materiale de supraveghere a activităților desfășurate de către partidul polit...

  9. Poliţia Tighina. Questura

    • Police Headquarters Tighina. Questura
    • Бессарабский областной инспекторат полиции. Квестура Полиции города Тигина
    • Bessarabskii oblastnoi inspectorat politsii. Kvestura Politsii goroda Tighina

    Fondul conține materiale despre plasarea evreilor în ghetouri; reguli și regulamente de tratare a evreilor; date statistice despre evreii din județul Tighina; documente cu privire la populația evreiască din toată provincia, dosare personale ale persoanelor suspectate de loialitate față de statul sovietic.

  10. Inspectoratului Regional de Poliție al Basarabiei. Poliţia centrelor județene. Cahul

    • Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Police Headquarters Cahul
    • Полиция города Кагул
    • Politsiya goroda Kagul

    Fondul conține documente de reflectă activitatea Poliției orașului Cahul în anii 1933-1944, listele evreilor din închisori la data de 22 iulie 1941, corespondența cu Inspectoratul Regional de Poliției din Chișinău despre statutul juridic al evreilor; listele evreilor ce au emigrat în Palestina și a celor ce s-au convertit la creștenism.

  11. Cabinetul civil-militar pentru administrarea Basarabiei, Bucovinei și Transnistriei

    • Administrative office of Bessarabia, Bukovina and "Transnistra"
    • Кабинет по администрации Бессарабии, Буковины и „Транснистрии”
    • Kabinet po administratsii Bessarabii, Bukoviny i „Transnistrii”

    Ordine și Dispoziții emise de conducerea României, Cartierul General al Armatei Române, generalului Gheorghe Alexeianu despre preluare controlului în Basarabia, Bucovina și Transnistria, evacuarea unităților militare, naționalizarea populației, inspectarea ghetoururilor, situația prizonierilor de război. Memorandumul despre problema evreiască din Basarabia. Regulamente ce prevăd organizarea ghetourilor. Materiale despre confiscarea proprietăţilor evreilor. Documente şi rapoarte despre inspecţiile făcute în Basarabia şi Bucovina în 1941. Date statistice despre încălcări şi acte criminale com...

  12. O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection

    O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection Mordechai Friedman was born in Pultusk, Poland, in 1937. At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, his family escaped to the Soviet Union. At the end of the war, his family returned to Poland, and some time later they escaped to Germany with the She’erith Hapletah. Friedman attended elementary school in Germany, and in 1949 made aliya to Eretz Israel. As part of his studies for his Master's degree in the History of the Jewish People, Friedman submitted a Master's thesis on Orthodox Jewry in New York, 1891-1914; his advisor was Professor Uriel Tal. Friedma...

  13. P.48 - Aryeh Kubovy Personal Collection

    P.48 - Aryeh Kubovy Personal Collection The Collection includes mainly documentation from 1951-1952, the years when Dr. Aryeh Kubovy served as the Legate for Israel in Czechoslovakia and Poland. Aryeh Leon Kubovy (Kubovitzki) was born in Kursenai, Lithuania, in 1896. In 1906 his family emigrated to Belgium, where he acquired the rest of his education. He completed his studies for a Doctorate in Classical Philology and Law at the University of Brussels and Liége University. In 1926 he became a Belgian citizen. He worked as a lawyer from 1926-1940, first in Antwerp and afterwards in Brussels....

  14. 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...

  15. 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 ...

  16. O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat

    O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat Dr. Jacob Robinson was born in Seirijai, a village in the Alytus district in southeastern Lithuania on 28 November 1889, and received a traditional Jewish education. In 1910 he completed his studies at the Suwalki high school and in the summer of 1914, he completed his studies for the title of Doctorate in Law (LL.D.) at the University of Warsaw. In May 1923 he was elected to the Sejm (Lithuanian Parliament), where he served as head of the Jewish faction and a leader of the minorities bloc. During the years 1925-1931, Robinson served ...

  17. P.62 - Peter Erben Collection: Documentation regarding the Jews of Czechoslovakia, and specifically the Jews of Ostrava, during the Holocaust period

    P.62 - Peter Erben Collection: Documentation regarding the Jews of Czechoslovakia, and specifically the Jews of Ostrava, during the Holocaust period Peter Erben, a native of Ostrava, was an inmate in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and other camps during the Holocaust period. After the war, he was greatly involved in the collection of materials related to the fate of the Jews of Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust in general and the fate of the Jews of Ostrava in particular. Erben submitted part of the collection of memoirs, letters, photographs and documents he gathered to Yad Vashem.

  18. Dansk Røde Kors

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Dansk Røde Kors
    • Danish, English
    • 1939-1955
    • 42 pakken

  19. Den Danske Brigade i Sverige, Kommandoen

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Den Danske Brigade i Sverige, Kommandoen
    • Danish, English
    • 1943
    • 119 pakken

    Omhandler den danske politistyrke som blev opstillet i Sverige fra 1943. Bestod især af flygtede modstandsfolk.

  20. Den Danske Flygtningeadministration i Sverige

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Den Danske Flygtningeadministration i Sverige
    • Danish, English
    • 782 pakken

    Almen Afdeling varetog bistand til flygtninge, som ikke var i arbejde, og som ikke opholdt sig i forlægning: beklædningshjælp, logi, forsørgelse, sociale hjælpeforanstaltninger for gamle, mødre med børn, gravide kvinder, læge- og tandlægeassistance, hjælp ved sygdom, dødsfald, hjælp til Den Danske Brigades personel og dettes familier. Juridisk assistance overgik til Flygtningekontorets Sekretariat.