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  1. Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Police Headquarters Chișinău

    • Inspectoratului Regional de Poliție al Basarabiei. Poliţia centrelor județene. Chișinău
    • Полиция города Кишинева (Кишинэу)
    • Politsiya goroda Kishineva

    Copies of the Orders signed by the military and civil authorities regarding the treatment of Jews; written materials about the Jewish labor brigades in Chisinau; report of murdered Jews by the GESTAPO; Chisinau ghetto - the execution of Jews accused of collaboration with the Bolsheviks; Security Department report on atrocities committed on October 8, 1941, when a convoy of about 2,000 Jews were evacuated; reports on the living conditions and the state of mind of the Jews in the ghetto.

  2. Regional Inspectorate of Security in Bessarabia

    • Inspectoratul Regional de Siguranță din Basarabia
    • Бессарабский областной инспекториат полиции
    • Bessarabskiy oblastnoy inspektoriat politsii
    • Arhiva Naţională a Republicii Moldova
    • 680.1
    • English, Romanian
    • 1918-1929
    • Inventory 1 - files from no.1 to no.1443; inventory 2 - files from no.1444 to no.2953; inventory 3 - files from no.2959 to no.4014; inventory 4 - files from no.4015 to no.5179

    Articles about Jews in Chisinau; data on mixed marriages; lists of Jews who have not converted and those who have converted to another religion; a copy of the order signed by General Headquarter of Romania's Army on the Jews in labor brigades; information on the work of the group headed by Filderman; census on the Jews; personal files of the police employees in Bessarabia, files on secret agents and the Jews accused of spying for the USSR. Surveillance materials related to activities carried out by the political Romanian party- "Blocul cetățenesc pentru mîntuirea țării" (Citizens' Block for...

  3. Police Headquarters Tighina. Questura

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

    The fund contains material about the placement of Jews in various ghettos; rules and regulations governing the treatment of Jews; statistical data on the Jews in Tighina County; documents on the Jewish population throughout the province; personal files of people suspected of loyalty to the Soviet state, etc.

  4. Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Police Headquarters Cahul

    • Inspectoratului Regional de Poliție al Basarabiei. Poliţia centrelor județene. Cahul
    • Полиция города Кагул
    • Politsiya goroda Kagul

    The fond contains documents that reflect the activity of Cahul City Police in between 1933-1944; the lists of Jews in prisons on July 22, 1941; correspondence with the Regional Police Inspectorate in Chisinau regarding the legal status of the Jews; the lists of Jews who emigrated to Palestine and those who converted to Christianity.

  5. Administrative office of Bessarabia, Bukovina and "Transnistra"

    • Кабинет по администрации Бессарабии, Буковины и „Транснистрии”
    • Kabinet po administratsii Bessarabii, Bukoviny i „Transnistrii”
    • Cabinetul civil-militar pentru administrarea Basarabiei, Bucovinei și Transnistriei

    Orders and Dispositions issued by the Romanian government and Romanian Army Headquarters to General George Alexeianu about taking the control in Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transnistria, about the disposal of military units, nationalization of population inspection of ghettos, and about the situation of prisoners of war. The memorandum on the Jewish issue of Bessarabia. Regulations related to the organization of the ghettos. Materials about the confiscation of Jewish property. Documents and reports about inspections conducted in Bessarabia and Bukovina in 1941. Statistical data on violations ...

  6. Archives d’André Boulloche

    Né en 1915, polytechnicien, ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées, André Boulloche s'engagea dès 1940 dans la Résistance. Devenu en 1943 délégué militaire de la région de Paris, il fut arrêté en janvier 1944 et déporté le 27 avril, d'abord à Auschwitz puis à Buchenwald et Flossenburg. Le 15 août 1944, c'était au tour de ses parents, Hélène et Jacques Boulloche, et de son frère Robert de partir pour l'Allemagne, d'où ils ne revinrent pas. À son retour de déportation, André Boulloche se lança dans une brillante carrière de haut fonctionnaire et d'homme politique. Directeur du cabinet de Paul Ramad...

  7. Archives du Réseau du Souvenir

    (historique du Réseau, par le général Pierre Saint-Macary) Le Réseau du Souvenir est né d'une double intuition de Paul Arrighi : créer une structure exclusivement vouée au souvenir des déportés, disparus, morts pour la liberté ; articuler cette structure comme un réseau, sur le modèle des réseaux de résistants, voués au renseignement ou à l'action entre 1940 et 1944. Défini par son but, le Réseau s'étend de proche en proche par parrainage à partir d'un noyau initial comprenant Paul Arrighi, avocat à la Cour, dirigeant du mouvement "Ceux de la Résistance", déporté à Mauthausen (Melk et Ebens...

  8. Archives de Jacques Bénet

    Ancien élève de l'École nationale des Chartes, Jacques Bénet est membre en 1944-1945 de l'Assemblée consultative provisoire au titre de la résistance intérieure française. Ancien co-fondateur et co-responsable national du Rassemblement national des prisonniers de guerre (RNPG) et du Mouvement national des prisonniers de guerre et déportés (MNPGD), il a été, après Pierre Le Moign', le liquidateur national de ce dernier mouvement.

  9. Fonds Szmul Zacharie Simon Hercenberg

    En septembre 1940, Simon Hercenberg, juif d'origine polonaise, passe la frontière pour se rendre en Suisse. Il est arrêté à Genève, emprisonné, puis libéré par le caporal Fernand Demierre. Celui-ci l'accueille chez lui et le met en contact avec les services de renseignements suisses puis avec l' ( ). Basé en Suisse, mais opérant en France, Simon Hercenberg travaille aussi avec les réseaux Kléber et Bruno. Au cours d'une mission, il est arrêté par les Allemands près de la frontière et soupçonné d'espionnage mais, faute de preuves, n'est condamné qu'à quatre mois de prison, puis relâché. Il r...

  10. Guerre de 1939-1945. Archives du Comité d'histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale (fonds complémentaire)

    Le reliquat des archives du Comité d'histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, objet du présent inventaire, a été versé aux Archives nationales en 1998 par l'Institut d'histoire du temps présent. Il constitue le complément indispensable des dossiers cotés 72AJ/632 à 72AJ/705 et permet d'éclairer le fonctionnement de l'institution ainsi que les modalités de préparation, de mise en place et de suivi de la plupart des grandes enquêtes lancées par les cinq commissions constituées en son sein (histoire de la Résistance, histoire militaire, histoire économique et sociale, histoire de la collaborat...

  11. Archives de Lazare Rachline

    Lazare Rachline (1905-1968), cofondateur de la Ligue internationale contre l’antisémitisme (LICA), engagé volontaire en 1940, évadé du Stalag IV B et résistant de la première heure, joua un rôle déterminant dans les semaines qui précédèrent le débarquement allié et la libération de Paris. Ses archives sont le reflet fidèle de cette vie riche en engagements. Les années de guerre et la Résistance y occupent une place centrale, mais, au-delà du parcours de Lazare Rachline, y transparaît l'histoire d'une famille juive marquée par l'Occupation et les lois de Vichy : de l'aryanisation des établis...

  12. Fonds Denise et Alain Vernay

    • Archives Nationales de France
    • 72AJ/2946-72AJ/2957
    • French
    • 1,30 ml (12 articles). Le fonds comporte aussi une série de cassettes audio d'entretiens dont l'inventaire reste à faire (2018)

  13. Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation

    La constitution d’une vidéothèque de témoignages, à l’époque où n’existait aucune autre Fondation de mémoire, a fait l’objet d’une décision du Conseil d’Administration prise en 1992, suivie de la constitution d’une commission compétente dont la présidence a incombé à Madame Manette MartinChauffier que son emploi au sein de l’Institut National de l’Audiovisuel et les compétences qu’elle y avait acquises, comme ses liens personnels et familiaux avec le monde de la déportation qualifiait mieux que quiconque pour assumer une telle fonction. La commission comportait quatre historiens de l’Instit...

  14. 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...

  15. 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....

  16. 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...

  17. 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 ...

  19. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The "Anti-Nazi Resistance and Opposition" collection consists of pamphlets, flyers, and booklets published across Europe during World War II. These publications document the atrocities committed by the Nazis and by their collaborators, and were originally aimed to unite the oppressed populations in spiritual and armed resistance. The opposition to the Nazis was led by people from different social backgrounds: peasants, workers, teachers, business owners, as well as aristocrats. Most operated underground, and individuals often sacrificed their freedom or even their own lives to ensure the pr...

  20. 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 ...