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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. M.52.DALO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Lwow Region

    M.52.DALO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Lwow Region History of the Archives: The State Archives of the Lwow Region was established in December 1939 on the basis of the State Archives of Lwow. The archive was called the Regional Historical Archives in Lwow until 1941. It was called the State Archive of the Lwow Region during 1941-1958, and was called the Regional State Archives in Lwow during 1958-1980. As of 1959 the documentation that was in the Regional Archives in Drogobych was transferred to it. Since 1980 it has been called the State Archives of the Lwow Region. The Sub-...

  2. O.104 - אוסף לוכסמבורג

    1. Robert Serebrenik, personal and famuly documents and letters. 2. Esra Hilfsverein fuer beduerftige Juden Luxemburg, correspondence and statutes. 3. Letters and other documents concerning the appointment of Robert Serebrenik as Chief Rabbi of Luxemburg. 4. Essay on the Jewish Community Ramath Orah, New York. 5. Correspondence of Robert and Julia Serebrenik. 6. Statement by Robert Serebrenik, Chief Rabbi of Luxemburg, on his meetings with Adolf Eichmann 7. Letters of condolences, eulogies and obituaries on the occasion of Robert Serebrenik's death. 8. Julia Serebrenik's correspondence conc...

  3. Documentation of the Judenrats in the Lwow region, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Judenrats in the Lwow region, 1941-1944 Included in the collection: Correspondence between the vehicle repair workshops in Drohobycz and the Judenrat, regarding economic matters and the use of the Jewish labor force; requests to the Stadtkommissar by the Judenrat of the city of Boryslaw, regarding various subjects; establishment of Jewish businesses; collection of a tax from the Jews, by the Judenrat; destruction of buildings whose condition is dangerous; confiscation of furniture; refusal to rent a pharmacy to the Judenrat; establishment of a post office branch; list o...

  4. P.69 - Archive of the Levy family, from Essen, Germany, 1863-1993

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10568932
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Article Balance sheet Book Brochure Certification Correspondence Curriculum Vitae (CV) Death certificate Diary Diploma Draft Drawing Envelope Financial accounts Identity card Invitation Journal Lecture Legal documentation Letter(s) Libretto Medical documentation Money Newspaper clippings Note Notebook Obituary Papercut Passport Personal records Photocopy Photograph Play Play(s), script(s) Poems/Songs Postcard Protocol Record of deportees Record of persecuted persons Research article Speech Telegram Telephone directory Thesis/Dissertation Travel ticket Will

    P.69 - Archive of the Levy family, from Essen, Germany, 1863-1993 About the Levy family: Dr. Ernst Levy (b.1872) was the eldest son of physician Dr. Hermann Levy (b. 1838) and his wife Emma, née Hirschland (b. 1847). Dr. Ernst Levy and his wife, the former Martha Ruthenburg (b. 1878) lived in Essen, Germany, where Dr. Levy was a general practitioner and researcher. They had four children, Hermann (b. 1906), Rudolf (b. 1908), Hans (b. 1911) and Eva (b. 1914). A year after the rise of nazism, Hermann Levy, a lawyer by training, went to study a new career in Paris, France, since he was banned ...

  5. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Lwow region, 1944-1946

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Lwow region, 1944-1946 Included in the collection: Documentation of the municipal committee of the city of Stanislawow, collected in the context of the work of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of Jews in Stanislawow, 03 August 1941-05 May 1943, according to testimonies of Jewish community representatives; documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, 1944-1946, regarding the Nazi war crimes in Sambor; survey and information transferred by the Communist Party committee in the...

  6. M.52.DAPO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Poltava Region

    M.52.DAPO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Poltava Region History of the Archives: The Central Historical Archives in Poltava was established in 1918. Afterwards, the archival authority of the Poltava sub-division was established in 1922 when the Historical Archives became subordinate to it and its name was changed to the Historical Archives of the Polatava sub-division. In 1925 it became the Historical Archives affiliated with the regional archival authority. In June 1925 its name was changed to the Regional Historical Archives of Poltava. In 1930, following the re-organization...

  7. Documentation of the German Police headquarters in the occupied countries, 1938-1945

    Documentation of the German Police headquarters in the occupied countries, 1938-1945 The documentation on microfilm JM/29064 includes files of the gendarmerie and the police in the occupied areas of Poland dealing with various subjects, as well as a file from the Breslau police from 1933-1935, dealing with anti-Nazi propaganda.

  8. Documentation of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party regarding the partisans and underground activities in the Poltava region, 1962-1969

    Documentation of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party regarding the partisans and underground activities in the Poltava region, 1962-1969 Included in the collection: Documentation regarding the participation of several Jews in the partisans movement and the anti-fascist underground, submitted by the certification committee of the Kremenchug district of the Poltava region; confirmations of the receipt of partisans cards and lists of partisans; list of partisans brigades and detachments and underground organizations active in the district; documentation regarding the murder of Jews w...

  9. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Poltava region, 1943-1945

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Poltava region, 1943-1945 Reports of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Poltava region; survey reports regarding the murder of Jews in the region and the damage caused to the economy; documentation regarding the murder of Jews in Zolotonosha along with Jews of the cities of Kharkov, Korosten and Slavuta, and villages; mention of individual names and sentences that people who perished had engraved on walls before their death; mention of the dates of the murder, the circumstances, and the number of p...

  10. M.52.DAChrvO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Chernovtsy Region

    M.52.DAChrvO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Chernovtsy Region History of the Archives The State Archives of the Chernovtsy Region was established in November 1907, but it was closed in early 1918 along with other government institutions following the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The northern area of Bukovina and the Khotin district in the Bessarabia region were included in the Kingdom of Romania. By order of the Romanian Ministry of Education and the General State Directorate of the Archives of Romania, the State Archives of Bukovina in Chernovtsy was established in ...

  11. Documentation from the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Head Office [RSHA]), 1939-1945

    Documentation from the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Head Office [RSHA]), 1939-1945

  12. Documentation of the Gestapa (Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt-Secret State Police Office), 1932-1939

    Documentation of the Gestapa (Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt-Secret State Police Office) [predecessor of the Gestapo], 1932-1939 The documentation includes files from the Gestapa headquarters and files from the Gestapo headquarters from 1939 (prior to the establishment of the Reich Security Head Office ([RSHA]), when it was called by the double name Geheimes Staatspolizei and Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt, Some of the files contain police materials from the period before the Nazi rise to power and the establishment of the Gestapa; these materials were later handled by the Gestapa.

  13. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Chernovtsy region, 1944-1945

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Chernovtsy region, 1944-1945 Documentation from documents of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the mass murder of residents in Cernauti, most of them Jews, 1944-1945; Reports of the municipal committee for the investigation of Nazi war crimes and Romanian war crimes in the city of Cernauti, regarding the mass murder of residents of Cernauti, most of them Jews, 06-08 July 1941, including by the drowning of some of the Jews in the Prut River; abuse of rabbis, and murder of the rabbis; establishment of ...

  14. Documentation of the Stettin Gestapo, 1933-1943

    Documentation of the Stettin Gestapo from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1933-1943

  15. Documentation of the Bundeskanzleramt (Office of the Prime Minster) in Vienna

    Documentation of the Bundeskanzleramt (Office of the Prime Minster) in Vienna The collection contains files on various subjects, before and after the Anschluss (annexation of Austria to Germany): files regarding Nazi, anti-Nazi and Socialist propaganda in various places (based on reports from the Austrian Embassies), the Vaterländische Front (the Austrian Party in power until the Anschluss), surveys of the German press and what it has to say regarding Austria, and more. One of the files (Microfilm JM/29036, Scans 112-128) surveys the relatives of Adolf Hitler in Austria.

  16. M.52.TsDIALU - Documentation from the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv

    M.52.TsDIALU - Documentation from the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv Documentation in this Sub-Record Group includes many documents from the period before World War II, including personal files of professors from the University of Lwow, letters and documentation of Metropolite Andrzej Szeptycki, official documentation and legal documentation regarding members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), lists of Jewish residents who voted [in the elections] for the Polish Sejm, lists of voters in the elections for the Jewish Community Council in Lwow, lists of ...

  17. M.52.DAZpO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Zaporozhye Region

    M.52.DAZpO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Zaporozhye Region History of the Archives: Concentration of the archival documentation in the Zaporozhye area began in 1925, and in the same year the regional archival authority was also established. With the cancellation of the sub-sections system in Soviet Ukraine in 1930, the State Historical Archives were established in the area, which were subordinate to the regional archival authority in Dnipropetrovsk. With the creation of the Zaporozhye region in 1939, its historical archives changed its name to the Regional State Historical Ar...

  18. M.52.DAZO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Zakarpatye Region

    M.52.DAZO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Zakarpatye Region History of the Archives: A regional archives was active in the Země Zakarpatskoukrajinská sub-division during 1919-1939. The Central State Historical Archives of Zakarpatska Ukraina was established in November 1945. The Archives' name was later changed to the Regional State Archives of Zakarpatye in 1946. During 1945-1954 the Archives was located in the city of Uzhgorod. A branch of the Archives was active in the city of Beregove as of 1953, in which documentation from the 16th century and until 1945 was to be found....

  19. Documentation of the Weltorganisation gegen Rassenhass und Menchennot (World Organization Against Racial Hate and Human Distress) in Vienna, 1936-1938

    Documentation of the Weltorganisation gegen Rassenhass und Menchennot (World Organization Against Racial Hate and Human Distress) in Vienna, 1936-1938 The organization, which was intended first and foremostly to fight against antisemitic and Nazi propaganda in Austria, was established and led by Irene Harand, and in some of the letters it is simply called "Harand-Bewegung" (the Harand Movement). The organization published the periodical "Gerechtigkeit" (Justice). In the collection there is correspondence between the organization and its members regarding the periodical, as well as newspaper...

  20. Documentation of the Zentrale Vereinigung osterreichischer Emigranten (Central Association of Austrian Emigrants) in Paris, 1938-1940

    Documentation of the Zentrale Vereinigung osterreichischer Emigranten (Central Association of Austrian Emigrants) in Paris, 1938-1940 The Association was founded in Paris, France, in May 1938, with the goal of uniting the Austrian emigrant organizations under one roof. The documentation contains correspondence and organization fliers, reports regarding activities of Austrian emigrant organizations in various places, as well as diaries and memoirs of the emigrants and lists of Austrian citizens in camps.