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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. TR.12 - Gideon Hausner Collection: The prosecutor in the Eichmann Trial, 1960-1965

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 8421635
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1960-1965
    • Correspondence Legal documentation Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Protocol Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors Survey report

    TR.12 - Gideon Hausner Collection: The prosecutor in the Eichmann Trial, 1960-1965 In the Record Group there is a collection submitted to Yad Vashem by Gideon Hausner, the prosecutor in the Eichmann Trial. The Record Group includes protocols from the Eichmann Trial, files of documentation gathered by the prosecution in preparation for and during the trial, correspondence between the prosecution and various bodies, as well as newspaper clippings regarding the trial. The Record Group also includes a detailed psychological opinion regarding Eichmann.

  2. M.81: Documentation from archives in Kyrgyzstan

    M.81: Documentation from archives in Kyrgyzstan In the Records Group there is documentation regarding evacuees and refugees in Kyrgyzstan during World War II. Additionally, the Records Group contains Chapters 3-6 from the documentary and propaganda series, "The Kyrgyzstan Advisor", which was produced during World War II and told how the people on the Soviet home front were managing with the difficulties of the war. In the Records Group there is also a documentary film regarding the 3,500 children from Leningrad who were evacuated to Kyrgyzstan during the war. There is also "En Route from Ch...

  3. TR.26 - Trial documentation - Estonia

    TR.26 - Trial documentation - Estonia Trial documentation from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives (USHMM), from the sub-record groups of the Estonian State Archives of the former Estonian KGB

  4. Documentation of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbuerger juedischen Glaubens ((Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith) (CV) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow

    Documentation of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbuerger juedischen Glaubens ((Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith) (CV) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow

  5. Documentation from the Hauptstaatsarchiv NSDAP (Main Archive of the Nazi Party)

    Documentation from the Hauptstaatsarchiv NSDAP (Main Archive of the Nazi Party)

  6. O.99 - Julia Vajda Collection: Testimonies of Hungarian survivors, 2004-2004

    O.99 - Julia Vajda Collection: Testimonies of Hungarian survivors, 2004-2007 The collection contains interviews with survivors conducted by Dr. Júlia Vajda as part of the “Totalitarianism and Holocaust Project” of the University of Debrecen, Hungary, 2004-2007, and documentation regarding these interviews. There are 332 audio testimonies in the collection: 308 interviews with Jewish survivors and 24 with non-Jewish witnesses. Documentation regarding the interviews: - Completed questionnaires containing personal information regarding the survivor and information concerning the fate of the su...

  7. P.58 - Jonas Eckstein Collection

    Documentation regarding the activities of Jonas Eckstein who hid scores of people in the cellar of his house in Bratislava during the war and worked to rescue Jewish children from Poland

  8. M.82 - Documentation from the State Archives of Saint Petersburg

    M.82 - Documentation from the State Archives of Saint Petersburg In the Record Group there is documentation selected from the TSGA SPb (Central State Archive of St. Petersburg) from the years 1918-1955, and from the Central State Archive of Historical and Political Documentation (the former archive of the Communist Party), 1941-1973. The Records Group in Yad Vashem contains 3,136 files. In the Records Group there is documentation from the following collections: The Collection of the Department for Nationalist Minority Matters of the Regional Executive Committee of St. Petersburg, 1918-1923:...

  9. Documentation of the Gestapo, from the documentation of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt - RSHA (Reich Main Security Office), 1939-1945

    Documentation of the Gestapo, from the documentation of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt - RSHA (Reich Main Security Office), 1939-1945

  10. 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 ...

  11. 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...

  12. Documentation of the SD, from the documentation of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt - RSHA (Reich Main Security Office), 1939-1945

    Documentation of the SD, from the documentation of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt - RSHA (Reich Main Security Office), 1939-1945

  13. M.83 - Documentation from archives in Kazakhstan, 1926-1972

    M.83 - Documentation from archives in Kazakhstan, 1926-1972 In the Records Group there are collections selected from archives in Kazakhstan. Included in the Record Group: Documentation of the Municipal Council of Workers' Representatives and its Executive Committee in Karaganda, 1926-1972: Orders issued by the People's Commission of the Coal industry (NKUP), 1939-1943; statements by the staff and the organization regarding workers in the Industry for the Production of Flammable Materials; documentation of the academic education institutions (for example, documentation of the medical school ...

  14. תקים של עורכי דין יהודיים שפעלו בפני בית המשפט העל-מחוזי (Oberlandesgericht) ובית המשפט המחוזי (Landgericht) ב-Frankfurt a.Main

    The inventory contains all surviving manuals, general ledgers and process registers of the Jewish lawyers and consultants (Konsulenten) working in Frankfurt a.M., who were admitted to the regional court or the regional appeal court of Frankfurt a.M., namely Dr. Joseph Cahn (1935-39, 1m, Abt. 474/1), Dr. Robert Cahn (1933-41, 3,5 m, Abt. 474/2), Dr. Siegfried aka Fritz Gutenstein and Dr. Ing. Siegfried Popper (1926-43, 18 m, Abt 474/3), Dr. Julius Gruenebaum (1931-41, 5.5 m, Abt. 474/4), Siegfried Katzenstein (Abt. 474/5) and to a lesser extent of Max Kowalski, Julius Meyer, Richard Eilbott,...

  15. File Collection: Correspondence of Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwalb regarding reparations

    File Collection: Correspondence of Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwalb regarding reparations

  16. P.63 - David Kranzler Collection

    P.63 - David Kranzler Collection Dr. David Kranzler dedicated himself for many years to the research of the rescue of Jews in occupied Europe, and published many books regarding organizations and people active on behalf of this aim. Dr. Kranzler collected, for the purpose of his research, a vast amount of detailed documentation regarding various rescue activities: - Rescue activities by George Mantello, the First Secretary at the El Salvador Consulate in Geneva, who issued 10,000 El Salvador citizenship certificates and sent them to Jews living in the occupied areas; - Rescue activities by ...

  17. O.100-Documentation regarding the Jews of Greece, mostly from the Holocaust period

    O.100-Documentation regarding the Jews of Greece, mostly from the Holocaust period The Record Group contains documentation regarding the Jews of Greece, for example: - The agreement between Bulgaria and Germany regarding the deportation of the Jews of northern Greece to extermination camps; - Personal documentation of Jews from various places in Greece.

  18. O.41.1 - Names of victims on memorial tablets and ritual objects in synagogues and study halls in Israel

    O.41.1 - Names of victims on memorial tablets and ritual objects in synagogues and study halls in Israel

  19. P.21.1 - Ilya Ehrenburg Collection - Original documentation of the Soviet writer on the subject of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union

    Ilya Ehrenburg Collection - Original documentation of the Soviet writer on the subject of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union Original documentation of the famous Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg: Articles, testimonies, photographs and letters on the subject of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, some of which were put in "The Black Book"; letters from Jews regarding expressions of antisemitism in the Soviet countries during the postwar period.

  20. P.21.2 - Speeches and letters of Ilya Ehrenburg, 1941-1964

    P.21.2 - Speeches and letters of Ilya Ehrenburg, 1941-1964 Subsection P. 21.2 includes original documentation belonging to the well-known Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg: speeches by Ilya Ehrenburg starting with his appeal to world Jewry at the anti-fascist rally, 24 August 1941, and ending with his speech marking the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Soviet Jewish writer, Isaak Babel in 1964; in the subsection there are many letters from Soviet Jews regarding displays of antisemitism in their everyday lives and condemnation of the "Murderous Physicians" (The Doctors' Plot, 1953), memoirs o...