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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Documentation from the Landratsamt Marburg

    Documentation from the Landratsamt Marburg

  2. תיקי בדיקת רכוש (Vermoegenskontrollakten) של Finanzamt Wuerzburg, בואריה

    Finanzamt (tax authority) Wuerzburg: property control files In 1946, the Bavarian State Office for Asset Management and Restitution was set up in Munich. It served for the supervision and execution of the property control ordered by the occupying power, for the administration of the assets confiscated under the law for the liberation from national socialism and militarism or under fiduciary administration and for the accomplishment of the reparations. The office was initially reporting to the prime minister, since 1948 to the Ministry of Finance. Since 1948, an independent State Office for ...

  3. Westermann Collection: Documentation of the Jewish organizations from the period before the German occupation

    Westermann Collection: Documentation of the Yiddish organizations from the period before the German occupation Annual reports regarding activities of the Linat Zedek Hospital and the Gemilut Chasadim Association, 1924-1926; documentation of the HaGymnasia HaIvrit (Hebrew High School) in Riga, Latvia and documentation regarding its closing during the Soviet occupation in 1940.

  4. Official documentation, memoirs and letters from the Holocaust Period collected by the Museum "Jews in Latvia"

    Official documentation, memoirs and letters from the Holocaust Period collected by the Museum "Jews in Latvia" The Collection includes letters from Red Army soldiers sent from the front during 1941-1945, and memoirs of former Soviet prisoners regarding Salaspils, Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps; testimonies and memoirs regarding the Riga Ghetto life and Salaspils camp life; excerpts from Latvian newspapers, from the 1990s, regarding the murder of the Jews of Latvia and the perpetuation of the memory of the murdered Jews of Latvia; diagram of the large Riga Ghetto and the small Riga Ghetto, an...

  5. Files from the Landratsaemter (District financial offices) in the Unterfranken region, Bavaria

    Files from the Landratsaemter (District financial offices) in the Unterfranken region, Bavaria Alzennau JM/22199 Aschaffenburg Abgabe 1972, 1976, 1986 - JM/22200 Bad Brückenau Abgabe 1949/1953 – JM/ 22201 (Frames 1-1907) Bad Brückenau Abgabe 1972 ff - JM/ 22201 (Frames 1908ff) – JM/ 22204 Bad Kissingen – JM/ 22205 - JM/ 22207 Bad Neustadt a.d. Saale Abgabe 1976-1984 – JM/ 22208 - JM/ 22209 Ebern – JM/ 22210 Gemünden Abgabe 1952 – JM/ 22211 (Frames 1-1557) Gemünden Abgabe 1975 bis 1988 – JM/ 22211 (Frames 1558ff) Gerolzhofen Abgabe 1950-1973 – JM/ 22212 Hammelburg Abgabe 1978/79 – JM/ 22213 ...

  6. Documentation regarding Jews, from the Polizeidirektion (Police Headquarters) in Wuerzburg, Bavaria

    Documentation regarding Jews, from the Polizeidirektion (Police Headquarters) in Wuerzburg, Bavaria

  7. Files from the Dokument Center in the Archive of Wuerzburg, Bavaria

    Files from the Dokument Center in the Archive of Wuerzburg, Bavaria

  8. תיקים של אוסף Schumacher מה-Berlin Dokument Center בארכיון Wuerzburg, בואריה

    The Schumacher Collection is a collection of documents from the period 1933 -1945 compiled by Mr Schumacher. Mr. Schumacher, former procurator of a paper shop, was employed after 1945 at the Berlin Document Center (BDC). The files were sent to the Bavarian state archives via the BDC. The part accessible at the Wuerzburg State Archives consists of documents from district offices, municipalities and gendarmerie offices in the district of Lower Franconia. The surviving substance is very different in quality and quantity. There are extensive records, e.g. from the districts of Bad Kissingen and...

  9. תיקי NSDAP Gau Mainfranken ב-Wuerzburg, בואריה

    The documents of former offices of the party, their subdivisions, affiliated associations and supervised organizations, compiled in the archival stock "NSDAP Gau Mainfranken", was confiscated almost without exception after the war by the American military government. Since 1960, it it was added in batches and often fragmentary to the Würzburg State Archives. The stock is divided according to the individual places of origin. The subdivisions are attached directly under the superior authorities in the Gau or district . In this inventory there are files that relate to Jews and Jewish affairs, ...

  10. תיקי SD-Hauptaußenstelle Würzburg, בואריה

    SD Hauptaussenstelle (main branch office) Wuerzburg (until summer 1939 SD subsection Mainfranken, then until autumn 1942 at the latest, SD section Wuerzburg) The typewritten inventory "SD main branch office Wuerzburg" (5051 sheets) from the years 1939 - 1944 was first acquired in February 1966 in poor condition (leaves severely damaged by fire) by the City Archives Wuerzburg. How it got there is unclear, possibly the police had handed it over. The sheets were restored by lamination and reopened except for a small percentage. The inventory consists mainly of field reports from the branch off...

  11. Mordechai Tamir (Lipski) Collection - Documentation of the Organization of Former Residents of Lowicz

    Mordechai Tamir (Lipski) Collection - Documentation of the Organization of Former Residents of Lowicz

  12. Franciszka Oliwa Collection

    Franciszka Oliwa Collection Estate of Franciszka Oliwa, the principal of the Jewish children's home in Otwock during the first years after the liberation; Included in the collection: 1. Summary report written by Mrs. Oliwa; 2. Summaries regarding the children - 15 in total; 3. Memoirs of children; 4. Various documents (school certificates/diplomas, lists of children, poems/songs, and other documents); 5. Photographs (transferred to the Photos Archive); Following the liberation in January 1945, Mrs. Oliwa arrived to Otwock to search for relatives, but she did not locate anyone. On the other ...

  13. Documentation from the Finanzaemter 11 in the Duesseldorf region

    Documentation from the Finanzaemter 11 in the Duesseldorf region

  14. Collection of Historical Photographs.

    This is the largest collection in the world of historical photographs related to the Holocaust. It documents Jewish life before and during the Holocaust, the life of survivors in the post-war period, but also various activities and ceremonies commemorating the Holocaust all over the world. Searching for keywords such as ‘Belgium’, ‘Brussels’, ‘Antwerp’ etc. yields a result of over 1000 relevant images, from various collections. We find portraits and group photos (scenes of everyday life, Shoah victims, resistance members, partisans, rescuers); pictures of youth movements (i.a. Bar Kochba, H...

  15. Archives in Belgium.

    For the sake of completeness we mention this collection, which consists of copies of archival material from various official and institutional archives in Belgium (such as state, provincial or city archives). At the time of writing it mostly contains material from the city archives and provincial archives of Antwerp.

  16. Maxime Steinberg Collection.

    This collection contains photocopies of original archival documents collected by Maxime Steinberg and used to write his magnum opus L’étoile et le fusil. The documents concern topics such as Jewish resistance, rescue of Jews etc. during the German occupation.

  17. A. Werber Collection (Poale Zion Left Party in Belgium).

    In this fonds we find the following material: documents related to Linke Poale Zion in Belgium and Jewish associations during the war [JM/1038]; the newspaper Unzer Vort (1941-1944) and other newspapers published during the war [JM/1039]; personal documents, biographies and photographs of members of Linke Poale Zion [JM/1040]; documents on the situation of Jews in Belgium during the war, lists of communists and members of Poale Zion, documents on the resistance in Belgium, correspondence on the relations between Christians and Jews [JM/1041]; documents concerning Jewish life in Belgium afte...

  18. Dr. Arieh L. Kubovy Collection.

    This fonds firstly contains several files with correspondence concerning i.a. economic relations between Israel and Czechoslovakia, immigration from Poland, the Israeli embassies in Warsaw and Prague, the International Genocide convention, the trials of Mordechai Oren and Simon Orenstein, the indemnisation of Czechoslovakian Jews who immigrated to Israel, … and roughly covering the years 1949-1952. We also find correspondence of Kubowitzki with family and friends, and correspondence and notes mostly dating back to the war years (1941-1947). The fonds also contain notes on post-war Polish Je...

  19. Righteous Among the Nations Collection.

    The files concern rescuers recognized as Righteous Among the Nations and honoured by Yad Vashem. It is only an indication of the actual number of rescuers, since it is based on the cases brought to the attention of Yad Vashem. Most Righteous were recognised thanks to the requests made by rescued Jews. By January 1st 2014, there were 1665 files of Belgian rescuers. There is a file for every rescue case, containing the documents gathered through the process of recognition. One will find correspondence, notes, sometimes photographs, and material related to the recognition ceremonies.

  20. Documentation of the Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone, Munich

    The Central Historical Commission in Munich began collecting historical documentation in Germany in December 1945. Much work was invested in involving Jewish survivors of concentration camps in Germany in the collection activity, and the response was great. It could be that the survivors' response was an expression of their spontaneous desire to perpetuate the memories of those who perished and document the terrors of the Holocaust. The 50 CHC branches established in the American Occupied Zone in Germany filled an important role. Indeed, much documentation arrived at the CHC in Munich via t...