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

  1. Documentation of the office of the Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone , 1945-1948

    This Collection contains the correspondence of the Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews (CHC) with its various branches in the DP camps, Jewish leaders and institutions in different countries, and the German municipal authorities. The correspondence deals mainly with gathering documentation regarding the Holocaust, cultural activity in the DP camps and the editorial work of the CHC.

  2. Documentation of the Dachau concentration camp

    In the collection there is administrational documentation including a few files kept by the camp administration. In many of the files there are forms for payment and insurance of the inmates.In other files there is personal documentation such as passports and photographs of inmates as well as the central card index file of the camp inmates (along with a separate card index file of the Jews from Hungary who arrived at the camp). In the collection there is also personal documentation of citizens from various countries which has been entered in the files beginning with File No. 501 (these file...

  3. Munich Municipality: Documentation regarding the treatment of the Jews, 1933-1942

    Documents dealing with the persecution of Jews during the Nazi period, mainly in Munich, but also in Frankfurt am Main, Ansbach and some of the other cities in Germany. The collection also contains the personal files of Jews from the Munich Welfare Department.

  4. The German Academy of Science: Lexicon regarding outstanding economists (not including Jews), 1930-1941

    This Collection contains pre-World War II files of the German Academy of Science in Munich, including documentation for a lexicon of outstanding German economists and industrialists (Deutsche Wirtschfsfuehrer), since 1801 excluding Jews. The files contain correspondence about the project and the files of the project itself as well as an information page with a few lines regarding each person, arranged alphabetically.

  5. The Testimony Collection gathered by the Central Historic Committee of the Liberated Jews in Munich, 1946-1948

    During the three years of its existence, the Central Historic Committee (CHC) gathered approximately 2,550 testimonies from Holocaust survivors from different countries within occupied Europe. The testimonies deal with the fate of the survivors in various countries during the Nazi occupation.

  6. Questionnaires completed by Landraete (Districts) in Germany regarding the Jewish communities throughout Germany, 1946-1947

    The Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich distributed questionnaires among the regional and municipal authorities, mainly in the American Occupied Zone in Germany. The purpose of these questionnaires was to gather information regarding the number of Jews living in various places in 1933 and during the Nazi period, as well as the number of Jews who perished. The questionnaires also contain questions regarding Nazi concentration camps in those areas.

  7. The She’erit Hapletah Collection - Displaced Persons life in the camps, 1945-1948

    In this Collection there is documentation regarding the lives of the displaced persons (DPs) in the camps. It contains thousands of placards from the camps, mainly concerning cultural and artistic matters, religious life, sport, elections and political parties. Additionally, there are announcements , principally issued by administrative departments in the Eschwefe DP camp and the Feldafing DP camp. There are letters or surveys on subjects related to daily life in the DP camps in a few individual files.

  8. Questionnaires filled out by children in the Foehrenwald DP camp, 1945-1946

    The questionnaires include questions concerning the names of family members, their places of origin and the general background of the children. On the reverse side of each questionnaire there is a short report regarding the history of the child from the day s/he was deported to the ghetto, the camps to which s/he was deported, when s/he was separated from his/her family members and places where s/he was from after the liberation until his/her arrival at the DP camp.

  9. Documentation on Jewish folklore during the Second World War

    There are 353 poems/songs in the collection, mostly in Yiddish. Most of the poems/songs were written by inmates of the camps and ghettos during the war, and some after the end of the war. The poems/songs express the suffering and torture, the life under subhuman conditions and the murder of the Jews; they also tell of the burning of synagogues and desecration of holy books and religious articles. Despite the despair permeating the poems/songs, there is also a spark of hope, a ray of light at the end of the tunnel and the yearning for victory and revenge against the Germans as well as the ex...

  10. Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (CDJC - Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) in Paris

    The Archives contain documentation of the Gestapo, the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ-Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs), the Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France), the German and Italian Embassies, the Nuremberg Trials and more.

  11. Documentation of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva, 1933-1940

    The collection contains correspondence of Joseph Thon and Theodor Grubner, representatives of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva. There are also personal letters from relatives of Jews in Poland to the Polish Jews in Geneva, reports regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland and lists of Jews from Poland.

  12. Central Location Index of the Relatives Search Department

    In the collection there are documents, lists and index cards. There are two main sections to the collection: Index Cards and Boxes of Documents.1. Index Cards: There are approximately 1,200,000 index cards, not in alphabetical order. Most of the cards are in good physical condition; 2. Boxes of documents: There are approximately 210 boxes of documents clearly divided into two kinds of material:A. The lists are located in 83 boxes including the names of those survivors for whom the organization has searched. The names appear on the index cards as well (in Part 1), because with every applicat...

  13. Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals'Section), Legal Department at the Central Committee of Liberated Jews, Munich

    • Personal files regarding Nazi war criminals and Ukrainian, Latvian and Lithuanian collaborators (Subsection M.21.1); - Personal files regarding Jews suspected of collaboration (Subsection M.21.2);- Files containing much documentation regarding criminals according to the places where they were active in camps and ghettos (Subsection M.21.3); - Correspondence regarding war criminals;- Photographs of war criminals; - Newspaper clippings.

  14. War Criminals Department, Legal Division (Kriegsverbrecherreferat) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews) - Munich

    n the collection there are personal files regarding Nazi war criminals and Ukrainian, Latvian and Lithuanian collaborators, mainly in the areas of Poland. There are testimonies of survivors in all the documentation.

  15. Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich

    In this collection there are files containing much documentation regarding criminals according to the places where they were active, in camps or in ghettos.

  16. The Benno Kaufmann Collection - Documentation of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany, Basel, 1939-1947

    Correspondence of Benno Kaufmann from Basel, Switzerland, regarding aid to Jewish refugees from Germany, 1939-1947. The collection contains personal letters belonging to the persecuted detainees in the camps in France, such as the Gurs camp.

  17. Documentation of the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Krakow, Poland regarding the organization activities in Poland, 1939-1942

    The documentation includes the welfare and assistance activities of the AJDC to the Jews of Poland; it consists of four main parts: 1. AJDC correspondence with the German administration authorities in occupied Poland; 2. AJDC correspondence with Jewish institutions and organizations in Poland; 3. AJDC correspondence with Jewish institutions and organizations outside of Poland; 4. Survey reports, charts and statistical data. 1. Correspondence with the German administration authorities in occupied Poland, August 1940-January 1942, including requests for the issuing of various permits, such as...

  18. Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Federal German Military Archives in Freiburg, 1936-1945

    There is diverse documentation from the Wehrmacht (German Army) regarding the Jews, Jewish communities and the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust in the collection, including reports, memos, telegrams and personal documents, encompassing a wide variety of organizations and units that worked within the Wehrmacht framework. The files cover different areas of activity and organizations: partisan activity, administration of the occupied areas, activities of combat units, cooperation between the German Army and the Einsatzgruppen (Task Forces), activities of the German Military Police and the...

  19. Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943

    In the documentation: The ZSS documentation includes correspondence between the administration of the organization in Krakow and the branches throughout the Generalgouvernement, and correspondence with the German governmental authorities, the Judenrats, and various Jewish relief organizations, such as CENTOS, ORT, TOZ and welfare organizations outside of Poland, mainly the JDC. In the correspondence there are requests for social welfare in various areas, itemization of aid and welfare activities including assistance to those in need and Jewish refugees, the establishment and maintenance of ...

  20. The Kurt Grossmann Archives: Documentation regarding Kurt Grossman's activities as an advisor to the Jewish Agency and documentation regarding reparations

    In the collection there is documentation primarily regarding the background to Grossmann's activities as a press officer after World War II, along with documentation regarding the negotiations conducted between Israel and Germany concerning the reparations. The documentation includes mainly German publications regarding German legislation concerning reparations and reports of Grossmann's trips to Germany. More than half the documentation consists of press clippings.