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  1. 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.

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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)

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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....

  9. 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...

  10. 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 ...

  11. 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...

  12. 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 ...

  13. Fonds de l'Amicale nationale des déportés et familles de disparus de Mauthausen et de ses Kommandos.

    • Archives Nationales de France
    • 88AJ/1-88AJ/429
    • French
    • 1939-1945
    • 2,6 ml, 2 fichiers, 8 planches de contact, 776 photographies, 20 cartes postales

    Le fonds de l'Amicale nationale des déportés et familles de disparus de Mauthausen et de ses , aussi dénommée Amicale de Mauthausen, constitue un ensemble documentaire incontournable pour appréhender l'histoire du camp de concentration de Mauthausen et de son réseau concentrationnaire. Créé au lendemain de l' , le camp de concentration de Mauthausen a le sinistre privilège d'avoir été l'un des camps les plus durs et les plus meurtriers du système concentrationnaire nazi. Implanté au nord du bourg de Mauthausen situé sur la rive gauche du Danube à environ vingt-cinq kilomètres en aval de la ...

  14. P.62 - Peter Erben Collection: Documentation regarding the Jews of Czechoslovakia, and specifically the Jews of Ostrava, during the Holocaust period

    P.62 - Peter Erben Collection: Documentation regarding the Jews of Czechoslovakia, and specifically the Jews of Ostrava, during the Holocaust period Peter Erben, a native of Ostrava, was an inmate in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and other camps during the Holocaust period. After the war, he was greatly involved in the collection of materials related to the fate of the Jews of Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust in general and the fate of the Jews of Ostrava in particular. Erben submitted part of the collection of memoirs, letters, photographs and documents he gathered to Yad Vashem.

  15. Bern Trial, Bern, Switzerland, 1934-1935

    The Bern Trial that was held in Bern, Switzerland between 1934 and 1935. The plaintiffs sued and won the Bund Nationalsozialistischer Eidgenossen (BNSE) which distributed anti-Semitic pamphlets during a meeting of June 13, 1933 organized by the National Front and the Heimatwehr in the Casino of Bern, notably "Die zionistischen Protokolle". This section includes documents on the public and legal campaigns before and during the trial.

  16. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

    The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – or Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion - is an anti-Semitic forgery, detailing in 24 chapters the "Jewish plan" to take over the world. The fake document is a compilation from various sources, issued in Russia by Sergei Nilus in 1905, and since then, published in various languages around the globe. The collection includes documents on the origins and the development of the myth.

  17. Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto collection 1926-2018

    The collection contains the documents collected by Judge Ben-Itto during years of research for her book The Lie That Wouldn't Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The book tells the story of those who forged the Protocols, distributed it around the world and used it as an antisemitic weapon. It also pays tribute to those who exposed and disproved it; with special emphasis given to the two major trials, both initiated in 1934 by Jewish communities in Switzerland and in South Africa against local Nazi distributors of the document.

  18. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The documents were collected by Dr. Wiener and his assistants from the early 1930s, during the war and its aftermath, until the late 1970s. As they constitute the library’s core, these documents were the first to be digitized and accessible online. They include the correspondence and decrees of various Nazi agencies, documents from concentration camps, and documentation of the activities, the life and the fate of Jewish associations, communities, and individuals before, during and after the Holocaust.

  19. Biographical press cuttings collection (1945-1970s)

    The biographical files (close to 3,000) are arranged in alphabetical order and include information about different persons, mainly non-Jews, in the post-war world: political leaders, politicians, philosophers, writers, scientists, high ranking officers (including Nazis) and more, in Israel, the USA and different European countries. The documentation was gathered between 1945 and 1970s. It includes material from periodicals and press cuttings. Some files include biographical information from other sources.

  20. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    These files are the results of research enquiries the JCIO (Jewish Center Information Office) in Amsterdam, and later the Wiener Library in London, received and compiled during the war. The material was culled from books, periodicals and press cuttings, to form reliable documentation on specialized subjects. The files have been arranged under broad subject headings.