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

  1. M.16 - Collection of the Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie (Jewish Coordination Committee-JCC) of Dutch Jewry in Geneva, 1943-1960

    M.16 - Collection of the Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie (JCC-Jewish Coordination Committee) of Dutch Jewry in Geneva, 1943-1945 The Coordination Committee for the Jews of the Netherlands in Switzerland was established in 1943 at the initiative of several of the Dutch refugees in Switzerland, including Mr. M. Gans. The owner of a jewelry and antiquities business in Amsterdam, Gans had escaped from the Netherlands to Switzerland with his wife in the summer of 1942. The Committee mainly dealt with offering assistance (by sending parcels of food and medicine) to deportees from the Netherlands i...

  2. P.9 - Archive of Siegfried Jaegendorf, President of the Jewish Coordinating Committee for the Deported Jews in Transnistria, 1941-1967

    P.9 - Archive of Siegfried Jaegendorf, President of the Jewish Coordinating Committee for the Deported Jews in Transnistria, 1941-1967 Siegfried Jaegendorf was born in Czernowitz, 01 August 1895. He attended local elementary and high schools, and afterwards travelled to Vienna and Berlin where he studied engineering at a technical college, completing his studies as a mechanical engineer. His first position as an engineer was at the Siemens Schucker Werke in Berlin. In time, he was promoted and sent to serve as managing director for the Eastern Europe area at the Siemens factory in Vienna. A...

  3. M.52.DASO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Sumy Region

    M.52.DASO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Sumy Region History of the Archives: The regional archival administration in Sumy was established in 1925. Its function was to collect documentation from the local archives, to absorb documentation of the archives that were dismantled, to create original collections and to establish the newspaper archives. In 1930 the archival administration underwent reorganization and it became the local administration of Sumy. In 1932 it became the Historical State Archives of Sumy. Upon the establishment of the Sumy region in 1939, the State Histo...

  4. Documentation of the Senatskanzlei - Personalabteilung II (Senate Chamber - Personnel Department II) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Senatskanzlei - Personalabteilung II (Senate Chamber - Personnel Department II) in Hamburg

  7. Various materials from the Saarbruecken State Archives (without a central organization that produced them)

    Various materials from the Saarbruecken State Archives (without a central organization that produced them)

  8. Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Volksschulen (State and private elementary schools) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Volksschulen (State and private elementary schools) in Hamburg Included are files from the following schools: - Fritz-Schumacher-Schule - Schule Wohldorf-Ohlstedt - Schule Moorkamp 3 - Mädchenschule Angerstraße - Volksschule Barmbeker Straße 30/32 - Schule Altenwerder - Schule Turmweg - Schule Von-Essen-Straße - Sammelschule I (Maretstraße) - Volksschule Bunatwiete (Maretstraße) - Heinrich-Wolgast-Schule.

  9. Collection of Th. Limperg, a senior lecturer at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, who opposed the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during 1941-1943

    Collection of Th. Limpberg, a senior lecturer at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, who opposed the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during 1941-1943 Included in the collection: Circular by Limpberg, regarding the VO 23/1940 law concerning the Germans' control over the universities in the Netherlands; Protocols of meetings at the Universiteit van Amsterdam during 1941; Documents regarding the situation of the Jews at institutions of higher learning in the Netherlands during 1941-1943; Documents regarding the situation of the Portuguese Jews in the Netherlands in 1942; Circulars regarding the...

  10. Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Barsinghausen (Municipal Archives)

    Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Barsinghausen (Municipal Archives)

  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 municipal administration in Kostopol, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the municipal administration in Kostopol, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Applications of Kostopol municipality workers requesting to receive residence permits in apartments and homes that were owned by Jews; - Documentation regarding the Jews in Kostopol, including the number of Jews in the ghetto, places of work, and the burial of murdered Jews.

  13. Documentation of the Kerch municipal administration, between November-December 1941

    Documentation of the Kerch municipal administration, from the first occupation period Directives and orders issued by the municipal administration, lists of municipal workers, lists of German Army soldiers, lists of local residents, and circulars on various subjects: Karaites and more, work documents. German Army forces occupied Kerch for the first time on 16 November 1941. The new municipal administration began to work within the city from the earliest days of the occupation. Sonderkommando 10b soldiers arrived in the city a short time afterwards and started the registration of the Jews. A...

  14. M.62 - Documentation from the Regional Archives of the Russian Federation, 1934-1946

    M.62 - Documentation from Regional Archives of the Russian Federation, 1934-1946 In the collection there are files selected from the Regional Archives of the Russian Federation: the State Archives in the Tver, Kaluga, Pskov, Orel, Smolensk, Novgorod and Bryansk regions, the State Archives of the Republics of Kalmykia and Mordovia and the State Archive for Records of Contemporary History in the Kaluga, Smolensk and Tver Regions. Description of the collection The collection includes documentation from the local committees of the Communist Party in various regions of Russia, 1917-1929, documen...

  15. M.46 - Documentation from the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF), 1939-1960

    M.46- Documentation from the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF), 1939-1960 In the RG there is documentation from the following organizations: - The Council for Religious Affairs of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, 1943-1953, and the Council for Religious Affairs of the Government of the Soviet Union, 1943-1954 The documentation includes protocols, official correspondence and reports concerning religious life and the Soviet Jewish communities during the war and afterwards, the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust, statistical data regarding the Jewish population and...

  16. Documentation of the administration of the Drohobycz district, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the administration of the Drohobycz district, 1941-1943 Included in the collection: - Instructions and directives by the German authorities regarding the Jews in the Drohobycz district; - Requests for the issuing of exit permits from the Drohobycz Ghetto; - Announcements by the Police and SS commander in Drohobycz, regarding the execution of civilians accused of hiding Jews and for having contact with partisans.

  17. O.64.2/WSZ.1 - Lists of deportees from Bohemia and Moravia to the Theresienstadt Ghetto

    O.64.2/WSZ.1 - Lists of deportees from Bohemia and Moravia to the Theresienstadt Ghetto

  18. Material from the Bundesarchiv-Militaerarchiv Freiburg

    Material from the Bundesarchiv-Militaerarchiv Freiburg

  19. Collection regarding the trials of Zoepf, Harster and Slottke in Munich during 1966-1968

    Collection regarding the trials of Zoepf, Harster and Slottke in Munich during 1966-1968 SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Zoepf was head of the Referat IV B4 in The Hague in 1942. He administered the system of transports from Westerbork camp to the East, including the decisions regarding exemptions and deportations; Wilhelm Harster was commander of de Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (the German Security and Police forces); Fraulein Slottke gave orders to the Police in The Hague, in order to locate Jews and their property; Included in the collection: Documents regarding the death of...

  20. Documentation of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Latvia, 1920-1941

    Documentation of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Latvia, 1920-1941 Included in the collection: - Personal files of Jewish teachers, prepared by the teachers certification committee of the Jewish education branch of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Latvia; - Correspondence with the office for Jewish education, and survey reports; - Budgetary documents of Jewish schools, and reports regarding the schools' budget and the budget for other Jewish education institutions; - Reports regarding the receipt of salaries by workers in the Jewish educational system in Latvia.