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Language of Description: English
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  1. O.13 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Bulgaria, mainly from the Holocaust period

    O.13 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Bulgaria, mainly from the Holocaust period In the Record Group there is documentation regarding what happened to Bulgarian Jewry during the 20th century, primarily regarding various subjects from the Holocaust period. The documentation was submitted mainly by private individuals, and it includes: - Documentation regarding anti-Jewish legislation in Bulgaria and Commissariat for Jewish Questions (KEV) activities; - Documentation of Jewish Community institutions and various government offices; - Lists of Jews according to their places of residence an...

  2. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

    O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period The collection is primarily comprised of original documents: typewritten documents, manuscripts, surveys and duplicated reports entrusted to the Yad Vashem Archives over the years, mostly by private bodies. The internal division of the Record group was changed a few years ago, and the original division has been entered in the "Previous File" field. The diverse material contains official documents, personal documentation, statistical material, reports and surveys, articles and journalistic pieces from Jewi...

  3. O.32 - Documentation regarding the Jews of the Soviet Union from the Holocaust period

    O.32 - Documentation regarding the Jews of the Soviet Union from the Holocaust period The collection includes documentation regarding the German occupation in many areas of the Soviet Union. The collection includes reports prepared by the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) regarding the murder of Jews in the Soviet Union, deportation of Jews to camps, documentation regarding the members of the Jewish underground and Jewish partisans who were active in Belorussia, 1941-1943, personal documentation belonging to Red Army soldiers, par...

  4. O.70 - Josef Rosensaft Bergen-Belsen POW Camp Archive

    O.70 - Josef Rosensaft Bergen-Berlsen DP Camp Archives Bergen-Belsen was liberated by the British Army, 15 April 1945. There were approximately 58,000 survivors at the time of the liberation, of whom approximately 28,000 died from disease and starvation during the first weeks after the liberation. A Displaced Persons (DP) camp was established in Bergen-Belsen and the survivors immediately began to organize themselves. They set up the Central Jewish Committee (CJC) for the camp, headed by Josef Rosensaft. The CJC and its various departments took responsibility for the physical and spiritual ...

  5. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969

    P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969 The estate of Benjamin Sagalowitz was submitted to Yad Vashem by B. Froehlich, the executor of the estate in 1972; it was transferred to Israel by Herbert Rosenkranz. In the Record Group: - Drafts and galley proofs of Benjamin Sagalowitz's book, "The Way to Majdanek"; - Documentation regarding the Jewish communities in Switzerland, 1929-1956; - Documentation regarding JUNA, 1935-1964; - Documentation regarding the attitude of the Swiss authorities towards the Jewish ...

  6. P.19 Collection of Carl Lutz, Swiss Diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations, 1935-1970

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019608
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1935-1970
    • Album Letter List of names Newspaper clippings Official documentation Passport Personal documents Photograph Research article Survey report

    P.19 Collection of Carl Lutz, Swiss Diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations, 1935-1970 Carl Lutz (1895-1975) was the Swiss Vice Consul in Jaffa, Eretz Israel, 1935-1941, and in Budapest, Hungary, 1942-1945. Following the German occupation of Hungary, 1944, he was extremely active in rescuing Jews with United States, British, Romanian, El Salvadorian and other citizenships, as well as on behalf of those with certificates to make aliya to Eretz Israel. - The collection was submitted to Yad Vashem in 1981, through the generosity of Agnes Hirschi, Lutz's adopted daughter; - The collection is c...

  7. P.30 - Personal Archive of Matilde Finzi-Bassani, Italy

    P.30 - Personal Archive of Matilde Finzi-Bassani, Italy Born in Ferrara, Italy, Matilde Finzi-Bassani was active in the anti-Fascist underground in northern Italy and Rome. The Collection contains Matilde Finzi-Bassani's personal documentation as well as much documentation regarding the anti-Fascist underground in Italy.

  8. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

    M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959 There are 220 files in the record group, which includes various publications, such as bulletins, reports, letters and surveys, containing information regarding the condition of the Jews in occupied Europe during World War II. The information was gathered, collated and distributed by Jewish organizations in Eretz Israel, Turkey (Istanbul) and Switzerland during the war and the early postwar years. Some of the communications were intended for distribution solely among the members of the or...

  9. O.34 - Zonabend Collection: Documentation From the Lodz Ghetto

    O.34 - Zonabend Collection: Documentation from the Lodz Ghetto The documentation in this Collection survived due to the initiative of Nachman Zonabend who was in a group of Jewish inmates brought to the Lodz Ghetto to clear away the rubble during the war. Zonabend stole into the building where the Ghetto Archive was kept, rescued the documentation at the risk of his life, and hid it until the end of the war. The documentation is invaluable for the history of the Lodz Ghetto. The collection, from 1939-1945, includes Judenrat posters, circulars issued by the Jewish Community offices in the gh...

  10. O.58 - Applications for the Fighters against Nazis Medal, 1967-1969

    O.58 - Applications for the Fighters against Nazis Medal, 1967-1969 The Record Group contains questionnaires completed by people requesting that they be awarded the Fighters against Nazis Medal by the Defense Ministry. Documents and testimonies have been attached to some of the questionnaires, and confirmations have been attached to the others. The questionnaires are arranged alphabetically in loose-leaf notebooks. Requests which were denied are filed in a separate notebook.

  11. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis In the Collection there is documentation including testimonies regarding the resistance of the Czechoslovakian Jews against the Germans during World War II. The people interviewed include former soldiers and officers who fought in the Czechoslovakian Army, Jews who fought in the Royal British Air Force, served in partisan battalions in the Soviet Union or participated in the National Slovak Uprising. There are also testimonies regarding the treatment of Jewish s...

  12. P.1 - Archive of Recha Freier, the founder of Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1935-1951

    P.1 - Archive of Recha Freier, the founder of Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1935-1951 Recha Freier was born in Norden, in the northwestern part of Germany, in 1892. On completion of her University Language studies, she worked as a teacher and folklore researcher. In 1932 she conceived of the idea of organizing the sending of Jewish youth to Eretz Israel for education in the kibbutzim. She gathered funds for this purpose and saw her idea become a reality when the first group of Jewish youth left Berlin in late 1932. The World Jewish Congress approved the idea in 1933, however initially Recha Frei...

  13. P.10 - Archive of Mark Dworzecki, physician, Vilna Ghetto underground member and researcher of Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust, 1945-1975

    P.10 - Archive of Mark Dworzecki, physician, Vilna Ghetto underground member and researcher of Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust, 1945-1975 Dr. Meier (Mark) Dworzecki was born in Vilna in 1908 and died in Tel Aviv in 1975. He completed his high school studies in Vilna, and was active in its public life. He wrote for the "Zeit" newspaper in Vilna, as well as for "Hazifira" and "Heint". He served as the chairman of the SSRP (Zionist Socialist Workers Party) from 1933, and worked as a physician in the Novogrod workers' suburb from 1935. In 1939, he was elected as the Jewish representative ...

  14. P.11 - Moshe Keller Collection: The Finaly Children Affair

    P.11 -The Moshe Keller Collection: The Finaly Children Affair The event known as the "Finaly Children Affair" took place in France in the early 1950s. Jewish relatives of two orphaned Jewish brothers who had been baptized as Catholics and were living in a monastery in Spain, demanded that they be given custody of the children. The Catholic Church used the baptism as justification for letting the children remain in the Catholic faith. After a struggle mounted by the relatives against the French authorities, the Church finally gave up its demands, and the children were turned over to their Je...

  15. P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years Rabbi Eli Munk was the son of Rabbi Azriel Munk, the rabbi of the Adass Yisroel community, the separatist Orthodox congregation in Berlin. In 1938, he emigrated to England and established a community of former German Jews in Golders Green, London, serving as its leader. He was active in Jewish affairs and organized, among other projects, camps for Jewish youth. Along with his brother, Rabbi Yechiel Aryeh Munk, he edited the book, "Faithful Testimony"...

  16. P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author

    P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author Erich Schon, who was born in the village of Vsetin, Moravia (today in the Czech Republic), 18 February 1911, and died in Jerusalem, 12 July 1995, was the son of Malvina and Siegbert Schon. After World War II Schon changed his last name to Kulka, the last name of his first wife, Elly Kulka, who did not survive the Holocaust. The history of the arrests of Erich Kulka began in July 1939, first with arrest by the Gestapo in Brno and afterwards with imprisonment in the Dachau, Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme camps until November 1942...

  17. P.26 - Heiner Lichtenstein Collection - Documentation collected by a Journalist who wrote about the Holocaust and about Trials of Nazi War Criminals, 1952-1987

    P.26 - Heiner Lichtenstein Collection - Documentation collected by a Journalist who wrote about the Holocaust and about Trials of Nazi War Criminals, 1952-1987 Heiner Lichtenstein was a journalist in West Germany who was active in many subjects relating to the Holocaust. Following his retirement, he donated the documentation he had collected to Yad Vashem, 1992.

  18. P.3 -Isaac Weissman Archive: Documentation of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Lisbon

    P.3 -Yitzchak Weisman Archive: Documentation of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Lisbon Isaac Weissman was the WJC representative in Lisbon; he was active in providing assistance to refugees and participating in rescue operations. This Record Group includes Weissman's correspondence from Portugal with the WJC office in New York, diplomatic representatives in Portugal and private individuals and other organizations, 1942-1967.

  19. P.4 - Dr. Eliezer Yerushalmi Collection: Documentation from the Siauliai Ghetto

    P.4 - Dr. Eliezer Yerushalmi Collection: Documentation from the Siauliai Ghetto Dr. Eliezer Yerushalmi was born in Gorodishche (Horodyszcze), Belorussia, in 1900. He studied Science and Hebrew Literature at Kaunas University, and worked as a teacher, always conducting his educational activities in Hebrew. An active member of the Zeirei Zion movement and Hechalutz, he served as a teacher and principal at the school in the Siauliai Ghetto from 1941. He described his work in the ghetto in his book, "Children of the Holocaust". Dr. Yerushalmi served as a technical advisor to the Judenrat, colle...

  20. P.7- Archive of Marc Jarblum, Zionist Leader and one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in France, 1941-1967

    P.7- Archive of Marc Jarblum, Zionist Leader and one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in France, 1941-1967 Marc Jarblum was one of the leaders of the Poalei Zion movement in Poland, the Federation des Societes Juives de France (FSJF- Federation of Jewish Societies in France) and the Jewish underground in France during World War II. This record group contains a bibliographical sketch, letters written by Jarblum, and information regarding Jewish organizations in France, persecution of the Jews, material about the French underground, information concerning post war events, corresponden...