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  1. Documentation of the Regional Council in Pinsk, 1945-1946

    Documentation of the Regional Council in Pinsk, 1945-1946 The Collection includes instructions of the People's Council of Commissars of Belorussia regarding the return of Polish citizens of Polish and Jewish origin back to their country and lists of people who requested to give up their Soviet citizenship, 1945-1946.

  2. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Poltava region, 1943-1945

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Poltava region, 1943-1945 Reports of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Poltava region; survey reports regarding the murder of Jews in the region and the damage caused to the economy; documentation regarding the murder of Jews in Zolotonosha along with Jews of the cities of Kharkov, Korosten and Slavuta, and villages; mention of individual names and sentences that people who perished had engraved on walls before their death; mention of the dates of the murder, the circumstances, and the number of p...

  3. Documentation of the Zolkiew administration, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Zolkiew administration, 1941-1944 Included in the collection: - Lists of homeowners in Zolkiew whose apartments and property were nationalized during the Soviet occupation period and confiscated during the German occupation period; - Lists of residents of Zolkiew including data regarding the residents' property; - Documentation regarding the property of Zolkiew residents; - Instructions and correspondence by the supervisor over the Lwow region with the governor of the Zolkiew sub-district regarding empty residential buildings, including Jewish owned property; - List of ...

  4. Documentation of the Innere Verwaltung (Internal Administration) in Hamburg, 1933-1939

    Documentation of the Innere Verwaltung (Internal Administration) in Hamburg, 1933-1939

  5. Documentation from the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart (Main State Archives)

    Documentation from the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart (Main State Archives)

  7. Documentation of the Estonian Jewish Cultural Council Board of Trustees in Viljandi, 1926 - 1940

  8. Documentation of the elementary education department affiliated with the municipal executive committee in Kiev, 1943-1957

    Documentation of the elementary education department affiliated with the municipal executive committee in Kiev, 1943-1957 Included in the collection are lists of children from various orphanages in Kiev.

  9. O.20 - Collection of Max Lowenthal who served in the Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US forces in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany

    O.20 - Collection of Max Lowenthal who served in the Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US forces in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany Max Lowenthal was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1888; a graduate of Harvard Law School, an attorney and a lifelong public servant; he served as an advisor and personal friend of President Harry S. Truman. In 1946, General Lucius D. Clay, the Deputy Governor of the US Military Government in Occupied Germany, asked various representatives of American Jewish organizations to suggest an advisor who could help Clay in drafting ...

  10. O.24 Reinhard Strecker Collection: Judges and Trials in Nazi Sondergerichte (Special Courts)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 7202720
    • English, Hebrew
    • Indictment Legal documentation Names of perpetrators Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Record of persecuted persons Sentence

    O.24 Reinhard Strecker Collection: Judges and Trials in Nazi Sondergerichte (Special Courts) Included in the Collection: - Microfilms JM/1750-JM/1752: Verdicts from trials held in special courts in Germany, Poland and the Protectorate; the trials usually were conducted against non-Jews, and in most cases, the sentence was death. Besides the verdict and verdicts rendered for appeals, in some instances the collection also contains correspondence regarding the carrying out of the sentences, including official notification that the verdict has been carried out; - Microfilm JM/1753: Reports rega...

  11. Romania - Ministry of the Interior - Passports Office, 1940-1944

    Romania - Ministry of the Interior - Passports Office, 1940-1944

  12. Documentation of the Waffen-SS, 1942 - 1945

  13. Service Européen de Recherches (SER– European Search Service) card catalogue of deportees from France, 1940-1946

    Service Européen de Recherches (SER– European Search Service) card catalogue of deportees from France, 1940-1946 In the card catalogue: Names of family members of Jews from France who were deported by the Germans from various places; indicated on the card: the name of the deportee, year and place of birth, nationality and the name of the camp to which s/he was deported.

  14. Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Huiden en Leder (Leather Industry office) of the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Huiden en Leder (Leather Industry office) of the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Included in the collection: Official documentation of Omnia, the Office for the Aryanization of Jewish Businesses in the Netherlands, 1940-1945; Documents regarding the administration of Jewish businesses by German appointees; Official documentation of Jewish businesses, including De Kroon en Van Gelder, shoe stores and leather merchants.

  15. Documentation of the Reichswirtschaftsgruppen (Reich National Economic Organizations), Germany, 1935-1944

    Documentation of the Reichswirtschaftsgruppen (Reich National Economic Organizations), Germany, 1935-1944

  16. German documentation from the period of World War II, collected by the Institute for the History of the Communist Party affiliated with the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Minsk during 1941-1944

    German documentation from the period of World War II, collected by the Institute for the History of the Communist Party affiliated with the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Minsk during 1941-1944 Included in the Collection is a list of concentration camps in the Belorussian territory, and orders given by the German authorities regarding POWs in the concentration camps; instructions and orders given by the German authorities regarding the Jewish population; reports regarding the activities of German Army units; documentation regarding the establishment of ghettos and murder of the...

  17. P.21.3 - Letters received by Ilya Ehrenburg during 1958-1967, given by his daughter Irina Ehrenburg to Yad Vashem in 1994

    P.21.3 - Letters received by Ilya Ehrenburg during 1958-1967, given by his daughter Irina Ehrenburg to Yad Vashem in 1994 Ilya Ehrenburg Collection (documentation dated, 1942-1967); Original documentation of the famous Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg: Articles, testimonies, photographs and letters on the subject of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, some of which were put in "The Black Book"; letters from Jews regarding expressions of antisemitism in the Soviet countries during the postwar period; Sub-Record Group P.21.3 consists of a collection of letters sent to Ilya Ehrenburg by Jews during...

  18. TR.3.M - Eichmann Trial Administration

    TR.3.M - Eichmann Trial Administration

  19. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Porozovo, 1939-1941 and 1945

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Porozovo, 1939-1941 and 1945 The Collection includes lists of Communists and Soviet activists in the district; documentation of the District Committee.

  20. O.51 - Nazi Documentation Collection, 1933-1944

    O.51 - Nazi Documentation Collection, 1933-1944 Nazi documentation of different kinds and from different sources which arrived at Yad Vashem as individual documents and not as part of concentrated collections. In the Collection there is documentation from the Nazi authorities in Germany, the occupation authorities in various countries, local governments, camps and systems for repression and murder of the Jews and opponents of the regime, such as the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police), the Sicherheitsdienst (SD-Security Service) and Adolf Eichmann's office. The documentation includes ...