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  1. Documentation from the Magistrates Court in Ellwangen, Wurttemberg, 1933-1941

    Documentation from the Magistrates Court in Ellwangen, Wurttemberg, 1933-1941 Included in the Collection is a variety of legal files, most of them related to Jews: trials between Jews or Jewish businesses and their Christian neighbors in Ellwangen and villages in the surrounding area, regarding financial matters or damages, and trials held by the Nazi State against Jews accused of various charges. The Collection also includes files not related to Jews, such as trials against priests and informings against priests.

  2. Documentation of the Weltorganisation gegen Rassenhass und Menchennot (World Organization Against Racial Hate and Human Distress) in Vienna, 1936-1938

    Documentation of the Weltorganisation gegen Rassenhass und Menchennot (World Organization Against Racial Hate and Human Distress) in Vienna, 1936-1938 The organization, which was intended first and foremostly to fight against antisemitic and Nazi propaganda in Austria, was established and led by Irene Harand, and in some of the letters it is simply called "Harand-Bewegung" (the Harand Movement). The organization published the periodical "Gerechtigkeit" (Justice). In the collection there is correspondence between the organization and its members regarding the periodical, as well as newspaper...

  3. Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Pharmacie (Pharmacies Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1945

    Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Pharmacie (Pharmacies Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1945 Included in the collection: Documents of Omnia Treuhandgesellschaft, the German Office for the Aryanization of Jewish Businesses in the Netherlands.

  4. Documentation of the municipal hospital in Mogilev, 1942

    Documentation of the municipal hospital in Mogilev, 1942 Included in the collection are medical files of Jews.

  5. Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in the Amtsgericht (Magistrates Court) in Soest (Westphalia)

    Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in the Amtsgericht (Magistrates Court) in Soest (Westphalia) In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files include the applications including...

  6. P.65 - Yaffa Eliach Collection

    P.65 - Yaffa Eliach Collection Professor Yaffa Eliach was born Yaffa (Sheinla) Sonenson in the village of Ejszyszki, Poland (in Yiddish: Eyshishok; today Eišiškės, Lithuania) in 1935. Nazi Germany occupied the village in June 1941. Within two days in late September, almost all 3,500 Jews of the village were murdered in the local cemetery by Einsatzgruppe A. Yaffa escaped to a hiding place with her family just before the massacre. Until the liberation of Eyshishok by the Red Army in July 1944, the family moved from one hiding place to another, escaping death many times. Yaffa made aliya to E...

  7. Collection of general documentation from the “Jews in Latvia” Museum, photocopied, 1993

    Collection of general documentation from the “Jews in Latvia” Museum, photocopied, 1993

  8. M.52.DAViO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Vinnytsa Region

    M.52.DAViO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Vinnytsa Region History of the Archives The State Archives of the Vinnitsa Region was established in 1920 as the Archives of the Podole Region. During its first years, the Archives was intended as a place the storage and conservation of documents from the pre-Bolshevik period. The Archives was transferred to the responsibility of the NKVD in 1938. The Archives received the name: the State Archives of the Vinnitsa Region, in 1944. Since 1960, the Archives has been under the authority of the Implementation Committee of the Vinnitsa Reg...

  9. M.41.GAVt - Documentation of the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region

    M.41.GAVt - Documentation of the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region The State Archives of the Vitebsk Region was established in 1919. In 1927, documents pertaining to the region were transferred there from the State Archive of Belorussia. In 1947, the documentation from the period prior to the Revolution, which had been in the Regional Archive of Vitebsk, was transferred to the State Historical Archive in Mogilev. In 1992, the documentation in the Regional Archive of the Communist Party in Belorussia was transferred to the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region. In the Collection there is S...

  10. Documentation from the Stutthof concentration camp physician, 1943-1944

    Documentation from the Stutthof concentration camp physician, 1943-1944 Included in the collection is documentation regarding inmates who died, lists of female inmates including their medical history and their diagnoses, and a card file regarding sick inmates.

  11. Documentation of the health department of the Executive committee in Mogilev, 1939-1940

    Documentation of the health department of the Executive committee in Mogilev, 1939-1940

  12. Documentation from material in the Reichsstatthalter (State Treasury) in Bavaria, regarding Franz Ritter von Epp

    Documentation from material in the Reichsstatthalter (State Treasury) in Bavaria, regarding Franz Ritter von Epp

  13. החלטות על הכרה במוות (Todeserklaerungen) של קרבנות יהודיים של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Gladbeck (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12424690
    • English, Hebrew
    • Legal documentation Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files include the applications including details regarding those who p...

  14. P.28- Personal documentation of Michal Borwicz

    P.28- Personal documentation of Michal Borwicz

  15. Collection of Belorussian sources regarding various matters, from the 1920s until the 1990s

    Collection of Belorussian sources regarding various matters, from the 1920s until the 1990s In the collection is a list of owners of apartments in Minsk [used] for hiding, who were active during 1941-1944; newspaper clippings from the Red Army newspaper, "Boyevoy listok", regarding Nazi war criminals in Belorussia during 1941-1944; (the number of people who perished in the Belorussia and Grodno regions); documentation of the partisans detachments under the command of Zorin during 1943-1944; memoirs regarding the activities of the underground in the Minsk Ghetto during 1941-1943; and, statis...

  16. Documentation from the Landratsamt Marburg

    Documentation from the Landratsamt Marburg

  17. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Mogilev region, 1944-1946

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Mogilev region, 1944-1946 - Reports prepared by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the damage caused to the economy and the population in the Mogilev region; included in the report is a survey of the history of Mogilev and calculation of the damage caused to institutions in the city; information regarding the mass murder of civilians in Krichev, Merkulovichi. Gorodets, Palykhovichi and Shklov; calculation of the damage caused to agricultural institutions, according to areas and the types of damage; estimatio...

  18. Situation reports prepared by the Gestapo, from materials of the Preußische Staatsministerium in the Geh. Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz

    Situation reports prepared by the Gestapo, from materials of the Preußische Staatsministerium in the Geh. Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz The Preußische Staatsministerium was an organization of the Prussian State governmental authority. It served in the past in particular as the State government, and during the period of the Weimar Republic and afterwards it served as a uniting body (Kollegium) of the government's Ministers, and as the personal office (Kanzlei - Bureau) of the Prime Minister of the State. The material that was copied for Yad Vashem includes situation reports (Lageber...

  19. Documentation of the Stadtkommissar (city governor) in Shitomir, 1942-1943

    Documentation of the Stadtkommissar (city governor) in Shitomir, 1942-1943 Included in the collection: - Instructions by the Stadtkommissar (city governor) in Shitomir to the newspaper editorial staff; - Appeals by residents, to receive housing.

  20. Documentation of the operational committee in the Nikolayev region, 1945-1946

    Documentation of the operational committee in the Nikolayev region, 1945-1946 Included in the collection is documentation regarding the release of Polish citizens including Jews for the purpose of returning to Poland, following the agreement signed between the Soviet Union and the Polish government in 1945.