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  1. Documentation from Amtsgerichte (Courts of Law) in Hessen, Germany

    Documentation from Amtsgerichte (Courts of Law) in Hessen, Germany In the collection is documentation from ten Courts of Law in the rural area of the Darmstadt Province: Alsfeld, Altenstadt, Bad Nauheim, Bad Vilbel, Bensheim, Beerfelden, Butzbach, Gernsheim, Herbstein, and Hirschhorn. For general information (in German) regarding the sub-group in the original Archive, including details regarding the character of the legal material, see the file: "Hessen G28 Amtsgerichte_Findbuch" in the Multimedia page. For information regarding each of the Courts of Law in the collection and regarding the ...

  2. Documentation of the Commissioner for the Four Year Plan (Beauftragter fuer den Vierjahresplan), Germany, 1933-1945

    Documentation of the Commissioner for the Four Year Plan (Beauftragter fuer den Vierjahresplan), Germany, 1933-1945 The Four Year Plan is an economic plan, that began in 1936, and that was meant to prepare Germany for war. Hermann Goering was appointed to head the program. The monitoring of the economy in the Third Reich before the war was not absolute and the objectives of the program were only partially achieved, due to, among others, lack of coordination between the supervisors in the various fields. At the beginning of the war, the German economy became more centralized and the responsi...

  3. Documentation of the Communist Party Committee in the Molotovskiy neighborhood in Belostok, 1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party Committee in the Molotovskiy neighborhood in Belostok, 1941 The Collection includes documentation from the first conference of the Communist Party in Belostok, that took place on 10-11 April 1941, including lists of the Communists who attended the conference and questionnaires of candidates; protocols from the committee meetings.

  4. Documentation from the Disziplinarkammer (Office for Disciplinary Matters) in Berlin, 1934-1960

    Documentation from the Disziplinarkammer (Office for Disciplinary Matters) in Berlin, 1934-1960 There are over 900 files in the Record Group in the original archive, many of them from the pre-Nazi period. 76 files from the Nazi period were photocopied for Yad Vashem, most of them dating from 1938-1943. In these files there is documentation of cases in which workers were accused of forbidden or inappropriate relations with Jews, including living with Jews, buying from Jewish businesses or general Judenfrundlichkeit (friendly attitude towards Jews); an accusation considered to be serious unde...

  5. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committees in the Gomel Region, 1938-1939, 1945-1946

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committees in the Gomel Region, 1938-1939, 1945-1946 The Collection includes a list of Jewish workers; documentation regarding candidates for the course of secretaries for the Communist organizations; reports of the Communist Party District Committee meetings in Rechitsa regarding the appointments of Communists.

  6. M. 71-Documentation regarding the Holocaust from archives in Romania and Moldova

    M. 71-Documentation regarding the Holocaust from archives in Romania and Moldova Information regarding the persecution of the Jews in Romania; deportations from Bessarabia and Bukovina; the establishment of ghettos in Transnistria; anti-Jewish legislation and orders, and drafting of Jews for forced labor under the Antonescu regime, and more.

  7. Documentation of the Jugendbehoerde I (Youth Office I) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Jugendbehoerde I (Youth Office I) in Hamburg

  8. Lists of residents from electoral area no. 58 in Sarny who voted for the Sejm, the Polish parliament, 1938

    Lists of residents from electoral area no. 58 in Sarny who voted for the Sejm, the Polish parliament, 1938

  9. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Yifat

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Yifat Testimonies/ memoirs/ experiences: 1. Shalom Barkai; 2. Miriam Weinberger; 3. Yosef Singer; 4. Dudi Zelig; 5. Yehuda (????), eulogy; 6. Binyamin Cohen; 7. Rachel Cohen (testimony and background material regarding the "Exodus"); 8. Esther Lissai (eulogy); 9. Malka Nashelski; 10. Zila (Goldman) Sobol; List: '"Events in the life of Arieh Barzilai, written by him" (photocopy); Documents (photocopy): 1. Shalom Barkai: a. "List of immigrants...

  10. Documentation of the Polish Courts of Law in the Poznan region, 1946-1960

    Documentation of the Polish Courts of Law in the Poznan region, 1946-1960 Included in the collection are appeals by relatives of Jews who perished during the war period, submitted to the Polish Courts of Law in order to receive declarations of death.

  11. O.36 - David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany

    O.36 - David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany This record group is a collection of testimonies recorded by David Boder, a Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in DP camps in Europe in 1946. The collection is comprised of testimonies of Jews and non-Jews, recorded in various languages and translated into English. The testimonies focus on the events in the lives of the survivors during the war in the ghettos and camps, while serving in the military, in hiding and in children's homes. The testimonies also contain information regardin...

  12. P.75 - Rachel Minc collection

    P.75 - Rachel Minc collection Rachel Minc (born in Lodz, Poland, in 1899 and died in 1978) is a Polish-born French Jewish educator and writer who worked for the rescue of Jewish children during the Second World War. She studied educational psychology and pedagogy in Berlin, and then in the Scandinavian countries, where she met the anti-fascist pedagogue Minna Specht, founder, with Leonard Nelson, of the German resistance movement to Nazism, the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). This movement was banned by the Nazis in 1933 and after the war allied with the German Social Democ...

  13. O.54 - The Jewish Press Agency in Switzerland- JUNA - newspaper clippings collection, 1936-1965

    O.54 - The Jewish Press Agency in Switzerland- JUNA - newspaper clippings collection, 1936-1965 The JUNA (Juedische Nachrichten-Presseagentur) was set up in 1936 by the Federation of Swiss Jewish communities in an effort to counteract antisemitic and pro-Nazi activity in Switzerland. Dr. Benjamin Sagalowitz was its director until 1965 (see record group P.13). This collections consists of newspaper clippings, mainly about the condition of the Jewish people in Nazi occupied Europe.

  14. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Voronovo, 1940-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Voronovo, 1940-1941 The Collection includes a list of election committee members in the Baranowichi Region; special messages of the RO NKVD (the District Department of the NKVD) regarding anti-Soviet activity; reports of the District Committee to the Communist Party's Central and Regional Committee in Belorussia.

  15. Documentation from Field Command 815 of (Sicherungs-Divisionen) Security Division 403, in Grodno, 1941

    Documentation from Field Command 815 of (Sicherungs-Divisionen) Security Division 403, in Grodno, 1941

  16. Documentation of People's Courts of Law in Konotop, 1944-1947

    Documentation of People's Courts of Law in Konotop, 1944-1947 Included in the collection are legal demands by Konotop residents for the restitution of [their] property.

  17. Documentation of the regional Court of Law in Lwow, 1928

    Documentation of the regional Court of Law in Lwow, 1928 Included in the collection is a survey report prepared by the Police commander of the Lwow region and the director of the investigation department of the attorney's office in Lwow, regarding the activities of Roman Sushko and the Ukrainskaya voyennaya organizatsiya - UVO (Ukrainian Military Organization) against the State.

  18. O.104 - אוסף לוכסמבורג

    1. Robert Serebrenik, personal and famuly documents and letters. 2. Esra Hilfsverein fuer beduerftige Juden Luxemburg, correspondence and statutes. 3. Letters and other documents concerning the appointment of Robert Serebrenik as Chief Rabbi of Luxemburg. 4. Essay on the Jewish Community Ramath Orah, New York. 5. Correspondence of Robert and Julia Serebrenik. 6. Statement by Robert Serebrenik, Chief Rabbi of Luxemburg, on his meetings with Adolf Eichmann 7. Letters of condolences, eulogies and obituaries on the occasion of Robert Serebrenik's death. 8. Julia Serebrenik's correspondence conc...

  19. Documentation of the prison in Grodno, 1928-1939

    Documentation of the prison in Grodno, 1928-1939 Included in the collection: - Lists of inmates, including Jewish inmates among them; - Questionnaires of inmates; - Correspondence between the Justice Ministry, Courts of Law and prisons in various cities; - Lists of inmates from various prisons in Poland, 1939; - Medical files [cards]; - Documentation of the Court of Appeals.

  20. O.64.2/SCH.2 - Documents of the Jewish Self-Government Departments

    O.64.2/SCH.2 - Documents of the Jewish Self-Government Departments - Zentralsekretariat (Central Secretariat) - Post und Verkehr (Postal and Transport) - postal services - Bank der Jüdischen Selbstverwaltung (Jewish Self-Government Bank) - Das Recht des jüdischen Siedlungsgebietes (the Jewish Self-Government Constitution) - Raumwirtschaft, Gebäudeverwaltung, Matrik und Beerdigungswesen (Housing and Population Registry) - Zentralevidenz (Central Registration Unit) - Arbeitszentrale (Work Center) - Technische Abteilung (Technical Department) - Transportabteilung (Transport Department) - Gesun...