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  1. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 5263688
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1904-2002
    • Annotations Article(s), list(s), text(s) Bibliography Booklet(s) Brochure Calendar Lectures Lists Manuscript Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Research article Statistical data Syllabus Thesis/Dissertation

    P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002 Prof. Leni Yahil, the historian, donated the collection to Yad Vashem on 30 December 2004; Sarit Shavit, the researcher, submitted additional material (from File 36 on) to Yad Vashem in October 2009. The collection includes documentation, newspaper clippings, lists, articles, booklets, doctoral dissertations, notes, Leni Yahil's correspondence and more. The documentation relates to the following subjects: the Jews of Denmark during the Holocaust; the Jews of Germany from the 1930s until the Holocaust; the Jews of Sweden, Norway an...

  2. Opština grada Beograda

    The fund preserves the materials of the Municipality of Belgrade from 1862 to 1944: City Assembly, City Council, Major, 18 administrative sections (Administrative section, Section for Culture, Section for Transports etc.), correspondence with citizens, Government, other local and national authorities, private entities; relating to the period 1941-194, correspondence with German authorities.

  3. P.20 - Zorach Warhaftig Archive: Documentation of rescue and aid extended to refugees who escaped from Poland and Lithuania to Japan, 1939-1990

    P.20 - Zorach Warhaftig Archive: Documentation of rescue and aid extended to refugees who escaped from Poland and Lithuania to Japan, 1939-1990 Zorach Warhaftig was born in Wolkowisk, White Russia. While still a youth, he was an active member of the Hamizrachi movement. He acquired a traditional Jewish education and a general education, earning his Law degree at Warsaw University. From 1936-1939 he served as Chairman of the Eretz Israel office in Warsaw and a representative at the 17th through the 21st Zionist Congresses. When World War II broke out, he escaped to Lithuania, and there he ai...

  4. Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Police Headquarters Orhei

    • Inspectoratul Regional de Poliție al Basarabiei. Poliţia centrelor județene. Orhei
    • Полиция города Оргеева
    • Politsiya goroda Orgeeva

    Correspondence of Orhei City Police with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with the General Police Directorate, with the Chisinau Police Inspectorate, the City Hall of Orhei and the Police Commissariats about the lists of Jews aged 19-50 and the Jewish (as well as non-Jewish) craftsmen. Lists of Jews from different counties of Romania who did not participate in forced labor units. Documents on population evacuation, army mobilization, trials, passports, pensions, city events reports, personal files of the policemen, etc.

  5. Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Police Headquarters Orhei

    • Inspectoratului Regional de Poliție al Basarabiei. Poliţia centrelor județene. Orhei
    • Полиция города Оргеева
    • Politsiya goroda Orgeeva

    Orders and circulars issued by the Ministry of Interior Affairs and Regional Police Inspectorate in Bessarabia on the placement of Jews in camps and ghettos. Order that governs the interaction with Jews. Correspondence of Orhei Police with the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Romania, the Regional Police Inspectorate in Bessarabia, Police Qustura of Chisinau and Prefecture of Orhei about statistics and lists of Jews from the Orhei county in Bessarabia. Copies of documents related to the Jewish population in Bessarabia.

  6. Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Police Headquarters Chișinău

    • Inspectoratului Regional de Poliție al Basarabiei. Poliţia centrelor județene. Chișinău
    • Полиция города Кишинева (Кишинэу)
    • Politsiya goroda Kishineva

    Copies of the Orders signed by the military and civil authorities regarding the treatment of Jews; written materials about the Jewish labor brigades in Chisinau; report of murdered Jews by the GESTAPO; Chisinau ghetto - the execution of Jews accused of collaboration with the Bolsheviks; Security Department report on atrocities committed on October 8, 1941, when a convoy of about 2,000 Jews were evacuated; reports on the living conditions and the state of mind of the Jews in the ghetto.

  7. Regional Inspectorate of Security in Bessarabia

    • Inspectoratul Regional de Siguranță din Basarabia
    • Бессарабский областной инспекториат полиции
    • Bessarabskiy oblastnoy inspektoriat politsii
    • Arhiva Naţională a Republicii Moldova
    • 680.1
    • English, Romanian
    • 1918-1929
    • Inventory 1 - files from no.1 to no.1443; inventory 2 - files from no.1444 to no.2953; inventory 3 - files from no.2959 to no.4014; inventory 4 - files from no.4015 to no.5179

    Articles about Jews in Chisinau; data on mixed marriages; lists of Jews who have not converted and those who have converted to another religion; a copy of the order signed by General Headquarter of Romania's Army on the Jews in labor brigades; information on the work of the group headed by Filderman; census on the Jews; personal files of the police employees in Bessarabia, files on secret agents and the Jews accused of spying for the USSR. Surveillance materials related to activities carried out by the political Romanian party- "Blocul cetățenesc pentru mîntuirea țării" (Citizens' Block for...

  8. Police Headquarters Tighina. Questura

    • Poliţia Tighina. Questura
    • Бессарабский областной инспекторат полиции. Квестура Полиции города Тигина
    • Bessarabskii oblastnoi inspectorat politsii. Kvestura Politsii goroda Tighina

    The fund contains material about the placement of Jews in various ghettos; rules and regulations governing the treatment of Jews; statistical data on the Jews in Tighina County; documents on the Jewish population throughout the province; personal files of people suspected of loyalty to the Soviet state, etc.

  9. Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Police Headquarters Cahul

    • Inspectoratului Regional de Poliție al Basarabiei. Poliţia centrelor județene. Cahul
    • Полиция города Кагул
    • Politsiya goroda Kagul

    The fond contains documents that reflect the activity of Cahul City Police in between 1933-1944; the lists of Jews in prisons on July 22, 1941; correspondence with the Regional Police Inspectorate in Chisinau regarding the legal status of the Jews; the lists of Jews who emigrated to Palestine and those who converted to Christianity.

  10. Administrative office of Bessarabia, Bukovina and "Transnistra"

    • Кабинет по администрации Бессарабии, Буковины и „Транснистрии”
    • Kabinet po administratsii Bessarabii, Bukoviny i „Transnistrii”
    • Cabinetul civil-militar pentru administrarea Basarabiei, Bucovinei și Transnistriei

    Orders and Dispositions issued by the Romanian government and Romanian Army Headquarters to General George Alexeianu about taking the control in Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transnistria, about the disposal of military units, nationalization of population inspection of ghettos, and about the situation of prisoners of war. The memorandum on the Jewish issue of Bessarabia. Regulations related to the organization of the ghettos. Materials about the confiscation of Jewish property. Documents and reports about inspections conducted in Bessarabia and Bukovina in 1941. Statistical data on violations ...

  11. O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection

    O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection Mordechai Friedman was born in Pultusk, Poland, in 1937. At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, his family escaped to the Soviet Union. At the end of the war, his family returned to Poland, and some time later they escaped to Germany with the She’erith Hapletah. Friedman attended elementary school in Germany, and in 1949 made aliya to Eretz Israel. As part of his studies for his Master's degree in the History of the Jewish People, Friedman submitted a Master's thesis on Orthodox Jewry in New York, 1891-1914; his advisor was Professor Uriel Tal. Friedma...

  12. P.48 - Aryeh Kubovy Personal Collection

    P.48 - Aryeh Kubovy Personal Collection The Collection includes mainly documentation from 1951-1952, the years when Dr. Aryeh Kubovy served as the Legate for Israel in Czechoslovakia and Poland. Aryeh Leon Kubovy (Kubovitzki) was born in Kursenai, Lithuania, in 1896. In 1906 his family emigrated to Belgium, where he acquired the rest of his education. He completed his studies for a Doctorate in Classical Philology and Law at the University of Brussels and Liége University. In 1926 he became a Belgian citizen. He worked as a lawyer from 1926-1940, first in Antwerp and afterwards in Brussels....

  13. P.54 - Archive of Dr. Israel Kasztner, one of the leaders of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, and Collection of Dov Dinur, Kasztner's Biographer

    P.54 - Archive of Dr. Israel Kasztner, one of the leaders of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, and Collection of Dov Dinur, Kasztner's biographer Biography of Dr. Israel Rezső Rudolf Kasztner: Israel Kasztner was born in Cluj, Transylvania, Romania in 1906. Between World War I and World War II, he worked as a journalist and an attorney at law, and, at the same time, he was an activist in the Zionist Labor Movement in Cluj. After the annexation of northern Transylvania to Hungary in 1940, Kasztner moved to Budapest and continued his Zionist Movement activities. He was one of the f...

  14. P.55 - Personal Papers of Dr. Heinz E.Samson

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 7894262
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Balance sheet Booklet(s) Brochure Death certificate Envelope Financial accounts Genealogy Journals Legal documentation Letter List of deportees List of murdered Jews from Germany Maps Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Postcard Poster Speech

    P.55 - Personal Archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson In the collection there are files from the private archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson. Description of the collection: The documentation deals with a part of the estate of the Samson family, originally from the city of Norden in Northern Germany. There is pre-war documentation on tax issues and the assets of the Samson family, pre- and postwar correspondence with German authorities, personal documents and certificates, documents on the restoration of the Norden Jewish cemetery supported by the Samson family after WW II, the dedication of a memorial ...

  15. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The "Anti-Nazi Resistance and Opposition" collection consists of pamphlets, flyers, and booklets published across Europe during World War II. These publications document the atrocities committed by the Nazis and by their collaborators, and were originally aimed to unite the oppressed populations in spiritual and armed resistance. The opposition to the Nazis was led by people from different social backgrounds: peasants, workers, teachers, business owners, as well as aristocrats. Most operated underground, and individuals often sacrificed their freedom or even their own lives to ensure the pr...

  16. O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat

    O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat Dr. Jacob Robinson was born in Seirijai, a village in the Alytus district in southeastern Lithuania on 28 November 1889, and received a traditional Jewish education. In 1910 he completed his studies at the Suwalki high school and in the summer of 1914, he completed his studies for the title of Doctorate in Law (LL.D.) at the University of Warsaw. In May 1923 he was elected to the Sejm (Lithuanian Parliament), where he served as head of the Jewish faction and a leader of the minorities bloc. During the years 1925-1931, Robinson served ...

  17. P.62 - Peter Erben Collection: Documentation regarding the Jews of Czechoslovakia, and specifically the Jews of Ostrava, during the Holocaust period

    P.62 - Peter Erben Collection: Documentation regarding the Jews of Czechoslovakia, and specifically the Jews of Ostrava, during the Holocaust period Peter Erben, a native of Ostrava, was an inmate in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and other camps during the Holocaust period. After the war, he was greatly involved in the collection of materials related to the fate of the Jews of Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust in general and the fate of the Jews of Ostrava in particular. Erben submitted part of the collection of memoirs, letters, photographs and documents he gathered to Yad Vashem.

  18. Bern Trial, Bern, Switzerland, 1934-1935

    The Bern Trial that was held in Bern, Switzerland between 1934 and 1935. The plaintiffs sued and won the Bund Nationalsozialistischer Eidgenossen (BNSE) which distributed anti-Semitic pamphlets during a meeting of June 13, 1933 organized by the National Front and the Heimatwehr in the Casino of Bern, notably "Die zionistischen Protokolle". This section includes documents on the public and legal campaigns before and during the trial.

  19. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

    The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – or Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion - is an anti-Semitic forgery, detailing in 24 chapters the "Jewish plan" to take over the world. The fake document is a compilation from various sources, issued in Russia by Sergei Nilus in 1905, and since then, published in various languages around the globe. The collection includes documents on the origins and the development of the myth.

  20. Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto collection 1926-2018

    The collection contains the documents collected by Judge Ben-Itto during years of research for her book The Lie That Wouldn't Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The book tells the story of those who forged the Protocols, distributed it around the world and used it as an antisemitic weapon. It also pays tribute to those who exposed and disproved it; with special emphasis given to the two major trials, both initiated in 1934 by Jewish communities in Switzerland and in South Africa against local Nazi distributors of the document.