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Language of Description: English
Country: Israel

  1. Collection of articles from the local Ukrainian press, 1941-1944

    Collection of articles from the local Ukrainian press, 1941-1944 The collection includes articles published in the local Ukrainian press during 1941-1944, regarding the "Jewish Question" and German orders.

  2. 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...

  3. Collection of Besonderen Verwendung, the Gewerbliche Wirtschaft Department for Special Cases for the Administration of Industry in the Netherlands, 1941-1945

    Collection of Besonderen Verwendung, the Gewerbliche Wirtschaft Department for Special Cases for the Administration of Industry in the Netherlands, 1941-1945 The Gewerbliche Wirtschaft - GeWi department, under the administration of Schmidt, was subordinate on one hand to the Rüstungsinspektion, the military body responsible for the handling of matters of industry in the Netherlands, and subordinate to the Generalkommissar für Finanz und Wirtschaft (German Ministry of Finance and Industry) on the other hand; GeWi was divided to various groups (Gruppe), which dealt with various fields, includ...

  4. Collection of C. J. M. Schaepman, the College van Secretarissen-Generaal (Secretary General), regarding the public service in the Netherlands, 1940-1947

    Collection of C. J. M. Schaepman, the College van Secretarissen-Generaal (Secretary General), regarding the public service in the Netherlands, 1940-1947 Establishment of the College van Secretarissen-Generaal for the administration of the internal matters of the government offices, such as the salaries of the clerks in the Netherlands, in 1902; transfer of the authorities of the Dutch Government in Exile in London, to the College van Secretarissen-Generaal in 1940; the public service succeeded to administer the various government offices in the Netherlands until 1943; Included in the collec...

  5. Collection of David Cohen, head of the Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council) and leader of the Jewish community in the Netherlands, 1922-1954

    Collection of David Cohen, head of the Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council) and leader of the Jewish community in the Netherlands, 1922-1954 Included in the collection: Testimonies in favor of Professor David Cohen, from a trial held against him after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, 1947-1948; Various documents submitted by Professor David Cohen to his lawyers during the trial held against him and against A. Asscher in the Netherlands after the war, 1947-1949; Documents regarding the possibilities for emigration for Jews from the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation perio...

  6. Collection of De Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council of Amsterdam) in the Netherlands, 1941-1944

    Collection of De Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council of Amsterdam) in the Netherlands, 1941-1944 The Nazis ordered the Jewish communities in many of the occupied countries to establish a Jewish council; following the anti-Jewish riots in Amsterdam on 12/02/1941, Dr. Hans Böhmcker ordered industrialist Abraham Asscher to establish a Jewish council, De Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam, which would represent city's Jews at its start. Later on, the Jewish council, under the leadership of Abraham Asscher and Dr. David Cohen, handled the matters of all of the Jews in the Netherlands opposite...

  7. Collection of De Nederlandsche Landstand - The Netherlands Agriculture and Fishing Authority, 1941-1945

    Collection of De Nederlandsche Landstand - The Netherlands Agriculture and Fishing Authority, 1941-1945 De Nederlandsche Landstand - The Netherlands Agriculture and Fishing Authority was established in the Netherlands by the Germans in 1941, in order to take control over all matters related to agriculture and fishing; at the head of the authority stood E. J. Roskam, who was also the head of the Agrarisch Front, a section of an organization of collaborators with the Germans in the Netherlands.

  8. Collection of documentation from private sources regarding the Jews of Italy, mainly during the period of World War II

    Collection of documentation from private sources regarding the Jews of Italy, mainly during the period of World War II - Official, personal and family documentation of the Jews in Italy during the Holocaust; - Diaries kept during the Holocaust in Italy; - Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period in Italy; - Documentation regarding stories of rescue of Jews in Italy during the Holocaust; - Documentation regarding Jewish fighters in the resistance and serving in the Italian Army; - Collection containing material from Gianfranco Moscati from Naples.

  9. Collection of documentation regarding Anda Eker

    Collection of documentation regarding Anda Eker

  10. Collection of documents from documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Kirovograd region, 1944-1946

    Collection of documents from documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Kirovograd region, 1944-1946 The collection includes documentation from the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Kirovograd region during 1944-1946, regarding the murder of the local population, including Jews and Soviet POWs; documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Ustinovka, Malaya Viska, Novo Arkhangelsk and Podvysokoye districts, 1941-1944.

  11. Collection of documents from the Rabbi of the village of Rejowiec

    Collection of documents from the Rabbi of the village of Rejowiec

  12. Collection of documents of Dutch inmates in German camps outside the Netherlands, 1933-1945, including documentation of the Red Cross, until 1950

    Collection of documents of Dutch inmates in German camps outside the Netherlands, 1933-1945, including documentation of the Red Cross, until 1950 Included in the collection: Lists of survivors and lists of inmates who perished in Dachau, Mauthausen, Gross Rosen, Theresienstadt and Natzweiler camps during 1940-1945; Testimonies of Dutch survivors, regarding their detention and living conditions in camps and while on marches during 1933-1945; Documents of the Red Cross in Allersdorf and other places during the postwar period, including protocols of investigations of Dutch criminals and Nazi w...

  13. Collection of documents of the German occupying authorities, in Belorussia, 1941-1945

    Collection of documents of the German occupying authorities, in Belorussia, 1941-1945 The Collection contains orders regarding the establishment of a paramilitary SS Division made up of Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian volunteer units; procedures regarding propaganda among Soviet POWs; news regarding people serving in the Grenadier Division No. 30 and the Guardian Battalion No. 118, regarding POW camps in German Reich territory; instructions and reports of the SS und Polizeiführer für Weissruthenien (Supreme Commander of the Police and SS in Belorussia), command of Grenadier Division No. ...

  14. Collection of Dr. Hans Max Hirschfeld, secretary of the Commerce, Industry, Shipping and Agriculture departments in the Netherlands, 1940-1941

    Collection of Dr. Hans Max Hirschfeld, secretary of the Commerce, Industry, Shipping and Agriculture departments in the Netherlands, 1940-1941 Collection that documents the administration of the Dutch economy by the Germans and the attitude toward the Jews in that context in 1940-1941; Included in the collection: Circulars, correspondence and protocols of meetings of the Departement van Binnenlandsche Zaken in The Hague, regarding the dismissal of Jews from public positions, examination of the Aryan origin of clerks, and reports regarding the status of the Jews in the Dutch economy and in t...

  15. Collection of Dr. K. J. Frederiks, secretary general of the Ministry of the Interior and head of the Commissarissen van de Provincie for the appointment of clerks and policemen during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of Dr. K. J. Frederiks, secretary general of the Ministry of the Interior and head of the Commissarissen van de Provincie for the appointment of clerks and policemen during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Dr. K. J. Frederiks was the secretary general of the Ministry of the Interior in the Netherlands in 1931; opposition by Frederiks to appointments among the NSB - the Netherlands Organization of Collaborators, to various positions during the occupation period; non-success of Frederiks' opposition to the Nazi regime.

  16. Collection of Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, secretary general of the Wereldraad der Kerken (Council of Churches) in Geneva, 1940-1946

    Collection of Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, secretary general of the Wereldraad der Kerken (Council of Churches) in Geneva, 1940-1946 During the war Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft conducted close ties with the Dutch underground and with the Dutch Government in Exile in London; he was active in the promotion of the connection between the Dutch Government in Exile and the Dutch people; he prepared reports regarding underground activities using the code GC, a sign for the Church connection, in order to transfer the reports to London; he updated the activists in the Netherlands in the same manner; Incl...

  17. Collection of Dutch Jews and other Jews in Belgium, 1942-1957

    Collection of Dutch Jews and other Jews in Belgium, 1942-1956 Included in the collection: Card file of the Schade Enquête Commissie, SER in Belgium, including names of Jews in Belgium who were Dutch citizens, who were drafted to forced labor by the Germans during 1942-1945; Registration forms [most of them indecipherable] of Dutch Jews in Belgium, including statistics regarding these Jews, 1942-1956; Statistical data regarding Jews and Gypsies who were deported via Malines camp to camps in Poland, arranged according to transports, men, women and children, 1942-1944; Survey of the persecutio...

  18. Collection of Einsatzstab Rosenberg, the unit for the emptying of the household contents belonging to Jews who were deported in the Netherlands during 1942-1943, and claims for compensation, Oorlogsschade, 1958

    Collection of Einsatzstab Rosenberg, the unit for the emptying of the household contents belonging to Jews who were deported in the Netherlands during 1942-1943, and claims for compensation, Oorlogsschade, 1958 Einsatzstab Rosenberg, a member of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei - NDAP (Nazi Party), dealt, among other matters, with the collection of the household contents of Jews who were deported from the Netherlands during 1942-1943; the contents of the homes were sent to Germany; considerable use was made of these documents for the purpose of claims for compensation dur...

  19. Collection of Erich August Paul Puttkammer, regarding Sperrstempels (exemptions) for Jews in the Netherlands, 1942-1953

    Collection of Erich August Paul Puttkammer, regarding Sperrstempels (exemptions) for Jews in the Netherlands, 1942-1953 Erich August Paul Puttkammer was born in Poland in 1891; he received Dutch citizenship in 1939 and worked as a lawyer in a bank in Amsterdam during the war; using his contacts with the Devisenschutzkommando, along with the use of gold, diamonds, paintings and jewelry, he obtained deportation exemptions for Jews, of whom most were already in Westerbork camp as inmates; Puttkammer was arrested after the war, but was released due to lack of evidence; Included in the collectio...

  20. Collection of Erich Rajakowitsch, regarding his trial in Austria, 1905-1988

    Collection of Erich Rajakowitsch, regarding his trial in Austria, 1905-1988 SS Obersturmführer Dr. Erich Rajakowitsch, the head of the Sonderreferat Juden and a friend of Eichmann, organized the deportation of the Jews from 1941 and following; he was responsible for the deportation to Auschwitz of approximately 10,000 Jews from the Netherlands, including Anna Frank; he was put on trial during 1962-1964 for the deportation from France of 83 Jews who were Dutch citizens; he was never put on trial for his involvement in the deportation of Jews from the Netherlands; Included in the file: Docume...