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Country: Israel

  1. Service Européen de Recherches (SER– European Search Service) card catalogue from France, for searching for relatives, 1940-1946

    Service Européen de Recherches (SER– European Search Service) card catalogue from France, for searching for relatives, 1940-1946 The following details appear in the card catalogue: The name being searched; place and date of birth; nationality; parents' names; profession; date of residence in France and last address; as well as date of arrest or deportation and deportation destination.

  2. 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.

  3. The She’erit Hapletah Collection - Displaced Persons life in the camps, 1945-1948

    In this Collection there is documentation regarding the lives of the displaced persons (DPs) in the camps. It contains thousands of placards from the camps, mainly concerning cultural and artistic matters, religious life, sport, elections and political parties. Additionally, there are announcements , principally issued by administrative departments in the Eschwefe DP camp and the Feldafing DP camp. There are letters or surveys on subjects related to daily life in the DP camps in a few individual files.

  4. 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...

  5. Soviet documentation regarding Nazi war crimes carried out in the Khakiv region during 1944-1945

    Soviet documentation regarding Nazi war crimes carried out in the Khakiv region during 1944-1945 Included in the collection: - Testimonies collected from residents of the Stary Saltov district; - List of streets whose name was changed during the occupation period; - Antisemitic posters including an appeal to local residents to travel to work in Germany, a call to partisans and Red Army soldiers to surrender, announcements regarding the distribution of land, and Nazi propaganda; - Reports regarding Nazi war crimes in Kharkiv during the occupation period; - Report regarding trials of war crim...

  6. The SS Members personal files from the Berlin Document Center

    This collection includes personal files of SS officers above the rank of Untersturmfuehrer has been kept at the BDC. In the files there is varied documentation, and in certain instances, the BDC personnel have added documentation regarding a specific officer from other collections in the BDC archive. A large number of files regarding the SS officers were created from questionnaires concerning the personality of the officer. In addition to general data, there is also psychological and medical information and information regarding the officer's outlook on life. In the SS personal files there ...

  7. Tax files of Jews, from the Finanzamt Heilbronn

    Tax files of Jews, from the Finanzamt Heilbronn

  8. Tax files of Jews, in the Finanzamt Schwäbisch Gmünd, 1914-1962

    Tax files of Jews, in the Finanzamt Schwäbisch Gmünd, 1914-1962 Included in the collection are tax files of Jews and Jewish businesses.

  9. Testimonies and memoirs of Jews who resided in Belorussia, regarding the war period

    Testimonies and memoirs of Jews who resided in Belorussia, regarding the war period Included in the collection are testimonies and memoirs of Jews regarding the underground activities, and regarding their experiences in the ranks of the partisans, and testimonies regarding the Minsk Ghetto.

  10. Testimonies and memoirs regarding Nazi war crimes in Belorussia during World War II

    Testimonies and memoirs regarding Nazi war crimes in Belorussia during World War II Included in the collection: - Testimonies regarding the Minsk Ghetto and Nazi war crimes; - Memoirs of the partisans commissar Boris Khaimovich; - Article regarding Nazi actions in the occupied areas of Belorussia; - Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the city of Kiev.

  11. Testimonies and reports written by Jewish and non-Jewish inmates from the Netherlands, most of them political prisoners, regarding prisons and concentration camps, 1933-1945

    Testimonies and reports written by Jewish and non-Jewish inmates from the Netherlands, most of them political prisoners, regarding prisons and concentration camps, 1933-1945 Lists of people from the Netherlands who perished in camps, and a report regarding the persecution of Jews by the Amsterdam Police, 1939-1945; Correspondence of the Netherlands Tracing Mission, 1945-1948; Orders given by Harster, regarding the obligation on the entire population to possess an identity card, 1940-1941; Lists of the Centraal Registratiebureau Voor Joden, regarding Jewish survivors from the Netherlands in ...

  12. Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors collected by the Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland, 1944-1947

    The collection consists of approximately 7,200 testimonies collected by the Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna (Central Jewish Historical Committee) in Poland during its active years, 1944-1947. After the establishment of the ZIH (Jewish Historical Institute) the documentation was transferred to the ZIH Archives, and catalogued as Records Group 301. In the collection there is a large variety of testimonies given by Holocaust survivors regarding their lives in the ghettos, labor camps and concentration camps, as well as testimonies from survivors who fought in partisan units and survivor...

  13. Testimonies, diaries and memoirs from the Holocaust period and regarding the Holocaust

    In the collection there are diaries, testimonies and memoirs written mostly by survivors with some material written by Jews who perished in the Holocaust. The content of the documentation is varied and multi-lingual. Most of the documentation was written and documented after the war, and the rest, mainly diaries, during the Holocaust. Those who were persecuted have documented their personal experiences, and through this documentation it is possible to closely follow the personal stories of the writers before the war, during the war and afterwards.

  14. The Testimony Collection gathered by the Central Historic Committee of the Liberated Jews in Munich, 1946-1948

    During the three years of its existence, the Central Historic Committee (CHC) gathered approximately 2,550 testimonies from Holocaust survivors from different countries within occupied Europe. The testimonies deal with the fate of the survivors in various countries during the Nazi occupation.

  15. Testimony regarding the experiences of children on the Aryan side during the war and in children's homes in Poland after the liberation

    Testimony regarding the experiences of children on the Aryan side during the war and in children's homes in Poland after the liberation Wanderings and suffering of children on the Aryan side; atrocities committed by the Nazis; help from nuns and Polish, Ukrainian and especially Czech farmers. Jewish children's homes in Poland (Krakow, Bielski, Lodz and Czestochowa) after the liberation; feelings of isolation and alienation of the children.

  16. The Arvid Elstoft Collection - Documents of the underground resistance movements in Denmark in WWII

    Content of the folders: 1. Forged personal documents, illegal newspapers of the various underground movements, illegal flyers and pamphlets, brochures and propaganda material, lists of various underground publications. 2. Letter answering condolences by Lise Munk, hectographed lists of underground publications of the "Frit Nordisk Forlag", flyers with news concerning resistance activities, printed material with instructions on street fighting, essay by Kaj Munk on the objectives of the underground, Poems, songs and a drawing "Liberté mort". 3. Propaganda material: satirical post cards, cart...

  17. The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976

    The documentation mainly deals with research on various aspects of the Holocaust period in Poland and France. There are research papers, testimonies, newspaper clippings, correspondence and documentation concerning the emigration of Jews to Latin American countries. Outstanding documentation in the collection: - Draft of Dr. Nathan Eck's memoirs, Paris, June-July 1944; - Undated draft of descriptions and memoirs from the WW II period in Lodz, Warsaw and Vittel; - Testimonies regarding the persecution and murder of Jews and the uprising in the Sobibor extermination camp; - Articles, essays, ...

  18. TR. 15 - Protocols and historical documentation from the Demjanjuk Trial, 1986-1988

    TR. 15 - Protocols and historical documentation from the Demjanjuk Trial, 1986-1988 In 1987, Ivan Demjanjuk was placed on trial in Jerusalem in accordance with the Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law. Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who immigrated to the United States and was extradited to Israel, was accused of serving as a guard in the Treblinka extermination camp during the war. The inmates of the camp referred to him as "Ivan the Terrible". The Jerusalem District Court, in session with the special panel of Judges Dov Levin, Tzvi Tal and Dalia Dorner, found Demjanjuk guilty and sentenced...

  19. TR. 19: Documentation from the Trial against Bovensiepen and others

    TR. 19: Documentation from the Trial against Bovensiepen and others Otto Bovensiepen served as a Gestapo commander in several places. On 18 March 1941, he was appointed head of the Gestapo in Berlin. In 1943 he was also appointed Inspekteur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (Chief of the Security Police and SD) in Berlin; in 1944 he was appointed Chief of the Security Police and SD in Denmark as well. In 1969, he was brought to trial at the initiation of the RSHA Work Group (a body which worked within the framework of the Attorney General's Office investigating criminals who had been part o...

  20. TR. 21: Documentation from trials conducted against war criminals that were held in Austria after the war

    TR. 21: Documentation from trials conducted against war criminals that were held in Austria after the war In the Records Group there is documentation from trials conducted against war criminals in Austria after the war. The main body of the Record Group consists of verdicts and short items regarding trials conducted in the People's Courts after the war. Additionally, in the Record Group there is much documentation from the trials of Ernst Lerch and others, SSPF(SS-und Polizeifuehrer- SS and police) commanders in Lublin, including important information regarding the mass murder of the Europe...