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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  3. Collection of photographs of anti-Jewish signs photographed on the Bentheim-Hannover-Berlin Highway in Germany, 1935, from the Osoby Archive in Moscow

    Collection of photographs of anti-Jewish signs photographed on the Bentheim-Hannover-Berlin Highway in Germany, 1935, from the Osoby Archive in Moscow The collection was photographed by a Dutch motorcyclist travelling on the highway. A typical sign in the collection: "The Jews Are Not Wanted"

  4. Collection of postcards sent from the occupied areas to the Relico Organization in Geneva and Lisbon as confirmation of receipt of parcels

    Collection of postcards sent from the occupied areas to the Relico Organization in Geneva and Lisbon as confirmation of receipt of parcels The postcards were sent as confirmation of receipt of parcels in accordance with the request of the family members outside occupied Europe. - 600 postcards were sent to Lisbon, Portugal; - 3,700 postcards were sent from Poland to Geneva, Switzerland; 2,800 from France; 2,800 from various camps; 1,950 from Germany; 800 from Czechoslovakia; 1,600 from Vienna; 800 from Belgium; and 800 from other places.

  5. Collection of protocols from the Population Registry, compiled in the Lodz Ghetto

    Collection of protocols from the Population Registry, compiled in the Lodz Ghetto

  7. Collection of Rachel Auerbach, author and founder of the Oral Testimonies Department at Yad Vashem archives

    he Rachel Auerbach Collection contains: Personal documentation; biography; rough drafts of her letters from before the war; versions of her works in Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish; articles published in Israel and abroad; articles on general subjects written in Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish; correspondence; documentation regarding the book "Treblinka" by Jean François Schreiber; research articles about Rachel Auerbach; radio broadcasts; scripts; documentation regarding the Oral Testimonies Department at Yad Vashem; documentation regarding Rachel Auerbach and Yad Vashem; documentation related to th...

  8. Collection of Riga House Committee books

    Collection of Riga House Committee books In the collection there are House Committee books arranged by street.

  9. Collection of S. Wijnbergen, commander of the Nederlandse Regeringscommissariaat voor Repatriëring (Committee for the Return of Missing Persons to the Netherlands), 1943-1949

    Collection of S. Wijnbergen, commander of the Nederlandse Regeringscommissariaat voor Repatriëring (Committee for the Return of Missing Persons to the Netherlands), 1943-1949 Included in the collection: Reports prepared by S. Wijnbergen in The Hague, regarding the subject of missing persons from the Netherlands and the establishment of institutions to search for them in 1948; Questionnaires for the search for missing persons, and documents regarding Dutchmen returning from Switzerland, 1945-1946; Reports received by S. Wijnbergen from his command in Eastern Europe, regarding the locating of...

  10. Collection of Schoorl camp in the Netherlands, 1940-1941, and correspondence regarding Schoorl camp until 1979

    Collection of Schoorl camp in the Netherlands, 1940-1941, and correspondence regarding Schoorl camp until 1979 Included in the collection: Personal documents, including letters, poems/songs and paintings; Photographs of Schoorl camp and a map of Schoorl camp and the surrounding area; Orders by the Schoorl camp administration, regarding discipline, freedom of movement, cleanliness, the receipt of postal items, and other matters; List of inmates in Schoorl camp, 1940-1941; Documents including a statement of defense by K. Berg, commander of Schoorl camp and Amersfoort camp; Appeals to various ...

  11. Collection of Soviet documents, from before the war

    Collection of Soviet documents, from before the war Included in the collection is documentation regarding residents who were deported from the Kostyukovichi district by the Soviet authorities in 1941; Maps of various areas of Belorussia, from 1927.

  13. Collection of testimonies and memoirs of Jews, regarding their experiences in Belorussia during the war

    Collection of testimonies and memoirs of Jews, regarding their experiences in Belorussia during the war In the collection are testimonies and memoirs of Jews regarding their activities in the Red Army and in the ranks of the partisans; testimonies and memoirs regarding the Minsk Ghetto and Drozdy camp; testimonies and memoirs regarding hiding in the forests; list of ghettos and concentration camps in Belorussia; announcement regarding a professional documentation film, titled "Pominalnaya molitva", that deals with the liquidation of the Borisov Ghetto.

  14. Collection of testimonies of Engelandvaarders (Dutchmen who arrived to England) during 1941-1944

    Collection of testimonies of Engelandvaarders (Dutchmen who arrived to England) during 1941-1944 Military and economic situation in the Netherlands; hardships by farmers, due to the Germans' decrees; underground activities; the NSB; persecution of Jews; political trend of the population, and other matters; crystallization of the positions of the Dutch government, with the help of testimonies regarding the Germans' war with the Allied forces; Included in the collection: Testimonies of Engelandvaarders (Dutchmen who arrived to England), submitted to the Interdepartementale Commissie voor het ...

  15. Collection of testimonies of Holocaust survivors from Greece recorded at the Jewish community in Thessaloniki

    Collection of testimonies of Holocaust survivors from Greece recorded at the Jewish community in Thessaloniki

  16. Collection of Th. Limperg, a senior lecturer at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, who opposed the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during 1941-1943

    Collection of Th. Limpberg, a senior lecturer at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, who opposed the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during 1941-1943 Included in the collection: Circular by Limpberg, regarding the VO 23/1940 law concerning the Germans' control over the universities in the Netherlands; Protocols of meetings at the Universiteit van Amsterdam during 1941; Documents regarding the situation of the Jews at institutions of higher learning in the Netherlands during 1941-1943; Documents regarding the situation of the Portuguese Jews in the Netherlands in 1942; Circulars regarding the...

  17. Collection of the Abteilung Feindvermögen (Department of Enemy Property) in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6212257
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Announcement Circular Correspondence Curriculum Vitae (CV) Document Financial accounts Laws and decrees Letter List of murdered Jews from the Netherlands Lists of businesses and skilled workers Newspaper Note Questionnaire Record of persecuted persons Reports Statistical reports

    Collection of the Abteilung Feindvermögen (Department of Enemy Property) in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 The Abteilung Feindvermögen (Department of Enemy Property) was established in The Hague by the Germans as a department in the Generalkommissariat für Finanz und Wirtschaft (Office for Finance and Industry) in 1940; order VO 26/1940 established that the Germans would administer all property owned by people who were defined as the Enemy in the Netherlands, meaning the property of Dutchmen residing in the Allied countries, and the property of citizens of the Allied countries residing in the N...

  18. Collection of the Abteilung für besondere wirtschaftliche Angelegenheiten - Department for Special Financial Matters of the German Ministry of the Treasury, Hauptabteilung Wirtschaft, in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of the Abteilung für besondere wirtschaftliche Angelegenheiten - Department for Special Financial Matters of the German Ministry of the Treasury, Hauptabteilung Wirtschaft, in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 The department was also called the Referat für besondere wirtschaftliche Angelegenheiten; the head of the department was Dr. Joachim Kessler, whose title was Der Sonderbeauftragte für wirtschaftliche Verflechtung (Supervisor over the Integration of the Dutch Economy with the Economy of Germany); his areas of work were the: exchange of stock portfolios between the Netherlands and G...

  19. Collection of the Abteilung Rechtsetzung und Staatsrecht - German Office of Justice in the Netherlands, regarding anti-Jewish legislation during 1941-1942

    Collection of the Abteilung Rechtsetzung und Staatsrecht - German Office of Justice in the Netherlands, regarding anti-Jewish legislation during 1941-1942 The Rechtsetzung department has the responsibility for the wording and translation of the text, instructions and orders of the Reichskommissar and for the dispersion of the instructions of the Verordnungsblatt für die besetzten Niederländischen Gebiete in German and Dutch; consultation with the Rechtsetzung department, in main with the Generalkommissariat; Included in the collection: Correspondence by the Abteilung Rechtsetzung und Staats...

  20. Collection of the Adviescommissie voor de Zuivering van Notarissen in de provincie Noord-Holland - Committee for the Investigation of Notaries in the Noord-Holland region of the Netherlands, 1944-1951

    Collection of the Adviescommissie voor de Zuivering van Notarissen in de provincie Noord-Holland - Committee for the Investigation of Notaries in the Noord-Holland region of the Netherlands, 1944-1951 Establishment of the committee by the Military Government in the Netherlands on 20/07/1945; committee's function: investigation of the conduct of the Notaries in the Noord-Holland region during the Nazi occupation period; investigation by the committee of suspicions of collaboration by judicial officials with the Nazis regarding the deportation of Jews and the expropriation of Jewish property;...