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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Pinsk City Council documentation, 1936-1939

    Pinsk City Council documentation, 1936-1939 Applications submitted to the Pinsk City Council by residents, among them Jewish residents, regarding property, 1938-1939; lists of members of the City Council, 1938-1939; lists of residents of Pinsk with a note of their addresses in order for them to receive food cards, 1939; list of pupils, 1938-1939; budget of the Jewish hospital in Pinsk, 1938.

  2. Plaut Collection, regarding the Jewish Community of Hamburg

    Plaut Collection, regarding the Jewish Community of Hamburg

  3. Police documentation from the Bern, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1941-1944

    Police documentation from the Bern, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1941-1944 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  4. Police documentation from the Graubünden, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1937-1944

    Police documentation from the Graubünden, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1937-1944 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  5. Police documentation from the Schaffhausen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to Jewish refugees and personal files of refugees, 1938-1949

    Police documentation from the Schaffhausen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to Jewish refugees and personal files of refugees, 1938-1949 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  6. Police files from the St. Gallen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to refugees and immigrants

    Police files from the St. Gallen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to refugees and immigrants - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  7. Polish documentation regarding Rowne, from before the war period, 1910-1938

    Polish documentation regarding Rowne, from before the war period, 1910-1938 Included in the collection: - Map of the city of Rowne, 1938; - List of graduates of the school for women in Rowne who completed their studies in 1910.

  8. Polizeipraesidium Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe Police Headquarters): Files of Jews who are requesting to emigrate

    Polizeipraesidium Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe Police Headquarters): Files of Jews who are requesting to emigrate

  9. Protocols and historical documentation from the Demjanjuk Trial, 1986-1988

    A. Official protocols of the trial in Hebrew and in translation into English B. Historical documentation which served the prosecution at the Demjanjuk Trial

  10. Protocols and printed materials of the Senate in Hamburg, regarding Jews and the persecution of Jews

    Protocols and printed materials of the Senate in Hamburg, regarding Jews and the persecution of Jews The materials were prepared by the Senatskanzlei (Senate Chamber). Included in the Collection are excerpts of protocols of Senate meetings and printed materials, mainly the texts of proposals for legislation and proposals for decisions dealing with Jews and the persecution of Jews. The material deals mainly with the implementation of anti-Jewish legislation, the dismissal of state employees from their work, and the purchase of real estate properties from Jews.

  11. Questionnaires completed by Landraete (Districts) in Germany regarding the Jewish communities throughout Germany, 1946-1947

    The Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich distributed questionnaires among the regional and municipal authorities, mainly in the American Occupied Zone in Germany. The purpose of these questionnaires was to gather information regarding the number of Jews living in various places in 1933 and during the Nazi period, as well as the number of Jews who perished. The questionnaires also contain questions regarding Nazi concentration camps in those areas.

  12. Questionnaires filled out by children in the Foehrenwald DP camp, 1945-1946

    The questionnaires include questions concerning the names of family members, their places of origin and the general background of the children. On the reverse side of each questionnaire there is a short report regarding the history of the child from the day s/he was deported to the ghetto, the camps to which s/he was deported, when s/he was separated from his/her family members and places where s/he was from after the liberation until his/her arrival at the DP camp.

  13. R.1 - German Foreign Office

    R.1 - Documantation of the German Foreign Office, 1870-1945 Research conducted from the year 2000 and following regarding Nazi Germany has demonstrated that as opposed to the image promoted after the war, the German Foreign Ministry workers were actively involved in the extermination of the Jews of Europe. Almost all of them were working towards strengthening Germany and implementation of its goals, including the Nazis who joined the Foreign Ministry following the Nazi rise to power and the veteran Foreign Ministry workers. Among the goals of the Foreign Ministry was the amplification of an...

  14. R.3 - Documentation of the Nazi Party (National Socialist Party - NSDAP) in Eretz Israel, 1928-1939

    R.3 - Documentation of the Nazi Party (National Socialist Party - NSDAP) in Eretz Israel, 1928-1939 The first two chapters of the Nazi Party in Eretz Israel were established in Sharona and Jaffa in March 1933. Karl Ruf from Haifa set the chapters up, but during most of the time that the Nazi Party was active Cornelius Schwarz, from the Templar settlement, served as head of the party. In the summer of 1933 the party numbered 42 members, and in 1934, their numbers reached 239 (the largest chapter was in Jerusalem with 67 members). That same year, there were already active Nazi youth organizat...

  15. R.4 - Documentation from Economic Archives in Germany, 1933-1945

    R.4 - Documentation from Economic Archives in Germany, 1933-1945 In the Collection there is documentation regarding the confiscation of Jewish property including: - Documentation from Wirtschaftsarchiv Baden-Wuertemberg containing correspondence regarding the Aryanization of Jewish shops and companies, and directives from the Finanzministerium (Finance ministry) regarding the distancing of Jews from economic life; - Documentation from the Oberfinanzdirektion Berlin (Financial Directorate in Berlin) regarding Jewish property, including a list of Jews expelled from their homes, property and t...

  16. R.5 - Card catalog of German emigrants expatriated by the Nazis (Ausbürgerungskartei)

    R.5 - The German emigrants card catalog expatriated by the Nazis (Ausbürgerungskartei) The Nazi regime in Germany revoked the citizenship of German citizens who emigrated from Germany, and criticized the regime. Revocation of citizenship also meant confiscation of property, an action which turned many of the emigrants (who had escaped from Germany without managing to sell their property) into people with nothing at all. The lists of those whose citizenship had been revoked were published in the "Deutscher Reichsanzeiger", the official State publication. The first list was published on 25 Au...

  17. Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    The Record Group includes correspondence with relief and welfare organizations in Britain and Germany during the Nazi period and after the war, reports regarding the activities of these organizations and reports from visits of Jewish leaders in Germany after the war, including much information concerning the situation of the Jews living in various places in the country.

  18. The Recha Freier Archive: Founder of Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1935-1951

    The collection contains Recha Freier's personal files, including correspondence with various international organizations, among them the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of the United States, which directed its main efforts to the project to rescue Jewish children during the Holocaust.

  19. Registration ((Meldewesen)) files of the Hamburg Police, 1939-1945

    Meldewesen (Registration) files of the Hamburg Police, 1939-1945 Included in the Collection are lists of foreign residents and non-citizen residents in the city who died, among them Jews.

  20. Registration books of the incoming and outgoing documents [correspondence] of the Jewish education administration in the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Latvia, 1920-1934

    Registration books of the incoming and outgoing documents [correspondence] of the Jewish education administration in the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Latvia, 1920-1934