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

  1. TR.17.OBUiADwSz - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Szczecin, Poland, 1964-1981

    TR.17.OBUiADwSz - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Szczecin, Poland, 1964-1981 Included in the collection are information pamphlets of the State Museum of Auschwitz Camp, 1976-1981; list of places of Nazi criminals in Police; documentation regarding Nazi criminals suspected of the murder of inmates in the Police labor camp (a sub-camp of the Stutthof concentration camp); list of labor camps in the area of the Szczecin region; documentation regarding German camps in Poland during 1939-1945, including documentation regarding gh...

  2. TR.17.WUiADwBy - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1946-1959

    TR.17.WUiADwBy - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1946-1959 Included in the collection are appeals by relatives of Jews who perished during the war period, submitted to the Polish Courts of Law in the Bydgoszcz district in order to receive declarations of death.

  3. TR.18 - Documentation from Committee for State Security (KGB) archives in Ukraine

    TR.18 - Documentation from Committee for State Security (KGB) archives in Ukraine In the collection there are files selected from the State Archives of the Ukrainian Security Service in Kiev and its branches by regions: Chernigov, Chernovtsy, Khmelnitskiy, Ternopol, Sumy, Rovno, Poltava, Nikolayev, Lvov, Kirovograd, Ivano-Frankovsk, Zaporozye, Zhitomir, Donetsk, Simferopol, Vinnitsa, Odessa and Drogobych. Collection description Files of investigations conducted by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Counter-Intelligence Department (SMERSH [Death to Spies]), and the Mi...

  4. TR.20- Documentation of trials conducted against war criminals submitted by the United States Department of Justice

    TR.20- Documentation of trials conducted against war criminals submitted by the United States Department of Justice The Record Group is comprised of microfilms that contain documentation of trials against war criminals and collaborators conducted by American courts in the US Occupation Zone in Germany. The original material is preserved in the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and the copies were given to Yad Vashem by the United States Department of Justice. Among the trials included in the Record Group (In File No. O300/203, there is a detailed entry of ma...

  5. TR.23:- Legal documentation from KGB Archives in Moldavia, 1944-1945

    TR.23 - Legal documentation from KGB Archives in Moldavia, 1944-1945 In the collection there is legal documentation from the Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB- Committee for State Security) Archive of Moldavia including investigative files of war criminals in the areas of Moldavia and Ukraine. The documentation includes detention orders, interrogation reports of local residents accused of the persecution of the Jews and murder of Jews in Moldavia and Ukraine, indictments and court rulings regarding the search for a specific criminal throughout the Soviet Union.

  6. TR.25 - Trial documentation - Latvia

    TR.25 - Trial documentation - Latvia Trial documentation from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives (USHMM), from the sub-record groups of the Latvian State Archives of the former Latvian KGB

  7. TR.26 - Trial documentation - Estonia

    TR.26 - Trial documentation - Estonia Trial documentation from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives (USHMM), from the sub-record groups of the Estonian State Archives of the former Estonian KGB

  8. TR.3 - Documentation collected in preparation for the Eichmann Trial, 1933-1962

    TR.3 - Documentation collected in preparation for the Eichmann Trial, 1933-1962 The Mossad (Israel Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations) discovered where Adolf Eichmann was residing in Argentina while using a false identity. Eichmann was captured and brought to Israel in early 1960. His trial, which was held in Beit Ha'am in Jerusalem [today, the Gerard Behar Center building], began in April 1961. The trial lasted for approximately three months, and Eichmann was subsequently sentenced to death for his part in the murder of the Jews of Europe. Eichmann submitted an appeal to the...

  9. TR.3.1 - Evidential material collected in preparation for the Eichmann Trial

    TR.3.1 - Evidential material collected in preparation for the Eichmann Trial The TR.3.1 Sub-Record Group contains evidential material collected in preparation for the Eichmann Trial, including transcripts of testimonies submitted to the Israel Police and copies of documents from the Holocaust period; the documents are dated, 1933-1961.

  10. TR.3.M - Eichmann Trial Administration

    TR.3.M - Eichmann Trial Administration

  11. TR.4 - Documentation from the Erich von Manstein Trial, 1949

    TR.4 - Documentation from the Erich von Manstein Trial, 1949 FieldMarshall Erich von Manstein was one of the senior German Army officers who served in various positions in the Soviet Union. War crimes and mass murders took place in the areas under the command of von Manstein, and he was therefore brought to trial after the war. The Record Group contains protocols of the trial, which was held in Hamburg, 23 August-19 December 1949. A protocol of the court session for each of day of the trial can be found in each of the 62 files in the Record Group.

  12. TR.5 - Trials of Jews in Israel accused of collaboration with the Nazis, 1947-1969

    TR.5 - Trials of Jews in Israel accused of collaboration with the Nazis, 1947-1969 In the Record Group there are legal files of Jews accused of collaboration with the Nazis while performing their jobs as Jewish policemen, informers and personnel in the labor and concentration camps. Most of the trials were conducted in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, while in specific cases, appeals were reviewed in the higher courts. In the files there are indictments, verdicts, court proceedings, testimonies and additional legal material.

  13. TR.7- Gruenwald-Kasztner Trial, 1954

    TR.7- Gruenwald-Kastner Trial 1954 In 1954, the Attorney General of Israel, Haim Cohen, filed a lawsuit against Malkiel Gruenwald, the Jerusalem journalist of Hungarian origin, on the charge of publishing a pamphlet which claimed that Dr. Rudolf Kastner, who was serving then in a public position, had collaborated with the German occupation forces in Hungary. Kastner had been a Jewish public leader in Hungary and a member of the Vaad Hatzala in Budapest at the time of the war. At the end of the war, Kastner had emigrated to Israel, become integrated as an active member of the Mapai Party (Wo...

  14. TR.9 - Documentation from the Auschwitz Trials in Frankfurt, 1965-1968

    TR.9 - Documentation from the Auschwitz Trials in Frankfurt, 1965-1968 The three Auschwitz trials were held in the District Court House in Frankfurt am Main from 1965-1968. The defendants at the trials were SS and Gestapo personnel who had served in Auschwitz and other people who had held positions in Auschwitz, including inmates who had held positions in the camp, such as Blockfuehrer ( block heads). The first Auschwitz Trial opened in December 1963, with 22 defendants being brought to trial, two of whom died during the proceedings. The most senior among them were Robert Mulka and Karl Hoe...

  15. Ukrainian newspapers published in the Sumy region during the German occupation, 1941-1943

    Ukrainian newspapers published in the Sumy region during the German occupation, 1941-1943 Included in the collection are issues of the newspapers: Vizrodzhenyya, Novyi Chas, Putyvlyanyn, Vyzvolrnnya, Lebedynskyi Visnyk, Golos Okhtyrshchyny and Sumskyi Visnyk.

  16. Various lists of the Jews in Italy mainly during the period of World War II

    Various lists of the Jews in Italy mainly during the period of World War II - List of last names used by the Jews in the past and currently, compiled for racial research; the date of issue is unknown; - Lists of names of those who declared themselves to be Jewish, 1938-1942; - Lists of names compiled for detention purposes, 1943-1944; - Lists of deportees, 1943-1945; - Lists of those arrested, 1943-1944; - Lists of those who perished, gathered 1945-1953; - Lists of those submitting reparation claims for the events of the war, dated 1968.

  17. Various materials from the Saarbruecken State Archives (without a central organization that produced them)

    Various materials from the Saarbruecken State Archives (without a central organization that produced them)

  18. Various materials regarding the Jews of Wasserburg am Inn

    Various materials regarding the Jews of Wasserburg am Inn

  20. Vormundschaftswesen (Custodianship) files of the Amtsgericht (Magistrates Court) in Hamburg

    Vormundschaftswesen (Custodianship) files of the Amtsgericht (Magistrates Court) in Hamburg Included in the Collection are files of Jews for whom Vormundschaftswesen (Custodianship) and Pflege (Shelter) proceedings were opened. Among other matters, the files relate to Jews who were property owners and whose property was confiscated by the State for various reasons (for instance, regarding emigres who left debts). The files include, among other material, lists of property of the Jews, and detailed reports of the Custodianship office regarding the activities and financial accounts of the Jews.