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Language of Description: English
Country: Israel

  1. Documentation from Regional Archives in Ukraine, 1934-1966

    In the collection there are files from the following regional archives in Ukraine: the State Archive in the Lvov region, the State Archive in the Ivano-Frankovsk region, the State Archive in the Chervovtsy region, the State Archive in the Khmelnitskiy region, the State Archive in the Vinnitsa region, the State Archive in the Kiev region, the State Archive in the Rovno region, the State Archive in the Ternopol region, the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine (Lvov), the State Archive of the Office of Internal Affairs in Ukraine, the State Archive of the City of Kiev, the Vernadskiy C...

  2. Austrian Communities Registry

    The 404 files in the collection are devoted to various subjects, a minority to specific organizations, and a small number of the files to personalities. In some of the files there is documentation regarding general subjects such as the Jews in Music and Philosophers, however, the great majority of the documentation is devoted to specific subjects, some according to states and years, for example, identification of the names of the Jews who died in various places in World War I, correspondence of the Jewish institutions with specific governmental bodies (for example, the Niederoesterreichisch...

  3. Documentation from the State Archives of Saint Petersburg

    In the Record Group there is documentation selected from the TSGA SPb (Central State Archive of St. Petersburg) from the years 1918-1955, and from the Central State Archive of Historical and Political Documentation (the former archive of the Communist Party), 1941-1973. The Records Group in Yad Vashem contains 3,136 files.In the Records Group there is documentation from the following collections: The Collection of the Department for Nationalist Minority Matters of the Regional Executive Committee of St. Petersburg, 1918-1923:Reports regarding the activities of Jewish schools, orphanages and...

  4. 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.

  5. The Kurt Grossmann Archives: Documentation regarding Kurt Grossman's activities as an advisor to the Jewish Agency and documentation regarding reparations

    In the collection there is documentation primarily regarding the background to Grossmann's activities as a press officer after World War II, along with documentation regarding the negotiations conducted between Israel and Germany concerning the reparations. The documentation includes mainly German publications regarding German legislation concerning reparations and reports of Grossmann's trips to Germany. More than half the documentation consists of press clippings.

  6. Documentation of the Central British Fund

    The documentation covers the period from the end of the war until after 1960 and primarily relates to Jews displaced during the war. There is also documentation regarding activities in other countries as well as problems related to Eretz Israel and the creation of the State of Israel in the Record Group. The documentation in the Record Group describes the efforts that were made to evacuate Jews from Nazi-controlled Europe, 1933-1944, the subsequent care of these refugees, post-war reparation, the impact of the Holocaust on the Zionist movement, and many other issues. The archive is all the ...

  7. Central Location Index of the Relatives Search Department

    In the collection there are documents, lists and index cards. There are two main sections to the collection: Index Cards and Boxes of Documents.1. Index Cards: There are approximately 1,200,000 index cards, not in alphabetical order. Most of the cards are in good physical condition; 2. Boxes of documents: There are approximately 210 boxes of documents clearly divided into two kinds of material:A. The lists are located in 83 boxes including the names of those survivors for whom the organization has searched. The names appear on the index cards as well (in Part 1), because with every applicat...

  8. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

    M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959 There are 220 files in the record group, which includes various publications, such as bulletins, reports, letters and surveys, containing information regarding the condition of the Jews in occupied Europe during World War II. The information was gathered, collated and distributed by Jewish organizations in Eretz Israel, Turkey (Istanbul) and Switzerland during the war and the early postwar years. Some of the communications were intended for distribution solely among the members of the or...

  9. Menachem Kaufmann Collection: Documentation regarding Communities in Germany, mainly in Hessen

    The files include information regarding the Jewish communities,mainly in the Hessen area, (including Jewish community-owned property) and the lives of the Jews.

  10. Documentation regarding the Jews of the Baltic States, mainly during the Holocaust period

    In this Record Group there is personal documentation of inmates of ghettos, survivors, partisans and Red Army soldiers. The documentation includes telegrams, private letters, documentation from yeshivas, statistical reports and survey reports from the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) regarding the persecution of Jews and the murder of Jews, survey-reports regarding the deportation of Jews from German occupied countries to German occupied areas in the Soviet Union and their murder in its boundaries, a list of Jews who received vis...

  11. Documentation of the German Foreign Office, 1870-1945

    The documentation from the Auswertiges Amt found in the Yad Vashem Archives dates from the establishment of the Second Reich through the end of the Third Reich, 1870-1945. In the Collection there is documentation on the following subjects:1. Jewish affairs in all the countries in which Germany had diplomatic legations, as well as general files photocopied from archives in countries such as the USSR and Ukraine during those periods when central events regarding the Jews took place; 2. Complete files regarding Middle East affairs and mainly Eretz Israel were photocopied;3. All documentation r...

  12. O.34 - Zonabend Collection: Documentation From the Lodz Ghetto

    O.34 - Zonabend Collection: Documentation from the Lodz Ghetto The documentation in this Collection survived due to the initiative of Nachman Zonabend who was in a group of Jewish inmates brought to the Lodz Ghetto to clear away the rubble during the war. Zonabend stole into the building where the Ghetto Archive was kept, rescued the documentation at the risk of his life, and hid it until the end of the war. The documentation is invaluable for the history of the Lodz Ghetto. The collection, from 1939-1945, includes Judenrat posters, circulars issued by the Jewish Community offices in the gh...

  13. O.22- The Mecker Collection: Letters and newspaper clippings from the "Forverts" newspaper published in New York regarding the search for relatives, 1940-1951

    O.22- The Mecker Collection: Letters and newspaper clippings from the "Forverts" newspaper published in New York regarding the search for relatives, 1940-1951 J. Mecker was one of the editors of the "Forverts" newspaper published (in Yiddish) in New York. Between 1945 and 1951 Mecker collected letters and written testimonies sent to the newspaper by Holocaust survivors. Some of this documentation appeared in the newspaper. Newspaper clippings as well as manuscripts of letters and testimonies that were not published in the newspapers were submitted to Yad Vashem by Ms. Rachel Auerbach in 195...

  14. Documentation from the Von Mannstein Trial, 1949

    The Records Group contains transcripts of the trial which was conducted in Hamburg, 23 August-19 December, 1949. A transcript of the court session for each of day of the trial can be found in each of the 62 files in the Records Group.

  15. P.41 -Collection of Oskar Schindler, Righteous Among the Nations, personal documentation, mostly from after 1945

    P.41 -Collection of Oskar Schindler, Righteous Among the Nations, personal documentation, mostly from after 1945 In the collection: personal documents, correspondence with the German authorities after the war; lists of Jews whom Schindler saved; newspaper clippings; certificates of appreciation and more. The collection also contains correspondence between Oskar Schindler and the Jews he saved; the correspondence reflects the efforts made by the survivors on his behalf after the war.

  16. Documentation regarding the Holocaust from archives in Bulgaria

    In the Record Group there is documentation from government archives in Bulgaria. Cataloguing began in 2001, and it is still continuing. The Record Group is open for accepting additional official documentation. The Record group contains documentation from the Holocaust period:- Indictments, protocols of investigations carried out in preparation for the trials held in the People's Court in Bulgaria in 1945, verdicts and protocols from the first three Court sessions (regarding protocols from additional People's Court Sessions, please see Record Group TR. 6); - Antisemitic legislation in Bulgar...

  17. Card file of members of Hungarian labor battalions who perished

    The card file was collected and compiled by the Hungarian Ministry of Defense (Honvédelmi Minisztérium) between the years 1945-1954, and includes the personal cards of Hungarian Jewish victims. Some of the documents are photocopies of death certificates which were issued by local courts on the basis of lists and publications of various bodies such as the International Tracing Service, the US army, declarations by individuals regarding Hungarian Jews who had perished, and lists prepared by former prisoners.The card file, which was used for legal, and other, purposes includes information abou...

  18. O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981

    O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981 Leyb Koniuchowsky was born in Lithuania on 18 November 1910. An engineer by profession, he resided in Kaunas (Kovno). During the German occupation he lived in the Kaunas Ghetto and worked there until his escape. He found shelter in a bunker at a farmer's home where he remained until the liberation of Lithuania by the Red Army in 1944. From 1944-46, he wandered through the war battered towns of Lithuania, collecting testimonies from the few Jews that survived. The testimonies focus on the exterm...

  19. German Communities Registry

    In the collection are files prepared for the writing of the Bavaria Communities Registry and the Northwest Germany Communities Registry, including the communities of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Oldenburg, Lippe and Hamburg. The Bavaria files are arranged by district, and within each district, by alphabetical order.The Northwestern Germany files are arranged by state or Prussian province, and they themselves are in alphabetical order. The material is an anthology of the most detailed information regarding German Jewry throughout the years of its existence until its destruction by the N...

  20. Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Central Archives in Moscow, 1939-1945

    Official documentation from the Archives in Moscow, not including documentation from the State Archive of the Russian Federation which is located in a separate Records Group: Yad Vashem Archives M.46. Records Group M.40 is divided into subsections according to the archive of origin from which the documentation was selected. There are three subsections in the Collection: - M.40.MAP - Documentation from the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defense; - M.40.RCM - Documentation from the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History , 1941-1948; - M.40.RGE - Documentation from t...