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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Documentation of the Romanian occupation authorities in the Jugastru (Yampol) district, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the Romanian occupation authorities in the Jugastru (Yampol) district, 1941-1943 Included in the collection are statistical data regarding the local population in the district, according to ethnic origin; situation of the schools in the district; orders given by the governor of Transnistria regarding the registration of the local population; work regulations of the Gendarmerie; correspondence by the governor of Transnistria with the governors of the districts, regarding the transfer of Jews to agricultural labor and to labor in the skilled professions; correspondence by the...

  2. Hakibbutz Ha'artzi Archives Collection: the Vilna Ghetto

    Hakibbutz Ha'artzi Archives Collection: the Vilna Ghetto Material from the Vilna Ghetto was collected during the war and after the liberation, and brought to Eretz Israel by members of the Hashomer Hatzair movement, Vilna Ghetto Uprising activists and members of the partisan movement in the Vilna area . The material is divided into 39 files and contains hundreds of original documents dealing with the history of the establishment of the Fareynegte Partizaner Organizatsye (FPO-United Partisans Organization), the way it worked and the preparations for the uprising. The organization placards ca...

  3. Documentation of the Municipal Department for Social Sevices in Tallinn, 1919 - 1944

  4. Collection of Hauptabteilung Inneres, the Department of the Interior of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz in The Hague, 1940-1941

    Collection of Hauptabteilung Inneres, the Department of the Interior of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz in The Hague, 1940-1941 The Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (German Minister of Justice), Dr. Friedrich Wimmer, established the Hauptabteilung Inneres (Department of the Interior), which was subordinate to his office, in 1940; the department was headed by Dr. Carl Stüler at the start, and was headed by Dr. H. Krell later on; various departments operated under the Hauptabteilung Inneres, including the Abteilung innere Verwaltung; Dr. H. Calmeyer was appointe...

  5. 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...

  6. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Alonim

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Alonim Container 1: Material regarding/by people who arrived to Eretz Israel during 1934-1938, photocopied from the personal files of members of Kibbutz Alonim, such as: documents, articles in the kibbutz newsletter, book chapters, testimony/interview, eulogy, memoirs booklet, questionnaires regarding Youth Aliyah graduates at Alonim, and background material written by the kibbutz archivist (Rivka and Shmuel Admon; Ofira; Avraham Elbocher; Z...

  7. O.64.2/WSZ.7 - Personal documentation belonging to Hermann Weisz

    O.64.2/WSZ.7 - Personal documentation belonging to Hermann Weisz

  8. Collection of the Kabinet van het Departement van Binnenlandse Zaken (Cabinet for Internal and Foreign Affairs) of the Netherlands, 1940-1944

    Collection of the Kabinet van het Departement van Binnenlandse Zaken (Cabinet for Internal and Foreign Affairs) of the Netherlands, 1940-1944 Dutchman Karel Johannes Frederiks was the secretary general of the German leadership in the Netherlands, the Afdeling Kabinet, during 1940-1945. In order to rescue some of the Jews in the Netherlands, Frederiks proposed to the Germans to administer a list of privileged Jews who would be permitted to reside in three designated areas in the Gelderland region; Frederiks, along with the secretary general of the Ministry of Education, composed lists of 675...

  9. M.41.GAOOGO - Documentation from the State Archive of the Public Organizations in the Gomel Region

    M.41.GAOOGO - Documentation from the State Archive of the Public Organizations in the Gomel Region History of the State Archive of the Public Organizations in the Gomel Region The regional authority established the Archive of the Communist Party in March 1940. The Archive was evacuated to the eastern areas of the Soviet Union in August 1941. Much of the documentation was destroyed during the evacuation as a result of the Germans' air-raids. After the liberation of the occupied areas of the Soviet Union, the central committee of Communist Party in Belorussia transferred some of the documenta...

  10. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Hatzerim

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Hatzerim Personal documentation (from the personal files of kibbutz members): 1. Yechezkel Roth (Of Blessed Memory): a. Eulogy regarding Yechezkel Roth; b. Transcription of a talk given by Yechezkel Roth to the children at the "Yaldei Teheran" ("Teheran Children") school at Kibbutz Urim, 1980; c. Ernest Roth: "Notes: Chapters of a diary from the Holocaust period", translated from German by Avraham Bimka, Kibbutz Hatzerim, 1986; d. Diary of Y...

  11. 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.

  12. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Beit Oren

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Beit Oren Description of the material: 1. Diary of the father of the submitter of the material, the late Naftali Landa, secretary of Kibbutz Beit Oren during 1943-1945 (handwritten, original, in Hebrew); 2. Page of a ceremony held on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of the establishment and settling of Kibbutz Beit Oren, including the "Buchenwald song" (original); 3. Page with the "Buchenwald song", in German (handwritten, original).

  13. Documentation of the district operational committee in Kherson, 1925-1926

    Documentation of the district operational committee in Kherson, 1925-1926 Included in the collection: - Survey report of the district committee for national minorities matters; - Statistical information regarding the Jewish population; - Program and report of the central committee for national minorities matters affiliated with the Ukraine government; - Instructions, working program and correspondence of the committee for national minorities matters affiliated with the local authorities in Kherson, regarding the transfer of the Jewish population to agricultural settlements, 1925.

  14. M.27 - Public Record Office, London: Documentation pertaining to Jewish matters

    M.27 - Public Record Office, London: Documentation pertaining to Jewish matters Established under the terms of the Public Record Office Act of 1838, the Public Record Office (PRO) was the official archive of the government of Great Britain. Court documents were originally stored at the archive, however, from the middle of the 19th century, government documents were transferred there, and the law was adapted accordingly. The archive was located in the Rolls Building in the center of London from 1854. In 2003, the PRO was combined with a number of other bodies, and today it is known as The Na...

  15. P.14 - Archive of Julius (Yitzchak) Stone: Documentation regarding relief to Jewish refugees in Australia and memorialization of the Holocaust in Australia

    P.14 - Archive of Julius (Yitzchak) Stone: Documentation regarding relief to Jewish refugees in Australia and memorialization of the Holocaust in Australia Dr. Julius Stone was a Professor of Law at Sydney University. He was active in Jewish organizations during World War II in an effort to aid European Jewry. In addition, he fought post-war Neo-Nazism in Australia. This record group, his personal archive, contains reports and memos regarding Jewish refugees during World War II, correspondence concerning activities of the organizations on behalf of Jews abroad and information about his post...

  16. Documentation of the People's Court in Tallinn, 1945 - 1952

  17. Documentation from the Landesarchiv (Provincial Archive) in Appenzell, Switzerland

    Documentation from the Landesarchiv (Provincial Archive) in Appenzell, Switzerland

  18. Documentation from municipal institutions in Kiev, 1931-1941 and 1952

    Documentation from municipal institutions in Kiev, 1931-1941 and 1952 Included in the collection: - List of workers in the municipal hospital; - Lists of students and diplomas issued at Medical School no. 2; - List of workers at the Aeronautics Engineering Institute.

  19. Documentation of the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Tschudnow, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Tschudnow, 1941-1942 Included in the collection are lists of Schupo-Schutzpolize (German Police) personnel and Sonderführer officers.

  20. Documentation from Field Command 815 of (Sicherungs-Divisionen) Security Division 403, in Grodno, 1941

    Documentation from Field Command 815 of (Sicherungs-Divisionen) Security Division 403, in Grodno, 1941