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  1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957

    O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957 In 1957 the Yad Vashem administration held an essay competition in which participants were to write about their personal experiences during the Holocaust. The collection includes 200 of these essays.

  2. P.37- Archive of Benjamin Arditti: Documentation Regarding the History of Bulgarian Jewry, 1850-1964

    P.37- Archive of Benjamin Arditti: Documentation Regarding the History of Bulgarian Jewry, 1850-1964 Benjamin Arditti was born in Vienna in 1897. He lived in Sofia (except for two years during World War II) from 1916-1949. He was one of the outstanding activists in the Zionist movement in Bulgaria: he served as a member of the Central Committee of the Zionist Union in Bulgaria, 1919-1923; he held five terms of office as the representative to the World Zionist Congress; he served as the chairman of the Zionist Organization in Sofia; he was one of the founders of the Revisionist movement in B...

  3. M.16 - Collection of the Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie (Jewish Coordination Committee-JCC) of Dutch Jewry in Geneva, 1943-1960

    M.16 - Collection of the Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie (JCC-Jewish Coordination Committee) of Dutch Jewry in Geneva, 1943-1945 The Coordination Committee for the Jews of the Netherlands in Switzerland was established in 1943 at the initiative of several of the Dutch refugees in Switzerland, including Mr. M. Gans. The owner of a jewelry and antiquities business in Amsterdam, Gans had escaped from the Netherlands to Switzerland with his wife in the summer of 1942. The Committee mainly dealt with offering assistance (by sending parcels of food and medicine) to deportees from the Netherlands i...

  4. P.9 - Archive of Siegfried Jaegendorf, President of the Jewish Coordinating Committee for the Deported Jews in Transnistria, 1941-1967

    P.9 - Archive of Siegfried Jaegendorf, President of the Jewish Coordinating Committee for the Deported Jews in Transnistria, 1941-1967 Siegfried Jaegendorf was born in Czernowitz, 01 August 1895. He attended local elementary and high schools, and afterwards travelled to Vienna and Berlin where he studied engineering at a technical college, completing his studies as a mechanical engineer. His first position as an engineer was at the Siemens Schucker Werke in Berlin. In time, he was promoted and sent to serve as managing director for the Eastern Europe area at the Siemens factory in Vienna. A...

  5. Virtual Collection Terezin

    • ehri terezin research guide
    • English

    The aim of the EHRI Terezín Research Guide is to create a comprehensive, innovative and easy to use guide through the dispersed and fragmented Terezín (Theresienstadt) archival material and to empower further research on the history of the ghetto. The Terezín Research Guide illustrates the primary raison d'être of EHRI - to connect collections spread in many archives and in more countries. EHRI research guides demonstrate what a collaborative archival project can achieve and how archivists can redefine their tasks beyond providing physical access and creating finding aids restricted to the ...

  6. Virtual Collection Jewish Communities

    • ehri jc research guide
    • English

    The aim of the EHRI Jewish Communities Research Guide is to create a comprehensive, innovative and easy to use guide...

  7. Αρχείο Ειδικού Δικαστηρίου Δωσιλόγων

    • Archive of the Special Court for Collaborators
    • Archeio Eidikou Dikastiriou Dosilogon

    It contains proceedings and decisions of war trials. A number of these cases are relevant to the Jews of Volos.

  8. Okresný úrad v Trebišove

    • District Office in Trebišov

    The District Office in Trebišov was the state administration body. The fonds contains just a small part of the original documents of the District Office in Trebišov. Documents of District Offices in Slovakia are usually divided into presidial, administrative, military-related, technical and accounting files. The fonds is partially processed and the researcher has access to presidial documents of the District Office covering the basic political, social and economic events in the district Trebišov during the period of existence of the office. This part of preserved documents is cataloged in d...

  9. Tighina County Tribunal

    • Tribunal judeţean Tighina
    • Тигинский уездный трибунал
    • Tiginskiy uyezdnyy tribunal

    Correspondence on administrative issues; correspondence on mobilization issues; the case of Sura Gesser who is incriminated with the distribution of communist leaflets; disclosure cases of underground communist organizations; documents “in the Jewish language” about the activities of the 'Maccabi' society in Kaushany; correspondence about the moral and political mood of the population in Tighina district; Communist propaganda charges; the case against Ion Odobash for wearing the badge of the Jewish organization "Trumpeldor"; charges for wearing fascist swastika; cases of the distribution of...

  10. Nezavisna država Hrvatska-NDH

    • The Independent State of Croatia - NDH

    Savez Napretkovih zadruga u Sarajevu; Ured za podržavljeni imetak - Riznično upraviteljstvo /sa podružnicama u svim većim gradovima BiH, Državno ravnateljstvo za gospodarstvenu ponovu/podružnice u svim većim gradovima BiH, Ured za upravu židovskim nekretninama, Poglavnikovo povjerenstvo-PP, Ustaška nadzorna služba-UNS-a. The association of the Napredak cultural society cooperatives in Sarajevo; The office for nationalized property - treasury administration / with branches in all major cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the State Directorate for commerce / branches in all major cities of Bosn...

  11. Akta miasta Piotrkowa

    • Files of the town of Piotrków Trybunalski

    The subcollection "Commissar and Administration of the town of Piotrków 1919-1945" in addition to documents generated by the German administration, also contains files of the Rada Starszych Gminy Żydowskiej (Committee of Elders of the Jewish Community). The documentation contained in this collection is extremely extensive and concerns all aspects of the daily life of the Jews under the German occupation of the town, their internal organization, and their attrition and exploitation through forced labour.

  12. Kotarski narodno-oslobodilački odbor Split

    • National Liberation Committee of Split

  13. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg

  14. Consistoire Israélite II

    The fonds consists principally of documents created during the Second World War, especially from the time of the occupation of Luxembourg until 1943. It contains a list of Jews residing in Luxembourg, emigration of Jewish citizens and miscellaneous correspondence; Correspondence between the Jewish consistory and Chef de Civil Administration, confiscation of Jewish property, list of Jewish immigrants in North America, financial assistance to Jewish deportees, administration of Jewish property, Jewish nationals staying in Cinqfontaines - match "Ältestenrat der Juden" fees building on the barr...

  15. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg

  16. Jugoslavenski zbjeg u Italiji

    • Yugoslav Refugees to Italy

  17. Jugoslavenski zbjeg u Egiptu

    • Yugoslav Refugees to Egypt

    Fleeing the German offensive in late 1943 and early 1944, when Germany occupied Dalmatia, a large number of civilians (over 30,000), fearing reprisals, took refuge on the island of Vis. As Vis already housed the General Staff of the Partisan army and the allied British army, it was not able to accept and feed so many people. Therefore it was decided that the non-combatant population of the island be evacuated as refugees to South Italy, first to Bari and then to Taranto. Refugees mostly consisted of people from the Makarska area (around 6000), as well as from Vodice, the islands of Hvar, Vi...

  19. Штаб имперского руководителя (рейхсляйтера) Розенберга для оккупированных восточных областей, г.г. Берлин — Киев

    USHMM has copied from this fonds and describes the copies as follows: Opis 1, Einsatzstab Rosenberg Folder 2: Einsatzstab Rosenberg for the occupied eastern territories. Correspondence on transport of books, article translations from the foreign press on Lenin and Stalin, a letter on reworking documents of the German playwright Hans Mühlenstein, lists of permanent employees of Einsatzstab Rosenberg, lists of POWs and interrogation results. 11 III 1942-3 IX 1944. Folder 7: Circulars and correspondence on personnel (locally recruited workers). Inquiries on goods shipped to the headquarters. F...

  20. Українська республіканська надзвичайна комісія зі встановлення збитків та злочинів, заподіяних німецько-фашистськими загарбниками, м. Київ

    USHMM has copied from this fonds and describes the copies as follows: Opis 1, Ukrainian Extraordinary State Committee to Investigate German-Fascist Crimes Committed on Soviet Territory Folder 31: Lists of people killed and damages inflicted upon population, for the Stalino oblast. Folder 48: Lists of people killed and damages inflicted upon population, for the Poltava oblast. Folder 51: Lists of people killed and damages inflicted upon population of various villages in the Ukraine. 1943. Folder 52: Lists of people killed and damages inflicted upon population, Oleinik. Folder 53: Ostarbeiter...