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Language of Description: French
Language of Description: Hebrew

  1. M.25 - Documentation of the Mouvement National Hebreu (MNH - Hebrew National Movement) in France, 1941-1942

    M.25 - Documentation of the Mouvement National Hebreu (MNH - Hebrew National Movement) in France, 1941-1942 Georges Blumberg, the MNH founder apparently established the archives; MNH was founded in Paris before the outbreak of the war; the MNH leaders were Georges Blumberg and Adia Gourevitch; the goal of the movement was to redefine the terms "Jewish nation" and "Hebrew state"; MNH published two editions of the "Shem" anthology in Paris. The documentation in the collection was prepared for an anthology that was meant to be published in Marseilles, where Blumberg lived; the files are compri...

  2. P.46- Kaelter Collection: Documentation from the estate of David and Judith (Edith) Kaelter, residents of Germany, who emigrated to Eretz Israel in 1939

    P.46- Kaelter Collection: Documentation from the estate of David and Judith (Edith) Kaelter, residents of Germany, who emigrated to Eretz Israel in 1939 David Kaelter served as a teacher in a few Jewish communities in the Saxony region of Germany and subsequently in Berlin. In 1935 he established and administered a Jewish elementary school in Koenigsberg. In 1939, David and Judith (Edith) Kaelter made aliya to Eretz Israel, where David continued in the teaching profession. The material includes: - Details regarding David and Judith Kaelter's families (File 1); - Personal documents belonging...

  3. Fonds Édouard Daladier. Supplément : internement et procès de Riom (1940-1945).

    496AP/68. Papiers personnels d'Édouard Daladier. 1903-1970. 496AP/69-496AP/71. Arrestation, procès et captivité d'Édouard Daladier. 1940-1945. 496AP/72. Les écrits d'Édouard Daladier après la guerre. Sans date.

  4. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France Documentation regarding Jewish underground heroes who died in France or were deported from France to extermination camps collected by the Association of Jewish Resistance Veterans (ARJF). Copies of the original material have been transferred to the Museum. The original documentation is located in the Yad Vashem Archives; the photographs have been transferred to the Yad vashem Photo Archives. The original numbering of the files has been preserved despite the fact that many files are empty.

  5. TR.6 - Documentation of the People's Court in Bulgaria, 1944-1945

    TR.6 - Documentation of the People's Court in Bulgaria, 1944-1945 The People's Court was active in Bulgaria from 19 December 1944 until April 1945. It was set up as a special court with the purpose of bringing to trial those people accused of collaboration with the authorities between 01 January 1941 and 09 September 1944. While it was in session, the People's Court handed down approximately 9,550 verdicts leading to the execution of 2,680 people, while the rest of the defendants were sentenced to terms in prison. Among those found guilty was Dimitar Peshev, the Deputy Speaker of the Nation...

  6. P.32 - Collection of Hansi and Joel Brand, activists in the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest during World War II

    P.32 - Collection of Hansi and Joel Brand, activists in the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest during World War II Biographies of Joel Jenő Brand and his wife Hansi (Hartmann) Brand Joel Brand was born in Naszód, Transylvania in 1906. In 1934, after a stay in Germany, he settled in Budapest, Hungary, where he joined the Poalei Zion Party. In 1935 he married Hansi Hartmann and together they set up a glove factory. In 1942 Joel and Hansi were among the founders of the Relief and Rescue Committee, the Budapest-based underground organization, which worked on behalf of Jewish refugees in Hu...

  7. O.12 - Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943

    O.12- Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943 The Perlman Collection consists of 64 testimonies gathered by Jewish Agency representatives during the years 1942-1943, mainly from Jews who arrived to Eretz Israel during World War II. Most of the testimonies were given by Jews who held Mandatory Palestine citizenship, were married to Mandatory Palestine citizens or were related to them. These Jews were included in exchange agreements of foreign citizens for German citizens, and they succeeded in reaching Eretz Israel. Another group of witn...

  8. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 5263688
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1904-2002
    • Annotations Article(s), list(s), text(s) Bibliography Booklet(s) Brochure Calendar Lectures Lists Manuscript Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Research article Statistical data Syllabus Thesis/Dissertation

    P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002 Prof. Leni Yahil, the historian, donated the collection to Yad Vashem on 30 December 2004; Sarit Shavit, the researcher, submitted additional material (from File 36 on) to Yad Vashem in October 2009. The collection includes documentation, newspaper clippings, lists, articles, booklets, doctoral dissertations, notes, Leni Yahil's correspondence and more. The documentation relates to the following subjects: the Jews of Denmark during the Holocaust; the Jews of Germany from the 1930s until the Holocaust; the Jews of Sweden, Norway an...

  9. P.20 - Zorach Warhaftig Archive: Documentation of rescue and aid extended to refugees who escaped from Poland and Lithuania to Japan, 1939-1990

    P.20 - Zorach Warhaftig Archive: Documentation of rescue and aid extended to refugees who escaped from Poland and Lithuania to Japan, 1939-1990 Zorach Warhaftig was born in Wolkowisk, White Russia. While still a youth, he was an active member of the Hamizrachi movement. He acquired a traditional Jewish education and a general education, earning his Law degree at Warsaw University. From 1936-1939 he served as Chairman of the Eretz Israel office in Warsaw and a representative at the 17th through the 21st Zionist Congresses. When World War II broke out, he escaped to Lithuania, and there he ai...

  10. Archives d’André Boulloche

    Né en 1915, polytechnicien, ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées, André Boulloche s'engagea dès 1940 dans la Résistance. Devenu en 1943 délégué militaire de la région de Paris, il fut arrêté en janvier 1944 et déporté le 27 avril, d'abord à Auschwitz puis à Buchenwald et Flossenburg. Le 15 août 1944, c'était au tour de ses parents, Hélène et Jacques Boulloche, et de son frère Robert de partir pour l'Allemagne, d'où ils ne revinrent pas. À son retour de déportation, André Boulloche se lança dans une brillante carrière de haut fonctionnaire et d'homme politique. Directeur du cabinet de Paul Ramad...

  11. Archives du Réseau du Souvenir

    (historique du Réseau, par le général Pierre Saint-Macary) Le Réseau du Souvenir est né d'une double intuition de Paul Arrighi : créer une structure exclusivement vouée au souvenir des déportés, disparus, morts pour la liberté ; articuler cette structure comme un réseau, sur le modèle des réseaux de résistants, voués au renseignement ou à l'action entre 1940 et 1944. Défini par son but, le Réseau s'étend de proche en proche par parrainage à partir d'un noyau initial comprenant Paul Arrighi, avocat à la Cour, dirigeant du mouvement "Ceux de la Résistance", déporté à Mauthausen (Melk et Ebens...

  12. Archives de Jacques Bénet

    Ancien élève de l'École nationale des Chartes, Jacques Bénet est membre en 1944-1945 de l'Assemblée consultative provisoire au titre de la résistance intérieure française. Ancien co-fondateur et co-responsable national du Rassemblement national des prisonniers de guerre (RNPG) et du Mouvement national des prisonniers de guerre et déportés (MNPGD), il a été, après Pierre Le Moign', le liquidateur national de ce dernier mouvement.

  13. Fonds Szmul Zacharie Simon Hercenberg

    En septembre 1940, Simon Hercenberg, juif d'origine polonaise, passe la frontière pour se rendre en Suisse. Il est arrêté à Genève, emprisonné, puis libéré par le caporal Fernand Demierre. Celui-ci l'accueille chez lui et le met en contact avec les services de renseignements suisses puis avec l' ( ). Basé en Suisse, mais opérant en France, Simon Hercenberg travaille aussi avec les réseaux Kléber et Bruno. Au cours d'une mission, il est arrêté par les Allemands près de la frontière et soupçonné d'espionnage mais, faute de preuves, n'est condamné qu'à quatre mois de prison, puis relâché. Il r...

  14. Guerre de 1939-1945. Archives du Comité d'histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale (fonds complémentaire)

    Le reliquat des archives du Comité d'histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, objet du présent inventaire, a été versé aux Archives nationales en 1998 par l'Institut d'histoire du temps présent. Il constitue le complément indispensable des dossiers cotés 72AJ/632 à 72AJ/705 et permet d'éclairer le fonctionnement de l'institution ainsi que les modalités de préparation, de mise en place et de suivi de la plupart des grandes enquêtes lancées par les cinq commissions constituées en son sein (histoire de la Résistance, histoire militaire, histoire économique et sociale, histoire de la collaborat...

  15. Archives de Lazare Rachline

    Lazare Rachline (1905-1968), cofondateur de la Ligue internationale contre l’antisémitisme (LICA), engagé volontaire en 1940, évadé du Stalag IV B et résistant de la première heure, joua un rôle déterminant dans les semaines qui précédèrent le débarquement allié et la libération de Paris. Ses archives sont le reflet fidèle de cette vie riche en engagements. Les années de guerre et la Résistance y occupent une place centrale, mais, au-delà du parcours de Lazare Rachline, y transparaît l'histoire d'une famille juive marquée par l'Occupation et les lois de Vichy : de l'aryanisation des établis...

  16. Fonds Denise et Alain Vernay

    • Archives Nationales de France
    • 72AJ/2946-72AJ/2957
    • French
    • 1,30 ml (12 articles). Le fonds comporte aussi une série de cassettes audio d'entretiens dont l'inventaire reste à faire (2018)

  17. Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation

    La constitution d’une vidéothèque de témoignages, à l’époque où n’existait aucune autre Fondation de mémoire, a fait l’objet d’une décision du Conseil d’Administration prise en 1992, suivie de la constitution d’une commission compétente dont la présidence a incombé à Madame Manette MartinChauffier que son emploi au sein de l’Institut National de l’Audiovisuel et les compétences qu’elle y avait acquises, comme ses liens personnels et familiaux avec le monde de la déportation qualifiait mieux que quiconque pour assumer une telle fonction. La commission comportait quatre historiens de l’Instit...

  18. O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection

    O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection Mordechai Friedman was born in Pultusk, Poland, in 1937. At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, his family escaped to the Soviet Union. At the end of the war, his family returned to Poland, and some time later they escaped to Germany with the She’erith Hapletah. Friedman attended elementary school in Germany, and in 1949 made aliya to Eretz Israel. As part of his studies for his Master's degree in the History of the Jewish People, Friedman submitted a Master's thesis on Orthodox Jewry in New York, 1891-1914; his advisor was Professor Uriel Tal. Friedma...

  19. P.48 - Aryeh Kubovy Personal Collection

    P.48 - Aryeh Kubovy Personal Collection The Collection includes mainly documentation from 1951-1952, the years when Dr. Aryeh Kubovy served as the Legate for Israel in Czechoslovakia and Poland. Aryeh Leon Kubovy (Kubovitzki) was born in Kursenai, Lithuania, in 1896. In 1906 his family emigrated to Belgium, where he acquired the rest of his education. He completed his studies for a Doctorate in Classical Philology and Law at the University of Brussels and Liége University. In 1926 he became a Belgian citizen. He worked as a lawyer from 1926-1940, first in Antwerp and afterwards in Brussels....

  20. P.54 - Archive of Dr. Israel Kasztner, one of the leaders of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, and Collection of Dov Dinur, Kasztner's Biographer

    P.54 - Archive of Dr. Israel Kasztner, one of the leaders of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, and Collection of Dov Dinur, Kasztner's biographer Biography of Dr. Israel Rezső Rudolf Kasztner: Israel Kasztner was born in Cluj, Transylvania, Romania in 1906. Between World War I and World War II, he worked as a journalist and an attorney at law, and, at the same time, he was an activist in the Zionist Labor Movement in Cluj. After the annexation of northern Transylvania to Hungary in 1940, Kasztner moved to Budapest and continued his Zionist Movement activities. He was one of the f...