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  1. Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1930-1950

    Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1930-1950 The files are located in the N-Serie section in the Police department of the Swiss Ministry of Justice and the Police; the section contains approximately 45,000 personal files of civilian refugees who were absorbed by Switzerland from 1936 and until after World War II; approximately half of the refugees were Jews.

  2. M.52.DAKhO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Kharkov Region

    M.52.DAKhO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Kharkov Region History of the Archives: The archive was established in 1880 by members of the Historical-Philological Society of the University of Kharkiv, and was called the Historical Archives of Kharkiv. In 1920 the archive received the name, the Central Historical Archives affiliated with the education department of the Kharkiv sub-division. The Regional Historical Archives of Kharkiv was established in 1926, to which documentation was transferred from the Central Historical Archive. In March 1932 the Regional Historical Archives...

  3. Official documentation from Italian government offices from the World War II period

    Official documentation from Italian government offices from the World War II period - Correspondence between the Italian Foreign Ministry and various Italian embassies; - Italian Foreign Ministry reports regarding the situation of the Jews in Italy after the commencement of the Race Laws; - Correspondence between the Italian Foreign Ministry and the army regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees under Italian protection.

  4. Documentation from the police and gendarmerie administration in the Baranowitschi district, 1941-1944

    Documentation from the police and gendarmerie administration in the Baranowitschi district, 1941-1944

  5. Documentation of the administration of the Shargorod district, 1942-1944

    Documentation of the administration of the Shargorod district, 1942-1944 Included in the collection are instructions and orders by the prefecture and governor of Transnistria, regarding the supply and distribution of the agricultural produce; instructions and directives by the district administration regarding the sowing of grain; documentation regarding the payment of salaries to the workers in the district administration and the rural administrations; reports by government clerks.

  6. O.86 - Switzerland Collection

    O.86 - Switzerland Collection The Collection was opened recently; until now it has consisted of only one file (See also Yad Vashem Record Group M.63 - Documentation from Provincial Archives in Switzerland).

  7. Αρχείο Ασφαλιστικής Εταιρείας "La Nationale"

    • Archive of Insurance Company "La Nationale"
    • Archeio Asfalistikis Etairias "La Nationale"

    7 folders containing insurance contracts, accounting tables, receipts, circulars, correspondence. 3 folders containing 51 proposals concerning Jewish people. 84 payment documents and payment receipts. About 200 letters and various company documents.

  8. Documentation of the Reich Women's Leadership (Reichsfrauenfuehrung), Germany, 1933-1942

    Documentation of the Reich Women's Leadership (Reichsfrauenfuehrung), Germany, 1933-1942 The Reich Women's Leadership, established in February 1934, included the German Women's Organization (Deutsches Frauenwerk), the umbrella organization of women's organizations in Germany, established in 1933, and the National Socialist Women's Union (Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft), established in 1931. It was headed by Gertrud Scholz-Klink, who received the title of "Leader of Reich Women" (Reichsfrauenfuehrerin), November 1934. The two organizations and their female leaders did not have any real ...

  9. O.2 - Wiener Library Collection of Testimonies, London, 1940-1957

    O.2 - Wiener Library Collection of Testimonies, London, 1940-1957 Alfred Wiener (1885-1964), the man who planned and established the Wiener Library, was born in Potsdam Germany; by profession, he was an expert in Middle East affairs and researcher of Islam. From 1919 he served as the legal advisor for the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), and published many articles about the Jews of Germany. When the Nazis rose to power in 1933, Wiener immigrated to the Netherlands and lived in Amsterdam. He began to collec...

  10. Documentation of the regional employment office in Stanislawow, 1936-1939

    Documentation of the regional employment office in Stanislawow, 1936-1939

  11. Collection regarding the S. Liberman kindergarten, elementary school and private high school in Riga, 1932-1939

    Collection regarding the S. Liberman kindergarten, elementary school and private high school in Riga, 1932-1939 Included in the collection are reports of meetings of the teachers committee, and parents and pupils meetings; general documentation regarding the activities of the elementary school and high school; instructions and circulars of the education department of the Riga municipality, regarding the acceptance and dismissal of teachers; lists of teachers; classroom record books; protocols of examinations; documentation regarding the pupils' health situation.

  12. Documentation of the German and local authorities in the Pinsk region, 1941-1944

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12795074
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1944
    • Announcement Appeal to the authorities Approval Correspondence Death certificate Identity card Instruction Letter List of bakery owners List of forced laborers List of homeowners List of Jewish women List of landowners List of residents Official documentation Order Survey report הודעה

    Documentation of the German and local authorities in the Pinsk region, 1941-1944 Included in the collection, among other material: - Appeals by Jewish pupils in the schools in Pinsk to the Gebietskommissar (district commissioner) and the commander of the schools, requesting to receive work permits; - Orders of the Gebietskommissar, regarding the imposition of taxes on the Jews; - Death certificates of Jewish residents of Pinsk; - Announcements regarding Jews from Pinsk who became sick with infectious diseases; - Orders by the Supreme Commander of Wolyn to the commander of Brest Litovsk, reg...

  13. Documentation of the Jewish community in Lwow, 1885 - 1942

    Collection of files containing documentation of the Jewish community in Lwow

  14. Collection of the Departement van Justitie - Department of Justice of the Netherlands, regarding the deportation of Jews in 1943

    Collection of the Departement van Justitie - Department of Justice of the Netherlands, regarding the deportation of Jews in 1943 Included in the collection: Telegrams received by the Police commander in the Departement van Justitie of the Netherlands, including reports regarding the deportations of Jews from the various cities, 1943.

  15. Documentation from the Croatian State Archives: Croatian Ministry of State Treasury, Office for Nationalized Property, Jewish Section, 1941

    Documentation from the Croatian State Archives: Croatian Ministry of State Treasury, Office for Nationalized Property, Jewish Section, 1941 This collection includes in most part documents from two Ustasha government agencies charged with the supervision and then the confiscation of Jewish property: The Office for the Renewal of the Economy (May and June 1941), and its successor, the State Directorate for Economic Renewal (July-December 1941). The collection consists of correspondence between these central agencies and their local offices and other government and/or Ustasha party offices. Th...

  16. Comité de la Colonie Turque en Belgique. Collection

    This collection contains : two copies of a letter from 1943 written by the Comité de la Colonie Turque en Belgique [Committee of the Turkish Community in Belgium] in which the committee asks its more affluent members for donations to support its destitute members ; a file containing nine documents with regards to the activities of the Comité de la Colonie Turque en Belgique in 1943, including reports of meetings with members of the Sicherheitspolizei-Sicherheitsdienst to obtain protective papers for Turkish Jews in Belgium, and reports of the committee’s contacts with Turkish Jews held at t...

  17. Documentation of the German and local authorities in the Gomel Region, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the German and local authorities in the Gomel Region, 1941-1943 In the Collection there is documentation from the district and municipal administrations in the Gomel Region, documentation from the prisons in Rechitsa and Bobruysk, a list of residents in Rechitsa, directives issued by the Reichskommissar-Ukraine regarding the setting of prices, documentation from Hans Rothke, the Petrikov Gebietskommissar, directives from the Mozyr Gebietskommissar, correspondence and directives of the German authorities in Mozyr, Zhitkovichi and Petrikov, documentation of the municipal admi...

  18. M.41.ZGABar - Documentation from the Regional State Archive of Baranovichi

    M.41.ZGABar - Documentation from the Regional State Archive of Baranovichi History of the Regional State Archive of Baranovichi The Regional Archive of Baranovichi was established in 1940. During the German occupation, the Archive's activities were halted from 1941-1944. Following the dissolution of the Baranovichi region, the Archive became the Municipal State Archive of Baranovichi in 1954. In November 1963, a branch of the State Archive of the Brest Region in Baranovichi was established, based on several regional archives and on the Municipal Archive of Baranovichi. In September 1996, th...

  19. Documentation of the local government authorities in the Dnipropetrovsk region, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the local government authorities in the Dnipropetrovsk region, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Decision by the Dnipropetrovsk municipality regarding the function and the composition of the Judenrat; - Orders by the commander of the Security Service in Dnipropetrovsk, regarding the Security Police in Dnipropetrovsk and the registration of dangerous groups; - Orders given to the heads of villages in the region regarding the selection of sites for the establishment of ghettos if required, 17/04/1942; - Orders by the head of the Apostolovo district to the head of the vi...

  20. Documentation of the Jewish community and Jewish organizations in Leipzig, from the Polizeipraesidium Leipzig (Leipzig Police)

    Documentation of the Jewish community and Jewish organizations in Leipzig, from the Polizeipraesidium Leipzig (Leipzig Police)