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  1. החלטות על הכרה במוות (Todeserklaerungen) של קרבנות יהודיים של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Iserlohn (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12424769
    • English, Hebrew
    • Legal documentation Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files include the applications including details regarding those who p...

  2. Collection of postcards sent from the occupied areas to the Relico Organization in Geneva and Lisbon as confirmation of receipt of parcels

    Collection of postcards sent from the occupied areas to the Relico Organization in Geneva and Lisbon as confirmation of receipt of parcels The postcards were sent as confirmation of receipt of parcels in accordance with the request of the family members outside occupied Europe. - 600 postcards were sent to Lisbon, Portugal; - 3,700 postcards were sent from Poland to Geneva, Switzerland; 2,800 from France; 2,800 from various camps; 1,950 from Germany; 800 from Czechoslovakia; 1,600 from Vienna; 800 from Belgium; and 800 from other places.

  3. Documentation of the Magistrates Court of Law in Ottweiler (Amtsgericht Ottweiler) in the Saar region, 1909-1940

    Documentation of the Magistrates Court of Law in Ottweiler (Amtsgericht Ottweiler) in the Saar region, 1909-1940 Included in the collection: Two files that deal with trials of Jews during the Nazi period; Files that include orders, in most part orders that were given after the annexation of the Saar region to Nazi Germany. The orders deal with the integration of the system of law of the region with the system of law of Germany, including the obligation that employees in the law system must be of Aryan origin; File from the period from before WWI that deals with matters concerning commerce, ...

  4. Documentation of judicial institutions in Estonia, 1919 - 1941

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ramat HaKovesh Memorial booklet: 1. "My life experiences - Story of Shlomo Mark", 1980; Testimonies/ interviews: 1. Batya Golman; 2. Rachel Drob; 3. Henia Worfman; 4. Yetti Lom; 5. Henia Lang; 6. Sara Melech; 7. Moshe Salomon; 8. Aharon Kaveh; 9. Shabtai Confort; 10. Shoshana Kliger; 11. Berta Kravitz; 12. Asher Kruk; 13. Arieh Schwartz; 14. Pinchas Shulman; 15. Avraham Shenor; 16. Zofia Shenor; Three photographs.

  6. Documentation of the Oberschulbehoerde I, II, VI (High School Administration I, II, VI) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Oberschulbehoerde I, II, VI (High School Administration I, II, VI) in Hamburg In the Collection, in the context of the documentation of Oberschulbehoerde I and Oberschulbehoerde II (frames 294-1519), are files related to high schools, some of them Jewish high schools (including several files related to the Talmud Tora Schul). In the files of Oberschulbehoerde VI (frames 1520-2651), there is also general information regarding the schools.

  7. Documentation regarding Jewish organizations and companies active in the Tarnopol region, 1921-1939

    Documentation regarding Jewish organizations and companies active in the Tarnopol region, 1921-1939 Included in the collection are regulations of the organizations and companies; reports prepared by the Polish Police regarding the activities of the organizations and companies.

  8. Documentation of the Gebietskommissariat (district commissioner's office) in Rowno, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the Gebietskommissariat (district commissioner's office) in Rowno, 1941-1943 Included in the collection: - Orders of Staatssekretär H. Backe; - Organization of the functions of the agricultural administration and security organizations of the Reichskommissariat (Reich commissioner's office) of Ukraine; - Orders by the Reichskommissar (Reich commissioner) of Ukraine, the Gebietskommissar (district commissioner) in Rowne and the Generalkommissar (regional commissioner) of Wolyn and Podola, regarding the collection of taxes from the population, including the Jews; - Announceme...

  9. Documentation of the Corpul III armata Romania (3rd Romanian Army) from Odessa and Tiraspol, photocopied from the Osoby Archive in Moscow

    Documentation of the Corpul III armata Romania (3rd Romanian Army) from Odessa and Tiraspol, photocopied from the Osoby Archive in Moscow

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

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

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

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

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

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. 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.