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  1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951 Born in 1882, in Lwow, Poland, Dr. Abraham Silberschein was an attorney who dedicated himself to public service. He was one of the outstanding leaders of the Labor Zionist movement in Poland, and in 1922, he was elected by the movement to serve in the Polish Sejm as the Labor Zionist representative . In 1930 he arrived in Geneva as a representative to the Zionist Congress. Due to the outbreak of World War II, Dr. Silberschein did not return to Poland, but he remained in Switzerla...

  2. P.10 - Archive of Mark Dworzecki, physician, Vilna Ghetto underground member and researcher of Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust, 1945-1975

    P.10 - Archive of Mark Dworzecki, physician, Vilna Ghetto underground member and researcher of Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust, 1945-1975 Dr. Meier (Mark) Dworzecki was born in Vilna in 1908 and died in Tel Aviv in 1975. He completed his high school studies in Vilna, and was active in its public life. He wrote for the "Zeit" newspaper in Vilna, as well as for "Hazifira" and "Heint". He served as the chairman of the SSRP (Zionist Socialist Workers Party) from 1933, and worked as a physician in the Novogrod workers' suburb from 1935. In 1939, he was elected as the Jewish representative ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. Documentation of the Stanislawow branch of the emigration syndicate, 1930-1939

    Documentation of the Stanislawow branch of the emigration syndicate, 1930-1939 Included in the collection are applications for emigration outside the country.

  8. Documentation of the Rivne municipality, 1941-1943

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12833699
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1943
    • Application Certification Correspondence Instruction List of clerks List of craftspeople List of healthcare workers List of homeowners List of Jews List of residents List of teachers Official documentation Statistical report Survey report הודעה

    Documentation of the Rivne municipality, 1941-1943 Included in the collection: - Instructions by the mayor of Rivne and the Reichskommissar (Reich commissioner) of Ukraine; - Instructions given by the Gebietskommissar (district commissioner) in Rivne to the heads of the districts, regarding arrangements by the local authorities and their activities including regulations regarding the transmission of documents to Jews; - Statistical data arranged according to nationality and race, prepared by the Rivne municipality, regarding the local population in Rivne during 1939-1942; - Documentation of...

  9. Documentation from the Amtsgericht Spandau

    Documentation from the Amtsgericht Spandau Files that relate to Jews as individuals, in most part regarding wills and estates.

  10. M.56 - Central British Fund

    M.56 - Documantation of the Central British Fund The Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief (CBF) known variously in the 1930's as the CBF for German Jewry (1933), the Council for German Jewry (1936), and the Central Council for Jewish Refugees (1939), was founded in Britain in early 1933 by a group of Anglo-Jewish communal leaders who represented the breadth of the liturgical spectrum and widely diverse political loyalties of the community. CBF action was a direct response to the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany on 30 January1933 on a political platform of anti-Se...

  11. Documentation of the Headquarters of the Security Service and the Police in Reval [Tallinn], 1940 - 1944

  12. Protocols and printed materials of the Senate in Hamburg, regarding Jews and the persecution of Jews

    Protocols and printed materials of the Senate in Hamburg, regarding Jews and the persecution of Jews The materials were prepared by the Senatskanzlei (Senate Chamber). Included in the Collection are excerpts of protocols of Senate meetings and printed materials, mainly the texts of proposals for legislation and proposals for decisions dealing with Jews and the persecution of Jews. The material deals mainly with the implementation of anti-Jewish legislation, the dismissal of state employees from their work, and the purchase of real estate properties from Jews.

  13. Personal files related to Jews, in the Bavarian Finanzministerium (Ministry of Finance)

    Personal files related to Jews, in the Bavarian Finanzministerium (Ministry of Finance)

  14. M.69 - Documentation from archives in Austria regarding the Holocaust

    M.69 - Documentation from archives in Austria regarding the Holocaust In the Record Group there is documentation from national, district and local archives in Austria. There is much information in the Record Group regarding the persecution of the Jews by the federal and local authorities and activities of institutions that persecuted the Jews. In this Record Group there is also information regarding Jewish Community life, Jewish property and various lists of Jews, such as lists of Jews (and Mischlinge or those married to Jewish women) who were dismissed from government service or lists of l...

  15. Personal files of Jews, in the Bavarian Ministry of Justice

    Personal files of Jews, in the Bavarian Ministry of Justice

  16. Documentation of the Gerichtsvollzieherwesen (Execution office) of the Court of Law in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Gerichtsvollzieherwesen (Execution office) of the Court of Law in Hamburg Included in the Collection are files from the Execution office regarding Jews, arranged in alphabetical order, including detailed lists of property.

  17. Collection of Ukrainian newspapers published in the Rivne region, 1941-1943

    Collection of Ukrainian newspapers published in the Rivne region, 1941-1943 - Issue of the "Vozrozhdeniye" newspaper, published by the Romen municipality; - Issues of the "Gaydamaka" newspaper, published by the Military Organization of the Ukrainian Nationalists (Polesskaya Sech) headed by Bulba Taras; - Issues of the "Volyn" newspaper, published in Rivne.

  18. Documentation regarding the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Kamenets Podolsk region, 1944-1965

    Documentation regarding the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Kamenets Podolsk region, 1944-1965 - Documentation regarding three collaborators who participated in the murder of Jews in the Kamenets Podolski region during the German occupation period; - Documentation regarding Nazi war crimes in the various districts of the Kamenets Podolsk region during the German occupation period, including the burial alive of hostages, Jewish women and children and the murder of POWs; - Documentation regarding the murder of the Jews of Zenkov, near to Stanislavovka, on 09/05/1942.

  19. תיקים של Amtsgericht Tiergarten

    Municipal District Office Tiergarten Moabit and Tiergarten-Sued were incorporated into Berlin in 1861 and the Tiergarten in 1881. In 1920, the district Moabit. The actual Tiergarten and Tiergarten-Sued and the former suburb Schoeneberg were merged to form the 2nd administrative district of the new city of Berlin, under the name "Tiergarten". The district office Tiergarten took up its activity on March 24, 1921. In the course of the new demarcation of the administrative districts in 1938, the Schoeneberger suburb became part of the administrative district Schoeneberg.

  20. Documentation of the regional committee of the Communist Party in Bialystok, 1938-1941

    Documentation of the regional committee of the Communist Party in Bialystok, 1938-1941 Included in the collection: - Documentation of the regional committee and the district committees of the Communist Party in the Bialystok region; - Lists of Communists and Soviet activists; - Documentation regarding refugees.