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  1. Documentation from the Schutzhaftlager (Protective detention) camp in the Stutthof concentration camp, 1941-1945

    Documentation from the Schutzhaftlager (Protective detention) camp in the Stutthof concentration camp, 1941-1945 Included in the collection is documentation, including administrative announcements regarding the organization of the camp, regulations, regarding the arrival of inmates and transfers of inmates; list of Jewish female inmates who were transferred to the camp; registration of inmates in various labor battalions; work cards of inmates and exit certificates from the camp; documentation regarding transfers of inmates; documentation regarding the punishment of inmates for various offe...

  2. Files regarding Jewish lawyers in Bremen

    Files regarding Jewish lawyers in Bremen

  3. Documentation of the Judenrats in the Lwow region, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Judenrats in the Lwow region, 1941-1944 Included in the collection: Correspondence between the vehicle repair workshops in Drohobycz and the Judenrat, regarding economic matters and the use of the Jewish labor force; requests to the Stadtkommissar by the Judenrat of the city of Boryslaw, regarding various subjects; establishment of Jewish businesses; collection of a tax from the Jews, by the Judenrat; destruction of buildings whose condition is dangerous; confiscation of furniture; refusal to rent a pharmacy to the Judenrat; establishment of a post office branch; list o...

  4. Documentation from the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv

    Documentation from the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv

  5. Documentation of the Senatskanzlei - Personalabteilung I (Senate Chamber - Personnel Department I) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Senatskanzlei - Personalabteilung I (Senate Chamber - Personnel Department I) in Hamburg

  6. O.52.1 - Documentation prepared for the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - the Communities of Bavaria

    O.52.1 - Documentation prepared for the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - the Communities of Bavaria The purpose of the Yad Vashem project - to prepare an Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - is to perpetuate the history of the communities that were destroyed during the Holocaust. The historiography of the communities focused on countries and sometimes on districts, but not on the history of the local communities. With the increase of interest in the local communities, this Record Group serves as a very important source for historians and researchers working in this...

  7. Documentation from the Informationsamt (Information office) of the Saar region, 1949-1956

    Documentation from the Informationsamt (Information office) of the Saar region, 1949-1956 In the material that was copied for Yad Vashem, there are four files that deal with the handling of victims of persecution; list of newspapers and periodicals [journals] sold in the Saar region, including the Jüdische Rundschau; visit by Professor Helmut Hirsch, an historian (perhaps Jewish) from the United States, who researched the Saar region and took special interest in the People's Left from 1935 [in which it was decided regarding the annexation of the Saar region to Nazi Germany] and proposed the...

  8. Documentation of the Brest Executive Committee Finance Department, 1940-1941

    Documentation of the Brest Executive Committee Finance Department, 1940-1941 In the collection: - Documentation regarding the taxes paid by Jewish skilled professionals and businesses owned by Jews; - Lists of skilled professionals, professionals, craftsmen, clergy, carters, and more, among them, Jews.

  9. O.28 - The Arvid Elstoft Collection - Documents of the underground resistance movements in Denmark in WWII.

    O.28 - The Arvid Elstoft Collection - Documents of the underground resistance movements in Denmark in WWII. The Danish resistance movement against the German occupation slowly developed from nonviolent resistance in 1940 to violent resistance from1943 until the liberation in May 1945. It consisted of various groups and individuals from Christian to communist orientation. They produced and distributed illegal newspapers and propaganda material, committed acts of military and industrial sabotage and attacked individuals and military units. Well-known organizations were: Frit Danmark, Dansk Sa...

  10. Reports regarding salaries received by workers in the Jewish education system in Latvia, 1920-1940

    Reports regarding salaries received by workers in the Jewish education system in Latvia, 1920-1940

  11. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, 1944-1946

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, 1944-1946 Included in the collection is documentation regarding the murder of Jews in the Gomel region and the Rechitsa, Petrikov, Yelsk and Narovlya districts.

  12. TR.7- Gruenwald-Kasztner Trial, 1954

    TR.7- Gruenwald-Kastner Trial 1954 In 1954, the Attorney General of Israel, Haim Cohen, filed a lawsuit against Malkiel Gruenwald, the Jerusalem journalist of Hungarian origin, on the charge of publishing a pamphlet which claimed that Dr. Rudolf Kastner, who was serving then in a public position, had collaborated with the German occupation forces in Hungary. Kastner had been a Jewish public leader in Hungary and a member of the Vaad Hatzala in Budapest at the time of the war. At the end of the war, Kastner had emigrated to Israel, become integrated as an active member of the Mapai Party (Wo...

  13. Documentation from the Terezin Memorial Site

    Subsection O.64.1- Documentation from the Terezin Memorial Site The documentation in this subsection was copied in the 1990s in the Archives of the Theresienstadt Ghetto Memorial Site in Czechoslovakia. The documentation includes diaries, memoirs, letters and documentation from the ghetto headquarters. The documentation is in German, Czech and the Yiddish that was unique to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, a blend of German, Yiddish and Czech.

  14. Documentation from the Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Saarlouis (Public Prosecutor's Office in Saarlouis), 1928-1938

    Documentation from the Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Saarlouis (Public Prosecutor's Office in Saarlouis), 1928-1938 The documentation that was copied for Yad Vashem includes details regarding Jewish jurists, trials against Jews, Jewish prisoners, anti-Jewish legislation in the Saar region, examinations of the Aryan origin of workers in the legal system, proceedings against Germans accused of friendly relationships with Jews, attacks on Jews and on Jewish property, and Jewish businesses that were in contact with the judicial system; The documentation was copied for Yad Vashem in 2012.

  15. Documentation from the Bayerische Staatskanzlei (Bavarian State Office)

    Documentation from the Bayerische Staatskanzlei (Bavarian State Office)

  17. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Givat Haim (Ihud)

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Givat Haim (Ihud) Experiences/ memoirs: 1. Olga Banai; 2. Shaul Bar-Lev; 3. Mina Bresler; 4. Shoshana Grinspan; 5. Chaya Flushnik; Eulogies: 1. Aleks Banai; 2. Chaim Hecht; 3. Yona Flushnik; Articles: 1. Arnon Lapid, "79235 - a strong number", from: "The green page in the kibbutz movement", no. 135, 1984; 2. Brief biography of the late Moshe Grinspan (unknown source).

  18. Documentation of the SS Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt (RuSHA-SS Main Office for Race and Resettlement), 1934-1945

    Documentation of the SS Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt (RuSHA-SS Main Office for Race and Resettlement), 1934-1945 The SS Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt (RuSHA-SS Main Office for Race and Resettlement) was founded in 1931; its functions included maintaining the purity of race of members of the SS, dealing with matters pertaining to farmers and settlement, and education of the population in the spirit of Nazi ideology. Richard Walther Darre, who at the time also served as Reichsbauernfuehrer (Reich Farmers' Leader), was appointed to head the organization. Darre's independent world view brought him...

  19. Documentation of the Landratsamt Erlangen (District authority of Erlangen) in Bavaria

    Documentation of the Landratsamt Erlangen (District authority of Erlangen) in Bavaria

  20. Courts of Law in Wurttemberg, Germany

    Courts of Law in Wurttemberg, Germany