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  1. Documentation of the administration of the Tomashpol district, 1942-1943

    Documentation of the administration of the Tomashpol district, 1942-1943 Included in the collection are: regulations and instructions of the governor of Transnistria and other factors in the Romanian government, regarding the establishment of a camp for objectors to the Romanian rule; attitude of the local population toward the Romanian authorities; organization of work in hospitals in Transnistria; punishment of people giving help to Soviet POWs, by shooting; regulations regarding entry and exit from Transnistria; organization and work of the prisons, and the imprisonment of the Jews in co...

  2. Documentation regarding the persecution of Jews, from Estates in the State Archive in Muenster

    Documentation regarding the persecution of Jews, from Estates in the State Archive in Muenster In the Collection are two files from Estates (see the list of files in the "Multimedia" page, regarding the content): - Adolf ten Hompel (1874-1943) Dr. jur., Rechtsanwalt und völkischer Schriftsteller.

  3. Documentation from the Berlin Police Headquarters (Polizeipraesidium Berlin)

    Documentation from the Berlin Police Headquarters (Polizeipraesidium Berlin) The Prussian city ordinance (Städteordnung) of 19 November 1808 provided for the establishment of a state police administration in the larger cities. Accordingly, a Royal Police headquarters (Königliches Polizeipräsidium) was built in Berlin on 25 March 1809, to which the existing state police department was linked. At the time the greater Berlin area included several independent townships. Berlin was not one large city and the police forces were divided. A law implemented on 13 June 1900 created the Provincial Pol...

  4. Documentation from the Croatian State Archives: Branch Office of the Ustasha Intelligence Service in Zagreb - Jewish Section, 1941-1942

    Documentation from the Croatian State Archives: Branch Office of the Ustasha Intelligence Service in Zagreb - Jewish Section, 1941-1942 This collection includes approximately 3,000 pages of questionnaires completed by Jews from Zagreb, which were submitted to the Ustasha police in Zagreb. The questionnaires are organized in alphabetical order, in three sections; A-H, H-R and S-Z, and include the following information: first name, last name, date of birth, place of birth, citizenship, profession, marital status, the names of children under the age of 21, and information regarding property. T...

  5. Collection of Besonderen Verwendung, the Gewerbliche Wirtschaft Department for Special Cases for the Administration of Industry in the Netherlands, 1941-1945

    Collection of Besonderen Verwendung, the Gewerbliche Wirtschaft Department for Special Cases for the Administration of Industry in the Netherlands, 1941-1945 The Gewerbliche Wirtschaft - GeWi department, under the administration of Schmidt, was subordinate on one hand to the Rüstungsinspektion, the military body responsible for the handling of matters of industry in the Netherlands, and subordinate to the Generalkommissar für Finanz und Wirtschaft (German Ministry of Finance and Industry) on the other hand; GeWi was divided to various groups (Gruppe), which dealt with various fields, includ...

  6. O.1 - Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960

    O.1 - Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960 Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri was born in Berlin in 1891. A lawyer and legal adviser to the Prussian government, he was also active in Jewish affairs. He made aliya to Eretz Israel in December 1938. Dr. Ball-Kaduri, who was active in collecting material and writing about German Jewry, became aware that much material that reached the archives regarding Jewish life in Germany from 1933 to 1945 was incomplete, and that there were large information gaps. From hi...

  7. M.52.DAMO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Mykolaiv Region

    M.52.DAMO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Mykolaiv Region History of the Archives: An authority was established in 1921 for the research of the history of the Communist Party (Istpart) in the Mykolaiv sub-section. In September 1925 the Executive Committee of the Mykolaiv area ordered the establishment of an archival authority for the area that would be subordinate to it. Collections from local Soviet institutions and private individuals were transferred to it. During 1925-1931 the archival authority of the area assembled collections from government authorities that existed be...

  8. Documentation of the Estonian Jewish Cultural Council Board of Trustees in Pärnu, 1926 - 1934

  9. Documentation of the municipal committee for planning and construction in Riga, 1887-1944

    Documentation of the municipal committee for planning and construction in Riga, 1887-1944 Planning and construction documents, and materials regarding the management of buildings belonging to the area of the Riga Ghetto (the data is taken from the official list of real estate properties in Riga for the year of 1939).

  10. M.41.NARB - Documentation of the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia (Natsionalny Arkhiv Respubliki Belarus)

    M.41.NARB - Documentation of the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia (Natsionalny Arkhiv Respubliki Belarus) History of the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia The Central Archive for the October Revolution of the Belorussian Soviet Republic was established in the city of Minsk on 28 May 1927. The Archive moved to the city of Mogilev in 1930. The Archive underwent reorganization in 1938, and became the State Archive of the October Revolution and the Socialistic Construction. Following the outbreak of the war in 1941, the Archive's activities stopped. The Archive renewe...

  11. Collection of H. G. Adler, 1937-1959

    Collection of H. G. Adler, 1937-1959 H. G. Adler was born in Prague in 1910; he was a poet, historian, sociologist and multidisciplinary researcher; he was an inmate in Niederorschel, Langenstein-Zwieberge, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz camps; after the war he wrote important books regarding Theresienstadt and regarding totalitarian regimes; he died in London in 1988; Included in the collection: List of senior officials who served in Nazi organizations and institutions; Subjects related to the handling of the "Jewish Problem" that were discussed by Nazi organizations, including among others ...

  12. תיעוד על יהודים ועסקים יהודיים מבית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Bochum-Langendreer (ווסטפליה)

    Repertory Amtsgericht (district court) Bochum-Langendreer Sifted: Nr. 306-797 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 perished and their deportation; corresponden...

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

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12424844
    • 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...

  14. Documentation of the authorities in Putivl, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the authorities in Putivl, 1941-1943 Orders and instructions of the authorities in Putivl, regarding the collection of taxes from the local population, punishments, and the transfer of residents to forced labor in Germany, 1941-1943.

  15. Documentation of the Jewish community in Zablotow, 1936-1939

    Documentation of the Jewish community in Zablotow, 1936-1939 Included in the collection are lists of Jewish residents who paid taxes and the Zablotow community budgets for 1936-1939.

  16. Documentation regarding Jews, from local archives in the State of Thueringen

    Documentation regarding Jews, from local archives in the State of Thueringen Documentation from archives in Altenburg (Kreisarchiv), Apolda (Stadtarchiv, Kreisarchiv), Arnstadt, Bad Langensalza, Bad Salzungen (Kreisarchiv), Barchfeld, Eisenach, Erfurt, Geisa, Gotha (Kreisarchiv), Friedrichroda, Heiligenstadt, Ilmenau (Stadtarchiv, Kreisarchiv), Jena, Universität-Jena, Kranichfeld, Meiningen (Stadtarchiv, Kreisarchiv), Meuselwitz, Nordhausen (Stadtarchiv, Kreisarchiv), Pößneck (Poessneck), Rudolstadt, Saale-Orla-Kreis, Sondershausen, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreisarchiv (Mühlhausen), Weimar.

  17. O.29.2 - The A. Werber Collection, Personal documents and documentation regarding the Jewish Resistance in Belgium during the Holocaust

    O.29.2 - The A. Werber Collection, Personal documents and documentation regarding the Jewish Resistance in Belgium during the Holocaust

  18. Collection of the Stichting Landelijke Organisatie voor Hulp aan Onderduikers en Landelijke Knokploegen - LO (Fund to Help Those In Hiding and the National Organization of Teams of Fighters in the Netherlands), regarding Jews, 1940-1945

    Collection of the Stichting Landelijke Organisatie voor Hulp aan Onderduikers en Landelijke Knokploegen - LO (Fund to Help Those In Hiding and the National Organization of Teams of Fighters in the Netherlands), regarding Jews, 1940-1945 Included in the collection: Documents collected by the Stichting Landelijke Organisatie voor Hulp aan Onderduikers en Landelijke Knokploegen - LO, after the war, for the purpose of writing a book regarding the resistance activities during the occupation period in the Netherlands during 1940-1945; Testimonies of members of the Dutch underground, regarding the...

  19. Documentation of the Staatsverwaltung - Allgemeine Abteilung (State Administration - Economics Department) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Staatsverwaltung - Allgemeine Abteilung (State Administration - Economics Department) in Hamburg

  20. Documentation of the Devisenstelle (Foreign Currency Department) of the Oberfinanzpräsident Berlin-Brandenburg, from the Osoby Archive in Moscow

    Documentation of the Devisenstelle (Foreign Currency Department) of the Oberfinanzpräsident Berlin-Brandenburg, from the Osoby Archive in Moscow