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  1. Documentation from the Reichswirtschaftministerium (Reich Ministry of Economy) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1942

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11026735
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1936-1942
    • Balance sheet Financial accounts Names of perpetrators Official documentation Record of persecuted persons Statistical data Survey report

    Documentation from the Reichswirtschaftministerium (Reich Ministry of Economy) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1942 The following files are preserved in the collection: - A file dealing with insurance taken out by Jews, 1938-1939, including subjects such as the treatment of insurance claims submitted by Jews after the Kristallnacht riots (including a copy of the "Reichsgesetzblatt" [Reich Legal Gazette] from March 1939 containing the wording of the law on this matter - frame 1451, statistical reports and correspondence from December 1938 regarding the limit on claims pertaining to ri...

  2. Documentation of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbuerger juedischen Glaubens ((Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith) (CV) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow

    Documentation of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbuerger juedischen Glaubens ((Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith) (CV) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow

  3. Documentation of the German Security Services and Police in Kiev, 1942-1943

    Documentation of the German Security Services and Police in Kiev, 1942-1943 Included in the collection is documentation of the Ordnungsdienst (Order Services), including: - Orders and instructions regarding the transfer of residents to forced labor; - List of members of the German Gendarmerie headquarters in Kiev; - Orders, instructions and official correspondence of the Kommando der Schutzpolizei (Security Police Commando), the SS units and the Gendarmerie; - Orders given by the Reichskommissariat (Reich commissioner) in Ukraine to the SS and local German Police commanders, regarding the s...

  4. Documentation of the office of the Geheime Staatspolizei Staatspolizeistelle Litzmannstadt (German Secret Police) in Lodz during 1939-1943

    Documentation of the office of the Geheime Staatspolizei Staatspolizeistelle Litzmannstadt (German Secret Police) in Lodz during 1939-1943 Included in the collection is a list of Jewish inmates from the main prison in Sieradz; reports of the SIPO supervisor and the SD, regarding the mood among the Polish population, Gestapo activities and deported Jewish inmates; reports of the SIPO supervisor and the SD in Poznan, regarding the mood among the Polish population and the fight against the Polish underground; periodical reports of the SIPO supervisor to the Reichsgau Wartheland governor, regar...

  5. Documentation of the regional Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Lodz, 1946-1980

    Documentation of the regional Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Lodz, 1946-1980 Included in the collection are lists of murdered people, including Jews, from the war period in the Lodz region; lists of Jews from the Kutro, Lodz, Tomaszow Mazoviecki, Piotrkow, Radomsko, Pabianice, Zgierz and Leczyca Ghettos; documentation regarding acts of abuse against Jews before the establishment of the ghettos, and lists of labor camps for Jews; lists of Jews, residents of Lodz, who perished in the Dachau concentration camp; documentation regarding help given by the ...

  6. Documentation of material from Austrian government offices (mainly of the politician Karl von Karwinsky) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1935-1936

    Documentation of material from Austrian government offices (mainly of the politician Karl von Karwinsky) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1935-1936 The files in the collection: - Report for the year 1934 submitted by the National Bank of Yugoslavia, sent to the Austro-Yugoslavian Office of Commerce (Microfilm JM/29558, Scans 1975-2060); - Report for the year 1934 submitted by the Wiener freiwillige Rettungs-Gesellschaft, containing mainly statistical charts and a financial report (Microfilm JM/29558, Scans 2063-2087); - Report for the year 1934 submitted by the Generaldirektion fuer die Po...

  7. O.52.2 - Documentation prepared for the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - North-West Communities

    O.52.2 - Documentation prepared for the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - North-West Communities 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. This project is meant to fill in what is lacking in this area. With the increase of interest in the local communities, this Record Group serves as a very impo...

  8. Collection of Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, secretary general of the Wereldraad der Kerken (Council of Churches) in Geneva, 1940-1946

    Collection of Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, secretary general of the Wereldraad der Kerken (Council of Churches) in Geneva, 1940-1946 During the war Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft conducted close ties with the Dutch underground and with the Dutch Government in Exile in London; he was active in the promotion of the connection between the Dutch Government in Exile and the Dutch people; he prepared reports regarding underground activities using the code GC, a sign for the Church connection, in order to transfer the reports to London; he updated the activists in the Netherlands in the same manner; Incl...

  9. Documentation of the finance department of the regional Executive committee in Mogilev, 1940-1941

    Documentation of the finance department of the regional Executive committee in Mogilev, 1940-1941 Included in the collection are instructions regarding the manpower of the finance department.

  10. Documentation of the Main Office for Educators and of the Reich Administration of the National Socialist Teachers League (Hauptamt fuer Erzieher/National-Sozialistische Lehrerbund-NSLB), Germany, 1932-1942

    Documentation of the Main Office for Educators and of the Reich Administration of the National Socialist Teachers League (Hauptamt fuer Erzieher/National-Sozialistische Lehrerbund-NSLB), Germany, 1932-1942 Hauptamt fuer Erzieher was a department in the NSDAP National Leadership while the NSLB was an organization under Party auspices, but not officially part of it; In 1934, the Nazi authorities began to integrate all the teachers into the NSLB by, among others, disbanding the other teachers' organizations (including academic ones) and integrating them into the NSLB. By late 1935, approximate...

  11. Documentation of The "Licht" Jewish Cultural Society in Tallinn, 1926 - 1940

  12. Documentation of the Regional Court in Tartu, 1943

  13. Borgs-Maciejewski collection of newspapers on the subject of the Nazis, 1921-1950

    Borgs-Maciejewski collection of newspapers on the subject of the Nazis, 1921-1950 Dr. Hans Borgs-Maciejewski was a Catholic philologist and educator. He was born in Duesseldorf in 1898, and resided in Wuppertal-Elberfeld for most of his life. He became interested in newspapers at an early age and collected newspaper clippings, in most part from Catholic newspapers in the Rhineland. Upon Hitler's rise to power, Borgs-Maciejewski decided to focus mainly on the Nazi regime, dedicating his efforts to the collection of newspaper clippings from publications in the Rhineland and Berlin that dealt ...

  14. Collection of the Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Schoorl camp in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of the Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Schoorl camp in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

  15. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Beit Alfa

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Beit Alfa Experiences/ memoirs of: 1. Etti Agmon; 2. Menachem Agmon; 3. Elsa; 4. Roza Brenman, "To remember and speak, and not forget"; 5. Yehuda Gutman; 6. Gina Degan; 7. Doda Hadas; 8. Peretz Har-Arieh; 9. Zvika Harpaz; 10. Rachel Zorek Ziv (1994); 11. Rachel Ziv, "To rescue Shaul" (1979); 12. Shaul Zinger; 13. Mordechai Mann; 14. Sedko; 15. Elsa Slomnizki 16. Yitzhak Weintraub Einav; 17. Zipora Einav; 18. Shoshana Pivnik; 19. Shoshana Fel...

  16. Collection of the Niederlandische Aktiengesellschaft für Abwicklung von Unternehmungen, NAGU in the Netherlands, 1941-1944

    Collection of the Niederlandische Aktiengesellschaft für Abwicklung von Unternehmungen, NAGU in the Netherlands, 1941-1944 The Niederlandische Aktiengesellschaft für Abwicklung von Unternehmungen, NAGU was established by the Germans as a company for the handling of Jewish businesses, in accordance with the law in the Netherlands; the NAGU was, in actual fact, a body that served as a middleman in financial deals during the Aryanization process; NAGU received work orders from the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle, a department in the Ministry of the Economy and Economics, the Wirtschaft of the Reichskomm...

  17. Documentation of the Polish Courts of Law in the Gdansk region, 1946-1958

    Documentation of the Polish Courts of Law in the Gdansk region, 1946-1958 Included in the collection are appeals by relatives of Jews who perished during the war period, submitted to the Polish Courts of Law in the Gdansk region in order to receive declarations of death.

  18. Documentation of partisans groups in Belorussia, 1941-1944

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12797278
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1944
    • Brochure Curriculum Vitae (CV) Diary Letter List of partisans Official documentation Personal documents Statistical report Survey report

    Documentation of partisans groups in Belorussia, 1941-1944 Included in the collection: - Survey reports by partisans detachments to the Communist Party central committee in Belorussia, including among others, the disruption of activities by the Jewish partisans in Belorussia during 1942-1943, and regarding the murder of Jews from Antopol and Gorodets in Bronna Gora and other places during 1941-1944; - Lists of partisans; - Documentation of partisans units, regarding their activities; - Curriculum Vitae (CV) of partisans; - Professional opinions, regarding partisans; - Antisemitic brochures ...

  19. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Yad Mordechai

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Yad Mordechai Testimonies/ experiences/ memoirs/ articles (from the personal files of the kibbutz members): 1. Moshe Bar-Semakh; 2. Gavriel Koren; 3. Avraham Stern-Kochavi.

  20. Documentation of the Jewish Academic Historical and Literary Society in Tartu, 1879 - 1940

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 13578526
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1879-1940
    • Administrative documentation Agreement Charter Correspondence Draft Financial records Invitation Lists Photograph Protocol Questionnaire Reports Telegram