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  1. Documentation of the Magistrates Court of Law in Neunkirchen (Amtsgericht Neunkirchen) in the Saar region, 1925-1935

    Documentation of the Magistrates Court of Law in Neunkirchen (Amtsgericht Neunkirchen) in the Saar region, 1925-1935 Included in the collection are excerpts from regulations of German and Nazi organizations, in which they ban the membership of Jews.

  2. Documentation of the People's Education Commissariat in Belorussia, 1923-1926

    Documentation of the People's Education Commissariat in Belorussia, 1923-1926 The Collection includes a protocol from a meeting of the Cherikov Municipality; statistical report of the makeup of the population in the Cherikov District, 1925-1926; documentation regarding the Jewish orphanage in Cherikov.

  3. Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamonds Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954

    Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamonds Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954 Included in the collection: Official documentation regarding diamond dealers in the Netherlands, most of them Jews, 1940-1954; Lists of diamond dealers, a newspaper article regarding Jewish diamond dealers in the Netherlands, and documentation regarding an incident of concealment; Documents of the Schade-Enquete-Commissies - compensation committee regarding diamond dealers during the postwar period in the Netherlands, 1946-1954; Documents of the Ministry of Transportation of the Netherlands; Documents...

  4. Documentation of the Privatkanzlei Adolf Hitler (Private Office of Adolf Hitler) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1933-1944

    Documentation of the Privatkanzlei Adolf Hitler (Private Office of Adolf Hitler) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1933-1944 The collection contains letters and requests of citizens and various office holders that were sent to Adolf Hitler, and in some of the cases, the Private Office responses as well. The letters include greetings for the Fuehrer on various occasions, declarations of loyalty and admiration, various works (articles, poems, plays), photographs, as well as requests for assistance on various matters, such as requests that Hitler visit certain places or write greetings to cert...

  5. Documentation of the regional Court of Law in Lwow, 1928

    Documentation of the regional Court of Law in Lwow, 1928 Included in the collection is a survey report prepared by the Police commander of the Lwow region and the director of the investigation department of the attorney's office in Lwow, regarding the activities of Roman Sushko and the Ukrainskaya voyennaya organizatsiya - UVO (Ukrainian Military Organization) against the State.

  6. Documentation of the I. F. Raukhvarger private school in Riga, 1921-1941

    Documentation of the I. F. Raukhvarger private school in Riga, 1921-1941 Included in the collection: Reports of meetings of the school committee of the high school of Bints (protocols of meetings, reports regarding parents meetings, lists of members, and so forth); reports of the teachers committee; protocols of entrance and transition examinations; lists of pupils; copies of matriculation certificates; teachers documents; Curriculum Vitae (CVs) of teachers; lists of teachers; personal documentation of former pupils; pupils grade books [marks]; correspondence with various institutions regar...

  7. Documentation of the municipal Executive Committees, regarding Nazi war crimes carried out in the Grodno region, dated, 1969-1970

    Documentation of the municipal Executive Committees, regarding Nazi war crimes carried out in the Grodno region, dated, 1969-1970 Included in the collection are documentation and lists of people who were murdered in Lida and Grodno during 1941-1944.

  8. Collection of Hanns Albin Rauter, the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of Hanns Albin Rauter, the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Hanns Albin Rauter was the head of the security system in the Netherlands, the Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen en Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, the HSSPF during 1940-1945; operating beneath him were the SS, the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei, the SD and the Dutch Police; despite his subordination to Seyss-Inquart, he had direct contact with Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, in a relatively independent status; Rauter was also the supervisor ...

  9. Files of the Vormundschaftswesen (Associations Registry) of the Amtsgericht (Magistrates Court) in Hamburg

    Files of the Vormundschaftswesen (Associations Registry) of the Amtsgericht (Magistrates Court) in Hamburg Included in the Collection are files of Jewish associations, including the Kulturbund and the Zionist Association.

  10. Documentation of the American-German Friendship Society, 1939-1942

    Documentation of the American-German Friendship Society, 1939-1942 The Amerikadeutsche Kameradschaft (American-German Friendship Society) was founded in 1938 by former members of the Bund der Freunde des Neuen Deutschland (League of the Friends of the New Germany). It was also known as Kameradschaft USA (USA Comradeship). Headed by Fritz GissibI, its head office was in Stuttgart, Germany. The collection contains material pertaining to the Comradeship's propaganda activities against Jews who were spreading anti-German propaganda overseas. It also includes a list of members, as well as materi...

  11. Documentation of the SS- und Polizeiführer commander affiliated with the office of the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Rushin, 1942-1943

    Documentation of the SS- und Polizeiführer commander affiliated with the office of the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Rushin, 1942-1943 Included in the collection: - Instructions of the Police commander; - Survey reports regarding the organization of the Ukrainian Police, the arrest of Ukrainian Nationalists who support Stepan Bandera (leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - OUN), combat against the partisans, and attacks by the partisans; - List of heads of villages, their deputies and their accountants; - Files regarding the arrest of Communists, partisans, POWs an...

  12. Documentation of the SA headquarters, 1923-1945

    Documentation of the SA headquarters, 1923-1945 Documentation of the SA headquarters: Establishment of the Assault Unit by the Nazi Party, 1921; establishment of the Supreme SA Leadership (Oberste SA-Fuehrung-OSAF) by Adolf Hitler, headed by Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, based in Munich, 1926; replaced by Hitler himself, in 1929; placement of Ernst Roehm at the head of the organization, 1931; elimination of the organization's leadership on "the night of the long knives", 30 June 1934, and removal of all its political functions; placement of Viktor Lutze as head of the organization following Ro...

  13. Documentation from the Politische Polizei (Political Police) in the Muenster district (Westphalia region)

    Documentation from the Politische Polizei (Political Police) in the Muenster district (Westphalia region)

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

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12423661
    • 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...

  16. Collection Reichskommissar für die besetzten niederländischen Gebiete, 1940-1944

    Collection of the Deutsche Theater in den Niederlanden, regarding theater and opera presentations in the Netherlands, June-August 1944 The theater was subjugated to the Reichskommissar; Dr. W. Nufer administered the German theater in the Netherlands with the help of Dr. J. Bergfeld, the head of the culture department of the Generalkommissar zur besonderen Verwendung; Included in the collection: Correspondence by Nufer with various people, regarding theater and opera presentations in the Netherlands, June-August 1944.

  17. Documentation of the Polish Courts of Law in the Poznan region, 1946-1960

    Documentation of the Polish Courts of Law in the Poznan region, 1946-1960 Included in the collection are appeals by relatives of Jews who perished during the war period, submitted to the Polish Courts of Law in order to receive declarations of death.

  18. Documentation of the office of the municipal Notary in Sumy, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the office of the municipal Notary in Sumy, 1941-1942 Included in the collection are lists prepared by the municipal Notary, regarding births and deaths.

  19. Documentation of the Ministry of Economics in Tallinn, 1933 - 1940

  20. M.42 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from archives in France

    M.42 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from archives in France Most of the documentation is from collections of microfilm reels (with the exception of 31 photocopied files) from various organizations and offices in France, such as OSE (Oeuvre de Secours Aux Enfants - Society for Rescuing Children), the Consistoire Central des Israelites de France (Central Consistory of French Jews) and the Commissariat General aux Questions Juives (CGQJ- General Office for Jewish Affairs). Additionally, much documentation regarding France can be found in Yad Vashem Archives Records Groups O.9 (France ...