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  1. M.1.D - Documentation of the Dachau concentration camp

    M.1.D - Documentation of the Dachau concentration camp In the collection there are files from the Dachau concentration camp which were transferred to Yad Vashem by the Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied zone. In the collection there is administrational documentation including a few files kept by the camp administration. In many of the files there are forms for payment and insurance of the inmates. In other files there is personal documentation such as passports and photographs of inmates as well as the central card index file of...

  2. Documentation of the Zentrale Vereinigung osterreichischer Emigranten (Central Association of Austrian Emigrants) in Paris, 1938-1940

    Documentation of the Zentrale Vereinigung osterreichischer Emigranten (Central Association of Austrian Emigrants) in Paris, 1938-1940 The Association was founded in Paris, France, in May 1938, with the goal of uniting the Austrian emigrant organizations under one roof. The documentation contains correspondence and organization fliers, reports regarding activities of Austrian emigrant organizations in various places, as well as diaries and memoirs of the emigrants and lists of Austrian citizens in camps.

  3. O.88 - Documentation regarding commemoration of the Holocaust

    O.88 - Documentation regarding commemoration of the Holocaust The Collection includes documentation from the period after the war pertaining to commemoration and memorialization of the Holocaust. The material in the Collection is varied and multi-lingual; it could be official documentation regarding the establishment of monuments and memorial sites in places where there were mass murders, correspondence of private people with the authorities or correspondence with various bodies regarding the struggle to memorialize those who perished during the Holocaust, memorialization articles and speec...

  4. Documentation of the regional and municipal auxiliary committee to the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding Nazi war crimes in the Kiev region, 1944-1945

    Documentation of the regional and municipal auxiliary committee to the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding Nazi war crimes in the Kiev region, 1944-1945 Included in the collection: - List of the committee's documentation regarding the murder of Jews and non-Jews in Kiev, in Syrets camp and in the Zhaskov district; - Confirmations regarding the number of residents in neighborhoods in the city of Kiev in December 1943; - Lists of residents from Kiev who were deported to Germany and arrested by the Gestapo; - List of POWs who perished in a POW camp in Darnitsa, 1941-1943.

  5. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Brest region, 1944-1945

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Brest region, 1944-1945 Included in the collection: - List of residents of Brest, collected during 1941-1944; - Reports, certificates and protocols from investigations of witnesses, regarding the murder of Jews in districts of the Brest region.

  6. Documentation of the Landratsamt Ansbach (District authority of Ansbach) in Bavaria

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

  7. Documentation of the Gauwirtschaftsberater (Economic Affairs Advisor) of the NSDAP-Gauleitung Westfalen-Sued

    Documentation of the Gauwirtschaftsberater (Economic Affairs Advisor) of the NSDAP-Gauleitung Westfalen-Sued

  8. Documentation of the Central Executive Committee in Belorussia, 1927-1931

    Documentation of the Central Executive Committee in Belorussia, 1927-1931 The Collection includes protocols from meetings of the Cherikov Municipality.

  9. Personal collection of Dr. Nosson Gens, 1887 - 1940

  11. Documents of the Umwandererzentralstelle (UWZ-Central Bureau for the Transfer of Populations/ the Central Emigration Office), Litzmannstadt/Posen, 1939-1945

    Documents of the Umwandererzentralstelle (UWZ-Central Bureau for the Transfer of Populations/ the Central Emigration Office), Litzmannstadt/Posen, 1939-1945 The "Warthegau District" is the name given to the areas of Poland that were annexed to the Third Reich in October 1939, and were intended for total Germanization. This process was carried out by creating legal discrimination among three population groups: Germans, who were from the beginning a small minority, Poles and Jews, by deportation and annihilation of the two last groups and their replacement by German settlers from the areas of...

  12. Documentation of the prison in Bobruysk, 1942-1943

    Documentation of the prison in Bobruysk, 1942-1943 Included in the collection: - List of inmates and detainees in the prison; - Instructions of the Kommandantur.

  13. Documentation of the Jewish Education Department of the Latvian Education Ministry, 1920-1940

    Documentation of the Jewish Education Department of the Latvian Education Ministry, 1920-1940 In the collection: Statistical documentation regarding the activities of Jewish elementary schools, high schools and nursery schools in Latvia, and concerning the numbers of students and teachers; statistical documentation regarding vocational schools, yeshivas and teacher training courses.

  14. Documentation regarding Jews, from local archives in the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

    Documentation regarding Jews, from local archives in the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

  15. M.41.GAGom - Documentation of the State Archives of the Gomel Region

    M.41.GAGom - Documentation of the State Archives of the Gomel Region Official documentation of the local occupation authorities in the Gomel region including the districts authority and the municipal authority: - Correspondence between the German authorities and the heads of the municipal administrations; - Orders by the Gebietskommissar (regional commissars) of Petrikov, Mozyr ,Parichi, Bobruysk and Dobrush regarding the distribution of food ration coupons; draft of Jewish workers for forced labor; transfer of Jews from one city to another; cleaning work in the city; obligation regarding t...

  16. M.1.DN - Munich Municipality: Documentation regarding the treatment of the Jews, 1933-1942

    M.1.DN - Munich Municipality: Documentation regarding the treatment of the Jews, 1933-1942 This Subsection is part of the collections compiled by the Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Zone in Munich (Records Group M.1). The Subsection contains files concerning Jews, which the CHC received from the Munich Municipal Archives. These documents deal with the persecution of Jews during the Nazi period, mainly in Munich, but also in Frankfurt am Main, Ansbach and some of the other cities in Germany. The Subsection also contains the personal fi...

  17. Documentation of the "Hebrew" Gymnasium, the middle and high school of the Association for the Advancement of the Arts and Science among the Jews

    Documentation of the "Hebrew" Gymnasium, the middle and high school of the Association for the Advancement of the Arts and Science among the Jews In the collection there is historical information regarding the establishment of the high school, the elementary school and the nursery school; there are fliers from the Riga Council Education Department concerning the school's activities; orders and directives of the Education Department; reports, announcements and information pertaining to activities of the nursery school, information about the composition of the students and their health; lists...

  18. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Gvar'am

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Gvar'am Collection of testimonies - booklet: "From the stories of [kibbutz] members: Stories of survivors and rescuers", Holocaust Remembrance and Heroism Day ceremony, Gvar'am, 5758 [1998]; 1. Irit Van-Eso; 2. Ayala Vaknin; 3. Raya Wahl; 4. Sona (Haber) Lind.

  19. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Lwow region, 1944-1946

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Lwow region, 1944-1946 Included in the collection: Documentation of the municipal committee of the city of Stanislawow, collected in the context of the work of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of Jews in Stanislawow, 03 August 1941-05 May 1943, according to testimonies of Jewish community representatives; documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, 1944-1946, regarding the Nazi war crimes in Sambor; survey and information transferred by the Communist Party committee in the...

  20. P.69 - Archive of the Levy family, from Essen, Germany, 1863-1993

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10568932
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Article Balance sheet Book Brochure Certification Correspondence Curriculum Vitae (CV) Death certificate Diary Diploma Draft Drawing Envelope Financial accounts Identity card Invitation Journal Lecture Legal documentation Letter(s) Libretto Medical documentation Money Newspaper clippings Note Notebook Obituary Papercut Passport Personal records Photocopy Photograph Play Play(s), script(s) Poems/Songs Postcard Protocol Record of deportees Record of persecuted persons Research article Speech Telegram Telephone directory Thesis/Dissertation Travel ticket Will

    P.69 - Archive of the Levy family, from Essen, Germany, 1863-1993 About the Levy family: Dr. Ernst Levy (b.1872) was the eldest son of physician Dr. Hermann Levy (b. 1838) and his wife Emma, née Hirschland (b. 1847). Dr. Ernst Levy and his wife, the former Martha Ruthenburg (b. 1878) lived in Essen, Germany, where Dr. Levy was a general practitioner and researcher. They had four children, Hermann (b. 1906), Rudolf (b. 1908), Hans (b. 1911) and Eva (b. 1914). A year after the rise of nazism, Hermann Levy, a lawyer by training, went to study a new career in Paris, France, since he was banned ...