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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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)

  5. 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...

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

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

  10. 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 ...

  11. Documentation of the Amtsgericht Bergedorf (Bergedorf Magistrates Court) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Amtsgericht Bergedorf (Bergedorf Magistrates Court) in Hamburg The Amtsgericht Bergedorf (Bergedorf Magistrates Court) was established in 1855. It is still in existence as of the time of the writing of these lines. The Court files that arrive for archival storage are transferred to the State Archive in Hamburg. They include administrative files, protocols of trials, court decisions, criminal and civil court proceedings, files and Register (registration) books, and freiwillige Gerichtsbarkeit (mediation and arbitration) files. The files that were copied for Yad Vashem re...

  12. Documentation of the Kulturbehoerde I (Culture Office I) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Kulturbehoerde I (Culture Office I) in Hamburg

  13. Collection of the Abteilung für besondere wirtschaftliche Angelegenheiten - Department for Special Financial Matters of the German Ministry of the Treasury, Hauptabteilung Wirtschaft, in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of the Abteilung für besondere wirtschaftliche Angelegenheiten - Department for Special Financial Matters of the German Ministry of the Treasury, Hauptabteilung Wirtschaft, in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 The department was also called the Referat für besondere wirtschaftliche Angelegenheiten; the head of the department was Dr. Joachim Kessler, whose title was Der Sonderbeauftragte für wirtschaftliche Verflechtung (Supervisor over the Integration of the Dutch Economy with the Economy of Germany); his areas of work were the: exchange of stock portfolios between the Netherlands and G...

  14. Card index of Jews murdered in the Iaşi pogrom (June-July 1941) and a card index of survivors (former deportees), compiled by the Romanian branch of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) after the Holocaust

    Card index of Jews murdered in the Iaşi pogrom (June-July 1941) and a card index of survivors (former deportees), compiled by the Romanian branch of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) after the Holocaust A. Card index of Jews murdered in the Iaşi pogrom (June-July 1941) In the collection there are 465 file cards, including personal information regarding the victims of the pogrom in Iaşi. In addition to the name of the victim and the date of his/her murder, data regarding the cause of death is also written on the file cards, as well as data regarding the person making the declaration (that is t...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Mahanayim Testimonies: 1. Chaya Slutzki; 2. Menachem Perlmutter.

  16. P.21.1 - Ilya Ehrenburg Collection - Original documentation of the Soviet writer on the subject of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union

    Ilya Ehrenburg Collection - Original documentation of the Soviet writer on the subject of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union Original documentation of the famous Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg: Articles, testimonies, photographs and letters on the subject of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, some of which were put in "The Black Book"; letters from Jews regarding expressions of antisemitism in the Soviet countries during the postwar period.

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Erez Experiences of: 1. Batya Barash; 2. David Dov-Miklos Klein; 3. Zvi Hesho Levkovitz; Regarding the "Sharsheret" ["Chain"] group: 1. Nachum Zelonka, "History of the 'Sharsheret' group that arrived to Nahsholim in March 1949"; 2. "The 'Sharsheret' group on the illegal immigrants' "Ulua-Chaim Arlosoroff " ship in winter 1946", written by Arieh Fried, April 2000; Original letters by Moshe Zeiri, who established and directed the children's ho...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Eilon Book: Collection of testimonies produced in Kibbutz Eilon in the context of the project (Editorial board: Dvora Nevo, Sima Shimoni and Dan Zinger, November 1995), including testimonies by: Chanaleh Goldberg, Yochanan Cohen, Yaakov Karmi, Shimon Maneski, Malka Nir, Ida Sivan, Frumkah Paritzi, Dov Shivo, Pnina Perl (Schlossberg) Schmidt, and Grisha Shefer; Nine issues of "Zeh Asher" (the newspaper of the Asher Regional Council): Issue no...

  19. Documentation of the Ratsherrenkanzlei (Municipal Council members) office in Hamburg, on subjects related to Jews

    Documentation of the Ratsherrenkanzlei (Municipal Council members) office in Hamburg, on subjects related to Jews Included in the Collection, among other materials, are files regarding the purchase of Jewish owned buildings during 1938-1944.