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  1. Collection of Erich Rajakowitsch, regarding his trial in Austria, 1905-1988

    Collection of Erich Rajakowitsch, regarding his trial in Austria, 1905-1988 SS Obersturmführer Dr. Erich Rajakowitsch, the head of the Sonderreferat Juden and a friend of Eichmann, organized the deportation of the Jews from 1941 and following; he was responsible for the deportation to Auschwitz of approximately 10,000 Jews from the Netherlands, including Anna Frank; he was put on trial during 1962-1964 for the deportation from France of 83 Jews who were Dutch citizens; he was never put on trial for his involvement in the deportation of Jews from the Netherlands; Included in the file: Docume...

  2. Collection of H. Aa. Jacques: Statistical reports regarding the Jewish population in the Netherlands, 1941-1942

    Collection of H. Aa. Jacques: Statistical reports regarding the Jewish population in the Netherlands, 1941-1942 H. Aa. Jacques, from Amsterdam, composed statistical reports regarding the Jewish population in the Netherlands during the 1940s, including detailed cross-sections according to age, gender, profession and so forth; research regarding the Jewish community in Amsterdam, and the composition of a document regarding education in the Jewish sector during 1941-1942; H. Aa. Jacques served as the head of the Commissie van Onderwijs (Committee on Education) of the Joodsche Raad (Jewish Coun...

  3. Documentation of the Communist Party Committee in the Molotovskiy neighborhood in Belostok, 1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party Committee in the Molotovskiy neighborhood in Belostok, 1941 The Collection includes documentation from the first conference of the Communist Party in Belostok, that took place on 10-11 April 1941, including lists of the Communists who attended the conference and questionnaires of candidates; protocols from the committee meetings.

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Yehiam Testimonies/ experiences/ memoirs: 1. Moshe Opatovski; 2. Chanania Einhorn Arnon; 3. Ilana (Tanenbaum) Ben Israel; 4. Asher Bentuv; 5. Edna Bentuv; 6. Lea Baram; 7. Tamar Gavish; 8. Yitzhak Zimmerman Degan; 9. Chaya Harari; 10. Miriam Vardi; 11. Abri Sela; 12. Ruthi Sela; 13. Nechama (Shuster) Rahav; 14. Aharon Rahav.

  5. Collection of the Bureau Joodsche Zaken - the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943

    Collection of the Bureau Joodsche Zaken - the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943 Included in the collection: Log books and reports produced by the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943; the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police handled violations of the Germans' decrees, such as the obligation on Jews to wear a yellow badge, the ban on Jews against travelling on public transportation, the obligation for Jews to hand over their bicycles and radios, the giving of shelter to Jews and other anti-Jewish persecutions such as hiding Jews...

  6. Ukrainian newspapers published in the Sumy region during the German occupation, 1941-1943

    Ukrainian newspapers published in the Sumy region during the German occupation, 1941-1943 Included in the collection are issues of the newspapers: Vizrodzhenyya, Novyi Chas, Putyvlyanyn, Vyzvolrnnya, Lebedynskyi Visnyk, Golos Okhtyrshchyny and Sumskyi Visnyk.

  7. File Collection: Correspondence of Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwalb regarding reparations

    File Collection: Correspondence of Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwalb regarding reparations

  8. 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...

  9. 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.

  10. 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...

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

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

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

  14. 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

  15. 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.

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

  18. 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...

  19. 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.

  20. 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.