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  1. Collection of Soviet documents, from before the war

    Collection of Soviet documents, from before the war Included in the collection is documentation regarding residents who were deported from the Kostyukovichi district by the Soviet authorities in 1941; Maps of various areas of Belorussia, from 1927.

  2. תיעוד של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Witten (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12429515
    • 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...

  3. Documentation of the regional operational committee in Nikolayev, 1965-1967

    Documentation of the regional operational committee in Nikolayev, 1965-1967 Included in the collection is documentation regarding Jews who were active in the Soviet underground in the Nikolayev region during the German occupation period.

  4. Documentation regarding Jews, from the Stadtarchiv Lueneburg

    Documentation regarding Jews, from the Stadtarchiv Lueneburg

  5. Documentation of various district administrations in the Mogilev region, 1941-1943

    Documentation of various district administrations in the Mogilev region, 1941-1943 Included in the collection: - Documentation of various district administrations in the Mogilev region; - Instructions of the Kommandantur.

  6. Collection of Ommen camp (Arbeitseinsatzlager Erika, in German) in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of Ommen camp (Arbeitseinsatzlager Erika, in German) in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Ommen camp served as a prison for people put on trial by the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands during 1942-1943; the Germans gave the camp a new name, Arbeitseinsatzlager Erika, in 1943, and imprisoned in the camp Dutchmen who attempted to evade forced labor and students who refused to sign a declaration of loyalty to the Germans.

  7. M.52.DAZhO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Zhitomir Region

    M.52.DAZhO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Zhitomir Region History of the Archives: In 1919 the Revolutionary Committee of the Volyn sub-section issued an order establishing that public institutions and private individuals are obligated to register their documentation at the Committee for the Preservation of Objects of Art and Culture of the sub-section. In 1920 the archival committee of the Volyn sub-section was established, which dealt with the collection and cataloging of the existing archival documentation. In 1922 an archival authority of the Volyn sub-section was establ...

  8. Financial reports of the Commerz- und Privat-Bank Aktiengesellschaft from Berlin and from Hamburg from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1939

    Financial reports of the Commerz- und Privat-Bank Aktiengesellschaft from Berlin and from Hamburg from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1939 In the collection there are files of financial reports of the Commerz- und Privat-Bank Aktiengesellschaft from Berlin and from Hamburg, 1936-1939, prepared by the Deutsche Revisions und Treuhand Aktiengesellschaft Company. The original title assigned to this Record Group by the Osoby Archive, referring to the company that prepared the reports, is erroneous.

  9. Announcements and placards regarding various cultural events held in the Vilna Ghetto, 1941 - 1943

    Announcements and placards regarding various cultural events held in the Vilna Ghetto, 1941 - 1943 The various cultural events include: plays, concerts, sport competitions, lectures, and other events; most of the announcements include the names of the artists who implemented the events.

  10. Police documentation from the Schaffhausen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to Jewish refugees and personal files of refugees, 1938-1949

    Police documentation from the Schaffhausen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to Jewish refugees and personal files of refugees, 1938-1949 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  11. O.53 - Ludwigsburg Collection: Documentation regarding Nazi war crimes, collected by the West Germany legal system

    O.53 Ludwigsburg Collection: Documentation regarding Nazi war crimes, collected by the West Germany legal system The collection contains documentation received mainly from the Zentrale Stelle de Landesjustizverwaltungen (Central Office of the State Judicial Administration) in Ludwigsburg, the body that assembled the material for the Nazi War Criminal Trials in West Germany. The documentation concentrates mainly on areas of the Soviet Union and Poland and to a degree on Czechoslovakia. The collection contains important information regarding many Nazi war crimes reported by the groups that ac...

  12. Collection of the Nationaal Steun Fonds, a fund that supported Jews during and after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, 1941-1946

    Collection of the Nationaal Steun Fonds, a fund that supported Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, 1942-1945 The fund paid stipends to Jews who were in hiding; Included in the collection are lists of hundreds of Jews who received stipends.

  13. O.68 - Personal Files of SS Members from the Berlin Document Center

    O.68 - Personal Files of SS Members from the Berlin Document Center The documentation in this Record Group came to Yad Vashem from the Berlin Document Center (BDC), which was established on 10 May 1945, immediately after the occupation of Berlin by the Allied forces. The purpose of the BDC was to concentrate the archival documentation of the German government institutions, the Nazi party and the organizations associated with the party. The Collection was officially returned to German ownership in the 1990s. The documentation in this Record Group came to Yad Vashem from the Berlin Document C...

  14. Collection of Westerbork camp, 1940-1945

    Collection of Westerbork camp, 1940-1945 Westerbork camp was established by the Dutch authorities as a refugee camp, following the influx of Jewish refugees who arrived from Germany in 1933; the refugees were permitted to leave the camp until 1940, when the Germans surrounded Westerbork camp with a fence and established that the camp would be transferred to the auspices of the Ministry of Justice; the Germans changed the designation of the camp to a transit camp for deported Jews, under the supervision of the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in 1941; 101,525 persons were regis...

  15. Documentation of the Police headquarters in the Stanislawow region, 1935-1939

    Documentation of the Police headquarters in the Stanislawow region, 1935-1939 Included in the collection are reports by the Police headquarters regarding Zionist organizations active in the Stanislawow region.

  16. Collection of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor Rotterdam - Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1933-1950

    Collection of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor Rotterdam - Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1933-1950 Included in the collection: Official documentation of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor Rotterdam, regarding anti-Jewish legislation, 1933-1950; Documents regarding archives of Jewish businesses after the war; Correspondence by the Kamer van Koophandel Rotterdam with Jewish businesses in the Netherlands after the war.

  17. Documentation of the State Archives department of the UNKVD in the Kiev region, 1944-1950

    Documentation of the State Archives department of the UNKVD in the Kiev region, 1944-1950 Included in the collection: - Information regarding the murder of Jews in various cities in the region; - Information regarding the settlements in the Byshev district during the German occupation period and during the period of liberation by the Red Army; - Information regarding Nazi war crimes in the Kiev region; - List of residents from Fastov who were murdered; - Announcement by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission regarding Nazi war crimes in Kiev; - Survey reports regarding the damage caused ...

  18. TR.18 - Documentation from Committee for State Security (KGB) archives in Ukraine

    TR.18 - Documentation from Committee for State Security (KGB) archives in Ukraine In the collection there are files selected from the State Archives of the Ukrainian Security Service in Kiev and its branches by regions: Chernigov, Chernovtsy, Khmelnitskiy, Ternopol, Sumy, Rovno, Poltava, Nikolayev, Lvov, Kirovograd, Ivano-Frankovsk, Zaporozye, Zhitomir, Donetsk, Simferopol, Vinnitsa, Odessa and Drogobych. Collection description Files of investigations conducted by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Counter-Intelligence Department (SMERSH [Death to Spies]), and the Mi...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Gat Experiences of: 1. Lili Itayi; 2. Sara Dotan; 3. Moshe Harel; 4. Gershon Gerhard Weiss Livni; 5. Stella Esther Livni; 6. Naomi Montilia; 7. Zvia Eshet; 8. Shalom Rimer; 9. Lea Shachar; Testimonies/ interviews: 1. Yoshke Yosef Itayi; 2. Bernard Zelishovski; 3. Tova Saltzberg; 4. Israel Eshet; Eulogies: 1. Words spoken at the grave of Yoshke [Yosef Itayi] at the Kibbutz Gat cemetery on 02/06/1998; 2. In memory of Israel Karsh; 3. "Israel -...

  20. Files of the Amstergericht (Magistrates Court) of the Charlottenburg neighborhood in Berlin

    Files of the Amstergericht (Magistrates Court) of the Charlottenburg neighborhood in Berlin Included in the files are: Official correspondence regarding the handling of the estates of Jews (some of the files include lists of the property in the estate); files related to Jewish owned companies and the bankruptcy (Konkurs) of Jewish owned companies; files related to declarations of incompetence (Entmuendigung) of Jews due to mental illness or cognitive disability; files related to the transfer of problematic (anti-social) young people, most of them Jewish, to special education settings and su...