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  1. O.86 - Switzerland Collection

    O.86 - Switzerland Collection The Collection was opened recently; until now it has consisted of only one file (See also Yad Vashem Record Group M.63 - Documentation from Provincial Archives in Switzerland).

  2. Documentation of the Reich Women's Leadership (Reichsfrauenfuehrung), Germany, 1933-1942

    Documentation of the Reich Women's Leadership (Reichsfrauenfuehrung), Germany, 1933-1942 The Reich Women's Leadership, established in February 1934, included the German Women's Organization (Deutsches Frauenwerk), the umbrella organization of women's organizations in Germany, established in 1933, and the National Socialist Women's Union (Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft), established in 1931. It was headed by Gertrud Scholz-Klink, who received the title of "Leader of Reich Women" (Reichsfrauenfuehrerin), November 1934. The two organizations and their female leaders did not have any real ...

  3. O.2 - Wiener Library Collection of Testimonies, London, 1940-1957

    O.2 - Wiener Library Collection of Testimonies, London, 1940-1957 Alfred Wiener (1885-1964), the man who planned and established the Wiener Library, was born in Potsdam Germany; by profession, he was an expert in Middle East affairs and researcher of Islam. From 1919 he served as the legal advisor for the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), and published many articles about the Jews of Germany. When the Nazis rose to power in 1933, Wiener immigrated to the Netherlands and lived in Amsterdam. He began to collec...

  4. Documentation of the regional employment office in Stanislawow, 1936-1939

    Documentation of the regional employment office in Stanislawow, 1936-1939

  5. Collection regarding the S. Liberman kindergarten, elementary school and private high school in Riga, 1932-1939

    Collection regarding the S. Liberman kindergarten, elementary school and private high school in Riga, 1932-1939 Included in the collection are reports of meetings of the teachers committee, and parents and pupils meetings; general documentation regarding the activities of the elementary school and high school; instructions and circulars of the education department of the Riga municipality, regarding the acceptance and dismissal of teachers; lists of teachers; classroom record books; protocols of examinations; documentation regarding the pupils' health situation.

  6. Documentation of the German and local authorities in the Pinsk region, 1941-1944

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12795074
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1944
    • Announcement Appeal to the authorities Approval Correspondence Death certificate Identity card Instruction Letter List of bakery owners List of forced laborers List of homeowners List of Jewish women List of landowners List of residents Official documentation Order Survey report הודעה

    Documentation of the German and local authorities in the Pinsk region, 1941-1944 Included in the collection, among other material: - Appeals by Jewish pupils in the schools in Pinsk to the Gebietskommissar (district commissioner) and the commander of the schools, requesting to receive work permits; - Orders of the Gebietskommissar, regarding the imposition of taxes on the Jews; - Death certificates of Jewish residents of Pinsk; - Announcements regarding Jews from Pinsk who became sick with infectious diseases; - Orders by the Supreme Commander of Wolyn to the commander of Brest Litovsk, reg...

  7. Documentation of the Jewish community in Lwow, 1885 - 1942

    Collection of files containing documentation of the Jewish community in Lwow

  8. Collection of the Departement van Justitie - Department of Justice of the Netherlands, regarding the deportation of Jews in 1943

    Collection of the Departement van Justitie - Department of Justice of the Netherlands, regarding the deportation of Jews in 1943 Included in the collection: Telegrams received by the Police commander in the Departement van Justitie of the Netherlands, including reports regarding the deportations of Jews from the various cities, 1943.

  9. Documentation from the Croatian State Archives: Croatian Ministry of State Treasury, Office for Nationalized Property, Jewish Section, 1941

    Documentation from the Croatian State Archives: Croatian Ministry of State Treasury, Office for Nationalized Property, Jewish Section, 1941 This collection includes in most part documents from two Ustasha government agencies charged with the supervision and then the confiscation of Jewish property: The Office for the Renewal of the Economy (May and June 1941), and its successor, the State Directorate for Economic Renewal (July-December 1941). The collection consists of correspondence between these central agencies and their local offices and other government and/or Ustasha party offices. Th...

  10. Documentation of the German and local authorities in the Gomel Region, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the German and local authorities in the Gomel Region, 1941-1943 In the Collection there is documentation from the district and municipal administrations in the Gomel Region, documentation from the prisons in Rechitsa and Bobruysk, a list of residents in Rechitsa, directives issued by the Reichskommissar-Ukraine regarding the setting of prices, documentation from Hans Rothke, the Petrikov Gebietskommissar, directives from the Mozyr Gebietskommissar, correspondence and directives of the German authorities in Mozyr, Zhitkovichi and Petrikov, documentation of the municipal admi...

  11. M.41.ZGABar - Documentation from the Regional State Archive of Baranovichi

    M.41.ZGABar - Documentation from the Regional State Archive of Baranovichi History of the Regional State Archive of Baranovichi The Regional Archive of Baranovichi was established in 1940. During the German occupation, the Archive's activities were halted from 1941-1944. Following the dissolution of the Baranovichi region, the Archive became the Municipal State Archive of Baranovichi in 1954. In November 1963, a branch of the State Archive of the Brest Region in Baranovichi was established, based on several regional archives and on the Municipal Archive of Baranovichi. In September 1996, th...

  12. Documentation of the local government authorities in the Dnipropetrovsk region, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the local government authorities in the Dnipropetrovsk region, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Decision by the Dnipropetrovsk municipality regarding the function and the composition of the Judenrat; - Orders by the commander of the Security Service in Dnipropetrovsk, regarding the Security Police in Dnipropetrovsk and the registration of dangerous groups; - Orders given to the heads of villages in the region regarding the selection of sites for the establishment of ghettos if required, 17/04/1942; - Orders by the head of the Apostolovo district to the head of the vi...

  13. Documentation of the Jewish community and Jewish organizations in Leipzig, from the Polizeipraesidium Leipzig (Leipzig Police)

    Documentation of the Jewish community and Jewish organizations in Leipzig, from the Polizeipraesidium Leipzig (Leipzig Police)

  14. Documentation of the Romanian branch of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) pertaining to survivors and those who perished in the Holocaust from all the areas of Romania, 1945

    Documentation of the Romanian branch of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) pertaining to survivors and those who perished in the Holocaust from all the areas of Romania, 1945

  15. Documentation of the Jewish Community in Tallinn, 1859 - 1941

  16. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Sa'ad

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Sa'ad Booklets: Booklet regarding the life story of Gusta Geifman; Testimonies: 1. Gusta Geifman; 2. Aharon Wlodawer Dvir; 3. Michael Hamel; 4. Sabina Kaufman.

  17. M.12: Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (CDJC - Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) in Paris

    M.12: Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (CDJC - Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) in Paris The Record Collection contains documentation housed at the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CCJD) in Paris which was received by Yad Vashem Archives as microfilm during the 1950s and 1960s following the Schneerson-Di Nur Agreement. The Archives contain documentation of the Gestapo, the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ-Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs), the Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF...

  18. Documentation of the Nazi Party in Westphalia

    Documentation of the Nazi Party in Westphalia

  19. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Hashomer Hatzair Movement activities in the Warsaw Ghetto

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Hashomer Hatzair Movement activities in the Warsaw Ghetto The Collection contains very valuable documentation from the Hashomer Hatzair underground press in the Warsaw Ghetto from the Ringleblum Archive and the underground archive of the Bund Movement in Warsaw (photostats, copies and the original editions), as well as diaries of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising activists from the Hashomer Hatzair movement such as Aliza Melamed, Israel Gutman and others. There are also files containing original material regarding and belonging to the organizers and activists in ...

  20. O.76.1 - Collection of Yiddish folk songs sung by the Jews in the ghettos in the Transnistria and Moldova area

    O.76.1 - Collection of Yiddish folk songs sung by the Jews in the ghettos in the Transnistria and Moldova area In 1944 researchers from the Cabinet for Jewish Culture of the Ukrainian Academy of Science travelled to the Transnistria and Moldova area. The researchers collected Yiddish folk songs sung in the ghettos and wrote down testimonies gathered from the survivors. In 1948, Moses Beregovskiy, Ruvn Lerner and Moyshe Maydanskiy, who had participated in the delegation, were arrested by the Soviet authorities for the crime of [engaging in] Jewish cultural activities.