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  1. O.64.2/SCH - The Zeev Scheck Collection

    O.64.2/SCH - The Zeev Scheck Collection Provenance of the Collection: Born in Olomouc (Czechoslovakia) in 1920, Zeev (Wilhelm) Sheck was active in the Maccabi Hatzair youth movement, and worked as a Hebrew teacher in Prague. On 19 November 1943, he was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, and from there to concentration camps. He was liberated in the spring of 1945 and he returned to Prague. Zeev Sheck founded and directed Dokumentační Akcee (The Prague Documentation Project). The Project documented the fate of the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia during the Holocaust, and [concentrated] mainl...

  2. O.5 - אוסף ט. פרידמן, וינה

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019590
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1934-1953
    • Legal documentation Names of perpetrators Official documentation Questionnaire Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors Statistical data Survey report Testimony

    The "Juedische Historische Dokumentation", founded by Tuvia Friedman in mid 1946 in Vienna, collected a large quantity of material over a number of years for use in the prosecution of Nazi war criminals. The institution was transferred to Haifa after 1948. The record group includes eye witness testimony, survivors statements and correspondence.

  3. Documentation regarding the Jewish community in Athens, Greece

    Documentation regarding the Jewish community in Athens, Greece Included in the collection are community registration documents; regulations of the Jewish community of Athens; regulations of the community's Rabbinical Court, minutes of Rabbinical Court sessions, Rabbinical Court decisions, marriage contracts and divorces filed at the Rabbinical Court, and related documents; financial documentation of the Jewish community of Athens, as well as documentation regarding religious education at Jewish community schools and the teaching of Judaism at Jewish secular schools; Also included in the col...

  4. Documentation of the Jewish Cooperative Bank in Tallinn, 1930 - 1941

  5. החלטות על הכרה במוות (Todeserklaerungen) של קרבנות יהודיים של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Kamen (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12424829
    • 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. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Krynki, 1940-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Krynki, 1940-1941 The Collection includes documentation of the District Committee; list of workers in Krynki; list of Communists in the District.

  7. M.40.RCM - Documentation from the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History, 1941-1948

    M.40.RCM - Documentation from the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History, 1941-1948 In the collection there is documentation regarding the administration of the Central Committee of the Communist party (Tsk VKP(b)-Tsentralny Komitet Vsesoyuznoy Kommunisticheskoy Partii Bolshevikov), including information, official correspondence and reports regarding partisan and underground activity in the occupied areas of the Soviet Union, 1941-1944, lists of Jewish partisans and Red Army soldiers, lists of the Jews from Hungary who served in Hungarian Army forced labor battalions and wer...

  8. Documentation of the municipal operational committee in Rovno, 1939-1940

    Documentation of the municipal operational committee in Rovno, 1939-1940 Included in the collection is a list of residents who received an apartment in Rovno during 1939-1940, and a list of houses that were nationalized.

  9. Documentation of the Soviet security organizations, regarding the murder of the Jews in the territory of Belorussia, dated, 1944-1948

    Documentation of the Soviet security organizations, regarding the murder of the Jews in the territory of Belorussia, dated, 1944-1948 Included in the collection are testimonies regarding the murder of the Jews in the various places, including in the Borisov Ghetto; documentation regarding the Minsk Ghetto; bill of indictment against a Belorussian collaborator.

  10. Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Intelligence Service, 1936-1948

    Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Intelligence Service, 1936-1948 Documentation from the Romanian Intelligence Service regarding the trials of Romanian war criminals. In the collection there is material from the Siguranta (Security Police), which was collected within the context of the trails of Romanian war criminals. The trials were conducted by "People's Tribunals" which were established and conducted in accordance with the regulations of Law No. 312 issued by the Romanian Justice Ministry, 21 April 1945. In addition to the legal material, there are many documents in the co...

  11. Documentation from the Ministry of the Interior of the Saar region, 1935-1959

    Documentation from the Ministry of the Interior of the Saar region

  12. Documentation of Soviet governmental agencies and institutions in Estonia, 1939 - 1953

  13. Documentation of the Hungarian government authorities in the Carpathian Ruthenia area, 1939-1944

    Documentation of the Hungarian government authorities in the Carpathian Ruthenia area, 1939-1944 Included in the collection: - Orders and correspondence of the local authorities in Mukachevo regarding Zionist activities, rights and financial problems of Hungarian Jewish organizations; - List of property of the Jewish communities in Uzhgorod; - Documentation of Marton Berkovich, born in 1903, from 1942; - List of Jews from the Berehovo district whose real estate property was confiscated.

  14. Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in the Amtsgericht (Magistrates Court) in Duelmen

    Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in the Amtsgericht (Magistrates Court) in Duelmen 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, [an...

  15. Tax files of Jews, in the Finanzamt Schwäbisch Gmünd, 1914-1962

    Tax files of Jews, in the Finanzamt Schwäbisch Gmünd, 1914-1962 Included in the collection are tax files of Jews and Jewish businesses.

  16. Documentation of the temporary administration in Rovno, 1939-1940

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12833700
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1939-1940
    • Administrative documentation Appeal to the authorities List of healthcare workers List of physicians List of residents List of voters Order Statistical report

    Documentation of the temporary administration in Rovno, 1939-1940 Included in the collection: - Statistical reports regarding refugees residing in the Rovno region, 1939; - Lists of voters for the National Council of Western Ukraine; - Lists of physicians and healthcare workers; - Appeals to the municipality regarding various matters; - Appeals by residents from Rovno regarding their acceptance to work.

  17. Documentation of the No. 1 Finance Department in Grodno, 1938-1939

    Documentation of the No. 1 Finance Department in Grodno, 1938-1939 The Collection contains lists of residents, homeowners and tenants who paid taxes; documentation of the Finance Department.

  18. Documentation of the Ministry of Social Affairs in Tallinn, 1920 - 1941

  19. Lists of residents, prepared by the Dubrovitsa municipality, 1942-1943

    Lists of residents, prepared by the Dubrovitsa municipality, 1942-1943

  20. P.45 - Pinkhof-Waterman Family Archive

    P.45 - Pinkhof-Waterman Family Archive