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  1. O.85 - Austrian Communities Registry

    O.85 - Documentation collected for the Austrian Communities Registry The purpose of the Yad Vashem Communities Registry Project is to perpetuate the history of the communities destroyed during the Holocaust. The historiography of the communities focused on countries, and sometimes on districts, but not the history of the local communities. With the increase of interest in the local communities, this Record Group also serves as a very important source for historians and researchers working in this field. The task of preparation of the Austrian Communities Registry was assigned to Dr. Herbert...

  2. M.68 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from archives in the Netherlands, 1930-1950

    M.68 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from archives in the Netherlands, 1930-1950 The documentation gathered in the archives in the Netherlands is mainly from the National Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) and the Amsterdam Municipal Archives, as well as Het Nationaal Archief (the National Archives) and smaller archives throughout the Netherlands. The documentation deals with persecution of the Jews of the Netherlands, anti-Jewish orders and directives, the German authorities in the Netherlands during the war, Jews in camps in the Netherlands and the East, the Joodse Raad (Jewis...

  3. O. 21 - M. Weichert Collection about Jewish Social Welfare in the Generalgouvernement: Documentation regarding the activities of the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS - Jewish Social Self-Help Organization) in Poland during the German occupation, and documentation regarding Michal Weichert

    O. 21 - M. Weichert Collection about Jewish Social Welfare in the Generalgouvernement: Documentation regarding the activities of the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS - Jewish Social Self-Help Organization) in Poland during the German occupation, and documentation regarding Michal Weichert Michal Weichert was born in Podhajce, eastern Galicia, Poland, 1890. He attended Polish schools, earned a degree in law at the University of Vienna, and also attended the Theater Arts Academy in Berlin. Upon his return to Poland, he established the Young Yiddish Theater in Warsaw. He served as a Yiddish t...

  4. Documentation of the German and local authorities in the Baranowicze region, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the German and local authorities in the Baranowicze region, 1941-1944 Included in the collection: - Anti-Jewish announcements, flyers and caricatures; - Documentation of the German authorities regarding the economic situation of the area; - Newspaper clippings of the Gebietskommissar (district commissioner), regarding the restrictions and rights of the Jews; - Registration pages of the Jews from the Nowa Mysz district; - Reports of the Gendarmerie in the Baranowicze region regarding the liquidation of Jews in the cities of Mir and Polonka.

  5. Documentation of the Estonian Army, 1917 - 1941

  6. M.5 - The Documentation Center of the Central Union of Jewish Communities in Bratislava

    M.5 - The Documentation Center of the Central Union of Jewish Communities in Bratislava The Documentation Center of the Central Union of Jewish Communities in Bratislava was founded following the liberation of Czechoslovakia at the initiative of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, the Zionist Federation and the Association of Jewish Communities in Slovakia. The purpose of the Documentation Center was to collect documentation regarding the Jews of Slovakia during the Holocaust and record their experiences. Towards the end of their activities in 1949, the Documentation Center published the bo...

  7. O.11 - Documentation, mostly from the Holocaust period, regarding the fate of the Romanian Jews

    O.11 - Documentation, mostly from the Holocaust period, regarding the fate of the Romanian Jews The first 82 files in the Record Group include documentation of the Jewish organizations which were active in Romania, 1941-1947: The Central Council of Romanian Jews; The Federation of the Union of Communities; The Joint Distribution Committee; The Union of Romanian Jews; The Jewish Party; the General Jewish Council and the Jewish Democratic Committee. The rest of the files contain mainly personal documentation submitted to the Yad Vashem Archive by private people on an on-going basis.

  8. Documentation of the Stettin Gestapo, 1933-1943

    Documentation of the Stettin Gestapo from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1933-1943

  9. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Hashomer Hatzair Movement activity in Poland during World War II

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Hashomer Hatzair Movement activity in Poland during World War II The Collection is comprised of six files containing letters, testimonies and original memoirs of movement members from the Rowne, Zdunska Wola, Krakow, Czestochowa, Bendin, Zaglebie and Osziany Ghettos which were written during the war and immediately afterwards regarding the situation of the Jews and the movement in these ghettos. The description is based on the original description that was written by Emanuel Berand at the time when the collection was submitted to Yad Vashem, 03 Novembe...

  10. Documentation from the Magistrates Court in Ellwangen, Wurttemberg, 1933-1941

    Documentation from the Magistrates Court in Ellwangen, Wurttemberg, 1933-1941 Included in the Collection is a variety of legal files, most of them related to Jews: trials between Jews or Jewish businesses and their Christian neighbors in Ellwangen and villages in the surrounding area, regarding financial matters or damages, and trials held by the Nazi State against Jews accused of various charges. The Collection also includes files not related to Jews, such as trials against priests and informings against priests.

  11. Documentation of the Weltorganisation gegen Rassenhass und Menchennot (World Organization Against Racial Hate and Human Distress) in Vienna, 1936-1938

    Documentation of the Weltorganisation gegen Rassenhass und Menchennot (World Organization Against Racial Hate and Human Distress) in Vienna, 1936-1938 The organization, which was intended first and foremostly to fight against antisemitic and Nazi propaganda in Austria, was established and led by Irene Harand, and in some of the letters it is simply called "Harand-Bewegung" (the Harand Movement). The organization published the periodical "Gerechtigkeit" (Justice). In the collection there is correspondence between the organization and its members regarding the periodical, as well as newspaper...

  12. Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Pharmacie (Pharmacies Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1945

    Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Pharmacie (Pharmacies Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1945 Included in the collection: Documents of Omnia Treuhandgesellschaft, the German Office for the Aryanization of Jewish Businesses in the Netherlands.

  13. Documentation of the municipal hospital in Mogilev, 1942

    Documentation of the municipal hospital in Mogilev, 1942 Included in the collection are medical files of Jews.

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

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

  15. P.65 - Yaffa Eliach Collection

    P.65 - Yaffa Eliach Collection Professor Yaffa Eliach was born Yaffa (Sheinla) Sonenson in the village of Ejszyszki, Poland (in Yiddish: Eyshishok; today Eišiškės, Lithuania) in 1935. Nazi Germany occupied the village in June 1941. Within two days in late September, almost all 3,500 Jews of the village were murdered in the local cemetery by Einsatzgruppe A. Yaffa escaped to a hiding place with her family just before the massacre. Until the liberation of Eyshishok by the Red Army in July 1944, the family moved from one hiding place to another, escaping death many times. Yaffa made aliya to E...

  16. Collection of general documentation from the “Jews in Latvia” Museum, photocopied, 1993

    Collection of general documentation from the “Jews in Latvia” Museum, photocopied, 1993

  17. M.52.DAViO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Vinnytsa Region

    M.52.DAViO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Vinnytsa Region History of the Archives The State Archives of the Vinnitsa Region was established in 1920 as the Archives of the Podole Region. During its first years, the Archives was intended as a place the storage and conservation of documents from the pre-Bolshevik period. The Archives was transferred to the responsibility of the NKVD in 1938. The Archives received the name: the State Archives of the Vinnitsa Region, in 1944. Since 1960, the Archives has been under the authority of the Implementation Committee of the Vinnitsa Reg...

  18. M.41.GAVt - Documentation of the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region

    M.41.GAVt - Documentation of the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region The State Archives of the Vitebsk Region was established in 1919. In 1927, documents pertaining to the region were transferred there from the State Archive of Belorussia. In 1947, the documentation from the period prior to the Revolution, which had been in the Regional Archive of Vitebsk, was transferred to the State Historical Archive in Mogilev. In 1992, the documentation in the Regional Archive of the Communist Party in Belorussia was transferred to the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region. In the Collection there is S...

  19. Documentation from the Stutthof concentration camp physician, 1943-1944

    Documentation from the Stutthof concentration camp physician, 1943-1944 Included in the collection is documentation regarding inmates who died, lists of female inmates including their medical history and their diagnoses, and a card file regarding sick inmates.

  20. Documentation of the health department of the Executive committee in Mogilev, 1939-1940

    Documentation of the health department of the Executive committee in Mogilev, 1939-1940