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  1. R.5 - Card catalog of German emigrants expatriated by the Nazis (Ausbürgerungskartei)

    R.5 - The German emigrants card catalog expatriated by the Nazis (Ausbürgerungskartei) The Nazi regime in Germany revoked the citizenship of German citizens who emigrated from Germany, and criticized the regime. Revocation of citizenship also meant confiscation of property, an action which turned many of the emigrants (who had escaped from Germany without managing to sell their property) into people with nothing at all. The lists of those whose citizenship had been revoked were published in the "Deutscher Reichsanzeiger", the official State publication. The first list was published on 25 Au...

  2. O.96 - Testimonies of Holocaust survivors, the Jewish Agency for Israel, 2006

    O.96: Testimonies of Holocaust survivors, the Jewish Agency for Israel, 2006 In the collection there are short testimonies taken from Holocaust survivors living in Amigur housing (housing provided by the Jewish Agency) as part of the Amigur "Book of Life" Project. In their testimonies, the survivors who lived in areas belonging to the former Soviet Union describe their experiences from the time of the Holocaust and afterwards.

  3. Collection of W. Drees, a Social Democratic politician in the Netherlands, including documents from 1933-1945

    Collection of W. Drees, a Social Democratic politician in the Netherlands, including documents from 1933-1945 W. Drees was born in 1886; he was a member of the Dutch Parliament on behalf of the Social Democratic Workers' Party - SDAP during 1933-1940; he was a hostage in Sint Michielsgestel and Buchenwald camps during 1940-1941; he stood as the head of the Dutch resistance organizations, het Vaderlandsch Comité and Contactcommissie der Illegaliteit, during the occupation period and was a secret member of the College van Vertrouwensmannen organization; he was appointed as the Minister of Wel...

  4. Personal files of workers at the "Charite" University Hospital in Berlin

    Personal files of workers at the "Charite" University Hospital in Berlin The files are arranged in alphabetic order, and relate to the medical staff as well the administrative personnel. Most of the files deal with the period before the Nazi rise to power.

  5. Documentation of the regional collective association of the invalids in Mogilev, 1945

    Documentation of the regional collective association of the invalids in Mogilev, 1945 Included in the collection are personal files of Jewish officials in arteli (labor groups).

  6. Documentation of the Romanian government in the Bukovina region, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Romanian government in the Bukovina region, 1941-1944 The Bukovina region was a territorial-administrative unit of the Romanian occupation authorities during the period of World War II. The region was created in the territory of the Chernovtsy region in 1941. The region was occupied by the Red Army as part of the Yassko-Kishiniovskaya operatsiya (Yassko-Kishiniovskaya Campaign) in late August 1944. Included in the collection, among other documentation: - Correspondence by the Romanian Army general headquarters, regarding the decisions of the National Center for Romaniza...

  7. Collection of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor's-Gravenhage (Bureau of Commerce and Industry) in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1941

    Collection of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor's-Gravenhage (Bureau of Commerce and Industry) in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1941 Included in the collection: Official documentation of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor's-Gravenhage (Bureau of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands) in 1941, regarding the registration of Jewish-owned land.

  8. Documentation of the regional operational committee in Drogobych, 1944-1945

    Documentation of the regional operational committee in Drogobych, 1944-1945 Included in the collection are declarations by residents of the Drogobych region regarding the damage caused to them during the German occupation period.

  9. Documentation from the archives of the Jewish community in Geneva, Switzerland, regarding the activities of the Jewish Community Welfare Office on behalf of the Jewish refugees in Geneva

    Documentation from the archives of the Jewish community in Geneva, Switzerland, regarding the activities of the Jewish Community Welfare Office on behalf of the Jewish refugees in Geneva - Correspondence regarding the Jewish refugees, 1944-1950; - Accounting from the years, 1930-1971.

  10. Card index of requests to issue identity cards for Jews in the Radom Ghetto from 1941

    Card index of requests to issue identity cards for Jews in the Radom Ghetto from 1941

  11. Documentation of the (Heeresgruppe Mitte) Central Armia Group, in Belorussia, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the (Heeresgruppe Mitte) Central Armia Group, in Belorussia, 1941-1944 The Collection contains instructions of the German Army Headquarters regarding the fight against partisan units, reports regarding the situation of the Einsatzgruppen B and their activity, reports regarding the propaganda among the local population and reports of German Army units regarding the activity of the partisans.

  12. M.29: Documentation from the Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives) regarding the Holocaust

    M.29: Documentation from the Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives) regarding the Holocaust History of the Archives Known as the Reichsarchive, the Central State Archive was first established in Potsdam, Germany in 1919. Documentation of the German state institutions beginning with the establishment of the Norddeutscher Bund (The North German Confederation) in 1867, were gathered in the archive, as well as historical documentation from the German Empire and Prussia dating back to the Middle Ages. After World War II, the archive in Potsdam, which was located in the Soviet Occupation Zone, wa...

  13. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ein Harod (Meuhad)

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ein Harod (Meuhad) Memoirs booklets: 1. Tova and Yehiel Ovshani; 2. Yitzhak Haber; 3. Yaakov Yankele Netel; 4. Sara Kolton-Haber; 5. Eliezer Klein; 6. Eliahu Shaki; 7. Bela Shpivak; 8. Yaakov Shpivak; Testimonies: 1. "Story of Sara Har-Havradi" (27/11/2000); 2. "To return to Auschwitz", Chana Lipman (02/05/1989); 3. Aviva (Feldman) Maromi (18/02/2002); 4. "Childhood", Shmuel Ervin Bogner; 5. Dina Amami (1993).

  14. Documentation of the regional operational committee in Stanislav, 1944-1945

    Documentation of the regional operational committee in Stanislav, 1944-1945 Included in the collection is documentation regarding activities by various religious institutions in the Stanislawow region during 1944-1945.

  15. Franciszka Oliwa Collection

    Franciszka Oliwa Collection Estate of Franciszka Oliwa, the principal of the Jewish children's home in Otwock during the first years after the liberation; Included in the collection: 1. Summary report written by Mrs. Oliwa; 2. Summaries regarding the children - 15 in total; 3. Memoirs of children; 4. Various documents (school certificates/diplomas, lists of children, poems/songs, and other documents); 5. Photographs (transferred to the Photos Archive); Following the liberation in January 1945, Mrs. Oliwa arrived to Otwock to search for relatives, but she did not locate anyone. On the other ...

  16. TR.9 - Documentation from the Auschwitz Trials in Frankfurt, 1965-1968

    TR.9 - Documentation from the Auschwitz Trials in Frankfurt, 1965-1968 The three Auschwitz trials were held in the District Court House in Frankfurt am Main from 1965-1968. The defendants at the trials were SS and Gestapo personnel who had served in Auschwitz and other people who had held positions in Auschwitz, including inmates who had held positions in the camp, such as Blockfuehrer ( block heads). The first Auschwitz Trial opened in December 1963, with 22 defendants being brought to trial, two of whom died during the proceedings. The most senior among them were Robert Mulka and Karl Hoe...

  17. תיועוד מעזבונו של Reiner Heinrich, ה-Reichsstatthalter ב-Hessen, שנים 1919-1943

    Heinrich Reiner (1892-1946), engeneer in his profession, joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) as early as 1923. After the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933, he was appointed to senior posts in the government of Hessen. From August 1934 to June 1937 Reiner officiated as deputy of the Gauleiter of the Nazi Gau (district) Hesse-Nassau. In April 1935 he became deputy of the leader of the Hessian state government and the State Commissioner (Führers der hessischen Landesregierung und des Reichsstatthalters). In January 1936, he was appointed Hessian State Councilor (Staatsrat) and in January 1...

  18. P.51 - Personal Archive of Rabbi Shaul Veingert, who helped many Jews in occupied Europe and refugees in Switzerland, 1941-1948

    P.51 - Personal Archive of Rabbi Shaul Veingert, who helped many Jews in occupied Europe and refugees in Switzerland, 1941-1948 The Veingert family transferred the archives to Bar Ilan University. Mr. Adler, a worker at the University, wanted to prepare comprehensive research regarding Rabbi Veingert and his activities, and he began by arranging the principal material of the Collection, the letters which were in numbered envelopes. Additionally, he began to catalog the basic information in each letter according to the order of the envelopes (This catalogue is located in File Number 1of the ...

  19. Files from the Devisenstelle (Foreign Currency Authority) in Frankfurt am Main and Kassel

    Record keeping authority: Foreign exchange offices Frankfurt a.M. and Kassel The state exchange control to avoid flight of capital with foreign currency, existed in the German Reich since 1931. The pertaining foreign exchange offices were established in June 1932. They were subject in the last instance to the economics ministry of the Reich (therein starting from 1934 the Reich office for currency control). The intermediate supervisory authorities were in the beginning the state tax offices and then from 1937 the Chief Finance Presidents (Oberfinanzpraesidenten). The official designation wa...

  20. Documentation of Das Ahnenerbe (The Ancestral Heritage) Society, 1935-1945

    Documentation of Das Ahnenerbe (The Ancestral Heritage) Society, 1935-1945 Documentation of Das Ahnenerbe Society, a pseudo-scientific organization founded through the initiative of Heinrich Himmler and Darre, in 1935, which dealt with the study of ancient German history and in anthropological research in order to decide on various issues in Nazi ideology. At the peak of its activities, the organization included 40 scientific departments headed by Wolfram Sivers, who was executed as a result of the Nurenberg Trials. Following 1939, the organization frequently used the results of medical exp...