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  1. Collection of the Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, 1924-1944

    Collection of the Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, 1924-1944 Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, was responsible for the administration of matters related to the regions, municipalities, and needy persons, Armwezen. The local Police, firefighters and air defense forces were subordinate to it and were transferred to the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice during the Nazi occupation period. A general draft of the Dutch Army was declared in June 1939. Binnenlands B...

  2. Documentation of the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Zwiahel, 1942-1943

    Documentation of the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Zwiahel, 1942-1943 Included in the collection: - Instructions regarding arrests and executions, and correspondence with Police agents; - Instructions and directives regarding the collection of taxes from the local population; - Documentation regarding local residents who were deported to forced labor in Germany; - Lists of "Eastern" laborers who handed over their clothing; - Legal files against various people, including Communists, and lists of those people; - Documentation regarding the payment of salaries to workers in the distr...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Mishmar HaNegev Interviews/ testimonies: 1. Ilana Arad; 2. Yosef Erez; 3. Momos Bonim; 4. Jacques Borstein; 5. Zvika Blustein; 6. Fanni Bar-Alon; 7. Esther Gutkind; 8. Ben-Zion Degani; 9. Dorit Dekel; 10. Mordechai Voloshchovski; 11. Shula Wechsler; 12. Yosef Tanzer; 13. Terez Lev; 14. Dora Magril; 15. Meir Soker; 16. Meir Soker; 17. Arush Poznanski; 18. -- Kelert; 19. Yoel Roizman; 20. Michael Rapaport; 21. Yishai Shtikman; 22. Stuki Shteff...

  4. Documentation of the municipal administration of Mogilev, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the municipal administration of Mogilev, 1941-1944 In the collection there is documentation of the municipal administration of Mogilev, including requests from the public to the administration on various matters, correspondence between various bodies and lists of residents. Bibliography 1. Mогилев: Энцикл/ справ./Сов.Энцикл.; Rедкол. И.П. Шамякин (гл. ред.) и др. Мн.:Бел СЭ, 1990-472 стр; 2. http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/holocaust/about/04/baltic.asp

  5. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Oshmyany, 1940-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Oshmyany, 1940-1941 The Collection includes reports from various Communist Party institutions and organizations regarding the establishment of kolkhozes and the presence of national parties in the District; lists and reports regarding persons suspected of anti-Soviet activity; documentation of the Propaganda Department including lists of Communist propagandists and correspondence with various organizations; lists of Area Election Committees including personal documentation of the committee members.

  6. P.76 - The Esther Lurie Collection

    The artist and painter Esther Lurie (1913-1998) grew up in Latvia. She studied in Belgium and made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1934. In 1938 she won the Dizengoff Prize. She traveled to visit her relatives in Latvia and Lithuania in 1939, and was unable to return to Eretz Israel. In June 1941 she was in Kaunas. She was deported to the Kaunas Ghetto and documented life in the Kaunas Ghetto in her paintings. She was deported later to Stutthof camp. Esther returned to Eretz Israel in 1945, married Dr. Yosef Shapira, and continued her artistic activities. She participated in many exhibitions and w...

  7. M.67 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from archives in Bulgaria

    M.67 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from archives in Bulgaria In the Record Group there is documentation from government archives in Bulgaria. Cataloguing began in 2001, and it is still continuing. The Record Group is open for accepting additional official documentation. The Record group contains documentation from the Holocaust period: - Indictments, protocols of investigations carried out in preparation for the trials held in the People's Court in Bulgaria in 1945, verdicts and protocols from the first three Court sessions (regarding protocols from additional People's Court Sessi...

  8. Documentation from the Amt Nohfelden / Türkismühle in the Saar region, 1920-1944

    Documentation from the Amt Nohfelden / Türkismühle in the Saar region Documentation from the Amt Merzig-Land in the Saar region

  9. Documentation of the German authorities and the local authorities in Belorussia, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the German authorities and the local authorities in Belorussia, 1941-1944 Included in the collection: List of Jewish residents from Skidel who paid taxes; list of Jews from Mosty, prepared by the Judenrat, 20/11/1941; documentation regarding investigations of Jews by the Ortskommandatur Grodno, 1941; list of Jews from the Korelichi Ghetto, 1942; documentation regarding industrial and agricultural matters in Mosty, 1942; documents and lists of residents and property in the Nowogrodek district, 1941-1943; documentation of the municipal administration in Slonim, 1941-1944; doc...

  10. Documentation of the government offices in Hamburg regarding Jews and the persecution of Jews

    Documentation of the government offices in Hamburg regarding Jews and the persecution of Jews List of contents of the microfilms (inside the parentheses are the record group numbers of the official institutions): JM/12659 Senat (111-1) (Collection 12665617) JM/12660 [bad quality microfilm - dark pictures] (frames 2-2169) Innere Verwaltung (Buero Senator Richter) (113-2) (Collection 12666235) JM/12661 + JM/12662 Staatsverwaltung (Allgemeine Abteilung) (113-5) (Collection 12628222) JM/12663 (frames 2-86) Buergerschaft (121-3) (Collection 12672597) JM/12663 (frames 87-203) Ratsherrenkanzlei (1...

  11. P.24 - Dov Levin Collection - Partisan and Holocaust researcher

    P.24 - Dov Levin Collection - Partisan and Holocaust researcher Dov Levin was born in Kaunas, Lithuania on 27 January 1925. His parents were Zvi Hirsh Levin and Bluma (Vigoder) Levin. Dov Levin died in Jerusalem on 03 December 2016. He received a Zionist education, and was fluent in Slavic languages, Lithuanian, English and Hebrew. Levin studied at the "Schwab" Hebrew high school in Kaunas, which was affiliated with the "Tarbut" educational network, until the school's closure following the Soviet occupation, and at the "Shalom Aleichem" Yiddish high school. He joined the Hashomer Hatzair mo...

  12. Documentation from the Stutthof concentration camp political department, 1940-1945

    Documentation from the Stutthof concentration camp political department, 1940-1945 Included in the collection is documentation of the political department administrators regarding the camp's inmates, an announcement regarding the transfer of inmates to the Stutthof concentration camp from other camps, documentation regarding the deportation of Jewish inmates from Riga, Auschwitz camp and Plaszow camp to the Stutthof concentration camp including transport lists from 1944, card files of inmates and their registration books, and correspondence regarding the transfer of 500 female inmates to Ha...

  13. Anti-Jewish legislation in Italy

    Anti-Jewish legislation in Italy - Anti-Jewish legislation as published for the public in the governmental leaflet and by various government offices.

  14. Documentation of the Police headquarters in the Stanislawow district, 1932-1939

    Documentation of the Police headquarters in the Stanislawow district, 1932-1939 Included in the collection are reports by the Police headquarters regarding the activities of the Zionist organizations and unions in the district.

  15. תיקי SD-Hauptaußenstelle Würzburg, בואריה

    SD Hauptaussenstelle (main branch office) Wuerzburg (until summer 1939 SD subsection Mainfranken, then until autumn 1942 at the latest, SD section Wuerzburg) The typewritten inventory "SD main branch office Wuerzburg" (5051 sheets) from the years 1939 - 1944 was first acquired in February 1966 in poor condition (leaves severely damaged by fire) by the City Archives Wuerzburg. How it got there is unclear, possibly the police had handed it over. The sheets were restored by lamination and reopened except for a small percentage. The inventory consists mainly of field reports from the branch off...

  16. Documentation of the German and Ukrainian authorities in Ukraine, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the German and Ukrainian authorities in Ukraine, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Order issued by the mayor of Odessa regarding Jewish property and Jewish owned assets; - Instruction of the municipality of Kamenets Podolskiy and the Feldkommandant, including a definition of who is a Jew and the imposition of the obligation to wear a yellow badge by the Jews of the district and region; - Announcements by the German authorities in the area of occupied Ukraine, including instructions and laws related to the imposition of restrictions on the Jews.

  17. Documentation from the Bezirksamt Spandau in Berlin, 1933-1943

    Documentation from the Bezirksamt Spandau in Berlin, 1933-1943 The city of Spandau and the villages of Gatow, Kladow, Pichelsdorf, Staaken and Tiefwerder were incorporated into the city of Berlin in 1920, as the Bezirk (municipal district of) Spandau. In the Record Group are files regarding the transfer of Jewish businesses and property to Aryan owners; dismissals from work of public employees who were married to Jewish women; Jewish religious education (during 1916-1936); Jewish employees in the municipal district offices.

  18. Documentation from the Magistrates Court in Cannstatt, Wurttemberg, 1883-1949

    Documentation from the Magistrates Court in Cannstatt, Wurttemberg, 1883-1949 Most of the files deal with Jewish businesses from the start of their establishment, and the Aryanization or liquidation of the Jewish businesses during the Nazi period. Some of the files also include material from the postwar period.

  19. Documentation of the administration of the Kryzhopil district, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the administration of the Kryzhopil district, 1941-1942 Included in the collection is documentation regarding the payment of taxes by the Jewish residents in the Kryzhopil district; reports by the local factories regarding the payment of taxes; instructions by the governor of Transnistria and the governor of the Kryzhopil district.

  20. Documentation of the National Zionist Organization in Lwow, 1934-1938

    Documentation of the National Zionist Organization in Lwow, 1934-1938 Included in the collection are questionnaires of the executive committee of the Zionist Organization in Lwow regarding the situation of the Jewish population and the Zionist activities in various places in the Lwow and Stanislawow regions, 1934; lists of Jewish residents from Lwow who voted for the Sejm (Polish Parliament) in 1938.