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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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...

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. Documentation of governmental agencies, 1926 - 1940

  12. Documentation of Jewish societies and organizations in Estonia, 1909 - 1940

  13. Documentation of the Klooga Camp Administration, 1943 - 1944

  14. Documentation of the Gebr. Arnhold Bank in Dresden and Berlin and the Adler & Co. Bank in Zurich from the Osoby Archive in Moscow

    Documentation of the Gebr. Arnhold Bank in Dresden and Berlin and the Adler & Co. Bank in Zurich from the Osoby Archive in Moscow The documentation was photocopied from two collections regarding the two banks, from Opis 2 of the Fond 1322: Banken, Firmen, Aktiengesellschaften record group in the Osoby Archive. The material photocopied from the Adler & Co. Bank mainly deals with art trading houses in Berlin.

  15. Police documentation from the Bern, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1941-1944

    Police documentation from the Bern, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1941-1944 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  16. Documentation of the Ukrainian Police in the Lwow region, 1942-1944

    Documentation of the Ukrainian Police in the Lwow region, 1942-1944 The Ukrainian Police force was established following the German occupation of the Ukrainian territories. The Ukrainian policemen participated in the perpetration of pogroms against the Jews in Lwow and in other cities in Eastern Galicia. Afterwards, the Ukrainian policemen took part in escorting groups of Jews to forced labor, served as guards in the ghettos, and participated in the implementation of "Aktions"; Included in the collection is official correspondence by the Ukrainian Police in the Lwow region, regarding the bu...

  17. Collection of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (the German Office for Administration and Justice) in the Netherlands, 1940-1944

    Collection of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (the German Office for Administration and Justice) in the Netherlands, 1940-1944 The Germans established a system for civil administration in 1940; Arthur Seyss-Inquart stood as the Reichskommissar - head of the civil administration; establishment of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (German Office for Administration and Justice) under Seyss-Inquart, and under the administration of Friedrich Wimmer in The Hague; among the office's functions were administration and justice: legislation, internal matters, justice,...

  18. O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem

    O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem The testimony department of Yad Vashem started gathering testimonies in 1954 in Tel Aviv. It is currently located at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. The survivors interviewed are recorded on audio or video tape, and most of the testimonies have been transcribed. Quantity of material: Over 83 meters shelving: There are over 9000 testimonies in this record group, and the number continues to grow. Main languages: Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Polish, German, English, Hungarian, Romanian, French, Serb

  19. M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York

    M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York The Central Location Index (CLI) was established by various relief organizations in May 1944. The goal of the CLI was to concentrate data regarding refugees and those missing. After the organization (CLI administration) disbanded in May 1949, the documentation was stored in the cellars of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York; in 1957 the documentation was transferred to Yad Vashem. In the collection there are documents, lists and index cards. There are two main sectio...

  20. M.52.DADpO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Dnepropetrovsk Region

    M.52.DADpO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Dnepropetrovsk Region This Sub-Record Group includes documentation of the Dnepropetrovsk municipality regarding the function and composition of the Judenrat (including the names of the Judenrat members and the name of the Judenrat representative in the municipality), 02 October 1941; appeal by the mayor of Dnepropetrovsk to the Stadtkomissar, regarding the establishment of the Dnepropetrovsk Ghetto, 1941; documentation of the municipality, regarding Jewish elderly people and orphans in the municipal home for disabled people in Dnepro...