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  1. Documentation of the women's high school affiliated with the "Jewish Association for Elementary and High Schools" in Kolomyja, 1939

    Documentation of the women's high school affiliated with the "Jewish Association for Elementary and High Schools" in Kolomyja, 1939 Included in the collection are protocols of the final exams for the 1938/1939 school year.

  2. Documentation from the local archives in Cluj and St. Gheorghe, Romania

    Documentation from the local archives in Cluj and St. Gheorghe, Romania Ten files, of which Files Nos. 1-8 and 10, include information in Hungarian. A few of the files are from the communities in the cities and towns in Transylvania in the area of Haromszek. The people in the communities wrote the history of the Jews of Haromszek and preserved the paperwork dealing with the life of the community. The main paperwork deals with matters pertaining to Kezdivasarhely and Sepsiszentgyorgy. In File No. 9 there are documents from Cluj in Romanian.

  3. Documentation of the regional draft office in Stanislav, 1944-1945

    Documentation of the regional draft office in Stanislav, 1944-1945 Included in the collection are reports regarding the "Aktions" of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in Ukraine during 1944-1945.

  4. Documentation from the Kinderrettungsverein of the Berliner Stadtmission in Berlin

    Documentation from the Kinderrettungsverein of the Berliner Stadtmission in Berlin The Kinderrettungsverein (Child Rescue Association) was established in 1905 by the priest Wilhelm Pfeiffer, a priest at the Evangelist Innere Mission (Inner Mission) in Berlin. The Association was meant to care for children who were born out of wedlock in the large "Charite" hospital in Berlin. The Association also took care of orphans and half-orphaned children. The Association received custody over the children, took care of their education and vocational training, and attempted to find foster [adoptive] pa...

  5. O.31 - Documentation of the Jews of Italy mainly from the Holocaust period

    O.31 - Documentation of the Jews of Italy mainly from the Holocaust period Personal documentation submitted to the Yad Vashem Archive containing testimonies, letters and personal documents of different kinds. Among the documentation in the Record Group there are also lists of Jews as well as other official documentation, most of it copies on microfilm spools of the documentation from the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem and the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CDEC) in Milan regarding the Jewish communities in Italy, antisemitic legislation, pe...

  6. Documentation of the Wilejka District Commissioner, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Wilejka District Commissioner, 1941-1944 The Collection includes documentation of the municipal administration in Molodeczno regarding the handing over to town residents of homes that were confiscated from Jews; appeal by the local Head of the Wilejka District to the District Commissioner (Gebietskommissar) requesting to release two Jews from detention; commands by the Molodetschno Commander (Kommandant) regarding the prohibition of turning on lights in the evening hours; official documentation of the Regional Commissioner (Generalkommissariat) in Minsk and the District...

  7. Documentation of the Belorussian Institute of Agriculture in Gorki, 1916-1941

    Documentation of the Belorussian Institute of Agriculture in Gorki, 1916-1941 Included in the collection are lists of students, lecturers and employees at the institute; personal documents of students and employees at the institute, requests to receive salaries, and instructions by the administration regarding students and employees at the institute.

  8. Documentation of the finance department of the municipal Executive committee in Gomel, 1930-1941

    Documentation of the finance department of the municipal Executive committee in Gomel, 1930-1941 Included in the collection is a list of taxpayers from Gomel during 1923-1941, and orders given by the mayor of Gomel in 1942.

  9. Documentation of the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Shitomir, 1943

    Documentation of the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Shitomir, 1943 Included in the collection is correspondence between the Reichskommissar der Ukraine (Reich commissioner of Ukraine) and the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Shitomir.

  10. Documentation of the partisans movement headquarters in Belorussia, 1941-1944

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12796532
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1944
    • Investigation report Letter List of partisans Official documentation Order Personal documents Questionnaire Statistical report Survey report Testimony

    Documentation of the partisans movement headquarters in Belorussia, 1941-1944 Included in the collection, among other material: - Lists of partisans from various units that were active in Belorussia; - Personal cards and questionnaires of Jewish partisans; - Statistical data regarding the partisans movement in Belorussia; - Professional opinions of partisans commanders, regarding the fighters; - Lists of Soviet sappers; - Plans for action of the partisans movement headquarters; - Report to Platon, the general headquarters representative, regarding the participation of many Jews in the parti...

  11. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Voronovo, 1940-1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Voronovo, 1940-1941 The Collection includes a list of election committee members in the Baranowichi Region; special messages of the RO NKVD (the District Department of the NKVD) regarding anti-Soviet activity; reports of the District Committee to the Communist Party's Central and Regional Committee in Belorussia.

  12. Documentation of Jewish refugees in Switzerland who made aliya to Eretz Israel after the war, dated 1945

    Documentation of Jewish refugees in Switzerland who made aliya to Eretz Israel after the war, dated 1945 - Personal files of Jewish refugees from the Swiss Federal Archive in Bern [including?] the Gaon and Majrovitz families; - List of candidates for aliya from the Youth Aliyah House in Bex, in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

  13. Collection of Einsatzstab Rosenberg, the unit for the emptying of the household contents belonging to Jews who were deported in the Netherlands during 1942-1943, and claims for compensation, Oorlogsschade, 1958

    Collection of Einsatzstab Rosenberg, the unit for the emptying of the household contents belonging to Jews who were deported in the Netherlands during 1942-1943, and claims for compensation, Oorlogsschade, 1958 Einsatzstab Rosenberg, a member of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei - NDAP (Nazi Party), dealt, among other matters, with the collection of the household contents of Jews who were deported from the Netherlands during 1942-1943; the contents of the homes were sent to Germany; considerable use was made of these documents for the purpose of claims for compensation dur...

  14. M.61.MZsML - Documentation from the Hungarian Jewish Archives (Magyar Zsidó Múzeum és Levéltár), Budapest, from 1938-1945

    M.61.MZsML - Documentation from the Hungarian Jewish Archives (Magyar Zsidó Múzeum és Levéltár), Budapest, from 1938-1945 Contents: Reel 11933 - Office of the Jewish community of Baja: lists, property Reel 11934 - Properties, documents from the Supervisor over Estates - related to places such as Velence, Seregelyes Reel 11935 - Kecskemet, conversion to Christianity, offices of the Baja community Reel 11938 - Documents from the National Archive - MOLVT - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Schutzpass certificates, passports, protective documents Reels 11939-11940 (Lists) - List of persons who p...

  15. Documentation of the regional multidisciplinary industrial association in Mogilev, 1944-1945

    Documentation of the regional multidisciplinary industrial association in Mogilev, 1944-1945 Included in the collection are personal files of members of the association.

  16. Documentation of the C. N. Bialik Hebrew High School next to the Herzliya Company in Wołkowysk, 1938-1939

    Documentation of the C. N. Bialik Hebrew High School next to the Herzliya Company in Wołkowysk, 1938-1939 The Collection includes class logs for the 1938/1939 school year.

  17. Testimonies and reports written by Jewish and non-Jewish inmates from the Netherlands, most of them political prisoners, regarding prisons and concentration camps, 1933-1945

    Testimonies and reports written by Jewish and non-Jewish inmates from the Netherlands, most of them political prisoners, regarding prisons and concentration camps, 1933-1945 Lists of people from the Netherlands who perished in camps, and a report regarding the persecution of Jews by the Amsterdam Police, 1939-1945; Correspondence of the Netherlands Tracing Mission, 1945-1948; Orders given by Harster, regarding the obligation on the entire population to possess an identity card, 1940-1941; Lists of the Centraal Registratiebureau Voor Joden, regarding Jewish survivors from the Netherlands in ...

  18. Documentation regarding the community high school and the Jewish elementary schools in Riga, 1924-1941

    Documentation regarding the community high school and the Jewish elementary schools in Riga, 1924-1941 Included in the collection: Lists of pupils; grade [marks] booklets; appeals and requests to be accepted to the school; teachers' opinions regarding pupils; teachers' salary slips; list of books in the school library; reports from teachers' conferences, 1938-1940; photograph albums from 1930-1941.

  19. Documentation from the National Archives of Romania

    Documentation from the National Archives of Romania The collection includes files created by various organizations: Reports by the central and the local administration regarding the persecution of Jews; files from the Military Cabinet of the Ion Antonescu government; decrees and decisions against the Jews, 1940-1944; surveillance reports by the Siguranta Security Police.

  20. Collection of Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft, the Deutsche Revisions und Treuhand A.G. and the Wirtschaftprüfstelle, regarding the administration of Jewish property in the Netherlands during 1940-1945

    Collection of Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft, the Deutsche Revisions und Treuhand A.G. and the Wirtschaftprüfstelle, regarding the administration of Jewish property in the Netherlands during 1940-1945 Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft, the German Office for the Aryanization of Jewish Businesses in the Netherlands, was a German trustee company in Berlin before the war; the Wirtschaftprüfstelle, the organization that supervised the Aryanization of Jewish businesses, gave the order to Omnia for the implementation of the Aryanization process in 1941; Omnia received approximately 16,000 orders for the diss...