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  1. Documentation regarding Keren Hayesod in Riga, 1920-1940

    Documentation regarding Keren Hayesod in Riga, 1920-1940 Keren Hayesod was established at the annual conference of the World Zionist Organization held in London in July 1920, as the fundraising arm of the Zionist movement. The Keren Hayesod Manifest of 1920 reflected the determination and decisiveness of the new Zionist organization: "The time has arrived for the concentration of the Jewish effort on behalf of the establishment of the National Jewish Home". Keren Hayesod was charged with the responsibility for the financing of aliya and settlement in Eretz Israel; Before the establishment o...

  2. Documentation of the Gemeinde Farmsen (Farmsen Suburb Administration) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Gemeinde Farmsen (Farmsen Suburb Administration) in Hamburg

  3. Documentation from the Magistrates Courts of Law (Amtsgerichte) of Blieskastel, Merzig, Nohfelden and Tholey in the Saar region, 1930-1952

    Documentation from the Magistrates Courts of Law (Amtsgerichte) of Blieskastel, Merzig, Nohfelden and Tholey in the Saar region, 1930-1952 Included in the collection: Files of Jewish communities (Brotdorf, Sötern and Bosen) and files of various associations - mainly sports and Nazi associations, including excerpts from the regulations of the business association that ban membership by Jews.

  4. Reports prepared by the Hechalutz Center in Geneva for the World Jewish Congress (WJC) regarding the situation of the Jews in Slovakia and other countries, 1944-1945

    Reports prepared by the Hechalutz Center in Geneva for the World Jewish Congress (WJC) regarding the situation of the Jews in Slovakia and other countries, 1944-1945

  5. Documentation of the Landratsamt (District authority) of the Meschede district, Westphalia

    Documentation of the Landratsamt (District authority) of the Meschede district, Westphalia

  6. Documentation of the German rule in Grodno, 1941-1942

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 13242665
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1942
    • Appeal to the authorities Approval Correspondence Instruction List of craftspeople List of forced laborers List of Jewish residents List of workers Official documentation Questionnaire

    Documentation of the German rule in Grodno, 1941-1942 The Collection includes an appeal by the Jewish community to the municipal administration asking to install a sewer system in the main synagogue; an appeal by the person in charge of the Polish cemetery to the municipal administration regarding the payment of salaries to Jewish workers; permit granted by the mayor of Grodno to have a worker enter the ghetto for repair work; correspondence of the municipal administration with the Municipal Governor (Stadtkommissar-City Commissioner) regarding the confiscation of the Jewish bathhouse and i...

  7. M.52.DAIFO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region

    M.52.DAIFO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region History of the Archives: The Archives was established in December 1939 and was called the Regional Historical Archives of Stanislawow until 1941. Before its establishment, all of the documentation was kept in institutions of the authorities and in public institutions. This documentation began to be collected by the Stanislawow UNKVD as of November 1939 in the new regional Archives after the same institutions and organizations were cancelled by the Soviet authorities. The name of the Archives was changed during ...

  8. Documentation of Soviet central government in Estonia, 1940 - 1998

  9. O.104 - אוסף לוכסמבורג

    1. Robert Serebrenik, personal and famuly documents and letters. 2. Esra Hilfsverein fuer beduerftige Juden Luxemburg, correspondence and statutes. 3. Letters and other documents concerning the appointment of Robert Serebrenik as Chief Rabbi of Luxemburg. 4. Essay on the Jewish Community Ramath Orah, New York. 5. Correspondence of Robert and Julia Serebrenik. 6. Statement by Robert Serebrenik, Chief Rabbi of Luxemburg, on his meetings with Adolf Eichmann 7. Letters of condolences, eulogies and obituaries on the occasion of Robert Serebrenik's death. 8. Julia Serebrenik's correspondence conc...

  10. M.21.1 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich

    M.21.1 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich The War Criminals Department was established in the American Occupied Zone a short time after the end of World War II. From 1946-1951 it was active as the legal division of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich, in cooperation with the Central Historical Commission in Munich and other survivor organizations. The role of the division was to locate war criminals and collaborators, to gather documentary material, to collect testimony from survivors and to bring the criminals to...

  11. Documents of the Generalkommissariat für Finanz und Wirtschaft, Abteilung Siedlung und Bauten (Department for Construction and Settlement) in the Netherlands, including documents related to Jews, 1941-1944

    Documents of the Generalkommissariat für Finanz und Wirtschaft, Abteilung Siedlung und Bauten (Department for Construction and Settlement) in the Netherlands, including documents related to Jews, 1941-1944 The function of the Abteilung Siedlung und Bauten was to plan and construct infrastructures for the Germans and to supervise the construction of houses and institutions during 1942-1944; The function of the Niederländische Grundstücksverwaltung was the registration and administration of Jewish real estate, a legal procedure called Aryanization, according to the VO/154/41 legislation, whic...

  12. Collection of Schoorl camp in the Netherlands, 1940-1941, and correspondence regarding Schoorl camp until 1979

    Collection of Schoorl camp in the Netherlands, 1940-1941, and correspondence regarding Schoorl camp until 1979 Included in the collection: Personal documents, including letters, poems/songs and paintings; Photographs of Schoorl camp and a map of Schoorl camp and the surrounding area; Orders by the Schoorl camp administration, regarding discipline, freedom of movement, cleanliness, the receipt of postal items, and other matters; List of inmates in Schoorl camp, 1940-1941; Documents including a statement of defense by K. Berg, commander of Schoorl camp and Amersfoort camp; Appeals to various ...

  13. Lists of children and youth, prepared by the Sumy municipal administration, 1941-1943

    Lists of children and youth, prepared by the Sumy municipal administration, 1941-1943

  14. Documentation of the municipal administration in Bila Tserkva, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the municipal administration in Bila Tserkva, 1941-1943 - Documentation regarding the registration of the population, confiscation of Jewish property and a list of the Jewish inmates in the local prison; - Information regarding the number of inmates in the prison taken for execution; - Information regarding the theft of abandoned Jewish property carried out by the local residents before the German occupation; - Documentation of the mayor of Bila Tserkva regarding life in the city and regarding Jewish property; - Announcement sent to the mayor of Bila Tserkva by the German I...

  15. Documentation of the Kryzhopil municipality, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the Kryzhopil municipality, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Instructions of the governor of Transnistria and the Kryzhopil district administration, regarding the manner of administration of the local commerce; - Tax rates; - Lists of skilled professionals.

  16. Files of the Hamburg Polizeibehoerde (Police Office) regarding cases of unnatural death, 1938-1945

    Files of the Hamburg Polizeibehoerde (Police Office) regarding cases of unnatural death, 1938-1945

  17. Documentation of the Jewish national organization "Trumpeldor" in Riga, 1929-1941

    Documentation of the Jewish national organization "Trumpeldor" in Riga, 1929-1941 History of the organization The organization was officially established on 20 August 1924. The aim of its establishment was the establishment of a Jewish country in Eretz Israel. The main focus of the organization was the education of youth toward national values, the study of Hebrew, physical labor, and the study of agricultural professions, handicrafts and seamanship. The organization declared that the Jewish citizens of Latvia be educated toward the spirit of a national state. Thus, on 15 May 1935, approxim...

  18. Documentation of the council and the Executive Committee of the Mogilev municipality, 1939-1940

    Documentation of the council and the Executive Committee of the Mogilev municipality, 1939-1940 Included in the collection: - List of Jewish residents and refugees from western Belorussia; - Personal files of Jews; - Survey report regarding the housing situation.

  19. Documentation regarding Jews, from the Lehrte Municipal Archives

    Documentation regarding Jews, from the Lehrte Municipal Archives

  20. Documentation of the regional Prosecutor's Office in Bialystok, 1947-1979

    Documentation of the regional Prosecutor's Office in Bialystok, 1947-1979 Included in the file are prosecution files against Polish collaborators and German policemen for their actions during the war period in the Bialystok region.