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  1. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Hashomer Hatzair Movement Chapter in the Lodz Ghetto

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Hashomer Hatzair Movement in the Lodz Ghetto This Record Group is one of the most important Record Groups in the Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection. The documentation regarding the Lodz Ghetto is extremely rich, but this material is unique and complements our knowledge of the lives of the Jews in the Lodz Ghetto. The material was gathered, organized and brought to Eretz Israel by Feival Podmesky. The documents were arranged in 35 files containing hundreds of original documents (thousands of pages), which were written in the ghetto by Feivel Podm...

  2. Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Privatschulen (State and private schools) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Staats- und Privatschulen-Privatschulen (State and private schools) in Hamburg The Collection is comprised of sub-record groups that deal with specific schools. Included in the material, among others, are lists of pupils and matriculation certificates of boys and girls who were pupils in certain schools. Included are the sub-record groups: Berblinger Schule - 362-6/3 Milberg-Schule - 362-6/16 Handelsschule Lülsdorff - 362-6/17.

  3. P.34: Collection of Rabbi Stephen Wise, American Zionist leader

    P.34: Collection of Rabbi Stephen Wise, American Zionist leader Stephen Samuel Wise (1874-1949), the son and grandson of rabbis, was born in Budapest in 1874. When Wise was an infant, his parents emigrated to the United States with their family. From a very young age, Wise aspired to be a rabbi, like his father Rabbi Aharon Wise. Wise completed his studies at Columbia University with Outstanding Honors at the age of 18, and was ordained as a rabbi in 1893. He served as the rabbi in several significant communities in New York and Oregon, and he was a trail-blazer in the area of inter-denomin...

  4. Documentation from the Kultusministerium (Ministry of Religions and Education) of the Saar region, 1920-1945

    Documentation from the Kultusministerium (Ministry of Religions and Education) of the Saar region

  5. Documentation from the (Transportkomandatur) Railway Transport Headquarters in Minsk, 1941-1944

    Documentation from the (Transportkomandatur) Railway Transport Headquarters in Minsk, 1941-1944 The collection contains lists of railroad station and trains, instructions on the order of dispatching the military trains, maps, table showing distances, internal correspondence of the Railway Authority and instructions and guidelines regarding ways to defend against attacks by partisan units.

  6. TR.17.WUiADwBy - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1946-1959

    TR.17.WUiADwBy - Documentation from the Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of IPN Archival Records in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1946-1959 Included in the collection are appeals by relatives of Jews who perished during the war period, submitted to the Polish Courts of Law in the Bydgoszcz district in order to receive declarations of death.

  7. Collection of Meyer Sluyser, regarding the Dutch Government in Exile and the fate of the Jews in the Netherlands during 1940-1945

    Collection of Meyer Sluyser, regarding the Dutch Government in Exile and the fate of the Jews in the Netherlands during 1940-1945 Journalist Meyer Sluyser dealt in information publicity for the Dutch Government in Exile, and followed the fate of the Jews in the occupied Netherlands and the deportation of the Jews to Eastern Europe during 1940-1945; Included in the collection: Documents collected by M. Sluyser, including a professional opinion by the BRvA Council in London regarding various proposals for legislation, 1943-1944; Texts of the "De Flitspuit" radio program broadcasts in the Neth...

  8. Collection of the Protestantsch Hulp Comité voor Uitgewekenen om Ras en Geloof (Protestant Help Committee to Refugees of Race or Religion) in the Netherlands, 1939-1940

    Collection of the Protestantsch Hulp Comité voor Uitgewekenen om Ras en Geloof (Protestant Help Committee to Refugees of Race or Religion) in the Netherlands, 1939-1940 The aim of the Protestant Committee was to give help to Jewish or "partially" Jewish refugees who had been baptized to Christianity, or "Aryans" who were married to Jews; Included in the collection: Circulars, notes and correspondence related to the Protestant Help Committee in Amsterdam, 1940; Correspondence between the committee's chairman Professor V. H. Rutgers and various organizations and persons, including the Central...

  9. Documentation from the Senatsverwaltung fuer Gesundheit in Berlin, 1922-1967

    Documentation from the Senatsverwaltung fuer Gesundheit in Berlin, 1922-1967 The Senatsverwaltung fuer Gesundheit office was established in Berlin in 1951 and was dissolved in 1967; nevertheless, Record Group of this organization in the Landesarchiv Berlin was included with archival materials from the Weimar Republic period (including also material from the 19th century) that are related to this subject. The Yad Vashem collection has files from the "Gesundheitswesen in der NS-Zeit" Sub-Record Group (Acc. 1641), that includes material regarding medical treatment in the Jewish population, and...

  10. Documentation from government offices of the Saar region, 1924-1948

    Documentation from government offices of the Saar region Documentation from the following organizations: - Ministerium der Finanzen (one file) - Ministerium für Arbeit, Sozialordnung und Gesundheitswesen (seven files) - Justizministerium (four files). (Regarding the names of the files and their location in the microfilms - see the list of files in the Multimedia page.) Regarding the Innenministerium (Interior Ministry) of the Saar region, a separate sub-record group was opened in Sapir item 11664139. Regarding the Kultusministerium (Religion and Education Ministry) of the Saar region, a sep...

  11. Documentation of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of Romania - The Military Cabinet, 1940-1944

    Documentation of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of Romania - The Military Cabinet, 1940-1944 The collection includes documents created by the military cabinet of Ion Antonescu. Included among its subjects: the persecution and deportation of Jews; confiscation of Jewish property; military actions against the partisans; documentation of the Intelligence Service regarding the retreat of the Romanian Army from Bessarabia and northern Bucovina in 1940.

  12. Personal files of the Senatskanzlei (Senate Chamber) in Hamburg

    Personal files of the Senatskanzlei (Senate Chamber) in Hamburg

  13. Documentation of the Galizische SS-Schützendivision (Waffen-SS Galicia Division), 1943-1944

    Documentation of the Galizische SS-Schützendivision (Waffen-SS Galicia Division), 1943-1944 Included in the collection are excerpts from the activities log of the Division, which acted under the supervision of the Ukrainian Nationalists in the Lwow and Tarnopol regions.

  14. Declarations of death (Todeserklärungen), from the Bremerhaven Magistrates Court of Law (Amtsgericht)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 13320719
    • English, Hebrew
    • Legal documentation Official documentation Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors Survey report

    Declarations of death (Todeserklärungen), from the Bremerhaven Magistrates Court of Law (Amtsgericht)

  15. Collection of Erich Rajakowitsch, regarding his trial in Austria, 1905-1988

    Collection of Erich Rajakowitsch, regarding his trial in Austria, 1905-1988 SS Obersturmführer Dr. Erich Rajakowitsch, the head of the Sonderreferat Juden and a friend of Eichmann, organized the deportation of the Jews from 1941 and following; he was responsible for the deportation to Auschwitz of approximately 10,000 Jews from the Netherlands, including Anna Frank; he was put on trial during 1962-1964 for the deportation from France of 83 Jews who were Dutch citizens; he was never put on trial for his involvement in the deportation of Jews from the Netherlands; Included in the file: Docume...

  16. Collection of H. Aa. Jacques: Statistical reports regarding the Jewish population in the Netherlands, 1941-1942

    Collection of H. Aa. Jacques: Statistical reports regarding the Jewish population in the Netherlands, 1941-1942 H. Aa. Jacques, from Amsterdam, composed statistical reports regarding the Jewish population in the Netherlands during the 1940s, including detailed cross-sections according to age, gender, profession and so forth; research regarding the Jewish community in Amsterdam, and the composition of a document regarding education in the Jewish sector during 1941-1942; H. Aa. Jacques served as the head of the Commissie van Onderwijs (Committee on Education) of the Joodsche Raad (Jewish Coun...

  17. Documentation of the Communist Party Committee in the Molotovskiy neighborhood in Belostok, 1941

    Documentation of the Communist Party Committee in the Molotovskiy neighborhood in Belostok, 1941 The Collection includes documentation from the first conference of the Communist Party in Belostok, that took place on 10-11 April 1941, including lists of the Communists who attended the conference and questionnaires of candidates; protocols from the committee meetings.

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Yehiam Testimonies/ experiences/ memoirs: 1. Moshe Opatovski; 2. Chanania Einhorn Arnon; 3. Ilana (Tanenbaum) Ben Israel; 4. Asher Bentuv; 5. Edna Bentuv; 6. Lea Baram; 7. Tamar Gavish; 8. Yitzhak Zimmerman Degan; 9. Chaya Harari; 10. Miriam Vardi; 11. Abri Sela; 12. Ruthi Sela; 13. Nechama (Shuster) Rahav; 14. Aharon Rahav.

  19. Collection of the Bureau Joodsche Zaken - the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943

    Collection of the Bureau Joodsche Zaken - the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943 Included in the collection: Log books and reports produced by the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943; the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police handled violations of the Germans' decrees, such as the obligation on Jews to wear a yellow badge, the ban on Jews against travelling on public transportation, the obligation for Jews to hand over their bicycles and radios, the giving of shelter to Jews and other anti-Jewish persecutions such as hiding Jews...

  20. Ukrainian newspapers published in the Sumy region during the German occupation, 1941-1943

    Ukrainian newspapers published in the Sumy region during the German occupation, 1941-1943 Included in the collection are issues of the newspapers: Vizrodzhenyya, Novyi Chas, Putyvlyanyn, Vyzvolrnnya, Lebedynskyi Visnyk, Golos Okhtyrshchyny and Sumskyi Visnyk.