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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Files from the Foreigners Police in the Nidwalden, Switzerland canton (region) regarding five families of Jewish refugees, 1935-1946

    Files from the Foreigners Police in the Nidwalden, Switzerland canton (region) regarding five families of Jewish refugees, 1935-1946

  2. Documentation regarding the fate of Jews in the Canton of Vaud, 1933-1945: Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss workers' social-welfare organization, Department for refugees relief), regarding emigrants from Germany, letters "A - C", 1937-1946

    Documentation regarding the fate of Jews in the Canton of Vaud, 1933-1945: Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss workers' social-welfare organization, Department for refugees relief), regarding emigrants from Germany, letters "A - C", 1937-1946 Correspondence between the refugees and the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss workers' social-welfare organization, Department for refugees relief) and other organizations, including the Verband Schweizerischer Jüdischer Fürsorge - VSJF (Swiss Jewish organization for refugees relie...

  3. O.28 - Documentation of the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Krakow, Poland regarding organization activities in Poland, 1939-1942

    M.28 - Documentation of the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Krakow, Poland regarding the organization activities in Poland, 1939-1942 The documentation includes the welfare and assistance activities of the AJDC to the Jews of Poland; it consists of four main parts: 1. AJDC correspondence with the German administration authorities in occupied Poland; 2. AJDC correspondence with Jewish institutions and organizations in Poland; 3. AJDC correspondence with Jewish institutions and organizations outside of Poland; 4. Survey reports, charts and statistical data. 1. Correspondence w...

  4. Documentation of the regional committee of the Communist Party in Mogilev, 1938-1947

    Documentation of the regional committee of the Communist Party in Mogilev, 1938-1947 Included in the collection: - Documentation of the regional committee and the district committees; - Lists of Communists, propagandists, partisans, released soldiers, lecturers and Jewish refugees.

  5. Documentation regarding refugees from Poland who arrived to Mogilev and Bobruysk, 1940

    Documentation regarding refugees from Poland who arrived to Mogilev and Bobruysk, 1940 Included in the collection are lists and questionnaires of Jewish refugees who arrived from Poland during 1939-1940.

  6. Police documentation from the Graubünden, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1937-1944

    Police documentation from the Graubünden, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1937-1944 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  7. 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...

  8. Documents regarding Jews from Poland in the Soviet Union, 1941-1943

    Documents regarding Jews from Poland in the Soviet Union, 1941-1943 Reports and sources from the Polish Embassy in the Soviet Union regarding Polish Jews in the Soviet Union; in the documentation, among other items are documents concerning the distribution of aid to the Jews of Poland; correspondence between Kot, the Polish Ambassador, and Izchak Gruenbaum in Eretz Israel, from December 1942; a list of rabbis in the Soviet Union; lists of Jews deported to the Far East; the Erlich and Alter affair; Jews serving with Anders Army in Teheran.

  9. Collection of Het Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen - The Committee for Special Jewish Interests in the Netherlands, 1933-1939

    Collection of Het Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen - The Committee for Special Jewish Interests in the Netherlands, 1933-1939 Het Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen – The Committee for Special Jewish Interests in the Netherlands was established in the Netherlands in 1933, in order to promote the matters of the Jews in the Netherlands; David Cohen and Abraham Asscher stood at its head; following the influx of Jewish refugees who arrived to the Netherlands shortly thereafter, a sub-committee named the Het Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen was established; Included in the collec...

  10. Collection of lists of members of various movements, refugees in the DP camp in Vienna, prepared before aliya to Eretz Israel

    Collection of lists of members of various movements, refugees in the DP camp in Vienna, prepared before aliya to Eretz Israel

  11. Collection of the Gezantschap in Zwitserland (Consulate of the Netherlands) in Bern, Switzerland, 1939-1947

    Collection of the Gezantschap in Zwitserland (Consulate of the Netherlands) in Bern, Switzerland, 1939-1947 Included in the collection: Official documentation of the Gezantschap in Zwitserland regarding food parcels to Jews in Poland in 1944; Documents regarding the evacuation of Jews to locations overseas, 1943-1945; Documents regarding Jewish refugees, 1942-1943; Documents regarding the exchange of Jews for Germans, dated, 1939-1947; Documents regarding the diamond industry in the Netherlands, 1939-1947; Lists of refugees from the Netherlands, 1939-1947; Testimonies regarding Theresiensta...

  12. Police documentation from the Schaffhausen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to Jewish refugees and personal files of refugees, 1938-1949

    Police documentation from the Schaffhausen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to Jewish refugees and personal files of refugees, 1938-1949 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  13. Collection of Westerbork camp, 1940-1945

    Collection of Westerbork camp, 1940-1945 Westerbork camp was established by the Dutch authorities as a refugee camp, following the influx of Jewish refugees who arrived from Germany in 1933; the refugees were permitted to leave the camp until 1940, when the Germans surrounded Westerbork camp with a fence and established that the camp would be transferred to the auspices of the Ministry of Justice; the Germans changed the designation of the camp to a transit camp for deported Jews, under the supervision of the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in 1941; 101,525 persons were regis...

  14. Collection of the Ministry of Interior in the Netherlands, Department for Needy Persons, 1936-1945 Another name for the collection: Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken: Afdeling Armwezen in The Hague

    Collection of the Ministry of Interior in the Netherlands, Department for Needy Persons, 1936-1945 Another name for the collection: Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken: Afdeling Armwezen in The Hague The collection attests to the coping by the Dutch government with the influx of Jewish refugees before the war, and the policies of the Dutch government during the German occupation period; Included in the collection: Internal correspondence regarding stipends to Jews; Documents regarding mixed marriages among Jews in Rotterdam, 1942; Documents regarding the care of war orphans and children who a...

  15. Documentation from the National Archives in Geneva regarding the fate of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1945

    Documentation from the National Archives in Geneva regarding the fate of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1945

  16. M.1.Q. - Historical questionnaires completed by refugees in DP camps, 1946-1948

    M.1.Q. - Historical questionnaires completed by refugees in DP camps, 1946-1948 The Central Historical Committee (CHC) in Munich distributed questionnaires among Holocaust survivors from various countries and cities. The purpose of the questionnaires was to gather detailed information regarding the persecution during the Nazi occupation.

  17. Collection of David Cohen, head of the Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council) and leader of the Jewish community in the Netherlands, 1922-1954

    Collection of David Cohen, head of the Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council) and leader of the Jewish community in the Netherlands, 1922-1954 Included in the collection: Testimonies in favor of Professor David Cohen, from a trial held against him after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, 1947-1948; Various documents submitted by Professor David Cohen to his lawyers during the trial held against him and against A. Asscher in the Netherlands after the war, 1947-1949; Documents regarding the possibilities for emigration for Jews from the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation perio...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ein Gev Testimonies/ interviews: 1. Willi Bechner; 2. Rivka Grinberger; 3. Shragai Degani; 4. Michael Werner; 5. Baruch Zeira; 6. Zvi Mor; 7. Mordechai Neustadt (testimony, from an unknown source); 8. Rachel Sobol; Booklet: 1. Uri Yanai, "Excerpts of memoirs", Kibbutz Ein Gev, 1990; 2. "Saltzseleufer leben zeit shrift", Aroibegegebn durchen kultur-amt beim Yiddishen Komitet in Bad Salzuflen-Fulder [?] Kriz, Amerikaner Zone ("Journal of my li...

  19. Documentation of anti-Nazi emigree organizations from Germany and Austria that were active in Paris, 1936-1940

    Documentation of anti-Nazi emigree organizations from Germany and Austria that were active in Paris, 1936-1940 This Record Group was set up in the Osoby Archive in Moscow and includes files of a number of German emigee organizations that were active in Paris. - Files of emigee organizations (Frames 1004-1151) including the Fédération des Emigrés provenant d'Autriche and the Ligue Autrichienne (in German: Oesterreichischen Liga) containing correspondence, fliers, administrative material and reports regarding the Austrian refugees in France, 1938-1940. One of the files (Frames 1026-1114) incl...

  20. Documentation of the central committee of the Communist Party in Belorussia, 1941-1944

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12797601
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1944
    • Appeal to the authorities Exhumation report Legal documentation Letter List of Communists List of evacuated persons List of partisans List of refugees Official documentation Personal documents Statistical report Survey Survey report הודעה

    Documentation of the central committee of the Communist Party in Belorussia, 1941-1944 Included in the collection, among other material: - Documentation of the central committee of the Communist Party in Belorussia; - Documentation of the headquarters of the partisans movement; - Lists of Communists; - Personal documents of Jewish Communists; - Situation reports regarding the occupied territories in Belorussia; - Reports regarding the establishment of ghettos, deportation of refugees, and the persecution and murder of Jews; - Survey reports of the partisans units in Belorussia; - Statistica...