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  1. O.75: Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period or regarding the Holocaust

    O.75: Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period or regarding the Holocaust In the Record Group are personal letters collected by Yad Vashem since its establishment. The letters were written before, during and after the Holocaust period in the Nazi occupied countries - in ghettos, camps and hiding places, and in the countries to which the Jewish refugees from Europe succeeded in escaping before and during the Holocaust. The letters were sent to family members, relatives, acquaintances, friends and close friends in European countries and countries overseas. In the collection are letters...

  2. M.82 - Documentation from the State Archives of Saint Petersburg

    M.82 - Documentation from the State Archives of Saint Petersburg In the Record Group there is documentation selected from the TSGA SPb (Central State Archive of St. Petersburg) from the years 1918-1955, and from the Central State Archive of Historical and Political Documentation (the former archive of the Communist Party), 1941-1973. The Records Group in Yad Vashem contains 3,136 files. In the Records Group there is documentation from the following collections: The Collection of the Department for Nationalist Minority Matters of the Regional Executive Committee of St. Petersburg, 1918-1923:...

  3. Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 5083562
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1939-1944
    • Administrative documentation Application Balance sheet Correspondence Financial accounts List of Jews List of names Lists Report Reports Statistical data Statistical report Survey report

    Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943 The Jewish Self Aid organization (in Polish: Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna [ZSS]; in German: Juedische Soziale Selbshilfe) was set up in Krakow in 1940; it went by this name until July 1942. After that date, the organization's welfare activities were cut back by order of the German authorities, and they mainly consisted of the transferring of medicines to Jews in labor camps until this activity, too, was discontinued in mid-1944. ZSS documentation includes correspondence between the administra...

  4. Collection of Zwitsersche Weg A, including documents regarding Jewish refugees from the Netherlands, 1940-1944

    Collection of Zwitsersche Weg A, including documents regarding Jewish refugees from the Netherlands, 1940-1944 Treatment of Jewish refugees who are citizens of the Netherlands, in Belgium, Switzerland and Poland, in the context of the persecution of Dutch Jewry and the anti-German underground in the Netherlands and Belgium, 1940-1944; Included in the collection: Letters from the Joodse Coordinatie Commissie [without indication of the addressees], regarding the collection of data concerning Jewish deportees, including children, May-August 1944; List of 281 Jews, titled, "Istanbul Exchanges" ...

  5. O.36 - David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany

    O.36 - David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany This record group is a collection of testimonies recorded by David Boder, a Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in DP camps in Europe in 1946. The collection is comprised of testimonies of Jews and non-Jews, recorded in various languages and translated into English. The testimonies focus on the events in the lives of the survivors during the war in the ghettos and camps, while serving in the military, in hiding and in children's homes. The testimonies also contain information regardin...

  6. Documentation of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss Workers' Social-Welfare Organization, Department for Refugees Relief), regarding refugees and emigrants from Germany

    Documentation of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss Workers' Social-Welfare Organization, Department for Refugees Relief), regarding refugees and emigrants from Germany Reports from the regional relief organizations and the directors of camps and residences of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss workers' social-welfare organization, Department for refugees relief), regarding the refugees' recreational activities including detailed reports from several refugee camps and residences concerning lectures and cultural ...

  7. The K. F. Mannheimer archives, 1900-1994

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6082686
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1900-1994
    • Committee request Correspondence Document Financial accounts Indictment Inventory list Laws and decrees Legal documentation Letter Letter of testimony Medical documentation Newspaper Notepad Passport Personal documents Protocol Questionnaire Reports Sentence

    Documentation of K. F. Mannheimer, a lawyer for claims for compensation by Holocaust survivors in Germany and in Amsterdam; documentation dated, 1897-1978 K. F. Mannheimer, a Jewish lawyer, was born in Germany in 1897; he was married to B. A. E. Weisel in a mixed marriage; following the Nazi rise to power, Mannheimer was forced to cease his work as a lawyer in Berlin; he emigrated to the Netherlands with his wife, who was also a lawyer, in 1936; in the Netherlands, Mannheimer served as a lawyer, prosecutor, translator and advisor to students, until the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands whi...

  8. O.46 - Documentation from the Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives: Activities of the Hashomer Hatzair Movement in Europe during World War II

    O.46 - Documentation from the Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives: Activities of the Hashomer Hatzair Movement in Europe during World War II Hashomer Hatsair is a Socialist–Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary. By 1939, Hashomer Hatzair had 70,000 members worldwide. The movement's membership base was in Eastern Europe. With the advent of World War II and the Holocaust, members of Hashomer Hatzair focused their attention on resistance against the Nazis. Mordechaj Anielewicz, the leader of Hashomer Hatzair's Warsaw branch, became head of the Jewish Fightin...

  9. M.81: Documentation from archives in Kyrgyzstan

    M.81: Documentation from archives in Kyrgyzstan In the Records Group there is documentation regarding evacuees and refugees in Kyrgyzstan during World War II. Additionally, the Records Group contains Chapters 3-6 from the documentary and propaganda series, "The Kyrgyzstan Advisor", which was produced during World War II and told how the people on the Soviet home front were managing with the difficulties of the war. In the Records Group there is also a documentary film regarding the 3,500 children from Leningrad who were evacuated to Kyrgyzstan during the war. There is also "En Route from Ch...

  10. Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1956

    Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1956

  11. Documentation regarding the fate of Jewish refugees in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, 1933-1945

    Documentation regarding the fate of Jewish refugees in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, 1933-1945 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  12. M.23 - Benno Kaufmann Collection - Documentation of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany, Basel, 1939-1947

    M.23 - Benno Kaufmann Collection - Documentation of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany, Basel, 1939-1947 Correspondence of Benno Kaufmann from Basel, Switzerland, regarding aid to Jewish refugees from Germany, 1939-1947. The Record Group contains personal letters belonging to the persecuted detainees in the camps in France, such as the Gurs camp.

  13. M.7 - Relico Collection - Documentation of the World Jewish Congress Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population, Geneva

    M.7 - Relico Collection - Documentation of the World Jewish Congress Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population, Geneva The Relico Organization, the World Jewish Congress Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population, Geneva, was founded in Geneva in 1939 by Dr. Abraham Silberschein, and funded by the World Jewish Congress. The Committee was active until 1947. Its main purpose was to assist the persecuted Jews in the areas occupied by the Nazis. The organization also assisted in locating family members and provided relief to Jewish refugees who had lost their homes an...

  14. 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

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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...