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Language of Description: English
Country: Israel

  1. O.1 - Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960

    O.1 - Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960 Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri was born in Berlin in 1891. A lawyer and legal adviser to the Prussian government, he was also active in Jewish affairs. He made aliya to Eretz Israel in December 1938. Dr. Ball-Kaduri, who was active in collecting material and writing about German Jewry, became aware that much material that reached the archives regarding Jewish life in Germany from 1933 to 1945 was incomplete, and that there were large information gaps. From hi...

  2. Documentation of the Reichsministerium der Justiz (Reich Ministry of Justice), Germany, 1933-1945

    Documentation of the Reichsministerium der Justiz (Reich Ministry of Justice), Germany, 1933-1945 In the years 1933-1935, the Reich Ministry of Justice became the central authority in the judicial system in Germany, and as such assumed management of the system. Upon the seizure of control by the Nazis, Franz Guertner, who had been appointed to the position of Reich Justice Minister in 1932 under Franz von Papen, abandoned the principles of State Law, and provided legal means for the activities of the SA, SS and the Gestapo. During his time, the rights of Jews were revoked and a special crim...

  3. Collection of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, the Netherlands, 1945-1967

    Collection of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, the Netherlands, 1945-1967 Establishment of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, in July 1945, in order to locate Dutch property - personal property and state property - such as: diamonds, machinery, art collections, stamp collections, banking securities, church bells and other items that were "purchased" or stolen and transferred to Germany and to other countries during the German occupation; Included in t...

  4. [Boycott of German Economy I]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains diplomatic correspondence between the German Foreign Ministry, represented by Vicco von Bülow-Schwante, and various German diplomatic missions on international boycott activities directed against Nazi Germany. The first part contains letters and reports from German diplomats regarding the situation of boycott initiatives directed against the Nazi German economy in their respective countries. Diplomats replied to a survey on the structure, the extent, and the people organizing or promoting economic boycott strategies, and specifically on the participation of Jewish people i...

  5. The Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960

    The Record Group includes memoirs of Jewish leaders in various areas of Jewish life in Germany. Although there is much documentation regarding the fate of individual Holocaust victims, the main emphasis of the Record Group is on the different Jewish organizations. There is much information about local community organizations and the central Jewish organizations of German Jewry, including general, Zionist, and religious organizations. There is also documentation regarding emigration preparations and relations with the Nazi authorities as seen by the Jews. There are over 300 files in the reco...

  6. Documentation of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of the Jews in Germany)

    There are three main sections in the Record Group: I. Organization and AdministrationIn this section there are administrative and financial files of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, including protocols of administration meetings, Nazi orders and ordnances, contacts with the Gestapo, statistical data regarding the Jews of Germany and files related to the sale of property belonging to the Jewish communities and their evaluation. There are also several Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden files in this section. II. Emigration and Deportation - administration of the worth of the ...

  7. Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author

    The Erich Kulka Record Group contains: Personal and family documentation; documentation regarding the trial conducted against Sebesta, an antisemitic Czech writer who libeled Erich Kulka; the struggle to clear the names of the Sonderkommando workers as set forth in the book "People In Auschwitz" by Herman Langbein; trials against Nazi war criminals; documentation regarding Holocaust denial; escape of inmates from Auschwitz-Birkenau; research he conducted and published throughout his life, mainly regarding Jewish fighters in the Svoboda Army in the Soviet Union; Kulka's struggle against anti...

  8. Theresienstadt Diary (in 4 parts)

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A detailed personal account of life under the Nazis since 1934 (12 pages) and in the ghetto during the final months of World War II and of liberation by Eva Noack-Mosse, a member of the well-known Berlin Mosse family. Before her deportation to Theresienstadt concentration camp in February of 1945, she moved together with her non-Jewish husband from Berlin to a small Bavarian village in 1941. In Theresienstadt camp she worked since end of February 1945 in the Central Office and therefore had easy access to all documents. From her relatives also sent to Theresienstadt before, only Martha Moss...

  9. [Carl Schmitt documents: letters, and dossier on political views]

    1. Carl Schmitt – The Confidential File

    Various letters and reports on Schmitt,different authors and addressees:1.) Letter by Security Service Central Office to "Das Schwarze Korps", dated 15.01.1937 about Günther Müller from Danzig; 2.) Report by [Heinz] Lämmel, dated 15.01.1937 to SD Central Office, Department I 3; 3.) Letter by Security Service-Oberabschnitt Ost (Superior District East) [no direct author given, hand signature not readable] to Security Service Main Office, Werner Braune , dated 12.01.1937, announcing an attached shorthand report from 19.12.1936 by Hans-Dieter Schmidt on Schmitt's reply concerning the allegation...

  10. P.55 - Personal Papers of Dr. Heinz E.Samson

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 7894262
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Balance sheet Booklet(s) Brochure Death certificate Envelope Financial accounts Genealogy Journals Legal documentation Letter List of deportees List of murdered Jews from Germany Maps Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Postcard Poster Speech

    P.55 - Personal Archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson In the collection there are files from the private archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson. Description of the collection: The documentation deals with a part of the estate of the Samson family, originally from the city of Norden in Northern Germany. There is pre-war documentation on tax issues and the assets of the Samson family, pre- and postwar correspondence with German authorities, personal documents and certificates, documents on the restoration of the Norden Jewish cemetery supported by the Samson family after WW II, the dedication of a memorial ...

  11. P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019707
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Draft Excerpt(s) Letter List of refugees Memoirs Newspaper clippings Note Passport Personal documents Poems/Songs Record of persecuted persons Reports Research article Testimony

    P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976 In the collection there are files from the private archive of Dr. Nathan Eck. Description of the collection: The documentation mainly deals with research on various aspects of the Holocaust period in Poland and France. There are research papers, testimonies, newspaper clippings, correspondence and documentation concerning the emigration of Jews to Latin American countries. About Dr. Nathan Eck: - Dr. Nathan Eck was born in Janow, Poland, 19 March 1896. He was a Gordonia youth movement activist and a Zionist activist, as w...

  12. M. 57-Kulturbund der Juden in Deutschland (the Cultural Organization of German Jewry)

    M. 57-Kulturbund der Juden in Deutschland (the Cultural Organization of German Jewry) History of the Organization Following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, the Jews were forbidden to attend cultural performances or to be employed in cultural institutions in Germany. Kurt Singer, the Director of the Berlin Municipal Opera (who was dismissed in 1933 because he was Jewish), decided to set up an alternate Jewish organization with the goal of arranging cultural activities for Jews. The new organization was also meant to solve the unemployment problem of the Jewish artists and workers who had bee...

  13. Documentation of the Kulturbund der Juden in Deutschland (the Cultural Organization of German Jewry)

    This Record Group is the private archive of the director-actor Fritz Wisten, who was one of the organization activists. The documentation that arrived at Yad Vashem consists of photocopies of the original documentation in the archive, which is housed at the Stiftung Akademie der Kuenste Archive in Berlin. Most of the documentation in this Record Group is in German, dealing primarily with the Kulturbund activities after 1938. The Record group contains documentation of all the Kulturband activities:- Discussions with Hans Hinkel; - Organizational activities;- Surveys of organizational activit...

  14. The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976

    The documentation mainly deals with research on various aspects of the Holocaust period in Poland and France. There are research papers, testimonies, newspaper clippings, correspondence and documentation concerning the emigration of Jews to Latin American countries. Outstanding documentation in the collection: - Draft of Dr. Nathan Eck's memoirs, Paris, June-July 1944; - Undated draft of descriptions and memoirs from the WW II period in Lodz, Warsaw and Vittel; - Testimonies regarding the persecution and murder of Jews and the uprising in the Sobibor extermination camp; - Articles, essays, ...

  15. 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 ...

  16. M.52.DALO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Lwow Region

    M.52.DALO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Lwow Region History of the Archives: The State Archives of the Lwow Region was established in December 1939 on the basis of the State Archives of Lwow. The archive was called the Regional Historical Archives in Lwow until 1941. It was called the State Archive of the Lwow Region during 1941-1958, and was called the Regional State Archives in Lwow during 1958-1980. As of 1959 the documentation that was in the Regional Archives in Drogobych was transferred to it. Since 1980 it has been called the State Archives of the Lwow Region. The Sub-...