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Language of Description: English
Country: Israel

  1. Correspondence between Erich Kulka and Pavel Bergmann from Prague, 1987-1989

    1. P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author

    Correspondence between Erich Kulka and Pavel Bergmann from Prague, 1987-1989 Correspondence between Erich Kulka and Pavel Bergmann regarding the conduct of the libel trial that Erich Kulka brought in the Prague Court against Josef Sebesta, the author of the book, "V zemi zaslíbené?" (In the Promised Land?) and against the Melantrich Publishing House which published the book. In the book, Kulka is presented as a Gestapo agent during World War II, and as a Zionist activist against Czechoslovakia after his aliya to Israel in 1968. The book has an anti-Zionist and anti-Israel character.

  2. Memoirs of and an interview with Franz Kejmar

    1. P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author

    Memoirs of and an interview with Franz Kejmar 1. Interview conducted by Erich Kulka with Franz Kejmar at Kejmar's home in Spain, 06 July 1986. Kejmar was an opponent of the Nazis in Austria. He was arrested by the Gestapo in July 1941, and a month later, on 19 August 1941, he was deported to Auschwitz as a political prisoner. There he worked in the Deutsche Ausrustungswerke (DAW) factories and served as a Kapo, a position in which he showed compassion and humaneness towards the inmates (in German); 2. Unpublished memoirs of Franz Kejmar (in German); 3. Article regarding Franz Kejmar, who wa...

  3. Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (CDJC - Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) in Paris

    The Archives contain documentation of the Gestapo, the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ-Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs), the Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France), the German and Italian Embassies, the Nuremberg Trials and more.

  4. Den norske Kirkekamp

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The typewritten report by pastor Harald Sandbaek describes the efforts of Danish clergy to resist the Nazi occupation. He was a well-known resistance fighter who was responsible for acts of sabotage,then captured and tortured by the Gestapo. He managed to escape wounded and continued the fight after his escape to Sweden.

  5. Het laatste geschrift van prof. Titus Brandsma

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The pamphlet is the last writing of Prof. Dr. Titus Brandsma by “Order of the Gestapo” in the Scheveningen prison on January 22nd, 1942. Brandsma was an outspoken critic of the Nazis even before the war. He was imprisoned in Dachau and executed by lethal injection. In 2002 Brandsma was canonized by Pope Francis.

  6. Nazi rule in Poland

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The booklet describes the Nazi occupation of Poland from a catholic point of view. It examines the imprisonment and abuse of priests by the Gestapo. Many reports are referenced from newspapers published in the West. The booklet claims that religious freedom has been destroyed and schools are indoctrinated with anti-Christian ideology.

  7. Wechselnde Pfade

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The account by Walther Hensel describes his arrest and internment in various prisons on trumped up charges during the years 1937-1939. He describes in harrowing detail the humiliations and abuse one had to endure by the hands of the Gestapo, but also acts of kindness by regular prison guards. With the help of a committed lawyer, he managed to be released early.

  8. Documentation from the Landratsamt Saarbruecken (Saarbruecken district authority) in the Saar region

    Documentation from the Landratsamt Saarbruecken (Saarbruecken district authority) in the Saar region

  9. M.12: Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (CDJC - Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) in Paris

    M.12: Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (CDJC - Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) in Paris The Record Collection contains documentation housed at the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CCJD) in Paris which was received by Yad Vashem Archives as microfilm during the 1950s and 1960s following the Schneerson-Di Nur Agreement. The Archives contain documentation of the Gestapo, the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ-Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs), the Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF...

  10. O.92 - Kulka-Jaeckel Collection: Nazi reports regarding public opinion in Germany

    O.92 - Kulka-Jaeckel Collection: Nazi reports regarding public opinion in Germany The Collection includes reports regarding the Stimmungsberichte (atmosphere; mood) among the members of SD units, the Gestapo, the Nazi Party and local authorities throughout Germany. The reports in which there is information regarding the Jews served as the basis for the book, "Die Juden in den geheimen NS-Stimmungsberichten 1933-1945" (The Jews in the Secret Nazi Atmosphere Reports, 1933-1945), Kulka, Otto Dov and Jäckel, Eberhard, eds., Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2004. Professor Dov Otto Kulka submitted cop...

  11. Documentation from the Landratsaemter (county district authorities) of Merzig, Saarlouis and St. Wendel in the Saar region, 1935-1947

    Documentation from the Landratsaemter of Merzig, Saarlouis and St. Wendel (district authorities) in the Saar region

  12. ["Judenangelegenheiten"- Bayern III]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This file is the third part of a collection of correspondence between the Gestapo Würzburg and various government bodies. Among them a letter from the Interior Ministry on the exclusion of monetary and other contributions by Jews to institutions. Correspondence on the curfew for Jews on the day of national solidarity among others by R. Heydrich. A letter by the mayor of Würzburg on the “aryanization” of Jewish businesses with a list of businesses and the names of interested applicants. The Reichsführer SS and Chief of German Police on the elimination of Jews from German business activity. I...

  13. [Ernst Heilmann]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Handwritten letter of Ernst Heilmann to his wife from June 28, 1933 - two days after his imprisonment. A letter of the secretary of the Reichs chansellery refering to the arrest of her husband. Handwritten letter of Ernst Heilmann to his wife from August 4, 1933 written in Ploetzensee prison. Postcard of Ernst Heilmann to his wife from August 10, 1933 from concentration camp Oranienburg. Certificate from the concentration camp Oranienburg about the incarcaration of Ernst Heilmann from 8.8.33 to 7.9.33. Postcard of Ernst Heilmann to his wife from September 7, 1933 from concentration camp Ora...

  14. The Position of the Jews in Germany (January)

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a report of January 1937 about the position of Jews in Germany. The report has appeared in English, German and French and was published by the Jewish Central information Office, which published every month a new report always regarding the situation of Jews in Germany or other European countries. In 1928 Alfred Wiener was instrumental in creating the Büro Wilhelmstrasse of the CV, which documented Nazi activities and issued anti-Nazi materials until 1933 when Hitler came to power. Wiener and his family fled to Amsterdam where he, together with Dr. David Cohen of Amsterdam ...

  15. [Carl Schmitt documents - Internal correspondence of the SD]

    1. Carl Schmitt – The Confidential File

    The file consists of several parts: 1.) Internal note concerning Schmitt from SD-Hauptamt (Main Security Office),department II/222 to department II/2, dated November 27,1936. Investigations regarding the whereabouts of letters need to be made. Schmitt claims having received letters from Jews and having forwarded them to the Gestapo (Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt – Secret State Police Agency). According to information from both the Gestapo and the Stapostelle Berlin (Staatspolizeistelle Berlin - Berlin State Police Office), their department of observation of Jews does not know of such a writing....

  16. Survey regarding the Bialystok Ghetto including events during the "Aktion",15 January-17 February 1943

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    Survey regarding the Bialystok Ghetto including events during the "Aktion",15 January-17 February 1943 Sealing of the boundaries of the city, November 1942; deportation of Jews to concentration camps; transfer of Jews from concentration camps to Treblinka; execution of Jews in Treblinka; reduction of the boundaries of the Bialystok Ghetto without affecting the Jews; "Aktion" under the command of the Gestapo officer, Fritz Friedel, 05 February 1943; Jews in hiding throughout the "Aktion"; refusal of the Jewish police to participate in carrying out the "Aktion"; killing of a German by members...

  17. Testimony of Zecharia Yuten regarding his experiences in Lukiszki, the Vilna Ghetto and the Lida Ghetto

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    Testimony of Zecharia Yuten regarding his experiences in Lukiszki, the Vilna Ghetto and the Lida Ghetto Deportation of his family from Vilna to prison in Lukiszki; deportation of approximately 5,000 Jews to the prison in Lukiszki; registration of professionally skilled workers in the prison; transfer of professionally skilled workers to the Vilna Ghetto; the witness' term of office as a member of the Judenrat in the Vilna Ghetto; escape to Lida with other Jews, 01 November 1941; life in Lida including forced labor, abuse and murder of Jews; arrest of Judenrat members; arrest of Jewish polic...

  18. Testimony of Chiene (Izrailski) Katzef, born in Paberze, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Paberze, in hiding in Borskunu, the Vilna Ghetto and in hiding in villages in the Vilna district

    1. O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981

    Testimony of Chiene (Izrailski) Katzef, born in Paberze, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Paberze, in hiding in Borskunu, the Vilna Ghetto and in hiding in villages in the Vilna district Life before the war. German occupation, 24 June 1941; establishment of a local Lithuanian Authority; Polish activities in the local Authority including with Jozek Rimszewicz Sumbar and Heniek Janczek; arrival of Gestapo members from Vilna, 11 July 1941; "Aktion" by the Gestapo; abuse of Jews; looting of Jewish owned property; murder of Jewish men in a forest and in hiding of Jews; list of names of...

  20. [Nazi Justice Trial Transcripts]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains the verdict of Josef Hocke (born on 1 May 1894 in Prag). In 1938 Josef Hocke got to know Ulrich Hlavin, a former major of the Czech-Slovak military staff, through mutual friends. They met again in 1939 and 1941 – that's when Ulrich Hlavin told the defendant that he was being searched for. In early 1942 Josef Hocke allowed Ulrich Hlavin to hide in his warehouse twice. In January and December of 1943 he showed up again – however, Josef Hocke declined his request out of fear of the Gestapo. The defendant was found guilty of not notifying German authorities about a wanted pers...