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Country: Israel

  2. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

    O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period The collection is primarily comprised of original documents: typewritten documents, manuscripts, surveys and duplicated reports entrusted to the Yad Vashem Archives over the years, mostly by private bodies. The internal division of the Record group was changed a few years ago, and the original division has been entered in the "Previous File" field. The diverse material contains official documents, personal documentation, statistical material, reports and surveys, articles and journalistic pieces from Jewi...

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

    P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author Erich Schon, who was born in the village of Vsetin, Moravia (today in the Czech Republic), 18 February 1911, and died in Jerusalem, 12 July 1995, was the son of Malvina and Siegbert Schon. After World War II Schon changed his last name to Kulka, the last name of his first wife, Elly Kulka, who did not survive the Holocaust. The history of the arrests of Erich Kulka began in July 1939, first with arrest by the Gestapo in Brno and afterwards with imprisonment in the Dachau, Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme camps until November 1942...

  4. 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...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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, ...

  7. Documentation from official organizations and institutions in the Saar region

    Documentation from official organizations and institutions in the Saar region Documentation from the following organizations: - Polizeibehörden der NS-Zeit (including the SIPO. A separate sub-record group was opened regarding the Gestapo Saarbruecken, in Sapir item 11638053) - Bodenwirtschaftsamt Saarbrücken - Kulturamt Metz - Landeshauptkasse des Saarlandes - Landesrat des Saargebietes - Lehrerseminar Ottweiler - Mädchenrealgymnasium St.Wendel.

  8. Files in the Munich Gestapo regarding Jews

    Files in the Munich Gestapo regarding Jews Included in the Collection, among other material, is a file with lists of emigres whose citizenship was revoked, and a file with decrees.

  9. 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 ...

  10. 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-...

  11. Documentation of the Gestapa (Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt-Secret State Police Office), 1932-1939

    Documentation of the Gestapa (Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt-Secret State Police Office) [predecessor of the Gestapo], 1932-1939 The documentation includes files from the Gestapa headquarters and files from the Gestapo headquarters from 1939 (prior to the establishment of the Reich Security Head Office ([RSHA]), when it was called by the double name Geheimes Staatspolizei and Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt, Some of the files contain police materials from the period before the Nazi rise to power and the establishment of the Gestapa; these materials were later handled by the Gestapa.

  12. Documentation of the Stettin Gestapo, 1933-1943

    Documentation of the Stettin Gestapo from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1933-1943

  13. Plans, essays and chapter headings, regarding research of the Holocaust

    1. O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat

    Plans, essays and chapter headings, regarding research of the Holocaust - Manner of writing the history of the Holocaust (Yiddish); - Article titled, "Hitler and the Gypsies. The Fate of Europe's Oldest Aryans", written by Dora E. Yates and published in "Commentary" Magazine, 11/1949; - Essay titled, "Jews of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany", written by Y. Guri (Pudriatzchik), regarding Jewish soldiers, fighters and generals who fought the Germans, including an Appendix with a list of Jewish Red Army Generals; - Chapter headings written by Jacob Leschinsky, regarding the "Chorbun" (di...

  14. German documentation used by the Prosecution during the Nuremberg Trials

    1. O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat

    German documentation used by the Prosecution during the Nuremberg Trials - Speech given by Julius Streicher, 03/04/1933; - Demonstration by the Freedom Union in Vienna, 1936; - Directives by the SS regarding the surveillance of Catholics, Protestants, Free Masons, Jehovah's Witnesses and Jews, in preparation for the Referendum concerning the Anschluss (Annexation of Austria to Germany; - Report regarding the Judenaktion ["Kristallnacht"] on 09-10 November 1938; - Excerpts from the speech given by Julius Streicher on the day after Kristallnacht; - Steps taken by the Gestapo against the Jews,...

  15. Documentation of the Reichskanzlei (Reich Chancellery) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1934-1944

    Documentation of the Reichskanzlei (Reich Chancellery) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1934-1944 The material includes, among other items, a file dealing with the activities of Goering who was responsible for the Four-year Plan; proposals for promoting police and SD personnel (the proposals were sent from Himmler's headquarters to Lammers, the Reichskanzlei Executive Secretary. In the early years, there were personally signed by Himmler); file from 1934 containing official announcements of fealty oaths of the police chiefs to Hitler; Gestapo reports regarding opposition bodies to the Nazi...

  16. German documentation regarding various matters

    1. O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat

    German documentation regarding various matters - Correspondence regarding Volksdeutsche [residents] in the Galicia area, 03/1943; - Testimony of Rudolf Diels in the Nuremberg Trials, [regarding] the filling of functions in the Gestapo, the Berlin Police, the Government in Cologne, and including disobedience [?]; - Testimony of Hans Hager in the Nuremberg Trials, [regarding] his involvement in the deportation of Jews from Wołyń and Galicia to their extermination; - Testimony of Dutch officer A. F. van Velsen in the Nuremberg Trials, regarding Sachsenhausen and Auschwitz camps; - Testimony in...

  17. Documentation from the concentration camps and the POW camps in Germany from the OSOBY Archive in Moscow, 1938-1944

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10633850
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1938-1944
    • Administrative documentation Financial accounts List of Nazi war criminals List of POWs Map Names of perpetrators Official documentation Order Personal documents Statistical data

    Documentation from concentration camps and POW camps in Germany from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1938-1944 The collection contains files regarding personnel matters, among them reports concerning transfers of staff members (including members of the Totenkopf units), promotion and the awarding of medals, and personal files of staff members; guidelines for Inspektion der Konzentrationslager (the supervision of the concentration camps) and guidelines issued by the Reichsfuehrer SS concerning administration of the concentration camps and the handling of the inmates, including matters pertainin...

  18. Letters written by Elly Schőn to her husband Erich during his detention in Brno by the Gestapo, 1939; letter written in Auschwitz, 1944; letter written by Erich Schőn from Auschwitz-Birkenau to his sister-in-law Olga Kulka from Nový Hrozenkov, 1944

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

    Letters written by Elly Schőn to her husband Erich during his detention in Brno by the Gestapo, 1939; letter written in Auschwitz, 1944; letter written by Erich Schőn from Auschwitz-Birkenau to his sister-in-law Olga Kulka from Nový Hrozenkov, 1944 - Letter (original) written by Elly Schőn to her husband Erich during his detention in the city of Brno by the Gestapo, 20 July 1939; - Copy of a letter written by Erich Schőn (later Kulka) from Auschwitz-Birkenau to his sister-in-law (and future wife) Olga, 02 August 1944; - Copy of the farewell letter written by Elly Schőn to her husband Erich ...

  19. Personal documents belonging to Erich Schőn from Nový Hrozenkov, 1945-1950; confirmation of the name change from Erich Schőn to Erich Kulka, 1946

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

    Personal documents belonging to Erich Schőn from Nový Hrozenkov, 1945-1950; confirmation of the name change from Erich Schőn to Erich Kulka, 1946 - Confirmation issued by the Regional Committee in Vsetin regarding the Czechoslovakian citizenship of Erich Schőn, 1945; - Letter from the Committee for the Investigation of Crimes of Germans in Krakow from 1946 regarding the search for documents attesting to the murder of Jews from Czechoslovakia during the night between 08 and 09 March 1944 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp; - Confirmation issued by the National Committee in Brno reg...

  20. Correspondence between Erich Kulka and Attorney-at-Law Dr. Josef Danisz from Prague regarding the trial to clear Erich Kulka's name conducted against the media in Czechoslovakia, 1987-1990

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

    Correspondence between Erich Kulka and Attorney-at-Law Dr. Josef Danisz from Prague regarding the trial to clear Erich Kulka's name conducted against the media in Czechoslovakia, 1987-1990 - Agreement of Attorney-at-Law Dr. Josef Danisz from Prague to represent Erich Kulka in his lawsuit against the publication of the book, "V zemi zaslíbené?" (In the Promised Land?), by Josef Sebesta and against the Melantrich Publishing House, which published the book, on the charge of libel. In the book, Erich Kulka is accused of collaboration with the Gestapo; the book has an anti-Israel character; - Co...