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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. M.38 - Documentation from the Archive for the Study of Austrian Resistance

    M.38 - Documentation from the Archive for the Study of Austrian Resistance There is much documentation regarding the persecution of opponents of the regime by the Nazi authorities in the Austrian Resistance Movement Archives (Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen Widerstands). Within the documentation copied for Yad Vashem, there is material regarding the persecution of the Jews in Austria: orders and official directives, lists of people dismissed from their places of employment due to their Jewishness, reports and surveys regarding specific persecutions written during the period of th...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. TR.9 - Documentation from the Auschwitz Trials in Frankfurt, 1965-1968

    TR.9 - Documentation from the Auschwitz Trials in Frankfurt, 1965-1968 The three Auschwitz trials were held in the District Court House in Frankfurt am Main from 1965-1968. The defendants at the trials were SS and Gestapo personnel who had served in Auschwitz and other people who had held positions in Auschwitz, including inmates who had held positions in the camp, such as Blockfuehrer ( block heads). The first Auschwitz Trial opened in December 1963, with 22 defendants being brought to trial, two of whom died during the proceedings. The most senior among them were Robert Mulka and Karl Hoe...

  5. M. 51 - Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of the Jews in Germany)

    M. 51 - Documantation of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of the Jews in Germany) History of the Organization The organization was apparently founded in early 1939 by representatives of the Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden (Reich's Deputation of the German Jews). In July 1939, an ordinance was published by the authorities concerning the establishment of the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany, which replaced the Reich's Deputation of the German Jews. In the words of its Chairman, "... [it will serve as] a new organizational basis for the dwindling p...

  6. Marc Haguenau, born in Paris, France, 1904, known as Colombe; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Marc Haguenau, born in Paris, France, 1904, known as Colombe; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Activities as General Secretary of EIF (French Jewish Scouts), membership in the La Sixieme (the Sixth) underground; detention by the Gestapo in Grenoble, 18 February 1944; unsuccessful attempt to escape; murdered, 20 February 1944; awarded the Legion of Honor, the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille de la Resistance. In the file: - Testimonies regarding activities; - Document attesting to the fact that he was awarded the Legion of Honor decoration...

  7. Survey of the situation in various countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, June-July 1943

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות - חומר על מצב היהודים בארצות הכיבוש הנאצי - מס. 5/36

    Survey of the situation in various countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, June-July 1943 Poland: Deportation of Jews to labor camps and rescue of many from the Warsaw Ghetto; Frank's speech regarding the Germans in Warsaw and blaming the Jews for the war; signs of resistance to the Nazi government by farmers not reporting for work; attacks on Gestapo personnel; Volksdeutsche in areas of Poland annexed to the Reich: Germany: The suffering of the German people while at war; opposition to granting an exemption from anti-Jewish legislat...

  8. Ernest Lambert, born Thionville, France, 1918: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Ernest Lambert, born Thionville, France, 1918: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Membership in the underground AJ (Jewish Army); taken captive in Lyons by the Gestapo; execution in Portes les Valence, 08 July 1944. Photographs from the Yad Vashem Photo Archive: 7646/27 and 7646/28.

  9. Maurice Loebenberg, born in Zurich, Switzerland, 1916, known as Cachoud; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Maurice Loebenberg, born in Zurich, Switzerland, 1916, known as Cachoud; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II Commander of the underground AJ (Jewish Army); responsible for forging documents for the MLN (National Liberation Movement); taken captive by the Gestapo at Auteuil, 17 July 1944; 26 hours of torture and death. Also in the file: - Article by Michel Anski; - Photographs from the Yad Vashem Photo Archive: Archival signature 7946/30 and 7646/31.

  10. Jacob Weintraub, born in Tarczyn, Poland, 1920, known as Jacques Wister; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Jacob Weintraub, born in Tarczyn, Poland, 1920, known as Jacques Wister; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Nice; activities as commander of an MJS (Zionist Youth Movement) regiment; participation in preparation of forged documents; organizes the smuggling of children into Switzerland; arrest with Jacques Marburger, 23 September 1943; release from detention; forgets to take a folder with documents after the Gestapo interrogation and goes back to get it; arrested again; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz, 28 October 1943. A...

  11. Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and neighboring countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, December 1943-January 1944

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות 29/60

    Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and neighboring countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, December 1943-January 1944 Poland and the eastern districts: Testimony regarding the "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising" as reported in the Polish underground press; murder of Jews with American citizenship in Krakow; murder of Jews in Vilna and confiscation of their property by the Gestapo; antisemitism in the underground newspapers; deterioration of living conditions in Majdanek; Slovakia: Anti-Jewish propaganda and a demand to rem...

  12. David Donoff, born in Paris, France, 1920, known as Dodo: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    David Donoff, born in Paris, France, 1920, known as Dodo: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II EIF (French Jewish Scouts) membership; underground activities in La Sixieme (the Sixth); access to the Gurs camp; provides relief and smuggles out children; activities on behalf of British intelligence; taken captive in Lyons; shot to death by the Gestapo, 27 June 1944. Also in the file: - Letter of testimony from Juliette Levy, 1987.

  13. Nicole (Weil) Salon, born in Lisieux, France, 1915: details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Nicole (Weil) Salon, born in Lisieux, France, 1915: details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Marseilles; activities as an OSE (Children's Aid Society) social worker; smuggling children into Switzerland; taken captive by the Gestapo in Nice, 24 October 1943; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz, 20 November 1943; camp life; refusal to be separated from the children; transfer to the gas chambers with the children, 23 November 1943. Also in the file: - Letters from Nicole (Weil) Salon.

  14. David Rappoport, born in Proskurov, Ukraine, 1883: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    David Rappoport, born in Proskurov, Ukraine, 1883: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Work as a journalist; underground activities; leader of the Comite Rue Amelot (Amelot Street Committee) in Paris; arrest by Danneker, a Gestapo commander, 01 June 1943; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz; death in Auschwitz, 02 July 1944. Also in the file: - Booklet entitled "L'un des Trente Six" (One of the Thirty-six), published by Kyoum, Paris, 1946.

  15. Esther Grinberg, born in Paris, France, 1910; details regarding her activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Esther Grinberg, born in Paris, France, 1910; details regarding her activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II Life in Paris including work within the framework of the Comite Rue Amelot (Amelot Street Committee); arrest in Lyons by the Gestapo, 07 February 1943; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Sobibor on Transport 53; death in Sobibor. Also in the file: - Description of an "Aktion" in Lyon, 09 February 1943.

  16. Files of the Wuerzburg Gestapo

    Files of the Wuerzburg Gestapo

  17. Judith Ides Topcza, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1903; details regarding her activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Judith Ides Topcza, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1903; details regarding her activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II Life in Paris. Manages the soup kitchen set up by the Comite Rue Amelot (Amelot Street Committee); relief provided by the soup kitchen to needy Jewish families; arrest by the Gestapo; deportation to Auschwitz on Transport 38, 28 September 1942.

  18. Rabbi Aron Wolf, born in Strasbourg, France, 1918; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Rabbi Aron Wolf, born in Strasbourg, France, 1918; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Chamalieres including studies at a rabbinical seminary; life in Lyons including continuation of his studies; JJF (Young French Jewry) activities; life in Saint Germain; work as a rabbi at an EFI (Jewish French Mutual Aid) farm; capture by the Gestapo; execution with other members, 19 May 1944; awarded the Medaille de la Resistance. In the file: - Portraits of Rabbi Aron Wolf; - Letters; - Excerpts from testimonies; - Page of Testimony in his name.

  19. Marc Amon, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1923; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Marc Amon, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1923; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Work as a physicist; joins the EIF (French Jewish Scouts), 1942; activities in La Sixieme (the Sixth) underground in Paris; detention by the Gestapo, July 1944; deportation from France, July 1944. In the file; - Testimonies; - Photograph; - Letter.

  20. Aurelie (Polturak) Gottlieb, born in Lwow, Poland, 1892, known as Rella; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Aurelie (Polturak) Gottlieb, born in Lwow, Poland, 1892, known as Rella; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II FSJF (Federation of Jewish Societies in France) activities in Lyons; arrested in the UGIF (Union Generale des Israelites de France) office by the Gestapo, 09 March 1943; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz; murdered in Auschwitz. In the file: - Photograph; - Letter; - Documents; - Excerpts from testimonies.