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  1. Julius Mehrer

    This collection contains: two postcards from Krajndel alias Karoline Mehrer-Hitnik in Lemberg (today Lviv, Ukraine) to her son Julius Mehrer in Antwerp, 21 March 1940 and 1 April 1940 ; a postcard from Rosa Bellak-Ehrenstein and her sister Margit Friedmann-Ehrenstein in Vienna, Austria, to Rosa’s son-in-law and daughter Julius and Stella Mehrer-Bellak in Brussels, 8 July 1942 ; a postcard from Rosa Bellak-Ehrenstein in Vienna, Austria, to her son-in-law and daughter Julius and Stella Mehrer-Bellak in Brussels, 29 July 1942 ; a postcard from Julius Mehrer, who was being detained as a forced ...

  2. Serge Klarsfeld. Collection

    This collection contains: a photomontage of portraits of Jewish children deported from Belgium, used as a cover for the commemorative publication entitled "Mémorial de la déportation de Belgique de 25.124 Juifs et de 351 Tziganes" by Serge Klarsfeld an Maxime Steinberg ; the pages of addendum number 2 of the "Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France" [Memorial of the Deportation of Jews from France] by Serge Klarsfeld, containing portraits of deported Jews, their names and different pieces of information (transport, biography) ; a published collection of various documents used during ...

  3. Gizela Flachs. Collection

    This collection contains a photo of and an interview with Gizela Genia alias Gisèle Flachs. In the interview she describes : her youth in Poland, the departure of her father Naftali Flachs to France in 1938, the brutal separation from her mother Regina Knebel in 1941/1942, the different rescuers and the places where she was in hidden in Poland (including three underground locations in the woods), the work camp Koszary-Boryslav and the gruesome scenes she witnessed there, the reunion with her uncle Leon Knebel and the abuse inflicted by his wife Esther Erbsman, her reunion with her father Na...

  4. Hans Rosenblatt. Collection

    This collection contains: a digital copy of the Rosenblatt-Ginsberg family photo album, including photos of Hans Rosenblatt, his parents Adolf Rosenblatt and Lea Ginsberg, his uncle Samuel Rosenblatt and his adoptive parents David Dorn and Hanna alias Fanny Dorn taken before, during and after the war ; Samuel Rosenblatt’s American immigrant identification card from 1939 ; an album with handwritten messages of friends of Lea Ginsberg which she took with her when she migrated from Poland to Vienna to marry Adolf Rosenblatt ; postcards received by Lea Ginsberg in France in 1941 from her family...

  5. Luttinger-Ohrwaschel family. Collection

    This collection contains five pre-war photos of Cilli Ohrwaschel, her children Lea and Max Singer, and Cilli's second husband Wolfgang Luttinger.

  6. Liliane Steinfeld. Collection

    This collection contains : several documents regarding members of the Steinfeld/Stainfeld family during the war, two photos of deported Steinfeld family members, a Gestapo pin and a scrapbook containing a collection of wartime cartoons published in British and American newspapers, gathered by Liliane Steinfeld.

  7. 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...

  8. Documentation of the Reich Ministry of Justice: Wehrmacht and Foreign Affairs, 1933-1945

    Documentation of the Reich Ministry of Justice: Wehrmacht and Foreign Affairs, 1933-1945 The Reich Ministry of Justice became the central authority for the administration of justice in Germany, 1933-1935, thus taking control over this domain. With the Nazi rise to power, Franz Guertner, who had already served as State Minister of Justice under Papen and Schleicher, abandoned the principles of state justice, and supplied the SA, SS, and Gestapo with legal cover for their activities by introducing the deprivation of rights of Jews and special wartime penal codes. Following Guertner's death, o...

  9. Documentation from the Amt Merzig-Land in the Saar region, 1901-1944

    Documentation from the Amt Merzig-Land in the Saar region

  10. Aryanization files of the Nuernberg-Fuerth Gestapo

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12435013
    • English, Hebrew
    • Financial accounts Inventory list Names of perpetrators Official documentation Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons

    Aryanization files of the Nuernberg-Fuerth Gestapo

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

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

  12. Documentation, mainly of the Gestapo, regarding Soviet and Polish foreign laborers in Germany from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1941-1943

    Documentation, mainly of the Gestapo, regarding Soviet and Polish foreign laborers in Germany from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1941-1943 Most of the files in the collection are files from the Duesseldorf Gestapo and its neighboring branches (Krefeld and Moenchen-Gladbach) relating to specific foreign laborers for whom Gestapo intervention was requested. - File of the Krefeld Gestapo regarding foreign laborers from eastern Europe, including correspondence concerning police handling of specific laborers, and documentation regarding the implementation of the guideline from the Duesseldorf Ges...

  13. Files of the Oberfinanzpraesident Berlin-Brandenburg

    Files of the Oberfinanzpraesident Berlin-Brandenburg The local (Finanzamt) and regional (Oberfinanzpraesidium) finance offices were the central offices for the registration of Jewish property by the Nazi authorities. The Jewish property was later seized by means of very high emigration taxes and confiscation. Special importance was given to the Finanzamt Moabit-West in Berlin, headed by Willy Bötcher, which received the responsibility for the confiscation of property of political emigres (whose citizenship was revoked) throughout the German Reich on 30/08/1933. The function of the offices w...

  14. 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...

  15. 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.

  16. Documentation from the Staatspolizeileitstelle (Gestapo Headquarters) in Stuttgart

    Documentation from the Staatspolizeileitstelle (Gestapo Headquarters) in Stuttgart

  17. Documentation of the office of the Geheime Staatspolizei Staatspolizeistelle Litzmannstadt (German Secret Police) in Lodz during 1939-1943

    Documentation of the office of the Geheime Staatspolizei Staatspolizeistelle Litzmannstadt (German Secret Police) in Lodz during 1939-1943 Included in the collection is a list of Jewish inmates from the main prison in Sieradz; reports of the SIPO supervisor and the SD, regarding the mood among the Polish population, Gestapo activities and deported Jewish inmates; reports of the SIPO supervisor and the SD in Poznan, regarding the mood among the Polish population and the fight against the Polish underground; periodical reports of the SIPO supervisor to the Reichsgau Wartheland governor, regar...

  18. 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-...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...