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Country: Israel

  1. Personal Archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson

    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 on the Norden Jewish cemetery, charity work, brochures and magazines related to the history of the Norden Jews.

  2. The Recha Freier Archive: Founder of Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1935-1951

    The collection contains Recha Freier's personal files, including correspondence with various international organizations, among them the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of the United States, which directed its main efforts to the project to rescue Jewish children during the Holocaust.

  3. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Gat

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Gat Experiences of: 1. Lili Itayi; 2. Sara Dotan; 3. Moshe Harel; 4. Gershon Gerhard Weiss Livni; 5. Stella Esther Livni; 6. Naomi Montilia; 7. Zvia Eshet; 8. Shalom Rimer; 9. Lea Shachar; Testimonies/ interviews: 1. Yoshke Yosef Itayi; 2. Bernard Zelishovski; 3. Tova Saltzberg; 4. Israel Eshet; Eulogies: 1. Words spoken at the grave of Yoshke [Yosef Itayi] at the Kibbutz Gat cemetery on 02/06/1998; 2. In memory of Israel Karsh; 3. "Israel -...

  4. O.24 Reinhard Strecker Collection: Judges and Trials in Nazi Sondergerichte (Special Courts)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 7202720
    • English, Hebrew
    • Indictment Legal documentation Names of perpetrators Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Record of persecuted persons Sentence

    O.24 Reinhard Strecker Collection: Judges and Trials in Nazi Sondergerichte (Special Courts) Included in the Collection: - Microfilms JM/1750-JM/1752: Verdicts from trials held in special courts in Germany, Poland and the Protectorate; the trials usually were conducted against non-Jews, and in most cases, the sentence was death. Besides the verdict and verdicts rendered for appeals, in some instances the collection also contains correspondence regarding the carrying out of the sentences, including official notification that the verdict has been carried out; - Microfilm JM/1753: Reports rega...

  5. Card catalogue of those who perished from the labor battalions and deportees from Hungary

    Card file of members of Hungarian labor battalions who perished The card file was collected and compiled by the Hungarian Ministry of Defense (Honvédelmi Minisztérium) between the years 1945-1954, and includes the personal cards of Hungarian Jewish victims. Some of the documents are photocopies of death certificates which were issued by local courts on the basis of lists and publications of various bodies such as the International Tracing Service, the US army, declarations by individuals regarding Hungarian Jews who had perished, and lists prepared by former prisoners. The card file, which ...

  6. O.82 - Documentation regarding the Jews of the Baltic States, mainly during the Holocaust period

    O.82: Documentation regarding the Jews of the Baltic States, mainly during the Holocaust period In the Record Group there are files selected from the Latvian State Historical Archives, the Lithuanian State Historical Archives in Vilna and the Tartu Branch of the Estonian Historical Archives Description of the Record Group: In the Record Group there is personal documentation of inmates of ghettos, survivors, partisans and Red Army soldiers. The documentation includes telegrams, private letters, documentation from yeshivas, statistical reports and survey reports from the State Extraordinary C...

  7. M.29.FR - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Federal German Military Archives in Freiburg, 1936-1945

    M.29.FR - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Federal German Military Archives in Freiburg, 1936-1945 There is diverse documentation from the Wehrmacht (German Army) regarding the Jews, Jewish communities and the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust in the collection, including reports, memos, telegrams and personal documents, encompassing a wide variety of organizations and units that worked within the Wehrmacht framework. The files cover different areas of activity and organizations: partisan activity, administration of the occupied areas, activities of combat units, cooperati...

  8. Documentation of the Special Court (Sondergericht) in Munich

    Documentation of the Special Court (Sondergericht) in Munich The Special Court (Sondergericht) in Munich was one of the regional courts of law established in Germany to try charges of crimes against the Nazi regime and Nazi ideology. The collection includes files of trials and investigation proceedings against Jewish and non-Jewish Germans who were charged with crimes, such as expressing criticism of the Reich and its leaders and the Reich's attitude toward the Jews, and "race defilement" crimes. The Special Courts (Sondergerichte) were established in the spring of 1933. At first, 25 courts...

  9. Documentation of the Bikur Cholim Association in Graz from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1923-1938

    Documentation of the Bikur Cholim Association in Graz from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1923-1938 The Association was founded in 1923 (a time of intense economic crisis) with the goal of providing assistance to the sick and giving charity to those in need. In the collection there is correspondence of the Association and of its Chairman, Elias Gruenschlag (who was active in the Zionist Movement in Austria as well), among other correspondence, with the Graz community and with Jewish and Zionist organizations in Austria; correspondence regarding matters pertaining to welfare and assistance (in...

  10. Collection of Max Lowenthal who served in the Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US forces in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany

    The collection contains: Postwar documentation from the time of the US occupation of Germany regarding reparations for Jewish cultural property looted during World War II, 1945-1947.The main documentation: - Monthly reports by the Offenbach Archival Depot, Office of Military Government, Greater Hesse, Economics Division, regarding Jewish cultural property that was collected;- Letters, memos, reports and similar documents regarding questions concerning the restitution of Jewish cultural property collected in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany; - Correspondence between Max Lowenthal (as US Gov...

  11. Documentation from the Medizinalkollegium (Medical Council) in Hamburg

    Documentation from the Medizinalkollegium (Medical Council) in Hamburg The Medizinalkollegium (Medical Council) replaced the Gesundheitsrat (Health Council) in 1870 as the organization which supervised the administration of the entire healthcare system. A new organization - the Gesundheitsbehörde, was created in 1920 for the supervision of health matters, to which its functions were transferred and, to which the functions that had previously belonged to the Krankenhauskollegium (Hospitals Council) and the Polizeiärztlichem Dienst der Polizeibehörde (Police-Medical Services of the Police Sup...

  12. Documentation from the “Jews in Latvia” Museum

    The O.80 record group is composed of 159 files in Latvian, German, Russian and Hebrew. The record group includes official German documentation photocopied by Westermann in various archives in Germany, and documentation from the Central Archives of Latvia; Description of the O.80 record group: The material in the O.80 record group includes reports, instructions, summaries and orders by local administration personnel, including official documentation of Reichskommissariat Ostland. The second part of the O.80 collection includes memoirs and letters by individual Jews collected by the Westerman...

  13. Yugoslavia Collection: Documentation regarding the Jews of Yugoslavia, mainly during the Holocaust period

    In the Record Group there is documentation regarding the Jews of the former Yugoslavia (according to the April 1941 boundaries) during the 20th century, and concerning various topics from the Holocaust period. Some of the documentation was photocopied from material in various archives in Yugoslavia and in other countries, including Israel, and some of the documentation was submitted to Yad Vashem by private individuals. Among the sources for the documentation are the Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia, the Association of Yugoslav Immigrants in Israel, Hakeren Hakayemet Le-israel...

  14. Austrian Communities Registry

    The 404 files in the collection are devoted to various subjects, a minority to specific organizations, and a small number of the files to personalities. In some of the files there is documentation regarding general subjects such as the Jews in Music and Philosophers, however, the great majority of the documentation is devoted to specific subjects, some according to states and years, for example, identification of the names of the Jews who died in various places in World War I, correspondence of the Jewish institutions with specific governmental bodies (for example, the Niederoesterreichisch...

  15. תיעוד מה-Bezirksausschuss/Bezirksverwaltungsgericht Berlin, שנים 1932-1941

    District Committee / District Administrative Court Berlin The capital Berlin separated in 1875 from the Provincial Association of Brandenburg and, according to the Provincial Order of June 29, 1875, formed together with the adjacent areas a city district. With the Administrative Court Act from July 3, 1875, each district obtained a District Administrative Court at the official residence of the district president. According to the Law on General Administration of July 30, 1883, Bezirksausschuesse (district committees) were set up to standardize the intermediate authorities, and to these admi...

  16. Documentation of the Romanian government in the Bukovina region, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Romanian government in the Bukovina region, 1941-1944 The Bukovina region was a territorial-administrative unit of the Romanian occupation authorities during the period of World War II. The region was created in the territory of the Chernovtsy region in 1941. The region was occupied by the Red Army as part of the Yassko-Kishiniovskaya operatsiya (Yassko-Kishiniovskaya Campaign) in late August 1944. Included in the collection, among other documentation: - Correspondence by the Romanian Army general headquarters, regarding the decisions of the National Center for Romaniza...

  17. O.80 - Documentation from the “Jews in Latvia” Museum

    O.80 - Documentation from the “Jews in Latvia” Museum The “Jews in Latvia” Museum was established in 1989 on the initiative of Holocaust survivors headed by well-known historian Marger Westermann. In the beginning the museum acted as a center for documentation. Its first permanent collection was opened in 1996. At present its collection is displayed in three galleries; the third gallery is dedicated to Latvian Jewry during the Holocaust and there is a special department dedicated to the Righteous Among the Nations. The Record Group is composed of 159 files in Latvian, German, Russian and He...

  18. TR.7- Gruenwald-Kasztner Trial, 1954

    TR.7- Gruenwald-Kastner Trial 1954 In 1954, the Attorney General of Israel, Haim Cohen, filed a lawsuit against Malkiel Gruenwald, the Jerusalem journalist of Hungarian origin, on the charge of publishing a pamphlet which claimed that Dr. Rudolf Kastner, who was serving then in a public position, had collaborated with the German occupation forces in Hungary. Kastner had been a Jewish public leader in Hungary and a member of the Vaad Hatzala in Budapest at the time of the war. At the end of the war, Kastner had emigrated to Israel, become integrated as an active member of the Mapai Party (Wo...

  19. M.52.DAZhO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Zhitomir Region

    M.52.DAZhO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Zhitomir Region History of the Archives: In 1919 the Revolutionary Committee of the Volyn sub-section issued an order establishing that public institutions and private individuals are obligated to register their documentation at the Committee for the Preservation of Objects of Art and Culture of the sub-section. In 1920 the archival committee of the Volyn sub-section was established, which dealt with the collection and cataloging of the existing archival documentation. In 1922 an archival authority of the Volyn sub-section was establ...

  20. M.7 - Relico Collection - Documentation of the World Jewish Congress Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population, Geneva

    M.7 - Relico Collection - Documentation of the World Jewish Congress Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population, Geneva The Relico Organization, the World Jewish Congress Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population, Geneva, was founded in Geneva in 1939 by Dr. Abraham Silberschein, and funded by the World Jewish Congress. The Committee was active until 1947. Its main purpose was to assist the persecuted Jews in the areas occupied by the Nazis. The organization also assisted in locating family members and provided relief to Jewish refugees who had lost their homes an...