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Country: Israel

  1. Documentation of the Verband der juedischen Kaufleute und Gewerbetreibende (Association of Jewish Merchants and Tradespeople) in Vienna from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1928-1935

    Documentation of the Verband der juedischen Kaufleute und Gewerbetreibende (Association of Jewish Merchants and Tradespeople) in Vienna from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1928-1935 In the collection there is mainly Verband correspondence and circulars from 1928-1935, including internal Verband correspondence with its members (and candidates for membership), along with much information regarding the possibilities for commercial connections abroad, and correspondence with outside bodies on various matters, such as guidelines to the Verband members on various businesses, correspondence with gov...

  2. Gruenwald-Kastner Trial 1954

    The Record Group contains protocols, defense and prosecution documents from the two trials - the Attorney General of Israel versus Malkiel Gruenwald on the charge of libel, known as the Kasztner Trial, and the lawsuit submitted by Malkiel Gruenwald against Rudolf Kasztner on the charge of false testimony which Kasztner had testified as it were in the framework of the Kasztner Trial. The documentation includes documents related to the work of the Vaadat Hatzala: correspondence, documents, certificates, and reports.

  3. Office of the World Jewish Congress in Geneva.

    In this fonds we firstly note several Belgium-related wartime reports, more specifically the files C3/27, C3/28 and C3/45. They contain anti-Jewish legal texts, various brochures, correspondence, documents, reports on the situation of the Jews in Belgium, during the years 1940-1946. Several other files concern post-war Belgium – see C3/341 (including reports, correspondence, newsletters, … on the Conseil des Associations Juives en Belgique and COREF; 1945-1950), C3/342 (containing newsletters of the CAJB; 1946) and C3/370 (i.a. concerning WJC children’s homes in Belgium; 1946-1947). File C3...

  4. TR.18 - Documentation from Committee for State Security (KGB) archives in Ukraine

    TR.18 - Documentation from Committee for State Security (KGB) archives in Ukraine In the collection there are files selected from the State Archives of the Ukrainian Security Service in Kiev and its branches by regions: Chernigov, Chernovtsy, Khmelnitskiy, Ternopol, Sumy, Rovno, Poltava, Nikolayev, Lvov, Kirovograd, Ivano-Frankovsk, Zaporozye, Zhitomir, Donetsk, Simferopol, Vinnitsa, Odessa and Drogobych. Collection description Files of investigations conducted by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Counter-Intelligence Department (SMERSH [Death to Spies]), and the Mi...

  5. Documentation of the underground organizations of the Communist Party and the Komsomol movement in Belorussia, 1941-1944

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12796915
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1944
    • Investigation report Legal documentation List of Communists List of Komsomol members List of partisans List of residents List of underground members Official documentation Protocol Statistical report Survey report

    Documentation of the underground organizations of the Communist Party and the Komsomol movement in Belorussia, 1941-1944 Included in the collection, among other material: - Survey reports and investigation reports regarding the activities of the partisans units in Belorussia; - Statistical reports regarding partisans units; - Lists of partisans; - Reports regarding underground activities of the Party organizations and the Komsomol movement; - Lists of Communists and members of the Komsomol movement; - Documentation and intelligence reports; - Reports regarding the persecution and murder of ...

  6. P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years Rabbi Eli Munk was the son of Rabbi Azriel Munk, the rabbi of the Adass Yisroel community, the separatist Orthodox congregation in Berlin. In 1938, he emigrated to England and established a community of former German Jews in Golders Green, London, serving as its leader. He was active in Jewish affairs and organized, among other projects, camps for Jewish youth. Along with his brother, Rabbi Yechiel Aryeh Munk, he edited the book, "Faithful Testimony"...

  7. Documents of the Umwandererzentralstelle (UWZ-Central Bureau for the Transfer of Populations/ the Central Emigration Office), Litzmannstadt/Posen, 1939-1945

    Documents of the Umwandererzentralstelle (UWZ-Central Bureau for the Transfer of Populations/ the Central Emigration Office), Litzmannstadt/Posen, 1939-1945 The "Warthegau District" is the name given to the areas of Poland that were annexed to the Third Reich in October 1939, and were intended for total Germanization. This process was carried out by creating legal discrimination among three population groups: Germans, who were from the beginning a small minority, Poles and Jews, by deportation and annihilation of the two last groups and their replacement by German settlers from the areas of...

  8. Archiv der Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien, Teil II.

    In this fonds we find important files concerning the emigration of Viennese Jews (particularly children) to Belgium, mostly during the years 1938-1939. We firstly note files and series of a general nature, such as correspondence and telegrams regarding individual refugees, notes and reports on general emigration matters, brochures, series of questionnaires (concerning financial aid to émigrés, or questionnaires filled in by candidates), statistics, lists and reports on emigration (often ordered by target country), … For instance, in the subsection “emigration of children” (Kinderauswanderun...

  9. M.52.DAChrkO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Cherkasy Region

    M.52.DAChrkO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Cherkasy Region History of the Archives The Archive was first established in Cherkasy in April 1919; it was called the Regional Archive of Cherkasy in 1925. The name of the Archive was changed to the State Historical Archive of Cherkasy in 1932 and it became a branch of the State Archive of the Kiev Region in 1941. During World War II much of the documentation in the Archive was damaged. Following the establishment of the Cherkassy region in 1954, the name of the Archive was changed to the State Archive of the Cherkassy Region. A b...

  10. Documentation of the government offices in Hamburg regarding Jews and the persecution of Jews

    Documentation of the government offices in Hamburg regarding Jews and the persecution of Jews List of contents of the microfilms (inside the parentheses are the record group numbers of the official institutions): JM/12659 Senat (111-1) (Collection 12665617) JM/12660 [bad quality microfilm - dark pictures] (frames 2-2169) Innere Verwaltung (Buero Senator Richter) (113-2) (Collection 12666235) JM/12661 + JM/12662 Staatsverwaltung (Allgemeine Abteilung) (113-5) (Collection 12628222) JM/12663 (frames 2-86) Buergerschaft (121-3) (Collection 12672597) JM/12663 (frames 87-203) Ratsherrenkanzlei (1...

  11. Collection of the Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, 1924-1944

    Collection of the Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, 1924-1944 Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, was responsible for the administration of matters related to the regions, municipalities, and needy persons, Armwezen. The local Police, firefighters and air defense forces were subordinate to it and were transferred to the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice during the Nazi occupation period. A general draft of the Dutch Army was declared in June 1939. Binnenlands B...

  12. Devisenreferat Collection: Foreign Exchange Department of the Hauptabteilung Wirtschaft (Economics Department) in The Hague, 1940-1942

    Devisenreferat Collection: Foreign Exchange Department of the Hauptabteilung Wirtschaft (Economics Department) in The Hague, 1940-1942 In the collection: Documents of the Deviseninstitut (Foreign Exchange Institute), in The Hague, from 1941, under the direction of Bauditz, regarding the assets of Jews who emigrated or are asking to emigrate from the Netherlands; letters written by Wimmer, Rauter, Calmeyer, Seyss Inquart and others, regarding the legal status of Dutch Jews during the German occupation, 1942-1944; correspondence regarding the Aryanization of Jewish companies in the Netherland...

  13. M.52.DASO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Sumy Region

    M.52.DASO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Sumy Region History of the Archives: The regional archival administration in Sumy was established in 1925. Its function was to collect documentation from the local archives, to absorb documentation of the archives that were dismantled, to create original collections and to establish the newspaper archives. In 1930 the archival administration underwent reorganization and it became the local administration of Sumy. In 1932 it became the Historical State Archives of Sumy. Upon the establishment of the Sumy region in 1939, the State Histo...

  14. 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, cooperation between the German Army and the Einsatzgruppen (Task Forces), activities of the German Military Police and the...

  15. M.52.DAVO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Wolyn Region in Lutsk

    M.52.DAVO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Wolyn Region in Lutsk The archives was established in 1939 as the Historical Archives of the People's Commission for Ukrainian Internal Matters - UNKVD. In 1941, the archives became the State Archives of the Volyn Region. During the years of the German occupation, 1941-1944, the archives was inactive; the archives includes, however, documentation from the occupation period and regarding the activities of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the Volyn region. This Sub-Record Group i...

  16. O.2 - Wiener Library Collection of Testimonies, London, 1940-1957

    O.2 - Wiener Library Collection of Testimonies, London, 1940-1957 Alfred Wiener (1885-1964), the man who planned and established the Wiener Library, was born in Potsdam Germany; by profession, he was an expert in Middle East affairs and researcher of Islam. From 1919 he served as the legal advisor for the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), and published many articles about the Jews of Germany. When the Nazis rose to power in 1933, Wiener immigrated to the Netherlands and lived in Amsterdam. He began to collec...

  17. M.41.BGOMIVOv-Documentation of the Belorussian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War (World War II)

    M.41.BGOMIVOv - Documentation of the Belorussian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War (World War II) The history of the museum starts with the establishment of a Documentation Collection Committee regarding the Great Patriotic War, 02 June 1942. The museum was established by the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Belorussia which was in Moscow at that time. V. D. Stalnov, the Committee Secretary, was appointed the first director of the museum. A short while after the liberation of Belorussia, the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Belorussia decided to es...

  18. החלטות על הכרה במוות (Todeserklaerungen) של קרבנות יהודיים של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Luenen (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12424844
    • English, Hebrew
    • Legal documentation Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files include the applications including details regarding those who p...

  19. Official documentation of the German occupation authorities in Latvia, from the Westermann Collection in Riga

    Official documentation of the German occupation authorities in Latvia, from the Westermann Collection in Riga The Westermann Collection includes official documentation of the municipal administration of the Rigas Prefekturas (Riga Prefecture) Police; official documentation of Einsatzgruppe A active in Latvia in 1941; orders and instructions by the Sicherheitspolizei to the SD and SS in Latvia; instructions of the Generalkommissar and Giebitskommissar of Riga; Latvian antisemitic newspapers, from 1939-1940 and from the German occupation period; lists of Jews who were deported from Hamburg, D...

  20. Collection of J. G. Van Niftrik, an activist in the Netherlands and Switzerland in the transfer of intelligence and the smuggle of underground people and Jews from the Netherlands to England during 1942-1945

    Collection of J. G. Van Niftrik, an activist in the Netherlands and Switzerland in the transfer of intelligence and the smuggle of underground people and Jews from the Netherlands to England during 1942-1945 Van Niftrik was an activist in the Dutch underground who was forced to escape from the Germans; he arrived to Switzerland and established the Zwitserse Weg B, for the purpose of smuggling people in the underground to England and other destinations, and he helped Jews who escaped from the Netherlands to arrive to shelter in other countries; upon his return to the Netherlands after the wa...