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  1. Collection of Kapitän Michael Sommer en Fa. Union, for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, 1942-1922

    Collection of Kapitän Michael Sommer en Fa. Union, for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, 1942-1922 Two companies purchased goods by command of Oberst Veltjens, Goering's representative in the Netherlands, 1942-1944; Kapitän Michael Sommer served as the person responsible for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, which was carried out in the context of the Vierjahresplan of the Blau-Aktion (black market); Included in the collection: Correspondence between Kapitän Michael Sommer and various...

  2. Documentation regarding the Holocaust from archives in Bulgaria

    In the Record Group there is documentation from government archives in Bulgaria. Cataloguing began in 2001, and it is still continuing. The Record Group is open for accepting additional official documentation. The Record group contains documentation from the Holocaust period:- Indictments, protocols of investigations carried out in preparation for the trials held in the People's Court in Bulgaria in 1945, verdicts and protocols from the first three Court sessions (regarding protocols from additional People's Court Sessions, please see Record Group TR. 6); - Antisemitic legislation in Bulgar...

  3. David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany

    This record group is a collection of testimonies recorded by David Boder, a Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in DP camps in Europe in 1946. The collection is comprised of testimonies of Jews and non-Jews, recorded in various languages and translated into English. The testimonies focus on the events in the lives of the survivors during the war in the ghettos and camps, while serving in the military, in hiding and in children's homes. The testimonies also contain information regarding the rehabilitation of the survivors from immediately after the war until the ...

  4. תיעוד של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Warendorf (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12421296
    • English, Hebrew
    • Legal documentation Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Bestand: Amtsgericht (district court) Warendorf 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 perished and their deportation; correspondence with German authorities, in...

  5. M.62 - Documentation from the Regional Archives of the Russian Federation, 1934-1946

    M.62 - Documentation from Regional Archives of the Russian Federation, 1934-1946 In the collection there are files selected from the Regional Archives of the Russian Federation: the State Archives in the Tver, Kaluga, Pskov, Orel, Smolensk, Novgorod and Bryansk regions, the State Archives of the Republics of Kalmykia and Mordovia and the State Archive for Records of Contemporary History in the Kaluga, Smolensk and Tver Regions. Description of the collection The collection includes documentation from the local committees of the Communist Party in various regions of Russia, 1917-1929, documen...

  6. M.41 - Documentation from Archives in Belorussia, 1920-1995

    M.41 - Documentation from Archives in Belorussia, 1920-1995 The M.41 Record Group includes documentation from the State Archives and the Archives of Public Associations (the Archives of the Former Communist Party) in Belorussia. Most of the documentation relates to the history of the Holocaust and the war in Belorussia during 1941-1945. There is also documentation related to the history of the Jews in Belorussia, from the period before the war and afterwards; The structure of the M.41 Record Group: The M.41 Record Group has 17 individual sub-groups, based on the original archives from which...

  7. Documentation on Jewish folklore during the Second World War

    There are 353 poems/songs in the collection, mostly in Yiddish. Most of the poems/songs were written by inmates of the camps and ghettos during the war, and some after the end of the war. The poems/songs express the suffering and torture, the life under subhuman conditions and the murder of the Jews; they also tell of the burning of synagogues and desecration of holy books and religious articles. Despite the despair permeating the poems/songs, there is also a spark of hope, a ray of light at the end of the tunnel and the yearning for victory and revenge against the Germans as well as the ex...

  8. M.52.TsDIALU - Documentation from the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv

    M.52.TsDIALU - Documentation from the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv Documentation in this Sub-Record Group includes many documents from the period before World War II, including personal files of professors from the University of Lwow, letters and documentation of Metropolite Andrzej Szeptycki, official documentation and legal documentation regarding members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), lists of Jewish residents who voted [in the elections] for the Polish Sejm, lists of voters in the elections for the Jewish Community Council in Lwow, lists of ...

  9. The Documentation Center of the Central Union of Jewish Communities in Bratislava

    There are 190 files in the Record Group including documentation from the Jewish Center, Slovakian institutions that were involved in the persecution of the Jews, the Nazi party in Slovakia, anti-Jewish legislation and decrees, documentation regarding forced labor camps, documentation of trials against Nazi criminals and more.

  10. R.3 - Documentation of the Nazi Party (National Socialist Party - NSDAP) in Eretz Israel, 1928-1939

    R.3 - Documentation of the Nazi Party (National Socialist Party - NSDAP) in Eretz Israel, 1928-1939 The first two chapters of the Nazi Party in Eretz Israel were established in Sharona and Jaffa in March 1933. Karl Ruf from Haifa set the chapters up, but during most of the time that the Nazi Party was active Cornelius Schwarz, from the Templar settlement, served as head of the party. In the summer of 1933 the party numbered 42 members, and in 1934, their numbers reached 239 (the largest chapter was in Jerusalem with 67 members). That same year, there were already active Nazi youth organizat...

  11. Collection of the Abteilung Rechtsetzung und Staatsrecht - German Office of Justice in the Netherlands, regarding anti-Jewish legislation during 1941-1942

    Collection of the Abteilung Rechtsetzung und Staatsrecht - German Office of Justice in the Netherlands, regarding anti-Jewish legislation during 1941-1942 The Rechtsetzung department has the responsibility for the wording and translation of the text, instructions and orders of the Reichskommissar and for the dispersion of the instructions of the Verordnungsblatt für die besetzten Niederländischen Gebiete in German and Dutch; consultation with the Rechtsetzung department, in main with the Generalkommissariat; Included in the collection: Correspondence by the Abteilung Rechtsetzung und Staats...

  12. Documentation from a trial conducted against Ernst Lerch and other Austrian war criminals from the SSPF headquarters in Lublin, who participated in "Aktion Reinhardt"

    Documentation from a trial conducted against Austrian war criminals, most of whom participated in "Aktion Reinhardt" - Investigation against Hermann Hoefle started in Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) in 1947 (Vg8 6771/47); - Main part of the investigation conducted by Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) from 1956 (11a Vr 1382/56) and Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court) from 1962 (27c Vr 852/62); - Final investigation conducted by Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), 1962-1971 (25 Vr 3123/71); - Transfer of the files to the various...

  13. Collection of the Commissaris voor niet-commerciele Verenigingen en Stichtingen – Committee for the Supervision over Non-Profit Organizations in the Netherlands, 1941-1944

    Collection of the Commissaris voor niet-commerciele Verenigingen en Stichtingen – Committee for the Supervision over Non-Profit Organizations in the Netherlands, 1941-1944 The Reichskommissar started the obligation for all of the non-profit organizations in the Netherlands to register themselves in 1940; VO 41/41 established that the control over the organizations would be by the Germans; the Commissaris voor niet-commerciele Verenigingen en Stichtingen registered all of the organizations' details, including financial matters, and among the 120,000 organizations registered during 1941, the ...

  14. Collection of the Directie van Handel en Nijverheid - Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands, 1905-1943

    Collection of the Directie van Handel en Nijverheid - Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands, 1905-1943 In the collection of the Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands there is much information regarding the economic development in the Netherlands before and during the Nazi occupation, including the labor market in the Netherlands during the 1930s, the draft of reserve forces among Dutch merchants in 1940, and the removal of Jews from the Dutch economy, for instance Jewish clerks and Jewish businesses such as Bijenkorf, Hollandia Kattenburg & Co, Zwanenburg, Orga...

  15. Collection of the Commissie-Clevering committee, which examined the attitude toward refugees by the authorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1950

    Collection of the Commissie-Clevering committee, which examined the attitude toward refugees by the authorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1950 Official documentation of the Commissie-Clevering committee, established by the Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands in 1946 for the purpose of examining the attitude of the embassies toward Dutch citizens who escaped to Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal and other countries during the war period: Included in the collection: Testimonies of: A. Cohen E. Elzas L. Flesseman M.H. Gans A.J. Goedkoop E.H. van Hasselt M.H.J. Hedeman-Joosten J.M. Kijzer J. P...

  16. M.1.D - Documentation of the Dachau concentration camp

    M.1.D - Documentation of the Dachau concentration camp In the collection there are files from the Dachau concentration camp which were transferred to Yad Vashem by the Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied zone. In the collection there is administrational documentation including a few files kept by the camp administration. In many of the files there are forms for payment and insurance of the inmates. In other files there is personal documentation such as passports and photographs of inmates as well as the central card index file of...

  17. P.48 - Aryeh Kubovy Personal Collection

    P.48 - Aryeh Kubovy Personal Collection The Collection includes mainly documentation from 1951-1952, the years when Dr. Aryeh Kubovy served as the Legate for Israel in Czechoslovakia and Poland. Aryeh Leon Kubovy (Kubovitzki) was born in Kursenai, Lithuania, in 1896. In 1906 his family emigrated to Belgium, where he acquired the rest of his education. He completed his studies for a Doctorate in Classical Philology and Law at the University of Brussels and Liége University. In 1926 he became a Belgian citizen. He worked as a lawyer from 1926-1940, first in Antwerp and afterwards in Brussels....

  18. Collection of Dutch Jews and other Jews in Belgium, 1942-1957

    Collection of Dutch Jews and other Jews in Belgium, 1942-1956 Included in the collection: Card file of the Schade Enquête Commissie, SER in Belgium, including names of Jews in Belgium who were Dutch citizens, who were drafted to forced labor by the Germans during 1942-1945; Registration forms [most of them indecipherable] of Dutch Jews in Belgium, including statistics regarding these Jews, 1942-1956; Statistical data regarding Jews and Gypsies who were deported via Malines camp to camps in Poland, arranged according to transports, men, women and children, 1942-1944; Survey of the persecutio...

  19. Documentation of the Romanian authorities in the Bukovina and Transnistria area, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the Romanian authorities in the Bukovina and Transnistria area, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Letters sent by inmates in camps in the Bukovina area to their family members in Cernauti, regarding life in the camps, 1941; - Regulation of Sadagura camp, regarding inmates in the area of northern Bukovina; - Report prepared by commander Chelmeniti, regarding the abuse of Jews who were transferred from Edineti camp to forced labor; - Instruction by the Minister of the Interior of Romania, sent to the Police detachment in Sadagura, regarding the use of POWs and Jews from...

  20. Documentation of the Minsk District administration, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Minsk District administration, 1941-1944 The Collection includes commands and orders for restricting the rights of Jews in the Minsk area; correspondence of the area administrations regarding two Jews; list of Jews from the Ostroshitskiy Gorodek Ghetto; list of Jews who paid an agricultural tax to the District administration in Ostroshitskiy Gorodek, 1941-1942; correspondence of the Minsk District Police with the (Gebietskommissar) District Commissioner regarding Jews and children of mixed marriages residing in the Minsk District, 1942; official documentation regarding ...