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Country: Israel

  1. Documentation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAF) in the Soviet Union

    Description of the collection : Official Committee documentation, testimonies of survivors, Red Army soldiers, underground members, lists of Jewish victims, notices and announcements, investigative reports against Nazi criminals, survey reports, letters, radio broadcasts, articles and photographs. There are three main collections in the records group:A. Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the"Black Book", including valuable testimonies, diaries and memoirs that were processed for literary presentation and others that were only published partially, testimonies and memoirs regarding th...

  2. O.62 - Borwicz Collection: Testimonies recorded by the Jewish Historical Commission in Poland

    O.62 - Borwicz Collection: Testimonies recorded by the Jewish Historical Commission in Poland, 1944-1947 Michal Borwicz (Maksymilian Boruchowicz) was born in Krakow in 1911, and died in Paris in 1987. A graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, he was a Jewish Polish author and historian, who studied the history of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust. Borwicz was an inmate in the Janowska camp in Lwow from 1942-1943. He was sentenced to death by hanging, however when the sentence was being carried out, the rope broke. He escaped from the camp and joined the partisans and commanded an...

  3. P.34: Collection of Rabbi Stephen Wise, American Zionist leader

    P.34: Collection of Rabbi Stephen Wise, American Zionist leader Stephen Samuel Wise (1874-1949), the son and grandson of rabbis, was born in Budapest in 1874. When Wise was an infant, his parents emigrated to the United States with their family. From a very young age, Wise aspired to be a rabbi, like his father Rabbi Aharon Wise. Wise completed his studies at Columbia University with Outstanding Honors at the age of 18, and was ordained as a rabbi in 1893. He served as the rabbi in several significant communities in New York and Oregon, and he was a trail-blazer in the area of inter-denomin...

  4. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground The archive gets its name from Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff, who set up the archive in early 1943, and Zvi Mersik, one of Mordechai Tenenbaum's outstanding aides, who continued to maintain the archive after Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff's death. Most of the documentation, which was created between July 1941 and April 1943, is located in the Yad Vashem Archive. The original material is not concentrated in one place: some of it is housed in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, and the rest of th...

  5. M. 33- The ChGK Collection: Documentation collected by the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union, 1943-1945

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019619
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1943-1945
    • Diary Exhumation report Investigation report List of collaborators List of Jewish residents List of murdered persons List of perpetrators Maps Memoirs Names of perpetrators Newspaper clippings Official documentation Questionnaire Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Statistical report Survey report

    M. 33- The ChGK Collection: Documentation collected by the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union, 1943-1945 The State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes (ChGK) was established in the Soviet Union in 1942. Its representatives operated in places that had been occupied by the Nazis a short time after their liberation, and the reports prepared by the Commission regarding the places it investigated describe the Nazi crimes in detail. The ChGK (in Yad Vashem terminology: “the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigat...

  6. P.60 - Dr. Joseph Kermish Collection, Director of the Yad Vashem Archives, 1953-1979

    P.60 - Joseph Kermish Collection, Director of the Yad Vashem Archives, 1953-1979 Dr. Joseph Kermish was born in the town of Zlotniki, in the Tarnopol district, 1907. He studied history at the University of Warsaw and completed his doctoral studies in 1937. He spent the years 1936-1939 preparing a book of bibliographies on the history of Warsaw and the history of the Jewish community in Warsaw, work that was suspended with the outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939, and his draft into the Polish Army. He spent the period of the German occupation, from 1941, in the town of Probuzna, not far f...

  7. Collection of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (the German Office for Administration and Justice) in the Netherlands, 1940-1944

    Collection of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (the German Office for Administration and Justice) in the Netherlands, 1940-1944 The Germans established a system for civil administration in 1940; Arthur Seyss-Inquart stood as the Reichskommissar - head of the civil administration; establishment of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (German Office for Administration and Justice) under Seyss-Inquart, and under the administration of Friedrich Wimmer in The Hague; among the office's functions were administration and justice: legislation, internal matters, justice,...

  8. TR.3 - Documentation collected in preparation for the Eichmann Trial, 1933-1962

    TR.3 - Documentation collected in preparation for the Eichmann Trial, 1933-1962 The Mossad (Israel Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations) discovered where Adolf Eichmann was residing in Argentina while using a false identity. Eichmann was captured and brought to Israel in early 1960. His trial, which was held in Beit Ha'am in Jerusalem [today, the Gerard Behar Center building], began in April 1961. The trial lasted for approximately three months, and Eichmann was subsequently sentenced to death for his part in the murder of the Jews of Europe. Eichmann submitted an appeal to the...

  9. Documentation of the Generalkomissariat (General Commissariat) of Schitomir region, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Generalkomissariat (General Commissariat) of Schitomir region, 1941-1944 The collection of documents from the Generalkomissariat (Reich Commissioner General) in Zhitomir from the period of the German occupancy, 1941-1943, was stored in the Regional Archive in Brest, as was the entire State Archive of the Zhitomir Region. The collection contains orders issued by the Gendarmerie Commander and the Sipo (Security Police) Commander, correspondence with various bodies, maps, photographs, lists of those wanted and lists of German activists and Ukrainian collaborators. 30,000 J...

  10. Collection of Hanns Albin Rauter, the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of Hanns Albin Rauter, the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Hanns Albin Rauter was the head of the security system in the Netherlands, the Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen en Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, the HSSPF during 1940-1945; operating beneath him were the SS, the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei, the SD and the Dutch Police; despite his subordination to Seyss-Inquart, he had direct contact with Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, in a relatively independent status; Rauter was also the supervisor ...

  11. O.64.2/WSZ - Hermann Weisz Collection

    O.64.2/WSZ - Hermann Weisz Collection Provenance of the Collection: Born in 1917, Hermann Weisz was an attorney at law by profession and active in the Eretz Israel Office in Prague. On 30 November 1941, he was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto where he served as the Deputy Director of the Jüdischen Selbstverwaltung Zentralevidenz until the liberation of the camp. With help from Jüdischen Selbstverwaltung workers, Weisz copied much documentation regarding the activities of the various Jüdischen Selbstverwaltung departments, principally documentation regarding the transports arriving in a...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Givat Brenner Testimonies and interviews: 1. "Testimony [under oath] of Julius Viener, regarding Oskar Schindler" (translation from Polish, 10/10/1956); 2. "Testimony [under oath] of Werzel, regarding Oskar Schindler" (26/11/1956); 60. Chaya Altman; 3. Gabriella Alter; 4. Nathan Alter; 5. Yoel Amsterdamer; 6. Benjamin Epstein; 61. Moshe Bongart; 7. Gita Bechner; 62. Yosef Ben Shlomo; 8. Frida Braunstein; 9. Yitzhak Brody; 10. Rachel Gatnau; ...

  13. M.2 - Archive of Itzhak Schwarzbart, member of the Polish Government-in-Exile in London, 1939-1958

    M.2 - Archive of Itzhak Schwarzbart, member of the Polish Government-in-Exile in London, 1939-1958 Dr. Itzhak Ignacy Schwarzbart was born in Chrzanow, Poland, in 1888. He studied to be a lawyer and began his legal career in 1913. He served as the Assistant Editor-in-Chief of a daily newspaper that appeared in Krakow, 1921-1925, while writing for other daily newspapers as well. During the period between World War I and World War II, he served as a representative at Zionist Congresses and was active in the Jewish faction in the Krakow Municipal Council and the leadership of the Jewish communi...

  14. O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat

    O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat Dr. Jacob Robinson was born in Seirijai, a village in the Alytus district in southeastern Lithuania on 28 November 1889, and received a traditional Jewish education. In 1910 he completed his studies at the Suwalki high school and in the summer of 1914, he completed his studies for the title of Doctorate in Law (LL.D.) at the University of Warsaw. In May 1923 he was elected to the Sejm (Lithuanian Parliament), where he served as head of the Jewish faction and a leader of the minorities bloc. During the years 1925-1931, Robinson served ...

  15. Documentation of Obshchestvo Zdravookhraneniya Evreyev (OZE- Organization for Health Protection of the Jewish Population) in Latvia

    Documentation of Obshchestvo Zdravookhraneniya Evreyev (OZE-Organization for Health Protection of the Jewish Population) in Latvia History of the Organization OZE is the Russian acronym for Obshchestvo Zdravookhraneniya Evreyev (Organization for Health Protection of the Jewish Population), an organization that has its origins in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1912. OZE was founded in order to disseminate information pertaining to proper hygiene among the Jews, to further socio-medical topics and to contribute to safeguarding the health of the Jewish population. The Organization for Health Protec...

  16. O.6 - Polish Collection

    O.6 - Polish Collection The Polish Collection is a record group composed of various materials dealing with Polish Jewry during the Holocaust. The numerous and varied materials arrived at the Yad Vashem Archives from many sources, mainly private people. The documentation reflects the multiple and varied aspects, both personal and public, of the lives of the Jews in Poland at the start of, during and after the German occupation. - Among the documents pertaining to personal fate there are memoirs and testimonies, journals written during the war and after the liberation, correspondence between ...

  17. O.52.3 - Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - General Documentation

    O.52.3 - Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - General Documentation The purpose of the Yad Vashem project - to prepare an Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Germany - is to perpetuate the history of the communities that were destroyed during the Holocaust. The historiography of the communities focused on countries and sometimes on districts, but not on the history of the local communities. With the increase of interest in the local communities, this Record Group serves as a very important source for historians and researchers working in this field. As part of the preparation o...

  18. Documentation from Amtsgerichte (Courts of Law) in Hessen, Germany

    Documentation from Amtsgerichte (Courts of Law) in Hessen, Germany In the collection is documentation from ten Courts of Law in the rural area of the Darmstadt Province: Alsfeld, Altenstadt, Bad Nauheim, Bad Vilbel, Bensheim, Beerfelden, Butzbach, Gernsheim, Herbstein, and Hirschhorn. For general information (in German) regarding the sub-group in the original Archive, including details regarding the character of the legal material, see the file: "Hessen G28 Amtsgerichte_Findbuch" in the Multimedia page. For information regarding each of the Courts of Law in the collection and regarding the ...

  19. Collection of Westerbork camp, 1940-1945

    Collection of Westerbork camp, 1940-1945 Westerbork camp was established by the Dutch authorities as a refugee camp, following the influx of Jewish refugees who arrived from Germany in 1933; the refugees were permitted to leave the camp until 1940, when the Germans surrounded Westerbork camp with a fence and established that the camp would be transferred to the auspices of the Ministry of Justice; the Germans changed the designation of the camp to a transit camp for deported Jews, under the supervision of the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in 1941; 101,525 persons were regis...

  20. Files of the arbitrator for claims for compensation in Ulm

    Files of the arbitrator for claims for compensation in Ulm: The legal basis for the work of the arbitrator for reparations in the American zone was Law No. 59 of the Military Government (American Control Area) of November 10, 1947. According to this, the confiscated property, firm, bank account or other property was to be returned or compensation for it was to be paid. For this, the injured party or his legal successor had to conduct contentious proceedings against the individual or institution liable for restitution, which had seized the property. In order to prevent every claim for reimbu...