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Country: Israel
  1. Collection of the Protestantsch Hulp Comité voor Uitgewekenen om Ras en Geloof (Protestant Help Committee to Refugees of Race or Religion) in the Netherlands, 1939-1940

    Collection of the Protestantsch Hulp Comité voor Uitgewekenen om Ras en Geloof (Protestant Help Committee to Refugees of Race or Religion) in the Netherlands, 1939-1940 The aim of the Protestant Committee was to give help to Jewish or "partially" Jewish refugees who had been baptized to Christianity, or "Aryans" who were married to Jews; Included in the collection: Circulars, notes and correspondence related to the Protestant Help Committee in Amsterdam, 1940; Correspondence between the committee's chairman Professor V. H. Rutgers and various organizations and persons, including the Central...

  2. Collection of the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Office for the Deportation of Jews), the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer - HSSPF department, Amsterdam, 1942-1944

    Collection of the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Office for the Deportation of Jews), the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer - HSSPF department, Amsterdam, 1942-1944 The Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung, Office for the Deportation/ Emigration of Jews, was a Nazi organization that was active at the start in Vienna and later on also in Amsterdam; the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung had close ties with the German security forces, the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer Nord-West, and had a legitimate image of encouragement of emigration; at the head of the HSSPF stood Generalkommissa...

  3. Documentation of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture from 1938-1944, regarding the confiscation of Jewish owned land in various villages and towns in Hungary

    Documentation of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture from 1939-1944, regarding the confiscation of Jewish owned land in various villages and towns in Hungary The files in this collection were created in the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture from 1938-1944. The original documents are now located in the Magyar Országos Levéltár (Hungarian National Archives) where they were copied for Yad Vashem. The Ministry of Agriculture files are arranged according to the towns in Hungary and include the official documents which were accumulated as a result of the promulgation of the laws against the Jew...

  4. Documentation from the Archive of the Landrat of the Ludwigslust district (Mecklenburg Province, Germany)

    Documentation from the Archive of the Landrat of the Ludwigslust district (Mecklenburg Province, Germany) In the18th century the rulers of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Herzogtum (Duchies) established their residential palace in Ludwigslust. In the 19th century barracks were also established in the city, which housed the Duchies' army units. The district, with the city of Ludwigslust at its center, was established in 1922. In the Mecklenburg-Schwerin State, its administrative unit was defined and called the Amt (office). In 1933, when the Nazis acted in order to create uniformity among the local...

  5. M.52.DAMO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Mykolaiv Region

    M.52.DAMO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Mykolaiv Region History of the Archives: An authority was established in 1921 for the research of the history of the Communist Party (Istpart) in the Mykolaiv sub-section. In September 1925 the Executive Committee of the Mykolaiv area ordered the establishment of an archival authority for the area that would be subordinate to it. Collections from local Soviet institutions and private individuals were transferred to it. During 1925-1931 the archival authority of the area assembled collections from government authorities that existed be...

  6. Collection of the Abteilung Feindvermögen (Department of Enemy Property) in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6212257
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Announcement Circular Correspondence Curriculum Vitae (CV) Document Financial accounts Laws and decrees Letter List of murdered Jews from the Netherlands Lists of businesses and skilled workers Newspaper Note Questionnaire Record of persecuted persons Reports Statistical reports

    Collection of the Abteilung Feindvermögen (Department of Enemy Property) in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 The Abteilung Feindvermögen (Department of Enemy Property) was established in The Hague by the Germans as a department in the Generalkommissariat für Finanz und Wirtschaft (Office for Finance and Industry) in 1940; order VO 26/1940 established that the Germans would administer all property owned by people who were defined as the Enemy in the Netherlands, meaning the property of Dutchmen residing in the Allied countries, and the property of citizens of the Allied countries residing in the N...

  7. Collection of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, the Netherlands, 1945-1967

    Collection of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, the Netherlands, 1945-1967 Establishment of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, in July 1945, in order to locate Dutch property - personal property and state property - such as: diamonds, machinery, art collections, stamp collections, banking securities, church bells and other items that were "purchased" or stolen and transferred to Germany and to other countries during the German occupation; Included in t...

  8. M.9 - Simon Wiesenthal Collection, Archive of the Juedische Historische Dokumentation (Center for Jewish Documentation), Linz, 1938-1951

    M.9 - Simon Wiesenthal Collection, Archive of the Juedische Historische Dokumentation (Center for Jewish Documentation), Linz, 1938-1951 The Jewish Historical Documentation Center in Linz was established in 1947 by Simon Wiesenthal, an engineer from Buczacz, Poland. After his liberation from Mauthausen camp in Austria, Wiesenthal worked toward locating and arresting war criminals. He was also the moving force behind the Association of Former Inmates of Concentration Camps in Austria, and among the founders of the International Organization of Former Inmates of Nazi Camps. As the chairman of...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan Memorial booklet - "Les Enfants de La Hille - 1942" (excerpts of testimonies in French and German); Testimonies/ interviews/ experiences/ memoirs: 1. Shlomit Enzel; 2. Lea Bahat; 3. Miriam Buz-Melamed; 4. Heini Bornstein ("The Kasztner Affair: Description of the facts from the viewpoint of a rescue activist in Switzerland"); 5. Chasia Bornstein-Bielicka (Speeches given at the Grodno-Vilna Galilean activists conference held a...

  10. Documentation from the Berlin Police Headquarters (Polizeipraesidium Berlin)

    Documentation from the Berlin Police Headquarters (Polizeipraesidium Berlin) The Prussian city ordinance (Städteordnung) of 19 November 1808 provided for the establishment of a state police administration in the larger cities. Accordingly, a Royal Police headquarters (Königliches Polizeipräsidium) was built in Berlin on 25 March 1809, to which the existing state police department was linked. At the time the greater Berlin area included several independent townships. Berlin was not one large city and the police forces were divided. A law implemented on 13 June 1900 created the Provincial Pol...

  11. Files of the arbitrator for claims for compensation in Stuttgart

    Files of the arbitrator for claims for compensation in Stuttgart: 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 ...

  12. German Communities Registry

    In the collection are files prepared for the writing of the Bavaria Communities Registry and the Northwest Germany Communities Registry, including the communities of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Oldenburg, Lippe and Hamburg. The Bavaria files are arranged by district, and within each district, by alphabetical order.The Northwestern Germany files are arranged by state or Prussian province, and they themselves are in alphabetical order. The material is an anthology of the most detailed information regarding German Jewry throughout the years of its existence until its destruction by the N...

  13. Hakibbutz Ha'artzi Archives Collection: the Vilna Ghetto

    Hakibbutz Ha'artzi Archives Collection: the Vilna Ghetto Material from the Vilna Ghetto was collected during the war and after the liberation, and brought to Eretz Israel by members of the Hashomer Hatzair movement, Vilna Ghetto Uprising activists and members of the partisan movement in the Vilna area . The material is divided into 39 files and contains hundreds of original documents dealing with the history of the establishment of the Fareynegte Partizaner Organizatsye (FPO-United Partisans Organization), the way it worked and the preparations for the uprising. The organization placards ca...

  14. O.1 - Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960

    O.1 - Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960 Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri was born in Berlin in 1891. A lawyer and legal adviser to the Prussian government, he was also active in Jewish affairs. He made aliya to Eretz Israel in December 1938. Dr. Ball-Kaduri, who was active in collecting material and writing about German Jewry, became aware that much material that reached the archives regarding Jewish life in Germany from 1933 to 1945 was incomplete, and that there were large information gaps. From hi...

  15. Documentation regarding Keren Hayesod in Riga, 1920-1940

    Documentation regarding Keren Hayesod in Riga, 1920-1940 Keren Hayesod was established at the annual conference of the World Zionist Organization held in London in July 1920, as the fundraising arm of the Zionist movement. The Keren Hayesod Manifest of 1920 reflected the determination and decisiveness of the new Zionist organization: "The time has arrived for the concentration of the Jewish effort on behalf of the establishment of the National Jewish Home". Keren Hayesod was charged with the responsibility for the financing of aliya and settlement in Eretz Israel; Before the establishment o...

  16. M.29: Documentation from the Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives) regarding the Holocaust

    M.29: Documentation from the Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives) regarding the Holocaust History of the Archives Known as the Reichsarchive, the Central State Archive was first established in Potsdam, Germany in 1919. Documentation of the German state institutions beginning with the establishment of the Norddeutscher Bund (The North German Confederation) in 1867, were gathered in the archive, as well as historical documentation from the German Empire and Prussia dating back to the Middle Ages. After World War II, the archive in Potsdam, which was located in the Soviet Occupation Zone, wa...

  17. Collection of the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6100287
    • English, Hebrew
    • Certification Document Financial accounts Laws and decrees Letter Lists of businesses and skilled workers Names Protocol Questionnaire Report Reports Survey report

    Collection of the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 The Wirtschaftsprüfstelle (Economics Research office) was part of the Generalkommissariat für Finanz und Wirtschaft, and it supervised the implementation of the Aryanization of the Dutch economy; the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle started the Aryanization in The Hague in October 1940 with the registration of all of the Jewish businesses in the Netherlands, according to order VO 189/40 given on 22/10/1940; later on, according to order VO 48/41 given on 12/03/1941, the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle was authorized to appoint a Treuhander (tr...

  18. P.9 - Archive of Siegfried Jaegendorf, President of the Jewish Coordinating Committee for the Deported Jews in Transnistria, 1941-1967

    P.9 - Archive of Siegfried Jaegendorf, President of the Jewish Coordinating Committee for the Deported Jews in Transnistria, 1941-1967 Siegfried Jaegendorf was born in Czernowitz, 01 August 1895. He attended local elementary and high schools, and afterwards travelled to Vienna and Berlin where he studied engineering at a technical college, completing his studies as a mechanical engineer. His first position as an engineer was at the Siemens Schucker Werke in Berlin. In time, he was promoted and sent to serve as managing director for the Eastern Europe area at the Siemens factory in Vienna. A...

  19. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951 Born in 1882, in Lwow, Poland, Dr. Abraham Silberschein was an attorney who dedicated himself to public service. He was one of the outstanding leaders of the Labor Zionist movement in Poland, and in 1922, he was elected by the movement to serve in the Polish Sejm as the Labor Zionist representative . In 1930 he arrived in Geneva as a representative to the Zionist Congress. Due to the outbreak of World War II, Dr. Silberschein did not return to Poland, but he remained in Switzerla...

  20. M.41.NARB - Documentation of the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia (Natsionalny Arkhiv Respubliki Belarus)

    M.41.NARB - Documentation of the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia (Natsionalny Arkhiv Respubliki Belarus) History of the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia The Central Archive for the October Revolution of the Belorussian Soviet Republic was established in the city of Minsk on 28 May 1927. The Archive moved to the city of Mogilev in 1930. The Archive underwent reorganization in 1938, and became the State Archive of the October Revolution and the Socialistic Construction. Following the outbreak of the war in 1941, the Archive's activities stopped. The Archive renewe...