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  1. Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding the activities taking place in the Soviet Union including the activities of the Einsatzgruppen

    Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding the activities taking place in the Soviet Union including the activities of the Einsatzgruppen The initial reports are reports (Referat) from the Director of the IVA1 (Gestapo-struggle against the Communists) in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA-Reich Security Headquarters) that were distributed among officials in the RSHA, with Himmler foremost among them; beginning with Report No. 4, the reports received the SIPO and SD Headquarters heading, with the acronym IVA...

  2. The Alfred Schwarzbaum Collection

    Alfred Schwazrbaum has been called a "one man aid and rescue operation". The GFH Schwarzbaum collection holds hundreds of documents, including letters and postcards sent to Schwarzbaum from Poland and from Jews living outside Poland, asking him for help or inquiring about relatives in Poland, receipts for parcel deliveries and correspondences with Jews in Poland and elsewhere.

  3. Files from the Devisenstelle (Foreign Currency Authority) in Frankfurt am Main and Kassel

    Record keeping authority: Foreign exchange offices Frankfurt a.M. and Kassel The state exchange control to avoid flight of capital with foreign currency, existed in the German Reich since 1931. The pertaining foreign exchange offices were established in June 1932. They were subject in the last instance to the economics ministry of the Reich (therein starting from 1934 the Reich office for currency control). The intermediate supervisory authorities were in the beginning the state tax offices and then from 1937 the Chief Finance Presidents (Oberfinanzpraesidenten). The official designation wa...

  4. The Julia Vajda Collection: Testimonies of Hungarian survivors, 2004-2007

    The collection contains interviews with survivors conducted by Dr. Júlia Vajda as part of the “Totalitarianism and Holocaust Project” of the University of Debrecen, Hungary, 2004-2007, and documentation regarding these interviews. There are 332 audio testimonies in the collection: 308 interviews with Jewish survivors and 24 with non-Jewish witnesses.Documentation regarding the interviews: - Completed questionnaires containing personal information regarding the survivor and information concerning the fate of the survivor's family in the Holocaust (There is a completed questionnaire for each ...

  5. Testimonies and reports written by Jewish and non-Jewish inmates from the Netherlands, most of them political prisoners, regarding prisons and concentration camps, 1933-1945

    Testimonies and reports written by Jewish and non-Jewish inmates from the Netherlands, most of them political prisoners, regarding prisons and concentration camps, 1933-1945 Lists of people from the Netherlands who perished in camps, and a report regarding the persecution of Jews by the Amsterdam Police, 1939-1945; Correspondence of the Netherlands Tracing Mission, 1945-1948; Orders given by Harster, regarding the obligation on the entire population to possess an identity card, 1940-1941; Lists of the Centraal Registratiebureau Voor Joden, regarding Jewish survivors from the Netherlands in ...

  6. List of Jews of the Netherlands, in the Zentralstelle Fuer Juedische Auswanderung (Central Bureau for Jewish Emigration) - Record Group: M.68

    List of Jews of the Netherlands, in the Zentralstelle Fuer Juedische Auswanderung (Central Bureau for Jewish Emigration) - Record Group: M.68 This list has the names of Jews of the Netherlands, arranged according to their place of residence. Each category is arranged in alphabetical order according to the last names. There is additional data regarding last names and first names, and the list includes the person's date and place of birth, address (accurate as of 1941), citizenship, the religious community to whom they belong, profession, family status (G - married, O - single, W - widower), ...

  7. תיעוד של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Witten (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12429515
    • 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...

  8. Family archive of the Levy family from Essen, Germany, 1863-1993

    The collection contains different types of documentation, mostly private papers of the extended Levy family from the pre-WW I, pre-WWII and post-WWII periods. The papers cover three generations of the Levy family, from Dr. Hermann Levy, his eldest son Dr. Ernst Levy to his eldest grandson Hermann (Germán) Levy. The core of the collection is the private correspondence between members of the nuclear and extended Levy family, dating from 1932 until 1967. There are also letters to and from friends and acquaintances, who, after the rise of nazism in Germany, were scattered across four continents...

  9. Collection of the Amersfoort transit camp in the Netherlands, dated, 1942-1964

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6094601
    • English, Hebrew
    • Announcement Certification Diary Document Legal documentation Letter List of camp inmates List of murdered persons Official documentation Questionnaire Reports Testimony

    Collection of the Amersfoort transit camp in the Netherlands, dated, 1942-1964 Amersfoort camp was built by the Dutch Army in 1939; following the German occupation in 1940, the Germans started to use the camp as a rest place for the German soldiers; the German authorities decided to expand the camp in 1941 and to turn it into a transit camp, called Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort; approximately 35,000 inmates passed through Amersfoort camp during the war, most of them political prisoners, but also Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, marginal people, people who refused to do labor, hostages,...

  10. Dr. Eliezer Yerushalmi Collection: Documentation from the Siauliai Ghetto

    This Record Group contains documentation from Dr. Eliezer Yerushalmi's archives including a diary, memoirs and Dr. Eliezer Yerushalmi's published writings on the Siauliai Ghetto as well as the testimony of his widow, Sara Yerushalmi.

  11. Documentation of material from Austrian government offices (mainly of the politician Karl von Karwinsky) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1935-1936

    Documentation of material from Austrian government offices (mainly of the politician Karl von Karwinsky) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1935-1936 The files in the collection: - Report for the year 1934 submitted by the National Bank of Yugoslavia, sent to the Austro-Yugoslavian Office of Commerce (Microfilm JM/29558, Scans 1975-2060); - Report for the year 1934 submitted by the Wiener freiwillige Rettungs-Gesellschaft, containing mainly statistical charts and a financial report (Microfilm JM/29558, Scans 2063-2087); - Report for the year 1934 submitted by the Generaldirektion fuer die Po...

  12. Documentation of the Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police-GFP) unit known as Eichenhain (in the area of Hitler's headquarters in the Winniza area of Ukraine) and of other GFP units in the occupied Soviet Union areas, from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police-GFP) unit known as Eichenhain (in the area of Hitler's headquarters in the Winniza area of Ukraine) and of other GFP units in the occupied Soviet Union areas, from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1941-1943 The first part of the collection includes documents from various units. The first part contains many documents from the Eichenhain unit which was active in the FHQu Wehrwolf area (the area of the Fuehrer's [Hitler's] headquarters) in Strishawka (ten kilometers north of Winniza, Ukraine). The unit (known as RSD in the documents) wa...

  13. P.21 - Collection of Ilya Ehrenburg, author and member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC), 1941-1967

    P.21 - Collection of Ilya Ehrenburg, author and member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC), 1941-1967 Ilya Ehrenburg was born into a Jewish family in Kiev in 1891. He was exiled to France in 1908 after being arrested for his activities against the Czarist regime. In Paris, he gradually dissociated himself from the Bolsheviks, associating himself with modern artists, publishing his poems and working at translation. After the Socialist revolution in 1917, he returned to his native country. From 1923 Ehrenburg worked as a journalist for the "Izvestia" newspaper. The Soviet authorities u...

  14. Documentation of the municipal administration of Bobruysk, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the municipal administration of Bobruysk, 1941-1944 Included in the documentation: Directives from the municipal administration of Bobruysk; a census; obtaining winter clothes from the population; appointment of municipal workers; an inspection of the movements among the population in the city; organization of the work in the kolkhozes; municipal sanitation; directives from the Generalkommissar of Belorussia and the Kommandatur; directives from the Generalkommissar of Belorussia and the Kommandatur of Bobruysk including: draft of workers for labor in Germany; establishment ...

  15. P.20 - Zorach Warhaftig Archive: Documentation of rescue and aid extended to refugees who escaped from Poland and Lithuania to Japan, 1939-1990

    P.20 - Zorach Warhaftig Archive: Documentation of rescue and aid extended to refugees who escaped from Poland and Lithuania to Japan, 1939-1990 Zorach Warhaftig was born in Wolkowisk, White Russia. While still a youth, he was an active member of the Hamizrachi movement. He acquired a traditional Jewish education and a general education, earning his Law degree at Warsaw University. From 1936-1939 he served as Chairman of the Eretz Israel office in Warsaw and a representative at the 17th through the 21st Zionist Congresses. When World War II broke out, he escaped to Lithuania, and there he ai...

  16. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ma'anit

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ma'anit Personal documentation of Rachel Zaiontz: 1. "Testimony of Sala Zilberbaum - born in Zamosc, Poland (Rachel Zaiontz, today)", 15/01/1946; a. Handwritten, in Polish (photocopy); b. Translation of the above to Hebrew (computer printout); 2. Photographs (scans): a. Rachel Zaiontz' mother; b. Photograph, while they were hidden by a Polish family; c. Photograph, in an UNRRA camp in Germany (1946); d. Two photographs: Anna, from the villag...

  17. Documentation from Finanzaemter (Finance Ministry local units) in Hessen

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11983402
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1925-1961
    • Financial accounts Inventory list Official documentation Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Documentation from the Finanzaemter (Finance Ministry) local units in Hessen In the collection is documentation from Finanzaemter 11 in the Hessen-Darmstadt province: Bensheim, Beerfelden, Friedberg, Fuerth i. Odenwald, Giessen, Gross Gerau, Gruenberg, Hungen, Lauterbach, Michelstadt and Offenbach. For information regarding each of the Finance Ministry offices in the collection and the material that was copied from the office for Yad Vashem, see the file: "M.55\Hessen G 36 Finanzaemter Bestandsübersichten (alle).pdf" in the Multimedia page. The overall majority of the files in the collectio...

  19. Collection of Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft, the Deutsche Revisions und Treuhand A.G. and the Wirtschaftprüfstelle, regarding the administration of Jewish property in the Netherlands during 1940-1945

    Collection of Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft, the Deutsche Revisions und Treuhand A.G. and the Wirtschaftprüfstelle, regarding the administration of Jewish property in the Netherlands during 1940-1945 Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft, the German Office for the Aryanization of Jewish Businesses in the Netherlands, was a German trustee company in Berlin before the war; the Wirtschaftprüfstelle, the organization that supervised the Aryanization of Jewish businesses, gave the order to Omnia for the implementation of the Aryanization process in 1941; Omnia received approximately 16,000 orders for the diss...

  20. Collection of Ilya Ehrenburg, author and member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC), 1941-1967

    In the Collection there is original documentation including articles, testimonies, photographs and letters regarding the Holocaust within the Soviet Union; some of the documentation appears in"The Black Book". The Collection also contains letters from Jews written after the war regarding displays of antisemitism in Soviet policy.