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Country: Israel

  1. 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...

  2. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Hashomer Hatzair Movement activities in the Warsaw Ghetto

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Hashomer Hatzair Movement activities in the Warsaw Ghetto The Collection contains very valuable documentation from the Hashomer Hatzair underground press in the Warsaw Ghetto from the Ringleblum Archive and the underground archive of the Bund Movement in Warsaw (photostats, copies and the original editions), as well as diaries of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising activists from the Hashomer Hatzair movement such as Aliza Melamed, Israel Gutman and others. There are also files containing original material regarding and belonging to the organizers and activists in ...

  3. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Bialystok Ghetto Uprising

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Bialystok Ghetto Uprising Most of the documentation in this Collection comes from Haika Grossman and includes her testimonies regarding the Uprising in Bialystok, a report concerning the activities of the fighters from the Hechalutz Movement, which was submitted to the main headquarters of the Partisan Movement in 1944 and more. The description is based on the original description that was written by Emanuel Berand at the time when the collection was submitted to Yad Vashem, 03 November 1958 (the original description has been attached to the multim...

  4. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Hashomer Hatzair Movement activity in Poland during World War II

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Hashomer Hatzair Movement activity in Poland during World War II The Collection is comprised of six files containing letters, testimonies and original memoirs of movement members from the Rowne, Zdunska Wola, Krakow, Czestochowa, Bendin, Zaglebie and Osziany Ghettos which were written during the war and immediately afterwards regarding the situation of the Jews and the movement in these ghettos. The description is based on the original description that was written by Emanuel Berand at the time when the collection was submitted to Yad Vashem, 03 Novembe...

  5. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Hashomer Hatzair Movement in Hungary and Slovakia

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Hashomer Hatzair Movement in Hungary and Slovakia In the Record Group there are seven files containing Hashomer Hatzair documentation from Hungary and Slovakia. In the Collection there is a journal kept by the "Hahagshama" group in Budapest, conducted from 1939 until the murder of the Jews of Hungary, including a description of the events and underground activities. The journal was transferred to Eretz Israel by Zvi Erez, one of the survivors of the group. In the Collection there is also documentation regarding the activities of the parachutists [f...

  6. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Activities of the Partisans, Pioneers, and Soldiers Organization(PCh"Ch)

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Activities of the Partisans, Soldiers, Pioneers Organization(PCh"Ch) The Partisans, Pioneers, and Soldiers Organization (PCh"Ch) began its activityin liberated Poland in 1945, and continued its activities in Germany, Austria, Italy and Cyprus until the members of the organization made aliya to Eretz Israel. The organization archives were brought to Eretz Israel by Shalom Cholovsky, a headquarters member. The documentation includes material from the main headquarters of the organization in Germany arranged in 11 files. Much importance is assigned to the...

  7. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Hashomer Hatzair Movement Chapter in the Lodz Ghetto

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Hashomer Hatzair Movement in the Lodz Ghetto This Record Group is one of the most important Record Groups in the Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection. The documentation regarding the Lodz Ghetto is extremely rich, but this material is unique and complements our knowledge of the lives of the Jews in the Lodz Ghetto. The material was gathered, organized and brought to Eretz Israel by Feival Podmesky. The documents were arranged in 35 files containing hundreds of original documents (thousands of pages), which were written in the ghetto by Feivel Podm...

  8. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: She’erith Hapletah, the rescue of children and the Bericha Organization

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: She’erith Hapletah, the rescue of children and the Bricha Organization The documentation (nine folders) contains: - Memoirs of Hasia Bornstein-Bilitzka, of Blessed Memory (one of the founders of Kibbutz Lahavot Habashan), regarding the initial organization of the movement by ghetto survivors, educational work with children as part of the Zionist Coordinating Group for the Redemption of Children in Poland and the rescue of children from non-Jews; - Two letters from children who were rescued from non-Jews; - Survey-report prepared by Yosef Indig regardin...

  9. Files from the Reichskanzlei (Reich Office) in Germany

    Files from the Reichskanzlei (Reich Office) in Germany

  10. Documentation from the Archive of the City of Bremen, regarding the Jews of Bremen during the Nazi regime and after 1945

    Documentation from the Archive of the City of Bremen, regarding the Jews of Bremen during the Nazi regime and after 1945

  11. M.26.2 - Correspondence of the World Jewish Congress - Relatives Search Department, Stockholm, 1945-1962

    M.26.2 - Correspondence of the World Jewish Congress - Relatives Search Department, Stockholm, 1945-1962

  12. Documentation of the Reichswirtschaftsgruppen (Reich National Economic Organizations), Germany, 1935-1944

    Documentation of the Reichswirtschaftsgruppen (Reich National Economic Organizations), Germany, 1935-1944

  13. Documentation from the Wirtschaftsarchiv Darmstadt, regarding in main the Aryanization of Jewish businesses, 1936-1941

    Documentation from the Wirtschaftsarchiv Darmstadt, regarding in main the Aryanization of Jewish businesses, 1936-1941

  14. Documentation from the record group: Landesfinanzamt Dresden

    Documentation from the record group: Landesfinanzamt Dresden

  15. Documentation on matters pertaining to administration, finance, personnel and service conditions in the SS and the Waffen SS from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1943

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11001960
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1936-1943
    • Book Booklet(s) Financial accounts Form Journal Laws and decrees List of Nazi war criminals Names of perpetrators Official documentation Photograph Survey report

    Documentation on matters pertaining to administration, finance, personnel and service conditions in the SS and the Waffen SS from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1943 Among other items, the collection contains correspondence, circulars and guidelines of various bodies within the SS and the Waffen SS regarding matters pertaining to administration, finance, personnel and the service conditions of their people. In the material there are reports regarding promotions and postings to new positions; general guidelines concerning SS and Waffen SS personnel and their service conditions, some of si...

  16. Documentation of the Generalbauinspekteur fuer die Reichshauptstadt (Construction Inspector General for the Reich's Capital) in Berlin from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1938-1942

    Documentation of the Generalbauinspekteur fuer die Reichshauptstadt (Construction Inspector General for the Reich's Capital) in Berlin from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1938-1942 The institution of the Generalbauinspekteur für die Reichshauptstadt was created by a special order of Adolf Hitler, 30 January 1937. This was the title bestowed on Albert Speer with the goal of initiating grandiose construction plans that would redesign parts of Berlin and acquire for Berlin a dominant standing in the world. Later on, the authority delegated to Speer was expanded both in Berlin itself and in other...

  17. Documentation of German Occupation Authorities from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1944

    Documentation of German Occupation Authorities from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1944 There are two files in the collection: - A file containing correspondence of the Kreiskommissar Garten (administration of the Garten district) (from 1943 Kreiskommissar Grodno [the administration of the Grodno district]) in the Bialystok region regarding administrative and financial matters, including factories that were moved over to German trusteeships and investigations on black market matters, October 1941-June 1944; - A file of the Staatskommissar beim Reichsstatthalter in Wien (State Commissione...

  18. Documentation of the I. G. Farbenindustrie Company from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1928-1943

    Documentation of the I. G. Farbenindustrie Company from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1928-1943 The I. G. Farbenindustrie Company was established in 1925 from the amalgamation of several chemical industry companies, and it was, in its time, the largest company in this field in the west. During World War II it was notorious due to its involvement in the Nazi oppression and murder process, and mainly due to the production and supply of the gas Zyklon B which was used for mass murders in Auschwitz, and for the establishment of the Buna factory for synthetic fuel as part of the Auschwitz camps c...

  19. Documentation from the Reichswirtschaftministerium (Reich Ministry of Economy) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1942

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11026735
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1936-1942
    • Balance sheet Financial accounts Names of perpetrators Official documentation Record of persecuted persons Statistical data Survey report

    Documentation from the Reichswirtschaftministerium (Reich Ministry of Economy) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1942 The following files are preserved in the collection: - A file dealing with insurance taken out by Jews, 1938-1939, including subjects such as the treatment of insurance claims submitted by Jews after the Kristallnacht riots (including a copy of the "Reichsgesetzblatt" [Reich Legal Gazette] from March 1939 containing the wording of the law on this matter - frame 1451, statistical reports and correspondence from December 1938 regarding the limit on claims pertaining to ri...

  20. Financial reports of the Commerz- und Privat-Bank Aktiengesellschaft from Berlin and from Hamburg from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1939

    Financial reports of the Commerz- und Privat-Bank Aktiengesellschaft from Berlin and from Hamburg from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1939 In the collection there are files of financial reports of the Commerz- und Privat-Bank Aktiengesellschaft from Berlin and from Hamburg, 1936-1939, prepared by the Deutsche Revisions und Treuhand Aktiengesellschaft Company. The original title assigned to this Record Group by the Osoby Archive, referring to the company that prepared the reports, is erroneous.