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Country: Israel

  1. The Romanian Collection: Documentation, mostly from the Holocaust period, regarding the fate of the Romanian Jews

    The first 82 files in the Record Group include documentation of the Jewish organizations which were active in Romania, 1941-1947: The Central Council of Romanian Jews; The Federation of the Union of Communities; The Joint Distribution Committee; The Union of Romanian Jews; The Jewish Party; the General Jewish Council and the Jewish Democratic Committee. The rest of the files contain mainly personal documentation submitted to the Yad Vashem Archive by private people on an on-going basis.

  2. The Yitzhak Stone Collection: German documentation regarding German war crimes in the occupied countries

    There are copies of German documents used by the prosecution; sometimes there are also translations for these copies. Files 131-199: Files submitted by Serge Klarsfeld from Paris including varied documentation regarding the Security police in Ostland from 1941-1942, a survey by Lefler regarding the SS, 1932-1936, the indictment against Dr. Thomas Vauberg, the war criminal (Yad Vashem Accessions Book Entry 4239);Files 200-245: Files submitted by Yitzhak Stone to Yad Vashem in December 1957, including varied documentation from the Nuremberg Trials (mainly Series PS), testimonies and two repor...

  4. Collection of Max Lowenthal who served in the Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US forces in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany

    The collection contains: Postwar documentation from the time of the US occupation of Germany regarding reparations for Jewish cultural property looted during World War II, 1945-1947.The main documentation: - Monthly reports by the Offenbach Archival Depot, Office of Military Government, Greater Hesse, Economics Division, regarding Jewish cultural property that was collected;- Letters, memos, reports and similar documents regarding questions concerning the restitution of Jewish cultural property collected in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany; - Correspondence between Max Lowenthal (as US Gov...

  5. Weichert Collection: Documentation of activities of the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS - Jewish Social Self Help Organization) in Poland under the German occupation and documentation belonging to Michal Weichert

    Included in the Collection: - Documentation of the administration of the JUS in Krakow during the war years:Correspondence with branches of the organization in the Generalgouvernement area and with various Jewish welfare organizations in occupied Poland; correspondence with the JDC in Geneva and Lisbon; periodical guidelines from the administration to the local chapters; excerpts from periodical reports issued by the German occupational authorities in the Generalgouvernement; - Testimonies and excerpts from testimonies given to the Area Committees for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Pol...

  6. The Gilbert Collection: Documentation written by senior Nazi war criminals in detention during the Nuremberg Trials

    In the collection there are interviews with these Nazi leaders and officials, as well as essays and manuscripts written by them while they were imprisoned during the trials. Among other items in the documentation:- Hans Michael Frank, Governor of the Generalgouvernment, who described his experiences and personal encounters with Hitler; - The diary of Rudolf Hess, Hitler´s deputy in the Nazi party, written during his imprisonment in England and notes he prepared for a declaration before the trial;- Article by Alfred Rosenberg regarding the persecution of the Jews; - Bibliographical notes by ...

  7. Reinhard Strecker Collection: Judges and Trials in Nazi Sondergerichte (Special Courts)

    Included in the Collection: - Microfilms JM/1750-JM/1752: Verdicts from trials held in special courts in Germany, Poland and the Protectorate; the trials usually were conducted against non-Jews, and in most cases, the sentence was death. Besides the verdict and verdicts rendered for appeals, in some instances the collection also contains correspondence regarding the carrying out of the sentences, including official notification that the verdict has been carried out;- Microfilm JM/1753: Reports regarding the executions carried out in the Brandenburg prison, 1943-1945; - Microfilm JM/1754: Fi...

  8. Denmark Collection: Documentation regarding the Jews of Denmark during the Holocaust period

    In the Record Group there is official documentation and personal documentation including testimonies, letters and personal documents on subjects related to the history of the Jews of Denmark and Norway during the Holocaust period, including displays of antisemitism, smuggling Jews out of Denmark, deportation of Jews from Denmark to Theresienstadt, rescue of the Danish Jews and lists of Jews deported from Norway. The Record Group also includes a collection of thank you letters sent to Cecilia Pels from Copenhagen by Jewish deportees who received food parcels from her in the years 1941-1943.

  9. Personal documentation on Jewish life in Belgium during the Holocaust.

    This fonds contains various documents (in many cases, copies) pertaining to the fate of the Jews in Belgium during the Second World War – including copies of the newspaper Le Flambeau, a list of Jewish children hidden by the Comité de Défense des Juifs, lists of resistance fighters, documents concerning war criminals, … and many other copies documents from archives kept by various organisations and institutions in Belgium.

  10. Testimonies, diaries and memoirs from the Holocaust period and regarding the Holocaust

    In the collection there are diaries, testimonies and memoirs written mostly by survivors with some material written by Jews who perished in the Holocaust. The content of the documentation is varied and multi-lingual. Most of the documentation was written and documented after the war, and the rest, mainly diaries, during the Holocaust. Those who were persecuted have documented their personal experiences, and through this documentation it is possible to closely follow the personal stories of the writers before the war, during the war and afterwards.

  11. 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 ...

  12. Legal documentation collected in Israel in preparation for criminal trials

    This Record Group contains material regarding Nazi criminals collected in Israel to assist in the interrogations and the placing of war criminals on trial, including: Testimonies of Holocaust survivors collected in courts in Israel as requested by courts abroad, newspaper clippings regarding criminals (at times regarding camps as well), lists of Nazi criminals, documentation regarding criminal trials abroad (newspaper articles, indictments, verdicts), correspondence regarding the collection of the material, and reports regarding the Department for Investigation of Nazi Crimes (INC) of the I...

  13. Nazi Documentation Collection, 1933-1944

    Nazi documentation of different kinds and from different sources which arrived at Yad Vashem as individual documents and not as part of concentrated collections. In the Collection there is documentation from the Nazi authorities in Germany, the occupation authorities in various countries, local governments, camps and systems for repression and murder of the Jews and opponents of the regime, such as the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police), the Sicherheitsdienst (SD-Security Service) and Adolf Eichmann's office. The documentation includes official documents, activity reports, statistica...

  14. 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...

  15. The Ludwigsburg Collection: Documentation regarding Nazi war crimes, collected by the West Germany legal system

    The collection contains important information regarding many Nazi war crimes reported by the groups that actually carried them out, mainly SS units, the police and the gendarmerie. Additionally, the collection includes both documentation and testimonies gathered by local judicial systems in the eastern European countries. There are also many reports of German units from the field providing information regarding murders of Jews that they carried out, dates, places where the murders took place and the number of Jews murdered. The collection also contains recommendations for the awarding of ci...

  16. The Jewish Press Agency in Switzerland- JUNA - newspaper clippings collection, 1936-1965

    The collections consists of newspaper clippings, mainly about the condition of the Jewish people in Nazi occupied Europe.

  17. Collection of Anti-Jewish Legislation - the World Jewish Congress

    Included in the Record Group: A. Collection of anti-Jewish legislation enacted in various countries, organized in files according to the countries. Sometimes the law is quoted as it was published in the law books of that particular country, and sometimes there are surveys regarding the law or newspaper clippings with a description of the law.B. Correspondence between the World Jewish Congress (including with the United Nations) regarding anti-Jewish legislation such as laws regarding emigration, the status of refugees and displaced persons, reparations from Germany and more.

  18. The SS Members personal files from the Berlin Document Center

    This collection includes personal files of SS officers above the rank of Untersturmfuehrer has been kept at the BDC. In the files there is varied documentation, and in certain instances, the BDC personnel have added documentation regarding a specific officer from other collections in the BDC archive. A large number of files regarding the SS officers were created from questionnaires concerning the personality of the officer. In addition to general data, there is also psychological and medical information and information regarding the officer's outlook on life. In the SS personal files there ...

  19. Menachem Kaufmann Collection: Documentation regarding Communities in Germany, mainly in Hessen

    The files include information regarding the Jewish communities,mainly in the Hessen area, (including Jewish community-owned property) and the lives of the Jews.

  20. Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period and regarding it

    In the Records Group there are personal letters collected by Yad Vashem since its founding. The letters were written before, during and after the Holocaust period in the Nazi occupied countries in ghettos, camps and hiding places and in the countries to which the Jewish refugees from Europe succeeded in escaping to before and during the Holocaust. The letters were sent to family members, relatives, acquaintances, friends and close friends in European countries and countries across the sea.In the collection there are letters written outside the boundaries of Europe and sent to Jews living in...