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  1. M.49.P - Memoirs and diaries from the Holocaust period collected by the Central Jewish Committee in Poland

    M.49.P - Memoirs and diaries from the Holocaust period collected by the Central Jewish Committee in Poland Memoirs and diaries submitted to the Jewish Historical Insitute in Warsaw and catalogued in Records Group 302. In the collection there is a great variety of diaries and memoirs regarding the Holocaust in Poland, Nazi Germany and other countries. Most of the documentation is in Polish; some of the material is in Yiddish and other languages.

  2. M.40.MAP - The Military Archive in Podolsk - Documentation from the Central Archive of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense

    M.40.MAP - The Military Archive in Podolsk - Documentation from the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence The collection contains documentation from TSAMO (Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence ) including information regarding the murder of the Jews of Moldavia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Belorussia, Ukraine and more. There is also information regarding the Gypsies, such as the concentration of Gypsies, their living conditions and their murder. Description of the collection: 1. Camps Concentration camps, extermin...

  3. M.40.RCM - Documentation from the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History, 1941-1948

    M.40.RCM - Documentation from the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History, 1941-1948 In the collection there is documentation regarding the administration of the Central Committee of the Communist party (Tsk VKP(b)-Tsentralny Komitet Vsesoyuznoy Kommunisticheskoy Partii Bolshevikov), including information, official correspondence and reports regarding partisan and underground activity in the occupied areas of the Soviet Union, 1941-1944, lists of Jewish partisans and Red Army soldiers, lists of the Jews from Hungary who served in Hungarian Army forced labor battalions and wer...

  4. M.40.RGE - Documentation from the Russian State Archive of the Economy, 1939-1945

    M.40.RGE - Documentation from the Russian State Archive of the Economy, 1939-1945 The Sub-Record Group is comprised of documentation from the population census conducted in January 1939 throughout the entire Soviet Union. The census was conducted on a national level in regions and cities, and includes data regarding nationality, mother tongue, gender, literacy, education, profession and more.

  5. M.1.P - She’erit Hapletah Collection - DP life in the camps, 1945-1948

    M.1.P - She’erit Hapletah Collection -Displaced persons life in the camps, 1945-1948 In this Collection there is documentation regarding the lives of the displaced persons (DPs) in the camps. It contains thousands of placards from the camps, mainly concerning cultural and artistic matters, religious life, sport, elections and political parties. Additionally, there are announcements , principally issued by administrative departments in the Eschwefe DP camp and the Feldafing DP camp. There are letters or surveys on subjects related to daily life in the DP camps in a few individual files.

  6. O.76.1 - Collection of Yiddish folk songs sung by the Jews in the ghettos in the Transnistria and Moldova area

    O.76.1 - Collection of Yiddish folk songs sung by the Jews in the ghettos in the Transnistria and Moldova area In 1944 researchers from the Cabinet for Jewish Culture of the Ukrainian Academy of Science travelled to the Transnistria and Moldova area. The researchers collected Yiddish folk songs sung in the ghettos and wrote down testimonies gathered from the survivors. In 1948, Moses Beregovskiy, Ruvn Lerner and Moyshe Maydanskiy, who had participated in the delegation, were arrested by the Soviet authorities for the crime of [engaging in] Jewish cultural activities.

  7. M.21.5 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich

    M.21.5 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich The War Criminals Department was established in the American Occupation Zone shortly after the end of World War II. It was active from 1946-1951 as the Legal Department of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich, in cooperation with the Central Historical Commission in Munich and other survivor organizations. The purpose of the Department was to locate war criminals and collaborators, to gather documentary material, to collect testimonies from survivors and to bring the crimin...

  8. M.21.6 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich

    M.21.6 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich The War Criminals Department was established in the American Occupation Zone shortly after the end of World War II. It was active from 1946-1951 as the Legal Department of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich, in cooperation with the Central Historical Commission in Munich and other survivor organizations. The purpose of the Department was to locate war criminals and collaborators, to gather documentary material, to collect testimonies from survivors and to bring the crimin...

  9. M.1 - Documentation of the Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone, Munich

    M.1 - Documentation of the The Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone of Germany The Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone of Germany was the official representative body of displaced Jews in the American zone of Germany from 1945 to 1950. The Central Committee was founded on July 1, 1945, at the first meeting of representatives of Jewish DP camps held in Feldafing. It came into being through the joint effort of Dr. Zalman Grinberg, the head of the St. Ottilien hospital DP camp and former director of the Kovno ghetto hospital, and Rabbi Abraham Klausner,...

  10. M.16 - Collection of the Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie (Jewish Coordination Committee-JCC) of Dutch Jewry in Geneva, 1943-1960

    M.16 - Collection of the Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie (JCC-Jewish Coordination Committee) of Dutch Jewry in Geneva, 1943-1945 The Coordination Committee for the Jews of the Netherlands in Switzerland was established in 1943 at the initiative of several of the Dutch refugees in Switzerland, including Mr. M. Gans. The owner of a jewelry and antiquities business in Amsterdam, Gans had escaped from the Netherlands to Switzerland with his wife in the summer of 1942. The Committee mainly dealt with offering assistance (by sending parcels of food and medicine) to deportees from the Netherlands i...

  11. M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York

    M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York The Central Location Index (CLI) was established by various relief organizations in May 1944. The goal of the CLI was to concentrate data regarding refugees and those missing. After the organization (CLI administration) disbanded in May 1949, the documentation was stored in the cellars of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York; in 1957 the documentation was transferred to Yad Vashem. In the collection there are documents, lists and index cards. There are two main sectio...

  12. 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...

  13. M.21 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich

    M.21 - Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals Department), Central Committee of Liberated Jews - Munich The War Criminals Department was established in the American Occupation Zone shortly after the end of World War II. It was active from 1946-1951 as the Legal Department of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich, in cooperation with the Central Historical Commission in Munich and other survivor organizations. The purpose of the Department was to locate war criminals and collaborators, to gather documentary material, to collect testimonies from survivors and to bring the criminal...

  14. M.26 - Documentation of the Relatives Search Department of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Stockholm, 1945-1962

    M.26 - Documentation of the Relatives Search Department of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Stockholm, 1945-1962 Correspondence of the Relatives Search Department of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Stockholm; lists of Jews. See also sub-section M.26.1 (Item 4019144).

  15. 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...

  16. M.39 - Documentation from the State Archive in the Odessa Region, 1939-1945

    M. 39- Documentation from the State Archive in the Odessa Region, 1939-1945 In the collection there is official documentation from the Romanian regime in Transnistria, including the decision made by Marshal Ion Antonescu regarding Romanian military officials in Transnistria and a list of names of the government officials. Additionally, there is documentation regarding the deportation of Jews to camps in Transnistria, lists of Jews deported to Transnistria and where they were located in 1942, prepared by the Jewish Center, lists of Gypsies deported from Romania to Transnistria, documentation...

  17. M.49 - Żydowski Instytut Historyczny (ŻIH): Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw

    M.49 - Żydowski Instytut Historyczny (ŻIH): Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw In the Record Group there are copies of documentation that was handed over to Yad Vashem by the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. The Record Group is divided into two Subsections: Subsection M.49.E. is comprised of a collection of testimonies taken down by the Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna (Central Jewish Historical Committee); Subsection M.49.P. contains a collection of diaries.

  18. M.5 - The Documentation Center of the Central Union of Jewish Communities in Bratislava

    M.5 - The Documentation Center of the Central Union of Jewish Communities in Bratislava The Documentation Center of the Central Union of Jewish Communities in Bratislava was founded following the liberation of Czechoslovakia at the initiative of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, the Zionist Federation and the Association of Jewish Communities in Slovakia. The purpose of the Documentation Center was to collect documentation regarding the Jews of Slovakia during the Holocaust and record their experiences. Towards the end of their activities in 1949, the Documentation Center published the bo...

  19. M.52 - Documentation from Regional Archives in Ukraine, 1934-1966

    M.52 - Documentation from Regional Archives in Ukraine, 1934-1966 In the Record Group there are files from the following regional archives in Ukraine: the State Archive in the Lvov region, the State Archive in the Ivano-Frankovsk region, the State Archive in the Chervovtsy region, the State Archive in the Khmelnitskiy region, the State Archive in the Vinnitsa region, the State Archive in the Kiev region, the State Archive in the Rovno region, the State Archive in the Ternopol region, the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine (Lvov), the State Archive of the Office of Internal Affairs...

  20. M.54- Documentation regarding the Holocaust from State Archives in Poland

    M.54- Documentation regarding the Holocaust from State Archives in Poland In the Record Group there is material selected from collections in various State Archives in Poland (Archiwa Państwowe) and other regional archives. The material was initially copied onto microfilm and partially on paper. Eventually scanned documentation will also be added to the Record Group. The Collection was created over scores of years and we are still receiving new material. The documentation in the Record Group is very varied and contains material from the 1920s and 30s, mainly lists of Jewish residents, Jewish...