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  1. Official documentation of the German occupation authorities in Latvia, from the Westermann Collection in Riga

    Official documentation of the German occupation authorities in Latvia, from the Westermann Collection in Riga The Westermann Collection includes official documentation of the municipal administration of the Rigas Prefekturas (Riga Prefecture) Police; official documentation of Einsatzgruppe A active in Latvia in 1941; orders and instructions by the Sicherheitspolizei to the SD and SS in Latvia; instructions of the Generalkommissar and Giebitskommissar of Riga; Latvian antisemitic newspapers, from 1939-1940 and from the German occupation period; lists of Jews who were deported from Hamburg, D...

  2. Documentation of the district German Court of Law in Lemberg, 1942-1944

    Documentation of the district German Court of Law in Lemberg, 1942-1944

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Afek Testimonies/ interviews/ memoirs: 1. Booklet, "[Kibbutz] Members tell about the illegal immigration", Afek, July 1964; 2. Moshe Sharfstein - his experiences; 3. Shalom Perlovitz - testimony.

  5. Lists of voters from Kostopol, 1939-1940

    Lists of voters from Kostopol, 1939-1940

  6. Documentation of the Reichsverkehrsministerium (Reich Ministry of Transportation), Germany, 1933-1945

    Documentation of the Reichsverkehrsministerium (Reich Ministry of Transportation), Germany, 1933-1945

  7. M.30 - Kurt Grossmann Archives: Documentation regarding Kurt Grossman's activities as an advisor to the Jewish Agency and documentation regarding reparations

    M.30 - Kurt Grossmann Archives: Documentation regarding Kurt Grossman's activities as an advisor to the Jewish Agency and documentation regarding reparations Kurt Grossmann was born in Berlin, Germany. He served as the Executive Director of the League for Human Rights from 1926 to 1933. In February 1933, he left Germany and moved to Prague, Czechoslovakia where he founded the Democratic Refugee Relief Committee, an organization dedicated to providing relief to refugees. He also edited the news about Germany for a news service [news agency]. In 1939, he moved to the United States and worked ...

  8. Documentation of the rural administrations in the Kleck District, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the rural administrations in the Kleck District, 1941-1942 The Collection includes documentation of the Nagorna District administration; instructions of Wilhelm Kube regarding mixed marriages, identification of Jews, life in the occupied territories and selling of Jewish homes; instructions regarding the manner of confiscating Jewish property in the Baranowicze and Kleck areas; instructions by the area administrative Commander in Zaostrovichi regarding the confiscation of property from the Judenrat; list of Jewish residents living in Kletsk, from 02 February 1942; documenta...

  9. Maurice Frankenhuis Collection

    Maurice Frankenhuis Collection Publications and correspondence, newspaper clippings and pamphlets regarding the Nazi crimes and trials against Nazis; Included in the file: - "A Journey into Darkness" by Maurice Frankenhuis, regarding his life in the Netherlands during the German occupation, in Westerbork camp, and during his deportation to Theresienstadt; - Issue of "The Saturday Evening Post" newspaper, Oct. 22, 1966, including an article regarding the Eichmann Trial, "Historical Trial: Auschwitz", published by the "Hiroshima - Auschwitz Peace March" organization.

  10. Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12421174
    • English, Hebrew
    • Birth certificate Legal documentation Marriage certificate Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors Survey report

    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...

  11. Personal documents of Jews, from the Stadtarchiv Muenchen (Munich)

    Personal documents of Jews, from the Stadtarchiv Muenchen (Munich) In the Collection: Three reels from the Bestand Volkskarteikarten - Card file with personal details (reels 31171-31173); Three reels from the Bestand Kennkarten-Doppel, including identity cards of Jews (reels 31170 and 31174-31175) An additional reel with Kennkarten (Identity cards), not attributed to a record group in the Archive (reel 31168); Two reels from the Bestand Kennkarten Antraege, including requests to receive identity cards (reels 31167 and 31169); One reel with Fremdenpaesse - Passports for foreign residents (re...

  12. Documentation of the Estonian Workers' Insurance Company in Tallinn, 1921 - 1940

  13. Documentation of the City Council Committe of the Communist Party in Vitebsk, 1939-1941

    Soviet documentation from before the occupation of Vitebsk, 1939-1941, and State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) documentation from 1944 In the Collection there is a list of the Communists in Vitebsk, 1940-1941; a report submitted by the head of the Party Committee in Polotsk to the director of the Belorussian History Museum regarding the extermination of the Jews in Polotsk; a report from the Notarization Committee of the Municipal Party Conference in Vitebsk; a list of factory and organization managers in Vitebsk, prepared in 1941; ...

  14. Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Porechye, 1940

    Documentation of the Communist Party District Committee in Porechye, 1940 The Collection includes instructions for the establishment of the Porechye District in the Belostok Region; instructions and regulations of the Communist Party Regional Committee; protocols from the District Committee meetings; reports of the District Committee [that were sent] to the Regional Committee on various subjects; appeal of workers to the committee; statistical reports regarding kholkhozes and sovkhozes (communal and Soviet farms); lists of workers in the District Committee ; documentation regarding election...

  15. M.41.GABr - Documentation from the State Archive of the Brest Region

    M.41.GABr - Documentation from the State Archive of the Brest Region History of the State Archive of the Brest Region: The State Archive of the Brest Region was created on 11 February 1940 as part of the system of the People's Commissariat for Interior Matters. The Archive stores the documentation of the Polish state institutions and organizations that were active in the Polesie region during 1919-1939 (and which were annulled by the Soviets during the same period), including also the documentation of the military authorities, the social and political organizations and associations, and sta...

  16. Westermann Collection: Documentation of the Jewish organizations from the period before the German occupation

    Westermann Collection: Documentation of the Yiddish organizations from the period before the German occupation Annual reports regarding activities of the Linat Zedek Hospital and the Gemilut Chasadim Association, 1924-1926; documentation of the HaGymnasia HaIvrit (Hebrew High School) in Riga, Latvia and documentation regarding its closing during the Soviet occupation in 1940.

  17. Documentation of Jewish financial institutions in Estonia, 1921 - 1942

  18. 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...

  19. Files of the Sozialbehoerde I (Social Agency I) in Hamburg

    Files of the Sozialbehoerde I (Social Agency I) in Hamburg

  20. O.90 - Documentation of Holocaust survivors in Israel, mainly from kibbutzim

    O.90 - Documentation of Holocaust survivors in Israel, mainly from kibbutzim This Record Group includes documentation, mainly copies of documentation preserved in the archives of kibbutzim throughout Israel. The documentation is mostly the personal documentation of Holocaust survivors who arrived to Eretz Israel and afterwards to the State of Israel from the end of World War II until the early 1960s. The material is comprised mainly of personal documentation, including letters, testimonies, dairies, photographs and various documents.