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  1. Documentation of the local authorities in the Kolomyja district, 1942

    Documentation of the local authorities in the Kolomyja district, 1942 Included in the collection are instructions regarding the confiscation of winter clothing from the Jews and the resettlement of the Jews in the Distrikt Galizien (Galicia region).

  2. Documentation of the Regierung von Mittelfranken (Government of Middle Franconia) in Bavaria

    Documentation of the Regierung von Mittelfranken (Government of Middle Franconia) in Bavaria

  3. Documentation of the Senat (Senate) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Senat (Senate) in Hamburg Included in the Collection are files dealing with the dismantling of Jewish funds or their transfer to Aryan ownership.

  4. O.29.3 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Belgium mainly during the Holocaust period

    O.29.3 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Belgium mainly during the Holocaust period In the Record Group there is documentation that was submitted to Yad Vashem by private people including personal documents from the war period, lists of various kinds, letters and other types of documentation reflecting Jewish life in Belgium and the persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust period. In the Record Group there is documentation regarding the rescue of Jews, the Belgian underground and participation of Jews in the underground, activities of the Association des Juifs en Belgique (AJB - Ass...

  5. O.75: Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period or regarding the Holocaust

    O.75: Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period or regarding the Holocaust In the Record Group are personal letters collected by Yad Vashem since its establishment. 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 before and during the Holocaust. The letters were sent to family members, relatives, acquaintances, friends and close friends in European countries and countries overseas. In the collection are letters...

  6. Documentation from a trial conducted against Ernst Lerch and other Austrian war criminals from the SSPF headquarters in Lublin, who participated in "Aktion Reinhardt"

    Documentation from a trial conducted against Austrian war criminals, most of whom participated in "Aktion Reinhardt" - Investigation against Hermann Hoefle started in Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) in 1947 (Vg8 6771/47); - Main part of the investigation conducted by Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) from 1956 (11a Vr 1382/56) and Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court) from 1962 (27c Vr 852/62); - Final investigation conducted by Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), 1962-1971 (25 Vr 3123/71); - Transfer of the files to the various...

  7. Files from the Kommunalreferat jued. Vermoegen in Munich

    Files from the Kommunalreferat jued. Vermoegen in Munich

  8. Documentation from the Magistrates Court in Besigheim, Wurttemberg, 1933-1941

    Documentation from the Magistrates Court in Besigheim, Wurttemberg, 1933-1941

  9. Documentation of the Romanian branch of the Auslandorganisation (Foreign Organization) of the Nazi Party, from the Osoby Archive in Moscow

    Documentation of the Romanian branch of the Auslandorganisation (Foreign Organization) of the Nazi Party, from the Osoby Archive in Moscow

  10. M.41 - Documentation from Archives in Belorussia, 1920-1995

    M.41 - Documentation from Archives in Belorussia, 1920-1995 The M.41 Record Group includes documentation from the State Archives and the Archives of Public Associations (the Archives of the Former Communist Party) in Belorussia. Most of the documentation relates to the history of the Holocaust and the war in Belorussia during 1941-1945. There is also documentation related to the history of the Jews in Belorussia, from the period before the war and afterwards; The structure of the M.41 Record Group: The M.41 Record Group has 17 individual sub-groups, based on the original archives from which...

  11. Documentation of the Jewish Bridge Players' Club in Tallinn, 1936 - 1940

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz HaHotrim Memorial booklets: 1. "Ari Terasi 1922-1998", "HaHotrim", 1999; 2. "Yehuda Fulda Hupert: Circles of love, creation and research", "HaHotrim", 1997; 3. "Zvizko - Life story", "HaHotrim", 1999; 4. "Chapters of my life", Chanan Eder, "HaHotrim", 1998; 5. "Story of my life", Shlomo Kidron, "HaHotrim", January 2000; Collection of testimonies: 1. "Testimonies from the Holocaust in Hungary by HaHotrim members 1944-1994", "HaHotrim", 1994; ...

  13. M.82 - Documentation from the State Archives of Saint Petersburg

    M.82 - Documentation from the State Archives of Saint Petersburg In the Record Group there is documentation selected from the TSGA SPb (Central State Archive of St. Petersburg) from the years 1918-1955, and from the Central State Archive of Historical and Political Documentation (the former archive of the Communist Party), 1941-1973. The Records Group in Yad Vashem contains 3,136 files. In the Records Group there is documentation from the following collections: The Collection of the Department for Nationalist Minority Matters of the Regional Executive Committee of St. Petersburg, 1918-1923:...

  14. Collection of Vught camp: Testimonies regarding the concentration camp administered by the Germans in the Netherlands during 1943-1944, dated, 1943-1951

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6085435
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation List of deportees List of inmates List of Jewish skilled professionals Official documentation Reports Statistical reports Testimony

    Collection of Vught camp: Testimonies regarding the concentration camp administered by the Germans in the Netherlands during 1943-1944, dated, 1943-1951 Documentation from Vught camp in the Netherlands, known also by the name Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch, whose inmates were divided into categories of political prisoners, Jews, Mischlinge, and other inmates; Administrative documentation, regarding the organization and administration of Vught camp during 1943-1944, including medical records from a dental clinic, reports regarding the draft of forced laborers, inmate cards, and lists from...

  15. Documentation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in the Rivne region, 1939-1949

    Documentation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in the Rivne region, 1939-1949 Included in the collection: - Reports prepared by the UPA security service regarding its activities in the Rowne region, 1943-1949; - Decisions accepted at OUN meetings; - Summary of the history of the Ukrainska Vyskova Organizatsyia (UVO); - Propaganda material used by the Ukrainian Nationalists until November 1943; - Announcements designated for the Ukrainian people, 1941-1943 - Notebook of Mikhail Smenchak, a member of the UPA from 1944, including a desc...

  16. החלטות על הכרה במוות (Todeserklaerungen) של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Bochum (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12423680
    • 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...

  17. 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,...

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

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Negba Book: Shulamit Goren (editor), "History of the Hungarian group, 1942-1947", published by Kibbutz Negba, 1984.

  19. Collection of the Grond en Pachtzaken (Lands Administration) of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of the Grond en Pachtzaken (Lands Administration) of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Included in the collection: Documents, correspondence and reports of the Grond en Pachtzaken (Lands Administration) of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Netherlands, regarding the expropriation of Jewish-owned land in the context of the Aryanization policies in the Netherlands, 1940-1945.

  20. Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 5083562
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1939-1944
    • Administrative documentation Application Balance sheet Correspondence Financial accounts List of Jews List of names Lists Report Reports Statistical data Statistical report Survey report

    Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943 The Jewish Self Aid organization (in Polish: Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna [ZSS]; in German: Juedische Soziale Selbshilfe) was set up in Krakow in 1940; it went by this name until July 1942. After that date, the organization's welfare activities were cut back by order of the German authorities, and they mainly consisted of the transferring of medicines to Jews in labor camps until this activity, too, was discontinued in mid-1944. ZSS documentation includes correspondence between the administra...