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M 1
Central
Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated
Jews in the US Zone, Munich. (See following sub groups)
The Central
Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in
the US Zone was founded in December 1945 in Munich. The CHC opened
about 50 branches in the various Displaced Persons (DP) camps in
Germany. Testimonies were taken and questionnaires distributed. Attempts
were also made to secure information about Jewish Communities from
German sources, both by acquiring Nazi documentation and by
distributing questionnaires among the regional councils (Landraete)
in Germany. After three years the CHC was dissolved.
M 1 B
The
office of the Commission.
This sub
group contains the entire correspondence of the CHC with its various
branches in the DP camps, with Jewish leaders and institutions from
different countries, and with German municipal authorities.
The
correspondence deals mostly with gathering material about the
Holocaust, cultural activity in the DP camps and editorial work of
the CHC.
Quantity of
material: 14 folders.
M 1 D
Documentation
of the Dachau Concentration Camp
The CHC
came into possession of a large part of the files from the Dachau
concentration camp.
This
material contains the central card index of the camp, payment cards
and correspondence of the camp administration.
Quantity of
material: 7.5 meters shelving and 25 meters of cards.
M 1 DN
Nazi
documentation- Munich Municipality
Main
language: German
This sub
group is composed of files concerning Jews, which the CNC received
from the Archives of the City of Munich.
These
documents deal with the persecution of Jews during the Nazi period,
mainly in Munich, but also in Frankfurt a/M, Ansbach and a number of
other towns in Germany.
Quantity of
material: 3.5 meter shelving.
M 1 DNA
Nazi
documentation- The German Academy of Science
The CHC
acquired, after World War II some files of the German Academy of
Science in Munich.
These files
contain material for a lexicon of German economists and
industrialists since 1801, excluding Jews.
Quantity of
material: 1.5 meters shelving and 6 albums.
M 1 E
Testimonies
Main
languages: Yiddish, German, Polish.
During the
three years of its existence the CHC gathered about 2,550
testimonies taken from Holocaust survivors coming from different
countries.
The
testimonies deal with the fate of the survivors during the Nazi rule
in their countries of origin.
Quantity of
material: 4.5 meters shelving.
M 1 L
Questionnaires
of the Regional Councils- Landraete.
Main
Language: German
The CHC
distributed questionnaires among the regional and municipal
authorities, mainly in the zone occupied by the Americans in
Germany.
The purpose
of these questionnaires was to gather information about the plight
of Jews under Nazi rule in the various localities, the numbers of
Jewish victims and also about Nazi concentration camps there.
Quantity of
material: 542 questionnaires.
M 1 P
Collection
about displaced persons- DPs
Main
language: Yiddish
The CHC
gathered material about the post-war activities- political, social,
and cultural- of the liberated Jews in the DP camps and in the newly
established Jewish communities in Germany.
Quantity of
material: 1.5 meters shelving.
M 1 PC
Children's
Collection
The CHC
distributed special questionnaires to gather information about the
past of the few children among the Holocaust survivors in the DP
camps. The children were asked about their lives during the Nazi
rule and the fate of their families.
Quantity of
material: 423 questionnaires.
M 1 PF
Collection
about folklore
This sub
group contains a collection of poems, short stories, etc. written
shortly after World War II by Holocaust survivors, concerning the
fate of Jews during the Nazi rule.
Quantity of
material: Less than a meter shelving.
M 1 Q
Historical
questionnaires
Main
language: Yiddish
The CHC
distributed questionnaires among some Holocaust survivors coming
from different countries and towns. The aim was to gather detailed
information about the persecution during Nazi rule.
Quantity of
material: 0.5 meter shelving- 667 questionnaires.
M 1 S
Post war
documentation
The CHC
distributed special statistical questionnaires among a large number
of Holocaust survivors.
The
questionnaires asked for data concerning the estimated number of
Jews before the war in their communities, the number of Jewish
victims, destroyed and robbed Jewish property, slave labor,
concentration camps etc.
Quantity of
material: 2 meters shelving- 7793 questionnaires.
M 2
Archive
of Dr. I. Schwarzbart, member of the Polish National Council in
Exile, London
Main
languages: Polish, English
Dr. Itzhak
(Ignacy) Schwarzbart was for many years an active leader in the
Zionist movement of Poland. In December 1939 he was appointed to the
Polish National Council-in-Exile, and in October 1940, became a
member of the Representation of Polish Jewry.
This record
group consists of Dr. Schwarzbart's correspondence with Polish and
Jewish institutions, protocols, texts of broadcasts he made about
the BBC and material about the plight of the Jews in occupied
Poland, as well as Dr. Schwarzbart's diary.
Quantity of
material: 12 meters shelving.
M 4
Bulletins
of the Rescue Council (Vaad Hahatzalah) of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine.
Main
languages: Hebrew, English
Vaad
Hahatzalah was founded in 1939, shortly after the fall of Poland to
the Germans, when information began arriving in Eretz Israel about
the fate of Polish Jewry.
The
collection consists of mimeographed newsletters, mostly in Hebrew
published and distributed by the Vaad Hahatzalah concerning the
plight of the Jewish population in Europe during World War II. Most
of the bulletins are from 1942-1944.
Quantity of
material: 1.2 meters shelving.
M 5
Documentation
from the Documentation Centre of the Central Union of Jewish
Communities in Bratislava
Main
languages: Slovak, Czech, German
The
Documentation Center in Bratislava was founded following the
liberation of Czechoslovakia, upon the initiative of the Jewish
Agency, the Zionist Federation and the Association of Jewish
Communities in Slovakia.
This record
group includes documents form the archives of government offices and
official organizations of "independent" Slovakia, copies
of documents prepared for the trials of Slovak Fascist leaders and
of Nazi criminals, and material from survivors.
Quantity of
material: 5.5 meters shelving.
M 7
Relico-
Committee for Relief of the War-stricken Jewish Population, World
Jewish Congress, Geneve
M 8
International
Tracing Service, Arolsen
The
International Tracing Service at Arolsen, Germany is the central
archives for documents pertaining to victims of Nazi persecution.
The service was founded at the end of World War II, and is currently
managed by the International Red Cross.
This is Yad
Vashem's largest record group, comprised of 5,457 microfilms -
20,054,278 frames. It includes extensive lists of victims, and
copies of original documentation from various concentration camps.
The records were copied for Yad Vashem in 1956.
M 9
Jewish
Historical Documentation Centre, Linz (S. Wiesenthal Collection)
Main
languages: German, English, Polish
The Jewish
Historical Documentation Center was set up in 1947 by Simon
Wiesenthal, who after his liberation from the Mauthausen
concentration camp, dedicated himself to the tracing of Nazi war
criminals.
Starting in
1958, sections of the archive of the center were transferred to Yad
Vashem, part in the original and part in photocopy.
Quantity of
material: 10 meters shelving.
M 10 AR1
The
Warsaw Ghetto Underground Archives (Ringelblum Archives)- 1
Main
languages: Polish, Yiddish, German
Copies of
documents from the underground archives established by Dr. Emmanuel
Ringelblum in the Warsaw Ghetto under the code name "Oneg
Shabbat". The archives were found in hiding places after the
war.
The
archives include official documents from German, Polish and Jewish
sources, testimonies and monographs written about various subjects
by the inhabitants of the ghetto.
M 10 AR2
The
Warsaw Ghetto Undergroud Archives (Ringelblum Archives) -2
Main
languages: Polish, Yiddish, German
See M.10
AR1
M 11
The
Bialystok Ghetto Underground Archives (Mersik-Tennenbaum Archives)
Quantity of
material: 1 meter shelving.
M 12
Documentation
Center of Contemporary Jewry (Centre de Documentation Juive
Contemporaine) Paris
M 14
Council
for Rescue of the Jewish Population in Poland (Rada Pomocy Zydom)
London
The Council
for the Rescue of the Jewish Population in Poland was established in
May, 1944. Its chairman was Adam Ciolkosz, a Polish Socialist
leader.
The record
group consists mostly of minutes of weekly meetings held in London
by the Council. It deals mainly with the problems of Polish-Jewish
relations during World War II.
M 16
Coordination
Committee of Dutch Jewry in Switzerland (Joodse Coordinate
Commissie, Switzerland)
Main
languages: Dutch, French, German, English
The
Coordination Committee of Dutch Jewry in Switzerland was an
organization of Dutch Jewish emigres (with the help of some gentile
Dutch friends) aiding Dutch Jews in the Netherlands and in German
camps.
This record
group contains correspondence from the years 1943-1945, regarding
activities of the organization in sending parcels to camps,
providing passports to emigrants, search for missing relatives and
assistance to and rescue of Dutch Jewry.
Quantity of
material: 3.5 meter shelving.
M 17
Polish
Jewish Refugee Fund, Geneve
Quantity of
material: Less than 1 meter shelving.
M 18
Joint
Distribution Committee, Central Location Index of the Relatives
Search Department.
M 19
Joodse
Raat, Friesland
The
archives of the Jewish council (Joodse Raad) in Friesland, the
Netherlands. This collection consists mainly of correspondence with
the main Joodse Raad in Amsterdam and with branches in different
communities in Friesland.
Quantity of
material: 1.3 meters shelving.
M 20
Archives
of A. Silberschein, Geneve (Relico)
Main
languages: German, French
The
archives of Dr. Silberschein, who was one of the major leaders of
Labor Zionism in Poland between the two world wars, and was involved
in relief work in Geneva during the war and afterwards. He was
active in the "Relico" relief organization.
This record
group contains correspondence with Jewish organizations and
individual persons in Nazi occupied countries and in the "free
world," as well as with non-Jewish bodies like the
International Red Cross.
Quantity of
material: 11 meters shelving.
M 21
War
Criminals' Section, Legal Department at the Central Committee of
Liberated Jews ( Kriegverbrecher Referat, Juristische Abteilung beim
Central Kommittee der befreiten Juden), Munich
Main
languages: German, Yiddish, Polish
The War
Criminal Section was established shortly after the end of World War
II in the American Occupation Zone. It functioned in cooperation
with the Historical Commission in Munich and other organizations of
Holocaust survivors.
This record
group contains documentation about Nazi crimes and statements of
survivors, taken during the years 1946-1951.
Quantity of
material: 3 meters shelving.
M 22
Belgian
Jewish Council (Comite Juif Belge) , London
The Belgian
Jewish Council was established in 1943 by Mr. Herman Schamissa, in
London, and in 1944 affiliated itself with the World Jewish
Congress.
The records
of the Council contain correspondence with various Jewish
institutions in Belgium, England the US and with the Belgian
Government-in-Exile, about ways of assisting Belgian Jews. It
includes lists of deportees and survivors.
M 23
Aid
Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany (Benno Kaufmann) , Basel
Quantity of
material: 0.3 meters shelving.
M 24
Belgian
Association for Refugees Emigration- "Belhicem"
(Association Belge pour l'Emigration des Refugies)
M 25
The
Hebrew National Movement in France (Mouvement National Hebreu)
Quantity of
material: o.6 meters shelving.
M 26
World
Jewish Congress Relatives Search Deparment, Sockholm
M 27
Public
Record Office, London- Jewish Documentation
Main
languages: English, French
M 28
Joint,
Cracow
Quantity of
material: 0.6 meters shelving.
M 29
Bundesarchiv,
Germany
Quantity of
material: This record group, is mostly onmicrofilm,and additional
material is currently being added to this collection
M 29 FR
Bundesarchiv-
Militaerarchiv, Freiburg
M 30
The Kurt
Grossmann Archives - Claims Against Germany
Quantity of
material: 9 meters shelving.
M 31
Righteous
Among the Nations
Main
languages: Hebrew, English, French, Polish, German
Quantity of
material: This record group currently has over 78 meters of
shelving, and additional material is currently being added to this
collection.
M 32
Compensation
Treuhand - Compensation Claims from Industry
M 33
The
Soviet National Committee for Research into Nazi Crimes (ChGK-
Chrezvychaynaya Gosudarstvennaya Komissia po Rassledovaniyu
Fashistskikh Prestupleniy na Okkupirovannykh Territoriyakh
Sovietskozo Soyuza, GARF, Moscow)
Main
languages: Russian, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian.
The ChGK
was founded in November 1942, and operated until 1946. The main
committee was in Moscow, and it had provincial committees all over
the USSR. It gathered information about the crimes of the Nazis and
the damage done to the Soviet economy.
This record
group contains lists of victims, lists of Nazi criminals and
collaborators, maps, diagrams of mass murder locations, photos of
mass graves, protocols of eye witness testimonies.
Quantity of
material: 11 meters shelving.
M 34
Card
Catalog of Labor Battalions in Hungary
Quantity of
material: 14 meters shelving.
M 35
Jewish
Anti-Fascist Committee (EAK- Evreyskiy Antifashistshiy Komitet,
GARF, Moscow)
Main
language: Russian
Quantity of
material: 1 meter shelving.
M 36
Military
Archive in Prague
Main
language: German, Czech
Quantity of
material: 2.5 meters shelving.
M 37
Documentation
from the Central Archives for Public Organisations in the Ukraine,
Kiev (Gosudarstvenny Arkhiv Obshchesvrennykh Obyedineniy Ukrainy,
Kiev)
Main
Language: Russian
Quantity of
material: 6 meters shelving.
M 38
Institute
for the Documentation of Austrian Resistance (DOW-
Dokumentationsarchiv Des Oesterreichischen Widerstands)
Main
language: German
Quantity of
material: 2 meters shelving.
M 39
The
State Archive in Odessa (Gosudarstrenny Arkhiv Odesskoy Oblasti)
Quantity of
material: 1.6 meters shelving.
M 40
Archives
in Russia
Quantity of
material: Additional material is currently being added to this
collection.
M 40 RCM
Russian
Center for Safegaurding and Use of Modern History Docum(RTSKHIDNI-
Rossiyskiy Tsentr Khraneniya i Izycheniya Dokumentov Noveyshey
Istorii, Moscow)
Files of
the Jewish Antifascist Committee (EAK) 1942-1953
This record
group includes the history and activities of the EAK up to the time
it was disbanded. Includes correspondence with Jews about the
founding of the State of Israel.
Quantity of
material: 0.3 meters shelving.
M 40 MAP
The
Military Archive in Podolsk (Arkhiv Ministerstva Oborony Rossiyskoy
Federacii, Podolsk)
M 40 RGE
Archive
for Economics, Moscow (Arkhiv Narodnogo Khozyaystva, Moscow)
Quantity of
material: 0.3 meters shelving.
M 41
Archives
in Belorus
Main
languages: Russian, Polish, Belorussian, German
Quantity of
material: 15.1 meters shelving. Additional material is currently
being added to this collection.
M 42
Archives
in France
Main
language: French
Quantity of
material: Additional material is currently being added to this
collection.
M 43
Archives
in Latvia
M 44
Archives
in Estonia
M 45
Archives
in Lithuania
Quantity of
material Additional material is currently being added to this
collection.
M 46
The
Council for Religion Matters in the Soviet Union (Sovet Po Delam
Religiy Pri Sovyete Ministrov SSSR), Sovinformburo (Sovetskoye
Informatsionnoye Buro); TASS (Telegrafnoye Agentstvo Sovetskogo
Soyuoza); Tsenzura, Garf, Moscow
Documents
about the religious life of the Jews in the USSR 1943-1953.
Statistics, antisemitism during the war and after the war.
Censorship of literature and press, 1939-1953.
M 47
Foreign
Office - Portugal
Quantity of
material: One container.
M 48
Archives
in Slovakia
Main
language: Slovak
M 49 E
ZIH-
Testimonies
Quantity of
material: 6.3 meters shelving.
M 49 P
ZIH-
Diaries
Quantity of
material: 9.1 meters shelving.
M 50
Documentation
from archives in Sweden
Quantity of
material: 1.7 meters shelving.
M 51
Archive
of the National Union of German Jews (Reichsvereinigung) from the
Bundesarchiv-Abteilungspotsdam
Quantity of
material: 4 meters shelving.
M 52
Documentation
from regional archives in the Ukraine
Quantity of
material Additional material is currently being added to this
collection.
M 53
Documentation
of the Central Archive of the Chief institutions of power (TSDAVA-
Tsentralny Gosudarstrenny Arkhiv Vysshykh Organov Vlasti, Kiev)
Main
languages: Russian, Ukrainian
Quantity of
material: 1.1 meter shelving.
M 54
National
and provincial Archives in Poland
Additional
material is currently being added to this collection.
M 55
National
and Provincial Archives in Germany
Main
language: German
M 55 1
Staatsarchiv
Nuernberg
Main
language: German
M 55 2
Staatsarchiv
Darmstadt
Main
language: German
M 56
Central
British Fund
M 57
The
Cultural Organization of German Jewry, 1933-1939 (Juedischer
Kulturbund)
M 58
Archives
in the Czech Republic
M 59
German
Material from the US Archives in Alexandria, Virginia
M 59 1
Field
Commands: Rear Areas, Occupied
M 59 2
Reichskommissar
Fuer Das Ostland
M 59 3
Field
Commands: Divisions (1-5th)
M 59 4
Field
Commands: Corps
M 59 5
Cultural
and Research Institutions
M 59 6
Reichsfuehrer
SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei
M 59 7
Nazi
Party (NSDAP)
M 59 8
The High
Command of the German Land Forces (Oberkommando Des Heeres- OKH)
M 59 9
Reichsministerium
Fuer die Besetzten Ostgebiete
M 59 10
German
Ministry of Economics (Reichswirtschaftministerium)
M 59 11
Field
Commands: Armies
M 59 12
Fourth
Panzerdivision
M 60
Jewish
Labor Committee
M 61
Official
Archives in Hungary
M 62
Documentation
from provincial archives in Russia
Archives of
Pskov, Tver, Kaluga, Smolensk, 1941-1995
This record
group contains documents from provincial ChGK organizations, memoirs
of local residents, list of Jewish prisoners in the Kaluga ghetto,
personal correspondence of Jewish soldiers, and local antisemitic
newspapers.
Quantity of
material: 0.3 meters shelving.
M 63
Documentation
from provincial archives in Switzerland
M 64
Archives
in Belgium
Main
languages: Flemish, French, German .
Documents
concerning Belgium under German occupation, the persecution of Jews,
and the attitude of the Belgian Government.
M 65
Archives
in Italy
M 66
Archives
in Denmark
M 67
Archives
in Bulgaria
M 68
Archives
in Holland
M 69
Archives
in Austria
M 70
Archives
in Yugoslavia
O 1
K.J.
Ball-Kaduri, Collection of Testimonies and Reports of German Jewry
Main
languages: German, Hebrew
Dr. Kurt
Ball-Kaduri of Berlin settled in Palestine in 1938. With the help of
the "Society for Jewish History and Genealogy" he started,
in 1944, collecting memoirs, testimonies and documents from Jewish
refugees from Germany in Palestine.
This record
group contains mostly memoirs and testimonies about German Jewish
experience under Nazi rule and in the years proceeding Nazi rule.
Many of the memoirs are those of community leaders.
Quantity of
material: 2 meters shelving.
O 2
Wiener
Library Collection of Testimonies, London
Main
languages: German, Hebrew, English, French
Dr. Alfred
Wiener of Berlin left Germany in 1933 and emigrated to Amsterdam. In
1934 he helped set up the "Central Jewish Information
Office" which collected information about Nazi Germany, in
particular relating to Jews.
With the
outbreak of World War II the center moved to London.
This record
group contains documents, publications and reports gathered by the
Center.
Quantity of
material:3.5 meters shelving.
O 3
Testimonies
department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Main
languages: Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Polish, German, English,
Hungarian, Romanian, French, Serb
The
testimony department of Yad Vashem started gathering testimonies in
1954 in Tel Aviv. It is currently located at Yad Vashem in
Jerusalem. The survivors interviewed are recorded on audio or video
tape, and most of the testimonies have been transcribed.
Quantity of
material: Over 83 meters shelving: There are over 9000 testimonies
in this record group, and the number continues to grow.
O 4
Documentation
about Trials of war Criminals
Main
languages: German, English, Hebrew
This record
group consists of lists of Nazi war criminals and testimonies of
Holocaust survivors which were taken in law courts in Israel at the
request of courts abroad in connection with the prosecution of war
criminal.
This record
group also includes reports about investigations by the Israel
Police department, war criminals section.
Quantity of
material: 17 meters shelving.
O 5
T.
Friedmann Collection (Juedische Historische Dokumentation), Vienna
Main
languages: Hungarian, Polish
The
Juedische Historische Dokumentation, founded in mid 1946 in Vienna,
collected a large quantity of material over a number of years for
use in the prosecution of Nazi war criminals. The institution was
transferred to Haifa after 1948.
The record
group includes eye witness testimony, survivors statements and
correspondence.
Quantity of
material: 2.1 meters shelving.
O 6
Collection
about Poland
Main
languages: Polish, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, English
This record
group contains material from various sources about the Holocaust of
Polish Jewry.
Quantity of
material: 8.5 meters shelving.
O 7 (
Collection
about Czechoslovakia
(O.7 CZ and
O.7 SL)
Main
languages: German, Czech, Slovak
This
collection includes various materials which reached the Yad Vashem
Archives about Czechoslovakia. It is currently divided into two sub
groups, one relating to the Czech Republic (O.7 CZ) and one relating
to Slovakia (0.7 SL).
Quantity of
material: O.7 CZ- 13.6 meters shelving. O.7 SL- 0.5 meters shelving.
O 8
Collection
about Germany
Main
languages: German, English
This
collection includes various materials, from various sources, about
the destruction of German Jewry.
Among other
materials, this collection includes files from the Reichsvertretung
organization, lists of deportees, survivors and victims.
Quantity of
material: 14 meters shelving.
O 9
Collection
about France
Main
languages: French, German
This record
group contains material from various sources about the Holocaust of
French Jewry.
Quantity of
material: 8.5 meters shelving.
O 10
Collection
about Yugoslavia
Main
languages: Serbo-Croat, German
This
collection is made up of materials received from the Association of
Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia and documentation from private
sources.
Quantity of
material: 9 meters shelving.
O 11
Collection
about Rumania
Main
languages: Romanian, German, French, English
This record
group contains material from various sources about the Holocaust of
Romanian Jewry
Quantity of
material:6.4 meters shelving.
O 12
Testimonies
of Polish Refugees (I. Perelman Collection)
This
collection consists of personal testimonies taken in Eretz Israel
(1942-1943) from refugees and Palestinian Jews, who arrived from
Poland as a result of the exchange of population agreement.
Quantity of
material: 0.3 meters shelving.
O 13
Collection
about Bulgaria
Quantity of
material: 0.8 meters shelving.
O 15
Collection
about Hungary ("Joint" and Jewish Agency, Budapest)
Main
languages: Hungarian, German
Collection
about Hungarian Jewry.
O 15 E
Collection
about Hungary- Testimonies
This
collection comprises 3534 statements recorded by DEGOB, a special
documentation department set up by the Jewish Agency in conjunction
with the Joint.
Quantity of
material:2.2 meters shelving.
O 15 H
Collection
about Hungary- General
Statements
by survivors from Hungary which were recorded immediately after the
liberation. The record group also includes protocols of Nazi
activities in Hungary, material about forced labor camps, war
criminals and war crime trials.
Quantity of
material: 3.5 meters shelving.
O 17
YIVO
Testimonies Collection
Main
language: Yiddish.
Quantity of
material: 0.5 meters shelving.
O 18
Yitzhak
Stone Collection of NS Documents
Main
languages: English, German
Yitzhak
Stone was senior aid to the American prosecutor in the Nazi War
Crimes Trials at NueNberg.
This record
group consists of photocopies of hundreds of German documents used
at the trials.
Quantity of
material:1.2 meters shelving.
O 19
Yad
Vashem Manuscript Collection
Main
languages: Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian.
Quantity of
material:2.7 meters shelving.
O 20
M.
Lowenthal Collection (Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany,
Headquarters of the US-Forces, US Occupation Zone in Germany)
Quantity of
material: 0.2 meters shelving.
O 21
M.
Weichert Collection about Jewish Welfare in the Generalgouvernement
Dr.
Weichert lived and worked in Warsaw as a journalist . From 1940-1942
he headed the JSS (Juedische Soziale Selbshilfe - Jewish Social Self
Help) and from 1942-1944 he headed the same organization under Nazi
auspices under the name JUS.
This record
group contains documents, testimonies and newspaper clippings
transferred in 1958 from the private files of Dr. Weichert.
Quantity of
material:1.3 meters shelving.
O 22
G.
Mecker, "Forwards" Collection
G. Mecker
was one of the editors of the New York daily Yiddish newspaper,
"The Forwards"
This record
group contains testimonies, letters to the editor and newspaper
clippings relating to Holocaust issues from 1945-1947.
O 23
G.
Gilbert, Nuremberg Collection
Dr. Gilbert
was the prison psychologist attached to the war crimes trials at
Nuernberg. This collection includes essays and manuscripts written
by high Nazi officials while they were in the Nuernberg Jail.
Quantity of
material:0.7 meters shelving.
O 24
R.
Strecker Collection of Documents about Nazi Judges and Nazi Justice
(Ungesuehnte Nazijustiz)
Quantity of
material: Microfilms- 5450 frames.
O 25
Documentation
about the Polish Governement in Exile in London
Main
languages: Polish, English, Yiddish
Includes,
among otheritems, material from the following archives-The Polish
Underground Movement 1939-1945 Study Trust. -Polish Institute and
Sikorski Museum -Archiwum Zakladu Historii Partii Przy K.C. PZPR W
Warszawie -M. Silberberg Collection.
Quantity of
material: 3.5 meters shelving.
O 26
Collection
about North Africa
Quantity of
material: 0.2 meters shelving.
O 27
Collection
about Denmark
Main
languages: German, Danish, Swedish
This record
group contains various documents, among them testimonies and
newspaper clippings, about the Danish underground and its effort to
save Danish Jews.
Quantity of
material: 1.3 meters shelving.
O 28
Arvid
Elstoft Collection about the underground movement in Denmark
Quantity of
material: 0.7 meters shelving.
O 29
Collection
about Belgium
Main
languages: French, German.
Quantity of
material: 1.4 meters shelving.
O 29 1
Documents
from archives in various countries about the destruction of the
Belgian Jews
Quantity of
material: 2.2 meters shelving.
O 29 2
Jewish
Resistance, Belgium- The A. Weber Collection (The Poalei Zion Left
Party in Belgium)
Quantity of
material: 0.2 meters shelving.
O 30
Collection
about Austria
Main
language: German.
This record
group consists of various documents, mainly from Jewish sources
about the destruction of Austrian Jewry. Included are reports and
correspondence of the Jewish community of Vienna and other towns in
Austria.
Quantity of
material:1.2 meters shelving.
O 31
Collection
about Italy
Main
language: Italian.
Quantity of
material: 1.5 meters shelving.
O 32
Collection
about the Soviet Union
Main
languages: Russian, German.
O 33
Collection
of Various Testimonies, Diaries and Memoirs
Main
languages: Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish, German, Polish, English,
French, Hungarian, Romanian
This
collection consists of miscellaneous statements containing, in the
main, written testimonies, memoirs and diaries handed over by
private individuals to Yad Vashem since its creation. Among them the
diary of Adam Czerniakow, the chairman of the Judenrat in the Warsaw
ghetto.
Quantity of
material: 37 meters shelving.
O 33 C
Recorded
Testimonies
This record
group contains the audio tapes of testimonies, most of which have
been transcribed and placed in the O.3 record group.
O 34
N.
Zonabend Collection about the Lodz Ghetto
Main
languages: German, Yiddish, Polish
The
Zonabend Collection was compiled during the war by N. Zonabend
illegally, while working in a gang brought by the Nazi's to clean up
the ruble after the destruction of the ghetto. He successfully
hidden until after the war. It includes the collection of the
Altestenrat (Committee of Elders) of the Lodz ghetto.
This record
group includes original posters-directives of the Altestenrat, and
reports in Yiddish about conditions in the ghetto.
Most of
this collection consists of copies of originals in the YIVO archive
in New York.
O 35
The
Heidingsfeld Collection
Main
languages: German, French.
Quantity of
material:o.1 meters shelving.
O 36
Prof. D.
Boder, Collection of Testimonies
This record
group is a collection of 70 interviews with displaced persons, both
Jewish and non-Jewish, by Dr. Boder, who was at that time professor
of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
The
testimonies deal mainly with events in ghettos and Nazi camps during
the Holocaust period.
Quantity of
material: 2 meters shelving.
O 37
Displaced
Persons Collection (Sheerit Hapletah)
Main
languages: German, English, Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish.
Quantity of
material: 9.5 meters shelving.
O 37 1
Sheerit
Hapletah- list of Survivors.
Quantity of
material: 4.5 meters shelving.
O 38
Collection
of Press Cuttings
O 39
Collection
of memoirs written for the Yad Vashem Competition.
The Yad
Vashem executive in 1957 to held an essay competition in
whichentrants were to write about their personal experiences during
the Holocaust.
This record
group includes 200 essays.
Quantity of
material: 1.6 meters shelving.
O 40
Collection
about Holland
Quantity of
material: 2.3 meters shelving.
O 41
Register
of Holocaust Victims
O 41 1
Card
Catalog of Prisoners from the Stutthof Camp
O 42
S.
Brueckheimer Collection about the November Pogrom 1938 in Germany
("Kristallnacht")
This record
group consists of information about the various communities which
suffered during the November Pogrom,(Kristallnacht).
Quantity of
material: 0.3 meters shelving.
O 43
Ilyinski
Collection about Jews in the Arms Industry of the USSR
O 45
The
Jewish State Museum (Statni Zidovske Museum) Prague
O 48
Collection
of miscellaneous documents
O 49
Collection
of maps
O 50
Collection
of public announcements and posters
O 51
Nazi
documentation
Quantity of
material: 9.5 meters shelving.
O 51 OSO
Copies
from the OSOBI Archive in Moscow
Quantity of
material: 4 meters shelving.
O 52
Jewish
German Community Collection (Pinkas Kehillot Germania)
O 53
Ludwigsburg,
USSR Collection
This is a
photostatedcollection of documents received primarily from the
Central Office in Ludwigsburg (Zentrale Stelle de
Landesjustizverwaltungen).
The
documentation in this record group deals with Nazi crimes in the
USSR, Poland Czechoslovakia.
Quantity of
material: 8.5 meters shelving.
O 54
The
Jewish Press Agency in Switzerland- JUNA (Juedische
Nachrichten-Presseagentur des Schweizerischen Israelitischen
Gemeindebundes)
The JUNA
(Juedische Nachrichten-Presseagentur) was set up by the Swiss Jewish
community in an effort to counteract antisemitic and pro-Nazi
activity in Switzerland.
This record
group consists of newspaper clippings, mainly about the condition of
the Jewish people in Nazi occupied Europe.
O 55
The
Warsaw Ghetto Archives of Alexander B. Bernfes
Quantity of
material: 2.2 meters shelving.
O 56
Jewish
Rumanian Communities Collection
Quantity of
material: 0.5 meters shelving.
O 57
Jewish
Lithuanian Communities Collection
O 58
Questionnaires
of Fighters Against the Nazis
Quantity of
material: 2 meters shelving.
O 59
Collection
of testimonies and documents about the participation of Czechoslovak
Jewry in the war against Nazi-Germany
In 1969 the
Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem started a project about Czechoslovak Jewry's resistance
against the Germans during World War II. 100 interviews were
recorded and transcribed by Erich Kulka.
These
interviews include statements of former Jews who fought in the
Czechoslovak army, in the Czechoslovak Air Force in Great Britain,
in Soviet partisan groups, in the French Foreign Legion as well as
those who acted in the Slovak National Uprising.
Quantity of
material: 0.5 meters shelving.
O 60
Anti-Jewish
Legislation (World Jewish Congress)
Quantity of
material: 3.2 meters shelving.
O 61
Nehemia
Robinson/G. Stork Collection about Stockholm
Quantity of
material:1.8 meters shelving.
O 62
Borwicz
Collection
Quantity of
material: 1.6 meters shelving.
O 63 LEV
The
Gaston Levy Collection about reparations
O 63 LIC
The
Lichtenstein Collection about reparations for Jews of Danzig
O 63 SHI
The
Shilo Collection about reparations
O 64 1
Theresienstadt
Collection
O 64
The
Archives of the Theresienstadt Memorial Site
This
collection mainly includes the Zeev Shek Collection and the Weiss
Collection.
Quantity of
material: 5.6 meters shelving.
O 65
The
Yaacov Robinson Collection
O 66
Neo-Nazi
Documentation
Quantity of
material Additional material is currently being added to this
collection.
O 67
Documentation
from the Beit Berl Archives
Quantity of
material: 0.2 meters shelving.
O 68
Personal
Files of SS Members from the Berlin Document Center
Quantity of
material: 11 meters shelving.
O 69
Testimonies
from the Gathering of Holocaust Survivors held in 1991
Quantity of
material: 1 meter shelving of transcripts plus original audiotapes.
O 70
Rosensaft
Bergen Belsen Collection
O 71
Kounichowsky
Collection of Testimonies from Lithuania
Quantity of
material: 1.7 meters shelving.
O 72
Kaufmann
Collection of Documentation about Communities in Germany
Quantity of
material: 1 meter shelving.
O 73
Collection
of Exhibits
O 73 1
Collection
of Stamps
O 74
Collection
about Sweden
Quantity of
material: Currently 1 meter shelving. Additional material is
currently being added to this collection.
O 75
Letters
and Postcards
O 76
Poems,
Plays and Stories
O 76 1
The
Jewish Cultural Cabinet next to the Academy for Sciences in the
Ukraine
O 77
Studies,
articles and student papers
O 78
Prof.
Irene Eber Collection about the fate of Jews in China
O 79
Collection
about the Teheran Children Affair
O 80
Westermann
Collection about Latvian Jewry
Quantity of
material: 0.3 meters shelving.
O 81
Kulka-Hildesheimer
(SKH) Collection
O 82
Collection
about the Baltic Countries
Quantity of
material: 0.5 meters shelving.
P 1
Recha
Freier Archive(Founder of Youth Aliya, Germany)
Recha
Freier was the founder of Youth Aliya, an organization for the
resettlement of young Jewish people in Palestine.
This record
group consists of Recha Freier's personal files, including
correspondence with various world organizations including Hadassa of
the USA, dealing mainly with attempts to rescue Jewish children
during the Holocaust.
Quantity of
material: 0.2 meters shelving.
P 2
Hannah
Szenes Archive
Quantity of
material: 0.5 meters shelving.
P 3
Yitzhak
Weisman Archive(Representative of the W.J.C. in Lisbon, Consul
Guatemala in Israel)
Main
language: Hebrew
Yitzhak
Weisman was the representative of the World Jewish Congress in
Lisbon. He was active in aid to refugees and rescue operations.
This record
group consist of the correspondence of Mr. Weisman from Portugal
with the World Jewish Congress office in New York, with diplomatic
representatives in Portugal and with private individuals and other
organizations.
Quantity of
material: 0.4 meters shelving.
P 4
A.
Yerushalmi, Documentation about Siauliai, Lithuania
This record
group consists of personal material of Eliezer Yerushalmi about
Siauliai, including his diary, memoirs, his writings and testimonies
of his wife.
Quantity of
material: 1 meter shelving.
P 5
W.
Jasny, Documentation about Lodz, Poland
Wolf Jasny,
an author by profession, committed his life to writing a history of
the Jews of Lodz. This record group consists of material from his
personal archives, relating mostly to the Lodz ghetto.
Quantity of
material: 1 meter shelving.
P 6
W.
Filderman Archive (Chairman, Union of Jewish Communities in Rumania)
Main
languages: Romanian, French, English, German
Dr. Wilhelm
Filderman was the President of the Association of Jewish Communities
in Romania during the years 1924-1941 and 1944-1947. He was also
head of the JDC in Romania and a member of the Romanian Parliament,
as well as other public offices.
This record
group is Dr. Filderman's personal archives. It includes
correspondence with Romanian authorities and Jewish institutions.
Quantity of
material: 6.4 meters shelving.
P 7
Mark
Yarblum Archive(Underground Leader, France)
Main
languages: French, English, German
Mark
Jarblum was one of the leaders of the Poalei Zion movement in
Poland, of the Federation des Societes Juives, and of the Jewish
underground in France during World War II.
This record
group, contains a bibliographical sketch, his writing, information
about Jewish organizations in France, the persecution of the Jews,
material about French resistance, information about post war
matters, correspondence and lists of deportees.
Quantity of
material: 1.6 meters shelving.
P 8
J.
Tennenbaum Archive(Chairman, World Congress of Polish Jewry)
P 9
Siegfried
Jaegendorf Archive (Director of Turnatoria plants in Mogilev
Podolski, Transnistria)
Main
languages: German, Romanian.
Quantity of
material: 0.7 meter shelving.
P 10
Dr. Mark
Dworzecki Archive
Main
languages: Hebrew, French, Yiddish, German, English.
P 11
Moshe
Keller Collection about the Finali Children
Main
languages: French, Yiddish, English.
Quantity of
material: 1.1 meter shelving.
P 12
Chaim
Pazner Archives
Main
languages: German, English, Hebrew, French.
Quantity of
material: 3.2 meters shelving.
P 13
Benjamin
Sagalowitz Archive
Main
languages: German, French.
Quantity of
material: 5.7 meters shelving.
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