P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002 Prof. Leni Yahil, the historian, donated the collection to Yad Vashem on 30 December 2004; Sarit Shavit, the researcher, submitted additional material (from File 36 on) to Yad Vashem in October 2009. The collection includes documentation, newspaper clippings, lists, articles, booklets, doctoral dissertations, notes, Leni Yahil's correspondence and more. The documentation relates to the following subjects: the Jews of Denmark during the Holocaust; the Jews of Germany from the 1930s until the Holocaust; the Jews of Sweden, Norway and Finland during the Holocaust; Jewish communities in Western, Central and Eastern Europe between two world wars and during the Holocaust; the steps leading up to the Final Solution; ghettos; concentration and extermination camps and other topics. There is also correspondence between Prof. Yahil and various personages and researchers from the 1940s to the early 21st century. There are also files in the collection containing material collected by Prof. Yahil regarding her maternal grandfather, James Simon, one of the leaders of German Jewry from the late 19th century to the early 20th century, and the founder of the Hilfsverein der deutsche Juden ((Aid Association of German Jews) relief organization.