Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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File Number : 3571

Type of Material : List of Underground Members, Legal Documentation, Names

Language : Russian

Survey reports prepared by underground members and partisans, regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in Belorussia and Ukraine, lists of partisans active in the Starobin district and Polesye region, and a list of Communists from the Krupki district, and others, 1941-1942 - Survey reports regarding the murder of Jews in Stolin, Gorodnoye, and Yelsk, 1941; Jews in Stolin receive an order regarding the wearing of a yellow badge; establishment of ghettos in the Gomel region, 1941; detention and the transfer of Jews to forced labor in Rechitsa, Kalinkovichi, Gomel, Korma, and Chechersk, 1941; detention of...

File Number : 3465

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Russian

War diary of the Reichsfuehrer SS commanding staff (Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS), activity reports by the 1. and 2. SS Infantry Brigades, the 1. SS Cavalry Brigade and SS Sonderkommandos regarding partisan fighting and extermination of Jews, including deportees from the Reich, in Belorussia and northern Ukraine, 1941 - 1943 War diary of the perforated baton Reichsfuehrer SS and activity reports by members of the 1. and 2. SS-Inf.-Brigarde, the 1. SS-Kav.-Brigade and Sonderkommandos of the SS published by Europa Verlag in 1965 (pp.2-28) The introduction of the document mentions the following massacres...

File Number : 185

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Report

Language : German

To be translated

File Number : 2870

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Photograph

Language : Russian

To be translated

File Number : 2407

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Nina Plotnitzka-Rosman and her mother Mikhla Rosman regarding the fate of the Jews of Kowel until their hiding during the Workers' Ghetto Aktion in August 1942

- Jews of Kowel before the Nazi occupation; mass escape eastward prior to the German entry; departure of the Soviet forces from Kowel, May 1941; cruelty and Aktionen in Kowel, with the cooperation of Poles and Ukrainians; looting, demands for contributions, kidnapping of wealthy Jews, abuse of religious Jews; Commissar Kampeka, Entesky, and others – war criminals; yellow badge; work permits as protection against kidnappings; members of the Judenrat: Moshe Perl, Shlomo Mandel, Dr. Widerer, Lipschitz, Pomerantz; attempts to cancel decrees by paying contributions; forced labor for ages 14 and up; regional...

File Number : 114

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Letter written in 1946, including documentation regarding the massacre in Ponary based on the words of Rachel Berlin; postcards and letters sent to Nachama (Ginzburg) Stropinski by her family in Soly during 1939-1940, and by her sister after the war; memoirs of Nachama (Ginzburg) Stropinski, regarding her experiences in Soly and in Eretz Israel - Letter sent to Nachama (Ginzburg) by Meir (last name not indicated) after his visit in Soly on 27/03/1946, including documentation regarding the destruction of the Jews of Soly in Ponary, based on the words of a survivor of the massacre, Rachel Rivka Berlin: News...

File Number : 4416

Type of Material : Postcard, Personal Documents, Memoirs, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Memoirs of Yaffa Sheindl (Falchuk) Plotnik, born in Lubieszów in 1918, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust period; her diary, 1945; sections of the diary of Anni Hezkelson, from Riga, 1934-1939; and the diary of a Jewish partisan, 1942-1943 - “Lubieszów 1939-1944”: copy of the memoirs of Sheindl Falchuk, later Yaffa Plotnik, regarding her and her family members’ experiences during the Holocaust period, written in Cyprus, apparently during 1947-1948. The memoirs are preserved in the Yad Vashem database; see item O.3/2927; - “Diary of wandering roads to Eretz Israel”: Sections (typewritten) of...

File Number : 10276

Type of Material : Article, Diary, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Memoirs of Dina Matlis regarding her family's escape from Romania and their stay in Ukraine and Bukhara, and memoirs of Joseph Matlis regarding his experiences in Olyka and Siberia

Memoirs of Dina Matlis regarding her family's escape from Romania and their stay in Ukraine and Bukhara, and memoirs of Joseph Matlis regarding his experiences in Olyka and Siberia Roots paper written by Ahuva Griner regarding the memoirs of her grandmother and grandfather Dina and Joseph Matlis during the Holocaust. She interviewed them in 1980-1981: - memoirs of Dina Matlis (maiden name: Rot), born in Romania in 1928, regarding her family's experiences in the Holocaust: The escape of Dina's family towards Russia in 1941 following the approach of the Germans; her family's arrival at the border and train...

File Number : 8899

Type of Material : Memoirs, Letter

Language : Hebrew

"The Fascist Ghetto", a play written in by Nicolay Vavrisevich (a Righteous Among the Nations) in 1944 describing Jewish life in the Vladimir Volinski Ghetto and the murder of the Jews in a field near Piatydnyi in 1942

File Number : 8812

Type of Material : Play

Language : Russian