Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

Memoirs of Mikhail Munish Spivak, born in Zhmerinka, Ukraine in 1929, regarding his experiences in the Zhmerinka Ghetto Life before the war; conscription of his father into the Red Army at the beginning of the war; the German occupation on 17 July 1941; expulsion of the Jews to the ghetto; betrayal of Anya, a Jewish woman, by her Ukrainian husband; beating of his mother by Gershman, the head of the Judenrat; smuggling from the ghetto; work outside the ghetto; the liberation of Zhmerinka on 18 March 1944; move to Mikhaylovka; antisemitism; establishment of the Zionist youth organization Einikeit in December...

File Number : 5304

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Sofiya Anvayer, born in Moscow, Russia, regarding her experiences in Vyazma POW camp, Smolensk camp, in Elbing, Stutthof camps and more

Memoirs of Sofiya Anvayer, born in Moscow, Russia, regarding her experiences in Vyazma POW camp, Smolensk camp, in Elbing, Stutthof camps and more Life in Vyazma POW camp in October-November 1941; selection; hiding her Jewish origin; work in a camp hospital; outbreak of a typhus epidemic; contracting typhus and life in a hospital; transfer to Smolensk in March 1942; life in the camp; work in a hospital; transfer to forced labor in Germany; life at Elbing camp; working in a factory; helping the underground; sabotage at a factory; missions for the underground in Neuteich; work in a camp hospital; arrest by the...

File Number : 4339

Type of Material : Memoirs, Article

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Aron Bitter, born in Popelniki, Poland in 1918, regarding his experiences in the Popelniki and Snyatin Ghettos, in Sambor, Rajtarowice, Biskowice and more

Memoirs of Aron Bitter, born in Popelniki, Poland in 1918, regarding his experiences in the Popelniki and Snyatin Ghettos, in Sambor, Rajtarowice, Biskowice and more Life before the war; German occupation in June 1941; transfer to forced labor; establishment of a ghetto; transfer of Jews unfit for work to Yanovskiy and their murder, including Abram's parents and siblings; deportation to the Snyatin Ghetto in September 1942; transfer to Auschwitz; escape from the train; escaping to different places and work in the Tarnopol district; hiding his Jewish origin; forging a Ukrainian birth certificate with the help...

File Number : 3612

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Ukrainian

Documentation from the Eesti Rahvusarhiiv (National Archives of Estonia), Estonia, 1918-1940

Documentation from the Eesti Rahvusarhiiv (National Archives of Estonia), Estonia, 1918-1940 The archive was established in 1921, and operated during the period of the Soviet and German occupation. The archive regained its independence in the early 1990s.The National Archives of Estonia became active on 01 January 1999. In 2017, Yad Vashem Archives received documentation from the collection of the Committee for the Nationalization of Jewish Factories in Estonia, which operated in 1940. In the collection: Personal files from notary offices regarding the recognition of murdered Jews, and certificates...

Type of Material : Lists, List, Legal Documentation

Language : Estonian

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Documentation from the Amt Illingen (Regional Authority of Illingen) Documentation from the Merzig municipality in the Saar region Documentation from the Kultusministerium (Ministry of Religions and Education) of the Saar region

Type of Material : Record of Survivors, Record of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation from the National Archives of Estonia from 1918-1960

Documentation from the National Archives of Estonia from 1918-1960. Since spring 2016, the Estonian State Archives and the Estonian History Archives have been known simply as the National Archives of Estonia. Established in 1921 with the aim of preserving documents from active institutions of the young republic, the State Archives functioned throughout both the Soviet and the German occupations. After the Second World War it was named Central State Archives of the October Revolution and Socialist Construction of Soviet Estonia (Eesti NSV Oktoobrirevolutsiooni ja Sotsialistliku Ülesehituse Riiklik Keskarhiiv...

Type of Material : החלטה, Certification, Marriage Certificate, Names, List of Names, Declaration of Personal Wealth, Names of Evacuees, רשימת שמות לחיפוש קרובים, Declaration of Ownership, Refund, Application, List of Jewish Homeowners

Language : Estonian, Russian

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