Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

652 Results

Letters and postcards received by Hermann Helfgott in a POW camp in Germany from his family members and friends in Serbia, Hungary and other places, 1941-1944, a letter written by his future wife Malvine Bodner, including information regarding her family's experiences, 09/12/1946, and personal and official documentation regarding Hermann Helfgott and the Bodner family - Letters and postcards received by Hermann Helfgott in a POW camp in Germany (he served in the Yugoslavian Army and was taken captive by the Germans in 1941) from his family members and friends in Vrsac, Budapest, Dragutinovo, Kragujevac,...

File Number : 2223

Type of Material : Letter, Official Documentation, Postcard, Personal Documents

Language : Serbian, Hebrew, Polish, English, German

Video including a musical performance in memory of [the people who perished during] the Holocaust, held by young people in Ashdod, 2011

Type of Material : Video

Language : Hebrew

Letters from Leiser and Rosa Hochmann from Mannheim and the Gurs camp to their children in Eretz Israel and documentation regarding the fate of the Jews of Mannheim during the war, 1938-2003

Letters from Leiser and Rosa Hochmann from Mannheim and the Gurs camp to their children in Eretz Israel and documentation regarding the fate of the Jews of Mannheim during the war, 1938-2003 - Letters from Leiser and Rosa Hochmann from Mannheim to their children in Eretz Israel; the letters tell of their difficult situation and the arrangements for a kitchen for 100 Jews by a Jew; 31 July 1938, 21 July 1939 and 17 September 1939; - Letter sent from Gurs with notification that Perl Safrin (Eliyahu's aunt) has died and her children are now orphans, 12 November 1940; - Postcard from Leiser Hochmann in...

File Number : 2086

Type of Material : Speech, Postcard, Newspaper Clippings, Letter, Article, Documentary, Red Cross Letter, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German

Invitation to the annual National Conference of Former Residents of Wegrow in Eretz Israel, to be held 21 July 1945, sent to Yoel Grinberg

Invitation to the annual National Conference of Former Residents of Wegrow in Eretz Israel, to be held 21 July 1945, sent to Yoel Grinberg Note: Yoel Grinberg was born in Wegrow in 1920. On Yom Kippur, 21 September 1942, the Jews of the village were taken out of the synagogue and Frida, Yoel Grinberg's mother, was shot. Yoel escaped from Poland and joined Anders Army in 1939; he made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1942, enlisted in the Jewish Brigade and served in Italy. His four brothers perished and he was the sole survivor of his family. Yoel Grinberg died in 1986.

File Number : 329

Type of Material : Invitation

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the experiences of the Jewish community in Dubossary during World War II; documents dated, 1988-1990

Documentation regarding the experiences of the Jewish community in Dubossary during World War II; documents dated, 1988-1990 Included in the file: - List of residents of Dubossary and the Dubossary vicinity who were murdered by the Nazis, 1941; list prepared by the team established to help the restoration of the gravestone in memory of the victims of the Holocaust in Dubossary; - List of residents of Dubossary who participated in the mass murders of the local Jews; investigation reports regarding the war crimes perpetrated by Nazi war criminals and their collaborators; testimony of Nikolay Khvorostyan,...

File Number : 1448

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Investigation Reports, List of Murdered Jews, Newspaper Clippings, Testimony, Official Documentation, List of Collaborators

Language : Russian

Notebook of Litzi Weigl, from Prague, Czechoslovakia, who made aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940

Notebook of Litzi Weigl, from Prague, Czechoslovakia, who made aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940 Poems, excerpts from a text regarding the Holocaust, Jewish National Fund (JNF) placard regarding commemoration of the people who perished, photographs, copies of drawings from Theresienstadt, and other material; Comments by the submitter of the material: The notebook was found among the belongings of Litzi Weigl (the mother of Danny Weigl), who made aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Hilda", 1940.

File Number : 440

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Prayer, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Drawing, Photograph, Poster

Language : Czech

Postcard from Jankelis Mileris (Yaakov Miler) of Aukstadvaris to his daughter Osnat Miler in Eretz Israel, 30 May 1941; letters from Holocaust survivor Jacob Sapirstein in Italy; "Megillat HaShmada" (Scroll of Destruction) including the names of the Jews from Aukstadvaris that perished in the Holocaust, 1946 - Translation of the postcard into Hebrew; - Jacob Sapirstein's letters including the experiences of the [Jews] from Aukstadvaris and an attempt to [locate?] those who were originally from Aukstadvaris in Eretz Israel and in the Diaspora in order to establish a memorial to those who perished from the...

File Number : 1946

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, List of Murdered Jews, Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Yizkor book of the Kremenets Jewish community, including the names of Jews who perished during the Holocaust

File Number : 1416

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews, Yizkor Book

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Letters written to Ilya Ehrenburg by L. I. Mirotin, and a reply by the Regional Committee of Vitebsk, regarding the establishment of a monument and the fencing in of the site of the mass murder of the Jews in Smolyany Letters to Ilya Ehrenburg by L. I. Mirotin, from Smolyany, in which he tells about his draft into the Red Army in 1941; his family did not succeed in leaving and they remained in Smolyany; establishment of a ghetto in Smolyany; all of the Jewish residents worked in forced labor and received food rations, until Pesach 1942; on the last day of Pesach (05 April 1942), all of the Jews were executed...

File Number : 139

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Letters from Gennadiy Grabovski, a Red Army officer, to his family members, and letters from friends in his brigade regarding the circumstances of his death and other matters, 1941-2010

Letters from Gennadiy Grabovski, a Red Army officer, to his family members, and letters from friends in his brigade regarding the circumstances of his death and other matters, 1941-2010 Letters from Gennadiy Grabovski, a Red Army officer, born in Kremenchug, Ukraine, 1921, to his family members in Kazakhstan, 28 November 1941-28 June 1942; The file includes: - Letter of testimony by his sister, Frida Beylinson, regarding the experiences of Gennadiy Grabovski and his place of burial; - Letters of testimony from friends of Gennadiy Grabovski in the tank brigade: - Letters of testimony from Imma...

File Number : 1796

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Letter, Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Items per page:

1 – 10 of 652