Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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Diagram of Borodino, in the Cetatea Alba area, including names of local residents and their place of residence and a map of German settlements in the Bessarabia area, 1940

Diagram of Borodino, in the Cetatea Alba area, including names of local residents and their place of residence and a map of German settlements in the Bessarabia area, 1940 The file includes: - Marriage certificate of Eduard Hein, born in 1914, and Ella Rosa Maria (Huschmann) Hein, born in 1919, issued in Goda, 21 August 1956.

File Number : 1422

Type of Material : Diagram, Map, Personal Documents, List of Residents

Language : German

Testimony of Shiye Zelig Litvak, born in Radom, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Radom Ghetto, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shiye Zelig Litvak, born in Radom, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Radom Ghetto, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen and other camps Life before the war; relations with the non-Jewish populartion; learns in a "heder"; Beitar activities. German occupation, 1939; deportation to the Radom Ghetto, 1942; ghetto life including learning German and labor as a courier and translator; deportation to Treblinka; camp life including living in stables and labor as a courier and translator; transfer to Auschwitz; transfer to Oranienburg; transfer to Sachsenhausen; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Official documentation regarding the establishment of the head office for racial matters and settlement (SS-Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt), a list of the branches of the office and their personnel, and the completion of the campaign to settle Germans east of the Dnieper River, 1943-1944

File Number : 352

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Original Document

Language : English, German

To be translated

Records of the Institut fuer Deutsche Ostarbeit, Krakow, 1940-1944. Contains information about German annexation of Polish land through the years; German colonization in Poland and Eastern Europe; "race science;" population statistics for Krakow, Poland, through the years; birth statistics for several Polish towns and villages; activities of Einsatzgruppen; statistics for Catholic churches in Krakow area; and the history of the Polish nobility from ca. 1300 to ca. 1600.

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Statistical Data

Language : Polish, German

Selmar Spier: Collection of personal documents

Selmar Spier: Collection of personal documents. Civil status certificates, documents regarding his general and professional education and carrer in pre-war Germany, in palestine and Israel, and in post-war Germany, and documents pertaining to property restitution and compensation claims.

File Number : 1216

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter(s)

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Marlene Spier: Correspondence; letters to her husband Selmar Spier, plus some other private letters 1930 - 1962

Marlene Spier: Correspondece; letters to her husband Selmar, plus some other private letters 1930 - 1962. The correspondence between Marlene and Selmar is extraordinarily comprehensive as they usually wrote several times a week whenever they were separated, if only for a short time. The letters give a vast overview of their private life and professional activities.

File Number : 1215

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter(s)

Language : German

Selmar Spier: Correspondence; letters to his wife Marlene, plus some other private letters 1930 - 1962

Selmar Spier: Correspondence; letters to his wife Marlene, plus some other private letters 1930 - 1962. The correspondence between Marlene and Selmar is extraordinarily comprehensive as they usually wrote several times a week whenever they were separated, if only for a short time. The letters give a vast overview of their private life and professional activities.

File Number : 1214

Type of Material : Letter(s), Postcard

Language : Italian, English, German

Selmar Spier: Diaries 1911 - 1962

Selmar Spier: Diaries 1911 - 1962 Selmar Spier, born March 08, 1893 in Frankfurt / Main, Germany, deceased November 11, 1962 in Ramot Hashavim, Israel. He grew up in Frankfurt / Main, studied jurisprudence and became a lawyer. In 1936, he emigrated to Palestine together with his wife Ully (later known as Marlene), née Hartmann, born 1910 in Luckenwalde near Berlin, and settled as a farmer in Ramot Hashavim. Both acquired citizenship in 1939. All his adult life he worked parallel as a journalist for various German, Israeli and Swiss newspapers and journals, and wrote a small book on Frankfurt before WW I,...

File Number : 1210

Type of Material : Diary

Language : German

Marlene Spier: Private documents

Marlene Spier: Private documents. Civil status certificates, documents regarding her education and vocational trainng, documents pertaining to compensation claims, and to the legacy of her deceased husband.

File Number : 1217

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter(s), Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : Hebrew, English, German