M.84 - Documantation regarding the Holocaust from Archives in Serbia
The Record Group was created following the division of the former Yugoslavian Record Group - M.70. In the Record Group there is archival documentation photocopied from the Central Archive of Serbia, the Military Archive, and the Foreign Ministry Archive.
Included in the Record Group:
- Documentation of the Yugoslavian Government-in-Exile including the Foreign Ministry, from the World War II period and afterwards;
- Documentation regarding rescue activities of Jews in the areas of Yugoslavia during the war period;
- Investigations...
Language : Italian, English, German, Hungarian, Serbian-Croatian
Testimony of Amos Peter Brunner Ben-Ron, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in Prague, on the Kindertransport, in Clacton-on-Sea, Oswestry and other places
German Army occupation of Prague, 1939; move to England along with his younger brother in the context of Nicholas Winton's Kindertransport, June 1939; life in a Christian religious dormitory in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex county, 1939; aliya of his parents to Eretz Israel using certificates, 1939; correspondence with his parents during the war period; outbreak of the war; Britain joins the war, 1939; move to a dormitory in Oswesty...
Collection of the Dutch Intelligence in London, England, regarding the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands, 1942-1944
Included in the collection:
Reports and testimonies collected by the Dutch intelligence services in London, 1942-1944;
List of names of Jews from the Netherlands who made aliya to Eretz Israel in July 1944 in the context of the exchange of Jews for Germans, Palestina-Austausch.
Collection of C. J. M. Schaepman, the College van Secretarissen-Generaal (Secretary General), regarding the public service in the Netherlands, 1940-1947
Establishment of the College van Secretarissen-Generaal for the administration of the internal matters of the government offices, such as the salaries of the clerks in the Netherlands, in 1902; transfer of the authorities of the Dutch Government in Exile in London, to the College van Secretarissen-Generaal in 1940; the public service succeeded to administer the various government offices in the Netherlands until 1943;
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Collection of Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, secretary general of the Wereldraad der Kerken (Council of Churches) in Geneva, 1940-1946
During the war Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft conducted close ties with the Dutch underground and with the Dutch Government in Exile in London; he was active in the promotion of the connection between the Dutch Government in Exile and the Dutch people; he prepared reports regarding underground activities using the code GC, a sign for the Church connection, in order to transfer the reports to London; he updated the activists in the Netherlands in the same manner;
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Type of Material : Announcement, Correspondence, Reports
Testimony of Shoshana Emilka (Kosover) Rozentzveig, born in Radzymin, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Radzymin Ghetto, using a false identity in Warsaw, the Polish underground and as a Polish forced laborer in Germany
Life before the war; Jewish community; school.
German occupation; decrees; plucking of her father's beard; deportation to the Radzymin Ghetto; ghetto life; her mother's illness; her father's death; deportation of her mother and family members to Treblinka; obtains a Polish identity card from a priest; move to Warsaw; joins the Polish underground; activities in the underground;...
Joint testimony of Helena Beer, born in Stryj, Poland, 1900, and her daughter Amalia Beer, born in Stryj, Poland, 1919, regarding their experiences during their deportation to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kirgizia, and their return to Poland during the repatriation, 1946
Names of members of their family who perished in the Holocaust and the circumstances of their deaths;
Arrest of Helena's husband Benjamin Beer by the NKVD (Soviet Security Service), 12 April 1940; deportation of Helena, her daughter and son to the Soviet Union with Polish prisoners, April 1940; arrival at Kazakhstan, and transfer from there...
Various documents from Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews), 1944
- Economic report for Zegota, 1943, issued 14 February, 1944;
- Letter from Zegota members to a representative of the Polish Government-in-Exile within the area of the Motherland, dated 18 February 1944; the authors request that the sums for financial assistance from the Polish Government-in-Exile be increased; in the letter there is a description of the severe economic situation of the organization and its members;
- List of salaries of Zegota members, 1942-1944;
- List of members of the administration of the Zegota branches in the...
Survey report prepared by Edward Raczynski from the Foreign Ministry of the Polish-Government-in-Exile in London regarding the mass annihilation of Jews in Poland under the German occupation presented to the governments of the United Nations, 10 December 1942
In the report there is a description of the stages in Nazi policy for methodical mass annihilation of the Jews in occupied Poland; among other items described in the report is the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto and its isolation from the surrounding population, the condition of the Jews in the ghetto during the early stages of its existence,...
Survey reports submitted by the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee) in Poland and the Council for Assistance to Jews of the Polish-Government-in-Exile Legation, December 1942-24 May 1944
English translation of the report sent by the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee) to A. Reiss, I. Schwarzbart and A. Tartakower in London, 24 May 1944. In the report there is an overview of the unrelenting persecution of Jews hiding on the Aryan side after the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, executions of Jewish scientists and intellectuals due to betrayal, including the...