Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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Documentation, reports and articles regarding the activities of the JCC (Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie - Jewish Coordination Committee of Dutch Jewry) in Geneva, the Dutch Red Cross and other organizations and institutions in Switzerland during the war and afterwards - Testimony of M. H. Gans before the Committee to Investigate the Behavior of Dutch Clerks and Diplomats Towards Dutch Refugees, 22 December 1949; in his testimony, Gans provides information regarding the chain of events from when he escaped from the Netherlands with his wife until their arrival in Switzerland. Gans testifies regarding the...

File Number : 48

Type of Material : Survey Report, Testimony, Letter, Official Documentation

Language : French, English, Dutch

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Documentation regarding negotiations with Himmler to rescue Jews at the end of the war, including a protocol from the interrogation of Walter Schellinger; testimonies and letters of the Vaad Hatzala (Rescue Committee of United States Orthodox Rabbis); a report by the JDC (Joint Distribution Committee) and more, 1944-1948 In the file: Pp. 1-56: Protocol of the interrogation of Walter Schellenberg, head of the political intelligence service at the Reich Head Security Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt), regarding negotiations with Heinrich Himmler for the release of Jews from...

File Number : 148

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Photocopy, Testimony, Survey Report, Protocol

Language : French, English, German

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Copies of personal files and other documents of Nazi criminals and office holders as related to Nuremberg Trial 11

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Copies of personal files and other documents of Nazi criminals and office holders, as related to Nuremberg Trial 11 In the file: - Documentation regarding Paul Koerner, Otto Ohlendorf, Werner Best, Wilhelm Keppler, Hans Lammers and Gottlob Berger. Also in the file: - Documents signed by both Himmler and Hitler; - Sagalowitz's comments regarding the accused, Berger. There are personal details regarding the Nazi criminals:Yad Vashem Archives P. 13/178. There are also newspaper clippings regarding trials against Nazi criminals: Yad Vashem Archives P. 13/179 and P....

File Number : 145

Type of Material : Personal Records, Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation

Language : German

Letter of protest by Jizchok Sternbuch against the World Jewish Congress (WJC), and a letter by Arie Leon Kubowitzki regarding the fate of his family members who were deported; letters written, 1945-1948 Letter of protest by Jizchok Sternbuch, chairman of the Societe D'Entr'aide Aux Refugies Juifs A L'Etranger, in Montreux, sent to Dr. Arie Leon Kubowitzki, the general director of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), 05 July 1948; Sternbuch protested in his letter to Kubowitzki, that in a report to the Swiss newspapers Kubowitzki attributed to the WJC sole credit for the rescue operation of Hungarian Jewry; the...

File Number : 227

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Documentation of Reichsführer SS Persönlicher Stab (Reichsführer SS Personal Staff) Containing proposals by Professor Clauberg and Dr. Brack regarding the castration and sterilization of Jews

Documentation of Reichsführer SS Persönlicher Stab (Reichsführer SS Personal Staff) Containing proposals by Professor Clauberg and Dr. Brack regarding the castration and sterilization of Jews Included in the file: - Documentation regarding the Feivel Polkes affair; - Documentation regarding the handling of Jewish archives; - Reports regarding the murder of Crimean Jews; - Report written by Dr. Turner regarding the murder of Serbian Jews, 17 October 1941; - Documentation regarding the murder of Jews and Poles in Warthegau; - Documentation regarding the deportation of Dutch Jews, 24 September...

File Number : 182

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Two reports by the War Refugee Board regarding the negotiations held between Saly Mayer and SS representatives, and a book titled "Rescue to Switzerland: The Musy and Saly Mayer Affairs", including a collection of War Refugee board documents regarding the negotiations with SS representatives concerning the fate of the Jews in Hungary; documents dated, 1944-1982 - Final report by the director of the War Refugee Board in Washington, 15 September 1945, including a description of the negotiations held between Saly Mayer and SS representatives, and instructions issued by US President F. D. Roosevelt for the...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Book, Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : English, German

Documentation regarding the rescue activities of Isaac Sternbuch and the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, and regarding the negotiations for the transfer of inmates from camps to Switzerland; documents dated, 1944-1982 - Documentation regarding the negotiations held between a group lead by Isaac Sternbuch, the Swiss representative of the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, and with SS representatives, regarding the rescue of the Jews of Hungary; - Documentation regarding the petition by the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Correspondence, Testimony, Newspaper Clippings, List of Survivors

Language : French, German

Diary written by Saly Mayer and separate pieces of paper with notes written by Mayer regarding his activities in the JDC organization, 1945

Diary written by Saly Mayer and separate pieces of paper with notes written by Mayer regarding his activities in the JDC organization, 1945 Diary [apparently titled], "Agenda 1945", written by Saly Mayer in 1945, including: - Documentation regarding the "ARBA" [?] negotiations with SS representatives and, in main, with Herbert Kettlitz; - Documentation regarding the transfer of 1,210 Jews from Theresienstadt to Switzerland as a result of the negotiations held with SS representatives and Swiss statesman Jean-Marie Musy, 07 February 1945; - Documentation regarding the care of the refugees (the...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Diary

Language : German

British and American administrative documents and letters regarding efforts to rescue Jews from concentration camps

File Number : 132

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Letter(s)

Language : English

Testimonies of Becher, Musy and F. Goering regarding Schellenberg and Kastner's and Brand's efforts to rescue Hungarian and Rumanian Jews

File Number : 124

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation, Letter of Testimony

Language : French, German