Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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Diary of Chaja Waterman, sister of Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof in the Netherlands, 1940-1947

Diary of Chaja Waterman, sister of Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof in the Netherlands, 1940-1947 - Volume I: Chaja Waterman's work in the De Werkplaats School directed by Kees Boeke in Bilthoven; Zionist pioneer activities and waiting for authorization to make aliya to Eretz Israel (pp. 1-95), 02 June-12 October 1940; - Volume II: More descriptions of Zionist activities; reactions to various anti-Jewish decrees (pp. 96-287), 13 October 1940-31 January 1941; - Volume III: The Magen youth movement; reactions to the 1941 February Strike and the "Aktion" in Amsterdam (p. 316); Seder night with the religious...

File Number : 27

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Dutch

Testimony of Arie Ludwik Ilzecki, born in Katowice, Poland, 1939, regarding his experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto and with Polish farmers

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Ludwik Ilzecki, born in Katowice, Poland, 1939, regarding his experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto and with Polish farmers His father is a tailor and ows a prosperous business. Outbreak of the war; deportation to the Sosnowiec Ghetto, 1941; "Aktion"; placed with Polish farmers at the age of three and a half; tuberculosis; murder of his parents; liberation, 1945. Placed in an orphanage in Chorzow; placed in an orphanage in Bielsko; placed in an orphanage in Krakow; life under the Communist regime; visit of Moshe Kol; aliya to Israel, 1957; confirmation of his identity by one of his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the activity of members of the Association des Juifs de Belgique (AJB - Jewish Belgian Association) during the German occupation, and more, 1937-2002

Documentation regarding the activity of members of the Association des Juifs de Belgique (AJB - Jewish Belgian Association) during the German occupation, and more, 1937-2002 - Letter sent by Samson Heller to the Presidents of the Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes Historiques de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (CREHSGM - Centre for Research and Historical Studies of World War II) in Brussels expressing opposition to Maxime Steinberg's rewriting of history from a Communist viewpoint and his placing the responsibility for the deportation of the Jews of Charleroi on Robert Holzinger instead of on the Communists...

File Number : 93

Type of Material : Photograph, Personal Records

Language : French, German

Testimony of Yitzchak Sznajder, born in Choroszcz, Poland, 1907, regarding the experiences of the Jews in Choroszcz, and the experiences of the Sznajder brothers in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz, in the forests, and more Information regarding the Jewish community in Choroszcz before the war; information regarding the community institutions and organizations; The German occupation and murder of the Jews, 14 July 1941; imposition of limitations on the Jews; deportation of Jews for forced labor; drawing up a list of Jewish residents, 25 October 1942; deportation of all the Jews to military barracks, 02...

File Number : 3968.1

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

German anti-Jewish regulations in Belgium, 1940-1943

German anti-Jewish regulations in Belgium, 1940-1943 Twenty-one regulations of the Army Commander in Belgium and northern France published in the "Verordnungsblatt" newspaper, 20 August 1940-30 October 1942; the file contains all the newspaper editions (Nos. 1-113), 10 May 1940-15 December 1943

File Number : 34

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Newspaper, Laws and Decrees

Language : German

Report regarding the situation of the Jews in Belgium, 1940-1942

Report regarding the situation of the Jews in Belgium, 1940-1942 Anti-Jewish regulations and decrees from the Germans against the Jews in Belgium; tensions in the Jewish community primarily between the Jews in Brussels and Antwerp and between the "Belgian" and "Polish" Jews; activity of Kubowitski and Eduard Rotkel in Brussels; activity of the Association of German Jews in Belgium (HIDAG); caring for the German Jews in St. Cyprien camp and later in Gurs camp by HIDAG; the activity in Breendonk camp; attitude of the Belgian population towards the Jews; establishment of the Association des Juifs de Belgique...

File Number : 3

Type of Material : Report

Language : French

Judenrat announcements from the Lodz Ghetto signed by Chaim Rumkowski, the Judenrat Chairman, 1941-1944

Judenrat announcements from the Lodz Ghetto signed by Chaim Rumkowski, the Judenrat Chairman, 1941-1944 Among the materials in the file: - Announcement containing a prohibition on the use of electric stovetop burners, 03 November 1941; - Announcement regarding the end of postal services, 08 February 1942; - Announcement regarding sanitation, 03 May 1943; - Photograph of the title page of a calendar (in Yiddish) for 1942; on the calendar there is a portrait of Rumkowski; - Announcement regarding the obligation to salute all the Germans in the ghetto, 06 January 1944; - Announcement regarding a...

File Number : 278

Type of Material : Placards, Announcement

Language : Polish, German, Yiddish

Documentation regarding anti-Semitic measures and executions of underground members in the Netherlands, 1941-1943

Documentation regarding anti-Semitic measures and executions of underground members in the Netherlands, 1941-1943 - Notice issued by the Soest municipality announcing that Jews are forbidden to rent rooms in public accommodations, 20 June 1941; residence permits given to Jews in the past by the Utrecht Region Governor are no longer valid (p. 1); - Newspaper clipping containing an anti-Semitic caricature (pp. 2-3); - Notice issued by Friedrich Christiansen, Wehrmacht commander in the Netherlands, 26 February 1941; workers who were on strike must return to work as of 27 February 1942; there is to be no...

File Number : 13

Type of Material : Maps, Newspaper Clippings, Placards, List of Names, Manifesto

Language : Dutch, German

Notice of the execution by firing squad of two Jews in Paris on the charge of participation in a Communist gathering in 1941; regulations issued by the German Army regarding the conduct of justice and commerce in the occupied area - Notice issued by the Militärbefehlshaber (German military commander) in France, dated 19 August 1941, regarding the execution by firing squad of two Jews, Szmul Tyszelman and Henry Gautherot, from Paris on the charge of participation in a Communist gathering against the German Occupation Forces; - Regulation issued by Der Oberbefehlshaber der Heeresgruppe (High Command of the...

File Number : 653

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : French, Dutch, German

Documentation regarding Holocaust survivor Chana Julia (Meyer) Gaaton, the wife of Moshe Gaaton, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1937, and regarding her family members, dated 1940-2007

Documentation regarding Holocaust survivor Chana Julia (Meyer) Gaaton, the wife of Moshe Gaaton, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1937, and regarding her family members, dated 1940-2007 - Interview held by Yad Vashem with Chana Gaaton-Meyer on 25/12/1988, regarding her and her family's experiences during the Nazi occupation and afterwards: Deportation from their home in Amsterdam following a razzia (raid), 1943; their stay in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen camps; departure by train in early 1945 in the direction of Theresienstadt; liberation by the Red Army, en route to Troebitz, 04/1945; death of her...

File Number : 410

Type of Material : Interview(s), Personal Documents, Booklet(s), Genealogy, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Administrative Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch

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