Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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Collection of the Van Leer Stichting (Van Leer Institute) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1941-1959

Collection of the Van Leer Stichting (Van Leer Institute) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1941-1959 The Van Leer Stichting (Van Leer Institute) was established in 1941 following anti-Jewish legislation in the Netherlands; financing of the institute came from the dissolution of the factory of B. van Leer, a Jewish industrialist who emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States; the anti-Jewish legislation, whose implementation in the Netherlands was appointed to H. A. Rauter, isolated the Jews from the cultural life in the Netherlands as of 15/09/1941; the Van Leer Institute provided a response, on one...

Type of Material : Financial Accounts, Protocol, Reports, Announcement, Correspondence, Notebook

Language : Dutch

List of workers in institutions for higher education in Lvov who were murdered, 1941-1944

File Number : JM.15104

Type of Material : List of Teachers, List of Murdered Persons

Language : Ukrainian

Newspaper clippings and various documents pertaining to the Jews of Grodno, Bialystok, and Podlasie, 1823-1987

Newspaper clippings and various documents pertaining to the Jews of Grodno, Bialystok, and Podlasie, 1823-1987 - Issue No. 4 of the "Grodner Kourier" newspaper, published 02 April 1929; - Issue No. 201 of the "Grodner Leban" newspaper, published 31 August 1938; - Article from "Kronika zycia naukowego", published in 1987, regarding an International Conference devoted to the history of the Jews in Podlasie, held in Bialystok, 14-17 September 1987; - Photograph of the first two pages of the book, "Torah Or Vederech Chaim" (Torah Is Light and a Way of Life), published in Vilna, 1823.

File Number : 482

Type of Material : Article, Newspaper

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Dr Fritz Loewe, a well known meteorologist in the Weimar Republic and a participant in several Greenland expeditions, including expeditions with Alfred Wegener, regarding his persistent but unsuccessful attempts to be reemployed by the Reich Ministry of the Interior after dismissal because he was a Jew Short report regarding the expedition to Greenland in 1930 taking account the circumstances that led to the death of Wegener; unsuccessful attempt to sue the Nazi government following his dismissal (Labor Court trial); arrest and imprisonment of Loewe by the Gestapo due to denunciation by the...

File Number : 257

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Article by Matteo Paolieri about the chemist and Holocaust survivor, Ferdinand Münz

Article by Matteo Paolieri about the chemist and Holocaust survivor, Ferdinand Münz - an article about the experiences and scientific activity of the chemist Ferdinand Münz, born in Krakow in 1888, before, during and after the Holocaust; the article was written by Matteo Paolieri and published in the "Bulletin for the History of Chemistry" periodical in 2017: The family's move from Krakow to Vienna at the end of the 19th century; Chemistry studies in Vienna in 1906-1911; move to Germany and working in Germany; service in the Austrian army in World War I; marriage to Maria Ewald (not Jewish); life and work...

File Number : 573

Type of Material : Article

Language : English

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Letters and drawings by Heinrich Chaim Lerchenthal, born in Nuernberg, Germany, 1912, in the Ludwigsburg prison and other places of detention, 1935-1939 Letters written by Heinrich Chaim Lerchenthal to his parents in Nuernberg, to his sister Ruth who immigrated to Eretz Israel and to other family members; The letters describe his condition as a prisoner on trial for being a socialist in the Stuttgart I prison, the Ludwigsburg prison, the Ludwigsburg jail for criminals convicted of serious offenses, and other places of detention; A telegram from his sister Ruth containing details of the ship Mendosa that was...

File Number : 4713

Type of Material : Notebook, Personal Documents, Letter, Sketch, Poems/songs, Telegram, Postcard

Language : German

Letters and postcards sent to Mojzesz Dawid (Berdowitz) in Brzezany and in Eretz Israel by the Yiddish Scientific Institute in Vilna (YIVO) and the Association of Friends of YIVO, and by organizations related to Jewish art in Poland, 1929-1936 - Letters (including envelopes) and postcards sent to Mojzesz Dawid in Brzezany by the Towarzystwo przyjaciol zydowskiego instytutu naukowego (Association of Friends of the Yiddish Scientific Institute - YIVO) in Vilna, 1929-1932; - Letter sent to Evanik B. Stark in Brzezany, written in Vilna on 11/06/1930, in which Mojzesz Dawid is mentioned; - Two letters sent by...

File Number : 4411

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Envelope

Language : Polish, English, Yiddish

A. S. Travis: Farbenindustrie (Colour Industry)

A. S. Travis: Farbenindustrie (Colour Industry). A short history of the German colour industrie from Fritz Haber to the I.G. Farben and Auschwitz.

File Number : 278

Type of Material : Research Article

Language : English

Translation of a diary written by Dr. Chaim Einhorn, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1910, regarding his experiences as a physician in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding on the Aryan side during 1943-1944, and testimony regarding activities by Nazi criminals in the Warsaw Ghetto - Diary of Dr. Chaim Einhorn: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 1943; battles; in hiding while hidden in Grochow by a Polish woman, Romana Hankowa; establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; his stay in a hospital in which he worked; selection by SS men; preparation by the hospital administration of a list of physicians who will continue to work;...

File Number : 9801

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Hebrew

Two articles regarding the life and activities of Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum

Two articles regarding the life and activities of Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum - Article written by Aharon Eisenbach devoted to the biography of Emanuel Ringelblum and his activities in the "Oneg Shabbat" group in the Warsaw Ghetto; - Article regarding Ringelblum as an innovative historian in the field of Jewish medicine; a translation of the article into Yiddish is attached.

File Number : 1306

Type of Material : Article

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish