Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Article by Olaf Matthes regarding Ancient Near East archeology, presented by the author to Leni Yahil, 1998
The article concentrates on authorized excavations [in Iraq], 1898-1905.
Also in the file:
- Invitation to a conference gala in honor of the centenary of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (DOG - German Oriental Company) held in Berlin, 23/03/1998.
P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002
Prof. Leni Yahil, the historian, donated the collection to Yad Vashem on 30 December 2004; Sarit Shavit, the researcher, submitted additional material (from File 36 on) to Yad Vashem in October 2009.
The collection includes documentation, newspaper clippings, lists, articles, booklets, doctoral dissertations, notes, Leni Yahil's correspondence and more.
The documentation relates to the following subjects: the Jews of Denmark during the Holocaust; the Jews of Germany from the 1930s until the Holocaust; the Jews of Sweden, Norway and Finland...
Type of Material : Personal Documents, Lectures, Booklet(s), Syllabus, Manuscript, Bibliography, Statistical Data, Official Documentation, Thesis/dissertation, Annotations, Lists, Research Article, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Calendar, Brochure, Newspaper Clippings
Language : Norwegian, Hebrew, French, English, German, Danish
Report submitted by Shaul Esh regarding his discussion with Frants Hvass who visited the Theresienstadt Ghetto on behalf of the Danish Government along with representatives of the International Red Cross, 23 June 1944
Discussion between Shaul Esh and Frants Hvass, 03 July 1962, and the writing of a report regarding the discussion on an unknown date.
Also in the file:
- Letters from Shaul Esh to Leni Yahil regarding his discussion with Frants Hvass, 1962.
Testimony of Elyahu Yones, born in Vilna, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto and as a partisan in the forests
Orphaned from a young age; works for his education; activities in a Jewish youth movement until 1936.
Unsuccessful attempt to escape to Latvia at the outbreak of the war; move to Lwow in order to study music; German occupation, 1941; detention in ------ prison; escape and capture; deportation to the Lwow Ghetto, November 1941; cruelty of the Ukrainians; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; deportation to forced labor paving roads in Kurowice; murder of weak people; dysentery;...