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General
Information
Yad Vashem
has been collecting documentation on the Shoah for decades. This
documentation includes published material, testimonies, unpublished
documents, photographs and films. Most of the material is open to
the public.
The
Collections:
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Testimonies:
Tens of thousands of testimonies dictated, recorded or
videotaped by survivors of the Shoah in Israel and elsewhere.
The testimonies are in all of the languages spoken by the
survivors.
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A
second type of testimonies are the Pages
of Testimony - forms filled out by survivors or relatives of
the victims containing information about individual victims,
such as their names, place and date of birth, place of
residence, vocation, place and circumstances of death and so on.
2,000,000 Pages of Testimony have been digitized to date and
is accessible to the public in our
Central Database of Shoah
Victims' Names.
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Unpublished
documents: At least 62,000,000 pages, these include documents of
the Nazi bureaucrats and their counterparts throughout Europe;
personal documents of the Jews such as letters, passports,
diaries and memoirs, as well as the documentation of the Jewish
organs and institutions; lists detailing confiscation of assets,
deportations or lists of victims or survivors; legal
documentation from proceedings against Nazi criminals and
collaborators, and much more. The documentation is in all
European languages.
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Photographs:
Well over 267,000 pictures from Europe before, during, and after
the Shoah.
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Films:
Thousands of titles including documentary and feature films, in
many languages.
Accessibility:
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Recently Yad Vashem launched the Central Database for Shoah
Victims' Names which includes the names of close to 3
million Holocaust victims. The names and biographic details
(when known) are taken from Pages of Testimony (approximately 2
million) and from records
of deportees, camp inmates, ghetto residents, and other archival
sources.
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Some of
the material is not in the computer, but catalogued information
about it is - the books, testimonies, films, and part of the
unpublished documents.
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For
some of the unpublished documentation there are also no
computerized catalogues, and to reach this material one must be
assisted by our staff.
Opening
hours:
Sunday-Thursday 8:30AM-5:00PM
Books and files must be ordered by 3:00PM
Opening
hours of the Hall of Names in the Museum:
Sunday-Thursday 9:00AM-5:00PM
Fridays 9:00AM-1:00PM
Researchers
who cannot come to Yad Vashem are welcome to contact us by e-mail at
holocaust.resources@yadvashem.org.il
It is recommended to add your snail-mail address, for the event
that we find documentation and wish to send reproductions of it.
We hope
your search or query will be successfully resolved.
Research
possibilities about Individuals in the Shoah
The
Film and Photo Department of the Yad Vashem Archive
List
of the Record Groups in the Archives
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