UN - United Nations

UN
United Nations - UN

Identifier: 004279
Dates: 1945
Type of Entity: Corporate Body

Dates of Existence

From 24/10/1945 until the present.

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Anglo-Jewish Association: Reports and other papers
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL1278
- English
- 1956-1960
- 1 folder
- Updated 2 years ago
Bernadotte Folke
- EHRI Personalities
- Person
- Updated 6 months ago
02/01/1895

17/09/1948

Swedish official. Worked with the Red Cross in arranging POW exchanges. Vice president of the Swedish Red Cross. Saved thousands of POWs and concentration camp inmates. "During the last months of the war he was approached by Kaltenbrunner and Schellenberg on Himmler's behalf to feel out the Western allies on making some deal to mollify their unconditional surrender policy. Assassinated in Jerusalem by the Stern Gang.
Hull Cordell
- Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955
- ハル, コーデル
- Hull, Cordell
- EHRI Personalities
- Person
- Updated 10 years ago
02/10/1871

1955

United States secretary of state from 1933 to 1944. Had limited information about the persecution of the Jews in Germany but declined to intercede in what he regarded as Germany's internal affair. Hull opposed any relaxation of American immigration regulations during the war. Laid the groundwork for a postwar United nations.
International Refugee Organization, Bad Kissingen: reports
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL1242
- English
- 1948-1949
- 1 folder
- Updated 2 years ago
These papers consist of information sheets; administrative and provisional orders; and printed IRO statistics on the occupational skills of refugees.
Lithograph of Israel from Arthur Szyk’s visual history series of the United Nations
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn508620
- English
- 1949
- overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Postwar lithograph by artist Arthur Szyk depicting a visual representation of the history of Israel. Arthur Szyk was a Polish-Jewish artist who fled Nazi-controlled Europe for London in 1937, and eventually immigrated to the United States in 1940. He started his career in book illustration and was considered one of the greatest modern practitioners of the art of illumination. His widely published caricatures made him one of the most famous political satirists during World War II. In 1945, he was commissioned by Canadian philatelist Kasimir Bileski to create illustrations for a series of sta...
Oral history interview with Eva Rogazinsky Sommer
1. Voces de la Shoá oral history collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn73353
- English
- 1 digital file, MOV
- Updated 1 year ago
Oral history interview with Took Heroma
1. Oral history interviews of the Christian Rescuers Project
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn506522
- English
- 1 videocassette (VHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- Updated 1 year ago
Records relating to the work of William H. Ramkey with displaced persons in Allied-occupied Austria
1. William H. Ramkey collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn503017
- English
- 1945-1946
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of ten documents (photocopies and originals) concerning William Ramkey's involvement with displaced persons programs in Allied-occupied Austria. Among the papers are personal letters to and from the donor and various documents relating to Ramkey's work with the 83rd Infantry Division, the Displaced Persons Advisory Board, and the experiences of displaced persons in Austria.
Robinson Jacob
- Robinson, Jacob, 1889-1977
- Rôbinsôn, Yaʿakôv 1889-1977
- Robinzonas, Jokūbas 1889-1977
- רובינזון, יעקב, 1889־
- רבינסון, יעקב
- ...
- EHRI Personalities
- Person
- Updated 10 years ago
1889

1977

Head of the Institute of Jewish Affairs in USA (1940).
Senat der Freien Stadt Danzig Selected records of the Senate of the Free City Gdańsk Senat Wolnego Miasta Gdańska (Sygn. 260)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn595270
- English
- 1920-1939
- 9 microfilm reels, 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Selected records of the Senate of the Free City Gdańsk (Senat Wolnego Miasta Gdańska): correspondence related to expulsion of Polish citizens, unlawful arrests and closures of Polish companies, notes about German attacks on Poles and Jews, German newspaper clippings, reports, telegrams, lists of the personnel of the Senate of the Free City Gdańsk, and lists of inhabitants of Gdańsk, petitions of the Association of Jewish Academics, various regulations, correspondence with the Jewish community (Synagogen Gemeinde) related to discrimination and atrocities against Jews (Germans ransacked the s...
The World Jewish Congress Geneva Office records
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515768
- English
- 1939-1955
- 249 microfilm reels, 35 mm 10 diskette,
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains correspondence of the Geneva Office of the World Jewish Congress with organizations from Switzerland and from other countries and with the International Red Cross and the United Nations; papers and speeches of the head of the Geneva Office, Gerhart Riegner; wartime reports of the Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population (RELICO); chronological files related to accounts, restitution and rehabilitation; minutes of the Geneva WJC meetings; and various periodicals and printed materials.
The World Jewish Congress London Office records (C2)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516523
- English
- 1939-1975
- 571 microfilm reels, 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains correspondence of the London Office of the World Jewish Congress with organizations from over 130 countries, international bodies including the United Nations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and Jewish organizations, including the Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population (RELICO) and the Claims Conference. Also contains legal materials, press clippings and reports of the Institute of Jewish Affairs; anti-Jewish legislation; materials of WJC Plenary Assemblies; minutes of Executive meetings; Neo-Nazi documentation; and the Aryeh Leon Kubowitzki papers, the ...
The World Jewish Congress New York office records. Series A (Central Files)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn513879
- English
- 1919-1971
- 118,722 digital images, TIFF 103 microfilm reels, 35 mm 10 CD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in.
- Updated 1 year ago
The Central Files (1919-1971) contain the history of the World Jewish Congress (especially prior to 1940); correspondence and other materials of important World Jewish Congress leaders (Stephen S. Wise, Nahum Goldman, Israel Goldstein and Administrative/Executive directors of the New York office: Abraham S. Hyman, Monty Jacobs, Yehuda Ebstein, Greta Beigel); and minutes and other records of plenary assemblies, conferences, and committee meetings. The Executive Committee files include material from the South American, European, and Israeli Branches of the Executive. Significant subjects cove...
The World Jewish Congress New York office records. Series B (Political Department)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518228
- English
- 1940-1969
- 164,759 digital images, PNG 141 microfilm reels, 35 mm 19 CD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in.
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains records of the Political Department represented the WJC with governments and international organizations such as the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and the Council of Europe. Records relate to the departmental activities reflected antisemitism, human rights, migration, minorities, genocide, statelessness, prosecution of war crimes, relations between Christians and Jews, peace and disarmament, reparations, the situation of Jews in specific countries (notably the USSR and North Africa). Contains also papers of three persons: Maurice L. Perlzweig, Robert S. Marcu...
The World Jewish Congress New York Office records. Series C (Institute of Jewish Affairs)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516006
- English
- 1918-1982
- 383,813 digital images, PNG 333 microfilm reels, 35 mm 41 CD-ROMs,
- Updated 1 year ago
The World Jewish Congress collection consists of the records of the New York Office of the organization. The Institute of Jewish Affairs, Series C, contains records of investigation of antisemitic legislation and activities, persecution of war criminals and war crimes, restitution for victims of the Holocaust, subjects relating to Jewish life and related problems such as minorities, migration, and human rights. The Institute produced reports for submission to the United Nations and other bodies.
The World Jewish Congress New York Office records. Series E. Culture Department
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn35886
- English
- 1934-1974
- 14,846 digital images, JPEG 13 microfilm reels, 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
The Series E (Culture Department) consists of correspondence of the department directors, Simon Federbush and Wolf Blattberg, together with reports, publications, and other material pertaining to the activities of the New York branch of the Culture Department. Material in the series includes correspondence of the first director, Simon Federbush (1945–circa 1950) and the second director, Wolf Blattberg (1950–1958), who joined the department in 1945. After Blattberg's death in 1958, Greta Beigel assumed his responsibilities for cultural work. Included in Blattberg's files is correspondence wi...
The World Jewish Congress New York Office records. Series F (Organization Department)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn519166
- English
- 1942-1976
- 30,343 digital images, JPEG 34 microfilm reels, 35 mm 5 CD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in.
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains records relating to activities of the Organization Department: fundraising (until May, 1946); producing reports on WJC activities for affiliates and on the situation of Jewish communities world wide; organizing commemorations (notably for anniversaries of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising) and celebrations; preparing for plenary assemblies and conferences; and maintaining relations with other Jewish organizations. Included in the series is correspondence with or about communities; records concerning commemorations, conferences, and affiliation; together with mimeographed materials (“stenc...
The World Jewish Congress New York Office records. Series H (Alphabetical Files)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn524458
- English
- 1919-1981
- 460,776 digital images, JPEG 401 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains records of the World Jewish Congress, New York Office, Series H (Alphabetical Files). Records of Series H are sub-divided into four sub-series. Sub-series 1. Alphabetical Files, A-Z, 1919-1981, comprises the bulk of the series, consisting of 370 boxes. Although the materials in this sub-series span the years 1919-1981, the bulk is concentrated in the 1940s to the 1960s. Sub-series 2. Monty Jacobs International Files, 1949-1973, consists of approximately two boxes and contains alphabetically arranged international files of Monty Jacobs, Press Director and Executive Director in the 1...
The World Jewish Congress New York Office. Series D. Relief and Rescue Department
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518454
- English
- 1940-1950
- 2,444 digital images, TIFF 131 microfilm reels, 35 mm 16 CD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in.
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains records relating to social relief and rescue activities, location of survivors, immigration and migration, refugees, displaced persons, extermination of Jews, reaction to Hitler's Final Solution, and relations with international relief organization including the UNRAA and Red Cross. Seven sub-series of World Jewish Congress New York Office records, Series D contains the following files: 1. Executive files, 1939-1969: The majority of the material deals with applications and affidavits for individual immigration cases; 2. Immigration Division, 1940-1953: Includes correspondence and r...
The World Jewish Congress Paris Office records
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516580
- English
- 1934-1954
- 37 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm digital images,
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains correspondence, reports, and other materials related to the work of the Paris Office of the World Jewish Congress, including correspondence with a variety of organizations including including non-governmental (NGOs), governmental, and Jewish groups. Also contains reports and other records related to the following subjects: the search for missing Jews; liberated Jews; restitution and compensation claims; situation of Jews during the war; and Jewish affairs in France and North Africa. The bulk of materials in this collection are from 1945-1954.