American Friends Service Committee

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn507327
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Consists of a copy of "An unpublished chapter in the history of the deportation of foreign Jews from France in 1942" written by Roswell McClelland, a representative of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), in 1942 or 1943. The "Unpublished chapter..." is McClelland's personal account of the round-up of foreign Jews in France during 1942 under the direction of the Germans, including a deportation from the Les Milles camp in August 1942. Included in the piece are descriptions of various French concentration camps, the treatment of Jewish children, the division of age groups for depor...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn75298
• English
• 2013
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Consists of one manuscript entitled, "See you soon Caroline!" by Bernard Wilson. The manuscript is a fictionalized account of a family researching the history of a grandfather, who was born at Rivesaltes and later adopted. The manuscript highlights the work of the American Friends Service Committee in southern France, particularly the work of Irish Quaker Mary Elmes (referred to in the manuscript as Marion Oakes).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524517
• English
• 1938
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Reports and correspondence from American attorney Alfred Jaretzki, Jr., reporting on visits to Vienna and efforts to work with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to assist Austrian Jews with emigration, 1938. Includes one report, undated, 11 pages, describing his trip to Vienna in June 1938, including meetings with American diplomats, journalists, members of the Viennese Jewish community, and non-governmental organizations. Among his contacts were Therese Bloch-Bauer, and her daughter Maria; Josef Löwenherz of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien; the American journalist Vin...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn44159
• English
• 1926-2010
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Consists of original and digital documents and photographs related to the life of Suse Lore Alice Samson (later known as Alice Samson), originally of Edesheim, Germany. Includes Alice's written testimony, copies of documents and photographs, and correspondence regarding her attempts to find out the fates of her family and restitution for lost property. Includes correspondence with the International Tracing Service, the Red Cross, and various attorneys, the latter including both personal compensation claims and the class-action suit against the French national railway, the SNCF.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518182
• English
• 1933-1950
• 92,862 digital images, JPEG 104 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection pertains to the activities of the American, British, and French Quakers in France and North Africa, from 1933-1950. The collection encompasses the Paris-based office of the Commissioner for Europe, the AFSC's liaison with the Allied occupation governments in Germany, Austria and North Africa as of 1943; and the Quaker delegations in Paris, Bordeaux, Caen, Le Havre, Lyon, Marseille, Montauban, Perpignan, and Toulouse. The materials consist of official correspondence, minutes of meetings, interviews with officials; weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and quarterly reports from delegatio...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518183
• English
• 1942-1945
• 13,845 digital images, JPEG 349 digital files, PDF 15 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection documents work done by the Refugee Service and the Displaced Persons Service of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), to provide humanitarian relief to refugees and displaced persons in North Africa. The bulk of the collection consists of the correspondence of AFSC delegates in North Africa with AFSC representatives in Europe and America and with committees and organizations working with the Quakers. The collection further includes reports documenting the Quakers' projects in North African camps, and financial and administrative issues. The reports may contain name l...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn42486
• English
• 1933-1963
• boxes oversize boxes 565 56
• Updated 7 months ago

Consists of more than 20,000 case files created and maintained by staff and volunteers with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker relief and rescue organization. The files are concerned primarily with the sponsorship of individuals for immigration to the United States and the process of their adjustment to America, including job-hunting and the placement of young adults in colleges and training programs. The collection contains a wealth of detail on individual refugees, the bulk of whom were fleeing Nazism, including their experiences before or during the war and the effor...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn564187
• English
• 1941-1955
• 17,218 digital images, JPEG 30 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 7 months ago

Records of the American OSE Committee in New York, including correspondence, reports, subject files, materials regarding immigration, OSE Executive Committee and Board of Directors meeting minutes, financial documents, records related to shipments of medical supplies for Jews in the ghettos and in the German-occupied countries during World War II, rehabilitation, emigration, and the care of Jewish refugees and orphans in the post-war period, lists of survivors of World War II, lists of Jewish doctors, lists of Polish physicists, scientists who were murdered, lists of Jewish Polish physician...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517184
• English
• 1938-1942
• folders 4
• Updated 7 months ago

The papers consist of correspondence, visa applications, affidavits and other materials that belonged to Herbert E. Kronfeld [donor's father] and that document his efforts to assist his maternal aunt, Bertha Dyckhoff, and her daughter, Hildegard Dyckoff, in immigrating from Berlin, Germany, to the United States. Included in the collection is correspondence from Judges Mitchell May and Algeron I. Nova, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Senator James M. Mead, and United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn85570
• English
• 1939-1941
• folders 2
• Updated 7 months ago

Consists of letters written by members of the Czuczka family of Vienna, Austria, between 1939-1941. The majority of the letters were written by Artur Czuczka and detail his attempts to emigrate from Austria and join his brother's family in the United States. The letters were written from Vienna and, after Artur's February 1941 deportation to Opole, from Poland.

1. Manuskripte
2. Studien- und Qualifikationsarbeiten

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• MS 277 / 1
• German
• 1977
• Manuskripte 2 + 132 Seiten
• Updated 9 years ago

u.a. statistische Übersicht der Flüchtlingseinwanderung in die USA, Ausländerfeindlichkeit und Antisemitismus in den dreißiger Jahren, Phasen der Flüchtlingspolitik von Roosevelt, Hilfsmaßnahmen, Wohnort und soziale Mobilität, Arbeitssuche und berufliche Umstellung, Strukturveränderungen in der Familie; Mschr., Xer.

1. Elfriede Schloss collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500356
• English
• 1939-1980
• folders 3
• Updated 7 months ago

The Elfriede Schloss papers contain Elfriede’s travel visa and identification tag, and various news clippings concerning her and other orphans’ arrival to the United States. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) photocopies includes copied correspondence and documents from the AFSC archives related to the immigration of the one hundred orphans from France, of which Elfriede was included.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn556054
• English
• 1940-1998
• 3,027 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

Archives of Moussa and Odette Abadi, two unknown Jews, who created the Réseau Marcel (Marcel network) in Nice, France to save children during World War II. They saved 527 children from deportation with the cooperation of the local authorities, the Catholic Church (Monsignor Rémond), and many humanitarian organizations. The Réseau Marcel was one of the most successful Jewish rescue networks in Vichy France. Odette Rosenstock was a French doctor, she survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen, and Moussa Abadi, Syrian-born was a co-conspirator, whom she married after the war.

1. Arnold Kronfeld collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn523616
• English
• box 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Collection consists of seven folders containing extensive documents concerning Herbert E. Kronfeld's efforts to get his extended family out of Germany to the United States. Includes extensive correspondence regarding his attempts to assist with the immigration of his elderly aunt, Nanette Scheuffele, who was interned in the Gurs concentration camp in France. The attempt, which was ultimately successful, involved correspondence and coordination with the State Department, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Pastor Adolf Freudenberg (in Switzerland), the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HI...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn618413
• English
• 1939-1941
• overall: Height: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Width: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Slim, rectangular leather identification card case received by Fritz (later Fred) Strauss while part of a refugee transport of children from Germany between 1939 and 1941. In response to the 1935 Nuremberg Laws and growing anti-Semitism in their small town, Fritz’s mother sent him, in 1936, to Frankfurt to attend school at a large Jewish orphanage. Within three years, anti-Semitism in Frankfurt had grown, and on March 8, 1939, Fritz was sent on a transport to Paris, France, with ten other children. Fritz and the other Orthodox children moved to new towns multiple times in the area around Pa...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn592691
• English
• 1945-1953
• 27,006 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

Records of the Dutch Delegation of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees relating to various aspects of migration and relief work for the period 1947-1957. It concerns documents on the status of Jewish, Hungarian, Polish and other refugees and displaced persons; the reception of refugees in the Netherlands; assistance; restoration of rights and legal status; emigration facilities in South America, Canada and New Zealand; the arrangements regarding refugees in the various German occupation zones; guidelines for the compensation of Nazi followers; correspondence and reports from charita...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn508322
• English
• 1912-1998
• 1 microfilm reel, 16 mm
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection primarily consists of documents related to Josef Fišera, a Czech national, and his involvement as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War and with the French Resistance during the Second World War.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518519
• English
• 1927-2006
• boxes 3
• Updated 7 months ago

Contains documents, correspondence, clippings, and photographs related to the life and Holocaust experiences of Konrad Bieber. Includes information about his parents, Hugo and Lucy Bieber, who escaped France with emergency visas in 1940, and information regarding Konrad Bieber's wartime experiences. He was imprisoned in Montreuil-Bellay, France in 1940, escaped on Yom Kippur and worked for the American Friends Service Committee in Montauban, France from 1940-1942. In 1942, he went into hiding and remained in hiding, working for the French Resistance, until liberation in 1944. After the war,...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn549447
• English
• a: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 19.500 inches (49.53 cm) | Depth: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) b: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 20.500 inches (52.07 cm) | Depth: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm) c: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Small brown leather suitcase used by Fritz (later Fred) Strauss while part of a refugee transport of children from Germany between 1939 and 1941. In response to the 1935 Nuremberg Laws and growing anti-Semitism in their small town, Fritz’s mother sent him, in 1936, to Frankfurt to attend school at a large Jewish orphanage. Within three years, anti-Semitism in Frankfurt had grown, and on March 8, 1939, Fritz was sent on a transport to Paris, France, with ten other children. Fritz and the other Orthodox children moved to new towns multiple times in the area around Paris, but managed to contin...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517622
• English
• 1939-1956
• boxes 4
• Updated 7 months ago

This collection contains primarily correspondence with some documents and pamphlets pertaining to Lily Felddegen’s rescue of the Belgian children of La Hille and efforts to bring them to the United States with the assistance of HIAS and several other wartime rescue organizations. Series 1, Refugee Project: general information, contains letters, newspaper clippings, and booklets requesting assistance for children in Belgium and the rest of Western Europe. Series 2, Refugee assistance: Names of Child Refugees and of Organizations Providing Assistance, contains files with the names of refugee ...