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  1. Records relating to the investigation of Giorgio Perlasca by the United States Holocaust Memorial Council

    The collection consists of four folders of photocopied materials from the files of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Campaign Office. In general, the files concern Giorgio Perlasca and his work to assist and rescue Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust. Among the copied materials are letters, newspaper and magazine articles, testimonies, and interviews concerning the investigation of Giorgio Perlasca conducted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Campaign Office.

  2. Francisco Franco

    1. Biographical press cuttings collection (1945-1970s)

    "Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general and the Caudillo of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. Coming from a military family background, he became the youngest general in Spain and one of the youngest generals in Europe in the 1920s."--wikipedia(English)(viewe3.7.2016). "Walther Funk (18 August 1890 – 31 May 1960) was an economist and prominent Nazi official who served as Reich Minister for Economic Affairs from 1938 to 1945 and was tried and convicted as a major war criminal by the International Military Trib...

  3. Kurt Moser diary

    The Kurt Moser diary documents Moser’s experiences at the Château de la Hille in France (Ariège) and details his planning for escape to Spain and Portugal. The diary describes life at the castle, his attempts to escape to Switzerland, his capture and brief imprisonment, his work on a farm, efforts to find a guide to Portugal, his preparations for escape including obtaining travel documents, and his fears about deportation to Poland. It is believed that the last entry in the diary was made by Kurt’s friend Walter Kaniuk.

  4. Edith Wornian family papers

    1. Wornian family collection

    Documents related to the experiences of the donor's parents, in particular, Edith Wornian (née Affenkraut), and her status as a hidden child in Belgium during the occupation, including the smuggling of her through France to Spain, and her subsequent immigration to the United States and reunion with her family. Documents include a one-page typewritten narrative about her experience, official documents from Germany (birth and immunization certificates), affidavits, educational records, marriage certificates, and U.S. naturalization documents. Also included are documents related to her husband...

  5. Jean-François N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean-François N., a Roman-Catholic, born in 1919 in Hasselt, Belgium. He recalls his family's upper-class background; their monarchist and Catholic focus; his own Rexist sympathies; turning away when the Rexist pro-German stance became known to him; military service from 1937 to 1938; recall in 1939 when war started; capture during German invasion; incarceration in a POW camp in Germany; solidarity with Belgians; volunteering to work; good treatment from local Catholics; regular correspondence with his family; escape and recapture; escape again; observing Jews with a...

  6. Vivette S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vivette S., who was born in Paris, France in 1919. She recalls her family life with its secular, socialist and French emphases; participating in the Front Populaire, including traveling to Spain; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing to Orle?ans, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, and Vichy; attending university in Toulouse; joining her family in Cannes in 1941; learning about OSE in Montpellier; working for OSE in Rivesaltes rescuing children; a Hanukkah celebration there; leaving in June 1942, having rescued more than 400 children; marriage to the OSE director in Marseille in Octobe...

  7. Howard W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Howard W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. He recalls his family's strong German patriotism; their sense that nothing bad could happen to them in Germany; increased antisemitism following Hitler's ascent to power; Kristallnacht; expulsion from school; arrest; incarceration in Oranienburg; release due to intervention from his father's friend and a promise to leave Germany; traveling to Bratislava; detention in Patronka while awaiting a ship to Palestine; two months traveling on the Danube and Black Sea; severe weather; being shipwrecked on Kamilonisi; rescue b...

  8. Louis C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis C., who was born in Berlin in 1925. He recounts his father's service in World War I; living in Nice while his father was a German government attorney; returning to Berlin in 1931; loss of family servants due to the Nuremberg laws; sham improvements during the 1936 Olympics; his bar mitzvah in 1938; Kristallnacht; non-Jewish neighbors hiding his father; expulsion from school; attending an ad hoc Jewish school; his parents putting him, his sister, and cousin on a train; arrival in Oldenzaal; living in a refugee camp, an orphanage, then another camp; joining his pa...

  9. Passport of Heyman Roet and Catharina Freso. Collection

    A Dutch passport issued in October 1940 by the Vice-consul for the Netherlands in Toulouse, France, to Heyman Roet and his wife Catharina Freso. The document contains a photo of both spouses and visa for Spain and Portugal as well as for the United Kingdom

  10. From the time of the Spanish persecution of Jews Print of a Jewish family found by the Grand Inquisitor

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    The print is one of the more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.

  11. Liny Yollick papers

    The Liny Yollick papers were created in 1942 and include a “Sauf Conduit,” safe conduct pass in lieu of a national passport, issued to Liny Paula Pogin, Nice, France, 1942. A black and white photograph of Liny is affixed and a stamp of the emblem of the Regional Police of Nice. A pencil sketch of a man wearing a chef’s cap drawn by an unknown man that Liny befriended while in Nice, France, 1942. A postcard written in French and addressed to Liny in memory of time spent aboard the SS Nyassa. On the front of the postcard is a full color reproduction of a drawing of the SS Nyassa. A vaccinatio...

  12. Werner Jakubowski papers

    The Werner Jakubowski papers primarily consist of correspondence between Werner Jakubowski while he was a refugee in France and his brother Stephan Jakubowski in New York City. Werner’s letters are from Gurs or from Meillon par Assat, in the Basses Pyrenees. The correspondence describes Werner’s family situation in France and documents efforts by family and friends to transfer funds to them from New York and to aid their immigration to the US.

  13. Marc S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marc S., a Catholic, who was born in Mons, Belgium in 1922, one of five children. He recounts growing up in Lie?ge; German invasion in May 1940; illustrating and distributing anti-Nazi literature; hiding a downed Allied aviator; traveling to Charleville, France in October 1942, intending to go through Spain to join the British military; obtaining false papers as a French citizen; traveling to Villers-Farlay; joining a group to enter Spain; their capture; imprisonment in several towns ending in Dijon; transfer to St. Gilles; his mother's visit; deportation to Dachau in...

  14. Peretz L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peretz L., who was born in Chemnitz, Germany in 1903, the oldest of four children. He recalls completing gymnasium; a year of military service; apprenticing in a large factory for two years; disillusionment with the German political situation after the assassination of party leaders in 1919; forming a Zionist group in Fröndenberg in 1921; living on a hachsharah in Wartenberg in 1923, then in Zwickau to learn technical skills; moving to Frankfurt; meeting his future wife's parents in Munich; marriage in Nuremberg in 1926; traveling to Vienna; living in Berlin; organiz...

  15. Jan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jan K., a non-Jewish Pole, who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1914. He recalls working as a diplomatic courier for the Polish government in exile during the war; receiving messages from Jewish leaders who wanted the Polish government in London and the Allies to know what was happening to Jews in Poland; secretly entering the Warsaw ghetto with Leon Feiner, a Bund leader, as his guide; returning a second time; Feiner arranging for him to be smuggled into a camp; traveling to a village via Lublin; being provided with a guard's uniform by his guide; becoming overwhelmed b...

  16. Elias R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elias R., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1932. He recalls details of Jewish life; traveling with his mother to Athens for his uncle's wedding; remaining there in order to be under Italian occupation (Thessalonike? was under German control); having his brother smuggled to Athens; returning to Thessalonike?; ghettoization; obtaining exit documents from Spain (his mother was Spanish); hiding during round-ups; his father's deportation (he did not return); escaping with his mother and brother to Athens with help from the underground; departing in a German militar...

  17. Marcel D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcel D., who was born in Ans, Belgium in 1920, one of two children. He recounts his parents' staunch Catholicism; attending school in Liège; joining a socialist youth group in 1937; volunteering to fight in Spain; rejection due to his age, but working there with children in a refugee camp for two months in 1938; German invasion in 1940; fleeing with his brother to Aube; returning home; some of his friends wearing yellow stars to protest anti-Jewish measures; joining the Front de l'Indépendance; obtaining weapons; sabotaging phone and rail lines; his brother's arre...

  18. P.21 - Collection of Ilya Ehrenburg, author and member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC), 1941-1967

    P.21 - Collection of Ilya Ehrenburg, author and member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC), 1941-1967 Ilya Ehrenburg was born into a Jewish family in Kiev in 1891. He was exiled to France in 1908 after being arrested for his activities against the Czarist regime. In Paris, he gradually dissociated himself from the Bolsheviks, associating himself with modern artists, publishing his poems and working at translation. After the Socialist revolution in 1917, he returned to his native country. From 1923 Ehrenburg worked as a journalist for the "Izvestia" newspaper. The Soviet authorities u...

  19. Collection of Ilya Ehrenburg, author and member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC), 1941-1967

    In the Collection there is original documentation including articles, testimonies, photographs and letters regarding the Holocaust within the Soviet Union; some of the documentation appears in"The Black Book". The Collection also contains letters from Jews written after the war regarding displays of antisemitism in Soviet policy.

  20. [Spanish revolutionaries in prison, arms race and imperialism]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a programme of a lecture hold on Tuesday, June 3rd, 1941. The speakers where Mr. Hedges, Mr. Holt, Mr. Russel and Mr. Anderson. Three topics have been discussed in the lecture, a message of Spain's revolutionaries in prison, german-american arms race and imperalism, regarding German capitalist penetration of Western Europe. Mr. Holt is reporting about Spain's revolutionaries in prison based on narrations of people spent time in spanish prisons and also worked for a long time illegaly in Germany. The Republicans, who were loyal to the democratic, explained why and how they ...