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  2. Thomas Cook and Son Ltd: Storage record book

    This storage record book of Thomas Cook's Lisbon depot, is thought to be significant because it apparently contains the names of many Jews who left possessions during the years 1942-1943, much of which remained unclaimed, and was presumably disposed of by Thomas Cook staff in due course. The following notes were supplied by the depositor, who was (in 1977-1978) the Thomas Cook General Manager for Europe and who retrieved the volume from the Lisbon office of Thomas Cook

  3. Otto Ernst Remer: copy report

    Copy manuscript account apparently by Major General Otto Ernst Remer about his activities on the day of the attempted assassination of Hitler on 20 July 1944. The document is dated 2 April 1946. It is possible that the account was written whilst Remer was in custody during the period of de-nazification after the war. A note states that the first two pages were missing and that these had been supplied at a later date by a different depositor (G. Fleming).

  4. Nuremberg Trials - IMT Collection

    The Nuremberg Trials - IMT Collection is a wide-range collection of documents related to the well-known trial against 23 major Nazi war criminals, held by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg between 1945 and 1946. Nuremberg documentation includes: the trial’s transcripts, the archival series NG (Nazi Government), NO (Nazi Organization), OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, Supreme Command of the Armed Forces), NI (Nazi Institutions), RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Reich Security Head Office), SD (Sicherheitsdienst, Security Service), Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei, Secret S...

  5. Rhine River tour; Württemberg

    “GERMANY” "THE RHINE” Dark shots from from a boat on the Rhine River of the surrounding area. Castle on the hill. Trees. Smokestacks of boats on the water. The castle wall on the edge of a hill. Waterfront. Smaller castle on a terraced hill. “HALL IN WUERTEMBURG” Schwäbisch Hall, a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Steep stairs lead up to St. Michael’s Church. Houses line the slanted road. Nazi flag. St. Michael’s Church. Young girl approaches the camera, joined by a young boy and mother.

  6. Calisthenics; German refugees; Hitler walking his dog; German troops advance; wounded

    Reel 1, Part 1 shows tuna fishing off the Spanish coast. Part 2, youths dig irrigation channels in Serbia. Part 3, athletes participate in mass calisthenics and sports events in Breslau. Part 4, wrecked U.S. bombers. Part 5, German refugees eat at a field kitchen, are given clothing, are evacuated by boat and train, and are cared for at a hospital. Part 6, Hitler walks his dog and stops to talk with Himmler and Mannstein. Shows Hitler, Jodl, Goring, and Keitel in conference. Part 7, German troops move up on the Russian front. A Russian attack is repulsed with artillery, rocket launchers, an...

  8. "Of Ships and Men: From Toledo to Leghorn and then to Tunis"

    Consists of one manuscript, 104 pages, entitled "Of Ships and Men: From Toledo to Leghorn and then to Tunis," with a copy in French, by Giacomo Nunez, originally of Tunis. In the manuscript, Mr. Nunez describes the history of the Jewish community in Italy, Spain, and Tunis throughout history, focusing specifically on the experiences of the Nunez family. He also describes his own childhood in Tunis and memories of World War II as a Jewish boy in North Africa, including his memories of bombings and forced labor.

  9. "The Story of my Life"

    Consists of one memoir, 28 pages, entitled "The Story of my Life" by Berta Rosenblatt Berlin, originally of a small town near Buczacz, Poland. In the memoir, written in July 1974, Mrs. Berlin describes the family's move to Vienna during World War I, her marriage to Hersh Berlin, and the anti-Jewish persecution in Vienna after the Anschluss. After Kristallnacht, the Berlin family was able to reunite in Belgium, as Mr. Berlin, then their son Kurt, and finally Berta Berlin, were able to escape Vienna. The family immigrated to the United States through France, Spain, and Portugal in 1940 and 19...

  11. Leo Cohn, born in Luebeck, Germany, 1913: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Leo Cohn, born in Luebeck, Germany, 1913: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Underground activities as part of EIF (French Jewish Scouts); life in Toulouse; plans the transfer of a group of Jewish men to Eretz Israel via Spain; detention at the Saint-Cyprien railroad station, 17 May 1944; life in prison in Saint-Cyprien; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz with a group of children under his protection on Transport 77, 30 July 1944; perishes during a death march. In the file: - Last letter written by Leo Cohn to Robert Gamzon, 27 Ju...

  12. Roger Picard, born in Sarreguemines, France, 1923; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Roger Picard, born in Sarreguemines, France, 1923; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Thionville until 1939. Move to Paris with his family; joins EIF (French Jewish Scouts), 1942; activities at the Beaulieu sur Dordogne children's home; decision to join a group escaping to Spain; arrest with Rabbi Samy Stourdze at the Bedous railroad station; arrest carried out by the French police; transfer to the prison in Orthez with Rabbi Stourdze; deportation to the Merignac camp; transfer to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz, 18 July 1944. In the ...

  13. Marcel Langer, born in Szuczyn, Poland, 1903; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Marcel Langer, born in Szuczyn, Poland, 1903; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Detention in a British prison in Eretz Israel; move to France; move from Paris to Toulouse, 1931; life in Toulouse including integration into the Polish-Jewish community; joins MOI (Immigrant Work Force), the Communist organization; combat in the Spanish Civil War, 1936. Deportation to the Argeles Sur Mer camp; transfer to Gurs; escape from the camp; escape to Toulouse; joins the Communist underground within the framework of MOI; arrested while carrying a suitc...

  14. File

    1. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    The file contains foreign correspondence, especially from Charles Lambert and Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier, concerning relations between Syria and France, Russia, Germany, Lebanon, Egypt, the United States, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Libya, the Battle of the Atlantic, Palestine, Japan, and Turkey. There are also materials concerning the Jewish war effort in Palestine, Jews in Croatia, Rudolf Hess, Charles de Gaulle, the possibility of an Arab Federation, reactions to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Eight Point Plan, and analysis of American political figures such as Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sum...

  15. File

    1. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    Struma Struma The file contains materials relating to Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Singapore, Syria, Libya, Japan, Hungary, Madagascar, China, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Poland, Indian independence, and German naval operations. There are significant materials regarding the recruitment of Jews for military service in Palestine, the evacuation of children from Greece, diplomatic negotiations between Japan and the Pope, the situation of Jews in Slovakia and Iraq, responses to the disaster, negotiations of the post-war borders of Russia, and divisive debates within Free France. The fil...

  16. Oversize Materials

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Non-Print Materials and Miscellaneous
    3. Sound Recordings, Artifacts, and Oversize Materials

    Contains maps of Europe showing the locations of concentration camps (dated 1942 to ca. 1945), handmade posters from displaced persons camps (ca. 1945 to ca. 1947), an Office of War Information poster dealing with discrimination (1943), and a reprint from a magazine concerning the Holocaust. Box J18. Folder 1. American Committee for the Rehabilitation of European Jewish Children, poster, undated Box J18. Folder 2. Maps of Europe showing locations of concentration camps, 1942, 1944, undated Box J18. Folder 3. War poster, 1943 Box J18. Folder 4. Album, "Le massacre des Juifs de Jassy.". Box J...

  17. Correspondence between M. Keller with the Finaly family relatives (Fischel, Kaufmann and Rosner) regarding the legal struggle against Mlle. Brun, headmistress of the Grenoble orphanage, and the French Church officials, concerning returning the Finaly chi

    1. P.11 - Moshe Keller Collection: The Finaly Children Affair

    Correspondence between M. Keller with the Finaly family relatives (Fischel, Kaufmann and Rosner) regarding the legal struggle against Mlle. Brun, headmistress of the Grenoble orphanage, and the French Church officials, concerning returning the Finaly children, 1949-1972 Two volumes: 1: 06 July 1949-22 July 1953. 2: 26 July 1953-10 September 1955. Also in the files: - Letters of the Finaly children to their uncle Moshe Rosner from different hiding places; letters slandering the Jews, and the letters from children in Israel, 14 April 1953; - Notebook and compositions by Robert Finaly regardin...