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Language of Description: English
Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Communications report regarding the attitude of the International Commission of Jurists that acts as an advisory body for the United Nations and UNESCO in Geneva towards legislative changes regarding freedom of the press and communications in Spain, 1966

    1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

    Communications report regarding the attitude of the International Commission of Jurists that acts as an advisory body for the United Nations and UNESCO in Geneva towards legislative changes regarding freedom of the press and communications in Spain, 1966 The notice was published by the Union of Austrian Volunteers in the Spanish Republic, 1936-1939 and Friends of Democratic Spain (Vereinigung Oesterreichische Freiwiilger in der Spanischen Republik 1936-1939 und Freunde des Demokratischen Spanien).

  2. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Exchange of letters with Yitzhak Weisman in Lisbon regarding diplomatic assistance to Jewish refugees in Portugal and Spain and regarding organizing the work done by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the Jewish Agency i

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Exchange of letters with Yitzhak Weisman in Lisbon regarding diplomatic assistance to Jewish refugees in Portugal and Spain and regarding organizing the work done by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the Jewish Agency in Lisbon Also in the file: - Copies of letters to WJC members in New York and London; - Copies of letters to Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Dr. Aryeh Tartakower regarding the situation of refugees in Spain, 08 July 1943, and in Portugal, 16 October 1943 and 05 January 1944; - Copy of a letter to Dr. A. L. Kubowitzky regarding refugees in Italy, 18 ...

  3. Report of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland, Denmark, Finland, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Hungary, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Danzig, 1938

    1. M.17 - Documentation of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva, 1933-1940

    Report of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland, Denmark, Finland, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Hungary, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Danzig, 1938

  4. [Fragebogen zu einem Erlass der Presseabteilung und der Abt. VI an die deutschen Auslandsvetretungen und Generalkonsulate.]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a report of the German Embassy of Spain to the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin dated 30.05.1933 regarding anti –German agitation and propaganda in Spain. Anti-German agitation can only be found in the Spanish press, there is no considerable counter-propaganda in film, literature, theater and public speeches. The Madrid leftist press agitates sharply against Germany, the Madrid rightist press upkeeps their very friendly opinion towards Germany. France is unfolding a very strong political and cultural propaganda and the French Embassy is influencing the Spanish Press again...

  5. Spanish diplomatic and consular correspondence and related records

    The collection contains diverse documents from 1939 to 1963, concerning the situation for Jews in Europe in general, Spanish Jews, and individual cases of Jews seeking asylum in Spain. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence related to securing transit visas to Spain for Jews attempting to escape Nazi persecution.

  7. Nachmias and Ezratty family collections

    Spanish passport issued by Consul General of Spain in Greece to donor's aunt Esther Ezratty Brudo on may 26, 1943 and valid until May 1944; Passport valid for transit for Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, France and Italy. Passport enabled donor to find refuge in Barcelona, Spain. Pillow case and small end table cover embroidered by grandmother Reina Ezratty in Saloniki. Handwritten list by Haim Exratty of Spanish nationals that were in Bergen Belsen with him during the war. Cloth #195 worn by donor's mother, Jeanne (Jenny) Exratty on her chest in Bergen Belsen concentration camp. Certificate of ...

  9. Carlos Stern family papers

    1. Carlos Stern family collection

    Photographs, documents and correspondence illustrating the Stern family in Germany, Spain, Italy and South Africa.

  11. Juliette D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Juliette D., a Catholic, who was born in Sougné-Remouchamps, Belgium in 1917. She recalls attending school in Aywaille, then boarding school in Liège; attending nursing school; marriage in 1938; German invasion; enlisting with the Belgian Red Cross; caring for the wounded; passing letters among French and English soldiers; returning home; working with the resistance; escaping through France to Spain with her mother and sister; arrest by Spanish police; expulsion to Saint-Gaudens (they had false French papers); joining a resistance group; smuggling people to Montauba...

  12. ICRC, Spanish Civil War Guerre d'Espagne (C ESCI)

    Records related to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formed the so-called Commission d'Espagne (Commission of Spain) on August 26, 1936 which directed and coordinated all of the ICRC's humanitarian activities and operations within both the Republican and Nationalist territories. The collection covers the ICRC's humanitarian activities in Spain, in particular its work to identify prisoners and missing persons, facilitate prisoner exchanges, reunite families, and convey personal messages. Contains...

  14. Nachmias and Ezratty family papers

    1. Nachmias and Ezratty family collections

    Contains a Spanish passport issued by Consul General of Spain in Greece to donor's aunt Esther Ezratty Brudo on May 26, 1943 and valid until May 1944; passport valid for transit for Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, France and Italy. Also contains a handwritten list by Haim Exratty of Spanish nationals that were in Bergen Belsen with him during the war; a Certificate of Nationality issued by the Consul of Spain in Thessaloniki to Haim Ezratty with photo; and an additional certificate issued in German by the Consul of Spain in Saloniki to Haim Ezratty, July 3, 1941.

  15. Herman Silbiger papers

    1. Herman Silbiger collection

    Consists of documents, postcards, correspondence, and Herman Silbiger's scrapbook, within a school exercise notebook, that features materials from his family's journey through France, Spain, Jamaica (Camp Gibraltar), and Curaçao from 1942-1945.

  16. Selected case files of the Border Police (Expedientes de Frontera) Spanish border files

    Contains case files on non-Spaniards (mainly German and Italian refugees) arrested and imprisoned for attempting illegal border crossings into Spain.

  17. [Correspondence between Nazi-German offices and foreign manufacturers]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains correspondences of Nazi organizations, like the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei Reichsleitung Auslands-Organisation and the Aussenhandelsamt, with sympathizers and employers in Spain and Portugal. For example letters with the OSRAM-Direction in Madrid are attached. The Fábrica de Osram (official name: Fábrica de lámparas eléctricas de la DGA de Berlín) is a factory building located on the Paseo de Santa María de la Cabeza in Madrid. The Stammwerk (main factory) was in Berlin. Incandescent lamps with a filament made of tungsten have been produced there since ...

  18. Correspondence file organized alphabetically (A-P)

    1. P.3 -Isaac Weissman Archive: Documentation of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Lisbon

    Correspondence file organized alphabetically (A-P) Also in the file: - Correspondence with Pierre Mendès France, 1943-1960; - Copies of letters from P. Lichtenstein, Jewish Agency representative in Portugal and Spain, regarding the relations among the Jewish organizations there, 1943; - List of rabbis who received visas to Mauritius (the list is attached to correspondence with the Chief Rabbi's Religious Emergency Council in London).

  19. George Lakenbacher papers

    Contains statistics relating to the work of American Relief Organizations in Spain.

  20. Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs records

    Contains correspondence, reports, notices, diplomatic memoranda, personal indexes, and other documents relating to the situation of the Jewish population in Europe between 1943 and 1946. The collection pertains to the activities of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the Holocaust and after World War II. Records include the following subjects: Jewish emigration matters; political and economic situation of the Jewish war refugees; International Red Cross, World Jewish Congress, American Jewish Distribution Committee and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration activ...