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Language of Description: English

  1. World Jewish Congress

    This fonds is incredibly rich in information regarding the relation of the WJC with Belgium and the Belgian Jewish community, the refugee question before the war, the Shoah in Belgium, the immediate postwar reconstruction and relief effort, the restitution issue, Jews in the former Belgian Congo, … The files in “Series A. Central Files” (1919-1976) contain correspondence, minutes, records of conferences, and miscellaneous other materials. In its “Subseries 2. Executive Files” – holding files of several WJC leaders – we note the files “Belgium, Kubowitzki, Aryeh L.” (box A9, folder nr. 17; y...

  2. Ottawa Jewish Community Council = Ottawa Vaad Ha'Ir = The Jewish Federation of Ottawa fonds

    • Ottawa Jewish Archives
    • O0043
    • English
    • 8m 44cm of records, 524 B&W and colour photographs and other material, 1 scrapbook Young Peoples Division poster located in OS Mixed Box 12

    Fonds consist of series of administration documents, minutes of meetings, correspondence, standing committees (including United Jewish Appeal), ad hoc committees and agencies and institutions. BOX 1 - Series: Minutes Organizational Meeting Minutes - 1934: Documents pertaining to the creation of an Ottawa Vaad Ha'Ir, as favoured unanimously by the Vaad Hakashruth. Minutes - Quarterly, General, Special notices of Meetings - 1934-1949. Officers Meeting Minutes - 1952-1965 (incomplete), 1971-1985. BOX 2 - Series: Minutes Officers Notices of Meetings and Agendas - 1952-1983, 1985 BOX 3 - Series:...

  3. Pendant design drawn by a young man who did not survive the Holocaust

    1. Magda Lapedus collection

    Design drawing, perhaps for a brooch, made by Janos Mezei, 17, a student in Budapest, Hungary, in 1939. Hungary adopted anti-Jewish laws similar to those of their close ally, Nazi Germany. By 1940, all able bodied Jewish males were required to perform forced labor. Janos was sent to Kaschau labor camp in Hungarian occupied Slovakia in 1943. After Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, Janos was forced marched to Gunskirchen concentration camp, a Mauthausen subcamp in Austria. He was liberated by US troops on May 5, 1945. He was hospitalized, but passed away on September 2, 1945. The drawin...

  4. Intricate design drawing by a young man who did not survive the Holocaust

    1. Magda Lapedus collection

    Design drawing, perhaps for a brooch, made by Janos Mezei, 17, a student in Budapest, Hungary, in 1939. Hungary adopted anti-Jewish laws similar to those of their close ally, Nazi Germany. By 1940, all able bodied Jewish males were required to perform forced labor. Janos was sent to Kaschau labor camp in Hungarian occupied Slovakia in 1943. After Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, Janos was forced marched to Gunskirchen concentration camp, a Mauthausen subcamp in Austria. He was liberated by US troops on May 5, 1945. He was hospitalized, but passed away on September 2, 1945. The drawin...

  5. Design drawing by a young man who did not survive the Holocaust

    1. Magda Lapedus collection

    Design drawing, perhaps for a brooch, made by Janos Mezei, 17, a student in Budapest, Hungary, in 1939. Hungary adopted anti-Jewish laws similar to those of their close ally, Nazi Germany. By 1940, all able bodied Jewish males were required to perform forced labor. Janos was sent to Kaschau labor camp in Hungarian occupied Slovakia in 1943. After Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, Janos was forced marched to Gunskirchen concentration camp, a Mauthausen subcamp in Austria. He was liberated by US troops on May 5, 1945. He was hospitalized, but passed away on September 2, 1945. The drawin...

  6. Navy blue pinstriped jacket and pants worn by the groom at his wedding to another survivor in a DP camp

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn516093
    • English
    • a: Height: 33.000 inches (83.82 cm) | Width: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) b: Height: 40.250 inches (102.235 cm) | Width: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm)

    Blue pin-striped suit worn by Welek (William) Luksenburg, 24, for his wedding to Hinde (Helen) Chilewicz, 21, on March 2, 1947, in the displaced persons camp in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Germany. The couple met in 1944 as prisoners in Gleiwitz concentration camp. In 1941, Welek, his parents, and brother Szlomo were in the Jewish ghetto in Dabrow Gornicza in German occupied Poland. In 1942, his parents Rozalia and Simcha were deported and killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Welek got Szlomo released from a labor camp hospital and escaped a prison camp to care for him. When Welek was arrested, Szlom...

  7. Christopher R. Browning papers

    The Christopher R. Browning papers consist of Browning’s expert reports, correspondence, court records, photocopies of historical evidentiary materials, indexes, preparatory and background materials for trial, printed materials, and witness testimony gathered or created during preparations for court proceedings against alleged war criminals Radislav Grujicic and Serge Kisluk in Canada, Andre Sawoniuk and Semion Serafinowicz in England, and Heinrich Wagner in Australia. All five cases relied on evidence from eyewitness accounts. Browning’s role in the proceedings was not to provide evidence ...

  8. Ministère des Finances. Archives de Carl Requette, liquidateur du Commissariat belge au rapatriement

    • Ministry of Finance. Carl Requette Archives, liquidator of the Belgian Repatriation Commission

    The documents in this fonds are either the specific products of Carl Requette's activity as liquidator or copies and original documents collected by him to serve as debt instruments or documentation. They come from the archives of the Belgian Commission for Repatriation (C.B.R.) as well as files transmitted by the Ministry of Public Health concerning Minister Marteaux's "hospital re-equipment" operation. Within its limited volume, the fonds has a considerable documentary value. It shines a light on Carl Requette's work as liquidator, but also that of the C.B.R. By including the documents th...

  9. Lola and Walter Kaufman papers

    1. Lola and Walter Kaufman collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Lola Kaufman (born Loncia Rein), originally of Czortkow, Poland (Chortkiv, Ukraine) and her husband Walter Kaufman, originally of Połaniec, Poland. The bulk of the collection consists of pre-war and post-war family photographs, including depictions taken in the Eschwege displaced persons camp. Also included is a pre-war autograph book and several post-war songbooks used while Lola was in Eschwege.

  10. Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection

    The Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection contains correspondence between Lawrence B. Goldsmith Sr., various members of the Schiffman and Marx families living in Germany, and United States government officials. The correspondence relates to the families’ requests for assistance in immigrating to the United States from Nazi Germany in the form of signed affidavits of support and financial assistance. The personal correspondence from the families in Germany provide a sense of growing desperation to leave Germany. Also included are Lawrence B. Goldsmith Sr.’s papers relating his activity wi...

  11. Small leather suitcase used by a Hungarian Jewish family while living in hiding

    1. George Pick family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn514721
    • English
    • a: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 17.375 inches (44.133 cm) | Depth: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm) b: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm)

    Small leather case used by Malvina Kornhauser from November 1944 until January 1945 while she was staying in a Swedish protected building and then in the Budapest ghetto in German occupied Hungary. The suitcase was purchased by her son-in-law Istvan Pick during the 1930s for use in his job as a traveling sales engineer for grape presses for the Rokk Istvan Machine factory. Before November, Malvina lived with her daughter Margit Pick, her husband Istvan, and son Gyorgy. Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany and adopted similar anti-Jewish laws in the 1930s. Istvan, an engineer, lost his job in...

  12. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish inmate

    1. Helen and William Luksenburg collection

    Blue and gray striped winter weight jacket issued to Welek Luksenburg, 21, in Oranienburg concentration camp in January 1945, and also worn in Flossenbürg and Regensburg concentration camps. It is worn through at the neck from the pressure of the ropes used to haul rocks as a slave laborer. In April 1945, Welek collapsed during a death march and was rescued by a German farmer. As American troops moved through the area, a soldier approached Welek with a razor saying, "A souvenir" and removed his Star of David and prisoner number 187295 patch. A red triangle was also removed. The soldiers too...

  13. Handmade aluminum box incised with the name of a concentration camp inmate found by another inmate

    1. Miriam Ziegler collection

    Small metal box found by Hozia Frydman in Birkenau concentration camp where she was imprisoned from 1944-1945. Scratched in the lid is the name Mendel Goldblit, possibly her uncle, who perished in the camp. When found, the box contained a human tooth with a silver crown. Hozia, 34, and her daughter Miriam, 4, were in Ostrowiec, Poland, when Germany invaded on September 1, 1939. Soon the Germans set up a Jewish ghetto where they were forced to live. Hozia's husband, Herschel, was interned in a nearby labor camp and, by early 1942, Hozia and her sister Bella were sent there. Miriam had been p...

  14. Bagriansky-Zerner family collection

    1. Bagriansky-Zerner family collection and Edwin Geist collection

    The collection consists of immigration and personal identification documents, photographs, writings, correspondence and related materials that document the experiences of Paul and Gerta (nee Chason) Bagriansky, their daughter, Rosian Bagriansky Zerner, and their extended family. Included is information about their pre-war life in Lithuania, their life under Soviet and German occupation, including internment in the Kaunas ghetto and their escape from it, the hiding of Rosian with various Lithuanian acquaintances for the duration of the war, Paul Bagriansky’s experiences as a partisan during ...

  15. Life Saving Cross with a striped ribbon and presentation box awarded to a Lithuanian rescuer

    1. Bagriansky-Zerner family collection and Edwin Geist collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn106381
    • English
    • 1942-1944
    • a: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 5.125 inches (13.017 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Depth: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) boxes 6

    Zuvanciuju Gelbejimo Kryzius [Life Saving Cross] of Lithuania with fitted case awarded to Lidija Goluboviene and presented to Rosian Bagriansky Zerner, who as a 6 year old child, was hidden by Lidija, and also Natalija Fugaleviciue, Natalija Egorovna, Bronia Budrekaite, and Helene Holzman. The medal is awarded to those who, despite danger to themselves, perform acts of bravery that save the life of others. The medal was presented to Rosian at a 2009 ceremony in Lithuania. Lidija's sister Natalija Fugaleviciue was also honored with the award. After Germany invaded Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, ...

  16. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    The Felix and Flory Van Beek papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, diaries, a personal narrative, photographs, and printed materials documenting a German-Dutch couple, their thwarted efforts to escape Europe on the SS Simon Bolivar, their survival in hiding with two separate Dutch families, their liberation, their immigration to the United States, and the deaths of their family members in the Holocaust. Many documents are accompanied by Flory Van Beek's annotations. Biographical materials primarily document Felix and Flory Van Beek and include certificates, correspondenc...

  17. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Commemorative medal, one of six, awarded to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. Stichting 1940-1945 was a foundation created during the war to provide aid to resistance members and their families. After Netherlands was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Piet and his wife Dina, devout Christians, joined the resistance. Piet helped many Jewish people go into hiding, in his own home and with other resistance members. He also provided false identities and food coupons. He was arrested...

  18. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Commemorative medal, one of six, awarded to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. Stichting 1940-1945 was a foundation created during the war to provide aid to resistance members and their families. After Netherlands was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Piet and his wife Dina, devout Christians, joined the resistance. Piet helped many Jewish people go into hiding, in his own home and with other resistance members. He also provided false identities and food coupons. He was arrested...

  19. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Commemorative medal, one of six, awarded to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. Stichting 1940-1945 was a foundation created during the war to provide aid to resistance members and their families. After Netherlands was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Piet and his wife Dina, devout Christians, joined the resistance. Piet helped many Jewish people go into hiding, in his own home and with other resistance members. He also provided false identities and food coupons. He was arrested...

  20. Black and white patterned case for medals awarded postwar to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Fitted case for a set of 6 medals issued to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. Stichting 1940-1945 was a foundation created during the war to provide aid to resistance members and their families. After Netherlands was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Piet and his wife Dina, devout Christians, joined the resistance. Piet helped many Jewish people go into hiding, in his own home and with other resistance members. He also provided false identities and food coupons. He was arrested...