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Language of Description: English
Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Hans Landesberg collection

    The collection consists of a lapel pin, a cufflink, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Dr. Hans Landesberg, a member of the International Brigade in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

  2. Canadian Jewish Congress Special Immigration Cases

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)

    Information on settlement of escapees (to Spain, Portugal, Tangier and Japan), refugees with extreme disabilities ("Hard Core Cases") and cases of deportation, inheritance, and Nazi war crimes. Also includes participants in the family unification program, and various subject files by Dr. Saalheimer.

  3. The Spanish Civil War: a memoir

    Apparently authentic account of imprisonment in Spain during the Spanish Civil war by an unidentified Austrian Jew. The events described took place in 1936 and the account was, according to the author, written in Vienna in 1937.

  5. Salomon Berenholc papers

    The Salomon Berenholc papers concern Salomon Berenholc, a young French Jew who was arrested with his family after fleeing France and illegally crossing the border into Spain in 1942. After a brief internment in a Spanish prison, the family was released and ultimately immigrated to the United States in 1943 by way of Lisbon, Portugal. These papers are comprised of a diary Salomon kept during his efforts to flee France between 1942 and 1943 and documents from the post-war era regarding his and his brother, Victor’s education. The diary details their journey and the conditions of Salomon's cel...

  6. Randolph J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Randolph J., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1913. He recalls his family's affluence; strong patriotism and food shortages during World War I; being taught Germany had won; his bar mitzvah; attending public school and gymnasium; cordial relations with non-Jews; gradual impoverishment as antisemitism increased in the 1930s; one sister's emigration to the United States; meeting his future wife; attending university in 1931; violent harassment; believing Hitler was a temporary phenomenon; traveling to Zurich in 1933 to continue his education, then to Paris via Geneva,...

  7. Josse L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josse L., who was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1915 to Belgian parents, giving him dual citizenship. He recounts living in Argentina, Brussels, and Rio de Janeiro; attending school in Vanves, France; vacationing with relatives in Ostende; his bar mitzvah there; completing school in Brussels; military service in 1936; opening a business with his brother; military recall; capture by Germans on May 28, 1940 (the Germans did not learn he was Jewish); learning his parents and sister had left for Brazil; release on June 11; reunion with his brother; reopening their busine...

  8. Josef Fišera Archive Archiv Josef Fišera

    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.

  9. Otto Eidlitz diaries

    The Otto Eidlitz diaries consist of three diaries written by Otto Eidlitz between 1940 and 1943. The diaries cover the period of his escape from Hungary to Spain and his time in the Miranda del Ebro prison. The diaries also include his handwritten Hungarian to Spanish dictionary.

  10. Norwegian Fascist Police; German homefront propaganda

    Narrator explains (in English) that this item was released in Portugal. Portugese narration heard under English commentary. Interior, family sitting around table eating. Close-ups of family meant to show that Germans are not suffering from lack of food, despite war. Women working in railroad and postal occupation. Narrator states that "Germany's postal system... increased its employment of women after the July 25th total mobilization announcement." Upbeat music as smiling women drive postal truck. Men working in factories; woman welding. Miners working underground. "Several sequences here h...

  11. Bulgarian Legation in Bucharest (Fond 327)

    Contains reports and press clippings from the Romanian press regarding underground communist activities in Dobruja and Bessarabia; correspondence between the Bulgarian and Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding individual persons of Jewish origin and about the sinking of the "Struma" (Sṭrumah); correspondence regarding passport renewals for Jewish volunteers in the Civil War in Spain; and correspondence regarding visas and transit lists for people of non-Jewish origin. Also includes a registry of incoming documents and passports issued.

  12. Collection of the Commissie-Clevering committee, which examined the attitude toward refugees by the authorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1950

    Collection of the Commissie-Clevering committee, which examined the attitude toward refugees by the authorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1950 Official documentation of the Commissie-Clevering committee, established by the Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands in 1946 for the purpose of examining the attitude of the embassies toward Dutch citizens who escaped to Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal and other countries during the war period: Included in the collection: Testimonies of: A. Cohen E. Elzas L. Flesseman M.H. Gans A.J. Goedkoop E.H. van Hasselt M.H.J. Hedeman-Joosten J.M. Kijzer J. P...

  13. Gisela W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisela W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. She recalls her family's wealthy, assimilated life; antisemitic vandalism; attending a private girls' school; expulsion as a Jew; attending the American school; living with an uncle in the Hague (her brother had been sent to England); visiting family in Stuttgart; living with an aunt in Switzerland; staying in a hotel in Lugano; moving with her parents to Amsterdam in April 1939; attending Dutch school; German invasion; obtaining permission to leave through her uncle, who headed the Warburg Bank in Holland; leaving w...

  14. [letter]

    1. Bern Trial, Bern, Switzerland, 1934-1935

    This file contains a letter from 13th June 1935. It is written in German and addressed to a certain Doctor Weil living in Madrid. The signature at the end of the letter is to illegible. The letter focuses on the rising antisemitism in Spain due to the massive Nazi propaganda and the publishing of the Protocols in Spanish newspapers. The Bern trials are not mentioned in the media. One of the biggest newspapers in Spain, the ABC, will publish more antisemitic books. The author of the letter tried desperately to stop the publishing but didn't succeed. Now he's seeking material and asks his fri...

  15. [letter]

    1. Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto collection 1926-2018

    This file contains a letter from 13th June 1935. It is written in German and addressed to a certain Doctor Weil living in Madrid. The signature at the end of the letter is to illegible. The letter focuses on the rising antisemitism in Spain due to the massive Nazi propaganda and the publishing of the Protocols in Spanish newspapers. The Bern trials are not mentioned in the media. One of the biggest newspapers in Spain, the ABC, will publish more antisemitic books. The author of the letter tried desperately to stop the publishing but didn't succeed. Now he's seeking material and asks his fri...

  16. Alfred and Hertha Friedheim collection

    Diaries kept by Alfred and Hertha Friedheim, with some loose documents inserted between pages; dated 1939-1941; in French and English. The Friedheims were passengers on board the MS St. Louis in May 1939. When the ship returned to Europe they disembarked in France, and were in the Rieucros concentration camp in Lozere, France before getting American visas. They set sail in May 1941 on board the SS Winnipeg, but were detained in Port of Spain, Trinidad after the ship was commandeered by the Dutch navy. While in Port of Spain, their US visas expired. They were successful in getting their visa...

  18. Volunteers from various countries

    Danish, Spanish, and Italian volunteers leave their countries for Germany to join the "fight against Bolshevism." In Denmark the youths parade through the street while being saluted by onlookers. They carry a Danish flag and a woman in uniform hands out flowers. CU on a poster reading "Germanerne". A train full of volunteers leaves the station. Good shots of crowds of people giving Hitler salute. In Spain, a train crowded with volunteers leaves a station. A huge crowd watches the train go. The narrator notes that most of these volunteers, now member of the Blue Division, are veterans of the...

  19. Rivesaltes concentration camp, France

    Children and mothers getting off buses on arrival in the camp. Tracking shot of "camp garden," people working with hoes. Men in hospital beds; sick people arriving from Gurs camp. People eating in dining hall. Mail passed out. Elderly men and women walking outdoors.