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  1. Diplomatic service passport issued by the Republic of Liberia to Matus Kugel. Collection

    A diplomatic service passport issued by the Republic of Liberia, represented by Baron O. de Bogaerde, Minister Plenipotentiary, to Matus and Chaja Kugel-Rubin, granting them diplomatic immunity and allowing them to travel to Spain and Portugal. The passport also contains wartime visa for Italy and Monaco.

  3. Andrew Gummers Collection

    Documents relating to Julius Gummers education (1922 - 1934); Documents relating to Julius and Grete Gummers emigration to Spain and UK (1935 - 1937); Documents and correspondence relating to naturalisation in the UK (1947); Various official documents (1877 - 1936); German newspaperclippings (1929 - 1945) announcing their loss of German nationality; Documents relating to Andrew Gummers education (1945 - 1958); Various correspondence (1929 - 1946); "Papers concerning the Treatment of German Nationals in Germany 1938-1939", printed book (1939); Correspondence (2002).

  4. Ernest P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest P., who was born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1912. He recalls his father's death in 1918 serving in World War I; his mother's struggle to support him and two younger siblings; working at age sixteen to assist; the Anschluss; immediate anti-Jewish laws and violence; obtaining a forged passport in 1938 (his siblings had already left and his mother followed); living in Luxembourg for eighteen months; support from the local Jewish community; marriage to a Polish-Jewish refugee; the Jewish community organizing a group emigration to Cuba; traveling to Iru...

  5. Liane R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Liane R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1934. She recalls the Anschluss; her father's apparent suicide in September 1938 after he was forced to close his dental practice; Kristallnacht; embarking on the St. Louis with her mother and brother in 1939; being denied entry to Cuba; sailing between Cuba and Florida while efforts were made to find refuge; and having to return to Europe. Mrs. R. recounts living in Loudun, France for over two years; German invasion; fleeing to Limoges; Jewish organizations which arranged their schooling and her brother's violin lessons an...

  6. Helene J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helene J., who was born in Poland in 1918, one of six children. She recounts being orphaned (she does not remember her parents); her grandmother from Paris retrieving them; childhood poverty; marriage at eighteen; her daughter's birth in 1937; briefly evacuating when invasion seemed imminent; staying with a friend outside of Paris; German invasion; her husband bringing them back to Paris; evacuating to Saint-Laurent-de-Neste; locals welcoming them and providing food and other support; her son's birth; registering as a Jew with the mayor and later regretting it; her hu...

  7. Gys L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gys L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recalls her childhood in a wealthy family; her father's decision to move the family to Paris in 1933; education in French schools and the Sorbonne; internment of male German Jews (including her father and brother) in late 1939; and meeting her future husband when he called with news of her brother. She recounts detention with her mother in Gurs; primitive camp conditions; release during the German invasion in 1940; her marriage in Marseille; and her in-laws' escape to the United States (her father-in-law was the ant...

  8. Roni B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roni B., who was born in 1930 in Berlin, Germany. She recounts antisemitic harassment and restrictions, including her father not being able to treat non-Jews (he was a dentist); some non-Jews sneaking in for treatment; a non-Jewish butcher providing them with meat; changing schools frequently; Kristallnacht; relatives emigrating to several destinations; the war's outbreak; bribing an official to obtain visas; traveling to Paris, Bordeaux, San Sebastia?n, and Barcelona; emigrating by ship to the United States in August 1941; and receiving letters from relatives via the...

  9. Hella B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hella B., who was born in Neuss, Germany in 1915. She recalls living in Berlin; her father's position for Siemens in Spain; living in Seville; her older brother's death at a boarding school when she was five; moving frequently and attending boarding schools; living in Lu?denscheid, Cologne, and Nuremberg; antisemitic harassment; a book burning; finishing gymnasium; attending art school in Berlin; her parents obtaining emigration documents for her to join an uncle in New York; staying in England for six weeks with an aunt; arrival in the United States; learning her unc...

  10. Zoltan G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zoltan G., who was born in Nagykaroly, Hungary (presently Carei, Romania) in 1908. Mr. G. recalls his orthodox home as one of ten children; briefly attending Yeshiva; cordial relations between Christians and Jews; joining an older brother in Paris in 1922 to become an apprentice in the handbag industry; building a successful business employing over 1,000 people; marriage in 1936; his son's birth in 1937; and the birth of twins in 1940. He describes leaving Paris for Vichy France prior to German occupation in 1940; living in Toulouse and Grenoble; buying visas from the...

  11. Henry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry S., who was born in 1934 in Paris, France, the only child of Polish immigrants. He recalls boarding outside Paris since his parents both worked; their weekend visits; his father enlisting in the French military in 1939, partially to obtain French citizenship; his father's decommission after French surrender; he and his mother joining him in Montrabé; attending school; his father's military friends warning them in summer 1942 that Jews would be rounded-up; crossing to Spain; assistance from the Joint in Barcelona; HIAS sponsoring his emigration to the United St...

  12. Charles F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles F., who was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1923. He remembers SA street marches; his parents' divorce; attending boarding school in Austria; moving to Florence with his mother; moving to Berlin because his father wished him to have a German education; the 1936 Olympics; attending boarding school in Coburg; destruction of his school on Kristallnacht; his father's arrest; moving to Paris with his mother; attending boarding school; German invasion; joining his mother in La Bourboule; their move to Nice; attending hotel management school; traveling illegally to Por...

  13. Rosy S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosy S., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1923. She recounts her family's move to Luxembourg when she was a baby; her father's Zionist and anti-German activism; an influx of German and Polish Jewish refugees; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing to Antwerp; her brother's bar mitzvah; joining relatives in De Panne, then traveling to Spain via Royan and Hendaye; her father's arrest on a train to Madrid; living in Fuentes de O?noro; futile attempts to obtain her father's release; moving to Lisbon; assistance from HIAS; working for HIAS, then the Red Cross; her grand...

  14. Claude L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Claude L., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1920, the youngest of three children. She recounts her assimilated family; studying with private tutors, then in public school; a close relationship with her nanny; her father's death in 1933; learning she was Jewish from her brother; graduating from university; vacationing in Greece with her brother; German invasion in May 1940; her brother warning them to escape; fleeing with her mother and nanny to Paris; living in Argenton; assistance from family friends; being wounded in a German bombing; hospitalization and surgery...

  16. Samuel Halber collection

    Documents and correspondence concerning Samuel Halber (donor’s father). Born June 22, 1914 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he fled Nazi-occupied Europe in 1941 through Spain and Portugal were he applied for a US visa, ultimately arriving in New York City in 1941. He was drafted into the United States Army and was a Military Intelligence Interpreter, translating German, Dutch, and French in England until 1945, when he was assigned to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) and supervised the denazification of German railroads in the US Zone.

  17. Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Letter written by Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's will, emigration and more

    1. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Letter written by Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's will, emigration and more There are three volumes in the file: Volume I Letter from Rudolf Hess to Julius Streicher; Adolf Hitler's political will. Volume II Lists of articles and bibliography regarding emigration of the Jews; article regarding Chaim Weizmann; clippings from the Jewish newspapers C.V. Zeitung and Allgemeine Zeitung Des Judentum, 1938. Volume III Unsorted material from the London Record Office.

  18. Booklet edited by Tilly Spiegel, a member of the Austrian Resistance movement, regarding activities of Austrians in the Belgian and French Resistance movement during World War II

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

    Booklet edited by Tilly Spiegel, a member of the Austrian Resistance movement, regarding activities of Austrians in the Belgian and French Resistance movement during World War II Also in the file: - List of names of Austrian Jews who served in the International Brigade in Spain, 1936-1939; - Material regarding Austrian Jews who volunteered to serve in the British Army during World War II.

  19. File

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

    The file contains correspondence and reports, primarily from Charles Lambert and Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier concerning diplomatic and military action in Greece, Russia, Norway, Finland, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Spain, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, France, Belgium, and Germany. It includes reports of the flight and attempted peace negotiations of Rudolf Hess in Scotland, Japanese propaganda in Syria and Lebanon, Wendell Wilkie's visit to Europe, Australian soliders in Palestine, reactions to the sinking of , the Turko-German pact, and Anthony Eden. There are also accounts of interviews between Namier an...

  20. File

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

    The file contains correspondence and reports concerning Turkey, Russia, Egypt, Syria, Yugoslavia, Malaya, Spain, Switzerland, Lebanon, Abyssinia/Ethiopia, Persia, German military operations, German activities in the Middle East, changing relations with the Vichy government and Charles de Gaulle, Jews in France and the Netherlands, and demographic data about the Jewish population in France, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunis. The file also contains correspondence from interned Jewish refugees in Mauritius and appeals to admit children and relatives turned away or detained in Palestine. The file con...