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  1. Testimony of Ludvik Kain Kalina, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Britain, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier and in combat at Dunkirk

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Ludvik Kain Kalina, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Britain, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier and in combat at Dunkirk Born in Uzhorod. Occupation of Slovakia by Hungary; persecution of Jews in Hungarian-occupied Slovakia, 1939; activities of Jewish Communists in Slovakia; transfer to Poland; activities of Jewish Communists in the Katowice refugee center, 1939; persecution of Jewish refugees by Polish police; protection of Jewish refugees by British Consulate; move to Britain, 1939; leading Jewish Communist refugees in England, 1939; impact ...

  2. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Venja Pomerantz and Menachem Bader, representatives of the Jewish Agency United Vaad Hatzala in Istanbul

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Venja Pomerantz and Menachem Bader, representatives of the Jewish Agency United Vaad Hatzala in Istanbul Correspondence regarding organizing relief activities and rescue of members of the Zionist movement in the occupied countries, raising money and sending passports. Also in the file: - Letter regarding the establishment of a relief committee in Geneva which would include all relief, contact and rescue activities, and would be under the Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency with representatives on the Rescue Committee in Istanbul,...

  3. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland) in Zurich regarding sending relief to Holocaust survivors in Poland and Austria and bringing youth and children in poor health for treatment in Switzerl

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland) in Zurich regarding sending relief to Holocaust survivors in Poland and Austria and bringing youth and children in poor health for treatment in Switzerland Incomplete folder regarding sending relief to Holocaust survivors in Poland and Austria and bringing youth and children in poor health for treatment in Switzerland. Also in the file: - Speech delivered by Dr. Paul Guggenheim regarding contemporary problems of Swiss Jewry; - Speech delivered by the President of the Bern Jewish community ...

  4. Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and neighboring countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, October 1943

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות 19/50

    Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and neighboring countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press and according to witnesses and letters, October 1943 Poland: Report on the treatment of the Jews in Tarnopol by the Germans according to a French POW; hard labor and deportation in cattle cars; the "The Jewish World Plague" exhibition in Krakow; celebration of the 4th anniversary of the Generalgouvernement; Goebbels' speeches in the newspapers; Slovakia: Fate of the assimilated Jews; labor camps; identifying assimilated Jews; Slovakian Jewish refuge...

  5. Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and world press, late October-early November 1943

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות 22/53

    Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and world press, late October-early November 1943 Conjecture regarding liquidation of labor camps in the vicinity of Lublin and murder of 15,000 Jews; transfer of the last of the Jewish inmates to Krakow; survival of approximately 300,000 out of close to 4,000,000 Jews in Poland before the war; condition of the Polish workers in the Reich; food supply situation in Poland; escape of German citizens to the Reich. Vienna: The lives of approximately 2,000 Jews in Vienna, most...

  6. Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: JUNA (Juedische Nachrichten, press agency of SIG [Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland]) announcements in Jewish newspapers in Switzerland regarding the activities of the central SIG institutions, 1946-1963

    1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969

    Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: JUNA (Juedische Nachrichten, press agency of SIG [Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland]) announcements in Jewish newspapers in Switzerland regarding the activities of the central SIG institutions, 1946-1963 In the file: - JUNA announcements in Jewish newspapers in Switzerland regarding activities of the SIG Central Committee and Geschaeftsleitung (admistration), as well as drafts of the notices; clippings from newspapers in which the notices were published, such as "Israelitisches Wochenblatt" from Zurich and "Juedische Rundschau-Maccabi" from Basel. Also ...

  7. Central Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews in Palestine, London.

    This fonds firstly contains correspondence with D.M. Van Buuren from Brussels, concerning financial investments in Palestine (including letters signed by Weitzman); see file L13/5 (year 1934). We also find general correspondence with Antwerp, including lists of Jewish refugees wanting to emigrate to Palestine (L13/28; 1933-1936). File L13/41 contains lists of German Jewish refugees “in correspondence with Belgium” (1933-1934). Lastly, we note two files concerning immigration certificates i.a. for Belgium (see L13/67/2 and L13/67/3, resp. for 1933-1935 and 1933-1934).

  8. Subject Matter

    1. Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    The bulk of this subcollection, which contains materials from 1942-1947, concerns the rescue and transportation of Jewish refugees during and after World War II from countries such as Bulgaria, Germany and Romania, as well as attempts to identify and locate survivors. The files contain lists of survivors, correspondence, shipping manifests, and cables. Additionally, these records contain substantial material on passengers on the SS Drottningholm, an exchange ship which carried Jews from concentration camps, including Buchenwald, and on the SS Mefkure, a rescue ship bombed and lost at sea in...

  9. Selected records of the Synagogue Kadoorie Mekor-Haïm and the Comissão de Assistência aos Judeus Refugiados in Lisbon and Porto

    This collection contains forms filled out by refugees from all over Europe requesting financial aid and assistance to obtain resident or transit visas and some type of work from the Comissão de Assistência aos Judeus Refugiados during WW II. There are also files grouped chronologically by year, of people requesting work or some type of help from the Jewish Community of Porto, as early as 1933. Includes correspondence concerning these requests, telegrams, documents concerning accounting and money transfers, correspondence with the head of the Commissão de Assistência in Lisbon, the HICEM in ...

  10. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Pyrénées-Orientales

    Collection includes records from sources including the departmental committee on the liberation of the region; and the cabinet of the prefecture and the sub-prefecture at Prades. Topics include internment camps; the Rivesaltes military and internment camps; the fortress at Perpignan; correspondence, denunciations, and dossiers on individuals; international brigades returning from Spain; Spanish refugees; staff of internment camps; Polish refugees in France; arrests and detentions; Jewish internees at Rivesaltes; and other internees.

  11. Rachela Rottenberg papers

    The Rachela Rottenberg papers consist of identification papers and certificates documenting the life of a Polish woman living under a false identity in Warsaw during the war, antisemitism in Radom at the end of the war, and her stay at the displaced persons camp in Stuttgart, work for UNRRA, and immigration to the United States after the war.

  12. Cyprus Detention Camps papers

    1. Cyprus detention camp collection

    The Cyprus Detention Camps collection consists of collected administrative records, immigrant papers, and printed materials documenting the British army’s administration of detention camps established in Cyprus at Kraolos and Dekalia to hold Jewish immigrants illegally trying to enter Palestine. The collection includes administrative correspondence; a program for a British military performance of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; identification and immigration papers and luggage tags documenting a number of Romanian immigrants; and newspaper and magazine articles documenting the immigration e...

  13. Marble topped dressing table from cafe used as rendezvous point by French resistance

    1. Cafe Beylier collection

    Dressing table from cafe-coiffeur (cafe-hair dressing salon) of Mère Beylier in the village of Château-Cherviz, in the Limosin region of France. The cafe was near two orphanages operated by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants [OSE: Children’s Aid Society], the Chateaus Chabannes and Montintin. Both homes sheltered Jewish children and other young refugees from deportations during the German occupation of France. The café, which was the town gathering place, also served as a resource center and temporary refuge for Jews and others who opposed the German occupation and the pro-German Vichy gover...

  14. Cast iron dutch oven pot and lid from cafe used as rendezvous point by French resistance

    1. Cafe Beylier collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn522890
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) | Width: 12.750 inches (32.385 cm) b: Height: 2.370 inches (6.02 cm) | Width: 10.120 inches (25.705 cm)

    Dutch oven and lid from cafe-coiffeur (cafe-hairdressing salon) of Mere Beylier in the village of Chateau-Cherviz, in the Limosin region of France. The cafe was near two orphanages operated by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants [OSE: Children’s Aid Society], Chateaus Chabannes and Montintin. Both homes sheltered Jewish children and other young refugees from deportations during the German occupation of France. The cafe, which was the town gathering place, also served as a resource center and temporary refuge for Jews and others who opposed the German occupation and the pro-German Vichy govern...

  15. Cast iron dutch oven pot and lid from cafe used as rendezvous point by French resistance

    1. Cafe Beylier collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn522883
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) | Width: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm) b: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm)

    Dutch oven and lid from cafe-coiffeur (cafe-hairdressing salon) of Mere Beylier in the village of Chateau-Cherviz, in the Limosin region of France. The cafe was near two orphanages operated by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants [OSE: Children’s Aid Society], Chateaus Chabannes and Montintin. Both homes sheltered Jewish children and other young refugees from deportations during the German occupation of France. The cafe, which was the town gathering place, also served as a resource center and temporary refuge for Jews and others who opposed the German occupation and the pro-German Vichy govern...

  16. Cast iron cleaver from cafe used as rendezvous point by French resistance

    1. Cafe Beylier collection

    Cleaver from cafe-coiffeur (cafe-hairdressing salon) of Mere Beylier in the village of Chateau-Cherviz, in the Limosin region of France. The cafe was near two orphanages operated by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants [OSE: Children’s Aid Society], Chateaus Chabannes and Montintin. Both homes sheltered Jewish children and other young refugees from deportations during the German occupation of France. The cafe, which was the town gathering place, also served as a resource center and temporary refuge for Jews and others who opposed the German occupation and the pro-German Vichy government. In th...

  17. Aluminum tripod sauce pot with lid from cafe used as rendezvous point by French resistance

    1. Cafe Beylier collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn522892
    • English
    • a: Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) b: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm)

    Sauce pot from cafe-coiffeur (cafe-hairdressing salon) of Mere Beylier in the village of Chateau-Cherviz, in the Limosin region of France. The cafe was near two orphanages operated by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants [OSE: Children’s Aid Society], Chateaus Chabannes and Montintin. Both homes sheltered Jewish children and other young refugees from deportations during the German occupation of France. The cafe, which was the town gathering place, also served as a resource center and temporary refuge for Jews and others who opposed the German occupation and the pro-German Vichy government. In ...

  18. Selected papers of Prime Minister Hubert Pierlo in London

    Contains selected records from the papers of Hubert Pierlot, Prime Minister of the government- in-exile in London during the German occupation of Belgium, and one of the most influential representatives of his country. This collection includes records on Belgian Congo and Belgian refugees in Portugal, many of whom were Jews.

  19. Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency, Office in Istanbul (L15)

    Contains various records from the Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency; including reports on persecution of Jews; reports on immigration from various countries; on integration and immigration of youth as well as of senior Zionists activists; name lists from Theresienstadt; name lists of immigrants and candidates for immigration; and documentation of searches by relatives in Europe. Also includes financial statements and correspondence regarding items brought by immigrants to Israel, and correspondence regarding “Project Afghanistan.” Contains correspondence with the World Center Pion...

  20. Jacob Hennenberg papers

    1. Jacob Hennenberg collection

    The papers consist of two certificates and two letters of recommendation issued to Jacob Hennenberg relating to his experiences as a displaced person after World War II.