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  1. Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Danish Internal Political Condition (Group 120 D 28c-49c)

    Records of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs relating to the German action against the Jews, case files of Jews who were persecuted, including some who were deported, some who escaped to Sweden, and others referring to Jewish property. Included are lists of arrested Jews, records on the Nazi movement, and the placement of Jewish children from Denmark in Palestine. Consists also records of the Danish Ministry of Social Affairs relating to support of emigrants, and publications relating to Freemasonry, Nazi oppressions, and Danish resistant.

  2. American Relief for Poland organization records

    Contains reports, bulletins, general correspondence, name lists, "welfare messages," financial records, newspaper clippings, photographs, and various other records relating to the work of the American Relief for Poland from 1939 to 1952. The files of the American Relief for Poland, Lisbon office, contain reports and general correspondence from Florian Piskorski, American Relief for Poland delegate to Europe, general financial records of the Lisbon office, name lists of Polish and Jewish refugees, Polish prisoners of war, and Roman Catholic priests, in concentration camps receiving aid, and ...

  3. Records of the city of Lubartów Akta miasta Lubartowa (Sygn. 43)

    Contains records of the administrative division of the city of Lubartów, Poland, relating to religious confessions; supervision of churches in the Lubartów area; addresses of Jews and Jewish property in Lubartów; Jewish refugees from the Pomerania and Poznań districts; displacement of the Jews from Lubartów to Ostrów and Parczew; and the imprisonment of all inhabitants of the village Palikije (community of Wojciechowka) in a penal camp.

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- The New School, NYC (University in Exile)

    New School for Social Research, NYC. 03:11:34 CU of sign, EXT: "The New School". 03:12:51 INT, people walking through lobby, information board. 03:13:43 CU, individual names and their subjects. View of faculty members meeting around table in front of mural, with the president of the New School, Alvin Johnson. There are various European exiles, including Leo Strauss, Frieda Wunderlich, Emil Lederer, and Max Wertheimer. (Full list of names is available in March of Time research files). 03:14:07 View of adult students in class. 03:16:52 People at a meeting.

  5. Herbert Kammer family papers

    Correspondence, documents, and texts, related to the experiences of Herbert Kammer and his parents, Georg and Rosa Kammer, during World War II, as they fled their native Austria. Includes two letters sent by Herbert to his mother Rosa, in England, the first from the La Hille childrens home in Ariege, France, in May 1941, and a second letter following his arrival in Chicago in June 1941, as well as a third letter that Herbert had sent to his father in March 1941. Also included are documents related to the imprisonment of Georg Kammer at the Récébédou concentration camp, including a postca...

  6. 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...

  7. I'm An American Day -- Christmas in Freedom

    1. "I'm An American" NBC radio broadcasts

    The I’m An American Day celebration is being broadcast from Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York on December 23, 1944. The temporary haven is an emergency refugee shelter for more than 1,000 Europeans. Newspaper columnist Dorothy Thompson reports on the displaced people’s first Christmas in America. She reports there are refugees from 14 different nations. Thompson describes their enjoyments of American freedoms despite being restricted to base. She explains why saving their lives should be important to the American people. Joseph Smart, War Relocation Authority Director of the Emergency Refuge...

  8. Fond nezavisna država Hrvatska

    • The Independent State of Croatia Collection

    The collection contains various documents from ministries, state institutions, regional and local state, and military institutions. Researchers of the Holocaust will be interested in the materials related to the looting of Jewish property, “Aryanization,” intermarriage, as well as the reactions to persecution from ordinary citizens. The collection contains rich material on interethnic and inter-confessional relations across Bosnia-Herzegovina. This includes cooperation and conflicts between Catholic and Muslim communities in Sarajevo and other locations in Bosnia during the Holocaust. Repor...

  9. Collection of Het Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen - The Committee for Special Jewish Interests in the Netherlands, 1933-1939

    Collection of Het Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen - The Committee for Special Jewish Interests in the Netherlands, 1933-1939 Het Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen – The Committee for Special Jewish Interests in the Netherlands was established in the Netherlands in 1933, in order to promote the matters of the Jews in the Netherlands; David Cohen and Abraham Asscher stood at its head; following the influx of Jewish refugees who arrived to the Netherlands shortly thereafter, a sub-committee named the Het Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen was established; Included in the collec...

  10. [Jahres Generalversammlung]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains an invitation to the annual meeting (Jahres Generalversammlung) of the Comite Israelite des Refugies Victimes des Lois Raciales (COREF). The annual meeting should take place at the 23rd of January 1949 in the Elysee 15, Place Fontainas, 1st Level. On the agenda were reports of the directorate, cash reports, discussions, general informations concerning Jewish life after the war and answering questions of the members. Afterwards a gathering with all members was planed to speak about new projects and past ones. Furthermore the members were asked to bring some cakes or snaks t...

  11. [Correspondence regarding 'das Laterndl']

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains newspaper reports, critiques and letters regarding the 'Laterndl, Wiener Kleinkunstbühne' (the Lantern). The Lantern was a small theater, founded and run by Austrian exiles in London during World War II. It was connected to the 'Austrian center', the 'Free Austrian Movement' and the 'Interniertenfond'. Opened on June 21st, 1939, it was active throughout the war years, with a break between summer 1940 and 1941, when most of the Austrian refugees were interned. The newspaper reports are published by the 'Zeitspiegel', which was a weekly published newspaper. The newspaper inf...

  12. Correspondence of the British Embassy in Berlin

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains informations about the History of Refugees in Noth England. Mr H. Loebl shared his findings with the Wiener library in London in 1979. He came across a correspondence between the Commercial Counsellor of the British Embassy in Berlin and the secretary of a local development organization in the years of 1936 till 1939. The Photocopies of the correspondence of the British Embassy in Berlin are regarding German Jewish professionals and possibilities for them to migrate to Great Britain. To accelerate the migration process the Emabssy, the British home office and the local org...

  13. [Memorandum about the rejection of emigration at the Evian Conference]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A Memorandum about the conference's rejection of emigration as a solution and the condemnation of the government's actions in depriving a minority of its legal and human rights. The memorandum suggests retraining young Jews in agricultural and manual occupations to find ways of financing the immigration. Hope that the Conference will seek to deal both with the causes of the trouble and with the immediate alleviation of the problem of refugees. Germany must release the immigrants' property. It is hoped that the Conference will establish a small executive body which will direct and supervise ...

  14. [Correspondence between British and Czech Jewish relief organizations]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several lettes. Mostly between the Relief Committee of Jews from Czechoslovakia, the American Jont Distribution Committee and the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation. Topics mentioned in the letters are establishing or continuing hostels in Bratislava, religous schools in Slovakia, funds for a Kosher Kitchen and an old aged home in Prague. As it might be a specifically Jewish need for some refugees and essential for their welfare. Also grants have been asked for necessary reconstruction of a hospital and claims involving restitution of Jewish property.

  15. Iekšlietu ģenerāldirekcija

    • Directorate General of the Interior
    • Generaldirektion des Innern

    Schema of Directorate General system; minutes of Directorate General board; correspondence with local boards about work organization and economy; personal files of employees; lists and forms of Latvian and Russian war refugees (1941-1944). Biographies of the city elders with data about participation in actions against partisans and “cleaning” actions in 1941.

  16. [A letter from Bentwich to Lord Herbert Samuel regarding Evian Conference]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A letter regarding the Zionists' wish to bring before the Evian Conference the whole Jewish problem and their pressure for the opening of Palestine for larger Jewish emigration. The American government is calling the conference primarily to deal with the problem of refugees from Germany and Austria rather than with a purely Jewish problem. There is no point of turning conference into a Jewish problem and it is better to focus on non-Aryan victims in Austria. According to Bentwich, it seems to be a pity that they Zionist should at this moment stress the need for a much greater immigration in...

  17. American Friends Service Committee records relating to humanitarian work in France

    The collection pertains to the activities of the American, British, and French Quakers in France and North Africa, from 1933-1950. The collection encompasses the Paris-based office of the Commissioner for Europe, the AFSC's liaison with the Allied occupation governments in Germany, Austria and North Africa as of 1943; and the Quaker delegations in Paris, Bordeaux, Caen, Le Havre, Lyon, Marseille, Montauban, Perpignan, and Toulouse. The materials consist of official correspondence, minutes of meetings, interviews with officials; weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and quarterly reports from delegatio...

  18. Archives des cabinets du Premier Ministre Hubert Pierlot à Londres.

    Ce fonds contient les documents émanant des cabinets ministériels du Premier Ministre, ses compétences et attributions furent grandement renforcées dans l’exil. Les dossiers suivants sont de grand intérêt dans le cadre de notre sujet d’étude : n°113 « Accueil de Juifs de Belgique réfugiés au Portugal (1941-1944) » ; n°253 « Publications juives (1941-1944) (The Jewish Bulletin, The Jewish Chronicle, United Palestine Appeal, American Jewish Congress) » ; n°302 « Répression des crimes de guerre (1943-1944) » ; n°456 « Persécutions antijuives en Belgique occupée (spoliation), démarche entrepris...