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  3. Agro-Joint colony of Mulatov

    LS of hospital run by a German Jewish refugee doctor. An intertitle notes that over 112 refugee physicians were placed in Russia during 1935. MLS of electrical tractor being operated (devised by one of colonists). CU of Morris Troper talking to a man. More shots of the tractor at work.

  4. German Extermination Camps - Auschwitz and Birkenau

    Contains a copy of a report entitled "German Extermination Camps - Auschwitz and Birkenau" written by escapees from the camp (unnamed in the report, later identified as Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler) in April 1944. The report was distributed in the United States by the War Refugee Board in November 1944.

  6. "Über Die Grenzen" issue

    1. Max K. Liebmann collection

    Consists of a copy of the Christmas 1945 issue of "Über die Grenzen," which was the last issue of the publication. "Über die Grenzen" was a periodical published by and for refugees and emigrants in labor and/or refugee homes in Switzerland during World War II. The newspaper includes articles written by refugees who found safety in Switzerland during the Holocaust. The articles discuss subjects such as economics, resistance, and the "Judenfrage." .

  7. Lidia Gelband Eichenholz collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, and notebooks documenting the experiences of Holocaust survivor Lidia Gelband. Collection includes her student notebooks and portfolio from UNRRA University in Munich, post-war identification papers and cards, medical diploma, documents and reports from the International Refugee Organization in Munich, and photographs of Dr. Lidia Gelband Eichenholz giving a talk at Carleton College.

  8. Gunter Wittenberg: copy personal papers

    This collection consists of the personal papers of Gunter Wittenberg, a former German Jewish refugee from Berlin. The papers contain an extract from his diary covering the early years in this country and correspondence and papers relating to his work history.

  9. Moritz Steinhäuser: Personal papers

    Personal papers pertaining to the imprisonment of Moritz Steinhäuser in Buchenwald concentration camp, the preparation of his emigration, and his life as refugee in Shanghai.

  10. Behiç Erkin memoir

    Consists of one CD-ROM containing the unpublished memoir, 589 pages, in Turkish, of Ambassador Behiç Erkin, who was the Turkish ambassador to Vichy France during World War II. Also includes a photocopy of a February 20, 1944 report from Laurence Steinhardt in Ankara to the War Refugee Board in Washington, DC, regarding rescue efforts in Turkey.

  11. Illegal Ship

    VAR shots of people on board. Everyone goes below deck to hide from bombs. British Navy patrollers jump onto refugee boat. Refugee boys toss out fake sign "Karaco Adalia" and raise Star of David flag and banner: "Haganah Ship Unafraid."

  14. Selected records relating to Kindertransports, from the National Archives, UK

    Contains selected records from various government offices relating to the Kindertransports, including policy, the refugee situation, the Guardianship Bill, financial assistance, pamphlets and annual reports of the Refugee Children's Movement, and some personal case files.

  15. Circular issued by the Committee for Polish Jewry in Jerusalem containing testimonies of Jewish refugees who escaped from Poland and Romania to Eretz Israel, December 1940

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

    Circular issued by the Committee for Polish Jewry in Jerusalem containing testimonies of Jewish refugees who escaped from Poland and Romania to Eretz Israel, December 1940 Testimony regarding the situation of the Jews under Soviet rule in Galicia; testimony regarding escape from Lwow and illegal crossing of the border into Romania presented by a refugee from Krakow; testimony regarding a female refugee from Romania.

  16. World Jewish Congress (WJC) documentation, 1940-1945

    1. O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection

    World Jewish Congress (WJC) documentation, 1940-1945 - World Jewish Congress correspondence with bodies within the American government and with the World Refugee Board, 1940-1945, regarding the rescue of children, displays of antisemitism, the Red Cross, rescue during the last year of the war, Polish Jewry, Romanian Jewry, Hungarian Jewry, the Bermuda Conference, the telegram sent by Riegner, the War Refugee Board representative in Geneva and the plan to annihilate European Jewry from 1942; - Excepts from the journal of Aryeh L. Kubowitzki (Kubovy) from the war year in the United States.

  17. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the administrators of the Caux Sur Montreux camps and the refusal of the refugees to be transferred to Algeria

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the administrators of the Caux Sur Montreux refugee camps and the refusal of the refugees to be transferred to Algeria Also in the file: - List of 1,362 refugees in Caux, 26 December 1944; - Letter of Maxim Glancz from Engelberg regarding help to members of a youth group from Bergen-Belsen now in Switzerland, 07 September 1945.