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  1. Luba Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Luba Z., who was born in Wyszko?w, Poland in 1914, one of nine children. She recounts visits to Warsaw; German invasion; fleeing with her family to Sarny; fleeing further with one sister (she never saw her family again); hiding in various places, including Zhadova; marriage; traveling to Germany; living in Lechfeld displaced persons camp; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States. Ms. Z. notes her son does not want her to discuss her experiences because she becomes too upset. She shows photographs.

  2. Ralph M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ralph M., who was born in 1922 and served in the United States Army. He recounts military draft in November 1942; landing at Omaha beach; the Battle of the Bulge; assisting displaced persons; entering Dachau; emaciated prisoners; locating a mass grave near Regensburg; forcing the local townspeople to rebury the dead; working at Straubing displaced persons camp; friendships with refugees; returning home; and military discharge. He shows photographs and a drawing of himself by a former camp prisoner.

  3. Esther G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther G., who was born in Mutvitsa, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1934. The information in this testimony is all contained in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-1434).

  4. Judiska församlingen i Göteborg, E 11

    1. The Jewish Community of Gothenburg
    • Handlingar ang hjälp åt danska flyktingar (1943-1946)

    E11 contains records concerning different forms of aid for Danish refugees between 1943 and 1946. All of the records are in either Danish or Swedish. The records are accounts of different forms of relief for Jewish refugees from Denmark, including descriptions of the Danish school in Gothenburg and accounts of how Danish Jewish students were aided in finishing their higher education while in exile in Sweden. There are also descriptions of how the different forms of aid changed over time. These descriptions also state that E. M. Weis was appointed manager of refugee aid. Other board members ...

  5. John Goldsmith family documents

  6. Pavel Novak: copy personal papers

    This collection comprises a school leaving certificate dated 1939, of Risa Elizabeth Novak, Pavel Novak's wife; a certificate from the Jewish Refugees Committee in London about her arrival from Austria in May 1939; and a certificate from a group of Austrian Trade Unionists in Great Britain, confirming the identity of her father and the fact that he was arrested for anti-fascist activities in 1934 and 1938.

  7. Paul Fraser collection

  8. Articles and U.S. military records relating to displaced persons in postwar Europe

    1. Albert Hutler collection

    Includes copies of military documents and other materials from various U.S. Army authorities (e.g., 7th U.S. Army, Headquarters USFET, SHAEF) in postwar Europe concerning the management, care, living conditions, and repatriation of displaced persons. Also included are two copies of the report written by Earl G. Harrison to President Truman in 1945 concerning conditions for displaced persons in Europe, together with a condensed version of the same report that appeared in the "National Jewish monthly," November 1945 issue.

  9. Albert Hutler letters relating to displaced persons in the American Zone of occupied Germany

    1. Albert Hutler collection

    Relates to U.S. Army's military government postwar management and care of displaced persons and their repatriation, particularly in the American Zone of occupied Germany.

  10. Judiska församlingen i Göteborg, E 12

    1. The Jewish Community of Gothenburg
    • Handlingar ang American Jewish Joint Distribution Committees flyktingverksamhet (1945-1957)

    E 12 contains records concerning the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s refugee activities between 1944 and 1957. Most of the records are accounts of the different activities the Swedish part of the committee undertook and estimations of how many prisoners were liberated from concentration camps and when. The series also includes much correspondence between the Swedish branch of the AJJDC and other parts of the committee. Many letters are addressed to Julius Hüttner, the chairman of the Refugee Committee [of the Jewish Community] in Gothenburg. Among these letters are a few conc...

  11. Documentation of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss Workers' Social-Welfare Organization, Department for Refugees Relief), regarding refugees and emigrants from Germany

    Documentation of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss Workers' Social-Welfare Organization, Department for Refugees Relief), regarding refugees and emigrants from Germany Reports from the regional relief organizations and the directors of camps and residences of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss workers' social-welfare organization, Department for refugees relief), regarding the refugees' recreational activities including detailed reports from several refugee camps and residences concerning lectures and cultural ...

  13. Papers of Mrs Cissi Z. Rosenfelder

    The papers include lists of children from Germany, their date of birth, and the names and addresses of those offering a home, 1938-9; correspondence, photographs and case papers for individual children and young women from Germany, correspondence with refugee committees, including the German Jewish Aid Committee, 1938-9; letter from the Federation of Woman Zionists about running Whittingehame House as a training centre, 1939; minutes of the Whittingehame House general meeting, 1939; Movement for the Care of Children from Germany guarantee forms, memorandum of information, casework letter, l...

  14. Allen Rezak photograph collection

    1. Rezak family collection

    The collection consists of thirty-one photographs taken at Feldafing DP Camp in Germany after World War II.

  15. International Tracing Service, Quarterly Report April- May-June, 1949

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The quarterly report (April-May-June 1949) includes the usual statistics and letters of thank by grateful parents who were reconnected with their children. Furthermore it states a deadline for refugees to seek assistance of the International Refugee Organization, namely the 31.9.1949. Also, that the child search will fall into the mandate of the IRO now and it presumably won't be completed before 1951.

  16. Anna Lindhagens samling

    • Anna Lindhagen's collection
    • Stockholms Stadsarkiv
    • Anna Lindhagens samling
    • English
    • 1874-1941
    • 5,1 linear meters of mostly textual records.

    In the series Brev och andra handlingar (Letters and other documents) there are four volumes (28-32) named Handlingar ang. Internationella Kvinnoförbundet för Fred och Frihet, IKFF (Documents concerning International Women's Federation for Peace and Freedom, IKFF). 1917-1941. One volume containing documents concerning the Save the Children Association 1920--39, and several volumes of documents from other refugee aid committees with scattered documents concerning Jewish refugees in Sweden.

  17. Refugees

    Iran: Group of women, children, few men, walking in sun, sand. Mountains in BG. CUs of faces, bare feet, hands, luggage and bundles. Arrival at refugee camp. Other refugees greet them, they embrace. CU of people exchanging kisses, particularly women and children, and greetings. Registration. VS, tents, washing, getting clothes, eating.

  18. Oral history interviews of the Gabrielle Tyrnauer collection

    Oral history interviews with Roma and Sinti survivors of Nazi concentration camps

  19. Morris Siegelman collection

    Consists of one identification card issued to Morris Siegelman in the Beth Bialik (or Beit Bialik) displaced persons camp in Austria on September 17, 1948.

  20. Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters) -- Czech Jewish refugees arrive in Britain

    Appeal for Czech Jewish refugees who have arrived in Britain following the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Germany. The appeal was broadcast by Earl(?) Baldwin. Footage shows Baldwin at his desk, refugees at a tent camp, INTs mess hall, girls cleaning barracks, and young men writing letters.