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  1. Hans Wijsman photographs

    The collection consists of three prewar photographs depicting Hans Wijsman of Bloemendaal, the Netherlands in his military uniform. He is pictured with his father and other unidentified individuals. Hans was a Dutch prisoner in Buchenwald from 1943-1945.

  2. Degrelle, Léon, 1906-1994

    1. Biographical press cuttings collection (1945-1970s)

    Léon Degrelle was a Walloon Belgian politician, who founded Rexism and later joined the Waffen-SS (becoming a leader of its Walloon contingent) which were front-line troops in the fight against the Soviet Union. After World War II, he was a prominent figure in neo-nazi movements. He found refuge in Spain and from there he continued to spread his Nazi and Holocaust denying ideas. -- Wikipedia Text in English, German and French. 61 newspaper clippings; 20 p. of press extracts; 3 p. of a speech; 1 p. of a radio broadcasting; 3 p. of a letter; 4 p. of an article; 2 p. of a handwritten letter by...

  3. Dieckhoff, Hans-Heinrich, 1884-1952

    1. Biographical press cuttings collection (1945-1970s)

    "Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff (23 December 1884 – 21 March 1952) was a German diplomat best known for his service to the Nazi regime. Dieckhoff was born in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine. From 1937 to November 1938 he served as German ambassador to the United States, until recalled in response to the American recall of its ambassador in protest over the Kristallnacht. He was the last to occupy the post until after the war. In 1943 he assumed the post of ambassador to Spain. Dieckhoff was interrogated after the war and was called to testify at the Nuremberg trials, but he was never formally charged ...

  4. [years of antifascism]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several newspaper cuttings from 'The contemporary Review', which is a British biannual, formerly quarterly, magazine. Topics have been discussed and presented as 'the impression of modern Turkey'. Furthermore news published in German in 1937 dealing with the 4 years of antifascism and fascism in Germany and abroad. Also the question have been raised 'what was achieved for Spain?' and the situation of the German working class in Germany, how the wages droped and the working hours increased. Also a lot of subtopics regarding the situation in Germany, new nazi laws and resist...

  5. Papers of C.C. Aronsfeld on Spanish Jewry

    Research materials collected by Aronsfeld relating to Spanish Jewry, twentieth century (8 files)

  6. [Nazi Justice Trial Transcripts]

    1. The Nazi Justice collection

    The carpenter Josef Tomanee (born in Ratiboř in 1901) had already been a member of the French Foreign Legion and a refugee in Spain, before he went to trial in Brno due to his try to cross the border between the protectorate and Slovakia. He was also suspected of planning to join a Slovakian partisan movement. The court pleaded for Tomanee's death.

  7. [Report about the situation for Jews in Nazi occupied Luxemburg and escape in 1941]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Eyewittness accountof Felix Kahn about the situation in Nazi occupied Luxemburg and his efforts to flee Luxemburg. Felix Kahn succeeded to escape Luxemburg in 1941 through Portugal to the United States. Several documents concerning his escape are in the file next to his handwritten and typed testimony from 1977. His testimony is about the persecution of the Jews in Luxemburg and the deportations of the Jews from Luxemburg and his efforts to receive visas and his escape to Spain and the help of an emissary of the Joint in Lissabon. Letters and notices of the former president of the Jewish co...

  8. Anti-Nazi lithograph featuring Hitler surrounded by children’s faces

    1. Harold Lehman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn597138
    • English
    • overall: Height: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) | Width: 10.875 inches (27.623 cm)

    Black and white offset lithograph on paper by Harold Lehman showing Adolf Hitler ringed by several children’s ghostly faces. The image is artist Harold Lehman’s reaction to the bombing of the town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. In April 1937, at the request of Francisco Franco, German planes bombed Guernica, killing 1,600 civilians, destroying 70% of the town and shocking the American public. The piece was exhibited in the Alma Reed Gallery. Alma Reed was formerly an American reporter who worked in Mexico. In 1928 she left journalism and opened an art gallery in New York. An awar...

  9. Jack K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack K., who was born in Poland in 1920, the oldest of three brothers. He recounts his family moving to Trier in 1925; attending school; antisemitism beginning in 1932; moving to Barcelona, then Palma de Mallorca; moving to Marseille, then Paris in 1936 due to the Spanish Civil War; participating in Betar; organizing illegal emigration to Palestine; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation with his father and brothers to Pithiviers in May 1941; his mother's visit; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June 1942; obtaining a privileged office position because...

  10. Julius G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julius G., who was born in Scharnhorst, Germany in 1914, one of five children. He recounts his father's death from World War I wounds; attending public school; his family's move to Hamm in 1924; participating in a leftist Jewish club, then a socialist group (SAJ); harassment by an antisemitic teacher; joining a communist youth group (KJV); expulsion from school for communist activities; attending gymnasium in Münster from 1931-1933; his bar mitzvah; visiting his nanny's family in Scharnhorst; narrowly escaping arrest; traveling to Cologne; living with relatives in Tr...

  11. Jewish Communities in Hamburg Jüdische Gemeinden Hamburg (522-1)

    Files for the administration and organization of the municipalities of the Jewish communities in Hamburg, the Religious Association ("Religionsverband") and the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany ( "Reichsvereinigung"), as well as personal files of its members. Files contain information on daily life and the treatment of Jews in Germany before and during the Nazi era (including deportations, administration of Jewish assets and correspondences). This collection contains mixed collections of original documents and reproductions which reside half at the Hamburg State Archive and half at ...

  12. Jacques Schweitzer papers

    1. Jacques Schweitzer collection

    The collection primarily documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Jacques Schweitzer, originally of Paris, France, in the Forces françaises libres (Free French Forces). Included are identification papers, notebooks, certificates, and photographs. Many of the photographs document Jacques and his crew aboard the La Moqueuse. Other material includes prewar and wartime family photographs; and education, employment, and immigration documents.

  13. Elsbeth Kasses papers Nachlass Elsbeth Kasses (1910-1992)

    Private papers of Elsbeth Kasser (1910-1992), a nurse and aid worker for refugees in the internment camp of Gurs and in other places. The collection consists of: photographs; certificates; medals; and correspondence, including various documents relating to childcare in the southern France, refugee rescue, the internment camp Gurs, the medical mission to Finland, and the Swiss assistance to war victims; documentation on occupational therapy in Zurich, former internees, former employees in rescue projects in Spain and Southern France, and on rescue in Denmark, Germany and Switzerland; Also in...

  14. Charlotte Dunwiddie papers, 1907-1995

    The Charlotte Dunwiddie papers consist of biographical materials documenting Dunwiddie, her husbands, her parents, and her grandparents; correspondence among Dunwiddie and her family and friends during and after World War II; printed materials documenting Charlotte and Stanley Dunwiddie’s lives in Peru; restitution and property files, including architectural drawings and maps, relating to Dunwiddie’s efforts to receive compensation for inherited property in Germany that had been held in trust for her stepfather during the war so that it would not be seized as Jewish property; and four famil...

  15. Shadur family papers

    1. Michel Shadur family collection

    The Shadur family papers document the experiences of Michael Shadur and his family, including their relocation to Belgium after antisemitic boycotts began to undermine his family business in Berlin, and following the German invasion of Belgium in 1940, their subsequent escape through France, Spain, and Portugal before immigrating to the United States. The contents of the papers contain various documents of Michael and Manya Shadur, their children Joseph and Benita, and their extended family. These include travel documents, identification materials, school notebooks and report cards, and oth...

  16. Elisabeth Eidenbenz papers Nachlass Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011)

    Private papers of Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011), a teacher, nurse, and aid worker for refugees in the camps of Argelès-sur-Mer, Saint Cyprien, and Rivesaltes, France and in other places. The collection consists of private personal documents, correspondence and photographs of Elisabeth Eidenbenz and her family; reports, press articles, correspondence, and photographs relating to activities of Elisabeth Eidenbenz to rescue children of Spanish Republicans, Jewish refugees and Romanies fleeing the Nazi invasion. Elisabeth Eidenbenz was a founder of the Mothers of Elne-a maternal hospital at E...

  17. Monty Jacobs International Files

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Alphabetical Files

    Contains alphabetically arranged international files of Monty Jacobs, Press Director and Executive Director in the 1950s and 1960s. Box H370. Folder 11. Golan, Joseph, 1960-1963 Box H370. Folder 12. New Zealand, re: Markham, David, 1960-1961 Box H370. Folder 13. Nicaragua, 1962-1963 Box H370. Folder 14. Pakistan, Reuben, Simon, 1962, 1966 Box H370. Folder 15. Panama, 1962, 1964-1967 Box H370. Folder 16. Paraguay, re: Ku Klax Klan, 1961 Box H370. Folder 17. Peru, 1964, 1966-1967 Box H370. Folder 18. Peru, re: Triki, Hussein, 1962 October Box H370. Folder 19. Philippines, 1960, 1966 Box H370....

  18. International Alphabetical Files DL Correspondence and Clippings

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Alphabetical Files

    Consists of alphabetically arranged files on countries and regions. These materials were received by the American Jewish Archives from the WJC in 1987, several years after receipt of the main collection. Box H374. Folder 12. Libya, 1949-1952, 1955-1957, 1959 Box H374. Folder 13. Libya, 1961-1969 Box H375. Folder 1. Libya, 1970-1971 Box H375. Folder 2. Libya, 1972-1973, 1976 Box H375. Folder 3. Luxembourg, 1956-1979 Box H375. Folder 4. Malta, 1959-1979 Box H375. Folder 5. Mexico, 1958-1959 Box H375. Folder 6. Mexico, 1960-1981 Box H375. Folder 7. Monaco, 1962-1978 Box H375. Folder 8. Morocco...

  19. Garda de Fier

    • Iron Guard

    Founded in 1927

    The Garda de Fier was a fascist and anti-Semitic movement in Romania, whose members were known as ‘Legionnaires’. Originally established in 1927 under the name ‘legion of the Archangel Michael’ and organized into paramilitary units, the Garda de Fier soon became a mass political movement. It was officially dissolved in 1933, but continued to function, even receiving the third largest number of votes in Romania’s 1937 election. During the mid-1930s the Garda de Fier also established ties with the Nazi regime in Germany. In 1938, Romania’s King Carol II again outlawed the Garda de Fier. Nonet...