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  1. [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...

  2. [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...

  3. [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.

  4. Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution

    PDF of an expanded version of Alexander Silbiger's memoir, Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution, 1942-1943 (2020), 73 pages. Alexander Silbiger, originally of The Hague, The Netherlands, describes his family's attempts to escape the Nazi regime in 1942, by traveling through Belgium and France before finally leaving Europe. The family first went to Jamaica and then spent the rest of the war in Curacao. The original version of this memoir was previously accessioned as 2006.27

  5. Heinrich Kraschutski: copy correspondence concerning his fate

    The letters deal with the fate of Heinrich Richard Albrecht Kraschutski, formerly commander in the German navy, 1914-1918, becoming a prominent figure in the pacifist movement in Germany after the First World War, and co-editor of the pacifist weekly, Das Andere Deutschland, the publication of which was regarded as particularly pernicious and treacherous by the Reichswehr because of its disclosures of violations of the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. He went to Majorca and together with a small group of other anti-nazi refugees opened a little workshop of arts and crafts at...

  6. William Scheer papers

    This collection contains primarily school and college certificates of Wilhelm Scheer from his time growing up in Poland. Also included is an Italian id document, 1939; a US naturalisation certificate, 1946; sundry other material; and photographs of William Scheer and other family members.

  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. 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 ...

  10. 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.

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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....

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. Day of German Art 1933; Hitler salutes crowds

    “TAG DER DEUTSCHEN KUNST.” In Munich, people ride bicycles. Outdoor area with seats, decorated with large swastikas behind the podium and Reichsadler on the wall at the center. Nazi soldiers form a wall in front of the crowd on the street. Men in uniform walk by. “HERR HITLER” Hitler’s motorcade, he stands in the passenger seat of a car, salutes crowd. “PARADE” Spectators heil as the parade moves. Men transport a model of the Reichsadler. Soldiers on horseback with large Nazi flags. Classical-style sculpture of a male torso is carried. More parade floats and costumes. “SEEING THE PARADE WIT...

  20. Documentation, including listings of telephone discussions between Saly Mayer and the JDC organization's center in Lisbon and in New York regarding various subjects, Radio Bulletin No. 79, and other matters, January-December 1945

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Documentation, including listings of telephone discussions between Saly Mayer and the JDC organization's center in Lisbon and in New York regarding various subjects, Radio Bulletin No. 79, and other matters, January-December 1945 - Data regarding the JDC organization's activities in various countries; - Documentation regarding the continuation of the (ARBA) [?] negotiations, regarding the rescue of the remnant of Hungarian Jewry; - Documentation regarding the care of persecuted Jews who were liberated and are in Bergen-Belsen, Theresienstadt, and other camps; - Radio Bulletin No. 79, publis...