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  1. Yvette Molho.

    1. « Ça m'est arrivé »... Être juif en Dordogne entre 1939 et 1944.
    2. « Ça m'est arrivé »... Être juif en Dordogne entre 1939 et 1944.
    3. Mémoire

    Réfugiée avec sa famille à Siorac-en-Périgord (Dordogne), elle évoque l'excellent accueil de la population et les bonnes conditions de vie dont sa famille a bénéficié, malgré l'arrestation et la déportation de son père, Samuel Molho, le 24 févirer 1943 (il est déporté par le convoi n°51 à destination de Maïdanek (Pologne) ou de Sobidor (Pologne) le 6 mars 1943). Elle évoque aussi les a priori des gens envers les Juifs et l'impact de la propagande à cet égard.

  6. Lettres de Jean Folliet au sujet de Camille Folliet adressées à Rita Katz (1945).

    1. Archives de Camille Folliet
    2. Correspondance

    Comprend deux lettres et une carte représentant le portrait de Camille Folliet. Jean Folliet, frère de Camille, était lui aussi religieux. Rita Katz était juive (probablement d'origine autrichienne), réfugiée à Annecy après avoir tenté en vain de franchir la frontière suisse. Pendant une partie de la guerre, elle a vécu cachée chez les religieuses, avenue du Parmelan, à Annecy. Elle a activement participé à la Résistance.

  7. Basia and Morris Rubinstein papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Basia (née Zajaczkowska) and Morris Rubinstein, who met and were married in the Kielce ghetto in 1942, in the New Palestine DP camp in Salzburg, Austria from 1946-1951. Included are photographs of Basia in the refugee camp in Solberga, Sweden after her liberation from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, and two telegrams regarding her house in Kielce and one from her brother Leon Zajaczkowska informing her that he and her husband Morris were alive and in Italy. An accretion includes a 1939 letter from Basia’s mother Ides and sis...

  8. Elizabeth Koenig papers

    1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

    The Elizabeth Koenig papers consist of a letter from HIAS-JCA Emigration Association to Fritz Kaufmann; an autograph book including photographs of children in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; Elizabeth’s diary describing her life in France from February to July 1940; a 1939 map of the Hautes-Pyrénées; photographs of Elizabeth, her brother, and the La Guespy children’s house in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; and a school report Elizabeth wrote and illustrated after arriving in America about France under the occupation. Correspondence consists of a single letter from HIAS-JCA Emigration Association in Marseill...

  9. Wooden Lazy Susan decorated with an inlaid windmill scene created by a Latvian in a displaced persons camp

    Handmade, Latvian, wooden turntable with an inlaid windmill scene created in Kleinkötz Displaced Persons (DP) Camp at Günzburg in the American Zone of Germany between 1945 and 1951. Latvia had a long tradition of woodworking, and many skilled artisans lived in DP camps following the end of World War II (1939-1945), where they made some additional income from the sale of pieces and trained others. Kleinkötz had a population between 1,000 and 2,500 refugees, and a large percentage of those were from the Baltic nations, including Latvia. Following the end of the war, Allied forces established...

  10. Ullrich Remak papers

    1. Ullrich Remak collection

    Correspondence, personal identification documents, immigration documents, newsletters, and other documents related to the immigration of Ullrich Remak from Breslau, Germany to Scotland on a Kindertransport in 1939, his subsequent life at the Birkenward Hostel in Skelmorlie, Scotland, and efforts by his mother, Nanni Remak, to emigrate from Germany to Palestine. The collection largely consists of material created or collected by Remak in relation to his time at the Birkenward Hostel, with the bulk of this material dating from 1939 to 1942. Although there are government-issued identification ...

  11. Sophie Friedländer: personal papers and interviews

    This collection contains the personal papers of Sophie Friedländer, who was a teacher at the Jewish boarding school in Caputh, near Potsdam and later emigrated to the UK as a German Jewish refugee.Personal papers including correspondence, photographs, papers and press cuttings relating to the former Jewish school in Caputh; correspondence with German broadcasting companies regarding the production of a TV documentary on Kindertransporte and the former school in Caputh 'Als ob man nur ein bischen wegfährt' (1990); draft autobiography of Hilde Jarecki and correspondence regarding a joint auto...

  12. HIAS and HICEM Main Office, New York.

    The various series and subseries of this fonds contain many files relevant to the work of HIAS and HICEM in Belgium, or concerning aid to refugees from Belgium. We also point out that, as with other record groups of the HIAS-HICEM collection, the series and files in this fonds often include correspondence of Max Gottschalk, due to his position in this organisation. Series III (“Correspondence between HIAS and HICEM Offices”) contains several files with correspondence relevant to our guide, namely correspondence between Max Gottschalk and other individuals. See file III-3 (i.a. concerning Em...

  13. Larry Rosenbach papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Larry Rosenbach (born Eliezer Lajziu Rosenbach) and his family, originally of Leżajsk, Poland. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs depicting the Föhrenwald and Zeilsheim displaced persons camps in Germany, the Bielski partisans, and passengers on board the "Champollion" en route to Palestine. Also included are three postcards from Larry’s mother, Ewa Rosenbach, written in Zaklikov (Zaklików), Poland to cousins in Przemyśl, Poland describing the first deportation that occurred in her town and begging her cousins to t...

  14. Card made by two young internees to thank a US aid worker

    1. Roswell and Marjorie McClelland collection

    Thank you card made for Roswell McClelland, a US aid worker, by prisoners in Les Milles internment camp in France between 1941 and 1942. Roswell and his wife, Marjorie, went to Europe in August 1940 to work for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organization that promotes development, service and peace programs throughout the world. Roswell directed an AFSC refugee relief office in Rome until August 1941, when the office officially closed. Roswell and Marjorie were then sent to another AFSC office in Marseille, a port city in the southern part of France. Marseille was l...

  16. Records of HIAS-HICEM Main Office in Europe.

    This fonds contains many files concerning the situation of Jewish refugees in Belgium before the Second World War, and the work of BELHICEM/BEL-HIAS in particular. First of all, the records of a general nature in Series I (“France I, Pre-Occupation Records, 1933-1940”) may hold valuable information on Belgium – see the many general files, minutes of meetings, activity reports, statistical material and correspondence, often arranged by country. For instance, we can find information on the establishment of HICEM offices in Belgium (1939) in the minutes of monthly meetings of the HICEM Paris o...

  17. Harpuder family papers

    1. Ralph Harpuder family collection

    The Harpuder family papers consists of documents, photographs, correspondence, membership and identification cards, newsletters, programs, certificates, newspaper clippings, memoirs, postcards, and photograph albums. This collection documents the experiences of the Harpuder family in Berlin, Germany and Shanghai, China. Also included are correspondence and reunion booklets for the Jewish survivors of Shanghai through the Rickshaw Shanghai Reunion, which occurred during the 2000s.

  18. Sternbuch Isaac

    Representative in the Va'ad ha-hatsala rescue committee of the Orthodox rabbis in the United States together with his wife Recha. Headed the Relief Organisation for Jewish Refugees Abroad. Helped rescue numerous Jews from Poland and Czechoslovakia.

  19. Oral history interview with Tania Lefman

  20. Erica Goldstein Mansfield papers

    1. Erica Goldstein Mansfield collection

    Brief memoir written in 1997 by Erica Mansfield, originally of Vienna, Austria, and copies of personal papers documenting her experiences as a five-year-old child on a transport to the United States in May 1939, as part of a group of children sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus and Brith Sholom. Erica's parents and younger brother were able to emigrate to the United States later that year. Also includes a 2002 article by Dr. Erwin Tepper entitled "50 Children," with photographs and documents regarding Erica's transport and the other children in the group.