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  1. Wilhelm Pollak: personal papers

    This collection consists of the personal papers of Wilhelm Pollak, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who was forced to emigrate in 1939 after his release from Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps.Personal papers including correspondence and diary entries (including summarised translations) concerning Pollak's imprisonment, arrangements for his emigration to England and his stay at various internment camps. Also included are photocopies of inventories of Phillip and Friederike Pollak's property in Vienna.

  2. Account of the Kohn family's fate during the Holocaust

    This collection consists of a family history report on the fate of Thomas Brady's grandparents, Bernhard and Hedwig Kohn and their daughter Herta from Vienna who perished in the Holocaust.Account of the Kohn family's fate including illustrations of contemporary documents and details of other members of the family who were murdered. 

  3. Gerhard Weiler: diaries

    This collection contains the diaries of Gerhard Weiler, a Jewish scientist who emigrated in 1934 after receiving an offer to set up his own chemistry laboratory at Oxford University for his research.Gerhard Weiler's diaries, mostly of a personal nature describing his travels, activities with friends and family as well as comments on political events around the world. Also included is an extract from a Black List of the Gestapo which includes his name.English  German

  4. Zinaida Behmuaras: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Zinaida Behmuaras, a Lithuanian Jewish woman who fled to England from Nazi occupied France in 1940.Personal papers including are school certificates, marriage certificate and naturalisation papers, French ID papers, telegrams from Kauna (1940-1941), photographs, and death certificate. 

  5. Antonia Jacoby collection

    This collection contains a photocopy and transcripts of correspondence from Antonia Jacoby sent to her family in 1933 and in 1940, a few days after she escaped from Germany and emigrated to Japan. The complex financial problems she describes are a reflection of the new laws imposed on Jews in Germany at the time. The letter from Japan was written to Marie Behrendt, wife of Antonia's cousin Fritz Behrendt, who used to live in Breslau before emigrating to Argentina.

  6. Lilli Goldwerth collection

  7. Minasz Sankiewicz: ITS documents re his imprisonment at Buchenwald concentration camp

    This collection contains records relating to Minasz (Menashe) Sankiewicz, a Polish Holocaust survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp, obtained from the International Tracing Service (ITS) collection held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.Copy ITS papers including records created by the authorities at Buchenwald concentration camp such as registration records, medical examination papers, lists of inmates as well as a press cutting relating to the inmates at Buchenwald concentration camp and photographs.

  8. Michael Siegel collection

  9. Peter Ury: personal papers

    This collection contains the papers of Peter Ury, a Jewish composer from Cologne who emigrated to England in 1939 to escape persecution in Germany. Included are some musical scores of his work, correspondence and press cuttings. Also included are various membership and ID cards of Alfred and Ernina Unger (parents of Peter Ury's wife).

  10. Harold Jackson (formerly Hans Hermann Josephy): personal papers

    This collection comprises the personal papers of Harold Jackson (formerly Hans Hermann Josephy).

  11. Heinemann and Epstein family collection

    This collection contains photographs and a family tree relating to the Epstein family, a large Jewish family from Frankfurt.Photographs, family tree, also included is a notebook of poetry and correspondence addressed to Adelheid Heinemann who fled Nazi Germany with her husband, son and mother

  12. Selected Records from the Departmental Archives of the Charente-Maritime

    Contains a variety of documents pertaining to the wartime experience in the Charente-Maritime including, but not limited to, the preservation of law and order, expropriation of Jewish property and businesses, suppression of Freemasonry, operation and placement of anti-aircraft batteries, operations of internment camps at La Palice and Saintes, German propaganda, resistance activities, refugees, civilian evacuations, war crimes, liberation, and the internment of Spanish, Jewish and Roma.

  14. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland. Department of Emigration Centralny Komitet Żydow Polskich (CKŻP). Wydzial Emigracji (Sygn.303/XIV)

    Circulars, communiqués, and other publications; correspondence with American and Polish Jewish organizations and Polish governmental agencies; name lists of persons applying for passports, registration certificates, and records of financial assistance to emigrés; personal letters regarding emigration to Palestine/Israel; photographs and various miscellanea.

  15. "The Holocaust Survival of the Katz family, 1941-1944"

    "The Holocaust Survival of the Katz family, 1941-1944" is a 23 page memoir written by Ruth Katz Leiser. The memoir recalls the Holocaust experiences of the Katz family of Godulin, near Maišiagala, Poland.

  17. "Waves, A Memoir, 1929-1950"

    Consists of one memoir, 82 pages, entitled "Waves, A Memoir, 1929-1950," by Dr. Julius J. Menn, originally of Langfuhr, near Danzig (Gdansk), Poland. Dr. Menn describes his childhood, his family's immigration to Palestine in 1935, their journey back to Poland in 1938 (as his mother did not adjust well to Palestine), first to visit family in Vilna, and then to settle in Warsaw. He recalls Polish antisemitism, the invasion of Poland, and fleeing east, first to Molodechno, and then to Vilna. In 1940, the family was able to travel from Odessa to Tel Aviv, and remained in Palestine during the Ho...

  18. Selected records from the Archives of the Département of the Creuse

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn37059
    • English
    • 1937-1945
    • 24,633 digital images, JPEG 5 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm 1 microfilm reel (digitized), 35 mm 4 DVD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in. 24 pages of photocopies,

    Materials of the Cabinet du Préfet, the Service du Travail Obligatoire (office sending French workers to Germany), and summer camps for city children; documents on the surveillance and internment of foreigners, including prewar German, Austrian, and Polish political refugees; documentation of the activities of the French gendarmerie and of the 1943 deportations.

  19. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Lot

    The collection contains pre-war and wartime lists of German Jewish refugees, of foreigners directed toward the internment camp of Argelès for enemy aliens and foreign Jews in 1940, and of the children’s home at Roumegoux; lists of French and foreign Jews residing in the département; forms declaring that the signatory is not Jewish; forms that the signatory is not a freemason; local application of antisemitic legislation; and Masonic lodges in Cahors and elsewhere in the area.

  20. Selected records from the State Historical archives of the Chuvash Republic related to evacuation of civilians during WWII

    Contains records of evacuations to Chuvashia during World War II, including information on resettlement, employment, food supply, and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. The collection also includes various lists of evacuees and members of their families.