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  9. Central Historical Commission : Collection about displaced persons (M.1.P)

    The collection contains materials gathered by The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee (CHC) of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone, Munich related to the post-war activities-political, social, and cultural-of then-liberated Jews in the DP camps and in the newly-established Jewish communities in Germany in the American zone. Types of materials: documents, name lists, reports, correspondence, statistical table, posters, announcements, and excerpts from publications.

  10. Jack and Sonia Rubin papers

    The papers consist of an immunization certificate, certificate of identity, D.P. identification card, two D.P. passes, two passenger tickets to the United States for the United States Lines Company, and two embarkment cards for Sonia Rubin and Zawel Rubinstein [donor's first husband]; six photographs from a proofsheet of scenes from the boat on which Sonia Rubin's brother emigrated to the United States; one photograph of children playing in Bremenhaven, Germany; and six pre-World War II photographs of Jack Rubin and his family.

  12. Hashomer Hatzair Prague-Bratislava Office (RG-33)

    Contains correspondence, letters, diaries, activity reports of the Hashomer Hatzair, Prague-Bratislava office concerning refugee camps, immigration, summer settlements, and a seminar held in Lindenfels (Germany). Records relate to the Hashomer Hatzair movement in various European countries or areas such as Poland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Romania, Transylvania, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Italy, and France.

  13. German occupation of Belgium; civilians, soldiers, refugees

    Life under occupation in Belgium: citizens and soldiers "share" the town. Belgian POWs, supervised by Belgian troops (?collaborators? They wear large white armbands. Belgian policeman also visible), work on a bridge. Women walk their bicylces across the bridge, following the soldiers' directions. Germans eating; inspecting weapons in a town square. Sunny day. Soldiers march on country road. Refugee family drives by. More refugees -- in horse-drawn carts, on foot, and pushing bicycles. A car rolls by, loaded with possessions and pushed by the men and boys of the family, while the women and a...

  16. Fanny Freund collection

    Collection of documents and certificates documenting the experiences of Fanny Freund (b. 1923 in Tarnopol), before during and after the Holocaust. Collection includes a certificate stating that Fanny Freund was liberated by the British Army from the Belsen concentration camp, dated December 14, 1948; an IRO processing card issued to Fanny Freund, November 1949, with photo of bearer attached; blank registration card; Arbeitskarte (work card) issued for "Maria Chrestschenko" (Fanny Freund's false identity), photo of bearer attached, issued January 27, 1944; a deposition stating that Fanny Fre...

  18. Margarete Borchardt Rund memoir

    Consists of one memoir, with copies in the original German and in English translation, written in 1973 by Margarete Borchardt Rund, originally of Berlin, Germany. In the memoir, Mrs. Rund, who was born in 1885, describes her unhappy childhood and difficult marriage to Sigismund Rund, who was the Consul General to Panama and Estonia in the Weimar Republic. During their marriage both her husband (and later she) were unfaithful. She describes the changing life in Berlin after 1933 and her husband's immigration to Switzerland in 1934. She documents the Nazi confiscation of money and her efforts...

  20. Ludwig and Hedwig Klein collection

    Consists of passports, documents, and correspondence related to Ludwig and Hedwig Klein, originally of Frankfurt, Germany. Ludwig and his wife Hedwig were able to emigrate to the United States after Ludwig, who was arrested on Kristallnacht, was released from Buchenwald. Includes documents related attempts to bring his brother, Josef, to the United States from France; as well as documents pertaining to Josef's life in France as a refugee from Germany, his interment in various camps as an enemy alien, and his eventual deportation to Auschwitz via Drancy, including postwar correspondence and ...