Search

Advanced query tips

There are several ways to be more specific in your search query:

"Phrase"
Search an exact match of your query, e.g. "Member lists"
+Phrase
Given word has to be in the result, e.g. +Gestapo
-Phrase
Exclude given word from search, e.g. -Gestapo

Use the following syntax to restrict the search to specific fields:

field:"phrase"
For instance, you can find all descriptions that have the phrase "Auschwitz Birkenau" in their titles by searching for title:"Auschwitz Birkenau".

The following fields are currently available:

  • identifier
  • title
  • creator
  • person
  • place
  • subject
  • address
Displaying items 5,361 to 5,380 of 7,808
Search result ordering

  1. United Restitution Organization (URO)

    1. United Restitution Organization (URO): Rundschreiben 1961-1973

    The file contains six circulars (“Rundschreiben”) by the United Restitution Organization (Frankfurt) from November 1965 and February 1966. The circulars include the following issues: no. 1384, no. 1383, no. 1382, no. 1371, no. 1369, and no. 1367. They mainly deal with recent court judgements on questions of restitution, especially regarding juridical regulations and procedures, damages to the professional career following Nazi persecution, damage to the property, and the definition of the term “refugee” (“Flüchtling”). The topics include: “ Wiedereinstieg in den vorigen Stand“, „Berufsschad...

  2. United Restitution Organization (URO)

    1. United Restitution Organization (URO): Rundschreiben 1961-1973

    The file contains five circulars (“Rundschreiben”) by the United Restitution Organization (Frankfurt) from January and February 1965. The circulars include the following issues: no. 1302, no. 1300, no. 1299, no. 1298, and no. 1296. They mainly deal with recent court judgements on questions of restitution, especially regarding juridical regulations and procedures, table records, and the definitions of the terms “Vertriebener” (expellee) and “Flüchtling” (refugee) for people who fled the Soviet occupied part of Germany. The topics include: „Tabellensätze“, „Antragsfrist und Wiedereinsetzung f...

  3. United Restitution Organization (URO)

    1. United Restitution Organization (URO): Rundschreiben 1961-1973

    The file contains eight circulars (“Rundschreiben”) by the United Restitution Organization (Frankfurt) from April and May 1964. The circulars include the following issues: no. 1229, no. 1228, no. 1227, no. 1226, no. 1225, no. 1223, no. 1222, and no. 1220. They mainly deal with recent court judgements on questions of restitution, especially regarding juridical regulations and procedures, health damages and professional damages following Nazi persecution, persecution in the city of Danzig, and the medical examination of Displaced Persons after 1945. The topics include: „Berufsschaden“, „Gesun...

  6. 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.

  7. Solomon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon R., who was born in Jerusalem in 1908. He describes traveling to Ulm in 1946, representing the Joint; working with displaced persons, Allied forces, HIAS, and UNRRA; providing food, religious services and supplies, schools, and recreational activities to displaced persons in camps and in the area; cigarette rations functioning as currency; diverse political and religious groups; relations with local Germans, non-Jewish eastern European refugees, and Allied personnel; and the efforts of army chaplains to raise morale.

  8. Sylvia J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia J., who was born Brooklyn, New York. She recalls joining the United States Army in March 1943; being set to Europe after the war; stationing at Frankfurt in August 1945; obtaining a job with UNRRA; working at Landsberg displaced persons camp orgainizing food distribution; trying to understand the survivors' struggles to restore their lives; a Purim and Passover celebration; minimal interaction with Germans; resigning from UNRRA in November 1946; and returning to the United States.

  9. Alice S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1913, the youngest of three children. She recalls many injured veterans from World War I; active participation in a Zionist youth group, despite her parents' disapproval; completing studies at a private gymnasium, then medical school; her older brother and sister emigrating to join relatives in the United States; pervasive antisemitism; the Anschluss; the transformation of most Austrians into Nazis; the non-Jewish superintendent of their building protecting them during a round-up; emigration to the United States; training a...

  10. Al H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Al H., who was drafted into the United States Army in 1941. He recounts serving in the 104th Infantry Division; landing on Utah beach; fighting as they progressed through France, Belgium, and the Netherlands into Germany; liberating Nordhausen in 1945; the pervasive stench and corpses strewn about; his uncontrollable sobbing; observing General Dwight Eisenhower's reaction; taking photographs; ordering local Germans to bury the dead; their denial of any knowledge of the camp; assisting Jewish women prisoners who had been hiding nearby; leaving after two or three days; ...

  11. Zohn M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zohn M., who was drafted into the United States Army and served in the 103rd Infantry Division, 409th Regiment in World War II. He recounts liberating slave labor camps in Bavaria; entering Landsberg concentration camp; stacks of corpses; encountering a group of camp prisoners being evacuated; describing them as walking skeletons; entering Dachau after its liberation; a former prisoner guiding him through the camp; and screening refugees moving into displaced persons camp. He shows photographs and items from the camps, a book about his regiment, and reads from a lette...

  12. Shary K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shary K., who was born in Travnik, Yugoslavia in 1918. She tells of her marriage on April 6, 1941, the day of the German invasion; living in Tuzla; leaving her mother behind (she never saw her again) to escape, dressed as a Muslim, to Mostar to join her husband; working as a nurse for the partisans; fleeing to Bari, Italy; emigration to the United States; life at Fort Ontario; and their return trip to Yugoslavia in 1991.

  13. Ida C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida C., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1931. She recalls moving to Siedlce, returning to Warsaw prior to 1938; brief German invasion while she was with her grandparents near Siedlce; Soviet occupation; traveling to Minsk; her parents and sister joining them, transport to Arkhangel?sk in late 1939, then to a labor camp in Komi; attending school while her parents worked; hunger; and transfer to Samarqand at the end of 1941. Mrs. C. recounts their return to Poland in 1945; leaving ?o?dz? intending to emigrate to Palestine, living in a displaced persons camp and in Ulm...

  14. Henry C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry C., who was born in the United States. Mr. C. describes his Yiddish and Workmen's Circle background; attending college; being drafted into the United States Army in 1944; eight months of combat in Europe; working at the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Headquarters; discharge from the army in 1946; working for UNRRA as a civilian, managing Fo?hrenwald displaced persons camp; frequent problems maintaining the physical facilities resulting in poor sanitation; an incident when U.S. soldiers harassed Jewish refugees; his attempts to improve co...

  15. Mendel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mendel S., who was born in Vienna and raised in Poland. He speaks of the Russian occupation of his home town; the ghettoization immediately following the German occupation; the killing of his family; his escape to the woods, where he remained in hiding for two years; his deportation to Siberia by the Russians in 1944; and his emigration from Russia, including his stay in a displaced persons camp.

  16. Oral history interview with George Schwab

  17. Oral history interview with Henia Shylit

  18. BADER, Alfred = Internment-related documents

    Documents relating to his internment at Ile aux Noix camp, also about his grant to Queen's University. Includes photocopies of the official diary of the Canadian camp commandant.