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  1. Greta Fischer papers

    1. Greta Fischer collection

    The Greta Fischer papers consist of biographical materials, concentration camp materials, photographs, printed materials, reports, memoranda, speeches, and souvenirs documenting Fischer’s work with UNRRA at the D.P. children’s centers at Kloster Indersdorf, Prien am Chiemsee, and Gstadt am Chiemsee. Biographical materials include records documenting Fischer’s work for UNRRA and a D.P. identification card for an infant named Rolf‐Igor Raudsep. Concentration camp materials include a hand‐drawn map of concentration camps in Europe and a hard labor ration card from an unidentified camp. Photogr...

  2. Dvora F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dvora F., who was born in Bełżyce, Poland in 1932, the third of four children. She recounts celebrating Jewish holidays with her extended family; her brother's birth in 1937; attending a Jewish school; German invasion; her father being taken for occasional forced labor; non-Jews hiding her, her mother, brother, and one sister underground, then in an apartment; ghettoization with all her family; sneaking into her parents group during a selection; deportation to Kraśnik, then Budzyń; her father remaining in Kraśnik; she and her brother hiding when her family worked;...

  3. Rachel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel K., who was born in Sokoły, Poland in approximately 1921, one of two children. She recounts attending a Polish public school; antisemitic harassment; attending a Jewish gymnasium in Białystok; German invasion; Soviet occupation a week later; moving to Białystok; her father and brother fleeing to Vilna; she and her mother joining them; her father living in another town due to his immigrant status (she never saw him again); German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor cleaning German soldiers' quarters; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; her mothe...

  4. Finland Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives records

    Contains reports to Helsinki (Finland) from the following Finnish Embassies: Vienna (Austria), Washington, D.C. (USA), Warsaw (Poland), Stockholm (Sweden), Prague (Czech Republic), Paris (France), Oslo (Norway), Hague (Netherlands), Budapest (Hungary), Berlin (Germany), Bern (Switzerland). Also contains records of incoming and outgoing cables to and from these embassies and copies of the Finnish Foreign Ministry files on various matters related to Jews, including files on the "Jewish question," and Finnish emigration policy. Other miscellaneous documents include personal name lists of Jewis...

  5. Schischa family papers

    1. Lilli Schischa Tauber family collection

    The papers contain correspondence between Johanna and Wilhelm Schischa in the ghetto in Opole, Poland, and their daughter, Lilly, in England; photographs of the Schischas and the Opole ghetto; documents concerning Lilly's emigration to London, England, from Vienna, Austria, on the Kindertransport in 1939; and correspondence between Lilly and her elder brother, Edi, who immigrated to Palestine in the early 1930s.

  6. Rosenstock family photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting the Rosenstock and Eisen families in Poland and Denmark before and during World War II and as refugees in Sweden during and after the war.

  7. Ilie Wacs family papers

    The Ilie Wacs family papers consist of biographical materials and correspondence documenting members of Ilie Wacs’ family in Vienna and their emigration to Shanghai, photographs documenting the Wacs family and their friends, and printed materials documenting Jewish refugee life and Ilie Wacs’ participation in Jewish cultural youth organizations in Shanghai. Deborah Wacs materials include identification papers. Henia Wacs materials include identification papers, registration records, and tax documents. Ilie Wacs materials include identification, membership, and travel papers; student records...

  8. Dorit Mandelbaum papers

    The papers consist of 44 photographs and six documents relating to Dorit Mandelbaum's parents, Jakub and Anka Mandelbaum, before and during World War II in Kozienice, Poland, and their stay in the displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany, after the war.

  9. Jacob G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob G., who was born in P'yanovichi, Poland (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1922, the youngest of thirteen children. He recalls German invasion; a non-Jewish friend warning him to leave and providing false papers for him and two friends; traveling to Bia?ystok; meeting his future wife; moving to Minsk; studying engineering; obtaining a Soviet passport; living in Uzda; German invasion in 1941; working as a mechanic; a mass killing of Jews; a brother and sister being killed while escaping; transfer to the Minsk ghetto in March 1942; a mass shooting of Jews; joini...

  10. Marek A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marek A., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1926. He recounts moving to Kalisz, where his sister was born, then to Warsaw; attending Jewish schools; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; attending a clandestine school; pervasive starvation; assignment to a German uniform factory; his family and friends building a bunker; hiding there during the ghetto uprising; surrendering when the building was burned; deportation to Majdanek; separation from his mother and sister (he never saw them again); transfer with his father to Budzyn?; slave labor in an ai...

  11. Edith C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith C., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928, one of two children. She recounts her family's poverty; their orthodoxy; moving to Genoa in 1937; initiation of anti-Jewish "racial" laws after the German-Italian alliance; traveling to Nice illegally via Ventimiglia; obtaining political asylum in April 1939; assistance from a refugee committee; attending school; her father's incarceration as an enemy alien after the outbreak of war; German invasion; his release; his and her brother's incarceration in Gurs, then Rivesaltes; her brother's escape; hiding him on a nearby...

  12. Records of the Religious Society of Friends in Great Britain: Friends Committee for Refugees and Aliens (FCRA)

    The collection contains minutes of the Germany Emergency Committee, which was later renamed the Friends Committee for Refugees and Aliens (FCRA). Records relate to the situation of Jews in Germany, support for refugees, internment, political prisoners, and visits to concentration camps. The collection also includes the pamphlet “An Account of the Work of the Friends Committee for Refugees and Aliens, first known as the Germany Emergency Committee of the Society of Friends 1933-1950,” by Lawrence Dalton, issued in 1954, as well as various other pamphlets relating to the work of the Committee...

  13. Evacuation of the Hohne camp and Glyn Hughes hospital

    Includes letters, memoranda, and minutes of meetings written between November 1949 and May 1950 relating to the evacuation of Jewish displaced persons from the Hohne camp near Bergen-Belsen and the Glyn Hughes hospital. Also included is a July 16, 1948, memorandum written by Josef Rosensaft concerning the growth of antisemitism in the British zone of Germany.

  14. Kehile newspaper clippings named after Boruch Hager Kehile prese oysshnitn on nomen fun Boruch Hager

    Articles and press clippings organized by Boruch Hager, a Jewish refugee in Argentina. Records relate to antisemitism, the Holocaust, and the arrival of Jewish refugees and survivors to Argentina. Included in the collection are indexes, clippings, photographs, and other materials. The collection shows the strong influence of the survivors and the impact of the memory of the Holocaust in all aspects of community life. From 1952 until the decade of 1980, the material was systematically organized in fourteen categories and arranged in enveloped labeled with category number, month and year. For...

  15. Helen Kulka Fanta collection

    The Helen Kulka Fanta collection contains material related to Helen Kulka Fanta, a Jewish secretary from Prague who was deported to Theresienstadt by the German authorities in 1942. She was later imprisoned at Auschwitz, Neuengamme, and Bergen-Belsen before being liberated in 1945. The collection consists primarily of identification forms, references, and other forms of verification documenting Helen Kulka as a refugee and concentration camp survivor. A diary written during her time at Bergen-Belsen is included as well. Other material includes poems collected and written, notes, and music s...

  16. Kurt Bigler papers Nachlass Kurt Bigler (ehem. Kurt Bergheimer) (1925-2007)

    Private papers of Kurt Bigler (1925-2007), a Jewish-German-Swiss pedagogue. The collection consists of his diaries, reports, family history, school and study documents, refugee files, adoption and Swiss citizenship files, restitution records related to his childhood, adoption by Joseph Bergheimer and later Berta Bigler, deportation to internment camps Gurs and Rivesaltes; private correspondence, and official correspondence related to professional activities, as teaching and political involvement in various associations, committees and commissions (e.g. Social Democratic Party of Switzerland...

  17. Ruth Taub Feldman papers

    The Ruth Taub Feldman papers consists of photographs of the Taub family, biographical materials documenting the Taub family, Ruth’s brief memoir, letters to Ruth from her father and Gilbert Kraus, an autograph book inscribed by Ruth’s parents and friends, clippings, and a newsletter. The papers document Ruth Taub’s immigration as one of the "50 children" in the spring of 1939, and the immigration of her parents, Markus and Jeanette, from Vienna to the United States in March 1940. The papers also include a copy of Brith Sholom's July 1939 newsletter, "The Royal Recorder," featuring an articl...

  18. Wooden plaque with the Hashomer Hatzair emblem given to a US soldier

    1. Joe Friedman collection

    Hand made wooden plaque given to Joe Friedman, a US Army officer and DP camp administrator, by an unknown DP camp resident in appreciation for Friedman's work in saving ca. 240 Jewish children at Kibbutz Nili, a DP camp located at the former Julius Streicher farm. It is carved with the Hashomer Hatzair logo, a wreath with a Star of David enclosing a fleur-de-lis. Hashomer Hatzair was a Zionist youth movement active in organizing unauthorized refugee travel across postwar Europe and illegal emigration to Palestine. Second Lt. Friedman deployed to Europe in 1944. He was attached to the Third ...

  19. Gaynor I. Jacobson papers

    The Gaynor I. Jacobson papers consist of biographical information, correspondence, photographs, printed material, reports, transcripts, and writings documenting Jacobson’s refugee aid work with the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) and especially his work assisting eastern European Jews fleeing anti‐Semitism and Communism. Biographical information includes the employment histories of Jacobson as well as author Tad Szulc and Auschwitz survivor Alex Dekel. Personal correspondence includes letters from Gaynor to his family describing his re...

  20. Lucien Dreyfus papers

    The Lucien Dreyfus papers primarily consist of five parts of a seven-part diary written by Lucien Dreyfus from 1940 to 1943. An intelligent and discerning man, Lucien used his diary to document his intellectual and social life as a refugee in the south of France, his observations on the rise of antisemitic laws and violence, his cardiac condition, his daughter’s family and their emigration to the United States, and his efforts to retrieve his confiscated property. The diary includes information about Lucien’s students, his opinions about the limited utility of assimilation in fighting antis...