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  1. Photo Collection.

    The Photo Collection of the JDC contains a couple of hundred of images relevant to the history of the Jewish communities of Belgium. Searching the Photographs database on keywords such as ‘Belgium’, ‘Brussels’ and ‘Antwerp’ nets over 370 results at the time of writing. These images especially depict scenes in the children’s homes, supported by the JDC, including many portraits of children and home personnel, children’s activities, etc. Apart from daily life in the homes (at the end of the 1940s), we also note some photos of refugees, of the MS St. Louis, of the refugee camp in Merksplas, …

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    1. Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    The bulk of this subcollection, which contains materials from 1942-1947, concerns the rescue and transportation of Jewish refugees during and after World War II from countries such as Bulgaria, Germany and Romania, as well as attempts to identify and locate survivors. The files contain lists of survivors, correspondence, shipping manifests, and cables. Additionally, these records contain substantial material on passengers on the SS Drottningholm, an exchange ship which carried Jews from concentration camps, including Buchenwald, and on the SS Mefkure, a rescue ship bombed and lost at sea in...

  11. Herman P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herman P., a psychiatrist who was born in Du?sseldorf, Germany, in 1892. He describes his childhood; his medical education; conscription into the army and service during World War I; his marriages; and his medical practice in Berlin, where he was Chief of Neurology at the Jewish Hospital. He tells of the encroachment of Nazi influence and anti-Jewish legislation; his attempt in late 1941 to inform the United States Embassy of the plight of the Jews in Poland; and going underground with his wife in 1943 after enabling his sons to flee the country. He recalls the help h...

  12. Sara F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1914, one of eight children. She recounts the emigration of two sisters to the United States when she was a child; working at her own business starting at age fifteen; marriage in 1938; her son's birth; German invasion; ghettoization; her husband's deportation for forced labor (she never saw him again); her mother's death; her son being taken in the children's deportation when he was two years old; deportation with her sister and niece to Auschwitz in 1944; their transfer to Stutthof; her niece's selection; her sister's refus...

  14. Marion L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marion L., who was born in Bielefeld, Germany in 1924 and raised in nearby Herford. Mrs. L. recalls her comfortable upper-middle-class childhood; playing in her father's tobacco warehouse; a non-Jewish girlfriend who refused to see her after joining a Nazi organization; a family employee's role in her home's looting on Kristallnacht; her father's return from incarceration at Sachsenhausen; being sent by her parents on a chidren's transport to Holland in 1939; and living in an orphanage with 100 other refugee children. She details the 1940 German attack; a prominent Ch...

  15. Sara W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah W., who was born in Szyd?owiec, Poland in 1923. She recalls growing up in a loving family with Jewish traditions; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; her father's killing by Germans; forced labor with her sister at an ammunition factory in Starachowice; deportation with her sister to Auschwitz; roll calls, hunger, and killings; road building with her sister; their deportation to Bergen-Belsen in January 1945; liberation by British troops in April 1945; reunion with her brother, who found her in Bergen-Belsen; her sister's recuperation in Switzerland; marriag...

  16. Margo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margo B., who was born in Schkeuditz, Germany in 1925. She recalls attending school in Halle; antisemitic restrictions; her father's arrest in 1938 because he had Polish citizenship; his release provided he emigrate within four weeks; his emigration to Paris; joining him with her younger sister, mother, and uncle a month later; moving to Villeneuve-sur-Lot; attending school; her father serving in the military when war began; his return upon French surrender; obtaining false papers for himself from a military colleague; their family receiving false papers from a non-Je...

  17. Luisa D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Luisa D., who was born in W?odawa, Poland in 1936. She recounts her father's emigration to Bolivia in 1939; German invasion; fleeing with her mother and older brother to Bia?a Podlaska; living in a ghetto; smuggling food with her brother; his death; hiding in an attic with other Jews during deportations; discovery; escaping into the forest with her mother; living with Jewish, then Russian partisans; her mother's refusal to go to Moscow without her; following the front to Lublin where they were liberated; their journey to a displaced persons camp in Munich; contacting ...

  18. Klara S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Klara S., who was born in a small town near Vladislavovka, Ukraine in 1900. She recalls moving to L?vov; moving to the ghetto with her husband, daughter, siblings and other members of their extended families; avoiding deportation due to her husband's job; hiding her daughter with a Polish woman; the liquidation of the ghetto; hiding with her daughter and sister-in-law with a Polish family for fourteen months; receiving letters from her husband; the deaths of her husband and most of the other members of their families; and liberation by the Russians. She relates travel...

  19. Edith Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith Z., who was born in Olkusz, Poland in 1921, one of four children. She recounts attending public and Hebrew schools; German invasion; fleeing briefly; ghettoization; transfer with a brother and sister to the Be?dzin ghetto; forced labor as a seamstress; a round-up (her brother was shot, her sister disappeared); deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1943; meeting her future husband; a death march to Ravensbru?ck; transfer to Neustadt/Glewe; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Terezi?n; returning home; learning no one in her immediate family had survive...

  20. Selected records from the archives of the kingdom of Belgium

    Contains records created and collected by the central and regional groups of the Association of Jews in Belgium (Association des juifs de Belgique), formed on November 25, 1941, at the order of the German occupation authorities, to serve as a national Judenrat. The materials consist mostly of registration forms containing personal data completed by all Jews in Belgium and registration forms containing data about Jewish-owned businesses and other properties. Additionally, there are files of change of address forms, organizations offering aid to refugees, immigration applications and processe...