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  1. Martin R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin R., who was born in Posen, Germany (presently Poznan?, Poland) in 1908. He describes his father's death as a Prussian officer in World War I; his mother's strong German identification; moving to Berlin with his family in 1918; attending school in Bu?tow; antisemitic incidents; joining a family lumber business in Danzig in 1936; moving to Warsaw in 1938; German invasion; traveling to many places to avoid German capture; arriving in Amsterdam in November 1939; German invasion; escaping by boat; incarceration as an enemy alien in many places, including St. John's,...

  2. Erna P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erna P., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1903. She describes her childhood and education in a middle class Viennese family; her marriage in 1933; changes in living conditions which resulted in their decision to leave; her pregnancy and abortion; escaping to Brussels in 1938; meeting her parents there; leaving for Paris with her husband because they had no documents; incarceration in a French jail for one month because of lack of documents; obtaining visas for the United States in 1939 while her husband was in a French internment camp; arrival in New York; and obtai...

  3. Vilna broadside

    Bekanntmachtung Nr. 19 des Buergermeisters der Stadt Wilna [Notice No. 19, Mayor of Vilnius]; Vilnius, Lithuania; in German, Lithuanian, and Polish; Broadside issued on August 22, 1941 three months after the German occupation of Vilnius, ordering the refugees who arrived in the town after September 1, 1939, and who did not get Lithuanian citizenship until June 1940, to register in the municipal offices. The broadside also calls all of Vilnius residents to register in the police headquarters in their neighborhood and get an identity card. At the end, the broadside states that the decree does...

  4. Bernhard Haas papers

    Two handwritten notebooks kept by Bernhard Haas, a Jewish prisoner in the Atlit detention camp near Haifa, 1944. Includes journal, poems and transcripts of letters. The date and place of writing are recorded on the first page of each notebook: Camp 195, Haifa, February 1944 / Camp 119, Atlit-Haifa, April 1944. The first notebook opens with a brief summary of Haas's life story until his arrest, including his childhood in Giessen, being orphaned of both his parents, the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany, his voyage to Palestine from Trieste, his studies in the Mikveh Israel agricultural s...

  6. Selected records of the Central Committee for Social Welfare in Warsaw Centralny Komitet Opieki Społecznej w Warszawie (Sygn. 164/0)

    Questionnaires of children who were abroad (in Denmark and Norway), correspondence and name lists on the persons returned to Poland after the Second World War. Includes documents related to financial assistance for children and lists of former KL Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners who survived the camp.

  7. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)

    This fonds is divided into 11 major series, relfecting the principal activities of the organization, with an emphasis on the WWII and postwar period.

  10. Cesia Carol Redlich papers

    1. Cesia Carol Redlich collection

    The collection consists of photographs taken at the Bergen Belsen displaced persons camp, five photographs of United Children's Care orphans; one photograph of Cesia Carol Redlich's foster mother and her natural daughter; one photograph of Cesia Carol Redlich with her foster mother's natural daughter; and a memorial card listing the Yahrzeit memorial anniversary dates of the 15,000 Jews deported from Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland. Contains a photograph of Bergen-Belsen survivors at a sign commemorating the victims of Bergen-Belsen; a photograph of high school teachers (Bergen Belsen survivor...

  11. Pamphlet

    1. Ray and Hersch Berman collection

    Pamphlet published by the Office of Jewish Information (OJI).

  12. Richard and Rena Voss collection

    Personal papers, in particular vital records and identity documents, of members of the Voss and Mendel-Lion families.

  14. Pavel Novak: copy personal papers

    This collection comprises a school leaving certificate dated 1939, of Risa Elizabeth Novak, Pavel Novak's wife; a certificate from the Jewish Refugees Committee in London about her arrival from Austria in May 1939; and a certificate from a group of Austrian Trade Unionists in Great Britain, confirming the identity of her father and the fact that he was arrested for anti-fascist activities in 1934 and 1938.

  15. Paul Fraser collection

  16. Regensburger family papers

    This collection of papers concerns the experiences of a German Jewish family which settled in Great Britain in 1939. Correspondence and personal papers of Resi Regensburg re naturalization, the possibility of voluntary work, restrictions for aliens and the remittance of money abroad

  18. Ilse Hyman collection

    The collection primarily consists of Ilse Hyman’s correspondence after she arrived in the UK.

  20. Raschkow family papers

    This collection consists of the personal papers and correspondence of Walter Raschkow, a Jewish architect and his non-Jewish wife, Emma. It includes a set of Red Cross telegrams to and from their daughter, Ingeborg-Maria Raschkow (later Mayer) throughout World war II whilst she was in England and her parents remained in Stuttgart. Of particular interest is material relating to their marriage status as ‘priviligierte Mischehe' at 630/2 and material relating to Walter Raschkow's claim for compensation from the German government for suffering caused by the Nazis during the war at 630/4