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  3. Jews in Sweden II

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the second part of a collection of lists compiled by the Jewish community of Sweden. The list consists of two parts. The first for Jews who arrived before June 26th, 1945 (group 1) and the second part after (group 2). The lists are in alphabetical order (first and last name, date of birth, city and identity card no.) and grouped by nationality.

  4. [reports and resolutions of the sub-committees of the Conference for the relief of German Jewry]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Report of the Academic Committee of the Conference for Relief or German Jewry. Report of the Committee on Relief outside Germany. Resolutions adopted by Bureau. Location of the Committees. Report of the Reconstruction Committee. Report of the Refugees Sub-Committee. Report of the Sub-Committeeon Migration. Conference Resolution

  5. [Labor and Refugee Camps in Switzerland during World War II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains various memoranda concerning the treatment of and legal rules of behavior for war and Nazi prosecution victims seeking refuge in Switzerland for the duration of World War II, while being interned in labor and refugee camps.

  6. [Correspondence of DALJEWCIB concerning the non-availability of travel visas for Jewish emigrees en route to Mandchukuo]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence of the Far Eastern Information Bureau (DALJEWCIB) concerning the prohibition of passage of foreigners on the way to Manchoukuo via Dairen (Dalian), Japanese-occupied China, and the non-availability of travel visa to Mandchukuo

  7. Dialektisches Judentum

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several newspaper clippings of 1941, published in in the United States. Most of the clippings are from the magazine the 'Aufbau', which is the name of a German-Jewish newspaper founded in 1934 and until 2004 it was based in New York. The "Aufbau" quickly became the most important source of information and contact point for Jewish and other German-speaking refugees in the United States. The word 'Aufbau', whose English form 'Reconstruction' temporarily served as subtitle, meant the renewal of German-Jewish life in the USA. In this edition the main subject was the dialectic ...

  8. מאטעריאלן וועגן יידישן חורבן אין פוילן

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Leiser-Yitzhak Gottlieb, a Yeshiva student from Mir (it is stated in the testimony that is parents live in Opatów), describes how he fled the city towards Białystok, Czyzew and Baranowich and how he eventually went to Mir. On his way he witnessed or heard of severe abuse of polish Jews by Polish citizen. Protocol No. 28 is an extract from a volume of protocols provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugees. In 1939 they formed a comittee to collect evidence about the condition of the Jews in Poland under Nazi Germany occupation.

  9. [Labor and Refugee Camps in Switzerland during World War II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains various memoranda concerning the treatment of and legal rules of behavior for war and Nazi prosecution victims seeking refuge in Switzerland for the duration of World War II, while being interned in labor and refugee camps.

  10. Die Judenbrücke II

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The Story is the second part of a fictitious tale of life in a refugee camp in Cyprus (Caraolos and Xylotymbus) after World War II, under British military administration. It describes the general atmosphere, struggles and political activities of the refugees as well as the views of the British military and politicians, American Aid organizations and volunteering medial staff. An interesting exchange of ideas is retold between an officer of the British Army and a Jewish doctor about Zionism, and a Jewish homeland, as well as a conversation with an Egyptian Jew highlighting the struggles of J...

  11. IRO-ITS-Child Search Branch – Yearly report 1948 History

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The yearly report begins with an explanation about Himmler's eugenic ideology implemented in the Lebensborn project and the justification of the kidnapping for children for the purpose of Germanization. As an example serves the case of Lidice. After the massacre of all if the adult males and the deportation of the females to a concentration camp, the children considered fit for Germanization were taken to Lebensborn home.The IRO and ITS tried to find those children and established a Child Search Branch for that purpose. Furthermore, the organization of the Child Search Branch is explained i...

  12. Advokat Ernst Baburgers arkiv

    • Archive of Ernst Baburger, lawyer
    • Riksarkivet
    • Advokat Ernst Baburgers arkiv
    • English
    • 1946-1983
    • 5,6 linear meters of textual material.

    The archive contains, among other things, the lawyers' client files, arranged annually. Among these files are compensation files from Jewish survivors who sought so-called Wiedergutmachung.

  13. Statens utlänningskommission, Andra världskrigets lägerarkiv

    1. Statens Utlänningskommission
    • Andra Världskrigets lägerarkiv
    • World War II camp archives
    • Riksarkivet
    • Statens utlänningskommission, Andra världskrigets lägerarkiv
    • English
    • 1940-1948
    • 74 linear meters of textual records.

    The archives of the foreigner camps operated by the State Foreigners Commission comprise 74 linear meters of textual records. They are organized by camp, according to the names of 111 camps, along with a series of ten volumes containing documents regarding various smaller camps. For instance, among the series of named camps are eight volumes on Doverstorp, 13 volumes on Robertshöjd I and II, 23 volumes on Rosöga, and four volumes on Skatås. These archives include indexes and brief registries detailing the refugees and survivors present in the camps, providing information such as nationality...

  14. Kommittén for levande historia

    • YK 5252
    • Riksarkivet
    • Kommittén for levande historia
    • English
    • 40 archive volumes, and includes 94 video and audio tapes of interviews conducted as part of the Committee's documentation project.

    The archive of the state expert commission includes documentation of the committee's work as well as the material collected and produced by the commission in 2001. One of the main principles that guided the collection was that it would have a Swedish perspective. Thus, interviews were not primarily made with Holocaust survivors, but with others, who in one way or another, came in to contact with the Holocaust, like medical staff, the drivers of the White Buses, and refugees who arrived in Sweden before and during the war. Nevertheless, nearly 100 interviews with Holocaust survivors were als...

  15. Executive Files

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Relief and Rescue Departments

    Consists of correspondence of the Relief Department (and includes some material related to the Rescue Department) along with files of the Relief Committee, Arieh Tartakower, Kalman Stein, and Kurt R. Grossman. Also included are files from the Courses on Jewish Social Work, a training program for social workers planning to help displaced Jews in Europe that was sponsored by the WJC in 1945. Box D1. Folder 1. World Jewish Congress, relief work, reports and drafts, 1939-1941 Box D1. Folder 2. World Jewish Congress, relief work, memos and reports, 1942-1943 Box D1. Folder 3. World Jewish Congre...

  16. Ernest G. Heppner papers

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection

    The Ernest G. Heppner papers consist of records documenting the Ernest Heppner and Kurt Redlich families’ departures from Nazi Europe and their lives in Japanese‐occupied Shanghai, newspapers documenting the Jewish refugee community in Shanghai, and other printed materials. Heppner family materials include biographical materials about Ernest Heppner, his mother Hilde Heppner, his wife Ilse‐Lore Heppner, her father Paul Koratkowski, and their relative Rosa Koratkowski; correspondence; and files documenting the Heppners’ and Koratkowskis’ activities in Shanghai. Biographical materials include...

  17. Knife taken from a German soldier and acquired by a German Jewish family in hiding

    1. Max Amichai Heppner family collection

    Metal knife taken from a German soldier and acquired by a member of Max Heppner’s family in 1944. Max was living with his German parents, Albert and Irene, in Amsterdam, when Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940. The new civil administration run by the SS gradually tightened control on the residents, and required Jews to register their business assets. Albert’s work permit was rescinded in 1940, but he continued dealing illegally on a small scale. In 1942, the authorities raided their home for valuables on multiple occasions, and began rounding up Jews for deportation in the summer....

  18. Storage trunk owned by a German Jewish family in hiding

    1. Max Amichai Heppner family collection

    Storage trunk used by the Heppner family to haul possessions in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. Albert and Irene Heppner fled Berlin, Germany to Amsterdam, Netherlands, after Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. Albert reestablished his art dealership, and their son, Max, was born later that year. In May 1940, Germany occupied the Netherlands, and established a civilian administration run largely by the SS. The occupying administration gradually tightened control on the residents, and required Jews to register their business assets. Albert’s...

  19. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jood, belonging to a German Jewish refugee

    1. Max Amichai Heppner family collection

    Factory-printed Star of David badge worn by a member of Max Heppner’s family in Amsterdam, Netherlands, after the occupying Nazi administration mandated them on April 28,1942. Max was living with his German parents, Albert and Irene, in Amsterdam, when Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940. The new civil administration run by the SS gradually tightened control on the residents, and required Jews to register their business assets. Albert’s work permit was rescinded in 1940, but he continued dealing illegally on a small scale. In 1942, the authorities raided their home for valuables on...

  20. Eva and Otto Pfister papers

    1. Eva and Otto Pfister collection

    The Eva and Otto Pfister papers consist of diaries and immigration files documenting German Jewish refugee Eva Pfister’s experiences in France and New York, her efforts on behalf of her non-Jewish German refugee husband, Otto Pfister, and their socialist colleagues, and the anti-Nazi work of the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). Eva’s four diaries document her teenage years in Goldap, her life as a refugee in France separated from Otto, interned in Gurs, waiting in Montauban for her opportunity to emigrate, her escape over the Pyrénées to Lisbon, and her immigration to the Un...