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  1. Alexander and Hella Guhrauer: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of the Guhrauer family from Braunschweig whose son Alexander Israel Guhrauer and his future wife Hella Sara Freudenthal fled  Nazi-Germany in the 1930s.Personal papers including Hella Guhrauer's German nationality certificate and certificate of registration for aliens (1755/2); Alexander Guhrauer's tax clearance certificate ('Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung') and application for the Ex-service (Non-British) Association (1755/1); letter from his father, Max Guhrauer, sent just before their departure for Theresienstadt concentration camp and hi...

  2. Ruth Sommerfeld: papers relating to Werner Somsohn's publication

    This collection contains press cuttings and correspondence from Werner Simsohn relating to his publication on the history of Jews in Gera, Thuringia ('Geschichte der Juden in Gera').Press cuttings and correspondence from Werner Simsohn relating to his publication on the history of Jews in Gera, Thuringia ('Geschichte der Juden in Gera'). Also included are speeches held at the honorary citizen awards ceremony for Simsohn in 1998, and draft extract from his publication regarding the Jewish families from Gera bearing the name Wernik.German

  3. Fred Worms collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Fred Worms, a former Jewish refugee who emigrated to England as a student. He became a highly successful businessman and philanthropist who contributed to developing cultural, sporting and religious facilities in Jerusalem and Israel.

  4. Elizabeth Eisner: personal papers

    This collection consists of the personal papers of Elisabeth Eisner, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who fled Austria shortly after the annexation in 1938. As soon as her mother had obtained her domestic permit she joined her in 1939.Personal papers including birth and naturalisation certificates, Heimatschein, qualification, list of belongings brought to England upon emigration, photographs, papers relating to compensation claims and pension payments, as well as a translation of an interview with Elisabeth Eisner in which she tells her life story.

  5. Max and Edith Greenwood: family papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection contains the personal papers of Max and Edith Greenwood, former Jewish refugees from Germany. Max Greenwood was one of the first people who fled Germany in 1933 after his medical licence was withdrawn.Family papers including Max Greenwood's qualifications and medical thesis, probate, last will, death certificate and papers relating to his restitution claim; correspondence and papers relating to the estates of Alfred Heidenheimer, Max Greenwood and Rosa Hanauer; James Greenwood's school reports and ...

  6. Edith Rothschild: family papers

    This collection contains the family papers of Edith Rothschild, a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi persecution in Frankfurt with her father Gustav Rothschild and sister Trude in 1939.Family papers including papers and correspondence with the German Jewish Aid Committee and the British Consulate relating to the family's planned emigration to England and the United States such as medical and tax clearance certificates and affidavit of support; correspondence from Martha Rothschild to her husband and children in England as well as restitution papers.English  German

  7. Alix Preece: personal account

    This collection consists of the personal account of Alix Preece, a German Jewish refugee who had been living in France since 1927 and spent most of the duration of the Second World War there. She was interned for several months at Gurs before moving on to Marseilles where she was hoping to get a Brazilian visa to join her family. As her visa extension was refused she eventually managed to go to Portugal and from there to Algiers where she met her future husband. In her eyewitness account she provides a detailed description of the conditions at the camps in Gurs and Pompart, Marseille. Also ...

  8. Beller family papers

    1. Paul Beller family collection

    Consists of documents, copyprints, and lesson books owned by the family of Leo and Mina Beller and their son Paul, originally of Vienna, Austria. Includes Mina Tennenbaum Beller's education documents; Paul Beller's handwritten lesson books (1938-1939); and a transit card and passport used by Leo Beller (1938-1940).

  9. Family life in Pirna, Germany

    DIE PIRNSCHEN - AUGUST 1936. This film shows Manfred "Fred" Hess at home with his wife Trude and two daughters Ursula and Luise. WITH FORK AND KNIFE. CUs, Luise eating. AFTER DINNER, LITTLE TEARS AND LITTLE TUNES. The children play with their father in the living room. Albert Günther Hess (AGH) is teaching the girls piano and playing the guitar for them. DIE ZUHOERERIN (VON EINEN TONKRANK EILINOPERATEUR). CUs, Trude. ANOTHER OPINION. CUs, Luise singing. END OF ACT.

  10. Relocation of displaced persons from Yugoslavia

    INT, A Yugoslavian family is seen in their own quarters at the DP camp (staged). The extended family is gathered around a woodburning stove in their makeshift home, UNRRA crates serve as their coffee table, and a tapestry hangs on the wall in the BG above the metal frame cot. One of the young men packs his suitcase as all the family gathers round to view their newly created identity papers and make plans for the future. One of the women is making coffee on the stove. VS, mostly MCUs of the family members passing around the documents to have a closer look. CU of one of their passports from Y...

  11. DPs; postwar rehabilitation

    Titles read: Um Resultado da guerra. Descito por aimbere. Short film documenting the aftermath of the war, including the movement of refugees, displaced persons camps, rehabilitation, and going home. Young men crossing bridge. Women and men moving bushels of hay, a soldier guards them. Labor in fields, railroads, factories. Liberation scenes: tanks moving through villages, people shaking hands, celebrating; men emerging from forests; crowds leaning out windows, cheering; beating a Nazi?; destroying buildings. Refugees moving on foot and truck with belongings/luggage. Destroyed bridge. Milit...

  12. Stimson; Patterson; Churchill; Japanese children; German troops; French refugees; US soldiers; Tunisian front

    04:28:30 (NR-38) Sec of War Henry L Stimson Arrives in North Africa. Arrives at airfield. Stimson gets off plane and is greeted 04:29:34 Under Sec of War Robert Patterson, Adm William Leahy and Elmer Davis in a broadcasting studio. 04:29:45 Winston Churchill Speaks to Congress, standing on dais before many microphones addressing US Congress. At conclusion, entire Congress rises and applauds. Henry A Wallace and Alben W Barkley can be seen in BG. 04:31:11 Japanese Children in Mass "Kendo" Drill. Japanese school children in Tokyo performing skull-testing contest. Two groups charge each other ...

  13. Cultural Alliance of Emigrants in Zurich (1941-1945) : Historical Archive Kulturgemeinschaft der Emigranten in Zürich (1941-1945): Historisches Archiv

    Records pertaining to the activities of the Cultural Alliance of Emigrants in Zurich during World War II and the immediate postwar period. Association arranged cultural and recreational activities for Jewish refugees in holding camps; from summer 1944 devoted increasing attention to postwar concerns, including repatriation and onward emigration.

  14. Ministerie van Justitie: Rijksvreemdelingendienst (RVD) en Taakvoorgangers.

    This fonds contains several relevant files, mainly with regards to the question of Jewish refugees. File nr. 531 contains documents concerning requests from Jewish institutions for exchange of refugees between the Netherlands and Belgium (1939-1941). Documents (dated 1939-1940) regarding the granting of permission to the Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen (Committee for Special Jewish Interests) to exchange minor refugees with Belgium can be found in file 912. In file nr. 1771 we also find documents concerning exchange of refugees with Belgium, in this case at the request of the Haags...

  15. Testimony of Richard Fischl, born in Havlickuv Brod, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Poland, Samarkand, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in Buzuluk, and in combat in Sokolovo, Dukla, Presov and Ostrava

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Richard Fischl, born in Havlickuv Brod, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Poland, Samarkand, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in Buzuluk, and in combat in Sokolovo, Dukla, Presov and Ostrava Born in Czechoslovakia; German occupation; effect of the German occupation on Czechoslovakian Army officers; escape routes to Poland; German-speaking Czechoslovakian Jews in refugee center in Katowice, 1939; Soviet occupation; transfer to Samarkand; life of Jewish refugees in Samarkand, 1940-1942; formation of Czechoslovakian battalion at Buzuluk, 1942; participatio...

  16. Testimony of Vilem Bernard, Dr., born in Nachod, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union and as a soldier in the Czechoslovakia Army in the Soviet Union

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Vilem Bernard, Dr., born in Nachod, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union and as a soldier in the Czechoslovakia Army in the Soviet Union Born in Czechoslovakia; Chairman of the Students' Union in Prague, 1935-1936; leading member of the Czechoslovakian Social Democratic Party. Flies to Poland, 1939; joins Czechoslovakian Resistance Movement abroad, connection with General Lew Prchala; active in H. Field Refugee Committee in Krakow; rejection of Jewish refugees by the Czechoslovakian military camp in Bronowice; flies into the Soviet occupie...

  17. Documentation regarding the JDC organization's allocations for relief activities for Jews in Switzerland, including correspondence by the JDC with the Association of Jewish Communities in Switzerland and balance reports by the Association of Jewish Welfar

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Documentation regarding the JDC organization's allocations for relief activities for Jews in Switzerland, including correspondence by the JDC with the Association of Jewish Communities in Switzerland and balance reports by the Association of Jewish Welfare Organizations in Switzerland, 1943-1945 - Pamphlet by Silvain S. Guggenheim, chairman of the Verband Schweizerischer Israelitischer Armenpflegen - VSIA, including a report regarding the relief activities for refugees in Switzerland, 1933-1945; the pamphlet includes a chronological summary of the situation of world refugees and refugees in...

  18. Documentation regarding monetary relief transferred by the JDC organization, with the help of other organizations, for the benefit of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland and the Soviet Union, on behalf of the negotiations with SS representatives, and on be

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Documentation regarding monetary relief transferred by the JDC organization, with the help of other organizations, for the benefit of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland and the Soviet Union, on behalf of the negotiations with SS representatives, and on behalf of the Holocaust survivors in the Soviet Union and Germany; documentation dated, 1939-1945 - Announcement by the JDC to the Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund - SIG (Association of Jewish Communities of Switzerland) regarding the cutback of two million dollars for the 1940 year, 30 January 1940; - Protocol from a meeting held ...

  19. Documentation regarding the negotiations between Saly Mayer and SS representatives concerning the rescue of the remnant of the Jews in Europe and, in particular, in Hungary, including Mayer's telephone discussions with the JDC organization's center in Lis

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Documentation regarding the negotiations between Saly Mayer and SS representatives concerning the rescue of the remnant of the Jews in Europe and, in particular, in Hungary, including Mayer's telephone discussions with the JDC organization's center in Lisbon, the protocol of his discussions with the JDC organization's director in Europe, a report regarding the meeting with the SS representatives, and other matters, October-December 1944 - Documentation regarding the negotiations between Saly Mayer and SS representatives concerning the "Goods for Blood" deal ("ARBA") [?] for the rescue of th...

  20. Documentation regarding the negotiations held by Saly Mayer with SS representatives in the context of the "Goods for Blood" deal, the negotiations held by the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada with SS represen

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Documentation regarding the negotiations held by Saly Mayer with SS representatives in the context of the "Goods for Blood" deal, the negotiations held by the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada with SS representatives, the discussions between Saly Mayer and the head of the Red Cross organization, and other matters, 1945-1949 - Documentation regarding the "ARBA" [?] negotiations held by Saly Mayer with SS representatives in the context of the "Goods for Blood" deal, whose aim was the rescue of Jews in Europe; - Documentation regarding additional m...