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  1. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with members of the Poalei Zion party and with representatives of the pioneer youth movements regarding the condition of the Jews of Romania, help to the refugees from Poland and transfer of money to fund t

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with members of the Poalei Zion party and with representatives of the pioneer youth movements regarding the condition of the Jews of Romania, help to the refugees from Poland and transfer of money to fund their activities Correspondence with members of the Poalei Zion party and with representatives of the pioneer youth movements (Schunja, Egozi-Nussbaum, David Tennenboim and others) regarding the condition of the Jews in Romania, help to the refugees from Poland and transfer of money to fund their activities. Also in the file: - Three letters...

  2. Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and neighboring countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, March 1944

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות 40/71

    Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and neighboring countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, March 1944 Poland: Jewish underground numbering 3000 people in the Lublin vicinity; underground activities; murder of Jews in the Lublin vicinity; murder statistics in Auschwitz; letter from Warsaw regarding difficulties in living conditions; Germany: Destruction of Jewish sections in Berlin; regarding the fate of a Jewish refugee from Stuttgart in Switzerland; a Mischling in the Reich; Czechoslovakia: Arrangement of depor...

  3. Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee regarding the situation of the Jews who had been or were still under Nazi rule in Europe, January 1945

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • The Rescue committee of Jewish Agency for Palestine -Bulletin January 1945

    Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee regarding the situation of the Jews who had been or were still under Nazi rule in Europe, January 1945 Report regarding the situation of the Jews in Lublin, September 1944; excerpt from a letter written by a survivor describing the murder of the Jews in Sarny and the vicinity of Sarny, August 1944; excerpt from a letter regarding the Iasi pogrom written by a survivor and published in the Romanian press, June 1941; report regarding the situation of the Jews in Thessaloniki, November ...

  4. Vaad Hatzala Collection.

    Apart from the usual general series of correspondence, reports, press releases, notes, newspaper clippings etc. this fonds contains several files with explicit reference to Belgium. In the series of correspondence concerning immigration and rehabilitation, we find a list of refugees in Italy and Belgium (box 18 folder 107), dating back to 1946. The series of correspondence with Vaad Hatzala representatives in foreign countries contains several interesting files. Box 27 folder 50 holds letters from yeshivot in France and Belgium (year 1949) and box 40 folder 187 contains general corresponden...

  5. Collection of Historical Photographs.

    This is the largest collection in the world of historical photographs related to the Holocaust. It documents Jewish life before and during the Holocaust, the life of survivors in the post-war period, but also various activities and ceremonies commemorating the Holocaust all over the world. Searching for keywords such as ‘Belgium’, ‘Brussels’, ‘Antwerp’ etc. yields a result of over 1000 relevant images, from various collections. We find portraits and group photos (scenes of everyday life, Shoah victims, resistance members, partisans, rescuers); pictures of youth movements (i.a. Bar Kochba, H...

  6. Frantisek Vohryzek family papers

    Consists of original documents, correspondence, and copyprints related to Frantisek Benno Vohryzek, originally of Hrdlovka, Czechoslovakia. Includes documents related to Vohryzek's emigration to Ecuador in 1939, his life in Ecuador, emigration to the United States in 1944, and related to learning that his parents and sister perished during the Holocaust. The Frantisek Vohryzek papers document the experience of a Czech refugee immigrating to Ecuador in early 1939. The collection includes his emigration and identity papers for the immigration, correspondence with his parents and sister remain...

  7. Lichtenstein and Tisch families photographs

    Consists primarily of postwar photographs of the Tisch and Lichtenstein family members and friends. Many of the photographs are associated with Jozef and Mania (née Tisch) Lichtenstein's stay in the Eschwege DP camp. Included is also photograph of Mania's rescuer Janina Zawadzka.

  8. Steinhardt-Guelz family. Collection

    This collection contains: the foreigner's ID card of Martin Steinhardt and the false Belgian ID card of his wife Margarethe Guelz posing as Anne-Marie Richir

  9. Komitet pomoshchi evreiskim bezhentsam (g. Zagreb)

    • Odbor za pomoc židovskim izbeglicam (Zagreb); Committee for Aid to Jewish Refugees (Zagreb)

    The collection's contents are described in one inventory, which is arranged by structure and chronology. Deposited in the collection are documents connected with the activities of the Zagreb HICEM Committee regarding the reception, settling, and transport to third countries of Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria. It includes correspondence with HICEM committees in Austria, the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, and other countries, and with the Union of Jewish Religious Communities of Yugoslavia, the German Jewish Aid Society, the Jewish religious community of Brody, the JDC, the ...

  10. Affaires particulières suivies par le service

    1. Préfecture de Constantine. Service des questions juives et des sociétés secrètes
    2. Statut des Juifs
    • Special cases handled by the department

    Associations - Census of associations, subsidies granted and property owned: correspondence, lists, status of Jewish associations in the Constantine département, list transmitted by the 1st Division (1942). Union générale des israélites d'Algérie, created by the Decree of 14 February 1942, composition of the Board of Directors: correspondence (1942); interviews of candidates for the Board of Directors: correspondence, confidential notices from the Economic Aryanisation Department and police stations (1942). Jewish members of associations that are not specifically Jewish: correspondence (194...

  11. Westerbork, Jewish transit camp Westerbork, Judendurchgangslager (Fond 250i)

    This collection contains documents relating to the Westerbork Jewish transit camp between 1942-1945, including are reports, maps and some photos as well as pre-war correspondence, and post-war court proceedings. The collections also contains documents on the refugee camp Westerbork between 1939-1942, as it was still under Dutch administration. A special component of the collection is called “Westerbork kartothek” containing lists of name and date of birth of deportees, their last official place of residence before leaving for Westerbork and the date of shipment from the camp. These lists we...

  12. Hanna F. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Hanna F., whose first testimony was recorded in 1980. Mrs. F. notes that her first testimony was too short to convey her experience or say what she had wanted. She expands on the information contained in her previous testimony and recalls supporting her family by passing as a Polish non-Jew prior to deportation; obtaining Polish papers; separating from her family (neither her parents nor five siblings survived); forced labor in Germany as a non-Jew; denunciation in May 1943; imprisonment, which was "heaven" compared to concentration camps; deport...

  13. Otto D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Otto D., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1922. He recalls his mother's death in 1927; his father's remarriage to a non-Jew who converted to Judaism; antisemitic harassment; German occupation in 1938; losing his job; working for one year as a non-Jew on a farm near Hannover; returning to Vienna, fearing exposure; working in a factory labor camp with his father; arrest in 1941; imprisonment for one year; learning his sisters were deported (he never saw them again); his deportation to Flossenbürg; slave labor; transfer to Auschwitz in October 1942; a privileged posi...

  14. Sally S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sally S., who was born in Przemys?lany, Poland in 1923. She describes her close and large immediate and extended family; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish measures; the Judenrat organizing forced labor; mass killing of men, including her father and uncle; incarceration in a forced labor camp; obtaining permission from the Judenrat to return to the ghetto; her mother's death; hiding with her brothers in a bunker during the ghetto's liquidation in May 1943; escaping with them to the woods; building bunkers; assistance from her sister who wa...

  15. Shlomo S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, one of two children. He recounts his secular family's relative affluence; his father's one-year trip to visit relatives in Argentina in 1937; he and his brother writing to him about increasing antisemitism; his return despite their letters; participating in Hashomer Hatzair with his brother and Israel Gutman; attending a Jewish school; German invasion; ghettoization; learning carpentry; many deaths from starvation; volunteering for forced labor; his father's disappearance; escaping; joining his brother in the Tarnów ...

  16. Sol S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol S., who was born in Rokiskis, Lithuania in 1927 and raised in Kaunas. Mr. S. recalls antisemitism as a child; Soviet occupation; German invasion; Lithuanian collaboration; ghettoization; starvation, selections and mass shootings; forced labor at Aleksotas, Kaunas and Marijampole?; deportation in 1944 with his father and brother to Kaufering (his mother and sister were removed from the train near Danzig); aid received from a German foreman; the importance of his father to his survival; and liberation by American troops. He describes finding his brother; returning t...

  17. Maria S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria S., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1922, one of three children. She recounts her family's affluence; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; ghettoization; her father's former employees smuggling food to them; forced factory labor; her father arranging to smuggle her, her brothers, and mother to relatives in Szydłowiec in 1941 (he was killed later attempting escape); forced transfer to Wierzbnik; incarceration in Starachowiece; slave labor in a munitions factory; receiving food from a civilian worker; sharing it with her mother; a mass killing of es...

  18. Art G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Art G., who was born in approximately 1929, in K?obuck, Poland. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; fleeing east with his siblings; being overtaken by the Germans in Radomsko; returning home; his father hiding from a round-up with a non-Jewish friend; his deportation (he did not survive); ghettoization in 1941; his bar mitzvah; he, two sisters, and his mother smuggling themselves to the Cze?stochowa ghetto; his oldest sister bringing him and his sisters to K?obuck concentration camp (his mother remained and did not survive); sl...

  19. Gabrielle S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gabrielle S., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1914. She describes her childhood; the impact of the Nuremberg laws; emigration to the United States in 1938; and returning to Europe as a social worker in 1947 to assist Jewish refugees. Mrs. S. relates her deceased husband's story because she is the last one who knows it. Mr. S. was born in Galicia in 1912. She recounts his being sent away for schooling; attending medical school in Bologna, Italy; his return home; conditions under Russian occupation; the German occupation and being exempted from extermination because...

  20. Dinner napkin stitched with Edith Hamberg's initials

    1. Edith Hamberg Tarcov collection

    A dinner napkin stitched with the initials "E.H." for Edith Hamberg (later Edith Hamberg Tarcov, 1919-1990), the donor's mother. The napkins were brought over by Edith from Hanover Germany (by way of London) to the United States in 1939.