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  1. Randolph J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Randolph J., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1913. He recalls his family's affluence; strong patriotism and food shortages during World War I; being taught Germany had won; his bar mitzvah; attending public school and gymnasium; cordial relations with non-Jews; gradual impoverishment as antisemitism increased in the 1930s; one sister's emigration to the United States; meeting his future wife; attending university in 1931; violent harassment; believing Hitler was a temporary phenomenon; traveling to Zurich in 1933 to continue his education, then to Paris via Geneva,...

  2. Joseph and Mary Rath: personal papers

    Personal papers including family correspondence and official documents collated in preparation for emigration such as work references, birth and school certificates, Josef Rath's medical certificate and confirmation of adoption, Mary Futterweit's Heimatschein and passport and a Kitchener Camp transit pass.It also includes papers and publications relating to Josef Rath's military service such as Pioneer Corps training notes British Army release book and certificate, bank notes ('Quittungen') issued at Theresienstadt concentration camp photographs (see photo archive).In addition there are pos...

  3. Jacob Wuehl: Family correspondence

    This collection consists of letters received by Jakob Wühl in London from members of his family, German speaking Jews of Polish nationality, who lived in Leipzig. Also included is correspondence between other family members. The family became victims of the 'Polen-Aktion', a series of expulsions and deportations in the earlier stages of the Holocaust. These events precede the November pogroms and never attracted much international attention despite the brutality involved. The collection thus highlights an early phase of the persecution of Jews which seems largely forgotten and overshadowed ...

  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. Československý úřad pro hospodářskou pomoc a obnovu, Praha

    • Czechoslovak Office for Relief and Rehabilitation, Prague
    • UNRRA
    • Národní archiv
    • 313
    • English
    • 1943-1951
    • 28,5 linear metres from which 28,5 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible.

    In the fonds there can be found lists and summaries of delivered suplies, reports about the economic situation in the Czechoslovak Republic, various reports from the proceedings of committees. There are also files related to the transport of supllies, another draft plans for relief and rehabilitation of the country (also for the Slovak part of the republic), bills or photographs. The Holocaust or Jewish related documents are in several boxes concerning the matter of repatriation of citizens from the Great Britain. There are lists of persons authorized for the repatriation in April and July ...

  6. Henry and Lottie M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry and Lottie M. Ms. M. was born in Dresden, Germany in 1921 to an affluent, assimilated family. She recounts her mother's death when she was one; her maternal grandmother living with them; her father's remarriage; her parents sheltering her from politics; vacations in Prague; expulsion from school in 1938; her father's and brother's arrests during Kristallnacht; her stepmother obtaining emigration documents for them through contacts in England; their release once they proved they would emigrate; her own emigration with assistance from the Quakers; living with a fa...

  7. Vera Nussenbaum papers

    The Vera Nussenbaum papers include biographical materials and correspondence documenting Vera Nussenbaum’s travel to England on a Kindertransport, her family’s efforts to emigrate, her uncle’s death in Sachsenhausen, and her mother, aunt, and grandmother’s deportation to Riga. The materials in this collection refer to Vera Lichawski, using the last name of Nusenbaum’s mother’s second husband. Biographical materials include a vaccination certificate, birth certificate, and questionnaire for the accommodation of foreign children for Vera Lichawski. The letters dating from 1938‐1940 are from V...

  8. Mary L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mary L., who was born in Zagreb, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (now Croatia) in 1910. She recalls the beginning of World War I; her father's military service; living in Vienna from 1916 to 1918; the family's move to Berlin in 1926; working for an insurance company; Hitler's ascent to power; losing her job due to anti-Jewish laws; the anti-Jewish boycott in April 1933; returning to Zagreb; studying English in Britain in 1935; marriage to a Catholic; German invasion in April 1941; moving to the United States Consulate where her husband worked; anti-Jewish measures; denuncia...

  9. Siegfried Meyerhof: Family papers

    This collection comprises the mostly 19th century papers of the Meyerhof family including certificates, military service papers, family trees, papers re the synagogue community, Wolfhagen, inheritance certificates, tax records, powers of attorney 

  10. Papers regarding Erich Wolfsfeld

    This collection consists of papers relating to German Jewish artist and professor at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, Erich Wolfsfeld.Papers Including mainly press cuttings regarding his exhibitions, exhibition catalogues, drawings, photographs and correspondence from Franka Minden. Also includes a short autobiography.

  11. Wahle family papers

    The collection comprises a significant amount of incoming and copy outgoing correspondence between Karl and Hedwig and various friends, colleagues and relations. 

  12. Zangwill papers (Harry S. Ward Library)

    Correspondence of Israel Zangwill with his lecture agent, Gerald Christy, 1895-1906 Copies of Israel Zangwill's papers, 1886 onwards, including correspondence with Dr Moses Gaster, 1886-1914, and with his literary agent, 1893-1901; copies of personal papers relating to Zangwill's early life and his schooling; copies of birth, marriage and death certificates; obituaries of Louis Zangwill; photographs, portraits and caricatures; cuttings and articles relating to Israel Zangwill's novels and to plays and theatre productions; papers relating to exhibitions; articles relating to Zangwill; papers...

  13. Three drawings created by an 11 year old girl about her trip on the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis

    1. Liesl Joseph Loeb collection

    Trio of drawings on one sheet of paper created by 11 year old Liesl Joseph in August 1939 shortly after arriving in England following the forced return of the MS St. Louis from Cuba. One drawing depicts the ocean liner; one marks each location the ship passed; one depicts the cottage lent to her family by the Rowntree family in England. Liesl and her parents, Josef and Lilly, left Germany soon after the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938. They left on the Hamburg-Amerika luxury liner, MS St. Louis, sailing for Havana on May 13, 1939. The plan was to wait there for permission to enter the...

  14. MS St. Louis floor plan

    1. Liesl Joseph Loeb collection

    Original floor-plan for the ship, MS St. Louis acquired by Liesl Joseph and her family, who were passengers on the ill fated voyage of the ocean liner in the spring of 1939. Liesl, 11, and her parents, Josef and Lilly, left Germany soon after the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938. They departed on the Hamburg-Amerika luxury liner, MS St. Louis, sailing for Havana on May 13, 1939. The plan was to wait there for permission to enter the US. But Cuban authorities denied entry to all but 28 of the 937 passengers. Josef chaired the passenger committee that tried to find a safe harbor. Liesl r...

  15. Комитет по делам еврейской эмиграции (ГИЦЕМ) (г. Париж)

    • Emigration Association (HICEM)
    • Komitet po delam evreiskoi emigratsii GITsEM HIAS JCA

    The collection's contents are catalogued in three inventories. The inventories are arranged according to structure. The collection contains the HICEM charter (January 1935); accounts of HICEM activities for 1926-39; circulars to HICEM branch offices (1933-40) on rules for filling out a central card file of émigrés; on conditions of emigration to Uruguay, Ecuador, Haiti, and other countries, and on procedures for statistical calculation of émigré data; minutes of sessions of the HICEM administrative council for 1930, 1934-39, as well as of the HICEM commission on émigré doctors for 1934-35, ...

  16. St. Louis and Milwaukee Poster advertising the flagships of the Hamburg-Amerika Line

    1. German poster collection

    German advertisement poster for the Hamburg-America Line’s transatlantic liners, St. Louis and Milwaukee. On May 13, 1939, the St. Louis set sail from Hamburg, Germany with 937 passengers, almost all of whom were Jews fleeing the Third Reich. The majority of the passengers had applied for US visas, and planned to stay in Cuba until they could enter the United States. However, shortly before the ship set sail, Cuba invalidated the landing permits and transit visas of the Jewish refugee passengers. When the St. Louis arrived in Cuba on May 27, the Cuban government only allowed 28 passengers i...

  17. Rosenbaum family papers

    The Rosenbaum family papers consist of correspondence and documents related to the attempts of Ernst Rosenbaum, who immigrated to England in 1936, to bring his family, one by one, from Germany in 1938-1939. Includes correspondence with family members and immigration officials, testimony regarding Kristallnacht, and a preprinted postcard sent from Theresienstadt (Terezin) in 1944 sent to one of the Rosenbaum's cousins. Also includes an autograph album with entries mainly dating 1906-1908 but also an entry written by Eva Rosenbaum prior to joining her father in England. Includes information r...

  18. Stephanie Brady and Walter and Paula Bolton: personal papers

    Readers should reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection contains the personal papers of Viennese Jewish refugees Walter and Paula Bolton, and Steffi Brady (née Kohn).

    Personal papers including copy correspondence by Josef and Jenny Hausmann from Camp de Recebedou, photograph of a class taught by Josef Hausmann, copy articles relating to the school in Karlsruhe where Hausmann worked; and paper entitled 'Die zerschlagene Tafel - Jüdisches Leben in Durlach'. 

  19. UNRRA selected records AG-018-001 : China Office

    Selected records of the UNRRA China Office relating to Displaced Persons Operations, medical and agricultural rehabilitation in China, 1944-1949: reports, correspondence with Jewish Sephardic Committee, Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, lists of refugees, as well as records relating to repatriation, transportation, and tracing inquiries.

  20. Czechoslovakian postage stamp, 1 koruna, acquired by a former American internee

    1. Leonie Roualet collection

    Commemorative postage stamp of Czechoslovakian President, Ludvík Svoboda, issued in 1970 and acquired by Leonie Roualet. Svoboda served as president from 1968-1975, and was regarded as a national hero for his military service in both World Wars. Leonie was born in New York to Leonie Calmesse and Henry Charles Roualet, French champagne vintners who had immigrated to the United States in the 1890s. In the 1930s, Leonie’s mother returned to France to take care of her ailing brother. While caring for her brother, she too became sick, and in 1939 Leonie traveled to France to take care of her mot...