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  1. Italie : Ministère des Affaires étrangères 3

    Série de pièces provenant d'Italie : 1. Correspondance ministérielle entre les ambassades et consulats d'Italie dans plusieurs villes et la direction générale des Affaires Europe et Méditerranée (AEM) sur l'assassinat de Vom Rath, l'explosion des violences antijuives et l'introduction de la législation antisémite en Allemagne et en Autriche, les campagnes antisémites en Europe, l'exode des réfugiés juifs. 2. Correspondance ministérielle sur les tractations italo-allemandes pour l'internement des Juifs croates dans des camps en zone italienne, la condition des Juifs italiens en Tunisie, Fran...

  2. SNCF

    1. Archives de la Commission d'histoire de l'occupation et de la libération de la France (CHOLF) et du Comité d'histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, fonds privés et documents divers relatifs à la période 1939-1945
    2. Fonds d'origine privée
    3. Anciens ministres ou membres de services dépendant du gouvernement de Vichy
    4. Jean Berthelot et Paul Chary

    Minutes de notes et rapports concernant les effectifs et le matériel (octobre 1939-mai 1940). Rapports sur l'activité de la SNCF de 1939 à l'armistice. Région Nord : rapport sur l'activité du service de l'exploitation durant la période du 21 août 1939 au 30 juin 1940. Région Sud-Est : bref historique de la vie de la région du 10 mai au 1er juillet 1940, catalogue des ouvrages d'art détruits en 1944. « Note pour l'historique des voies de communication de l'Armistice du 25 juin 1940 à la capitulation allemande du 8 mai 1945 ». Région Nord : historique de la division de la traction de 1939 à 1...

  4. Reichsdeutsche

    1. Inventaire de la série ZA : archives des services allemands saisies ou abandonnées à Tours à partir du 21 août 1944
    2. Section 14ZA - Etiquette "Kommandantur Saint-Symphorien"
    3. Polizei

    Cas de nationalités et de mariages mixtes et naissances d'enfants ; très curieux. Ils comportent des dossiers complets, par exemple : Falkuss Emilie née Lukas à Tylitz dont le mari a été arrêté à Tours par les Allemands ; Givair Geneviève, habitant Tours, mettant au monde un enfant que Johannes Kauffmann reconnaîtra comme allemand, la mère comme d'origine flamande, devient allemande par mariage ; Kern Emma, de mère allemande, a deux jumeaux d'une liaison avec un juif interné au camp de la Lande. Un des jumeaux est soigné à Tours, à l'hôpital, aux frais des Allemands et la mère après des hés...

  5. Archives des Justes de Haute-Savoie

    Numériquement, la partie la plus importante (45 cotes) du fonds est constituée des dossiers nominatifs des Justes de Haute-Savoie qui ont été constitué par Herbert Herz, au cours de son activité en tant que délégué départemental pour le mémorial Yad Vashem. Le fonds contient, également, quelques dossiers liés à des recherches (événements survenus au cours de tentatives de passages vers la Suisse durant l'Occupation, notices biographiques, etc.) effectuées par M. Herz.

  6. Fred Vendig papers

    1. Fred Vendig family collection

    The Fred Vendig papers includes biographical materials, a pocket calendar, correspondence, immigration papers, personal narratives, photographs, and printed materials documenting the Vendig family’s expropriation by the Nazi government, 1939 voyage aboard the M.S. St. Louis, refuge in Belgium, internment in French concentration camps, refuge in Switzerland, and immigration to the United States. Biographical materials include birth, marriage, and death certificates; identification papers; and student, citizenship, refugee, and camp papers. The records trace the Vendig family’s precarious cit...

  7. Black leather photo wallet used by a young German Jewish refugee

    1. Fred Vendig family collection

    Small wallet with three photo windows used by Fritz Vendig or a family member after leaving Nazi Germany in 1939. In the mid-1930s, Fritz's father's business was taken from him when it was Aryanized, or cleansed of Jews. In November 1938, Ernst was arrested during Kristallnacht. After his release, the family prepared to leave. On May 13, 1939, Fritz, 7, his parents Ernst and Charlotte, his brother Heiner, 2, and his paternal grandmother Pauline, sailed for Cuba on the MS St. Louis. Cuban authorities refused entry to nearly all passengers. Appeals were made to the Cuban and US governments, b...

  8. Faux alligator photo wallet used by a young German Jewish refugee

    1. Fred Vendig family collection

    Small imitation alligator wallet with 9 photo inserts used by Fritz Vendig or a family member after leaving Nazi Germany in 1939. It carried photographs now part of 2013.486.1. In the mid-1930s, Fritz's father's business was taken from him when it was Aryanized, or cleansed of Jews. In November 1938, Ernst was arrested during Kristallnacht. After his release, the family prepared to leave. On May 13, 1939, Fritz, 7, his parents Ernst and Charlotte, his brother Heiner, 2, and his paternal grandmother Paulina, sailed for Cuba on the MS St. Louis. Cuban authorities refused entry to nearly all p...

  9. Numbered ID sign issued to a Jewish Austrian boy for the Kindertransport

    1. Henry Schmelzer collection

    Identification tag issued to 14 year-old Henry (Heinrich) Schmelzer in December 1938, for his emigration from Vienna, Austria, to England aboard a kindertransport. He was among 150 children who were taken to an estate in Scotland, which was leased to the Whittingehame Farm School, a combination boarding school and Zionist training center for eventual immigration to Palestine. In 1940, after two years at Whittingehame, Henry was interned for three months as an enemy alien. After his release, Henry worked various jobs and moved around Britain multiple times. In August 1943, when enemy aliens ...

  10. Austrian 10,000 Kronen banknote owned by a Viennese Jewish refugee family

    1. Appenzeller and Dukes families collection

    Kronen banknote owned by the Appenzeller family in Vienna, Austria before their emigration in 1939. The kronen was the official currency of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1892 until its dissolution in 1918. The banknotes were printed on the front in Hungarian and in German on the reverse, and the value was written out in eight additional languages. After the breakup of Austria-Hungary, the banknotes remained in circulation among the various countries, but were overstamped for use in individual countries. This kronen is printed in German on both sides and has an overstamp that indicates th...

  11. Metric wooden ruler owned by a young Austrian Jewish refugee girl

    1. Appenzeller and Dukes families collection

    Metric, wooden ruler used by Erna Appenzeller in her Montessori school in Vienna, Austria, while in fourth grade. Erna was a young girl living with her parents in Austria, when the country was annexed by Germany on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. The school that Erna attended was shut down, members of the Jewish community were arrested, and her father’s business was taken and Arayanized. In August 1939, Erna’s parents acquired visas and were able to go to Milan, Italy. On June 10, 1940, Italy entered World War II as a German al...

  12. Red and black plastic cigarette holder used by a Czech Jewish refugee

    1. Frank Meissner family collection

    Cigarette holder used by Franz Meissner. Frank, age 16, left Czechoslovakia in October 1939 because of the increasing Nazi persecution of Jews as Czechoslovakia was dismembered by Nazi Germany and its allies. With the encouragement of his family, he left for Denmark with members of Youth Aliyah, a organization that helped people to emigrate to Palestine. In 1943, the Germans began to deport all Jews from Denmark. Frank was warned that the Gestapo was looking for him and he was smuggled on a fishing boat to Sweden. He had been receiving weekly letters from his family, even after their deport...

  13. Tallit with Great Seal, Star of David and 10 commandments used by a US Army chaplain

    1. Rabbi Judah Nadich collection

    Tallit, or prayer shawl with embroidered insignia worn by Rabbi Judah Nadich for his work as a Jewish chaplain in the United States Army from 1942-1946. Designed per US Army regulations, the tallit has the US coat of arms above the Jewish chaplain's insignia: a Star of David and the tablets of law. Nadich arrived in Paris just after its liberation on August 24, 1944. He conducted the first religious service after liberation in the rue de la Victoire synagogue, and preached to the assembled congregation of Jewish GIs and survivors in both French and English. On Passover 1945, Nadich conducte...

  14. Unused Star of David badge with Juif acquired by a Jewish chaplain, US Army

    1. Rabbi Judah Nadich collection

    Cloth rectangle with a Star of David badge imprinted Juif given to Rabbi Judah Nadich in Paris after liberation. Seeking out surviving members of the Jewish community, Nadich drove his jeep with his Jewish chaplain's insignia into the prewar Jewish neighborhood and soon a crowd gathered. Most had survived the war in hiding and Nadich was their first contact with the outside Jewish world. They gave him a batch of the yellow star badges that Jews in France had been forced to wear as a mark of humiliation from March 27, 1942. See 1988.39.1& 3, 1990.54.1, 3-4, and 1994.a.0250.2 for 7 other ...

  15. Souvenir pin with the words HIAS and Bremen and two boxes given to a young Jewish Polish refugee

    1. Harold Minuskin family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn42512
    • English
    • 1946
    • a: Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Diameter: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) b: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Depth: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) c: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)

    Pin inscribed HIAS Bremen 1946 with a display case and a cardboard box given to 8 year old Henikel Minuskin in 1946 when he emigrated from Germany to the United States with his family on board the Marine Marlin. After his hometown, Zhetel, Poland, was occupied by Germany in June 1941, he and his family lived with partisans in the Lipichanski forest in Poland (Bialowieza Forest (Poland and Belarus) from 1942-1944. His father, Shlamke, was a member of the Lenin Partisan Brigade and Henikel, his mother, Shanke, and his baby brother, Kalmanke, lived with the group. The area was liberated by the...

  16. Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Letters from Rabbi Dr. Alexander Carlebach (originally from Hamburg) from Germany regarding his activities in the British Occupied Zone and accompanying documents, 20 August 1946-03 July 1947

    1. P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Letters from Rabbi Dr. Alexander Carlebach (originally from Hamburg) from Germany regarding his activities in the British Occupied Zone and accompanying documents, 20 August 1946-03 July 1947 In the file: - Gemeindestatistik - statistical data regarding a community (with no mention of which community); handwritten notes (p. 2); - Letter from Rabbi Carlebach from Eilshausen to his wife, Marga, regarding a work tour he made in Germany; the letter is written on Jewish Committee For Relief Abroad from London stationery (pp. 3-5), 20 August 1946; - Letter from Rabbi ...

  17. Records of the Geneva office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1945-1954.

    This incredibly rich archival fonds contains several hundreds of files relevant to the immediate post-war relief efforts of the JDC, and its support of Jewish organisations engaged in the reconstruction of the Belgian Jewish communities during the late 1940s - early 1950s. The fonds is divided into four main sections (‘subcollections’): Administration, Organisations, Subject Matter and Countries & Regions. Subcollection 1: Administration contains the following files, whose descriptions explicitly mention Belgium, Brussels, … and other relevant keywords: “Financial Statistical Reports” (...

  18. Liesl Joseph Loeb papers

    1. Liesl Joseph Loeb collection

    The Liesl Joseph Loeb papers consist of correspondence files, emigration and immigration files, MS St. Louis files, photographs, and printed materials documenting the Joseph family’s departure from Germany and voyage on the St. Louis, the Passenger Committee’s work to find refuge for the ship’s passengers, and the Joseph family’s arrival in England and immigration to the United States. Correspondence includes letters and postcard from Josef Josephs to his family while he was interned as an enemy alien as well as with fellow former passengers of the St. Louis, such as Herbert Manasse and Ern...

  19. Black leather wallet used by a German Jewish man in hiding

    1. Max Amichai Heppner family collection

    Black leather wallet used by Albert Heppner while in hiding in the Netherlands, in August 1942. 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 work permit was...

  20. Quartz whetstone used by a German Jewish man in hiding

    1. Max Amichai Heppner family collection

    Quartz whetstone used by Albert Heppner while in hiding in the Netherlands, in August 1942. 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 work permit was res...