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  1. Henny Wenkart papers

    The Henny Wenkart papers includes passports, postcards, photographs, and printed material, related to the childhood and emigration of Henny (Henriette) Wenkart from Nazi-occupied Austria as one of the "50 Children" on the transport organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus in June 1939. Includes childhood photographs of Wenkart and her family, German passports for Wenkart and her mother, Rose (Rachela) Wenkart, postcards sent by Wenkart's father, Hermann, including those sent to family members during World War I, and several publications containing poetry written by Wenkart reflecting on her e...

  2. Personal papers of F. Th. Dijckmeester

    The personal archive of Frans Theodoor Dijckmeester (1917-2003). The collection consists of documents concerning the "Kersten" matters: the report, correspondence and newspaper clippings about Dr. F. Kersten. It also includes a report by Kersten about his network in the occupied Netherlands, and a German translation of an article by Prof. L. de Jong about Dr. F. Kersten, and corresponding letters. Felix Kersten (1898-1960) was before and during WWII a personal physical therapist of Heinrich Himmler. Kersten used his contacts with Himmler to help people persecuted by Nazi Germany. He played ...

  3. UNRRA selected records AG-018-011 : European Regional Office (ERO). Subject Files

    Selected files relating to displaced persons operations in British Zone (BAOR) and the Australian United Jewish Overseas Relief Team: correspondence, statements of accounts.

  4. Records of the New Israelite Congregation, Uruguay (Nueva Congregación Israelita)

    Copies of La voz newspaper, minutes of meetings of the General Assembly, minutes of the Board of Directors and assembly of representatives, correspondence, and marriage registrations.

  5. Hirsch family papers

    1. Martin and Hertha Hirsch family collection

    The Hirsch family papers consist of documents, photographs, artwork and ephemera related to the family of Martin and Hertha Hirsch and their daughters, Dorothea and Stephanie, documenting their immigration from their native Germany to the United States in 1938-1939. Includes passport of Martin Hirsch, copy prints of photographs, and items (artwork reproductions and childrens' books) brought with them from Germany, as well as a copy of the memoir of Dorothea Hirsch Bartha's memoir, written circa 1995.

  6. Filantropia: Official organ of the Jewish Philanthropic Association Publicacion de la Asociación Filantropica Israelita [starting in 1980] Filantropia: Organo de la Asociación Filantropica Israelita

    Monthly serial of the Asociación Filantropica Israelita, published in Spanish and German in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Previous title: Mitteilungsblatt (Hilfsverein deutschsprechender Juden).

  7. David Diamant papers

    1. David Diamant collection

    The David Diamant papers include Diamant’s forged identity card and work certificate under his alias Alexandre Nagy, a forged identity card under the alias Marc Sylvain Camus for another member of the French Resistance, and the last letters of French Resistance members Henri Bajtsztok and Maurice Fingercwajg before their executions.

  8. Elfriede Toch collection

    1. Elfriede Toch collection

    Photographs, immigration documents, family tree, and other materials related to the childhood and emigration from Nazi-occupied Austria in June 1939 of Elfriede Toch, who was one of the "50 children" selected and sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus of Philadelphia. The collection includes family photographs from the period of her childhood in Austria; immigration and naturalization documents, including her German passport and American immigration documents; and her autograph book, containing inscriptions and autographs from friends and family members in Austria, 1936-1939, and other emig...

  9. Ludwig Hiss collection

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Ludwig Hiss of Borysław, Poland in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp; other DP camps in Linz, Austria; and the Bellfaire orphanage in Cleveland, Ohio. Documents include a civilian transportation pass from Linz; a newspaper clipping describing Ludwig’s story; and two writings of Ludwig describing his experiences during and after the war. Photographs include depictions of the DP camps, Ludwig’s immigration to the United States onboard the SS Marine Perch, and the Bellfaire orphanage he lived in after he arrived. There are also a few pre-...

  10. Postwar devastation; poverty; hunger; opening of Nuremberg Trial

    Reel 1: "Europe 1945" Panorama of war devastation: buildings and cities laid to waste, rubble, mother climbing out of trap door shelter with naked baby in arms, people in hunger and despair emerge from shelters, children running down steps, clambering for food, poverty, homeless people, begging for food, weeping woman. 05:03:01 "Nuremberg 21 November 1945" EXT and INT Nuremberg Palace of Justice. CU, document announcing trial and listing the accused. Seating of International Military Tribunal. 05:04:26 Chief US prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson presents the opening statement and Count 1 of the ...

  11. JDC: Relief efforts for Jewish DPs

    Notes from NCJF documentation: "This is the story of 2,500,000 Jews in Europe and Moslem lands on the road to survival." "Against the background of authentic footage showing rescue missions from Europe, Cyprus, Aden, the film shows the importance of aid to the new immigrants. The dramatic effect of the poor living conditions in contrast with the hopefulness of their new life in Israel serves as a powerful message to the audience." Trains with Jewish DPs leaving Germany for Israel (reference to trains leading to concentration camps). People saying goodbye (but many are still left behind afte...

  12. Scrapbook

    Includes information about the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the outbreak of disease at the time of liberation, Josef Kramer and SS guards at the camp, the United Jewish Appeal Conference in Atlantic City, N.J., in December 1945, and the establishment of the Bergen-Belsen liberation memorial.

  13. Felix Lilienthal family papers

    The collection contains pre-war and wartime correspondence between members of the Lilienthal family of Wiesbaden, Germany. Pre-war correspondence includes letters sent to Saul Lilienthal, a cantor and teacher, from when he was living in Posen (present-day Poznan, Poland); Freiburg, Germany; and Wiesbaden; as well as general family correspondence. Wartime correspondence primarily contains letters sent to Felix Lilienthal, who immigrated to Treinta y Tres and then to Montevideo, Uruguay in 1938. Included are letters sent by Saul and Bertha Lilienthal from Wiesbaden in 1938, and then from Amst...

  14. Joseph H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph H., who was born in Boryslav, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1921, the youngest of three children. He recounts his brother's death before his own birth; his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder; participating in Zionist groups; brief German invasion; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; hiding his family during Ukrainian anti-Jewish violence and killings; ghettoization; hiding his parents during round-ups (he and his sister had jobs which exempted them from deportation); his later deportation to Janowska; escape with assistance from the camp underground; ...

  15. Janka C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Janka C., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1920, the older of two sisters. She recounts her family's move to Vienna in 1921; their assimilated lifestyle; attending public school; anti-Jewish harassment; the Anschluss; immediately deciding to emigrate to Belgium; traveling to Cologne; living with a Jewish family for several months; arrest when attempting to illegally enter Belgium; imprisonment in Aachen; release a week later; entering Belgium on her third attempt, with assistance from a man she had met in prison; arriving in Antwerp via Liège and Brussels in Oct...

  16. Shlomo S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924. He recalls his mother's severe illness; being raised in Chernyshevskoye by his father and grandmother; his family's Zionisim; attending German primary school until 1934; leaving due to antisemitism; studying with private tutors; attending a Hebrew gymnasium in Kaunas beginning in 1936; Soviet occupation; arrival of Jewish refugees from Poland; German invasion in June 1941; a non-Jewish woman hiding them during a mass killing by Lithuanians; his grandfather being killed; ghettoization; his mother and grandmother being...

  17. Uziel L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Uziel L., who was born in Z?uromin, Poland in 1916, the youngest of three children. He recalls his family's affluence; his father's leadership role in the Jewish community; attending Jewish and public schools; moving with his family to ?o?dz? in 1929; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; his sisters' emigration to Palestine in 1934 and 1935; training as a textile engineer; supporting his parents; his leadership role in No?ar ha-Tsiyoni; enlistment in the Polish military in 1938; attending officers' training school; German invasion; capture; imprisonment in Stalag II A; ...

  18. Elazar S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elazar S., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1924, the elder of two children. He recalls his sister's birth in 1931; attending private Hebrew schools; antisemitic harassment; his father's communal leadership role, including in Zionist organizations; attending a Zionist congress with him in Switzerland in 1935; assisting German-Jewish refugees; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father briefly fleeing; his arrest a week after his return; notification of his death in December 1940; Mr. S. receiving assistance from his Polish nanny; his mot...

  19. Jack K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack K., who was born in Poland in 1920, the oldest of three brothers. He recounts his family moving to Trier in 1925; attending school; antisemitism beginning in 1932; moving to Barcelona, then Palma de Mallorca; moving to Marseille, then Paris in 1936 due to the Spanish Civil War; participating in Betar; organizing illegal emigration to Palestine; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation with his father and brothers to Pithiviers in May 1941; his mother's visit; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June 1942; obtaining a privileged office position because...

  20. Oswald R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Oswald R., who was born in a Polish village near Żywiec in 1922, the older of two brothers. He recalls learning German; attending a local school; cordial relations with non-Jews; being sent to live with an aunt in Bielsko-Biała to attend a better school; graduating from high school; moving with his family to Żywiec; participating in Akiba; fleeing toward Kraków during the German invasion; his parents returning home (he never saw them again), but sending him and his brother away from German-occupied areas; finding an Akiba group in Lʹviv; his assignment smuggling ot...