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  1. Weidhorn family papers

    1. Weidhorn family collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Manfred Weidhorn and his parents Anna and Aron Weidhorn, including their flight from Vienna, Austria after the German-annexation of Austria in March 1938, Aron’s immigration to the United States in 1939, and Manfred and his mother’s immigration to the United States via Cuba in 1941. Included are biographical and identification documents, records related to Aron’s fur business, immigraiton paperwork, photographs, correspondence, telephone directories, and a diary kept by Aron in 1940, shortly after his arrival in the U.S.

  2. German speaking Jewish community in Bolivia

    Records of the German-Jewish community in Cochabamba, Bolivia, consisting of newspaper clippings, correspondence, manuscripts of articles, photographs of the synagogue inaugurated in 1947, and other documents from several different Jewish assotiations and institutions, including the Landesverband der Jüdischen Gemeinden Boliviens, Federación Sionista Unida en Bolivia, Comunidad Israelita Cochabamba, and Asociación Israelita Cochabamba.

  3. Records from the Archives of the Jewish Community of Iannina, Greece

    Records of the Jewish Community of Ioannina (1947-2014), one of the oldest Jewish communities in Greece, whose members are predominantly Romaniot Jews. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence files of the Community Council as well as documentation related to the restitution of Jewish property after the Holocaust. Among the records are the minutes of the Community Council’s meetings; notes, memoranda, reports, correspondence with other Greek Jewish Communities, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, institutions inside and outside the country; financial documents: l...

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Various captured newsreels

    Hermann Goering, Albert Speer, Wilhelm Keitel, and others at a ceremony in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. Inside the Chancellery, men and women receive small crosses (Kriegsverdienstkreuz) that indicate their level of civilian (non-combat) service to the nation. One man receives the highest level honor. An officer pins this man's cross medal around his neck, and the medal recipient reviews troops with Goering in the courtyard of the Chancellery. 01:01:59 According to the dope sheet, this footage shows foreign workers watching a performance in a Berlin music hall. A band and a couple danci...

  5. Zonligt family papers

    1. Zonligt family collection

    The Zonligt family papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Zonligt family from Belgium and their Blitz relatives from the Netherlands, their migration to France in 1940, their immigration to the United States in 1940 and 1941, and Gerard Zonligt’s work as an UNRRA officer at the Wels displaced persons camp. Biographical materials include identification papers, banking records, ration cards, and immigration records documenting the Blitz and Zonligt families in Belgium, their migration to France in 1940, and their immigration to the United Stat...

  6. Expressionistic lithograph by Richard Grune depicting concentration camp inmates begging a guard for food

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune for a 1947 series of works based upon his experiences as an inmate in German concentration camps and prisons from 1934-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933, as the Nazis were consolidating their control of the government. In December 1934, he was denounced and arrested. Under interrogation, Grune admitted to being homosexual. He was held in protective custody for five months, then returned to Flensburg, his childhood home, to stand trial for violating Article 6, §175 of the penal code which punished indecent acts b...

  7. Lobby card for the film “The Great Dictator" (1940)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Lobby card for the American satirical film, “The Great Dictator,” released by United Artists in the United States in October 1940. Lobby cards are promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. In his first film with dialog, Charlie Chaplin plays both an unnamed Jewish barber with amnesia and a fictional dictator that is a thinly veiled caricature of Hitler. The two characters are caught up in a comic case of mistaken identity before taking a serious turn at the end. The barber gives a three...

  8. Kutschmann file from Moskovits Office Legajo Walter Kutschmann

    Records from the the office of Mr. José Moskovits, a Holocaust survivor and attorney in Buenos Aires. Consist of correspondence, memorandums, photographs and newspaper clippings relating to Nazi war criminal Walter Kutschmann who lived in Argentina after World War II under the false name Pedro Ricardo Olmo.

  9. Dimitrov Georgi

    • Dimitrov, Georgi, 1882-1949
    • Dimitroff, G.
    • Dimitrov, Georgi
    • Dimitrov, Georgi Mihajlov
    • Dimitrow, G. (Georgi)
    • ...

    18/06/1882

    02/07/1949

    Bulgarian communist. After being acquitted as the star defendant at the Reichstag Fire Trial in 1933, D. became general secretary of the comintern in 1935. Leader of Bulgarian communists after the Soviet liberation and became prime minister on 06.11.1946.

  10. Gerlier Pierre-Marie

    • Gerlier, Pierre, 1880-1965
    • Gerlier, Pierre 1880-1965
    • Gerlier, Monseigneur 1880-1865
    • Gerlier, Cardinal 1880-1965
    • Gerlier.
    • ...

    1880

    1965

    French Cardinal of the Catholic church, archbishop of Lyon 1937-1965, , protested publicly against anti-Jewish measures.

  11. John Henry Weidner papers

    Correspondence, speeches and writings, government documents, printed matter, audiovisual material and memorabilia, relating to an escape route through the Netherlands and France from Nazi-occupied Europe, for political refugees, Jews, and Allied servicemen, which was under the leadership of John Henry (Johan Hendrik) Weidner (1912-1994). The collection consists of microfilm copies of the originals, which are owned by the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, Stanford University.

  12. Alexander Dallin papers

    The Alexander Dallin papers document Alexander Dallin and his family’s escape from Europe between 1939 and 1940 and their immigration to the United States through autobiographical materials, family trees, photocopies of certificates and letters, newspaper clippings, and some original documentation. The collection contains a draft of Dallin’s incomplete autobiography-- split into two chapters-- a copy of Dallin’s memoir written in 1941, and a speech memorializing American Journalist, Varian Fry, which all relate to Dallin’s experience in Vichy France after escaping Nazi Germany before he and...

  13. Schwarz family papers

    The collection documents the Hungarian Holocaust-era experiences of the extended Schwarz family, including George and Magdolna Schwarz, their daughter Mariette, and Magdolna’s sister Klári Kovács (née Haberfeld) and her husband László Kovács. Included are identification papers, immigration documents, and photographs.

  14. HIAS-JCA Emigration Association (HICEM), Paris (Fond 740)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Administrative files of the council of HICEM, including minutes, reports of the HICEM’s bureau of statistics, and finance department, circulars, and field trip reports. Other materials include reports on the status of Jews in various countries, lists of emigrants, reports on conferences, including minutes taken at the 1938 Evian conference, bulletins and periodicals issued by HICEM, press and media clippings, correspondence with branches and organizations in various countries, including correspondence with local HICEM branches, local charities and Jewish communities, correspondences with in...

  15. Reich Ministry for Economics, Berlin Reichwirtschaftministerium, Berlin (Fond 1458)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Contains various records of the Reich Ministry for Economics: Circulars, orders, decrees and correspondence relating to restrict the rights of Jews in Germany and German occupied territories (including the Soviet Union, the Baltic republics, and Belorussia) with regard to personal and property insurance, issuing credit and bank loans, payment for work and sick pay. Includes stenographic reports of speeches, and minutes of secret meetings of senior Reich officials Hermann Goring, Walther Funk, and Labor Minister Franz Seldte on excluding Jews from the German economy and commerce, on conflict...

  16. Chancellery of Adolf Hitler, Berlin Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP, Adolf Hitler, Berlin (Fond 1355)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    The entire collection at the source archive contains correspondence, letters, circulars, instructions, reports, photographs, catalogs of books and art, essays, plays, manuscripts of novels and stories, newspaper clippings of the Chancellery of Adolf Hitler. Includes Hitler's correspondence with private individuals on personal matters, requests for help, letters from members of Jehovah's Witnesses to Hitler with protests against his policy towards Jews (1934), letters to Hitler from abroad with protests against the death penalty to the German Communist Edgar André (1936), Happy Birthday, New...

  17. Jewish Community of Salonika Jüdische Gemeinde Saloniki (Fond 1428)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    The collection contains registration documents of the Jewish community of Salonica (Thessaloniki), including meeting minutes of the Jewish Community Council; candidate lists for emigration; materials of the community's refugee committee; lists of refugees; applications for permission to relocate to Palestine, and documents on the life of Jewish settlers in Palestine; minutes and decisions of the Beth Din (mostly on damage cases); marriage contracts; financial accounts of charities; information about schools; diverse documents including rent receipts, a memorandum to the government regarding...

  18. Fischer, Josef, Doc., PhDr.

    • Doc. PhDr. Josef Fischer / NAD 1306
    • Národní archiv
    • 1306
    • English
    • 1891-1945
    • Textual material Photographic images 2,80 linear meters

    The personal fonds of Doc. PhDr. Josef Fischer, a prominent Czech philosopher, sociologist, translator, and participant in the domestic anti-Nazi resistance, is a valuable source for understanding his personality and work, for understanding the intellectual and spiritual atmosphere of the interwar Czechoslovakia, and for studying the issues of the domestic non-communist resistance. The documents related to the resistance activities of the author, especially the letters and secret messages of doc. J. Fischer from prison are a valuable source. The fodns also contains the extensive corresponde...

  19. Marion Finkels-Kreith. Collection

    This collection consists of: the little suitcase Marion carried her books in when going to Jewish school in Hamburg ; three pages from Marion's photo album from Cuba ; five war-time photos of Marion Finkels in Havana, Cuba ; two excerpts from Marion's diary ; an interview with Judy Kreith regarding the story of her mother Marion Finkels-Kreith ; a post-war photo of Marion and the suitcase she took with her to Cuba ; a post-war photo of Judy Kreith with Michel Fischler, son of Marion's friend from Cuba Bram Fischler ; "The Quiz Box", a story written by Marion Finkels post-war regarding her l...

  20. Maurice L. Perlzweig

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Political Department/Department of International Affairs
    3. Executive Files

    Box B1. Folder 1. Correspondence, 1940 Box B1. Folder 2. Correspondence, 1941 January-November Box B1. Folder 3. Correspondence, 1941 December Box B1. Folder 4. Correspondence, 1942 Box B1. Folder 5. Correspondence, 1943 January-June Box B1. Folder 6. Correspondence, 1943 July-December Box B1. Folder 7. Correspondence, 1944 Box B1. Folder 8. Correspondence, 1945 Box B2. Folder 1. Correspondence, 1946 Box B2. Folder 2. Correspondence, 1947 January-April Box B2. Folder 3. Correspondence, 1947 May-December Box B2. Folder 4. Correspondence, 1948 Box B2. Folder 5. Correspondence, 1949 Box B2. Fo...