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  11. UN appeal for WWII refugees; DP camps

    From opening credits of the film: "United Nations Film Board presents...Produced by the Office of Public Information of the International Refugee Organization, A specialized agency of the United Nations." UN appeal for WWII Refugees, an "inside look" at life in a DP camp. A day in the life of a DP.

  12. Records of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) (previously the Academic Assistance Council (AAC))

    Contains records of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) relating to assistance to academics fleeing the Fascist regimes in Europe between 1933-1955. Contains also administrative and financial files, reports, minutes of meetings, correspondence with international and local refugee organizations, records assisting interned refugees, as well as a sample of personal files of scholars assisted by the Society. Includes name lists of scholars in various disciplines from many European countries.

  13. Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Cultural activities of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1938-1944

    1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969

    Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Cultural activities of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1938-1944 In the file: Documentation regarding cultural activities of Jewish refugee organizations in Switzerland. Among other things in the file: Periodicals from "Sarcis", the YMCA/YWCA relief service to refugee citizens in Switzerland, for leisure time matters, May 1944; - Report submitted by a group of young refugees regarding their trip during Easter vacation, with photographs, April 1944; - Pamphlet regarding Culture Week, 01-07 August 1944, at the Champery refugee camp; - Announcements and newspaper c...

  14. Newspaper clipping

    The clipping is from the "Evening Sentinel," dated Tuesday, August 1, 1939, Stoke-on-Trent, England, and shows two photographs of Czech refugee children from Teplice, Czechoslovakia, living at the Children's Homes in Penkhull, England, which were founded by Hanna Strasser donor's aunt. The children were the guests of the Czech Children's Refugee Committee. Pictured are: Hanna Strasser, Raja Strauss, Lisa Dasch, Hanna Frankel, Asaf Auerbach, Reuben Auerbach, Ralph Strauss, and Peter Feldstein.

  15. Zophia Shulman photographs

    1. Zophia Shulman collection

    The collection consists of nine photographs depicting Zophia Shulman and her fellow refugees at the displaced persons camp in Salzburg, Austria, after World War II.

  16. Leon Shear photographs

    1. Leon Shear collection

    Consists of five photographs depicting Leon Shear and his friends and family members as refugees at the displaced persons camp in Feldafing, Germany, from 1945 to 1947.

  17. Poster concerning volunteer solicitation for the aide of Jewish refugees.

    1. Jewish American ephemera and archival collection

    Poster concerning volunteer solicitation for the aide of Jewish refugees. (Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal, National Refugee Service, Refugee Work in Chicago).

  18. Fred Marcus Papers

    Diaries and oral history recording and transcript, relating to the condition of Jews in Nazi Germany, and to the Jewish refugee community in China during World War II.

  19. Herman Rothberg photograph collection

    The 33 photographs were taken in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II. Many of the photographs have captions on the verso.

  20. Lillian Bronner Glass papers

    The papers consist of two identification cards for Lillian Bronner [donor] and Eleanora Bronner [donor's mother] issued at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in N.Y.