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  1. Collection of the Commissie-Clevering committee, which examined the attitude toward refugees by the authorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1950

    Collection of the Commissie-Clevering committee, which examined the attitude toward refugees by the authorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1950 Official documentation of the Commissie-Clevering committee, established by the Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands in 1946 for the purpose of examining the attitude of the embassies toward Dutch citizens who escaped to Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal and other countries during the war period: Included in the collection: Testimonies of: A. Cohen E. Elzas L. Flesseman M.H. Gans A.J. Goedkoop E.H. van Hasselt M.H.J. Hedeman-Joosten J.M. Kijzer J. P...

  2. Otto Eidlitz diaries

    The Otto Eidlitz diaries consist of three diaries written by Otto Eidlitz between 1940 and 1943. The diaries cover the period of his escape from Hungary to Spain and his time in the Miranda del Ebro prison. The diaries also include his handwritten Hungarian to Spanish dictionary.

  3. Norwegian Fascist Police; German homefront propaganda

    Narrator explains (in English) that this item was released in Portugal. Portugese narration heard under English commentary. Interior, family sitting around table eating. Close-ups of family meant to show that Germans are not suffering from lack of food, despite war. Women working in railroad and postal occupation. Narrator states that "Germany's postal system... increased its employment of women after the July 25th total mobilization announcement." Upbeat music as smiling women drive postal truck. Men working in factories; woman welding. Miners working underground. "Several sequences here h...

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    1. Bern Trial, Bern, Switzerland, 1934-1935

    This file contains a letter from 13th June 1935. It is written in German and addressed to a certain Doctor Weil living in Madrid. The signature at the end of the letter is to illegible. The letter focuses on the rising antisemitism in Spain due to the massive Nazi propaganda and the publishing of the Protocols in Spanish newspapers. The Bern trials are not mentioned in the media. One of the biggest newspapers in Spain, the ABC, will publish more antisemitic books. The author of the letter tried desperately to stop the publishing but didn't succeed. Now he's seeking material and asks his fri...

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    1. Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto collection 1926-2018

    This file contains a letter from 13th June 1935. It is written in German and addressed to a certain Doctor Weil living in Madrid. The signature at the end of the letter is to illegible. The letter focuses on the rising antisemitism in Spain due to the massive Nazi propaganda and the publishing of the Protocols in Spanish newspapers. The Bern trials are not mentioned in the media. One of the biggest newspapers in Spain, the ABC, will publish more antisemitic books. The author of the letter tried desperately to stop the publishing but didn't succeed. Now he's seeking material and asks his fri...

  6. Gisela W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisela W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. She recalls her family's wealthy, assimilated life; antisemitic vandalism; attending a private girls' school; expulsion as a Jew; attending the American school; living with an uncle in the Hague (her brother had been sent to England); visiting family in Stuttgart; living with an aunt in Switzerland; staying in a hotel in Lugano; moving with her parents to Amsterdam in April 1939; attending Dutch school; German invasion; obtaining permission to leave through her uncle, who headed the Warburg Bank in Holland; leaving w...

  7. Reports and correspondence re Gurs and other French concentration camps

    These papers offer some insight into conditions in French internment camps during the 1940s, in particular in Gurs. Most of the reports and correspondence are contemporary copies or transcriptions.

  8. Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Articles, lectures, notes, bibliography and correspondence regarding refugees, regarding the rescue of Jews in neutral countries, regarding Jewish youth movements and regarding the place of the Holocaust in history

    1. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Articles, lectures, notes, bibliography and correspondence regarding refugees, regarding the rescue of Jews in neutral countries, regarding Jewish youth movements and regarding the place of the Holocaust in history There are four volumes in the file: Volume I Refugees and the rescue of Jews in neutral countries such as Switzerland, Sweden and Spain during the Holocaust period. Volume II Articles, index cards, lists, bibliography and correspondence regarding the Jewish youth movements and the Bund during the Holocaust period. Volume III Lectures, articles and lis...

  9. Robert Donoff, born in Paris, France, 1912, known as Casoar; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Robert Donoff, born in Paris, France, 1912, known as Casoar; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Membership in the EIF (French Jewish Scouts) and the La Sixieme (the Sixth) underground; activities as director of the UGIF (Union Generale des Israelites de France) in Chambery; forged documents and smuggling children into Spain; arrest and deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz, 02 February 1944. In the file: - Photographs from the Yad Vashem Photo Archive: 7646/46-7646/47.

  10. Ernst Ascher, born in Liebemuehl, Germany, 1921; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Ernst Ascher, born in Liebemuehl, Germany, 1921; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Activities in the Dutch underground, from 1944; smuggles inmates out of Westerbork; smuggles Jews and persecuted non-Jews into Belgium, France and Spain; arrested 19 July 1944; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Buchenwald, 17 August 1944; liberation by the Allies. Return to the Netherlands, May 1945. In the file: - Summary of his activities.

  11. Isaie Charles Elbogen, born in Strasbourg, France, 1925; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Isaie Charles Elbogen, born in Strasbourg, France, 1925; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Membership in EIF (French Jewish Scouts); attendance at a first aid course during the war; participation in the rescue of the injured and removal of rubble during air-raids on the cities of France; joins the French Jewish underground; escape to Spain, 1944. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944; outbreak of the War of Independence; enlists in the religious regiment of the First Battalion of the Palmach; participation in the battle for Latrun and his death in b...

  12. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Yitzhak Weisman, Relico representative, and the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Lisbon

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Yitzhak Weisman, Relico representative, and the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Lisbon Correspondence with Yitzhak Weisman, Relico representative, and the World Jewish congress (WJC) in Lisbon regarding the sending of food parcels to Poland and to survivors of the ship, "Pentcho", in Rhodes and relief to Jewish refugees in Portugal. Also in the file: - Copies of Weisman's letters to the diplomatic legation in Lisbon, to the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the WJC regarding the release of Jewish refugees who arrived in Portugal ille...

  13. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Various reports and surveys (Numbers 1-13) regarding the destruction of the Jews of the Netherlands; Vught camp, Westerbork camp and Barneveld camp; and regarding the Judenrat

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Various reports and surveys (Numbers 1-13) regarding the destruction of the Jews of the Netherlands; Vught camp, Westerbork camp and Barneveld camp; and regarding the Judenrat Also in the file: - Protest lodged by the Organization of Reformed Churches in the Netherlands against the firing of clerks of Jewish origin, 1940; - Report and letter regarding certificates for aliya to Eretz Israel for rescuing long-time Zionists, February and March 1944; - Various surveys and testimonies of pioneers regarding the Holocaust in the Netherlands, the camps, life in hid...

  14. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the United States Embassy in Switzerland and with Roswell McClelland regarding the fate of those holding South American passports in the camps in Germany and in Vittel

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the United States Embassy in Switzerland and with Roswell McClelland regarding the fate of those holding South American passports in the camps in Germany and in Vittel Also in the file: - American regulation regarding limitations on the granting of visas to the United States, 01 July 1941; - Request submitted by Dr. Silberschein for United States intervention on behalf of the refugees in Spain and Portugal, 20 June 1941; - Information from the "Washington Post", 26 January 1944, and from Juedische Nachrichten, the press agency of SIG [Un...

  15. Diplomatic service passport issued by the Republic of Liberia to Kelman Charles Mincberg. Collection

    A diplomatic service passport issued by the Republic of Liberia, represented by Baron O. de Bogaerde, Minister Plenipotentiary, to Kelman Charles Mincberg, granting him diplomatic immunity and allowing them to travel to Spain and Portugal.