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  1. Oral history interview with Samuel Kessel

  3. Vilniaus žydų tikybinė bendruomenė

    • Gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska w Wilnie
    • Vilnius Jewish Religious Community

    Various documents concerning activities of the community; documentation of the Board of the community, including correspondence, meeting protocols, and related documents; lists of community members; certificates of birth, marriage, and death; certificates of war refugees; permissions issued by the community to bury in the Jewish cemetery; financial documents, etc.

  4. Irma C. Erman Papers

    Correspondence, writings, personal documents, printed matter, photographs, and art objects, relating to German Jewish emigre affairs, the history of antisemitism, and Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution. Includes two plays dramatizing the actions of Paul Gruninger, a Swiss police captain, and Mitsugi Shibata, a Japanese official, in saving the lives of Jewish refugees in Austria and China, respectively, during World War II.

  5. Notes de Mgr Carroll

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • Notes by Mgr Carroll

    Carroll summarises the conversation between Maglione and Taylor about the future of Europe and international relations after the war. Taylor affirms that there is a global agreement, both in Europe and in the USA, that the Pope should blame again inhuman treatments against refugees, hostages and especially Jews in occupied territories.

  6. Le nonce à Berne Bernardini au cardinal Maglione

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • The Nuncio in Bern Bernardini to Cardinal Maglione

    Bernardini reports Maglione the difficulties he is facing in order to help Jewish refugees. Bernardini says he contacted on this matter the Lucerne-based « Unione Svizzera di Carità », and relates that South-American Embassies and Consulates in Switzerland became much stricter on issuing visas, even to Catholics.

  7. L'archevêque d'Utrecht de Jong au pape Pie XII

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Segreteria di Stato
    • The Archbishop of Utrecht de Jong to Pope Pius XII

    De Jong asks pope Pius XII that a part of the donation received from American Jews via the archbishop of Chicago would be given to the Dutch Catholic Committee for Refugees in order to help non-Aryan refugees in the Netherlands.

  8. Le cardinal Maglione aux nonces à Bucarest, Budapest, Kaunas, Riga

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • Cardinal Maglione to nuncios in Bucharest, Budapest, Kaunas, Riga

    Maglione informs nuncios in Bucharest, Budapest, Kaunas, Riga that the Holy See Secretariat of State is creating an intelligence service in order to collect information about war prisoners and refugees. Addressees are invited to cooperate.

  9. La Secrétairerie d'Etat à l'Ambassade du Brésil

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • The Secretariat of State to the Brazilian Embassy

    The Secretariat of State of the Holy See inform the Brazilian Embassy that the inter-nuncio in The Netherlands Mgr Paolo Giobbe wrote that 156 non-Aryan catholic refugees, now hosted in that country, are willing to emigrate to Brasil. The Secretariat of State ask if the Brazilian Embassy in The Hague could grant them visas.

  10. Le grand rabbin Herzog au cardinal MacRory

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • Great Rabbi Herzog to Cardinal MacRory

    Great Rabbi Herzog pleads with Cardinal MacRory for intervention of the Holy Father with Lithuanian Government about the conditions of Polish Jewish refugees, now at Vilna, threatened by forcible repatriation to German and Russian occupation zones. Herzog states that Jewish Relief Organisations are ready to provide their maintenance and to arrange gradual emigration to Palestine and overseas.

  11. La Secrétairerie d'Etat à l'Ambassade du Brésil

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • The Secretariat of State to the Brazilian Embassy

    The Secretariat of State recommends to the Brazilian Embassy 11 non-Aryan catholic refugees in Great Britain willing to emigrate to Brazil.

  12. Le cardinal Maglione à l'internonce à La Haye Giobbe

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • Cardinal Maglione to Inter-nuncio in The Hague Giobbe

    Maglione makes Giobbe known that the Brazilian ambassador in The Hague gave the Brazilian consul in Amsterdam the permission to grant visas to 156 catholic refugees of Jewish origin.

  13. "One Million Dollar Campaign," broadside ("Yeshiva Reshith Chochma Shearith Hapletah," New York)

    One broadside, titled "One Million Dollar Campaign," related to the fundraising efforts for the Yeshiva "Reshith Chochma Shearith Hapletah," under the leadership of Rabbi Solomon Leib Halberstam (the Klausenburger Rabbi), with the purpose of establishing a Torah institute for Jewish refugees from Europe, in Brooklyn, New York, 1947. In addition to a new year's greeting, the broadside contains a letter in English and Yiddish encouraging the reader to donate to this project, with reproductions of various newspaper articles about it on the verso of the broadside.

  16. Chinese paper currency note, 100 yuan, acquired by a German refugee

    1. Max Schmeidler family collection

    Chinese bank note, 100 yuan, owned by Max Schmeidler, who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China.

  17. Chinese paper currency note, 1000 yuan, acquired by a German refugee

    1. Max Schmeidler family collection

    Chinese bank note, 1000 yuan, owned by Max Schmeidler, who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China.

  18. Shanghai International Settlement pin acquired by a German refugee

    1. Max Schmeidler family collection

    Pin owned by Max Schmeidler, who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China. It is embossed with the motto of the Shanghai International Settlement, All Joined in One.

  19. Chinese paper currency note, 100 yuan, acquired by a German refugee

    1. Max Schmeidler family collection

    Chinese bank note, 100 yuan, owned by Max Schmeidler, who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China.

  20. Chinese paper currency note, 100 yuan, acquired by a German refugee

    1. Max Schmeidler family collection

    Chinese bank note, 100 yuan, owned by Max Schmeidler, who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China.