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  1. Correspondence with El Mundo - Ernesto Bonasso

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    A request to write an article about the Wiener Library in connection with the upcoming trial of Adolf Eichmann as well as an unaddressed project outline for a publication on the extermination of Jews and the role Eichmann played in it.

  2. Processo de pedido de visto para Chil Rzepka

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Port-of Spain para Chil Rzepka, de nacionalidade alemã e residente em Trindade, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo da Repartição de Negócios Políticos.

  3. Herman Silbiger collection

    The collection consists of personal documents, correspondence, a luggage tag and label, and Herman Silbiger's scrapbook within a school exercise book that features materials from his family's journey through France, Spain, Jamaica (Camp Gibraltar), and Curaçao from 1942-1945. It also includes the tin cigar box within which he kept the ephemera prior to compiling it into the scrapbook.

  4. Wolf and Dreisel Bienstock family collection

    The collection consists of documents, papers, photocopies, and a suitcase relating to the experiences of Wolf and Dreisel Bienstock and their children Joseph and Martha before the Holocaust when they fled Dortmund, Germany for the United States via Holland, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal, and after the Holocaust as they pursued financial restitution for their confiscated business.

  5. Inge Schiffman papers

    The papers consist of newspaper clippings about a ship, "Navemar," that transported Jewish refugees from Spain to the United States during the Holocaust, one vaccination record, one receipt, one medical certificate, and one passport ("Reisepass").

  7. Camp in Argeles, Southern France

    Argelès - An "escaped prisoners" camp, people who have escaped from "Red Spain." General shots of men sitting around tents, performing manual labor. Men carrying twigs on their backs. Seated by a fire. Smoke from cigars drifts up through the air. LS of camp, little tents, lots of men (dirty and disheveled). Barbed wire.

  9. Robert Cowley collection

    Consists of photographs taken by Robert L. Cowley while he was a member of the 861st Field Artillery Battalion as part of the United States military. Includes photographs of wartime France and Spain, photographs of the discovery and reburial of about 800 victims of a mass atrocity, and photographs of Russian forced laborers. Some of the photographs are annotated.

  10. German propaganda in neutral countries

    1. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    Form for National socialist Group in Spain, 1931 ; Speeches, letters, newspaper articles, maps, and a memorandum concerning German propaganda in neutral countries.

  11. Sephardic Jews

    Documents on the Sepahardim collected by Ernesto Gimenez Caballero. The following notes come from intertitles from the film, restored by NCJF in 1994: The Jews lived in Spain, more or less tolerated, from the time before Christ until March 31, 1492, the date of the national consolidation of Spain. And in this land of "Galud" (Exile), they produced a rich culture for centuries. For this reason Spain, apart from Zion, is the Sephardi's most sentimental homeland. The ancestral home of their most respected ancestors whose descendants are the aristocratic Sephardim--The Jews of the Spanish Homel...

  12. Walter and Erna Brunell papers

    The Walter and Erna Brunell papers contain primarily correspondence related to Walter and Brunell’s attempts to emigrate from Germany in the late 1930s. The correspondence is with various relatives and aid organizations related to their attempts to obtain visas from the United States. Other documents include passports, transit visas, and other various documents related to their immigration. The Walter and Erna Brunell papers contain primarily correspondence concerning the couple’s efforts in obtaining visas to immigrate to the United States. These include telegrams with their son, Ernst Bru...

  13. Rudy B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudy B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912. He recalls encountering "genteel" antisemitism before 1933; moving to Amsterdam immediately after Hitler's election; getting his parents and younger brother to Holland (his mother died prior to German invasion, his father in a concentration camp, and his brother emigrated to the United States); joining the Dutch military; escaping with a friend in 1941; traveling to Geneva via Lyon and Lons-le-Saunier; imprisonment; release after intervention by the Dutch consul; traveling to England using false papers via Marseille, B...

  14. Lisa F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lisa F., who was born in Ungvar, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Uz?h?horod, Ukraine) in 1909. She recalls living in Vienna and Budapest; the family's move to Berlin in 1922; her parents encouraging her political interests; participating in socialist groups; the Nazi ascent to power; crossing a Nazi picket line during the anti-Jewish boycott in April 1933; her parents' emigration to Prague; remaining in Berlin to continue her political activities; producing and distributing anti-Nazi leaflets; joining her family to live in Prague from 1933 to 1935; marriage to a ...

  15. Gerson F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerson F., who was born in 1913 in Poland. He recalls his parents' deaths in 1920; emigration to Antwerp, Belgium in 1929; hearing Le?on Degrelle speak in Antwerp; fighting fascism in Spain until 1938; returning to Belgium; traveling to Cuba in 1939; returning to Belgium via England in April 1940; fleeing to France when Belgian police notified him he would be arrested by Germans; working in coal mines; arrest in Lyon in autumn 1941; imprisonment; release under police control; re-arrest; forced labor; transfer to Drancy in August 1942; deportation the day after; and se...

  16. Maliette W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maliette W., who was born in Strasbourg, France in 1929, one of two children of Polish e?migre?s. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; visiting her grandmother in Poland and other relatives in Germany; attending a French school; vacationing with relatives, but without her father, in Paris-Plage when the war broke out; her father bringing a few possessions from Strasbourg after its ordered evacuation; moving to Vichy; attending school; her relatives leaving for Spain; her family's departure for Marseille; obtaining visas to Martinique; interdiction of their ship by the...

  17. Julius and Bertha Meyerowitz papers

    The Julius and Bertha Meyerowitz papers consists primarily of identification and immigration documents related to Julius and Bertha Meyerowitz, a Jewish couple that immigrated to the United States in 1942 to escape persecution in Germany. Included in the papers are birth and wedding certificates, documents related to Julius’ education and employment as a pharmacist, and passports. Also included are various documents the Meyerowitz’ family collected during the immigration process, such as boarding passes for their ship from Spain, alien registration cards, and certificates of health. The Jul...

  18. Jacob Fischler papers

    The papers consist of a letter written by Rabbi Moise Cassorla on September 8, 1941, attesting to a Bar Mitzvah ceremony to take place in Toulouse, France on September 20, 1941; a telegram sent to Sabina Fischler [donor's mother] by Jacob Fischler and his brother, Alexander; an identification tag from the American Joint Distribution Committee worn by Jacob Fischler (#43) and issued in Barcelona, Spain; a ticket issued in Bracelona on January 18, 1944; a letter written from Reichenberg (Liberec), Czechoslovakia, by Hermann Fischler [donor's father]; a letter written in English from Sabina Fi...

  19. Grootkerk family papers

    1. Jack and Hedi Justus Grootkerk family collection

    The Grootkerk family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, personal narratives, photographs, and printed materials documenting Jacques and Hedi Grootkerk’s marriage in Amsterdam, Jacques’ flight to England via Spain and service in the Princess Irene Brigade, and Hedi’s flight to Switzerland via France. The bulk of the collection is comprised of love letters between Jacques and Hedi while they were separated during the war. Biographical materials include identification papers, ration books, military papers, and receipts documenting Jacques and Hedi Grootkerk’s refugee sta...