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  1. M.56 - Central British Fund

    M.56 - Documantation of the Central British Fund The Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief (CBF) known variously in the 1930's as the CBF for German Jewry (1933), the Council for German Jewry (1936), and the Central Council for Jewish Refugees (1939), was founded in Britain in early 1933 by a group of Anglo-Jewish communal leaders who represented the breadth of the liturgical spectrum and widely diverse political loyalties of the community. CBF action was a direct response to the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany on 30 January1933 on a political platform of anti-Se...

  2. Collection of Meyer Sluyser, regarding the Dutch Government in Exile and the fate of the Jews in the Netherlands during 1940-1945

    Collection of Meyer Sluyser, regarding the Dutch Government in Exile and the fate of the Jews in the Netherlands during 1940-1945 Journalist Meyer Sluyser dealt in information publicity for the Dutch Government in Exile, and followed the fate of the Jews in the occupied Netherlands and the deportation of the Jews to Eastern Europe during 1940-1945; Included in the collection: Documents collected by M. Sluyser, including a professional opinion by the BRvA Council in London regarding various proposals for legislation, 1943-1944; Texts of the "De Flitspuit" radio program broadcasts in the Neth...

  3. Bergen-Belsen

    Contains information about the establishment of health care facilities after liberation, the activities of Hadassah and Josef Rosensaft as leaders in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, and the closing of the camp in 1950.

  4. Scrapbook

    Includes information about the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the outbreak of disease at the time of liberation, Josef Kramer and SS guards at the camp, the United Jewish Appeal Conference in Atlantic City, N.J., in December 1945, and the establishment of the Bergen-Belsen liberation memorial.

  5. Articles relating to the war crimes trial of Bergen-Belsen guards

    Consists of photocopies of newspaper articles relating to the September 1945 war crimes trial of several Bergen-Belsen guards. Included is information about the testimony of Dr. Ada Bimko (a.k.a.Hadassah Rosensaft), selections for the gas chambers at Auschwitz, results of medical experiments on female prisoners, and atrocities committed by the SS guards at Bergen-Belsen.

  6. Bergen-Belsen related records

    The records relate to the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, displaced persons, the Belsen memorial, and Jewish emigration to the Palestine after the Holocaust.

  7. UNRRA selected records AG-018-033 : India Mission

    Consist of general files relating to displaced persons.

  8. UNRRA selected records AG-018-023 : Hungary Mission

    Consist of correspondence, reports, statistics, newspaper clippings, and articles relating to welfare programs of various agencies, displaced persons in Hungary, and repatriation of Hungarians from Palestine, welfare institutions and projects in Budapest, and to Hungarian journalists.

  9. UNRRA selected records AG-018-022 : Greece Mission

    Correspondence, press releases, individual stories, monthly and annual reports, field trip reports, statistics, and working materials on training courses. Records relate to the UNRRA assistance and relief to war refugees, displaced Jews, child welfare, food supplies for hospitals and orphanages. Includes files of displaced persons organized by regions.

  10. UNRRA selected records AG-018-018 : Dodecanese Islands Mission

    Consists of the UNRRA Central Registry Files and Subject Files relating to relief and rehabilitation, welfare inquires, and displaced persons and refugees on the Dodecanese and Rhodes area.

  11. UNRRA selected records AG-018-024 : Luxembourg Mission

    Consists of correspondence and reports of the mission. Records relate to tracing of displaced persons, settlement of non-repatriable Poles, and help to deported Jews.

  12. Doll given to a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport

    A doll given to Esther Rosenfeld as a child by Dorothy Harrison when she was in the United Kingdom. Dorothy Harrison was the mother of the family that was caring for Esther after she arrived on the Kindertransport. She received the doll for Esther from an acquaintance who brought it over to the Harrison's home once she found out that Esther was a refugee living with the family in Norwich, England.

  13. "Sunday's Child"

    Contains a manuscript entitled "Sunday's Child," by Lili R. Andrieux.

  14. UNRRA selected records AG-018-009 : Italy Mission

    Correspondence, memos, statistics, publications, circulars, bulletins, financial documents, and reports relating to the Displaced Persons Operations, medical care, education and recreation, vocational trainings, emigration and resettlement.

  15. UNRRA selected records AG-018-016 : Czechoslovakia Mission

    Consists of correspondence, reports, transport lists, and forms of individual case of repatriated persons. Records relate to repatriation of Chinese nationals, Czechoslovakian, German and Polish Jews, Poles, Greek nationals, and unaccompanied children. Contains correspondence, reports, transport lists, and individual cases of repatriated German Jews.

  16. UNRRA selected records AG-018-026 : Poland Mission

    Consists of the Central Registry-Subject Files: correspondence and cables; reports of the office of the Chief Mission Welfare and Repatriation Division; financial documents of the Department of Finance, and reports and correspondence of the Departments of Supply. Records relate to welfare of displaced persons, child care and maternal welfare, movement of Jewish children to France and Belgium, 1944-1949; repatriation from Germany; welfare activities of the International Student Service, Save the Children Fund, Unitarian Service Committee, Quakers and other organizations.

  17. UNRRA selected records AG-018-017 : Denmark Mission

    Consists of monthly reports, statistics, financial records and correspondence relating to assistance to displaced persons, repatriation cases, tracing of war victims, and welfare activities of the Danish Red Cross and other voluntary agencies.

  18. Hildegard Simon papers

    The Hildegard Simon papers include biographical material, correspondence, poesie albums, and photographs relating to Hildegard “Hilde” Hanna Simon and her family’s prewar and wartime life in Cloppenburg, Germany, Hilde’s Kindertransport, and postwar restitution claims. Biographical material includes certified copies of Hilde’s birth certificates, a certificate of identity for immigration, a declaration of intent to become a naturalized citizen, a vaccination certificate, and a typed personal narrative. Correspondence includes copies of letters from Selma to Hilde and Ruth, a letter from Kar...

  19. UNRRA selected records AG-018-010 : Austria Mission

    Consist of administrative files related to displaced persons, repatriation, emigration, tracing of people, child welfare, Children's Homes, welfare assistance by various international organizations; special monthly reports and statistics from British, French and American Zones; files of the displaced persons camps, narrative reports, correspondence, and registers from the particular UNRRA teams regarding operations of the displaced persons camps.

  20. Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters) -- Czech Jewish refugees arrive in Britain

    Appeal for Czech Jewish refugees who have arrived in Britain following the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Germany. The appeal was broadcast by Earl(?) Baldwin. Footage shows Baldwin at his desk, refugees at a tent camp, INTs mess hall, girls cleaning barracks, and young men writing letters.