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  1. Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    The Istanbul Collection testifies to JDC’s efforts from 1942-1949 (with a few earlier materials dating from 1937) to oversee the planning of rescue and relief operations from its office in Turkey, a neutral country strategically located at the crossroads of war-torn Europe and the nascent Jewish state in Palestine. These records highlight the Istanbul office’s partnership with other relief organizations--such as the Jewish Agency, the U.S. War Refugee Board, and the International Red Cross--in rescue operations and in large-scale enterprises to identify and locate survivors during and after...

  2. The Jewish Community of Gothenburg

    The archive of the Jewish Community of Gothenburg contains the records of the community from the period of the first Jewish immigrants in the late 18th Century until the archive was deposited with the Regional Archives in Gothenburg in 1980. In the archive, there are many records relating to the Holocaust. These include documents about the aid activities for Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors that the community and other Jewish organizations in Gothenburg carried out during and after the time of Nazi persecution and the Holocaust. The community's relief committee (see the series: Judis...

  3. Refugees

  4. Documentation from Archives in Croatia regarding the Holocaust

    Included in the Record Group: -Correspondence among various institutions in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II;- Reports submitted by Ustasha institutions regarding Jewish affairs; - Documentation regarding Jewish refugees;- Lists of refugees, deportees, inmates and those who perished; - Documentation regarding deportations of Jews from various places in Croatia;- Documentation regarding antisemitic propaganda and legislation; - Correspondence between the German Foreign Ministry and the German Embassy in Zagreb;- Documentation regarding the rescue of Jews; - Documentation ...

  5. Rena M. Rohrheimer Papers

    Correspondence with friends, relatives, committees, and organizations mainly regarding refugees and efforts to rescue Jews from Germany and other Nazi-occupied countries. Also includes notes, reports, and essays by Rohrheimer about her trips to Europe.

  6. National Council of Jewish Women (Cincinnati, Ohio) Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project

    Interviews with survivors of World War II living in Cincinnati. Topics include displaced persons, Jewish Holocaust, immigration, national socialism and Germany during that period. Selected interviews from this collection are published in: Peck, Abraham J. and Uri D. Herscher. "Queen City Refuge: An Oral History of Cincinnati's Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany." West Orange, N.J. : Behrman House, 1989.

  7. World Jewish Congress

    This fonds is incredibly rich in information regarding the relation of the WJC with Belgium and the Belgian Jewish community, the refugee question before the war, the Shoah in Belgium, the immediate postwar reconstruction and relief effort, the restitution issue, Jews in the former Belgian Congo, … The files in “Series A. Central Files” (1919-1976) contain correspondence, minutes, records of conferences, and miscellaneous other materials. In its “Subseries 2. Executive Files” – holding files of several WJC leaders – we note the files “Belgium, Kubowitzki, Aryeh L.” (box A9, folder nr. 17; y...

  8. Documentation from the Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives: Activities of the Hashomer Hatzair Movement in Europe during World War II

    The collection contains mainly documentation regarding the activities of the Hashomer Hatzair Movement during the war in various countries in Europe. The Collection was gathered and brought to Eretz Israel by members of the movement. The documentation from the Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives was originally arranged and organized in Record Groups: 1. The Vilna Ghetto Record Group; 2. The Warsaw Record Group; 3. The Bialystok Record Group; 4. The Hashomer Hatzair Movement in cities and ghettos in Poland during the war; 5. The Movement in Hungary, Slovakia, parachutists; 6. The PCh"Ch Archive in Ge...

  9. Statens Utlänningskommission

    • Utlänningskommissionen
    • SUK
    • State Foreigners Commission
    • Riksarkivet
    • Statens Utlänningskommission
    • English
    • 1916-1976
    • Approx. 3500 linear meters of mainly textual records.

    The archive contains records with information about virtually all foreigners who resided in Sweden during the period of Nazi Germany's persecution and the Holocaust, as well as about survivors from the Holocaust who arrived in Sweden towards the end of the war and after the war. These documents are held in the National Archives (in Marieberg in central Stockholm) if the individual acquired Swedish citizenship, died in Sweden before 1971, or left Sweden before 1972 without becoming a Swedish citizen. If the individual remained in Sweden as a non-Swedish citizen in 1971/72, their files are he...

  10. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Stockholm

    • Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, diplomatic representation, The legation refugee office
    • Rigsarkivet
    • Udenrigsministeriet Stockholm
    • Danish, English
    • 45 parcels

    Concerns Danish refugees in Sweden - both resistance fighters and Jews. The name index is used as the entrance to the files.

  11. Velika župa Vrhbosna

    Records of Velika župa Vrhbosna (Independent State of Croatia's region governed from Sarajevo), 1941 - 1945.

  12. Archive of Ingeborg Herlitz

    • Ingeborg Herlitz' arkiv
    • Riksarkivet
    • SE/RA/720461
    • English
    • 1945-1952
    • 0.3 linear metres (4 volumes) Textual material

    The four volumes that make up the personal archive of Ingeborg Herlitz contain various documents related to her work at Lärbro military hospital in Gotland, where Herlitz served as a health counselor to former prisoners of concentration camps suffering from tuberculosis. Herlitz maintained correspondence with a notable number of Jewish survivors whom she cared for during her service at Lärbro Hospital, hailing from such countries as Germany, Greece, Poland, and Italy. The letters in the volumes contain information on her patients’ whereabouts following their departure from Lärbro, providing...

  13. Notes de la Secrétairerie d'Etat

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    3. Guerra 1939
    • Notes by the Secretariat of State

    The notes list measures that were undertaken by the Holy See Secretariat of State in favour of refugees and war prisoners. Lists of Polish prisoners were sent by apostolic nuncios in Lithuania and Romania; lists of Polish refugees were sent by apostolic nuncios in Latvia, Romania and Hungary. The apostolic nuncios in Germany replied that in the German Reich the Wehrmachtsauskunftsstelle für Kriegsverluste und Kriegsgefangene and the Red Cross are responsible for the issue. It also reports that charity organisations « Oeuvre des Prisonniers » in Lorient (France) and « Aide morale et matériel...

  14. Collection of Jacob Robinson, jurist and diplomat

    The Jacob Robinson Collection contains documentation and publications dealing with the capture of Adolf Eichmann and the Eichmann Trial, and especially with international legal aspects regarding this event; a copy of the interview Willem Sassen conducted with Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in the middle 1950s; documentation regarding criminals and trials conducted against them, mainly the Nuremberg Trials; plans for the creation of a comprehensive bibliographical and chronological project about the Holocaust; bibliographical surveys; documentation concerning the Joel Brand Affair and the Holoc...

  15. Blobel Paul

    • Blobel, Paul 1894-1951
    • Blobel, Paul

    13/08/1894

    07/06/1951

    SS-Standartenführer (1941), head of Sonderkommando 4a, Leiter (head ) of the massacre of 33 771 Jews in the ravine of Babi Jar near Kiev. Later head of Sonderkommando 1005. Sentenced to death in Einsatzgruppen Trial and executed.

  16. Brand Joël

    • Brand, Joe͏̈l, 1907-1964
    • Brand, Joël 1906-1964
    • ברנד, יואל, 1906-1964
    • ברנד, יואל, ־1906
    • בראנד, יואל, 1906־
    • ...

    1907

    13/07/1964

    Member of the Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest; organised rescue and relief for refugees from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland and smuggled Jews into Hungary in 1943. After the German invasion of Hungary in 1944, Brand was approached by Eichmann for "Blood for Goods" deal to negotiate between Jewish leaders and Nazis regarding the sparing of 1 million Jews for 10 000 trucks and other goods. In 1961 Brand testified at Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem.

  17. Fleischmann Gisi

    • Fleischmannová, Gizi, 1892-1944
    • Fleischmannová, Gisela, 1892-1944
    • Fleischmann, Gisi, 1892-1944
    • Fleischmann, Gisi
    • פלישמן, גישי
    • ...

    21/01/1892

    1944

    President of the Slovak WIZO, and representative of the Joint in Slovakia. Gisi Fleischmann was one of the few female Jewish leaders in Europe during World War II. She helped Jews in Slovakia to find refuge in other countries before the war and in the midst of the war. As a member of the Bratislava underground Working Group, she was involved with the Europa Plan and the Children’s Rescue Plan, which attempted to save Jews through bribery and negotiations with the Nazis. Fleischmann was arrested by the SS in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz. She was murdered on arrival in Auschwitz in October ...

  18. Frankfurter David

    • Franqfûrṭer, Dāwid 1909-1982
    • Frankfurter, David 1909-1982
    • Frankfurter, David, 1909-1982
    • Frankfurter, David
    • פרנקפורטר, דויד
    • ...

    1909

    1982

    Killed W. Gustloff (NS-Landesgruppenleiter in Switzerland) on 04.02.1936; since 1933 in Bern, Switzerland, expelled from Switzerland in 1945, emigrated to Tel Aviv.

  19. Freudiger Fülöp

    • Philipp von Freudiger
    • Pinchas Freudiger

    1900–1976

    Hungarian Jewish businessman, factory owner, community leader. Born in Budapest to a well-to-do family, Freudiger succeeded his father, Abraham, as the head of the Orthodox Jewish community of Budapest in 1939. Freudiger helped many of the Jewish refugees in Hungary. After German occupation, 1944 appointed to the Judenrat in Budapest. Through the intermediacy of Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandel of Bratislava, Freudiger established close contact with Dieter Wisliceny of the Eichmann Sonderkommando almost immediately after the occupation in March, 1944. By bribing Wisliceny, Freudiger succeeded ...

  20. Gamzon Robert

    • Gamzon, Robert
    • Castor

    1905

    1961

    Founder of the Jewish scout movement in France and partisan commander, joined the executive board of UGIF in January 1942.