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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Reconstruction of war-damaged properties; refugees

    Reconstruction of Czech Tunnel and Bridge (Czech Newsreel material - Lavender) Optical shots of Czech workmen standing around looking at the camera. Pan to silent factories and smokestacks. LS line of Czechs in food queue, dissolving to shots of refugees returning to their homes, on foot and in wagons. Several shots of same, dissolving to man pasting poster on wall intended to get men to work repairing war damaged properties. Other posters. Men, women, and children, carrying shovels on their shoulders go to work. LS mob of men and women over hillside, dissolve to workmen clearing up debris ...

  2. List of Vilnius Residents and Refugees looking for Relatives

    List of residents and refugees of Vilnius looking for relatives. The table includes names of 159 residents and refugees of Vilnius looking for their relatives worldwide with some residing in Palestine and others in Europe, Displaced Persons Camps, Cyprus, and the USA. Source of information is registered in the left-hand side column, such as the Jewish Agency or the Joint Distribution Committee.

  3. Red checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees

    1. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    Red windowpane checked dish towel monogrammed ES received as a wedding gift by Fritz and Juliane Else Silberschmidt in 1933. It was one of a pair, and they received a matching black set as well. These towels were among the very few items that they were permitted to take with them when they left Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1939. The rest of the family's personal and household belongings were confiscated by German authorities. Fritz and Juliane, and Fritz's mother Selma and brother Rudolph fled Cologne in 1939. After Germany invaded Poland that September, even legal emigrants were det...

  4. Red checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees

    1. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    Red windowpane checked dish towel monogrammed ES received as a wedding gift by Fritz and Juliane Else Silberschmidt in 1933. It was one of a pair, and they received a matching black set as well. These towels were among the very few items that they were permitted to take with them when they left Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1939. The rest of the family's personal and household belongings were confiscated by German authorities. Fritz and Juliane, and Fritz's mother Selma and brother Rudolph fled Cologne in 1939. After Germany invaded Poland that September, even legal emigrants were det...

  5. Black checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees

    1. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    Black windowpane checked dish towel monogrammed ES received as a wedding gift by Fritz and Juliane Else Silberschmidt in 1933. It was one of a pair, and they received a matching red set as well. These towels were among the very few items that they were permitted to take with them when they left Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1939. The rest of the family's personal and household belongings were confiscated by German authorities. Fritz and Juliane, and Fritz's mother Selma and brother Rudolph fled Cologne in 1939. After Germany invaded Poland that September, even legal emigrants were det...

  6. Black checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees

    1. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    Black windowpane checked dish towel monogrammed ES received as a wedding gift by Fritz and Juliane Else Silberschmidt in 1933. It was one of a pair, and they received a matching red set as well. These towels were among the very few items that they were permitted to take with them when they left Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1939. The rest of the family's personal and household belongings were confiscated by German authorities. Fritz and Juliane, and Fritz's mother Selma and brother Rudolph fled Cologne in 1939. After Germany invaded Poland that September, even legal emigrants were det...

  7. Silver oak patterned tablespoon saved by German Jewish refugees

    1. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    Silver oak leaf patterned spoon, one of three spoons brought with Fritz and Juliane Else Silberschmidt when they escaped Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1939. These spoons were among the very few items that they were permitted to take with them when they left Cologne. The rest of the family's personal and household belongings were confiscated by German authorities. Fritz and Juliane, and Fritz's mother Selma and brother Rudolph fled to Amsterdam in 1939. After Germany invaded Poland that September, even legal emigrants were detained as enemy aliens. Fritz was interned at Zeeburgerdijk q...

  8. Silver fiddle patterned tablespoon saved by German Jewish refugees

    1. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    Silver spoon with a fiddle thread pattern, one of three spoons brought with Fritz and Juliane Else Silberschmidt when they escaped Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1939. These spoons were among the very few items that they were permitted to take with them when they left Cologne. The rest of the family's personal and household belongings were confiscated by German authorities. Fritz and Juliane, and Fritz's mother Selma and brother Rudolph fled to Amsterdam in 1939. After Germany invaded Poland that September, even legal emigrants were detained as enemy aliens. Fritz was interned at Zeebu...

  9. Silver fiddle patterned tablespoon saved by German Jewish refugees

    1. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    Silver spoon with a fiddle thread pattern, one of three spoons brought with Fritz and Juliane Else Silberschmidt when they escaped Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1939. These spoons were among the very few items that they were permitted to take with them when they left Cologne. The rest of the family's personal and household belongings were confiscated by German authorities. Fritz and Juliane, and Fritz's mother Selma and brother Rudolph fled to Amsterdam in 1939. After Germany invaded Poland that September, even legal emigrants were detained as enemy aliens. Fritz was interned at Zeebu...

  10. Isaac Bitton collection photographs of Jewish refugees in Lisbon, Portugal

    1. Isaac Bitton collection

    Contains 12 gelatin silver copyprints of Jewish refugees in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1939 to 1944. Descriptions by Isaac Bitton [donor] are provided on the reverse side of each photograph.

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Germans arrive in Sudentenland; Sudeten refugees

    Big crowd mourning, (German) women in tears, talking. 03:43:18 Nazi speaker heard. 03:43:32 People in courtyard silently heiling. Pan, women cries as she heils. 03:44:23 Sad faces of children and women boarding streetcar. 03:44:41 Men on bicycles rush down street, men with QF ruined room. Border, gate going up, 03:45:06 grinning Nazis on horseback go through. Lots of marching Nazis, heiling (hesitant). 03:45:24 Nazis on carts, peasant women, flowers, heiling on cue, others being taught to heil. CU, elderly woman watches and does nothing. Goering with children. SS feeding people in square. F...

  12. Reports and other papers pertaining to refugees in Shanghai

    This collection comprises reports about the fate of Jewish refugees in Shanghai during World War Two; eyewitness statements of individual Jewish refugees; personal papers of Ernst Platz, former Jewish refugee in Shanghai; correspondence regarding documents relating to the Shanghai Jewish refugee experience

  13. Edgar Duchin: working papers re refugees from Nazi Europe

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital content This collection of papers relating to the fate of refugees from Nazi Europe was part of the working papers of Edgar Duchin (formerly Duchinsky), a solicitor who worked on behalf of refugees. A number of organisations dealing with the problems of refugees are represented. The papers at -/5 which document his activities viz representing the interests of individual refugees and his presence on a number of committees involved in similar work are testament to his commitment to the cause of refugees.

  14. International Committee for Intellectual Refugees: Statement of activities

    Statement of the activities of the International Committee for Intellectual Refugees, a Geneva based organization, founded to provide support to intellectuals, persecuted by the NazisEnglish 2 pages 

  15. "We Jewish Refugees in Italy" "Enquiry Results February 1946"

    1. Douglas Smith collection

    Consists of a copy of a book entitled "We Jewish Refugees in Italy: Enquiry Results, February 1946," published by the Organization of Jewish Refugees in Italy, Central Committee" in 1946, based on a survey of more than 12,000 Jewish refugees in post-war Italy. The text includes information about individual experiences, charts, and survey results.

  17. Rescue Movement of Refugees for the Persecuted: Correspondence

    This collection documents the responses from MPs and others to Gertler's proposal.

  19. Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1956

    Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1956

  20. Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1930-1950

    Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1930-1950 The files are located in the N-Serie section in the Police department of the Swiss Ministry of Justice and the Police; the section contains approximately 45,000 personal files of civilian refugees who were absorbed by Switzerland from 1936 and until after World War II; approximately half of the refugees were Jews.