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  1. Performers at convalescent homes and DP camps in Italy

    Soprano Marguerite Kozenn and pianist and composer Julius Chaje shake hands with two men in front of a gate at a rest home or DP camp in Italy with the sign “AMERICAN JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE.” Kozenn and Chaje tour the terrace with a large fountain and several small statues. CU of a statue of a cherub. Kozenn, Chaje, and the two men walking down a set of steps in a garden. INT, CU hands playing piano. Chaje plays piano, then stands up, bowing to the camera. Chaje plays piano accompaniment as Kozenn sings for the audience of refugees. Chaje and Kozenn talk to several young refugees in t...

  2. Selected records of the Swedish Red Cross

    Contains selected records from the Swedish Red Cross concerning the "White Buses." In 1945 "White Buses" were sent by Sweden to Germany to bring liberated camp prisoners from Sachsenhausen, Dachau, Ravensbrück, and other camps as refugees to Sweden. Collection contains a transport list of 875 prisoners, diaries of transport personnel, reports and correspondence regarding White Buses' operations, lists of French, Danish, and Norwegian liberated prisoners, and the private collection of Major Sven Frykman (Chief of Swedish Red Cross Operation). Some records relate to the food supplies to Hung...

  4. Reglement für die Lagerführung

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains scans of several instructions given to the leaders of immigrants labor camps in Switzerland. The instructions mostly relate to the rules of daily life and the working conditions for the camps staff and leaders. Further instructions relate to the bureaucracy which was necessary to provide smooth processes in the camps. The orders were given out by the Central Labor Camp Administration in Zurich(Zentralleitung der Arbeitslager, Zürich) and were mostly signed by the head of the Central Administration Otto Zaugg.

  7. Ida Shkolnik testimony

    1. Shkolnik family collection

    Contains information about persecution of Ida Shkolnik in a ghetto in occupied Poland; her escape to a forest; her marriage to Morris Shkolnik; their life together as refugees; their immigration to the United States; and their new life in America.

  9. Correspondence with Cohn, Ernst Joseph

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence documents the long-term and professional relation between the correspondents. It centres on the exchange of information material, work and restitution related enquiries on events or individuals related to the Nazi era, the discussion of current affairs, especially on politics and antisemitism in West Germany, and the publication of several articles by E. J. Cohn in the Library’s Bulletin. Beside letters, the correspondence contains the transcript of a newspaper article as well the transcript of a speech given by German politician Franz Böhm on a radio show. Both concern t...

  10. Wilhelm Pollak: personal papers

    This collection consists of the personal papers of Wilhelm Pollak, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who was forced to emigrate in 1939 after his release from Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps.Personal papers including correspondence and diary entries (including summarised translations) concerning Pollak's imprisonment, arrangements for his emigration to England and his stay at various internment camps. Also included are photocopies of inventories of Phillip and Friederike Pollak's property in Vienna.

  13. Siegried K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Siegfried K., who was born in Danzig in 1930. He notes Danzig's unique place in Jewish history and speaks of his luxurious prewar life. He tells of the rise of Nazism and recalls shaking Hitler's hand during a visit to Berlin as a small child. The disturbances and attacks by the Brownshirts and his experiences with antisemitism, which continued in the United States, are also related. He describes his family's flight to England in 1938; the difficulty of leaving home and relatives, and, for him, leaving behind his beloved dog; the help given them by German non-Jews; hi...

  14. Sophie S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophie S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920. She recounts her family history; antisemitic incidents at school; her family's efforts to emigrate to the United States after German annexation; violence and terror during Kristallnacht; her father's arrest and incarceration in Dachau; emigration, with her younger brother, to the United States in 1938; her father's release; and her parents' arrival in 1939. Mrs. S. discusses the importance of an aunt in the United States to her family's ability to emigrate; the deaths of extended family members during the Holocaust; ...

  16. Vera Coppard-Leibovic collection

    This collection contains photocopies of Vera Coppard-Leibovic's (née Ilse Rosendorff) identity cards, a former Jewish Kindertransportee from Berlin whose parents decided to send her to England in 1939 to avoid her being exposed to Nazi persecution.Copy identity cards including a 'Judenkarte' (German ID card for Jews) and identity card for young people under the care of the Inter-Aid Committee for Children admitted to travel to the UK.

  17. Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, June 1947

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • ועדת - ההצלה של הסוכנות היהודית לארץ-ישראל ,ביולטין, יוני 1947

    Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, June 1947 Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing: - Information regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany, Italy, Sweden and Poland, 1947; - Information regarding the camps in Cyprus, and Nazi propaganda in Eretz Israel before the war; - Information regarding the emigration of Jews to the United States; - Testimony of Atula Schechter, born in...

  18. Publishing

    1. Michael Marrus fonds

    Series consists of records relating to Prof. Marrus’s vast publishing record. In particular, files pertain to specific publication projects (predominantly book projects), and include contracts, reviews, and correspondence with publishers, literary agents and readers. Few files include research notes. Files are arranged chronologically by publication date, with a general file of reviews at the end.Publications documented in these files• The politics of assimilation: a study of the French Jewish community at the time of the Dreyfus affair (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1971).• Vichy et les Jui...

  19. Berish and Paula Gurtman photographs

    The collection consists of six photographs depicting Berish and Paula Gurtman and other refugees in Kibbutz Hatikvah in Hofgeismar, Germany, and in a displaced persons camp in Badgastein, Austria, after World War II.

  20. Selected records from the former archive of the city of Westerbork

    Contains registers, together with death certificates, of deported and arrested persons in the vicinity of Westerbork, Netherlands.