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  1. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of G., a woman from Kutno. She describes the bombings and the ruin of the town, which was burnt completely leaving not a single house whole. The casualties were so numerous the hospitals and public buildings were packed with them. Gąbin and Plock, the neighboring towns, were also destroyed. She describes how after the occupation of Kutno by the Germans the local Jewish intelligentsia was arrested and conscripted to forced labor with the assistance of the local Poles, and Yom Kippur services were forbidden. She and her 2-year-old child left Kutno to find her husband who was in the ...

  2. Internees of the Isle of Man

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains material regarding the internees of the Isle of Man (self-governing crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland). A stamp book released by the Central British Fund, including stamps and drawn examples of stamps are attached. In the stamp book it is mentioned that with everyone who participated on collecting or using these stamp Jewish kids will receive some help of the sales revenues. Furthermore informations about the situation of Jews and the generel political behaviour in different countries are published on some leaflets. Also the...

  3. [Jewish migration from Germany and Austria and the Comite voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Professor Cohen was upset about a memorandum sent to him by Mr. Stephany and claims that it has done its best to solve the refugee problem.

  4. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland: Statement No 9]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    In his statement, the 25 years old clerk Lejb Rozencwajg from Warsaw describes his excape to Lublin in September 1939. Because of an order issued by the major of Warsaw, refugees were forced to go back to the city to defend it. Rozencwajg depicts how Jews, also religious Jews, volunteered to dig defense trenches in Warsaw but faced antisemetic reactions from polish Christians. Furthermore, he describes how life rapidly changed for the Jewish community after the occupation by the Nazis. Protocol No. 9 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish r...

  5. Kriegs-Gefangene

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several documents dealing with regulations and procedures for war prisoners by the Nazi military commanders in France. Under the command of the Feldkommandantur 550 in Epinal, correspondences about applications for extradition of war prisoners and general proceedings with them are attached. An application was made in order to extradite Andre Maurice, Prisoner No. 8894, because his work in a mill was absolutely needed. Also an application for the release of the war prisoner Sergent Chanudet was submitted by his father in law. Furthermore handwritten letters are attached. Th...

  6. [Court and denaturalization preceedings regarding Feodor Fedorenko, Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains extensive material in the form of court proceedings regarding the war criminal trials and subsequent denaturalization and deportation of Feodor Fedorenko, a former Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility in occupied Poland. Fedorenko is accused of having actively participated in the massmurder conducted in Treblinka and testimony alleges his presence and participation in shootings of numerous victims. The Fedorenko trial was the 1st trial that sought to deal with US citizens who participated actively in the Holocaust and later came to the United States under...

  7. [Court and denaturalization preceedings regarding Feodor Fedorenko, Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains extensive material in the form of court proceedings regarding the war criminal trials and subsequent denaturalization and deportation of Feodor Fedorenko, a former Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility in occupied Poland. Fedorenko is accused of having actively participated in the massmurder conducted in Treblinka and testimony alleges his presence and participation in shootings of numerous victims. The Fedorenko trial was the 1st trial that sought to deal with US citizens who participated actively in the Holocaust and later came to the United States under...

  8. Correspondence of the German Jewish Aid Committee

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains material of a correspondence between the German Jewish Aid Committee in London and couple of Refugee organizations, like the Jewish Refugee Committee/ Trainee department in Leeds, the British Committee for Refugees from Czecho-Slovakia and the York Refugee Committee. These organizations tried to save as many Jews as possible by the use of trainee and work visa for Great Britain. The correspondence is regarding the trainee or work positions and possibilities the organizations found for the Jewish refugees. Furthermore an active exchange between the organizations concerning ...

  9. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Motl Greier, 19 year old yeshiva student, son of a leather merchant, from Markuszów, by Lublin. He reports that at the beginning fo the war he was at his parents' home, in Markuszów, and left it for Lublin. The heavy bombardment of German planes destroyed the town almost entirely with incendiaries. From Lublin he set out on his way to Lukow which was under Russian control. He describes antisemitism and anger toward Jews among the Polish population specifically because they welcomed the Soviet army. He recounts an account of a man he met on the road concerning the fate of Lukow'...

  10. Monthly Report for the month of December, 1952

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The monthly report shows a high acquisition of files for the ITS, namely 7.200 files from the Concentration camp Natzweiler. Furthermore, it mentions a list from the Israeli Consul covering the mass immigration of Jews from Germany to Israel from 1948-1950, reports about the administration and budget, data regarding the personnel, international relations and the relations of the ITS to German federal and land authorities.

  11. Tausende von jüdischen Flüchtlingen in Wilna

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a report about the city 'Vilna' in Lithuania ('Wilna' in German, nowadays it is known as 'Vilnius'). The report starts with a long discription of a Lithuanian Army parade, which took place on 27th of October 1939, where the Army marched into Vilnius. The Lithuanians immediately attempted to Lithuanize the city. But it was not easy to help all the suffering Jews. Eventhough the city had been spared from a lot of war damage, but the economical situation of the Lithuanian Jews was devastating. To make matters worse a lot of Jewish refugees from Nazi occupied territories flew ...

  12. United Restitution Organization (URO)

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains four circulars (“Rundschreiben”) by the United Restitution Organization (Frankfurt) from February and March 1969. The circulars include the following issues: no. 1600, no. 1596, no. 1598, and no. 1595. They mainly deal with recent court judgements made by the German Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof) on questions of restitution after Nazi persecution, especially regarding newly established juridical regulations and proceedings for claims within the Federal law for restitution („Bundesentschädigungsgesetz”). Furthermore, the issues focus on the status of being recognized as ...

  13. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of A. K., b. 1908, a mill worker from Wyszków. He describes the bombings and the flooding of refugees from Mlawa, Przasnysz and Pultusk, and the panic which caused the residents of Wyszków to flee into the forests, where they lost their way. They were overtaken by the German occupation in the city of Stoczek, where men, both Jews and Poles, were taken and marched out into the forest and to a camp at Ostrów Mazowiecka where military and civilian personnel were separated. He describes discrimination between Jews and Poles along the way, and the hunger in the camp. Eventually the Jew...

  14. [List of eyewitness reports sent to or from DALJEWCIB in Shanghai and the Jewish Relief Organisation in Berlin concerning the sociopolitical and socioeconomic situation of Jewish emigrees in the Far East]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    List of eyewitness reports sent to DALJEWCIB in Shanghai and from the Jewish Relief Organisation in Berlin from Jewish emigrees concerning the sociopolitical and socioeconomic situation of Jewish emigrees in the Far East. Reports have been written in the form of official telegraphs, personal correspondence and letters regarding living conditions in Shanghai and Dairen/Harbin. Some cover dire living conditions and call for a stop of Jewish emigration to Shanghai, others call friends and family to join them in Shanghai despite the poor living conditions and the prospect of unemployement and d...

  15. Evian Conference about Political Refugees. Memorandum of Certain Jewish Organizations Concerned with the Refugees from Germany and Austria

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A memorandum about the history of the persecution of German Jews since the Nazi Party came to power and the occupation of Austria. There is additional persecution and danger to Jewry in central European countries. The Council for German Jewry was formed to co-ordinate the efforts of the British and American Organizations and to meet the aggravation of the economic distress of German Jewry. The young Jewish generation must be prepared for productive manual occupation in the countries to which emigration must be directed. The memorandum furthers discusses the opportunities for occupation and ...

  16. Draft. Memorandum for the Governmental conference on refugees

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A draft memorandum about the numbers of Jewish population of Germany and Jewish emigration. The memorandum discusses the limitation on Jewish Germans in medical, pharmaceutical, legal professions as well as universities and civil service. It further suggests the retraining of young Jews in manual and artisan professions. Presentation of the numbers of emigrants accepted in other states and asserts the economic difficulties posed by Germany for the Jewish emigrants. Jewish organizations contribute money to help immigration as well as support to Academic and Intellectual refugees. There is a ...

  17. [List of] Jews in England

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    List of various Jewish Italian individuals in England and English Jewish individuals in Italy.

  18. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of M. T., a 22 year old baker from Poręba-Kocęby, a small town oin the Ostrow Mazowiecka district. According to the author of the testimony, the town was not damaged by bombardment, and no local casualties fell. The Germans entered the town and looted the Jewish homes; in some homes they even broke down the walls. Then they ordered men to come with them, saying they were going to work, and held them in a church for several days without food. The Poles that were held with them were fed, and abused the Jews, taking from them money and their watches, together with the German soldiers...

  19. Remarks and Suggestions for the International conference convened by the American Government

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Suggestion for the Evian Conference regarding the number of emigrants, financial requirements, colonization, transfer of Property, distribution of emigrants, public opinion and the emigrants' situation of Jews in Germany

  20. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of A. W., 20 year old trader from Goworowo. He describes the occupation by the Germans, then by the Russians, of the Bialystok area, and tells how, under German occupation, the Jews were burned inside the synagogue in the town of Czyzew-Osada. The town of Zambrow had its synagogue and study hall, with their torah scrolls, burned and bombarded. Protocol No. 54 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1939 they formed a committee to collect evidence on the condition of...