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  1. Zappert family: papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Zappert family, a Jewish family whose roots can be traced back to 18th century Prague. The papers mainly relate to Wolf Zappert, a wealthy jeweller who worked in the second half of the 18th century in Prague, and Julius Zappert (1867-1941), a highly regarded paediatrician and university professor from Vienna. Julius Zappert fled Austria shortly after his imprisonment under the Nazi regime in 1938. His son Karl and his family also escaped further persecution by going to England via Denmark and Brazil. Wolf Zappert's papers include title deeds and ot...

  2. Zarasų miesto savivaldybė

    • Municipality of the City Zarasai

    Files about residents, registration cards of residents, lists of war refugees and Soviet war prisoners; correspondence between local authorities about the situation in the district, about moods of the locals; lists of workers and owners of private property, lists of traders and craftsmen; statistics about residents.

  3. Zbąszyń photographs

    The collection consists of six photographs of Jewish refugees from Germany on the Polish-German border in Zbąszyń, Poland. On the verso, stamped by Roman Vishniac.

  4. Zbirka vjerske zajednice

    • Religious communities collection

    Box 2 (51-135); Box 3 • 2/1365, Izv. broj 131/ Document #131, Rad nove cionističke organizacije/ The work of the New Zionist organization, pgs 2 • 2/1365, Izv. broj 132/ Document # 132, Postupak njemačkih izbjeglica/ German refugees, pgs 2 • 3/ 1365, Izv. broj 159/ Document # 159, Gospodine podbane/ “Mr. Deputy Governor”,pgs 2 • 3/1365, Izv. #144, Cionistički.../ Zionist..., pgs 2 • 3/1365, Izv. #147, Boravak predsjedništva/ The visit of the presidency board

  5. Zdenko Bergl collection

    Consists of two false documents issued to Zdenko Bergl and his mother in Mirabella Eclano, Italy, in September 1943; four documents issued to Zdenko Bergl in the Cinecitta displaced persons camp near Rome, Italy, in 1946 and 1947; a photocopy of a certificate issued to Zdenko Bergl's father in 1940 in his hometown of St. Ivan Zabno in Croatia; a photograph of Zdenko Bergl and two friends in the Cinecitta DP camp in 1947; and a circa 1932 photograph of a brick factory, which belonged to Zdenko Bergl's father.

  6. Zehngut and Weiss families papers

    1. Zehngut and Weiss families collection

    The Zehngut and Weiss families papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and research material relating to the Zehngut and Weiss families from Austria. The papers document the immigration of Inge and Kitty Weiss among the “50 children” brought to the United States from Vienna by Brith Sholom and Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, as well as the immigration of their parents Stella Zehngut Weiss and Leon Weiss. Biographical materials include school records, a birth certificate and naturalization certificate, resumes, and a memorial program and obituary documenting Inge We...

  7. Zeilsheim DP Camp

    Life at Zeilsheim DP camp (a small German town converted into a DP center), including a protest march and Robinson family members in various settings. All footage shot in camp. Fay and Alice play in snow, houses in BG. Joseph (born in Zeilsheim on August 25, 1946) in the baby carriage. Children play near house. Children and adults march, carrying flag of Star of David, in celebration of Lag B'Omer. Robinson family, including parents Ephraim and Sarah and children Fay, Alice, and Joseph, walk past sign "Zeilsheim Assembly Center, UNRRA Team." Robinson family entertains visitors. Children pla...

  8. Zeiss Ikon camera filter, case, and box used by German Jewish US soldier

    1. Rudolph Daniel Sichel collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn46782
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) b: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) c: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) d: Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Diameter: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)

    Zeiss Ikon yellow camera filter with leather case and box owned by Rudolph Sichel, a Jewish refugee from Frankfurt, Germany, who was a US Army officer in Europe from July 1944-June 1946. In May 1936, unable to return to Germany from England because of anti-Jewish regulations, Sichel went to the US. His parents Ernst and Frieda joined him in 1940. In April 1943, Sichel enlisted in the Army and was sent to Camp Ritchie for military intelligence training. In July 1944, Sichel, Chief Interrogator, Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team 13, landed on Utah Beach in France, attached to the 104th I...

  9. Institution Logo

    The Zekelman Holocaust Center Library Archive

    • The Holocaust Memorial Center Library-Archive
    • United States
    • 28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Mills, Michigan
  10. Institution Logo

    Židovska općina Split

    • La comunità Israelitica di Spalato
    • Jewish community Split
    • Croatia
    • Židovski prilaz 1, Split

  11. Zina Alpern postcard

    Consists of one postcard, dated June 10, 1942, written by Zelda (“Zina”) Alpern in Salles-Curan, Aveyron, France, to Gertrude Wolf of Rochester, NY. On the postcard, which is torn and has a missing corner, Zina asks for news and expresses her hope that Gertrude will be able to send papers to assist with her emigration.

  12. Zinaida Behmuaras: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Zinaida Behmuaras, a Lithuanian Jewish woman who fled to England from Nazi occupied France in 1940.Personal papers including are school certificates, marriage certificate and naturalisation papers, French ID papers, telegrams from Kauna (1940-1941), photographs, and death certificate. 

  13. The Zionist Organization / The Jewish Agency for Palestine/Israel – Central Office, London.

    Firstly, we note in this fonds several series of correspondence which are of interest to this guide. Files Z4/30867 - Z4/30870 contain correspondence regarding “Zionist work” in Belgium (for the years 1927-1946). Correspondence on immigration from Belgium (often with lists of immigrants) and family research can be found in the files Z4/32408 to Z4/32412 (1943-1947). Various correspondence (regarding i.a. immigration, the Golden Shekel, donations, Zionism in Belgium, …) with the Belgian Zionist Federation and the Zionist Organisation in Belgium is found in files Z4/40030 (1920), Z4/40342 (19...

  14. The Zionist Organization/The Jewish Agency for Palestine/Israel-Central Office, London (Z4)

    Correspondence between the Zionist Organization, London and various individuals and organizations regarding the nature of a future state in Palestine, a proposal to the Zionist Organization of America, and Zionist organizations in Russia and Palestine, other matters, correspondence with Chaim Weizmann, minutes of meetings, outgoing letters, newspaper clippings, resolutions, Zionist congress proceedings, reports on the situation in Palestine and Jewish immigration, circulars of the Executive Committee, statistics, correspondence with various Zionist organizations in Nazi Germany, corresponde...

  15. Zippered leather medical bag used by an Austrian Jewish physician

    1. Salzmann family collection

    New Process Co. leather medical bag owned by Berthold Salzmann or his sister Ernesta, two Viennese Jewish medical students who immigrated to America as refugees. In the 1930s they were studying to become physicians at the Medical School of the University of Vienna. On March 13, 1938 Germany annexed Austria and created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. Consequently, Ernesta was unable to graduate and Berthold graduated but was unable to practice medicine. In June of 1939, Ernesta immigrated to England where she worked as a hospital nurse before immigrating to the United States on ...

  16. Zipporah S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zipporah S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1938. She tells of German occupation; her family's move to the Bochnia ghetto; her father buying false papers; being smuggled into Hungary with a paid guide; registering as Christian Polish refugees; receiving help from a Hungarian woman (she did not know they were Jews); moving to Budapest; the woman arranging for her, her sister, and cousin to live in a Swedish convent while her parents remained in hiding (no one knew they were Jews); liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with her parents; moving to Prague; emigrating t...

  17. Zlata G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zlata G., who was born in Kostopol, Poland in 1921. She recalls the German invasion in September 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; fleeing with her brother upon the advice of retreating Soviet soldiers; finding her sister at the Soviet border; traveling to Voronezh where they had a cousin; two months later traveling east by freight train to escape the advancing German army; her sister and brother-in-law leaving the train in Kzyl-Orda due to their son's illness; living with her brother in Samarqand; extreme deprivation; a typhus epidemic; her brother-in...

  18. Zohn M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zohn M., who was drafted into the United States Army and served in the 103rd Infantry Division, 409th Regiment in World War II. He recounts liberating slave labor camps in Bavaria; entering Landsberg concentration camp; stacks of corpses; encountering a group of camp prisoners being evacuated; describing them as walking skeletons; entering Dachau after its liberation; a former prisoner guiding him through the camp; and screening refugees moving into displaced persons camp. He shows photographs and items from the camps, a book about his regiment, and reads from a lette...

  19. Zoltan G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zoltan G., who was born in Nagykaroly, Hungary (presently Carei, Romania) in 1908. Mr. G. recalls his orthodox home as one of ten children; briefly attending Yeshiva; cordial relations between Christians and Jews; joining an older brother in Paris in 1922 to become an apprentice in the handbag industry; building a successful business employing over 1,000 people; marriage in 1936; his son's birth in 1937; and the birth of twins in 1940. He describes leaving Paris for Vichy France prior to German occupation in 1940; living in Toulouse and Grenoble; buying visas from the...

  20. Zoltan Mathe collection

    Consists of one photograph of Zoltan Mathe at age 13 in Budapest, Hungary, wearing a Magen David. The photograph is dated August 10, 1944. Also includes an essay entitled, "Toward the Precipice" by Mr. Mathe, in which he describes the German invasion of Hungary, his bar mitzvah in April 1944, and watching his father and older brother be taken away for forced labor. When the Arrow Cross took control of Budapest, Zoltan, his mother and sister were rounded up, but released due to the intervention of Jewish friends posing as soldiers. The family assumed the identities of Christian refugees from...