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  1. Animal bone souvenir with an inscription acquired by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Ullrich Remak collection

    Souvenir animal bone acquired by Ullrich Remak. It has an inscription “Souvenir from Birkenward Hostel, 14. II. 1942" where Ullrich stayed after being sent to Scotland from Germany on a Kinderstransport (Children's transport) in 1939.

  2. The archives of the Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau (DALJEWCIB) Harbin-Shanghai

    Contains administrative and personal files created by the Central Information Bureau for Jewish War Sufferers in the Far East, and the Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland (Aid Society of the Jews in Germany). The administrative files include correspondence from the Central Information Bureau for Jewish War Sufferers in the Far East with Jewish communities and international Jewish and non-Jewish aid and migration organizations in various parts of the world, including New Zealand, Italy, China, Switzerland, Germany and Nazi-annexed Austria, Australia, Great Britain, Yugoslavia, Poland, sever...

  3. Ariel S. Cardoso papers

    1. Ariel S. Cardoso collection

    The Ariel S. Cardoso papers include identification papers, military papers, and photographs documenting Cardoso’s postwar emigration to Palestine and his military service in the Jewish Brigade. Identification papers include a displaced persons identification certificate, an Israel Labor Federation membership booklet, an Israeli identification card and passport, a driver’s license, a medical insurance booklet, and Israeli ration cards. Military papers include a copy of Cardoso’s attestation upon joining the Palestine regiment, his service and pay book, and his discharge book. Photographs dep...

  4. Army film showing Nazi aggression, refugees, FDR & Hull

    Orientation Film no. 7, Reel 5. International events cause the US to enter into World War II. Cranes move scraps of metal in a junkyard and protestors carry picket signs saying "Embargo Japan." A sign over a doorway reads, "Mr. Acheson Assistant Secretary of State." Dean Acheson sits at a desk and summarizes the conflicts involved with exporting goods to Japan. 05:22:15 "April 9, 1940." Hitler looks over a map with other Nazi officials. A graphic shows the Nazi party taking over Western Europe. "May 10, 1940" is superimposed on a CU of soldiers marching in boots. People sit in their homes a...

  5. Arthur Jacobs photograph collection

    1. Arthur Jacobs collection

    Collection consists of a photograph of German-American and Japanese-American internees at Ellis Island in 1943 and an aerial photograph of the Crystal City Internment Camp in Crystal City, Texas in 1944-45,

  6. Articles relating to the war crimes trial of Bergen-Belsen guards

    Consists of photocopies of newspaper articles relating to the September 1945 war crimes trial of several Bergen-Belsen guards. Included is information about the testimony of Dr. Ada Bimko (a.k.a.Hadassah Rosensaft), selections for the gas chambers at Auschwitz, results of medical experiments on female prisoners, and atrocities committed by the SS guards at Bergen-Belsen.

  7. Articles, clippings, and other materials relating to the UNRRA and displaced persons

    Consists of several newspaper and magazine articles concerning Jews and displaced persons and the activities of American and British armies in the occupied zones in Europe after World War II. Included are three issues of "UNRRA," which concern the work of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) with displaced persons after the Holocaust. Also included are issues of Jewish publications in Brazil containing articles about displaced persons and two issues of "Army talks."

  8. Asch Family Papers

    1. Nestor Winters collection

    Contains two letters from the Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain, informing Mrs. C. Asch of London that members of the Asch family have been liberated in Theresienstadt and have returned to Berlin, August-September 1945.

  9. The Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain: Board minutes and papers

    Minutes and correspondence of the board of the Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain, covering such subjects as restitution claims; social work; the newsletter: AJR Information; cultural activities; membership of the organisation 

  10. Institution Logo

    Association of Jewish Refugees, Serving Holocaust Refugees and Survivors Nationwide

    • AJR
    • United Kingdom
    • Winston House / 2 Dollis Park, Finchley, England

  11. Aus der Emigration

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    “Aus der Emigration” (From the exile), account by Dr. Curt Rosenberg for the years of 1939 to 1948 about his emigration from Germany, life in Glasgow as a refugee, internment in Bury and the Isle of Man. He describes in vivid detail the peaceful life in Glasgow, the interesting characters among the refugees in the internment camps in Bury and Camp Hutchinson, and the variety of cultural activities organized by the inmates. Later on he returns to Glasgow, where he describes the strained relationship between the established Jews and the refugees. It includes a program of cultural activities f...

  12. Aus der Emigration II

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the continuation of Curt Rosenberg's account of his life in Scotland after his flight from Nazi Germany including his legal struggles with his landlord. He describes life in London in 1942 and his work in the German Refugee Center in Glasgow. He also recounts a court hearing, the differences between German and British jurisdiction, and the difficulties refugees face when settling in foreign surroundings.

  13. Aus der Emigration III

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the third part of Curt Rosenberg's account of life as a Jewish refugees in Scotland during World War II. It recounts his legal struggles with his landlord and final victory in the Scottish court and a detailed description of the Scottish landscape he appreciated on his various visits to British POW camps where he held lectures to German prisoners of war. He also reflects philosophically about life and ageing.

  14. Austrian 10,000 Kronen banknote owned by a Viennese Jewish refugee family

    1. Appenzeller and Dukes families collection

    Kronen banknote owned by the Appenzeller family in Vienna, Austria before their emigration in 1939. The kronen was the official currency of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1892 until its dissolution in 1918. The banknotes were printed on the front in Hungarian and in German on the reverse, and the value was written out in eight additional languages. After the breakup of Austria-Hungary, the banknotes remained in circulation among the various countries, but were overstamped for use in individual countries. This kronen is printed in German on both sides and has an overstamp that indicates th...

  15. Auxiliary Territorial Service cap badge worn by an Austrian Jewish woman in the British Auxiliary

    1. Dorit B. Whiteman collection

    Auxiliary Territorial Service cap badge worn by Lilly Feldmann during her service in the British Military in Palestine during World War II. In late 1938, 18 year-old Lilly felt forced to leave Vienna, Austria, because of anti-semitism and Nazi fervor. In her diary, she wrote: “It is a curse that I shall miss this home in spite of the fact that it hates and rejects me…I shall cry for you, you stupid, pitiful country.” She escaped to England where she joined the British Army and served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service Division.

  16. Avraham Slitinsky letters

    Consists of more than 300 letters and several paper items written by soldier Avraham Slitinsky, while he served in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army in Eindehoven, Delft, Brussels, Antwerp, London, Italy and other places in Europe. Written to his wife Michal who lived in Tel Aviv, the letters describe life in the British Army and Europe. Some of the topics mentioned in the letters insclude a dispute between British officers and the Brigade soldiers concerning raising a Hebrew flag in the camp; first encounters with Jewish refugees; several letters from Germany with descriptions of Germ...

  17. B'nai B'rith Leo Baeck (London) Lodges: archives

    Readers need to book a reading room terminal to access this digital contentComprising documents, including bound reports, volumes, and index cards as well as some photographs and single objects, the collection includes the organisational papers of the Leo Baeck (London) Lodges and their affiliated bodies. Spanning more than seven decades, the material covers the complete period of the Lodges’ existence. The preserved papers appear, however, to be incomplete and only part of an originally larger bulk of material.The documents provide an overview of the organisational structures of the Leo Ba...

  18. B'nai Brith Leo Baeck London Lodge: Members life histories

    Personal, mostly autobiographical accounts of former German and Austrian Jewish refugees, who subsequently became members of the Leo Baeck London Lodge. Also list of authors at 1288/56.This collection of memoirs provides a rich and varied account of the experiences of German and Austrian Jewish refugees to Great Britain. They range in length from 1 page to almost book length.

  19. Bag and supplies used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Bag and contents used by Alice Redlich while she served as a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former concentration camp in Germany after the war. The British Army liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice and her family were German Jews living in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship. In 1938, 18 year old Alice left for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, she left for the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp to care for children and y...

  20. Bar of soap owned by an American internee

    1. Leonie Roualet collection

    Bar of soap acquired by Leonie Roualet while she was interned in Vittel internment camp in German-occupied France from September 1942 through September 1944. Leonie was born in New York to Leonie Calmesse and Henry Charles Roualet, French champagne vintners who had immigrated to the United States in the 1890s. In the 1930s, Leonie’s mother returned to France to take care of her ailing brother. While caring for her brother, she too became sick, and in 1939 Leonie traveled to France to take care of her mother and her uncle. In May 1940, Germany invaded France and occupied the northern half of...