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  1. Bergen-Belsen related records

    The records relate to the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, displaced persons, the Belsen memorial, and Jewish emigration to the Palestine after the Holocaust.

  2. Stephanie Brady and Walter and Paula Bolton: personal papers

    Readers should reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection contains the personal papers of Viennese Jewish refugees Walter and Paula Bolton, and Steffi Brady (née Kohn).

    Personal papers including copy correspondence by Josef and Jenny Hausmann from Camp de Recebedou, photograph of a class taught by Josef Hausmann, copy articles relating to the school in Karlsruhe where Hausmann worked; and paper entitled 'Die zerschlagene Tafel - Jüdisches Leben in Durlach'. 

  3. Small suitcase carried by a Jewish boy from Berlin to England on a Kindertransport

    Small suitcase carried by thirteen year old Max Dobriner (later Geoffrey Dickson) in July 1939 when he was sent by his parents Julius and Hertha from Germany to Great Britain on a Kindertransport.

  5. Shoshannah Gallowski Fine papers

    The Shoshannah Gallowski Fine papers consist of Allied Expeditionary Forces Displaced Persons (A.E.F D.P.) registration records, administrative records, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Fine's work with orphaned Jewish children and displaced persons at Kloster Indersdorf (Kibbutz Dror) and in Great Britain after the Holocaust. The papers also contain addresses given by Leonard G. Montefiore relating to Jewish orphans; a book of drawings by Moshe Barash entitled "Figures from the haze" (in Hebrew); and a book of songs entitled "Songs from the Vilna ghetto" (in Y...

  6. Papers of the United Jewish Friendly Society

    The new leader Papers and correspondence about the dissolution of the society; certificate of incorporation, pamphlets on the rules for friendly societies, a reference book of the UJFS, a copy of the rules, a guide to the friendly societies act and industrial assurance acts, and reports from the national conference of friendly societies, 1967-8. Minute books for the UJFS Grand Lodge, 1954-70; minutes of the directors' meetings, 1963-80, minutes of the executive committee, 1969-79; minutes of the honorary officers meeting, 1963-80; minutes of the convalescent home committee, 1969-79, minutes...

  7. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate General in London Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie (Sygn.504)

    Instructions, circulars, correspondence, reports, forms related to emigration policy, organization of transporting emigrants by the shipping companies to Palestine and US, emigration of Polish refugees to Canada and Jamaica, migration of Polish expatriates by Great Britain, migration of the English population, and Jewish minorities in Poland. Includes a letter requesting a return of the Baron Günzburg's book collection to Jewish representatives in Vilnius.

  8. Erica S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erica S., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1909, one of two children. She recounts attending boarding school in Frankfurt am Main; meeting her future husband in Wiesbaden; marriage in 1932 after he completed dental school; the births of two children; laws prohibiting her husband from practicing; his trip to London to arrange for their emigration; sending their children to stay with her parents in September 1938; Kristallnacht; her father's arrest; her husband's deportation to Buchenwald when she went to get the children; obtaining his release (her uncle died there)...

  9. Gunther Rice memoir

    Consists of one typed memoir, 42 pages, entitled “A New Letter to my Children” written by Gunther Rice, originally of Hamburg, Germany, as a letter to his children. In the memoir, he describes the lives of his large family in Hamburg, his childhood, and education. He describes his memories of the family’s arrest and deportation to Zbaszyn on the border of Poland in October 1938, since his parents were Polish citizens. In the summer of 1939, Gunther left his parents and traveled to England as part of a kindertransport, first living with a foster family in Cardiff and later in London.

  10. Julian Layton papers

    This collection of papers documents the activities of Lt. Colonel Julian Layton, a British born Jew, of German Jewish origins, who assisted many German Jewish refugees before the war and internees during the war. The collection comprises several deposits from different sources.

  11. Bergen-Belsen

    Contains information about the establishment of health care facilities after liberation, the activities of Hadassah and Josef Rosensaft as leaders in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, and the closing of the camp in 1950.

  12. 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...

  14. Jews in several countries 1939

    1. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    The file contains a month by month survey of the Jews' situation in several European countries as well as in Palestine and of the refugees' problem all over the world. The first files are letters from the Jewish Central Information Office about the Jews in Italy. The other documents report about the Jews in Romania, the Jewish emigration policy and the official measures taken in favor of or against the Jews ; in the Baltic States and especially in Lithuania, about the virulent traders' anti-Jewish propaganda despite the official government position against anti-Jewish steps, the deteriorati...

  15. Metis family papers

    1. Annette Metis Gallagher family collection

    The papers relate to the voyage of the MS St. Louis and include a scrapbook created by Dr. Felix Metis that contains telegrams sent from the MS St. Louis and newspaper clippings about the voyage; an insert about the voyage from the November 28, 1967, edition of "Look" magazine; and six photographs depicting Annette Metis [donor], her mother, Lotte, and her brother, Wolfgang, aboard the MS St. Louis.

  16. Papers on Otto Schiff

    Notes, correspondence, primary documents (most photocopied) and secondary literature written or collated by A. J. Sherman and Pamela Shtazkes to write an article on Otto Schiff. Their article appeared in The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook in 2009. In addition the collection contains a similar set of materials created or collected by Joan Stiebel, who had worked closely with Schiff in the 1930s and 1940s. Particularly interesting are the drafts Stiebel wrote of a longer, unpublished memoir or autobiography of Schiff; these also examine her work with refugees after 1945.

    The dates...

  17. Leather wallet with 6 pockets used by a German Jewish refugee to hold wartime documents

    1. Erna and Herman Meyer collection

    Wallet used by Erna Landau to carry her documents during and after the war. Due to the escalating persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, Erna's parents, Arthur and Bertha, decided to send Erna and her younger sister Ruth from Rhede to Great Britain in June 1938. The war ended in May 1945. Arthur and Bertha had been deported from Germany to Riga, Latvia, where they were murdered. In June1947, Erna and Ruth emigrated to the United States.

  18. Albert and Robert Gomperts. Collection

    Letter sent by brothers Albert and Robert (Bob) Gompers to their uncle and aunt Jules and Jet Boas in Canada after the brothers had been able to flee from Belgium to Great-Britain during the German invasion. The letter contains information regarding family members left behind in Belgium and the Netherlands during the first weeks of May 1940.

  19. 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...

  20. Documentation regarding the Hechalutz movement's activities on behalf of the Jews in Europe, including a Hechalutz booklet about its activities in France, a booklet about the Hechalutz aliya training in England, correspondence between Saly Mayer and Natha

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Documentation regarding the Hechalutz movement's activities on behalf of the Jews in Europe, including a Hechalutz booklet about its activities in France, a booklet about the Hechalutz aliya training in England, correspondence between Saly Mayer and Nathan Schwalb regarding the transfer of relief, and other matters, 1934-1945 - Booklet (in French) by the Hechalutz movement about its activities in France, in the context of aliya training, October 1934; the booklet includes a summary in English; - Booklet about the [Hechalutz movement's] aliya training in England, 1940 [?]; - Documentation re...