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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Salad plate with a floral design carried by Kindertransport refugee

    1. Ina Felczer collection

    Decorated children’s plate manufactured by Porzellanfabrik Bareuther & Co. and carried by 10-year-old Ina Felczer on a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] to Leeds, England, in late June 1939. Before the war, Ina lived with her parents, Victor and Hannah, in Berlin, Germany. Both were Polish Jews who had lived in Berlin since the 1920s. Victor was a chemist, and Hannah co-owned a dressmaking shop. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, and authorities throughout Germany quickly began suppressing the rights of Jews and boycotting their businesses. In th...

  2. Sbírka Československé školy ve Velké Británii

    • Collection of the Czechoslovak school in the United Kingdom
    • Národní archiv
    • 1578
    • English
    • 1941-1945
    • 1,3 linear metres of which 1,3 linear metres inventoried. The fonds is partially accessible.

    The collection consist of originals and copies of the various documents, such as copies of identity documents, birth certificates, writing pads, textbooks, school certificates, photographs, messages from teachers to parents (or to the legal representatives of children), memoirs, school notes, presentations and newspapers. These materials also relate to more than 670 mostly Jewish children saved by the Kindertransporte organised by Nicolas Winton and other rescuers.

  3. Scene still for the film “The Illegals” (1948)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    American scene still for the film, “The Illegals,” which was released in the United States in July 1948. The docudrama depicts the attempted illegal immigration of Jewish refugees from Poland, through Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, and Italy to Palestine. Before reaching its destination, the ship is captured by the British and redirected to Cyprus. “The Illegals” was filmed on-location over a six-month period, about two months before the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the establishment of the state of Israel in May 1948. Britain had been given control of Palestine following...

  4. Schischa family papers

    1. Lilli Schischa Tauber family collection

    The papers contain correspondence between Johanna and Wilhelm Schischa in the ghetto in Opole, Poland, and their daughter, Lilly, in England; photographs of the Schischas and the Opole ghetto; documents concerning Lilly's emigration to London, England, from Vienna, Austria, on the Kindertransport in 1939; and correspondence between Lilly and her elder brother, Edi, who immigrated to Palestine in the early 1930s.

  5. Schlesinger Hostel: papers

    This collection comprises original papers and correspondence which documents the establishment and maintenance of a refugee children's hostel in Highgate, London, 1938-1939. The papers offer a valuable insight into the processes and issues relating to such an enterprise. Two of the former children produced a documentary reader comprising copies and translations of much of the material in the archive (1625/1). It also includes copies of documents from Ilse Jacobsohn's (later Ilse Henry) own file. The personal files of the other children are not open to the public.

  6. Schwarz and Rosenwald families papers

    1. Schwarz and Rosenwald families collection

    The Schwarz and Rosenwald families papers consist of correspondence, immigration and identification documents, financial records, news clippings, photographs, printed materials, and other related materials, which primarily document the experiences of the family of Richard and Bertha (née Rosenwald) Schwarz, of Hannover, Germany, who fled that country in 1936 due to anti-Semitic persecution, and were able to do so with the assistance of the family of Julius Rosenwald, the co-founder of the Sears, Roebuck and Company, who were distant American relatives of theirs. The collection includes corr...

  7. Scrapbook

    Includes information about the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the outbreak of disease at the time of liberation, Josef Kramer and SS guards at the camp, the United Jewish Appeal Conference in Atlantic City, N.J., in December 1945, and the establishment of the Bergen-Belsen liberation memorial.

  8. Scrapbook album, "First Reunion, 1958"

    Scrapbook, containing photographs and ephemera, titled "First Reunion, 1958," compiled by an unidentified German emigre couple (possibly Charlotte and Herbert Jewell, originally Jewelowski) who fled the country in 1938, documenting their return to Germany and England for the first time in 1958, to visit relatives. Contains pre-war pictures of family, and depicts departure from New York in May 1958, arrival and visit with relatives in Berlin, trip to Munich and Bad Gastein, Austria; a visit to London to visit the burial site of their parents and relatives (including memorial to those killed ...

  10. Section H - Recovery corner in Hospital Section Drawing of women on outdoor benches by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn103
    • English
    • overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm)

    Sketch of two women sitting outdoors at Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment center for Jewish re...

  11. Selected general correspondence of the British Consulate in Panama (FO 288)

    Contains general correspondence from the British Consulate in Panama relating to illegal immigration into Palestine.

  12. Selected papers of Georges Theunis

    Contains selected papers of Georges Theunis, former Prime Minister and ambassador in New York during the German occupation of Belgium and one of the most influential representatives of his country. Collection includes records relating to the World Jewish Congress, Joint Distribution Committee, refugees, the Belgian War Relief Society, the situation in the occupied countries 1940-45, and repatriation of displaced persons.

  13. Selected records from the British Colonial Office : Confidential general and confidential original correspondence files on Palestine

    Contains confidential records relating to the distribution of immigration certificates to Jews in DP camps in Germany, the rate of immigration, illegal immigration, and files relating to the formation of a Jewish fighting force in Palestine.

  14. Selected records from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors, Political and other Departments, General Correspondence before 1906, Great Britain and General (FO 83)

    Contains records from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office relating to British Protection in the Ottoman Dominions, consular jurisdiction and protection in Turkey, and foreign Jews in Palestine, 1873-1899.

  15. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service Administration Office: Chief Clerk's Department and successors: Records (FO 366)

    Contains general correspondence from the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service Administration Office, Chief Clerk’s Department relating to the employment of local Jews in British Middle East missions, 1945. These records consist of accounts and internal affairs of the Foreign Office, the Messengers, and the Diplomatic and Consular Services.

  16. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulate, Sweden: General Correspondence (FO 188)

    Contains general correspondence and reports from the British Embassy and Consulate in Sweden relating to the persecution of Jews and forced labor in Norway, the position of Hungarian Jews, German propaganda in Sweden, Jewish refugees and Swedish assistance, and illegal immigration.

  17. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, Belgium: General Correspondence (FO 123)

    Contains general correspondence from the Embassy and Consulates of Belgium relating to the possibility of Jewish refugees in Vichy France to be admitted to the Belgian Congo, 1942.

  18. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (formerly Russian Empire): General Correspondence (FO 181)

    Contains general correspondence and reports from the British Embassy and Consulates in the former Soviet Union relating to Jews, including liquidation in Riga, the joint allied declaration condemning Nazi atrocities, settlement of Jews in Uzbekistan, and the situation of Jews in Russia.

  19. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Protocols of Treaties, United States of America (FO 93)

    Contains records from the Office of the Protocols of Treaties, United States relating to an exchange of notes to set up a joint Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine December 10, 1945.

  20. Selected Records from the Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulates, United States of America: General Correspondence (FO 115)

    Contains general correspondence from the Embassy and Consulates of the United States of America relating to Jews, the sale in Argentina of exit permits for Jews in Nazi Germany, the evacuation of Jewish refugees from occupied Europe in 1944, and illegal immigration.