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  1. Finkel Norbert, born in Vienna, Austria, 1925; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Finkel Norbert, born in Vienna, Austria, 1925; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II Life in France. Activities as part of the AJ (Jewish Army); death while trying to illegally cross the border into Spain, April 1944.

  2. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Dr. Kopecky, Czechoslovakian representative to the League of Nations in Geneva and Czechoslovakia’s first ambassador to Switzerland

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Dr. Kopecky, Czechoslovakian representative to the League of Nations in Geneva and Czechoslovakia’s first ambassador to Switzerland Correspondence with Dr. Kopecky, Czechoslovakian representative to the League of Nations in Geneva and Czechoslovakia’s first ambassador to Switzerland regarding the issuing of passports to Czechoslovakian refugees in Italy, the sending of help to survivors of the ship, "Pentcho" in the Ferramonti Di Tarsia camp and the transfer of mail to England, Spain and Portugal, from March 1945.

  3. Bulgarian Legation in Madrid (Fond 256)

    Contains selected records from Fond 256 including registries of visas and passports issued.

  4. Meyerstein family collection

    Papers document the expereinces of Meyerstein family before and during World Warr II. Included in the papers is a marriage license issued to Hilda Schickler and George Meyerstein Ellen Cohen's parents in Milan, Italy on May 18, 1935; a driver's license issued to George Meyerstein in Gotha Germany; an entry ticket for a bullfight that Hilda and George Meyerstein attended in 1941 while refugees living in Spain; a passanger's list for the Marqus de Comillas that included the Meyerstein family; newspaper clippings and a newspaper that mentions Ellen Meyerstein [Ellen Cohen]; a testimony written...

  5. Bernard Rolland de Miota collection

    Consists of copies of official documents, identity cards, telegrams, transcripts, and notes submitted to Yad Vashem by Alain de Toledo as supporting documentation for the case that Spanish Consul in Paris Bernard Rolland de Miota be considered Righteous Among the Nations for his role in saving Jews. Includes part of a masters thesis by Pascale Blin, in which she interviewed those saved by de Miota, and documents from various Spanish archives about his activities.

  7. Voluntarios Internacionales de la Libertad cufflink owned by an Inernational Brigade member

    1. Hans Landesberg collection

    Pin belonging to Hans Landesberg, who was a member of the International Brigade in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

  8. Lieder des anderen Deutschland

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The brochure is a collection of Anti-fascist songs created during imprisonment and the fight in Spain. Many of them were part of the canon of East Germany. Songs included are the Buchenwald march, the Thälmann Kolonne a. o.

  9. Einsatzkommando Salonica

    • EK Salonica

    The Einsatzkommando at Salonica was instructed to treat the Spanish Jews in a way that could not give any case for serious complaints and ‘undesired propaganda’ in case they were later granted an exit permit to Spain.

  10. Benjamin Arditi

    • בנימין יוסף ארדיטי

    Public Peronality, Zionist activist in Bulgaria and Israel, Member of the Israel Parliament, historian of the Bulgarian Jews, owner of important Archive situated in Yad-Vashem Archives.

  11. Michel Shadur family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, books, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Michel Schadur and his family as they escaped from Nazi Germany to Belgium, then to France, Spain, Portugal, and finally the United States during the Holocaust.

  12. Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Spanish Witnesses Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Spanish Witnesses Documentation Project

  13. Photograph

    1. Lidia Kleinman Siciarz collection

    Photographic image; black and white image of Ewa and Misza Szwarcman, donor’s maternal uncles and Misza Munwer, Lolek’s Szwarcman’s brother-in-law; all three survived the war in Spain; dated: 1938; location: Toulouse, France

  15. Franco speaks in Madrid

    Ufa logo onscreen. Franco arrives by car outside the Consejo Nacional building, with Moroccan cavalry guards in the background. Franco enters the building, accompanied by other officials, and makes a speech, some of which is heard in the original Spanish.

  16. Eva Goldenring Zernik papers

    Contains an article written in French by Eva Goldenring Zernik about her experiences in the French detention camp of Gurs and poems in German written during her time in Spain about her Holocaust experiences.

  17. Julia Gejdenson collection

    Various items, including tear sheet from Forward (Forverts) newspaper (in Yiddish), dated 1966; program from Yom Hashoah commemoration in Spain, 1989; clipping from French magazine with article about persecution of Jews in France during war, and photos from book about Nazi war criminals.

  18. Hans Landesberg collection

    The collection consists of a lapel pin, a cufflink, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Dr. Hans Landesberg, a member of the International Brigade in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

  19. Canadian Jewish Congress Special Immigration Cases

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)

    Information on settlement of escapees (to Spain, Portugal, Tangier and Japan), refugees with extreme disabilities ("Hard Core Cases") and cases of deportation, inheritance, and Nazi war crimes. Also includes participants in the family unification program, and various subject files by Dr. Saalheimer.

  20. The Spanish Civil War: a memoir

    Apparently authentic account of imprisonment in Spain during the Spanish Civil war by an unidentified Austrian Jew. The events described took place in 1936 and the account was, according to the author, written in Vienna in 1937.