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  1. Mina Loeffler passport

    1. Kurt N. Grübler collection

    Contains a German passport ("Deutsches Reich Reisepass") issued to Mina Loeffler (mother-in-law of donor's cousin), March 1941, Vienna, Austria. Issued by Chief of Police, Vienna, Germany (Austria); letter "J" stamped in red ink; middle name "Sara" added; contains official stamps allowing travel through Spain and Portugal; contains immigration visa for the United States dated May 19, 1941.

  2. Enslein family collection

    Contains photographs, documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Jakob Enslein and his wife, Margarete Einstein Enslei, and their two children Kurt and Hans Gerd [donor, b. 1929]. Gerd was born in Cologne, Germany, and in 1932 his parents relocated the family first to Belgium then in 1933 to France, first to Paris and then Collias, Nimes and Perigaux, before eventually fleeing through Spain and arriving in the United States in early May 1941.

  3. Set of ration stamps

    1. Joseph Strip family collection

    Set of ration stamps, one of a number of materials documenting the experiences of the Stripounsky (later Strip) family: Menachem Nathan and Regina Stripounsky and their sons Joseph and Asriel during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The Stripounskys fled Antwerp, Belgium in May 1940 to France. After a year, they got American visas, traveling via Spain and Portugal, arriving in New York in May 1941. Joseph was sent by the US Army to Germany in 1944.

  4. Pauline Joseph passport

    1. Joseph and Loeb families collection

    The "Reisepass" was issued to Pauline Franziska "Sara" Joseph (b. Neustadt) [friend of donor] by the Chief of Police in Berlin, Germany. It is stamped with a red "J" in the upper left corner to identify the holder as a Jew. It includes immigration visas for the United States issued in Germany and Spain.

  6. Liane Reif-Lehrer photographs

    1. Liane Reif-Lehrer collection

    Contains photographs and negatives compiled by Liane Reif-Lehrer, a survivor of the Holocaust who interviewed numerous survivors of the "MS. St. Louis" for a potential research project about that ship. Ms. Reif-Lehrer was born in 1934 in Vienna, Austria and, together with her mother and brother, were on the St. Louis, returned to France and fled to the United States through Spain and Portugal.

  7. Liane Reif-Lehrer papers

    1. Liane Reif-Lehrer collection

    Contains documents, photographs, transcripts, oral histories and general research completed and compiled by Liane Reif-Lehrer. Numerous survivors who were aboard the MS St. Louis were interviewed and participated in research Ms. Reif Lehrer completed for a potential publication on the voyage of the ship. Ms. Reif-Lehrer was born in 1934 in Vienna, Austria and, together with her mother and brother, were on the St. Louis, returned to France and fled to the United States through Spain and Portugal. Also includes modern photographs and negatives

  8. The memoirs of Tova Klein Sego during World War

    Contains Tova Klein Sego's account of her experiences in Kassa, Hungary, (until 1938 known as Košice, Slovakia) during the Holocaust; her life in the ghetto; her escape to Slovakia where she was reunited with her sister, Margaret; the arrival of her parents and brother, Michael, a few weeks later; their life in hiding in various villages and in the mountains; their liberation by the Russians in February 1945; and their reunion with other members of their immediate family and return to Košice.

  9. German newsreel excerpts: Gen. Franco; Mussolini; Winter Aid; British air raids

    Reel 1, Part 1, General Franco and German officials visit the Alcazar in Seville, and review Moorish guards, Part 2, Mussolini decorates Italian airmen and reviews troops in Rome. Part 3, crowds, including children, attend a military, exhibit in Vienna. Contributions for "winter aid" are collected. Part 4, Flemish musicians perform in a Berlin cabaret. Part 5, a wedding is performed in Le Meuse, France. Part 6, factory workers attend a concert performed by the Berlin Philharmonic. Part 7, cultural and religious monuments in Lubeck, Germany, rubbled by British air raids.

  10. 5 Pesetas scrip

    1. Sue Elder collection

    Five pesatas scrip issued in 1945 in Spain by the Banco de Espana, part of a collection documenting the experiences of Sue Elder who worked as a translator at the Nuremberg trials from 1946-1948.

  13. Samuel Halber collection

    Documents and correspondence concerning Samuel Halber (donor’s father). Born June 22, 1914 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he fled Nazi-occupied Europe in 1941 through Spain and Portugal were he applied for a US visa, ultimately arriving in New York City in 1941. He was drafted into the United States Army and was a Military Intelligence Interpreter, translating German, Dutch, and French in England until 1945, when he was assigned to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) and supervised the denazification of German railroads in the US Zone.

  14. Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Letter written by Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's will, emigration and more

    1. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Letter written by Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's will, emigration and more There are three volumes in the file: Volume I Letter from Rudolf Hess to Julius Streicher; Adolf Hitler's political will. Volume II Lists of articles and bibliography regarding emigration of the Jews; article regarding Chaim Weizmann; clippings from the Jewish newspapers C.V. Zeitung and Allgemeine Zeitung Des Judentum, 1938. Volume III Unsorted material from the London Record Office.

  15. Booklet edited by Tilly Spiegel, a member of the Austrian Resistance movement, regarding activities of Austrians in the Belgian and French Resistance movement during World War II

    1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

    Booklet edited by Tilly Spiegel, a member of the Austrian Resistance movement, regarding activities of Austrians in the Belgian and French Resistance movement during World War II Also in the file: - List of names of Austrian Jews who served in the International Brigade in Spain, 1936-1939; - Material regarding Austrian Jews who volunteered to serve in the British Army during World War II.

  16. File

    1. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    The file contains correspondence and reports, primarily from Charles Lambert and Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier concerning diplomatic and military action in Greece, Russia, Norway, Finland, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Spain, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, France, Belgium, and Germany. It includes reports of the flight and attempted peace negotiations of Rudolf Hess in Scotland, Japanese propaganda in Syria and Lebanon, Wendell Wilkie's visit to Europe, Australian soliders in Palestine, reactions to the sinking of , the Turko-German pact, and Anthony Eden. There are also accounts of interviews between Namier an...

  17. File

    1. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    The file contains correspondence and reports concerning Turkey, Russia, Egypt, Syria, Yugoslavia, Malaya, Spain, Switzerland, Lebanon, Abyssinia/Ethiopia, Persia, German military operations, German activities in the Middle East, changing relations with the Vichy government and Charles de Gaulle, Jews in France and the Netherlands, and demographic data about the Jewish population in France, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunis. The file also contains correspondence from interned Jewish refugees in Mauritius and appeals to admit children and relatives turned away or detained in Palestine. The file con...

  18. File

    1. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    The file contains correspondence largely concerned with foreign affairs, including Iran, Libya, Turkey, trade agreements between Turkey and Germany, Mexico, the United States, Spain, Palestine, Persia, Italy, Serbia, Finland, and the possibility of a Japanese attack on China or Russia. There are also materials concerning the Zionist movement in South Africa, the Jewish and Palestinian contributions to the war effort, the possibility of a Jewish Division within the British armed forces, work camps in France, Jewish detainment camps in Mauritius, and reports on home security. In three instanc...

  19. File

    1. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    Struma The file contains materials concerning France, Russia, Turkey, Iran, Palestine, Italy, Germany, Libya, Madagascar, Egypt, Spain, and Japan. There are materials relating to recruitment of Jewish soldiers in Palestine, the impact of the disaster, morale of British soldiers, the negotiation of Russia's borders after the war, the exchange of wounded soldiers between Britain and Italy, Jewish refugees in Palestine, and the persecution of Jews in Slovakia. The file contains correspondence of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and reports about t...

  20. File

    1. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    Manchester Guardian The file contains correspondence and Crozier's notes on foreign and domestic events. Materials include reports on continued Jewish immigration to Palestine, including the arming of Jewish refugees and Jewish divisions in the British armed forces, and correspondence from Charles Lambert concerning the Balkans, Iraq, Iran, the Vichy government, Spain, Libya, and food supplies in France. There are also reports about the Blitz, including air raid reports and analysis of the effects on the economy and workforce, as well as reports on the cabinet and provisions for the wartime...