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    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...

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    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...

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

    The file contains correspondence and reports concerning domestic and foreign affairs, including reports on the state of the British navy and army, accounts of meetings between Anthony Eden and Joseph Stalin and a meeting between Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier and Edvard Beneš about the Czechoslovakian Jews. There are also materials concerning Yugloslavia, Spain, Iraq, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Japan, Denmark, and relations between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. Additionally, there is a significant amount of materials concerning the deportation of Jewish refugees from Palestine and mobilising Jewish...

  4. Memoirs of and an interview with Franz Kejmar

    1. P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author

    Memoirs of and an interview with Franz Kejmar 1. Interview conducted by Erich Kulka with Franz Kejmar at Kejmar's home in Spain, 06 July 1986. Kejmar was an opponent of the Nazis in Austria. He was arrested by the Gestapo in July 1941, and a month later, on 19 August 1941, he was deported to Auschwitz as a political prisoner. There he worked in the Deutsche Ausrustungswerke (DAW) factories and served as a Kapo, a position in which he showed compassion and humaneness towards the inmates (in German); 2. Unpublished memoirs of Franz Kejmar (in German); 3. Article regarding Franz Kejmar, who wa...

  7. Hryhorij Nestor Rudenko-Rudolph Papers

    Writings, pamphlets, serial issues, and miscellanea, relating to the history and philosophy of anarchism. Includes a book-length study by H. N. Rudenko-Rudolph, expounding anarchism, and tracing the nineteenth and twentieth century history of the movement, especially in the United States, Russia and Spain.

  8. Le grand rabbin Herzog au cardinal Maglione

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • The Great Rabbi Herzog to Cardinal Maglione

    The Great Rabbi of Jerusalem Herzog informs Cardinal Maglione about news from Spain concerning the treatment of from Germany recently immigrated Jews. These people were reportedly arrested, and, without special authorisations, would be deported back to Germany. Herzog requests Maglione to pay the due attention to this topic.

  9. La Secrétairerie d'Etat à l'Ambassade d'Espagne

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • The Secretariat of State to the Spanish Embassy

    The Secretariat of State informs the Spanish Embassy that non-Aryan Catholics of German origin having an emigration visa for Brazil granted by the Brazilian embassy at the Holy See are not allowed to board in Italian harbours. The Secretariat of State asks the Spanish Embassy if the latter could grant transit visas, allowing these people to take a ship from Spain.

  10. Българска легация в Букурещ

    • Bulgarska legatsiya v Bukuresht
    • Bulgarian Legation in Bucharest

    Contains reports and press clippings from the Romanian press regarding underground communist activities in Dobruja and Bessarabia; correspondence between the Bulgarian and Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding individual persons of Jewish origin and about the sinking of the "Struma" (Sṭrumah); correspondence regarding passport renewals for Jewish volunteers in the Civil War in Spain; and correspondence regarding visas and transit lists for people of non-Jewish origin. Also includes a registry of incoming documents and passports issued.

  12. Dans mon chemin j'ai rencontré

    1. Judith R. Cohen Collection

    Dans mon chemin j'ai rencontré: Songs of Meetings and Travelling, Radio Canada/Interdisc (Prix Marcel Blouin 1994), features Judith's talented daughter, Tamar (born in 1986), and fellow ethnomusicologist Robb Simms, performing songs from the 13th - 20th centuries grouped around the theme of meetings and encounters. In addition to traditional Sephardic songs, the recording features tunes from French Canada (Quebec and the Maritimes), France, Italy, Spain, England and Bosnia. Cohen even adds a few Yiddish songs to round out her collection of European and North African music. With Judith R. Co...

  13. Suitcase used by German Jewish refugee family

    1. Wolf and Dreisel Bienstock family collection

    Suitcase relating to Wolf and Dreisel Bienstock and their children Joseph and Martha (donor's mother) and their flight from Nazi Germany via Holland, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal to the United States, and their successful post-war attempts for financial resitution for their family business in Dortmund, which had been confiscated because they were Jewish.

  14. Ernest and Ruth Chambre collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase, a book, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ernest Chambre before the Holocaust in Germany, Belgium, and Palestine, during the Holocaust in Miranda del Ebro internment camp in Spain, and of both Ernest and his wife, Ruth, in Palestine and then the United States following their emigration in 1946-1947. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  15. Werner Gumprecht letter

    The 16-page, typewritten letter was written by Werner Gumprecht in Seville, Spain, and details the beginning of his family's experiences during their immigration from Hamburg, Germany, to the United States in 1941. The Gumprechts left Germany on July 21, 1941, and arrived in N.Y. on September 12, 1941. Their relatives who remained in Germany were deported between October and December 1941 and never heard from again.

  16. "Jablonka Family History, 1941-1945"

    Consists of one manuscript, 56 pages, entitled "Jablonka Family History, 1941-1945" by Philip Zion. The Jablonkas were Polish Jews who immigrated to France in 1929. In 1941, Boruch Jablonka was imprisoned in Pithiviers and was eventually deported to Auschwitz, where he perished. His wife, Helen, and children, Paulette, Rachel, and Raymond, were eventually able to escape into Spain and subsequently to the United States; Paulette and Raymond in 1943 and Helen and Rachel in 1945. Includes copies of photographs and documents. Also includes one DVD-ROM oral history interview with Helen Jablonka,...

  17. William Lush collection

    Collection consists of a German passport (Reisepass) issued to Paul Steinharter on January 13, 1937 includes visas from Belgium and England and an immigration visa from the United States. The passport issued to Lea Steinharter includes visas issued for Spain and Portugal and an immigration visa from the United States. Documents inserted into her passport include a Declaration of Intention for U.S. citizenship, receipt issued on board the SS Exeter on August 13, 1941, and a note and letter to Paul from Clara Lussheimer in Chicago dated June 4, 1951; in German.

  18. German News Agency Selected records from the collection "Deutsche Nachrichtenbüro" (R 34)

    Contains records related to rejection of the non-Aryan members of the Berlin Sports Club; reports from abroad (Spain, Switzerland, Italy); e.g., Jewish Security Police, Soviet cruelties in the east; documents about school attendance of Jewish Mischlinge; reports about movies, operas, dramas, books, and music; folk sport and sport education; antisemitic comments; reports about Jewish editors and actors.

  19. Schildkraut family papers

    1. Schildkraut family collection

    Letters and postcards between Joseph Schildkraut in Cincinnati, Ohio and his sister Lea Schildkraut, from Tarnów Poland during the Holocaust. Included are postcards purchased on his exit from Poland, via Italy, Spain, and Panama, as well as a photo album, with press clippings, that he created while in Panama awaiting immigration to the United States, and a 1943 photograph with family in Covington, KY.

  20. International Red Cross photographs

    Consists of 20 photographs depicting the work of the International Red Cross, primarily in Europe but also in Asia, at the end of the Second World War and in the immediate postwar period. Original Spanish language inscriptions on the reverse describe the scenes captured and provide additional context related to aid efforts undertaken by the organization.