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  3. Nadia Gould collection

    The memoir describes her parents' families; her childhood in the French countryside; the German occupation of France; her and her mother's escape to join her father in unoccupied France; her family's escape from Marseille, France, to Portugal via Spain; her immigration to the United States and reunion with her parents; her assimilation into American culture and her activities while in high school and in college; and some of her experiences afterwards. The collection also includes picture postcards illustrated with Gould's art work depict both geometric and human forms.

  12. Hans Landesberg papers

    1. Hans Landesberg collection

    Consists of material related to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Dr. Hans Landesberg. Includes passports, photographs of family members and of Dr. Landesberg in the Sidi-el-Ayashi concentration camp in Morocco, correspondence, official papers, and a brief memoir describing his experiences, both in German and in English.

  15. Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution

    PDF of an expanded version of Alexander Silbiger's memoir, Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution, 1942-1943 (2020), 73 pages. Alexander Silbiger, originally of The Hague, The Netherlands, describes his family's attempts to escape the Nazi regime in 1942, by traveling through Belgium and France before finally leaving Europe. The family first went to Jamaica and then spent the rest of the war in Curacao. The original version of this memoir was previously accessioned as 2006.27

  16. Heinrich Kraschutski: copy correspondence concerning his fate

    The letters deal with the fate of Heinrich Richard Albrecht Kraschutski, formerly commander in the German navy, 1914-1918, becoming a prominent figure in the pacifist movement in Germany after the First World War, and co-editor of the pacifist weekly, Das Andere Deutschland, the publication of which was regarded as particularly pernicious and treacherous by the Reichswehr because of its disclosures of violations of the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. He went to Majorca and together with a small group of other anti-nazi refugees opened a little workshop of arts and crafts at...

  17. William Scheer papers

    This collection contains primarily school and college certificates of Wilhelm Scheer from his time growing up in Poland. Also included is an Italian id document, 1939; a US naturalisation certificate, 1946; sundry other material; and photographs of William Scheer and other family members.

  19. Das antifaschistische Kriegsziel

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The paper is an issue of the weekly “Freies Deutschland” which was published until 1939 in France. In the end of August 1939, it could not continue its work in France and was published in Sweden. The article discusses the outbreak of the war, the civil war in Spain, and the role of the Sowjetunion. The Molotow-Rippentrop pact is criticized, and its consequences are analyzed. The role of the Western powers and their goals are subject of the second article “Das Antifaschistische Kriegsziel – (The anti-fascistic War Aims)”. The last article discusses the role of the German people and its posit...

  20. Hitler contre la paix

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The publication "Hitler against peace – response to the Nuremberg Congress" is an analysis by German pacifists published in French. It is meant to shed light on the true intentions of the National Socialists, revealing their imperialistic ambitions and proclivity for war. It summarizes the events of the 8th Party congress in Nuremberg ((Reichsparteitag der Ehre, 8–14 September, 1936), its program, supporters and the consequences of Hitler's policies for France. The conclusion is that a war is planned against France. Hitler is quoted from "Mein Kampf". Nazi activities in Spain are discussed ...