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  3. Jewelry case

    1. Lilly Morawetz collection

    Jewelry case carried by Lilly Morawetz (donor’s mother), a Jewish Austrian refugee, when she was deported by the French police from Paris to the Gurs internment camp in 1940 and during her flight through Spain and Portugal. When the family was imprisoned in Spain, this case was taken from Lilly, but because she had lost the key, they couldn’t open it and her jewelry remained safe. She carried the case with her to the US in 1941.

  4. Lilly Morawetz collection

    The collection consists of a photograph case carried by Lilly Morawetz, a Jewish Austrian refugee, from the Czech Republic through France, including while in Gurs and a jewelry case carried by her when she was deported by the French police from Paris to the Gurs internment camp in 1940 and during her flight through Spain and Portugal. When the family was imprisoned in Spain, this case was taken from Lilly, but because she had lost the key, they couldn’t open it and her jewelry remained safe. She carried the case with her to the US in 1941.

  7. Regine Fixman Knout, born in Bogliasco, Italy, 1906, known as Ariane Sara Knout; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    Regine Fixman Knout, born in Bogliasco, Italy, 1906, known as Ariane Sara Knout; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Activities with her husband, David Fixman Knout, in establishing the underground AJ (Jewish Army); smuggling children into Switzerland and Spain; murder by a French militiaman in Toulouse, 22 July 1944.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. Bulgarian Legation in Madrid (Fond 256)

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

  11. 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...

  12. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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

  17. 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.

  18. 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

  19. Processo de pedido de visto para padre católico

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Port of Spain para padre católico, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino à Irlanda. Sem informação de atribuição de visto.

  20. Processo de pedido de visto para Darnley Adolphus Yard

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Port of Spain para Darnley Adolphus Yard, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado.