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  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Processo de pedido de visto para Jenne Lienard

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Port of Spain para Jenne Lienard, de nacionalidade francesa, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de autorização de visto.

  6. Processo de pedido de visto para Dermot Killeen

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Port of Spain para Dermot Killeen, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino ao Reino Unido. Visto autorizado.

  7. Processo de pedido de visto para Rose Montwyveler

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Port of Spain para Rose Montwyveler, de nacionalidade suíça, com destino a Suíça. Visto autorizado.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. Salomon Berenholc papers

    The Salomon Berenholc papers concern Salomon Berenholc, a young French Jew who was arrested with his family after fleeing France and illegally crossing the border into Spain in 1942. After a brief internment in a Spanish prison, the family was released and ultimately immigrated to the United States in 1943 by way of Lisbon, Portugal. These papers are comprised of a diary Salomon kept during his efforts to flee France between 1942 and 1943 and documents from the post-war era regarding his and his brother, Victor’s education. The diary details their journey and the conditions of Salomon's cel...

  15. Randolph J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Randolph J., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1913. He recalls his family's affluence; strong patriotism and food shortages during World War I; being taught Germany had won; his bar mitzvah; attending public school and gymnasium; cordial relations with non-Jews; gradual impoverishment as antisemitism increased in the 1930s; one sister's emigration to the United States; meeting his future wife; attending university in 1931; violent harassment; believing Hitler was a temporary phenomenon; traveling to Zurich in 1933 to continue his education, then to Paris via Geneva,...

  16. Josse L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josse L., who was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1915 to Belgian parents, giving him dual citizenship. He recounts living in Argentina, Brussels, and Rio de Janeiro; attending school in Vanves, France; vacationing with relatives in Ostende; his bar mitzvah there; completing school in Brussels; military service in 1936; opening a business with his brother; military recall; capture by Germans on May 28, 1940 (the Germans did not learn he was Jewish); learning his parents and sister had left for Brazil; release on June 11; reunion with his brother; reopening their busine...

  17. Josef Fišera Archive Archiv Josef Fišera

    The collection primarily consists of documents related to Josef Fišera, a Czech national, and his involvement as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War and with the French Resistance during the Second World War.

  18. Norwegian Fascist Police; German homefront propaganda

    Narrator explains (in English) that this item was released in Portugal. Portugese narration heard under English commentary. Interior, family sitting around table eating. Close-ups of family meant to show that Germans are not suffering from lack of food, despite war. Women working in railroad and postal occupation. Narrator states that "Germany's postal system... increased its employment of women after the July 25th total mobilization announcement." Upbeat music as smiling women drive postal truck. Men working in factories; woman welding. Miners working underground. "Several sequences here h...

  19. Gisela W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisela W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. She recalls her family's wealthy, assimilated life; antisemitic vandalism; attending a private girls' school; expulsion as a Jew; attending the American school; living with an uncle in the Hague (her brother had been sent to England); visiting family in Stuttgart; living with an aunt in Switzerland; staying in a hotel in Lugano; moving with her parents to Amsterdam in April 1939; attending Dutch school; German invasion; obtaining permission to leave through her uncle, who headed the Warburg Bank in Holland; leaving w...

  20. Otto Eidlitz diaries

    The Otto Eidlitz diaries consist of three diaries written by Otto Eidlitz between 1940 and 1943. The diaries cover the period of his escape from Hungary to Spain and his time in the Miranda del Ebro prison. The diaries also include his handwritten Hungarian to Spanish dictionary.