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  1. Alphabetical Files, A-Z

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Alphabetical Files

    Box H1. Folder 1. Aden, 1947-1948 Box H1. Folder 2. Aden, 1958-1968 Box H1. Folder 3. Aden, Aden Chronicle, Messa, Bentob, 1960-1967 Box H1. Folder 4. Aden, disturbances, 1947-1948 Box H1. Folder 5. Aden, Jewish Emergency Committee, 1947-1949 Box H1. Folder 6. Aden, Kubowitzki, Aryeh L., mission, 1949 Box H1. Folder 7. Aden, Messa, Bentob, 1965, 1967 Box H1. Folder 8. Aden, Organization Department, 1947-1950 Box H1. Folder 9. Aden, Organization Department, 1951-1952 Box H1. Folder 10. Aden, Organization Department, 1953-1959 Box H1. Folder 11. Aden, Political Department, 1956, 1958-1962 Box...

  2. Ottawa Jewish Community Council = Ottawa Vaad Ha'Ir = The Jewish Federation of Ottawa fonds

    • Ottawa Jewish Archives
    • O0043
    • English
    • 8m 44cm of records, 524 B&W and colour photographs and other material, 1 scrapbook Young Peoples Division poster located in OS Mixed Box 12

    Fonds consist of series of administration documents, minutes of meetings, correspondence, standing committees (including United Jewish Appeal), ad hoc committees and agencies and institutions. BOX 1 - Series: Minutes Organizational Meeting Minutes - 1934: Documents pertaining to the creation of an Ottawa Vaad Ha'Ir, as favoured unanimously by the Vaad Hakashruth. Minutes - Quarterly, General, Special notices of Meetings - 1934-1949. Officers Meeting Minutes - 1952-1965 (incomplete), 1971-1985. BOX 2 - Series: Minutes Officers Notices of Meetings and Agendas - 1952-1983, 1985 BOX 3 - Series:...

  3. Research Materials, Reports, and Publications

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Institute of Jewish Affairs

    Box C79. Folder 4. The Jewish Catastrophe, Its Background and Aftermath, typed outline for publication, undated Box C79. Folder 5. Part I. Preliminaries, Yiddish draft, undated Box C79. Folder 6. Part I. Preliminaries, 2nd draft, 1944 Box C79. Folder 7. Part I. Preliminaries, 3rd draft, 1944 Box C79. Folder 8. Part I. Preliminaries, 4th draft (incomplete), 1945 Box C79. Folder 9. Part I. Preliminaries, reactions and reviews, 1945 Box C79. Folder 10. Part I. Preliminaries, Questionnaire for Chaplains in the Army (English, Yiddish), 1945 Box C79. Folder 11. Part I. Preliminaries, questionnair...

  4. Immigration Division

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Relief and Rescue Departments

    Includes correspondence and reports of Ellen Hilb, Milka Fuchs, and Kurt R. Grossman. The majority of the material deals with applications and affidavits for individual immigration cases, especially for entry into the United States. Box D14. Folder 4. Grossman, Kurt R., 1947-1949 Box D14. Folder 5. Information sheets, no. 1-7, 1947 Box D14. Folder 6. Emergency visa correspondence, 1948 Box D14. Folder 7. Opportunities to Latin America, 1941-1946 Box D14. Folder 8. Hospital of Immigration, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1941-1942 Box D14. Folder 9. United States, Department of State, 1940-1944 Box...

  5. Maurice L. Perlzweig

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Political Department/Department of International Affairs
    3. Executive Files

    Box B1. Folder 1. Correspondence, 1940 Box B1. Folder 2. Correspondence, 1941 January-November Box B1. Folder 3. Correspondence, 1941 December Box B1. Folder 4. Correspondence, 1942 Box B1. Folder 5. Correspondence, 1943 January-June Box B1. Folder 6. Correspondence, 1943 July-December Box B1. Folder 7. Correspondence, 1944 Box B1. Folder 8. Correspondence, 1945 Box B2. Folder 1. Correspondence, 1946 Box B2. Folder 2. Correspondence, 1947 January-April Box B2. Folder 3. Correspondence, 1947 May-December Box B2. Folder 4. Correspondence, 1948 Box B2. Folder 5. Correspondence, 1949 Box B2. Fo...

  6. Office Files

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Organization Department

    Consists of office correspondence and files regarding the Organization Department's work throughout the world. Box F8. Folder 17. Office files, 1944, 1947 Box F8. Folder 18. Office files, 1948 Box F9. Folder 1. Office files, 1949 January-June Box F9. Folder 2. Office files, 1949 July-December Box F9. Folder 3. Office files, 1950 January-June Box F9. Folder 4. Office files, 1950 July-December Box F9. Folder 5. Office files, 1951 Box F9. Folder 6. Office files, 1952 Box F9. Folder 7. Office files, 1953-1954 Box F9. Folder 8. Office files, 1955 Box F9. Folder 9. Office files, 1956 Box F10. Fol...

  7. Large brown suitcase used by Hungarian Jewish refugees on the Kasztner train

    1. Bela Gondos family collection

    Large suitcase carried by Dr. Bela Gondos when he was transported from Budapest, Hungary, to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on the Kasztner train in June 1944 with his wife Anna and 7 year old daughter Judit. They were advised to bring all their belongings. Each carried a suitcase filled with their best clothing since they believed they were going to Portugal. They used it as a bed, table, and chair on the cattle car to the camp. Jews were increasingly persecuted by the Hungarian regime, which had anti-Semitic policies similar to Germany's. Bela worked on 2 or 3 forced labor battalions un...

  8. Aluminum food container lid used by a Hungarian Jewish family on the Kasztner train

    1. Bela Gondos family collection

    Metal food container lid used by Bela, Anna, and Judit Gondos when they were transported from Budapest, Hungary, to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on the Kasztner train in June 1944. The family often hiked at Svabhegy, a hill outside Budapest, and used the container with the now missing base for their picnics. Jews were increasingly persecuted by the Nazi-influenced Hungarian regime. Bela worked on 2 or 3 forced labor battalions until released in 1942 because he was a physician. On March 19, 1944, Germany invaded Hungary and the authorities prepared to deport all the Jews from Hungary to ...

  10. Medal honoring soldiers killed during the invasion issued to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Medal honoring soldiers who died in the May 1940 invasion, with shield and broken sword, awarded to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. The six medals in the series honor the following: 1. For the soldiers who fell in the May 1940 invasion [this medal, 1990.23.240.3]; 2. For those who endured the bombardments and attacks (1990.23.240.3; 3. For victims of torture and betrayal (1990.23.240.3]; 4. For those who suffered in the concentration camps (1990.23.240.3; 5. For those who w...

  11. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Theresienstadt scrip, valued at 20 (zwanzig) kronen, acquired by Flory Cohen Levi, who survived in hiding in her native Netherlands during the war. This type of scrip was distributed in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp from May 1943-April 1945 in German occupied Czechoslovakia. Flory met Felix Levi, a refugee from Hitler's Germany, in the mid-1930s. After Germany invaded Poland, Felix convinced Flora to flee. In November 1939, they sailed for South America aboard the SS Simon Bolivar, which was sunk by German mines. They were rescued by the British military and taken to a hospital...

  12. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Commemorative medal, one of six, awarded to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. Stichting 1940-1945 was a foundation created during the war to provide aid to resistance members and their families. After Netherlands was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Piet and his wife Dina, devout Christians, joined the resistance. Piet helped many Jewish people go into hiding, in his own home and with other resistance members. He also provided false identities and food coupons. He was arrested...

  13. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Commemorative medal, one of six, awarded to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. Stichting 1940-1945 was a foundation created during the war to provide aid to resistance members and their families. After Netherlands was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Piet and his wife Dina, devout Christians, joined the resistance. Piet helped many Jewish people go into hiding, in his own home and with other resistance members. He also provided false identities and food coupons. He was arrested...

  14. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Commemorative medal, one of six, awarded to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. Stichting 1940-1945 was a foundation created during the war to provide aid to resistance members and their families. After Netherlands was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Piet and his wife Dina, devout Christians, joined the resistance. Piet helped many Jewish people go into hiding, in his own home and with other resistance members. He also provided false identities and food coupons. He was arrested...

  15. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Commemorative medal, one of six, awarded to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. Stichting 1940-1945 was a foundation created during the war to provide aid to resistance members and their families. After Netherlands was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Piet and his wife Dina, devout Christians, joined the resistance. Piet helped many Jewish people go into hiding, in his own home and with other resistance members. He also provided false identities and food coupons. He was arrested...

  16. Sioma and Tonia Bialer Lechtman papers

    Contains photographs and documents relating to Vera Lechtman's parents, Sioma and Tonia Bialer Lechtman, before World War II in Vienna, Austria, and in Łódź, Poland; their immigration to Palestine in 1936; and their subsequent immigration to Europe in 1938. Includes photogaphs of Sioma Lechtman in the Gurs concentration camp in France, where he was interned after fighting in the Spanish Civil War.

  17. Black and white patterned case for medals awarded postwar to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Fitted case for a set of 6 medals issued to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. Stichting 1940-1945 was a foundation created during the war to provide aid to resistance members and their families. After Netherlands was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Piet and his wife Dina, devout Christians, joined the resistance. Piet helped many Jewish people go into hiding, in his own home and with other resistance members. He also provided false identities and food coupons. He was arrested...

  18. Award certificate issued postwar with 6 medals to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Certificate for a set of 6 medals issued to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. Stichting 1940-1945 was a foundation created during the war to provide aid to resistance members and their families. After Netherlands was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Piet and his wife Dina, devout Christians, joined the resistance. Piet helped many Jewish people go into hiding, in his own home and with other resistance members. He also provided false identities and food coupons. He was arrested...

  19. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Commemorative medal, one of six, awarded to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. Stichting 1940-1945 was a foundation created during the war to provide aid to resistance members and their families. After Netherlands was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Piet and his wife Dina, devout Christians, joined the resistance. Piet helped many Jewish people go into hiding, in his own home and with other resistance members. He also provided false identities and food coupons. He was arrested...

  20. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    The Felix and Flory Van Beek papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, diaries, a personal narrative, photographs, and printed materials documenting a German-Dutch couple, their thwarted efforts to escape Europe on the SS Simon Bolivar, their survival in hiding with two separate Dutch families, their liberation, their immigration to the United States, and the deaths of their family members in the Holocaust. Many documents are accompanied by Flory Van Beek's annotations. Biographical materials primarily document Felix and Flory Van Beek and include certificates, correspondenc...