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  1. Westerweel Groep

    • Westerweel Group

    The Westerweel group provided protection to Jewish children and young adults at the assorted hakhsharah institutions. Joop Westerweel organized underground training for the children of the Youth Aliyah in the Loosdrechtse Rade. There he met Joachim Simons, who warned him about the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. The resistance group associated with the Westerweels arranged places to hide for a great many young adults. Small groups fled to Spain and Switzerland via Belgium and France. At least 60 young adults reached Spain.

  2. Wolf and Dreisel Bienstock family collection

    The collection consists of documents, papers, photocopies, and a suitcase relating to the experiences of Wolf and Dreisel Bienstock and their children Joseph and Martha before the Holocaust when they fled Dortmund, Germany for the United States via Holland, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal, and after the Holocaust as they pursued financial restitution for their confiscated business.

  3. 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.

  4. Antisemitism in Spain: reports and correspondence

    A miscellaneous collection of reports and correspondence documenting antisemitism and the situation of Jewish refugees in Spain and Spanish Morocco in the 1930s. A number of organisations are represented.

  6. Herman Silbiger collection

    The collection consists of personal documents, correspondence, a luggage tag and label, and Herman Silbiger's scrapbook within a school exercise book that features materials from his family's journey through France, Spain, Jamaica (Camp Gibraltar), and Curaçao from 1942-1945. It also includes the tin cigar box within which he kept the ephemera prior to compiling it into the scrapbook.

  7. George Lakenbacher papers

    Contains statistics relating to the work of American Relief Organizations in Spain.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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

  13. Doctoral thesis (manuscript) by Chaim Avni entitled "Rescue of Jews via Spain and Portugal"

    1. P.3 -Isaac Weissman Archive: Documentation of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Lisbon

    Doctoral thesis (manuscript) by Chaim Avni entitled "Rescue of Jews via Spain and Portugal" The thesis was written as part of a doctoral program at the Hebrew University.

  14. 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.

  15. Carlos Stern family papers

    1. Carlos Stern family collection

    Photographs, documents and correspondence illustrating the Stern family in Germany, Spain, Italy and South Africa.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.