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  1. Ernst Ascher, born in Liebemuehl, Germany, 1921; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    Ernst Ascher, born in Liebemuehl, Germany, 1921; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Activities in the Dutch underground, from 1944; smuggles inmates out of Westerbork; smuggles Jews and persecuted non-Jews into Belgium, France and Spain; arrested 19 July 1944; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Buchenwald, 17 August 1944; liberation by the Allies. Return to the Netherlands, May 1945. In the file: - Summary of his activities.

  2. Roger Picard, born in Sarreguemines, France, 1923; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    Roger Picard, born in Sarreguemines, France, 1923; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Thionville until 1939. Move to Paris with his family; joins EIF (French Jewish Scouts), 1942; activities at the Beaulieu sur Dordogne children's home; decision to join a group escaping to Spain; arrest with Rabbi Samy Stourdze at the Bedous railroad station; arrest carried out by the French police; transfer to the prison in Orthez with Rabbi Stourdze; deportation to the Merignac camp; transfer to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz, 18 July 1944. In the ...

  3. Isaie Charles Elbogen, born in Strasbourg, France, 1925; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    Isaie Charles Elbogen, born in Strasbourg, France, 1925; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Membership in EIF (French Jewish Scouts); attendance at a first aid course during the war; participation in the rescue of the injured and removal of rubble during air-raids on the cities of France; joins the French Jewish underground; escape to Spain, 1944. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944; outbreak of the War of Independence; enlists in the religious regiment of the First Battalion of the Palmach; participation in the battle for Latrun and his death in b...

  4. Marcel Langer, born in Szuczyn, Poland, 1903; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    Marcel Langer, born in Szuczyn, Poland, 1903; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Detention in a British prison in Eretz Israel; move to France; move from Paris to Toulouse, 1931; life in Toulouse including integration into the Polish-Jewish community; joins MOI (Immigrant Work Force), the Communist organization; combat in the Spanish Civil War, 1936. Deportation to the Argeles Sur Mer camp; transfer to Gurs; escape from the camp; escape to Toulouse; joins the Communist underground within the framework of MOI; arrested while carrying a suitc...

  5. Documentation, including listings of telephone discussions between Saly Mayer and the JDC organization's center in Lisbon and in New York regarding various subjects, Radio Bulletin No. 79, and other matters, January-December 1945

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Documentation, including listings of telephone discussions between Saly Mayer and the JDC organization's center in Lisbon and in New York regarding various subjects, Radio Bulletin No. 79, and other matters, January-December 1945 - Data regarding the JDC organization's activities in various countries; - Documentation regarding the continuation of the (ARBA) [?] negotiations, regarding the rescue of the remnant of Hungarian Jewry; - Documentation regarding the care of persecuted Jews who were liberated and are in Bergen-Belsen, Theresienstadt, and other camps; - Radio Bulletin No. 79, publis...

  6. Excerpts and notes from memoir books, biographies, autobiographies and research books, regarding the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust period

    1. O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat

    Excerpts and notes from memoir books, biographies, autobiographies and research books, regarding the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust period - Excerpts from the book written by Herbert Feis, titled, "The Spanish Story"; - Excerpts from the book written by Constantin Fotitch, titled, "The War We Lost - Yugoslavia's tragedy and the failure of the West"; - Excerpts from the book written by Dante Germino, titled, "The Italians Fascist Party in Power. A study in totalitarian rule"; - Excerpts from the book written by Thomas Greer, titled, "What Roosevelt thought. The social and political id...

  7. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Yitzhak Weisman, Relico representative, and the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Lisbon

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Yitzhak Weisman, Relico representative, and the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Lisbon Correspondence with Yitzhak Weisman, Relico representative, and the World Jewish congress (WJC) in Lisbon regarding the sending of food parcels to Poland and to survivors of the ship, "Pentcho", in Rhodes and relief to Jewish refugees in Portugal. Also in the file: - Copies of Weisman's letters to the diplomatic legation in Lisbon, to the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the WJC regarding the release of Jewish refugees who arrived in Portugal ille...

  8. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Exchange of letters with Yitzhak Weisman in Lisbon regarding diplomatic assistance to Jewish refugees in Portugal and Spain and regarding organizing the work done by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the Jewish Agency i

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Exchange of letters with Yitzhak Weisman in Lisbon regarding diplomatic assistance to Jewish refugees in Portugal and Spain and regarding organizing the work done by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the Jewish Agency in Lisbon Also in the file: - Copies of letters to WJC members in New York and London; - Copies of letters to Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Dr. Aryeh Tartakower regarding the situation of refugees in Spain, 08 July 1943, and in Portugal, 16 October 1943 and 05 January 1944; - Copy of a letter to Dr. A. L. Kubowitzky regarding refugees in Italy, 18 ...

  9. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Various reports and surveys (Numbers 1-13) regarding the destruction of the Jews of the Netherlands; Vught camp, Westerbork camp and Barneveld camp; and regarding the Judenrat

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Various reports and surveys (Numbers 1-13) regarding the destruction of the Jews of the Netherlands; Vught camp, Westerbork camp and Barneveld camp; and regarding the Judenrat Also in the file: - Protest lodged by the Organization of Reformed Churches in the Netherlands against the firing of clerks of Jewish origin, 1940; - Report and letter regarding certificates for aliya to Eretz Israel for rescuing long-time Zionists, February and March 1944; - Various surveys and testimonies of pioneers regarding the Holocaust in the Netherlands, the camps, life in hid...

  10. 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.

  11. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the United States Embassy in Switzerland and with Roswell McClelland regarding the fate of those holding South American passports in the camps in Germany and in Vittel

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the United States Embassy in Switzerland and with Roswell McClelland regarding the fate of those holding South American passports in the camps in Germany and in Vittel Also in the file: - American regulation regarding limitations on the granting of visas to the United States, 01 July 1941; - Request submitted by Dr. Silberschein for United States intervention on behalf of the refugees in Spain and Portugal, 20 June 1941; - Information from the "Washington Post", 26 January 1944, and from Juedische Nachrichten, the press agency of SIG [Un...

  12. Correspondence between M. Keller with the Finaly family relatives (Fischel, Kaufmann and Rosner) regarding the legal struggle against Mlle. Brun, headmistress of the Grenoble orphanage, and the French Church officials, concerning returning the Finaly chi

    1. P.11 - Moshe Keller Collection: The Finaly Children Affair

    Correspondence between M. Keller with the Finaly family relatives (Fischel, Kaufmann and Rosner) regarding the legal struggle against Mlle. Brun, headmistress of the Grenoble orphanage, and the French Church officials, concerning returning the Finaly children, 1949-1972 Two volumes: 1: 06 July 1949-22 July 1953. 2: 26 July 1953-10 September 1955. Also in the files: - Letters of the Finaly children to their uncle Moshe Rosner from different hiding places; letters slandering the Jews, and the letters from children in Israel, 14 April 1953; - Notebook and compositions by Robert Finaly regardin...

  13. Documentation regarding the persecution of the Greek Jews during the Holocaust

    1. P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976

    Documentation regarding the persecution of the Greek Jews during the Holocaust - Copies of official German documentation regarding the solution of the Jewish question in Greece, including plans for deportation of the Jewish citizens and relocation of the Jews with Spanish and Turkish nationalities; - Testimony of Samuel Gategno regarding the Jewish Resistance in Saloniki; - Report containing testimonies regarding the persecution and destruction of the Jews in Saloniki collected by Miriam Novitch; - List containing the number of Jews in several Greek communities before and after the persecut...

  14. Personal notes recorded by Dr. Nathan Eck related to his research work, Part 13

    1. P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976

    Personal notes recorded by Dr. Nathan Eck related to his research work, Part 13 Handwritten notes containing excerpts, quotes, summaries, translations, copies from encyclopedias, lists, transcripts of correspondence, and comments related to publications regarding the history of the Jewish people and the Holocaust.

  15. Memoirs of and an interview with Franz Kejmar

    1. P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author

    Memoirs of and an interview with Franz Kejmar 1. Interview conducted by Erich Kulka with Franz Kejmar at Kejmar's home in Spain, 06 July 1986. Kejmar was an opponent of the Nazis in Austria. He was arrested by the Gestapo in July 1941, and a month later, on 19 August 1941, he was deported to Auschwitz as a political prisoner. There he worked in the Deutsche Ausrustungswerke (DAW) factories and served as a Kapo, a position in which he showed compassion and humaneness towards the inmates (in German); 2. Unpublished memoirs of Franz Kejmar (in German); 3. Article regarding Franz Kejmar, who wa...

  16. Report of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland, Denmark, Finland, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Hungary, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Danzig, 1938

    1. M.17 - Documentation of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva, 1933-1940

    Report of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland, Denmark, Finland, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Hungary, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Danzig, 1938

  17. Elias R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elias R., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1932. He recalls details of Jewish life; traveling with his mother to Athens for his uncle's wedding; remaining there in order to be under Italian occupation (Thessalonike? was under German control); having his brother smuggled to Athens; returning to Thessalonike?; ghettoization; obtaining exit documents from Spain (his mother was Spanish); hiding during round-ups; his father's deportation (he did not return); escaping with his mother and brother to Athens with help from the underground; departing in a German militar...

  18. Hilde G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hilde G., who was born in Boppard, Germany in 1926. She recalls a comfortable childhood; attending a Catholic school until 1936, when the nuns could no longer guarantee her safety; her older sister attending school in Cologne; her parents' decision to send her to England; her mother accompanying her to Spain (her father wept at their departure in Cologne); living with a Jewish family in Nottingham; attending private school; working for her foster parents from age fourteen due to the labor shortage caused by the war; hearing from her parents in 1941 after a two year si...

  19. Marcel D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcel D., who was born in Ans, Belgium in 1920, one of two children. He recounts his parents' staunch Catholicism; attending school in Liège; joining a socialist youth group in 1937; volunteering to fight in Spain; rejection due to his age, but working there with children in a refugee camp for two months in 1938; German invasion in 1940; fleeing with his brother to Aube; returning home; some of his friends wearing yellow stars to protest anti-Jewish measures; joining the Front de l'Indépendance; obtaining weapons; sabotaging phone and rail lines; his brother's arre...

  20. Jacob R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob R., who was born in Dobromyl?, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in 1906. He recalls speaking Yiddish and German at home; his mother's death; his father's service in the first World War; abuse by Russian forces; becoming part of Poland after the war; antisemitism; moving to Berlin in 1926; the emigration of two siblings to Palestine; living in Ostende and Antwerp; expulsion because he was Polish; moving to Barcelona; burying dead from the civil war; moving to Paris in April 1939; German invasion; traveling to Orle?ans, Bordeaux, and Toulouse; arrest ...