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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. 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 ...

  3. Aluminum wardrobe trunk used by a German Jewish emigrant family

    1. Bruno Einstein family collection

    Aluminum wardrobe trunk used by Bruno Einstein, his wife Frieda, and their five year old son Dieter for their November 1939 journey to the United States. On Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938, Bruno and his brother Arthur were arrested in their hometown of Fellheim, Germany, and sent to Dachau concentration camp. Both were released in early January 1939. The family received visas for the United States, sponsored by Bruno’s maternal aunt Frieda Jeffries. Bruno, Frieda, and Dieter left Germany for Genoa, Italy in 1939, then sailed to New York in November. Bruno’s brother, Arthur, and sister, M...

  4. American family visits the Balkans

    "Dubrovnik in Jugo-Slavia or Ragusa in Dalmatia" Sailors. Outdoor cafe, including a table with the Major family visiting from Kansas. Local people. Band performs. Pan up, church. Religious procession with young girls and boys. Harbor. "Bled The Summer Home of King Peter" (color) LS, lake and mountains in Bled with villas. Switches to black and white, marching soldiers. Rowboats on the lake in Bled. 01:12:30 KODAK

  5. American Friends Service Committee records relating to humanitarian work in France

    The collection pertains to the activities of the American, British, and French Quakers in France and North Africa, from 1933-1950. The collection encompasses the Paris-based office of the Commissioner for Europe, the AFSC's liaison with the Allied occupation governments in Germany, Austria and North Africa as of 1943; and the Quaker delegations in Paris, Bordeaux, Caen, Le Havre, Lyon, Marseille, Montauban, Perpignan, and Toulouse. The materials consist of official correspondence, minutes of meetings, interviews with officials; weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and quarterly reports from delegatio...

  6. American Friends Service Committee records relating to humanitarian work in North Africa

    The collection documents work done by the Refugee Service and the Displaced Persons Service of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), to provide humanitarian relief to refugees and displaced persons in North Africa. The bulk of the collection consists of the correspondence of AFSC delegates in North Africa with AFSC representatives in Europe and America and with committees and organizations working with the Quakers. The collection further includes reports documenting the Quakers' projects in North African camps, and financial and administrative issues. The reports may contain name l...

  7. American Friends Service Committee Refugee Assistance Case Files

    Consists of more than 20,000 case files created and maintained by staff and volunteers with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker relief and rescue organization. The files are concerned primarily with the sponsorship of individuals for immigration to the United States and the process of their adjustment to America, including job-hunting and the placement of young adults in colleges and training programs. The collection contains a wealth of detail on individual refugees, the bulk of whom were fleeing Nazism, including their experiences before or during the war and the effor...

  8. Andrew Gummers Collection

    Documents relating to Julius Gummers education (1922 - 1934); Documents relating to Julius and Grete Gummers emigration to Spain and UK (1935 - 1937); Documents and correspondence relating to naturalisation in the UK (1947); Various official documents (1877 - 1936); German newspaperclippings (1929 - 1945) announcing their loss of German nationality; Documents relating to Andrew Gummers education (1945 - 1958); Various correspondence (1929 - 1946); "Papers concerning the Treatment of German Nationals in Germany 1938-1939", printed book (1939); Correspondence (2002).

  9. Annette Fry papers

    1. Annette Fry collection

    The Annette Fry papers primarily consist of photographic materials and correspondence documenting Varian Fry’s work for the Emergency Rescue Committee in France, some of the artists and intellectuals he aided, and travels around Europe. Photographic materials include prints, slides, negatives, and contact sheets depicting Eileen and Varian Fry, Andre Breton, Marc Chagall, Hans and Carmen Namuth, and scenes at Villa Airbel and in Marseilles, Italy, Portugal, England, and Spain. A set of annotated photographs include pictures of Varian Fry, his staff, Andre and Jacqueline Breton, Daniel Bened...

  10. Annie J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Annie J., who was born in Erlangen, Germany in 1900. She recounts moving to Nuremberg in 1915; her father's service in World War I; his death in 1924; anti-Jewish restrictions in the 1930s; ransacking of their apartment on Kristallnacht; moving to Paris with her mother in 1939; German invasion; incarceration in the Ve?lodrome d'Hiver; deportation to Gurs in May 1940; reunion with her mother; their release in October; living in Juranc?on; attending synagogue in Pau; living in Nay from April to August 1942; a Catholic woman hiding them after they received deportation no...

  11. Anti-Jewish activities from Spring 1942 till July 1942

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several reports regarding anti-Jewish activities from Spring 1942 till July 1942 in many different countries. Each report is based on the situation and activities of one specific country but the structure for each report is the same. It always starts in Spring 1942 and within a timetable till July 1942 the anti-Jewish activities are listed. Each report ends with a summary of the data given. These chronological surveys are given for Germany, Belgium, Lithuania, Albania, Poland, Spain, Russia, Latvia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czechoslovakia (Bohemia and ...

  12. Anti-Jewish propaganda film: migration of Jews

    A propaganda film declared as a "documentary film contribution about the problem of world Judaism," in which antisemitic stereotypes are disseminated by the Nazis, including scenes showing: Poland as a nesting place for Judaism; the comparison of Jews with rats; the difference between Jews and Aryans; "international crime"; "financial Judaism"; "assimilated Jews"; the Jewish influence on economics, culture, and politics; and Jewish religious practice with a portrayal of haggling and misused sacred Jewish texts. REEL 2 Further scenes shot in Warsaw, Poland, October 1939. More shots of Jewish...

  13. Anti-Nazi lithograph featuring Hitler surrounded by children’s faces

    1. Harold Lehman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn597138
    • English
    • overall: Height: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) | Width: 10.875 inches (27.623 cm)

    Black and white offset lithograph on paper by Harold Lehman showing Adolf Hitler ringed by several children’s ghostly faces. The image is artist Harold Lehman’s reaction to the bombing of the town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. In April 1937, at the request of Francisco Franco, German planes bombed Guernica, killing 1,600 civilians, destroying 70% of the town and shocking the American public. The piece was exhibited in the Alma Reed Gallery. Alma Reed was formerly an American reporter who worked in Mexico. In 1928 she left journalism and opened an art gallery in New York. An awar...

  14. 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.

  15. Apology letter from residents of Bonbaden, Germany, addressed to Margot K. Stern

    Letter (two leaves, four pages), written and signed by the residents of the village of Bonbaden (part of city of Braunfels), in Hessen, Germany, 9 November 2008, containing an apology to Margot K. Stern and her family, former Jewish residents of Bonbaden, who fled their village and homeland because of antisemitic persecution during the Nazi era. The letter, written following a Christian worship service commemorating the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht in Bonbaden, expresses remorse for the persecution of Jews in Bonbaden during that era, acknowledges the pain that Stern’s family experienc...

  16. Appenzeller and Dukes families papers

    1. Appenzeller and Dukes families collection

    The Dukes and Appenzeller families papers include a 1945 autobiographical essay by Erna Appenzeller; birth certificates, a marriage certificate, a tax document, passports, and naturalization papers for William, Irma, and Erna Appenzeller; photographs of the Dukes and Appenzeller families and their friends; a 1940 postcard from Irma’s sister Frieda Grün and her husband Rudolf; and restitution files documenting William Appenzeller, Irma Dukes Appenzeller, and Erna Appenzeller (Ernie Kent) from Vienna, their immigration to the United States, and their efforts to receive restitution for losses ...

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    Archives du Palais Princier

    • Archives of the Principality Palace
    • Monaco
    • B.P. 518, Monaco, MC Monaco Cedex

  18. Archives of the Chief Rabbinate (Sephardi community) in Istanbul

    Records of the Jewish Community Istanbul in Turkey. Includes correspondence of the lay Council of the Jewish community of Istanbul, minutes of meetings, correspondence of the Chief Rabbinate, birth and death registers, a list of Jewish business, correspondence of the Chief Rabbi Hacham Bashi, correspondence with government offices, the rabbinic court (beit din) notebook, and press clippings from Turkish newspaper (mostly antisemitic). Note: Source Archives inventory at: http://cahjp.nli.org.il/webfm_send/1316

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    Archivo Central de la Dirección General de la Policía

    • Central Archive of the General Police Directorate
    • Spain
    • C/ Julián González Segador S/N, Madrid, Community of Madrid
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    Archivo General - Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación

    • General Archive - Ministry for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation
    • Spain
    • Plaza de la Provincia, 1, Madrid, Community of Madrid