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  1. Samuel Halber collection

    Documents and correspondence concerning Samuel Halber (donor’s father). Born June 22, 1914 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he fled Nazi-occupied Europe in 1941 through Spain and Portugal were he applied for a US visa, ultimately arriving in New York City in 1941. He was drafted into the United States Army and was a Military Intelligence Interpreter, translating German, Dutch, and French in England until 1945, when he was assigned to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) and supervised the denazification of German railroads in the US Zone.

  2. Sarah W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah W., who was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1905. She recalls moving to Antwerp with her family; her mother's death; attending Hebrew school; marriage in 1927; her son's birth in 1928; moving to Luxembourg where her husband was a rabbi; German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish measures; fleeing to Paris with her husband and three children; traveling by train through Spain to the Portuguese border; futile attempts to enter Portugal with assistance from the Joint; returning to France; internment with her family in Bayonne; her son's bar mitzvah in a local synagogue; trave...

  3. Schildkraut family papers

    1. Schildkraut family collection

    Letters and postcards between Joseph Schildkraut in Cincinnati, Ohio and his sister Lea Schildkraut, from Tarnów Poland during the Holocaust. Included are postcards purchased on his exit from Poland, via Italy, Spain, and Panama, as well as a photo album, with press clippings, that he created while in Panama awaiting immigration to the United States, and a 1943 photograph with family in Covington, KY.

  4. Schwarz family papers

    The collection documents the Hungarian Holocaust-era experiences of the extended Schwarz family, including George and Magdolna Schwarz, their daughter Mariette, and Magdolna’s sister Klári Kovács (née Haberfeld) and her husband László Kovács. Included are identification papers, immigration documents, and photographs.

  5. Second anniversary Warsaw Ghetto uprising poster

    1. Moszek Brycman collection

    Poster announcing a memorial service for the second anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. This tribute was organized by the General Jewish Defense Committee (Comité général de defense).

  6. Section H - Recovery corner in Hospital Section Drawing of women on outdoor benches by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn103
    • English
    • overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm)

    Sketch of two women sitting outdoors at Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment center for Jewish re...

  7. Selected case files of the Border Police (Expedientes de Frontera) Spanish border files

    Contains case files on non-Spaniards (mainly German and Italian refugees) arrested and imprisoned for attempting illegal border crossings into Spain.

  8. Selected records from North African colonies

    This collection contains documents pertaining to the treatment of Jews in French North Africa, particularly in Algeria, and the expropriation of their property by Vichy officials. Topics include the "Jewish question," antisemitism, the establishment of camps, refugees from Spain and/or from the International Brigades, the local Jewish community in Algeria, Jews from France, and the commune of Ain Temouchent. Also included are police reports on the general condition of Jews in Algeria, correspondence concerning the 1941-1942 census of the Jewish population; the famous pogrom of Constantine i...

  9. Selected records from Romanian diplomatic missions

    Contains reports, correspondence, and reportage sent before and during World War II to Bucharest, Romania, from the Romanian diplomatic missions in Rome (Italy), Moscow (Soviet Union), Washington (U.S.A.), Berlin (Germany), Brussels (Belgium), Istanbul (Turkey), Prague (Czechoslovakia), Belgrade (Yugoslavia), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), Budapest (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), The Hague (Netherlands), Bern (Switzerland), the Vatican, Cairo (Egypt), Lisbon (Portugal), London (UK), Paris (France). The Washington records show the concern of American Jews about the treatment of Jews in Romani...

  10. Selected Records from the Archive of the Foreign Ministry of Spain

    Contains information relating to European refugees (including Jews) in Spain during the Holocaust.

  11. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Pyrénées-Orientales

    Collection includes records from sources including the departmental committee on the liberation of the region; and the cabinet of the prefecture and the sub-prefecture at Prades. Topics include internment camps; the Rivesaltes military and internment camps; the fortress at Perpignan; correspondence, denunciations, and dossiers on individuals; international brigades returning from Spain; Spanish refugees; staff of internment camps; Polish refugees in France; arrests and detentions; Jewish internees at Rivesaltes; and other internees.

  12. Selected records from the French Diplomatic Archives Nantes : Embassies and Consulates

    Consists of selected records related to “Jewish affairs” as documented in French embassies and consulates all over the world, from the Treaty of Versailles to 1956, including: Ankara, Berlin, Bern, Beirut, Bonn, Bucharest, Cairo, Jerusalem, Havana, the Syria-Lebanon Mandate, London, Madrid, Munich, Rome-the Holy See, San Salvador, Santiago de Chile, Tangier, Tripoli, Vienna, and Warsaw. Records include reports on anti-Semitism during the pre-WW II years, applications for visas or French papers in consulates around the world, conflict in the Middle East, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and his ...

  13. Selected records of the Unitarian Service Committee and the Universalist Service Committee

    Contains selected records of the Unitarian Service Committee and Universalist Service Committee relating to relief efforts and assistance to Jewish and non-Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution before, during and after World War II in a number of countries throughout the world, including France, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, England, Switzerland, and Portugal. The collection includes mainly correspondence, reports, case files, photographs, scrapbooks and memorabilia, posters, and clippings related to the humanitarian work of the Unitarian and Universalist Service Committees, ...

  14. Self portrait by Josef Nassy

    Self portrait by Josef Nassy. This is the only known portrait of the artist. It was made while Nassy was incarcerated in Nazi Germany. The painting was presented to Tony Clark by Mrs. Nassy in appreciation for his efforts to preserve Nassy's collection of paintings and drawings known as The Holocaust Suite.

  15. Self-portrait by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn150
    • English
    • overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) pictorial area: Height: 17.750 inches (45.085 cm) | Width: 11.875 inches (30.163 cm)

    Self-portrait of Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee at Gurs internment camp. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment center for Jewish refugees. Lili, originally from ...

  16. Selma A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Selma A. who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1905. She recounts moving at age one to Halberstadt; her father volunteering during World War I; their assimilated lifestyle; attending high school; working in Hamburg; her mother's death in 1927; marriage in 1932 (her husband's father was American); anti-Jewish restrictions starting in 1933; her son's birth; leaving for Antwerp; German invasion in 1940; her husband's arrest and incarceration in Gurs; his release when his father sent United States citizenship papers; his emigration to the U.S.; traveling to Marseille; payi...

  17. Sephardic Jews

    Documents on the Sepahardim collected by Ernesto Gimenez Caballero. The following notes come from intertitles from the film, restored by NCJF in 1994: The Jews lived in Spain, more or less tolerated, from the time before Christ until March 31, 1492, the date of the national consolidation of Spain. And in this land of "Galud" (Exile), they produced a rich culture for centuries. For this reason Spain, apart from Zion, is the Sephardi's most sentimental homeland. The ancestral home of their most respected ancestors whose descendants are the aristocratic Sephardim--The Jews of the Spanish Homel...

  18. Institution Logo

    Servicio de Documentación de la Cruz Roja Española

    • Spanish Red Cross Documentation Service
    • Spain
    • Avda. Reina Victoria, 26 - Planta semisótano, Madrid, Community of Madrid

  19. Set of ration stamps

    1. Joseph Strip family collection

    Set of ration stamps, one of a number of materials documenting the experiences of the Stripounsky (later Strip) family: Menachem Nathan and Regina Stripounsky and their sons Joseph and Asriel during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The Stripounskys fled Antwerp, Belgium in May 1940 to France. After a year, they got American visas, traveling via Spain and Portugal, arriving in New York in May 1941. Joseph was sent by the US Army to Germany in 1944.

  20. Shadur family papers

    1. Michel Shadur family collection

    The Shadur family papers document the experiences of Michael Shadur and his family, including their relocation to Belgium after antisemitic boycotts began to undermine his family business in Berlin, and following the German invasion of Belgium in 1940, their subsequent escape through France, Spain, and Portugal before immigrating to the United States. The contents of the papers contain various documents of Michael and Manya Shadur, their children Joseph and Benita, and their extended family. These include travel documents, identification materials, school notebooks and report cards, and oth...