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  1. UNRRA selected records AG-018-028 : Switzerland Mission

    Selected files of the Switzerland Mission (S-1405), 1944-1949: Records include statistics, correspondence, files of displaced persons, lists of children, offers of temporary asylum for children, movement of children to Switzerland, Red Cross actions and personal inquires requesting tracing of individuals, as well as reports on activities of the UN relating to refugees and displaced persons.

  2. Vakar family collection

    The Vakar family papers consist of correspondence, memoirs, manuscripts, news clippings, postcards, and other documents and materials related to the immigration of the Vakar family from France to the United States in 1940-1941, as well as the role of the American aid workers who helped them, Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Collection includes postcards and correspondence from the period of their immigration, later memoirs written by various members of the family recounting their experiences during their escape and their arrival in the United States, as well as news clippings and other material ...

  3. Varian Fry letter to Jean Gemähling

    Jean Gemähling (1912-2003) was a French Catholic educated at an English boarding school and worked as one of Varian Fry's assistants in Marseilles. In his January 9, 1945 letter to Gemähling, Fry asks for news of Gemähling’s survival and arrests in Vichy France and describes his 1945 memoir Surrender on Demand, his work at the New Republic and establishing the American Labor Conference on International Affairs, and his personal life as well as those of common friends and acquaintances. Among others, he mentions Jay Allen, Heinz Behrendt, Daniel Benedite, Georg Bernhardt, Victor Brauner, And...

  4. Victory (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    1. Margit Meissner collection

    Victory Magazine acquired Margit Morawetz Gyorgy when she worked for the Office of War Information. Before the war, Margit's mother, Lilly, sent her to study in Paris in 1938 because the expansion of German rule posed a threat to their life in Prague. Lilly joined Margit there a year later, but because she was an Austrian citizen, was imprisoned as an enemy alien after France declared war on Germany following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. Lilly was released when Germany occupied France in May 1940. She and Margit escaped to Portugal and, in 1941, were able to immigrate to...

  5. Victory (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    1. Margit Meissner collection

    Victory Magazine acquired Margit Morawetz Gyorgy when she worked for the Office of War Information. Before the war, Margit's mother, Lilly, sent her to study in Paris in 1938 because the expansion of German rule posed a threat to their life in Prague. Lilly joined Margit there a year later, but because she was an Austrian citizen, was imprisoned as an enemy alien after France declared war on Germany following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. Lilly was released when Germany occupied France in May 1940. She and Margit escaped to Portugal and, in 1941, were able to immigrate to...

  6. Victory (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    1. Margit Meissner collection

    Victory Magazine acquired Margit Morawetz Gyorgy when she worked for the Office of War Information. Before the war, Margit's mother, Lilly, sent her to study in Paris in 1938 because the expansion of German rule posed a threat to their life in Prague. Lilly joined Margit there a year later, but because she was an Austrian citizen, was imprisoned as an enemy alien after France declared war on Germany following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. Lilly was released when Germany occupied France in May 1940. She and Margit escaped to Portugal and, in 1941, were able to immigrate to...

  7. Victory ribbon distributed by Canadian troops in the Netherlands given to a young child who had lived in hiding

    1. Miep Kaempfer-van Engel collection

    Liberation ribbon given to 6 year old Miep van Engel in May 1945. It was distributed by Canadian troops after their liberation of the Netherlands. The country had occupied in May 1940 by Nazi Germany. In 1943, Miep’s father, Bernard, decided that the family needed to go into hiding because his employer, Phillips Electronics, could no longer keep Jewish employees exempt from deportation. With the assistance of the underground movement, Miep was sent to live with a Protestant family, Dirk and Sjoukje Hellinga, in Nij Beets in Friesland. They got her false identification documents and she was ...

  8. Visiting Oberammergau

    “OBERAMMERGAU” St. Peter and Paul Church in Oberammergau. World War I memorial. People seated at a restaurant. The inscription on the side of the memorial pillar. Other activities in town center. Bavarian-style buildings, people dining, crowded streets.

  9. Vivette S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vivette S., who was born in Paris, France in 1919. She recalls her family life with its secular, socialist and French emphases; participating in the Front Populaire, including traveling to Spain; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing to Orle?ans, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, and Vichy; attending university in Toulouse; joining her family in Cannes in 1941; learning about OSE in Montpellier; working for OSE in Rivesaltes rescuing children; a Hanukkah celebration there; leaving in June 1942, having rescued more than 400 children; marriage to the OSE director in Marseille in Octobe...

  10. Voluntarios Internacionales de la Libertad cufflink owned by an Inernational Brigade member

    1. Hans Landesberg collection

    Pin belonging to Hans Landesberg, who was a member of the International Brigade in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

  11. Volunteers from various countries

    Danish, Spanish, and Italian volunteers leave their countries for Germany to join the "fight against Bolshevism." In Denmark the youths parade through the street while being saluted by onlookers. They carry a Danish flag and a woman in uniform hands out flowers. CU on a poster reading "Germanerne". A train full of volunteers leaves the station. Good shots of crowds of people giving Hitler salute. In Spain, a train crowded with volunteers leaves a station. A huge crowd watches the train go. The narrator notes that most of these volunteers, now member of the Blue Division, are veterans of the...

  12. Walter and Erna Brunell papers

    The Walter and Erna Brunell papers contain primarily correspondence related to Walter and Brunell’s attempts to emigrate from Germany in the late 1930s. The correspondence is with various relatives and aid organizations related to their attempts to obtain visas from the United States. Other documents include passports, transit visas, and other various documents related to their immigration. The Walter and Erna Brunell papers contain primarily correspondence concerning the couple’s efforts in obtaining visas to immigrate to the United States. These include telegrams with their son, Ernst Bru...

  13. Walter P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter P., who was born in Erlangen, Germany in 1926. He recalls his family moving to Berlin in 1933; attending public school until his expulsion as a Jew; attending a Jewish school; destruction of the store where his father worked on Kristallnacht; moving into a one-room apartment after his father lost his job; the outbreak of war; avoiding round-ups with the help of a friendly policeman; his bar mitzvah in 1940; his fear and humiliation after the introduction of the Jewish star in September 1941; learning Spanish and English in school in preparation for emigration; ...

  14. Weidhorn family papers

    1. Weidhorn family collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Manfred Weidhorn and his parents Anna and Aron Weidhorn, including their flight from Vienna, Austria after the German-annexation of Austria in March 1938, Aron’s immigration to the United States in 1939, and Manfred and his mother’s immigration to the United States via Cuba in 1941. Included are biographical and identification documents, records related to Aron’s fur business, immigraiton paperwork, photographs, correspondence, telephone directories, and a diary kept by Aron in 1940, shortly after his arrival in the U.S.

  15. Werner Gumprecht letter

    The 16-page, typewritten letter was written by Werner Gumprecht in Seville, Spain, and details the beginning of his family's experiences during their immigration from Hamburg, Germany, to the United States in 1941. The Gumprechts left Germany on July 21, 1941, and arrived in N.Y. on September 12, 1941. Their relatives who remained in Germany were deported between October and December 1941 and never heard from again.

  16. Werner Jakubowski papers

    The Werner Jakubowski papers primarily consist of correspondence between Werner Jakubowski while he was a refugee in France and his brother Stephan Jakubowski in New York City. Werner’s letters are from Gurs or from Meillon par Assat, in the Basses Pyrenees. The correspondence describes Werner’s family situation in France and documents efforts by family and friends to transfer funds to them from New York and to aid their immigration to the US.

  17. Wie geht es ihnen, Herr Nachbar?

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several scripts written by Paul Anderson for the Norddeutschen Rundfunk (NDR). Since 1948, he regularly provided political commentary for the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), for which he eventually became head of the program "Aus der Alten Welt". In this file scripts of the show "Wie geht es ihnen, Herr Nachbar" are attached. The first of this episodes was broadcasted in Hamburg, 7th April 1965. It is about Karl Sjoelund, a Swedish painter, but at the first look he seemed more German than Swedish. This is what the show is about, getting to know your neighbors. In this case i...

  18. Wilhelm and Violet Dattner papers

    1. Violet Dattner collection

    Correspondence and documents relating to Wilhelm (Willy) and Violet Dattner (donor's parents). Willy Dattner (b. 1909 in Krakow) and Violet Fogel (b. c.1916 in Oradea, Romania) lived in Antwerp, Belgium, where Willy was a diamond merchant. In May 1940, after the German invasion of Belgium, Willy started to evacuate his large family to France. After overcoming many difficulties, arrests, and returning to Antwerp to pick up additional family members, Willy and Violet reached Spain and later sailed to Havana, Cuba. In March 1941, they arrived in New York where they joined Sigi Dattner (Willy's...

  19. William Lush collection

    Collection consists of a German passport (Reisepass) issued to Paul Steinharter on January 13, 1937 includes visas from Belgium and England and an immigration visa from the United States. The passport issued to Lea Steinharter includes visas issued for Spain and Portugal and an immigration visa from the United States. Documents inserted into her passport include a Declaration of Intention for U.S. citizenship, receipt issued on board the SS Exeter on August 13, 1941, and a note and letter to Paul from Clara Lussheimer in Chicago dated June 4, 1951; in German.

  20. William Scheer papers

    This collection contains primarily school and college certificates of Wilhelm Scheer from his time growing up in Poland. Also included is an Italian id document, 1939; a US naturalisation certificate, 1946; sundry other material; and photographs of William Scheer and other family members.