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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Josef Fišera Archive Archiv Josef Fišera

    The collection primarily consists of documents related to Josef Fišera, a Czech national, and his involvement as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War and with the French Resistance during the Second World War.

  2. Otto Eidlitz diaries

    The Otto Eidlitz diaries consist of three diaries written by Otto Eidlitz between 1940 and 1943. The diaries cover the period of his escape from Hungary to Spain and his time in the Miranda del Ebro prison. The diaries also include his handwritten Hungarian to Spanish dictionary.

  3. Norwegian Fascist Police; German homefront propaganda

    Narrator explains (in English) that this item was released in Portugal. Portugese narration heard under English commentary. Interior, family sitting around table eating. Close-ups of family meant to show that Germans are not suffering from lack of food, despite war. Women working in railroad and postal occupation. Narrator states that "Germany's postal system... increased its employment of women after the July 25th total mobilization announcement." Upbeat music as smiling women drive postal truck. Men working in factories; woman welding. Miners working underground. "Several sequences here h...

  4. Bulgarian Legation in Bucharest (Fond 327)

    Contains reports and press clippings from the Romanian press regarding underground communist activities in Dobruja and Bessarabia; correspondence between the Bulgarian and Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding individual persons of Jewish origin and about the sinking of the "Struma" (Sṭrumah); correspondence regarding passport renewals for Jewish volunteers in the Civil War in Spain; and correspondence regarding visas and transit lists for people of non-Jewish origin. Also includes a registry of incoming documents and passports issued.

  5. Collection of the Commissie-Clevering committee, which examined the attitude toward refugees by the authorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1950

    Collection of the Commissie-Clevering committee, which examined the attitude toward refugees by the authorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1950 Official documentation of the Commissie-Clevering committee, established by the Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands in 1946 for the purpose of examining the attitude of the embassies toward Dutch citizens who escaped to Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal and other countries during the war period: Included in the collection: Testimonies of: A. Cohen E. Elzas L. Flesseman M.H. Gans A.J. Goedkoop E.H. van Hasselt M.H.J. Hedeman-Joosten J.M. Kijzer J. P...

  6. Gisela W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisela W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. She recalls her family's wealthy, assimilated life; antisemitic vandalism; attending a private girls' school; expulsion as a Jew; attending the American school; living with an uncle in the Hague (her brother had been sent to England); visiting family in Stuttgart; living with an aunt in Switzerland; staying in a hotel in Lugano; moving with her parents to Amsterdam in April 1939; attending Dutch school; German invasion; obtaining permission to leave through her uncle, who headed the Warburg Bank in Holland; leaving w...

  7. [letter]

    1. Bern Trial, Bern, Switzerland, 1934-1935

    This file contains a letter from 13th June 1935. It is written in German and addressed to a certain Doctor Weil living in Madrid. The signature at the end of the letter is to illegible. The letter focuses on the rising antisemitism in Spain due to the massive Nazi propaganda and the publishing of the Protocols in Spanish newspapers. The Bern trials are not mentioned in the media. One of the biggest newspapers in Spain, the ABC, will publish more antisemitic books. The author of the letter tried desperately to stop the publishing but didn't succeed. Now he's seeking material and asks his fri...

  8. [letter]

    1. Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto collection 1926-2018

    This file contains a letter from 13th June 1935. It is written in German and addressed to a certain Doctor Weil living in Madrid. The signature at the end of the letter is to illegible. The letter focuses on the rising antisemitism in Spain due to the massive Nazi propaganda and the publishing of the Protocols in Spanish newspapers. The Bern trials are not mentioned in the media. One of the biggest newspapers in Spain, the ABC, will publish more antisemitic books. The author of the letter tried desperately to stop the publishing but didn't succeed. Now he's seeking material and asks his fri...

  9. Alfred and Hertha Friedheim collection

    Diaries kept by Alfred and Hertha Friedheim, with some loose documents inserted between pages; dated 1939-1941; in French and English. The Friedheims were passengers on board the MS St. Louis in May 1939. When the ship returned to Europe they disembarked in France, and were in the Rieucros concentration camp in Lozere, France before getting American visas. They set sail in May 1941 on board the SS Winnipeg, but were detained in Port of Spain, Trinidad after the ship was commandeered by the Dutch navy. While in Port of Spain, their US visas expired. They were successful in getting their visa...

  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. Rivesaltes concentration camp, France

    Children and mothers getting off buses on arrival in the camp. Tracking shot of "camp garden," people working with hoes. Men in hospital beds; sick people arriving from Gurs camp. People eating in dining hall. Mail passed out. Elderly men and women walking outdoors.

  14. Harry T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry T., who was born in Giessen, Germany in 1921. Mr. T. describes growing up as the only Jewish boy in Zu?rbach, a farm village near Frankfurt; the rise of antisemitism and anti-Jewish activities; his training in Frankfurt to become a cabinetmaker; his return home after Kristallnacht; slave labor; and leaving his family in Frankfurt in 1941. He tells of his transport from Berlin to Barcelona, Spain; his imprisonment there and then in an internment camp near the French border; his release by the Quakers; and his emigration, via Portugal, to the United States. The ef...

  15. Reports and correspondence re Gurs and other French concentration camps

    These papers offer some insight into conditions in French internment camps during the 1940s, in particular in Gurs. Most of the reports and correspondence are contemporary copies or transcriptions.

  16. Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Articles, lectures, notes, bibliography and correspondence regarding refugees, regarding the rescue of Jews in neutral countries, regarding Jewish youth movements and regarding the place of the Holocaust in history

    1. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Articles, lectures, notes, bibliography and correspondence regarding refugees, regarding the rescue of Jews in neutral countries, regarding Jewish youth movements and regarding the place of the Holocaust in history There are four volumes in the file: Volume I Refugees and the rescue of Jews in neutral countries such as Switzerland, Sweden and Spain during the Holocaust period. Volume II Articles, index cards, lists, bibliography and correspondence regarding the Jewish youth movements and the Bund during the Holocaust period. Volume III Lectures, articles and lis...

  17. Robert Donoff, born in Paris, France, 1912, known as Casoar; 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

    Robert Donoff, born in Paris, France, 1912, known as Casoar; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Membership in the EIF (French Jewish Scouts) and the La Sixieme (the Sixth) underground; activities as director of the UGIF (Union Generale des Israelites de France) in Chambery; forged documents and smuggling children into Spain; arrest and deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz, 02 February 1944. In the file: - Photographs from the Yad Vashem Photo Archive: 7646/46-7646/47.

  18. 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.

  19. 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...

  20. 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...