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  1. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Protocols of Treaties, United States of America (FO 93)

    Contains records from the Office of the Protocols of Treaties, United States relating to an exchange of notes to set up a joint Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine December 10, 1945.

  2. Selected records from the War and Colonial Department and Foreign Office: Consulate, Algiers, Ottoman Empire (later Algeria): General Correspondence, Series I. (FO 111)

    Contains general correspondence from the Consulate in Algeria relating to French laws concerning British Jews in Algeria, 1942.

  3. Selected Records from the Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulates, United States of America: General Correspondence (FO 115)

    Contains general correspondence from the Embassy and Consulates of the United States of America relating to Jews, the sale in Argentina of exit permits for Jews in Nazi Germany, the evacuation of Jewish refugees from occupied Europe in 1944, and illegal immigration.

  4. Selected records from the Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulates, Austria (formerly Austro-Hungarian Empire): General Correspondence (FO 120)

    Contains general correspondence from the Embassy and Consulates of Austria relating to claims of property and Nazi activities in Austria.

  5. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, Belgium: General Correspondence (FO 123)

    Contains general correspondence from the Embassy and Consulates of Belgium relating to the possibility of Jewish refugees in Vichy France to be admitted to the Belgian Congo, 1942.

  6. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, Egypt: General Correspondence (FO 141)

    Contains general correspondence from the British Embassy and Consulates in Egypt relating to illegal Jewish organizations in Palestine, illegal entry into Palestine, 1946, and the formation of a Jewish army.

  7. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, France: General Correspondence (FO 146)

    Contains general correspondence from the British Embassy in Paris, France relating to war crimes.

  8. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulate, Italy and predecessor States: General Correspondence (FO 170)

    Contains general correspondence and reports from the British Embassy and Consulates in Italy relating to the massacres, arrests and deportations Yugoslavs carried out against Italians in the Venezia Giulia region between 1943 and 1945.

  9. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (formerly Russian Empire): General Correspondence (FO 181)

    Contains general correspondence and reports from the British Embassy and Consulates in the former Soviet Union relating to Jews, including liquidation in Riga, the joint allied declaration condemning Nazi atrocities, settlement of Jews in Uzbekistan, and the situation of Jews in Russia.

  10. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulate, Sweden: General Correspondence (FO 188)

    Contains general correspondence and reports from the British Embassy and Consulate in Sweden relating to the persecution of Jews and forced labor in Norway, the position of Hungarian Jews, German propaganda in Sweden, Jewish refugees and Swedish assistance, and illegal immigration.

  11. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of Martinique

    Contains selected records related to Foreign Immigration, and the records from the High Commissioner’s office related to declarations by government employees about whether they were Jewish or members of a freemason lodge. Also contains material concerning business transactions by Jews.

  12. Surveillance of Zionists in Romania

    Contains records relating to the surveillance of Zionists in Romania.

  13. Chaim Wajner collection

    The Chaim Wajner collection consists of handwritten sheet music, printed programs, handwritten and printed lyrics, documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings regarding Chaim Wajner (later Chaim Weiner) and his role as the choir director of the Landsberg Hazomir choir at the Landsberg displaced persons camp. Includes programs for Hazomir performances and sheet music for the songs they performed.

  14. Rhoda Levine collection

    Consists of production material, newspaper clippings, and programs related to the original production of "Der Kaiser von Atlantis" which was composed by Victor Ullmann while imprisoned in Theresienstadt (Terezin). Includes an audiocassette of the first performance of the opera, performed in Amsterdam in 1975, copies of the musical score, and photographic prints of the first production. Also includes newspaper clippings and programs regarding subsequent venues where the original production was performed. Ullmann was murdered in Auschwitz in October 1944.

  15. Siegfried Abraham collection

    Consists of one CD containing scanned images of documents related to the Holocaust experiences of the family of Siegfried Abraham, originally of Hamburg, Germany. The family, who were living in Amsterdam, were deported to Bergen-Belsen in 1944, but were part of a prisoner exchange in January 1945 in which they were taken first to Switzerland, and then to Algeria. Includes copies of travel documents, family photographs, identity documentation as residents of the UNRRA camp at Jeanne d'Arc at Philippeville, the family's Haitian passports, which they were able to obtain from family friends to ...

  16. "An Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times"

    Consists of a CD containing a memoir entitled "An Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times" by Michael Cann, written in Amherst, MA in 2006, as well as a paper copy of the memoir. Mr. Cann describes his family's history in Berlin, his memory of National Socialism in his school, and his family's immigration to the Netherlands in 1937, and his immigration to the United States in March 1939. He also includes information about life in wartime New York and New Jersey and his family's attempts to rescue additional family members from Europe. After the war, Mr. Cann joined the military and participate...

  17. British counter-propaganda short

    Cartoon titles: Official Films Presents... "Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk. Animated by the Gestapo Hep-Cats" Produced by Leslie Winik. Counter-propaganda film made to mock the Nazis by reversing and repeating newsreel shots of Adolf Hitler saluting and his troops goose-stepping from "Triumph of the Will" to create the illusion that Hitler and his gang were dancing to the popular British tune of the day, "The Lambeth Walk." Uses reverse, stop motion, and jump cuts. Footage reproduced in rhythmic sequnces by an optical printer. Adds appropriate slide whistle and Bronx cheer sound effe...

  18. "Report of Robert H. Jackson, United States Representative to the International Conference on Military Trials"

    Consists of a bound copy of the "Report of Robert H. Jackson, United States Representative to the International Conference on Military Trials", published in London in 1945. The book has a handwritten inscription from Justice Jackson to Sidney S. Alderman, who served as a prosecutor at Nuremberg. The book includes some of Alderman's handwritten notes, annotations, and underlining in the text.

  19. Erwin Froman collection

    Consists of pre-war photographs of the Freimowitz family, originally of Romania, pre-war postcards sent by Ferenz Freimowitz (donor's father) to the donor's brother in the United States in May 1940, and post-war identification paperwork and affidavits for Eisik Freimowitz (now Erwin Froman). Also includes certificates, letters, and newspaper clippings related to Mr. Froman's work sharing the story of his Holocaust experiences.

  20. Cultural Alliance of Emigrants in Zurich (1941-1945) : Historical Archive Kulturgemeinschaft der Emigranten in Zürich (1941-1945): Historisches Archiv

    Records pertaining to the activities of the Cultural Alliance of Emigrants in Zurich during World War II and the immediate postwar period. Association arranged cultural and recreational activities for Jewish refugees in holding camps; from summer 1944 devoted increasing attention to postwar concerns, including repatriation and onward emigration.