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Language of Description: English

  2. Mahatma Gandhi: "If I were a Jew"

    Article by Mahatma Gandhi published in the World Digest of Current Fact and Comment, entitled "If I were a Jew"

  3. Personal account of the life of Otto Hirsch

    This personal account of the life of Otto Hirsch was intended to be included in the WL eyewitness testimonies series. It retains the original reference number (PI.d. No. 362) but for some unknown reason was not integrated into this series.

  5. de Boton family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, photographs and two tapes; relating to the de Boton family; Dr. Yves de Boton, donor’s father, who was one of the leaders of the Resistance in southern France and who was executed by the Germans in August 1944; Esther de Boton (donor’s mother) died in 1940 and Aline, born in 1937 was taken care of and later adopted by her paternal aunt Alice de Boton and her husband Robert Bernard, later de Boton. The tapes contain interview with Mrs. Alice de Boton.

  6. Yom Hashoah 2005

  7. United Restitution Office: Copy correspondence

    This collection consists of copy correspondence between former employees of the United Restitution Office at their branches in Paris and London.

  8. Pressel family collection

    Consists of letters and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of the family of Joseph and Miriam Pressel, who, with son Philip, were originally of Belgium, and the experiences of their immediate and extended families. The Pressels fled Belgium for France in 1939 and survived the war in Marseille, Lyon, and Paris. Includes wartime letters from the Pressels to Eli Schwerner, an uncle of Miriam in New York, requesting help to escape. Also includes similar wartime letters to Susi Pantzer, niece of Joseph Pressel, who lived in London, as well as letters to and from other family members....

  9. George John Meade collection

    The collection consists of documents, illustrations, a Nazi patch, photographs, publication, negatives, and an oral testimony documenting the experiences of George John Meade in Germany as a United States soldier during and after World War II (1939-1945).

  12. Rescue Movement of Refugees for the Persecuted: Correspondence

    This collection documents the responses from MPs and others to Gertler's proposal.

  13. Julius Rabl collection

    The collection consists of a miniature Torah scroll, a prayer book, and an album of sketches by Alfred Kantor relating to the experiences of Julius Rabl, the donor's husband, before and during the Holocaust

  14. BBC German Service: 'Letter Box' programme transcripts

    This collection of transcripts of the BBC German Service 'Letter Box' programme documents the opinions of ordinary Germans, Austrians and Jews in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Subjects include the question of guilt; de-nazification; living conitions; life under occupation; the experiences of returning Jews.

  15. Letter

    New years greeting card, 27.12.1938Envelope with U.S.-Censorship-stampProfessor Witold S. Sworakowski, Assistant Director of the Hoover Institution, initiated the project and carried all the negotiations to a successful conclusion.

  16. Passover Haggadah, handwritten at Gurs internment camp, France

    Original manuscript Passover Haggadah in Hebrew with transliteration, edited by Leo Ansbacher at Gurs internment camp, France. Covering Date: Apr 1941

  17. Copy laws, enactments and correspondence re race in the Third Reich

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection of material relating to the enactment of racial laws in the Third Reich including the Sudetenland comprises drafts and copies.Begriff "Mischehe", 26 Apr 1935Verbot von Rassenmischehen, 26 Nov 1935Gesetze zum Schutze des deutschen Blutes und der deutschen Ehre, 23 Dec 1935Anträge auf Befreiung von der Vorschrift des Paragraph 3, 24 Feb 1936Durchführung des Blutschutzgesetzes, 1 Sep 1936Auslegung des Paragraph 4, 7 Dec 1936Judentempel in Tachau, 19 Dec 1938Durchführung der Nürnberger Ra...

  19. Herbert Malinow collection

    This collection comprises material which documents the period when Herbert Malinow was interned as an enemy alien and subsequently transported on the infamous ship, HMS Dunera to Australia. It includes diaries, correspondence and press cuttings

  20. Estelle Lerner: copy correspondence

    Copy Red Cross letters from Joseph Moise Ades from Paris to his daughter in England plus other related correspondence, 1941-1943Copy Page of Testimony from Yad Vashem re the fate of Joseph Moise Ades, 1977Short family history by Estelle lernerPrintouts of scanned family photos (accrual 2.3.2016)