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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  12. Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection

    The Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection consists of six photographs relating to the family of Gertrude Fischbach (née Heller). Pictured in the photographs are the parents of Gertrude Fischbach Moritz Heller (b. December 30, 1876) and Friede Heller (b. May 25, 1880), and her parents-in-law Jonas Fischbach (b. October 17, 1885) and Amalie Fischbach (née Dull, b. September 29, 1884). The photographs were taken in Klagenfurt, Austria in 1938; London, England, circa 1939; and 1943-1944 after their arrival in the United States. All pictured were passengers on the MS St. Louis and eventually immi...

  13. Records of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) (previously the Academic Assistance Council (AAC))

    Contains records of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) relating to assistance to academics fleeing the Fascist regimes in Europe between 1933-1955. Contains also administrative and financial files, reports, minutes of meetings, correspondence with international and local refugee organizations, records assisting interned refugees, as well as a sample of personal files of scholars assisted by the Society. Includes name lists of scholars in various disciplines from many European countries.

  14. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Lozère

    Contains documents pertaining to the Rieucros camp and other camps in the Lozère used to house persons including foreigners, Jews, prostitutes, refugees, and Communists. Includes internee files and information pertaining to the operation of the camps.

  15. Central Historical Commission : Historical questionnaires (M.1.Q)

    Contains 667 questionnaires gathered by the The Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone, Munich from selected Holocaust survivors coming from different countries and towns. The aim was to gather detailed information about the persecution during Nazi rule.

  16. Selected records from the city of Liège, Belgium and Environs

    The documents concern the Jews of Liège and contain their records as pre-war immigrants, the files on wartime refugees with press clippings giving the temporary wartime addresses of those who fled Belgium to the non-occupied zone in France, the aryanization of businesses, the Jews sent to the Dannes-Cammier internment camp, and correspondence with the elected head of the city government, the bourgmestre, during the war.

  17. Selected records of the Swedish Jewish community

    This collection consists of about 125,000 registration cards from various collections of the Swedish Jewish Community, including: registers of individuals who were rescued in 1945; registers of payments, loans, financial assistance, and scholarships; registers of refugees in Sweden; card registers of refugee children; registers of deported Jews; registers of emigrants; and registers of records for restitution.

  18. Giovanni Palatucci collection

    Collection consists of four vintage photographs and one document relating to Giovanni Palatucci [donor's maternal uncle].

  20. Hilert family collection

    The Hilert family collection consists of documents, correspondence, and identification cards pertaining to the Hilert family and their postwar time experience in the Stuttgart West displaced persons camp (DP camp) in Germany and their immigration to the United States. The collection contains an affidavit from Avrom Hiller and Senator Harry Byrd and smallpox vaccination certificates. The documents pertain to Rabbi Samuel Hilert, Rose (Rosa, Raizel) Gutkind Hilert, and their son, Moses Baruch Hilert (Michael, Mike).