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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution And Peace

  1. Russia. Departament politsii. Zagranichnaia agentura (Paris)

    Intelligence reports from agents in the field and the Paris office, dispatches, circulars, headquarters studies, correspondence of revolutionaries, and photographs, relating to activities of Russian revolutionists abroad. Includes XVIII, Revolutionary Groups of National Minorities of the Russian Empire: a) The Jewish Bund, b) The Zionist Movement, c) Jewish émigré problems for Russian security abroad, d) Activities in America: finances for Jewish movements.

  2. Samuel Esterowicz Memoirs

    Relates to the Jewish holocaust in Lithuania. Also includes Russian language version. Processed in collaboration with Pearl Esterowicz Good.

  3. San Jose Conferences on the Holocaust Proceedings

    Proceedings of the First Western Regional Conference on the Holocaust, relating to the ancient, medieval, and modern origins of the Holocaust, its meaning for western civilization, and the methodology for teaching about the Holocaust in schools and universities.

  4. Siegfried Bernfeld journals

    Literary journals of German and Austrian secondary schools. "Festschriften" of graduating German and Austrial secondary school classes, 1903-1914, and youth group journals, primarily literary, 1908-1909. Several issues are by Gerhart Eisler. Includes special journals in celebration of the "Matura" and "Kneipzeitungen." The specifically Jewish titles are: "Die Geschichte der Koenigin Esther," Prag, Bar Kochba, n.d.; "Der Neue Weg," Zionismus und Judenkultur, February l9l5; "Fuehrerzeitung des Juedischen Wanderbundes Blau-Weiss," Olmuetz, l9l2, several of the issues are in Hebrew (box l); "Ju...

  5. Sino-Judaic Institute Records

    Correspondence, minutes, reports, publications, writings, personal identification documents, financial reports, bylaws, printed matter, and photographs, relating to Russian, Polish and other European Jews, and Jewish communal organizations, in China, especially in Shanghai. Includes memoirs and other papers of individuals, and other collected material.

  6. Steven H. Rosen Collection

    Reports, letters, and clippings, relating to the American Jewish Philanthropic Fund and to the immigration of Soviet Jews to Israel.

  7. Swarthmore College Collection

    Pamphlets, bulletins, serial issues, reports, and other printed matter, relating to peace, disarmament, international relations, World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Vietnamese War, the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, civil liberties in the United States, and the espionage case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell. Collected by Swarthmore College.

  8. Thomas St. John Gaffney Papers

    Correspondence, writings, and printed matter, relating to international relations, the World War I war guilt question, reparations, Irish independence, American domestic politics and foreign policy, and Jews. Includes correspondence with Kaiser Wilhelm II in exile, Baron Hermann Speck von Sternberg (German ambassador to the United States), and Jules Cambon (French ambassador to Germany).

  9. Tomasz Wisniewski Photographs

    Depicts synagogues and scenes of Jewish life, primarily in and around Bialystok, Poland, prior to and during World War II.

  10. Tymon Terlecki: Alle Juden raus!

    Relates to the German destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943. Translation of article published in Wiadomosci Polskie (London). This article deals with the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto beginning July 17, l942. Both translations bear the stamp of the U.S. Consulate General, Zurich, March 27, l944.

  11. United Restiution Organization Misecellaneous Records

    Office files, correspondence, and mimeographed directives, relating to Jewish restitution claims against the West German government. Includes draft of a proposed revision of the German restitution law. The first three boxes contain a set of "URO Rundschreiben", nos. l-l500/67 dealing with indemnity regulations on the basis of health damage, loss of family, pension rights, employment discrimination, etc. The set is not complete, but missing numbers are carefully marked. The remaining three boxes contain office files, mimeo-graphed regulations and German legislative resitution proposals. The ...

  12. Walter Hirschfeld Correspondence

    Relates to the expulsion of Walter Hirschfeld from the Verband der Arzte Deutschlands, in accordance with Nazi regulations, on grounds of non-Aryan descent. Includes two letters, 1941, relating to his subsequent emigration to the United States.

  13. Walter Winchell Micellaneous Papers

    Letters, memoranda, notes, pamphlets, newsletters, and other printed matter, relating to the right-wing political figure Gerald L. K. Smith, Smith's leadership of the isolationist America First Party during World War II and of the Christian Nationalist Crusade subsequently, and accusations of libel exchanged between Winchell and Smith.

  14. Wendy Abraham Interviews

    Sound and video recordings of interviews of Jews in China, relating to the Chinese Jewish community. Used as research material for the doctoral dissertation by Wendy Abraham, The Role of Confucian and Jewish Educational Values in the Assimilation of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng (Columbia University, 1989).

  15. William W. Brickman papers

    Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, reports, syllabi, bibliographies, curricular materials, serial issues, textbooks, and other printed matter, relating to the history and philosophy of education, education in various countries, Jewish education, and Jewish history. Includes photocopies of correspondence of William C. Bagley. Indexes: Preliminary inventory.

  16. Wladyslaw Anders Collection

    Orders, reports, card files, questionnaires, accounts, Soviet government documents and publications, photographs, microfiche, and printed matter, relating to World War II, the Polish armed forces in the Soviet Union, the Polish 2nd Army Corps in Italy, Polish citizens arrested and deported under German and Soviet occupation, Polish foreign relations, the Polish Government-in-Exile in London, and Polish Jews. Consists mainly of records of the bureau of documentation of the Polish 2nd Army Corps. Includes statements, reports, and questionnaires reflecting conditions of the Polish Jews for the...

  17. Wolfgang Diewerge: Sachbericht im Mordprozess gegen den Juden David Frankfurter in Chur

    David Frankfurter had shot the Landesgruppenleiter Schweiz der NSDAP Wilhelm Gustloff in Davos in l935. The collection contains a report of the legal proceedings against the accused in a Swiss court by Wolfgang Diewerge as well as a 32 page medical report on the accused by a Swiss psychiatrist.

  18. World War II pictorial collection

    Photographs and postcards, depicting a variety of scenes and personalities from World War II.Includes two collections formerly cataloged as: Breendock Concentration Camp. Photographs, n.d. l envelope. Depicts the World War II German concentration camp of Breendock (Antwerp, Belgium). Distributed by the Police Judiciaire, Anvers. Preliminary inventory. This set of 56 photographs depicts the locality, buildings, and camp structures. It does not contain photographs of people. Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Photographs, l945 46. Depicts the Buchenwald Concentration Camp and the memorial to the ...

  19. World War II subject collection

    Leaflets, pamphlets, proclamations, clippings, propaganda, manuals, other printed matter, letters, reports, memoranda, maps, memorabilia, and miscellany, relating to military operations and home front conditions in many countries during World War II, including material on military occupations, prisoners of war, and forced labor. Also includes material on resistance movements in various countries, especially France. In various languages. Indexes: Register. Includes the former collection: Poland - World War II - Newspaper Clippings, l942 43. Clippings (in English and Yiddish), l942-l943. l ms...