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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: French
Language of Description: Croatian
  1. Inow family: copy correspondence

    This collection consists of correspondence between Renate Inow, in England, her sister, Margalit in Sweden and Palestine and their parents in Wuppertal, Germany. The collection comprises 2 parts: an unbound volume of translations and partial translations of letters addressed to Margalit mostly whilst she was in Sweden entitled 'Voices from the Past'. This collection includes reproductions of photographs of the parents and a family tree. Margalit provides the following information in the introduction. She began collecting letters from her parents after Kristallnacht, and, after May 1939, fro...

  2. Sources privées relatives à la présence juive à Charleroi.

    • Vagman, Vincent
    • BE / Vincent Vagman / Sources privées relatives à la présence juive à Charleroi
    • French
    • 1 m.l.

    Ce fonds comprend de nombreuses photographies de membres de la communauté israélite de Charleroi et de leurs descendants ; des documents personnels et archives privées de membres de la communauté israélite de Charleroi et de leurs descendants ; des transcriptions de témoignages oraux de souvenirs de membres ou anciens membres de la communauté israélite de Charleroi, pour la plupart nés avant 1940 ; le dépouillement de la revue Écoute, bulletin interne de la communauté, publié entre 1983 et 1995, qui reflète la vie communautaire au quotidien ; des listes nominatives de Juifs présents à Charl...

  3. Bronka Hercberg Zybert papers

    The papers consist of documents, photographs, letters, and identification cards relating to the experiences of Bronka Hercberg Zybert and her family in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, during World War II.

  4. Records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs

    Collection contains Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (Belügyminisztʹerium) records of Jews who were exempted from the anti-Jewish laws. Reel No. 2 also contains Foreign Ministry (Külügyminisztʹerium) records about interdepartmental issues like the cases of Hungarian Jews who wanted to repatriate after living abroad, foreign nationals of Jewish origin living in Hungary, Hungarian government guarantees issued to emigrating Hungarian Jews, and extradition issues involving Hungarian Jews. Reel No. 2 also contains some late 1944 records of the Arrow Cross-controlled Ministry of Religiou...

  5. Rosenzweig family papers

    The collection consists of post-war documents relating to the family of Naftali and Paya Rosenzweig while they were living in the Landsberg am Lech displaced persons camp between 1949-1951. Included are immunization cards for Naftali, Paja, and their children Israel, Chana and Srulik as well as birth, marriage, and ORT certificates from the camp and naturalization certificates for Naftali and Paja after their immigration to the United States.

  6. Náboženská společnost unitářů československých

    • Religious Society of Czechoslovak Unitarians / NAD 1613

    The fonds contains archival materials concerning the religious and cultural history of Czechoslovakia in particular. It also contains sources for Jewish history, namely the correspondence (probably from the World War II) with the Ministry of Education and the Provincial Office in Prague on Jewish employees and the legal status of Jews (Inv. No. 57).

  7. Judenrat in Kowno Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Kowno (Sygn. 260)

    Records of the Judenrat in Kaunas (Vilijampolė), Lithuania. Consists of documents of Efroimas Ošri: ausweis (an identity card), a labor card from the Kaunas concentration camp, March 1-May 2, 1944, and a certificate of employment.

  8. Farming in central Poland

    MLS, a farming family in the field, in the BG a Gothic looking church. The peasant women turns and takes a break from gathering to look at the camera. A man in traditional Polish costume herds cows in the pasture. Older man using oxen to run a grain threshing machine. Quick cut to the village people in church (ends abruptly).

  9. Raincoat

    Selma Bendremer used the raincoat while working for the Joint Distribution Committee in Germany and France after World War II.

  10. Narrative and diary of Mr. Gabriel Mermall

    Consists of a copy of a survivor testimony written by Gabriel Mermall in diary form. The diary recounts the experiences of Mermall and his son, Tommy, during six months of hiding in a forest near the Carpathian Mountains. The diary also contains information about Christians who aided Mermall and his son, activity of partisans in Hungary, and the advance of the Soviet Army at the end of World War II. Portions of the testimony are written in narrative form and are intermingled with the diary entries.

  11. Personal collection of Georges Neu

    Consists of digital scans of the handwritten diary (tagebuch) of Mr. Neu's grandmother, Clementine Neu (1923-1943), with family phographs, identity cards, correspondence, letters, immigration documents, and press clippings. Also includes an English translation of a book on the Neu family by Martin Ruch, published by Hartung-Garre Verlag Konstanz in 1998, entitled "Aus der Heimat verjagt"; and an 18th century book by Isaac Berr, which Mr. Neu found among his father Erwin's belongings at his death. The French translation of Clementine Neu's diary is included.

  12. Documentation of the Committee for the History of the Great Patriotic War, affiliated with the TsK KP (b) in Belorussia, 1942-1946

    Documentation of the Committee for the History of the Great Patriotic War, affiliated with the TsK KP (b) in Belorussia, 1942-1946 Included in the collection, among other material: - German posters against Jews and Communists in Belorussia; - Documentation regarding Nazi war criminals in Belorussia; - Testimonies of partisans in eastern Belorussia, regarding the activities in Sobibor extermination camp; - Testimony of the Burgermeister, Skuratovskiy; - Documentation regarding the Glebokie Ghetto uprising and the mass murder of the Jews in the Glebokie Ghetto on 19/08/1943; - Information reg...

  13. German airforce bomber attacks

    VS, German bomber airplane on an airstrip, with Nazi insignia and other markings of the German airforce. VS, mechanics and crew loading bombs onto plane. MS, a military official demonstrates plan of attack to crew using a map. Low angle shot of the belly of the plane closing once ammunition and supplies are on board. CU, night time, propellers of the airplanes, moves out to MLS, plane visible on the runway, preparing for flight. MS, crew members board plane, they shake hands with man who remains on the ground. LS, airplane takes flight. VS, from POV of crew members inside the plane, clouds,...

  14. District Authority Velké Meziříčí Okresní úřad Velké Meziříčí

    Administrative records of Velké Meziříčí, a town in the Vysočina region, including anti-Jewish measures and decrees and the aryanization and expropriation of Jewish properties and assets. Records pertaining to the emigration of Jews. Post-war records pertaining to the restitution and confiscation of expropriated Jewish properties.

  15. Selected records of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Contains records relating to repatriation of prisoners of war, aid to refugees including materials regarding the High Commissioner of the League of Nations, the Nansen Office, and Nansen refugee passports; proceedings and reports of the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee and of the Evian Conference; help to refugees from various countries; post-war refugee help; Swedish police reports on Danish Jews in Malmö, Hälsingbor, and other towns; Swedish diplomatic correspondence on refugee questions; and press clippings of the Ossietzky affair from 1936 to 1937.

  16. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Aube

    This collection contains documents from the Special Police Commissariat. It includes lists of refugees by nationality, materials on internment facilities, and documents of the Bureau of Liaison with the German authorities and of the Renseignements généraux (the police agency watching foreigners). Also included are documents on the persecution of Jews in the communes of Isle-Aumont and Ramerupt, and materials of the post-liberation Historical Commission on the Second World .

  17. Hilda R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hilda R., who was born deaf in Vienna, Austria in 1904. She recalls her family; starting work at age sixteen as a seamstress; her marriage to a deaf man; her two daughters; her husband's neglect of the children because they were deaf (he had hoped for hearing children); their divorce; emigration to the United States in 1940 with assistance from a brother already there; having to remain at Ellis Island because they were deaf; and assistance received from the New York Society for the Deaf. Mrs. R. discusses her strong faith in God; gratitude to the United States; visiti...

  18. P.19 Collection of Carl Lutz, Swiss Diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations, 1935-1970

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019608
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1935-1970
    • Album Letter List of names Newspaper clippings Official documentation Passport Personal documents Photograph Research article Survey report

    P.19 Collection of Carl Lutz, Swiss Diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations, 1935-1970 Carl Lutz (1895-1975) was the Swiss Vice Consul in Jaffa, Eretz Israel, 1935-1941, and in Budapest, Hungary, 1942-1945. Following the German occupation of Hungary, 1944, he was extremely active in rescuing Jews with United States, British, Romanian, El Salvadorian and other citizenships, as well as on behalf of those with certificates to make aliya to Eretz Israel. - The collection was submitted to Yad Vashem in 1981, through the generosity of Agnes Hirschi, Lutz's adopted daughter; - The collection is c...

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Popes Pius XI and XII

    Compilation of footage from the tenure of Pope Pius XI (Pius XII's predecessor) on the occasion of his death. Title onscreen: "Universal Newsreel Vatican City Impressive Scenes Mark the Passing of Beloved Pontiff." Crowds outside the Vatican. Priests and others attend to Pope Pius XI as he lies in his bed. Pius XI visits the king and queen of Italy. 02:01:23 Pope Pius XI on the balcony at the church of St. John Lateran. Pius XI blessing the Alpine Chausseur (French mountain troops), followed by footage of Pius XI being crowned pope. 02:01:58 Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (Pope Pius XII) walks to...

  20. Eva Kaul: personal papers

    This collection contains the family papers of Eva Kaul, a Jewish woman from Berlin who fled Nazi oppression.Personal papers, most of which  relate to Eva Kaul's parents, grandparents and other relatives. They include birth, death and marriage certificates, and last wills and testaments. Also includes Kurt Lisser's Landsturmschein; Eva and Fedor Kaul's qualifications, naturalisation and marriage certificates, and papers and correspondence relating to her parents' death and inheritance.German, English, Dutch