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  1. Processo de pedido de visto para Chaker, Faltas, El Zoeri, Bannoun, Kyriakos, Matalon, Abdelkarin, Abouissa, Azer, Bishai, Ishac Chaker, Fathy, Habib, Morgan, Sourour, Baragan, El Battouti, Mna. Cassab, Mna. Cassab, Chafei, Cohen, Croubalien, Galal El Dine, Galal El Dine, Guirguis, Gurdjian Nubar, Gurdjina Vahran, Haggar, Hanoka, Harari, Elharras, Heffez, Levovich, Levi, Lichtental, Navas, Niloslavsky, Moussa Fawzi, Moussa Wahba, Namer, Srª. Namer, filho de Namer, Nashed Latif, Srª. Nashed, Philippes, Saba, Suhalom, Tewfik, Toulan, Elnaggar, Ayoub, Elnahraoui, Youssef, Srª. Tufek, Chehata, Abaza, Malssud Pilpoul, Alfred Fernand, Angela Bercovich, René Adda, Marie Defese, Hassan Hegab, Maxwell Bessada Abaskharaoun, René Abravanel, Sobhy Fahmy Zacharie Bichay, Anwar Fahim Basilios, Rose Defese, Hassan Hegab, Georges Wahba Moussa e Jacques Pilpoul

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Vichy para Chaker, de nacionalidade egipcia e residente em França, com destino ao Egito. Visto autorizado com condicionantes. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Vichy para Faltas, de nacionalidade egipcia e residente na França, com destino ao Egito. Visto autorizado com condicionantes. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Vichy para El Zoeri, de nacionalidade egipcia e residente na França, com destino ao Egito. Visto autorizado com condicionantes. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portu...

  2. Watercolor of a female corpse by an inmate given to a liberator of Bergen Belsen concentration camp

    Full-length portrait of a dead female inmate painted by 24 year old Marianne (Mausi) Grant and presented to Major Charles Philip Sharp, a liberator of Bergen Belsen concentration camp, in May 1945 as he prepared to depart. Sharp wrote about it in his diary, USHMM collection 2005.20.1: "Marianne, the little Czeck artist presented us with a picture of a body in No 1 "To the Commandant so that he will never forget Belsen" --as though I could. She used to do cartoons and gay pictures before she was taken--now see what she does. We are using her as a signwriter so she apologized that this drawin...

  3. Klapholz and Schlesinger family papers

    Contains birth certificates, passports and identification cards bearing photographs, and marriage certificates pertaining to Erna Meier (later Schlesinger Summerfield) and her daughter Irene Schlesinger's (later Woods Hofstein) lives in Germany and their immigration to the United States in 1939.

  4. White shirt made from a rayon parachute for a Czech Jewish man for his wedding in a DP camp

    White peasant style blouse worn by Ludwig Frydman. 21, when he married Lili Lax, 22, on January 27, 1946, in Celle displaced persons camp in Germany. Lili told Ludwig that she had always dreamed of getting married in a white dress, so he obtained a white rayon parachute from a former German airman for 2 pounds of coffee and cigarettes. Lili used her cigarette rations to hire a seamstress, Miriam, to sew the gown, 1999.7.21 a. Miriam used the leftover material to make a shirt for Ludwig, who was 6'5" tall. Ludwig, his parents Michal and Gizella, and 11 siblings lived in Sevlus, Czechoslovaki...

  5. Processo de pedido de visto para cidadãos belgas a pedido da Legação da Bélgica

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Joseph Reuter, de nacionalidade belga e residente na Suíça, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Robert Fenaux, de nacionalidade belga e residente em França, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para pessoal das Minas de Kilo-Moto, de nacionalidade belga, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Srª Noel...

  6. Simon Srebnik - Chelmno

    Simon Srebnik (Shimon Srebrnik) was a boy of 13 when he was deported to Chelmno from the Łódź ghetto. He worked on a Sonderkommando burying those who had been murdered by gas. Srebnik was seriously wounded by Nazi gunfire during the liquidation of the camp, but managed to escape and find refuge with a Polish farmer. The Germans offered a large cash reward for turning Srebnik in, but the Poles, who already feared the approaching Russians more than the Germans, did not betray him. After the war he immediately immigrated to Israel. Srebnik's story is a focal point in the film "Shoah." The inte...

  7. Hilbert Margol papers

    The Hilbert and Howard Margol papers consist of Margol family wartime correspondence and German postcards acquired by Howard and Hilbert Margol after VE Day. The Margol family correspondence consists of a letter with envelope sent to Mrs. Sarah Margol from US Army Major General Edwin M. Watson, Secretary to the President, in response to her letter sent on June 8, 1944 with concerns about the assignments of her twin sons. The letter is written on White House stationary and dated June 12, 1944. Also included are photocopies of two letters sent to Mrs. Margol in response to her June 8, 1944 le...

  8. Ehud Avriel

    Ehud Avriel was born in Vienna and became active in escape and rescue operations after the Germans invaded. He continued this work once he reached Palestine in 1939. Avriel later held several positions in the Israeli government. FILM ID 3100 -- Camera Rolls #1-4 -- 01:00:07 to 01:33:11 Roll 1 01:00:07 Ehud Avriel sits in a chair in front of a window overlooking the ocean, most likely in a hotel or office in Tel Aviv, Israel. Claude Lanzmann remains off camera while he asks Avriel questions about the missions he was involved in during the war. Avriel was part of a group of emissaries called ...

  9. Gold bracelet made from melted-down coins owned by an Austrian Lutheran émigré

    Gold bracelet designed by Elizabeth Deutschhausen and commissioned by her parents before she fled Vienna, Austria in 1939. The bracelet was made using 98.6-percent gold from Austrian ducats (coins), which were melted-down and repurposed into panels depicting different Alpine flowers. Elizabeth and her husband, Lutheran Pastor Wilhelm Deutschhausen, were living in Vienna when Germany annexed Austria during the March 1938 “Anschluss.” Many in the Austrian Protestant Church, which included Lutheranism, supported the creation of the “Reich Church” in Germany and a “nazified” version of Christia...

  10. SPF Justice. Service des Cultes et de la Laïcité. Dossiers du Culte israélite

    • Federal Public Service Justice. Department of Worship and Secularism. Files on the Jewish Religion

    The files relating to the Jewish religion originating from the "Worship Department" of the Ministry of Justice naturally fall within the scope of the powers exercised by department: namely, recognition of the Jewish religion, synagogues and local communities, relations between the State and representatives of the religion, appointments and salaries of rabbis and cantors and management of religious buildings. In fact, the fonds contains vital archives on the creation and management of all the country's synagogues as well as on the State's relations with the Central Consistory and most of the...

  11. Pencil portrait sketch of a German Jewish refugee

    Portrait sketch of Kurt Singer saved by his daughter, Margot. It was drawn by Clara Asscher-Pinkhof in 1942 in Amsterdam when he lived there as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Singer was a neurologist and the Director of the Berlin Opera. Soon after the Nazis came to power in 1933, he lost his position at the Opera due to a law that ousted Jewish civil servants from public positions. In May, he co-founded the Judische Kulturbund, a Jewish cultural organization. In 1938, his daughter, Margot, left for Switzerland, and in 1940, to Palestine. That October, Kurt left for a one year appointment at ...

  12. Processo de pedido de visto para Abram Hourvitch, mulher de Abram Hourvitch, filha de Abram Hourvitch, Roger Kahan, Gittel Better, Aurelio Levis, Lucien Kemoulle, mulher de Lucien Kemoulle, filho de Lucien Kemoulle, Samuel Margulies, mulher de Samuel Margulies, três filhos de Samuel Margulies, Maria Szocs, Pierre Quint, Myrtil Franck, mulher de Myrtil Franck, dois netos de Myrtil Franck, Gaglia Pericoli, mãe de Gaglia Pericoli, filha de Gaglia Pericoli, Ruth Opperman, Mihail Schapira, Marina Schapira, Robert Debled, Ervin Oplatek, mulher de Ervin Oplatek, filha de Ervin Oplatek, Nicolas Sternheim, Theophile Duhoux, mulher de Theophile Duhoux, Ricardo Blumberg, mulher de Ricardo Blumberg, Carl Lohl, Mordo, Alice Marcus, François Saint Macary, mulher de François Saint Macary, Jean Boisson, mulher de Jean Boisson, filhos de Jean Boisson, Roger Roditi, Joseph Roditi, Jenny Roditi, Muriel Roditi, Suzanne Perlman Heins, Enrique Trachtenberg, Eugenia Trachtenberg, Alberto Grassetti, Matilde B

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Abram Hourvitch, de nacionalidade lituana, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para mulher de Abram Hourvitch, de nacionalidade lituana, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para filha de Abram Hourvitch, de nacionalidade lituana, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Roger Kahan, de nacionalidade francesa, com destino a Portuga...

  13. M.41.ZGAPin - Documentation from the Regional State Archive in Pinsk

    M.41.ZGAPin - Documentation from the Regional State Archive in Pinsk The Regional Archive of Pinsk was established in 1940. During the German occupation, the Archive's activity was halted during 1941-1944 and was renewed only in August 1944. The Archive changed its mission following the dissolution of the Pinsk region, and it became the Municipal State Archive of Pinsk in 1954. In September 1996, the Archive changed its definition again, and it became the Local State Archive of Pinsk. As of 30 June 2001 and following, the Archive has been known as the "Scientific-Methodological Institution ...

  14. Julian and Frieda Noga photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Frieda Noga (née Greinegger), originally from Michaelnbach, Austria, with her family; holding a bouquet of flowers; and with her husband Julian Noga, originally from Skrzynka, Poland, as a young couple.

  15. Gathering of child survivors of the Holocaust housed in Belgian orphanages. Collection

    This recording contains the exchange between 11 child survivors of the Holocaust during a zoom meeting held on 17 January 2021. All participants and their siblings were housed in Jewish and/or non-Jewish orphanages in Belgium during the war. These institutes included the Meisjeshuis and Good Engels (the Meisjeshuis department for babies and toddlers), the Jongenshuis and Pennsylvania Foundation orphanage, the Wezembeek-Oppem children's home, the Baron de Castro children's home in Etterbeek and the Les Moineaux children's home in Uccle. The following survivors participated in the discussion:...

  16. Hansi Brand

    Hansi Brand and her husband Joel were members of the Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest, Hungary, as was Rudolf Kasztner. Brand details her husband's experiences with Eichmann and the "Blood for Goods" rescue scheme. She also addresses the controversy over whether Kasztner neglected to warn the Jews of their fates. She states emphatically that by 1944, of course, everyone knew what it meant to be deported to the East. FILM ID 3109 -- Camera Rolls #1-5 -- 01:00:00 to 01:34:28 For the first part of the interview Hansi Brand speaks Hebrew and Lanzmann English, with the aid of a translator...

  17. Processo de pedido de visto para Jacob Polak, Eliseba Polak (nascida Palak), Harold Joseph Beutler, Leon Bespaloff, Anna Bespaloff, Alexis-Jacques Bespaloff, Dorothea Beryl Catherine Henderson, Gonzalo Serrano-Pellé, Puirn Maria Antonio Joseph Grisherm Dreze, Madeleine Xhrouet, Alexander Levie, Mathilda Levie-de Lange, Alfred Craven Greenwood, Salo Rokach, Irma Rokach, Leopold Stern, Esther Stern, Archag Arsene Hariton (General Torcom), Ragnild Gurli Rosina Torcom, Frederic (filho de Torcom), Anna Rosina Jeanette Guillaume-Berg, Ulla Britt Guillaume-Berg, Ulf Ragnar Guillaume-Berg, Wolf Les, Fannie Litzler, Eleanor Mortunes Furland, Richard Mortunis Furland, Merunne Jay Furland, Andrée Boas, Marie-Claire Boas, Willem van Creveld, Saline van Creveld-Levie, René Emsens, Newman Charles Eberhardt, Joseph Hillel, Leya (nascida Yarsef), Eugenie Hillel (nascida Angel), Lucie Hilel, Judith Hillel, Isaac Hillel, Fortumé Hillel, Alice Frommel, Joaquim Antoine van Schwartzenau, Maria Petronella J

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Baiona para Jacob Polak, de nacionalidade holandesa, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Baiona para Eliseba Polak (nascida Palak), de nacionalidade holandesa, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Baiona para Harold Joseph Beutler, de nacionalidade americana e residente em França, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Baiona para Leon Bespaloff, de nacionalidade...

  18. Processo de pedido de visto para Bruno Beran, Irene Beran, Ruche Gourinez, Léo Gourinez, Ino Benveniste, Nicolas Embiricos, Bruno Pontecorvo, Heléne Marianne Pontecorvo (nascida Nordblom), Wjlya Coppelli, Robert Guilliet, Joseph Hilferding, Sophie Nathalie Hilferding, Elga Hilferding, Adam-Abram Zajdman, Beno Segall, Cécile Segall, Nocio Steinmetz, Carline Lippel Landy, Roberto Foá, Diododa Foá Segre, Paola Foa, Malka Dodryuska, Léo Aronsteins, Louise Marie Henriette Randaxhe, Robert Frank, Laura Steiner, Achille Butti, Josette Clotis, Georges-Isidore Bloch, Sultana Bloch (nascida Ottias Benatar), George Charles Eugéne Creten, Arnold Raicher-Reichert, Bohor Misitrano, Raza Misitrano, Blanche Misitrano, Johanna Maria Schepper, Josephine Alexandrine Albertine Marie Wasson, Denise Marthe Raymonde Wasson, Marie Marguerite Josephne Ruys, Auguste Pierre Andre Wasson, Marguerite Opdenberg-Dekker, Raoul Louis Alfred Opdenberg, François Guy Mormignant, Lise Odile Mormignant, Heléne Louise Marie

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Bruno Beran, de nacionalidade checoslovaca e residente em França, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Irene Beran, de nacionalidade checoslovaca e residente em França, com destino a Portugal. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Ruche Gourinez, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Léo Gourinez, ...

  19. Hersh Smolar - Minsk ghetto

    Hersh Smolar, was the editor of a Yiddish daily newspaper. After the war began, he became a leading member of the resistance in the Minsk ghetto and the commissar of a partisan group operating in the Belorussian forests. He discusses conditions in the ghetto and resistance activities. FILM ID 3376 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:07 to 01:30:17 Hersh Smolar was an editor of a Yiddish daily paper in Bialystok and left for Minsk by foot in June/July 1941 to get out. [The Germans advanced into Minsk on June 28, 1941, blocking all roads for evacuation]. He found Minsk abandoned by the Russian gove...

  20. Leather suitcase used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn549447
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 19.500 inches (49.53 cm) | Depth: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) b: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 20.500 inches (52.07 cm) | Depth: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm) c: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)

    Small brown leather suitcase used by Fritz (later Fred) Strauss while part of a refugee transport of children from Germany between 1939 and 1941. In response to the 1935 Nuremberg Laws and growing anti-Semitism in their small town, Fritz’s mother sent him, in 1936, to Frankfurt to attend school at a large Jewish orphanage. Within three years, anti-Semitism in Frankfurt had grown, and on March 8, 1939, Fritz was sent on a transport to Paris, France, with ten other children. Fritz and the other Orthodox children moved to new towns multiple times in the area around Paris, but managed to contin...