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  1. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Saône-et-Loire

    Contains a copy of the "Fichier Velu-Jeannet," a file of approximately 4,000 cards concerning foreigners. Also contains passport applications for ex-prisoners of war living in France; instructions, orders, and statistics concerning internment of Jews; information on persons arrested by the German occupation force; a register of internees; and lists of foreigners who were expelled.

  2. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques

    Correspondence, reports, circulars, alphabetical registration files of internees, transfer lists and medical records of internees, alphabetical lists of Jews under house arrest, related to internment camps in France, including Gurs, Saint-Cyprien and Polo-Beyris in Bayonne. Also contains records relating to financial aid of Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF), the Red Cross, the Quakers, and Aide aux Réfugés (section d'Oloron); art activities of internees; resistance correspondence; records on crime (1941-1945); prostitution (1944-1945); and some photographs of crime victims...

  3. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Tarn-et-Garonne

    Correspondence, reports, lists of internees, police instructions on visas and reports on foreigners, and files on individual internees of the internment camps in France, primarily the Septfonds camp, 1939-1945.

  4. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Pyrénées-Orientales

    Collection includes records from sources including the departmental committee on the liberation of the region; and the cabinet of the prefecture and the sub-prefecture at Prades. Topics include internment camps; the Rivesaltes military and internment camps; the fortress at Perpignan; correspondence, denunciations, and dossiers on individuals; international brigades returning from Spain; Spanish refugees; staff of internment camps; Polish refugees in France; arrests and detentions; Jewish internees at Rivesaltes; and other internees.

  5. Joseph Entenberg collection

    Collection of letters and photographs relating to Joseph Entenberg's service with the United States army during World War II, the liberation of Dachau concentration camp, and his family's experience during the Holocaust.

  6. Ruth Szmarag papers

    The Ruth Szmarag papers include poems, plays, a diary, and photographs relating to Ruth Szmarag’s pre-war and wartime experiences in Vienna and in hiding in Belgium. The poems, plays, and diary were written by Ruth during her time in hiding. The collection also includes pre-war photographs of Ruth and her family in Vienna as well as wartime photographs of Ruth and her mother, Flora, while in hiding and immediately after liberation in Belgium.

  7. Départmental Archives of the Bouches-du-Rhône records

    Selected records from the Prefect's office, the regional court, and the police relating to the internment camps of Les Milles and Saliers, Jewish affairs, and the Departmental Committee of Liberation. Includes documents from the Sous-Préfecture of Arles and Aix-en-Provenance, fonds Giraud, and German publications. The accretion of 8 microfilm reels (Reels #22-29) contain records relating to judicial affairs and administrative personnel files under a 75 (justice) and 100-year reserve law: Criminal Court Proceedings, Regional Court of Justice in Marseille, Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence....

  8. Kovačević family photographs

    The collection consists of two photographs depicting members of the Kovačević family, whom were active partisans in Valpovo, Slavonia, Croatia during World War II, and hid several Jews in their barn on their property. The first photograph depicts Matilda Kovačević (later Matilda Cigic) and one of her sisters. The second is school class photograph and Matilda’s brother Dragutin is in the top row, fifth from the left.

  9. Selected records of the Chancery, the Economic Section, and the Foreign Relations Sections of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party

    Records of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party related to the emigration to Israel, the World Jewish Congress international meeting in Montreux, Switzerland; economic relations with Israel, and to the American Jewish Committee and Jewish Democratic Committee in Bucharest. The collection includes correspondence, protocols, minutes, and statistics of Jewish population and other documents related to Jewish question. This collection includes also 2 files relating to the arrest of young Jews involved in Jewish resistance against the Antonescu regime, 1942 (Fond 96, flies #655 &...

  10. Records from the Jewish Democratic Committee of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party

    Contains reports and correspondence including memoranda of the Jewish Democratic Committee of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party.

  11. Zofia Glazer and Irena Zawadzka collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Rachel Zonszajn (later Rachel Benshaul) and her mother Cypora Zonszajn, originally of Siedlce, Poland, including Rachel’s survival as a hidden child with the efforts of Cypora’s childhood friends Zofia Glazer and Irena Zawadzka. The collection consists of three photographs of Rachel Zonszajn with her mother, father and her maternal grandmother in the Siedlce ghetto, dated Spring 1942; a photograph of Rachel with her rescuers, Zofia Glazer, Sabina Zawadzka, and Krystyna Zawadzka with her son, Stefanek, dated 1945, location, Siedlce, P...

  12. Simon Zilberberg collection

    Consists of photographs of Simon Zilberberg and his family before and after World War II and of the Simon's father, Henry, in Pithiviers camp, France; one document relating to Pithiviers; two passports belonging to the Simon's parents; and one New Year's card from 1941, with a painting of Pithiviers by Henry.

  13. Archives of the service for war victims Archives du service des victims de la guerre : Series R

    Contains records relating to the fate of Jewish and non-Jewish Belgians throughout Europe during the period of 1933 to 1948. Includes name lists from a wide variety of sources such as concentration and prisoner of war camps, relief and charity organizations, hospitals, prisons, and similar institutions. See also Parts A, Mi, and P ( RG-65.001M; Rg- RG-65.002M and Rg-65.003M).

  14. Selected records from the Ministry of Interior of Bulgaria

    Contains selected files from the following collections: Ministry of the Interior and Public Health; Administration of Police; Sofia Police; Regional Ministry of the Interior Offices in Burgas, Pleven, Plovdiv, and Sofia; Police administration in Belo More; and general staff of the Ministry of Defense. Topics include Jews in Bulgaria, Thrace, and Macedonia; reports on Jewish groups and Communist groups; KL Krestopole, St. Nicholas, and Gondavoda; reports on the situation in various regions of Bulgaria; resettlement of Jews; and postwar documents including correspondence with the Allied Milit...

  15. Malmedy scrapbook

    Contains a scrapbook that belonged to Raph Shumacher, a prosecutor in the Malmedy Trial.

  16. Harry Zaslow letter

    Correspondence: Two letters from Harry Zaslow, an American soldier, to his parents, 1944-1945, including his description of having visited an unidentified concentration camp after liberation in May 1945.

  17. Pagac family photograph

    Consists of a black and white photograph of six members of the Pagac family, who rescued the donor, gathered seated and standing together at Christmastime.

  18. Jacqueline Singer collection

    Mixed collection of documents, letters and photographs relating to the Gruen and Felber familes during the Holocaust. The photographs are mounted on pages and seem to have been part of an album. The majority of the documents are in French.

  19. Marion Weiner collection

    Consists of one black and white photograph of two women standing with a young boy and girl in a snow-covered setting. The image is of Marion Weiner and her sister at the time of their liberation from hiding in Tirol, Austria. Marion Weiner and her sister survived the Holocaust in hiding in Austria.

  20. Annette Lederman Linzer photographs

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Annette Lederman and her sister Marguerite Lederman (later Marguerite Mishkin), both of whom survived the war as hidden children in Rumst, Belgium. Documents include Annette’s postwar passport and a post-war affidavit affirming the relationship between Max Zylberszac and Reizla Lederman. Wartime photographs include depictions of Annette and Marguerite in Rumst while in hiding, their mother Reizla, and members of the van Buggenhout family who hid the sisters. Postwar photographs include depictions of Annette and Marguerite in Belgium ...