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Language of Description: English
Country: Israel

  1. Collection of M. A. Tellegen, regarding violinist Alma Rose, dated, 1938-1948

    Collection of M. A. Tellegen, regarding violinist Alma Rose, dated, 1938-1948 M. A. Tellegen was an activist in the underground, including among other activities on the "Vrij Nederland" newspaper and the Nationaal Comité van Verzet organization; she was a friend of the Jewish violinist Alma Rose, and was responsible for the estate of Alma Rose after Rose perished in Auschwitz; Included in the collection: Documents related to the violinist Alma Rose, dated, 1938-1948; Alma Rose was born in Vienna; she was converted to Christianity in her childhood; she married a Dutch non-Jew and found her d...

  2. Collection of M. H. Bregstein in the Netherlands, 1940-1956

    Collection of M. H. Bregstein in the Netherlands, 1940-1956 Bregstein was born in 1900. He was a lecturer in Law at the Hogeschool van Rotterdam during 1934-1939. He was appointed Attorney General of the Netherlands in 1940. He was dismissed from this position in the same year, due to his Jewish origin. After the war, he was accepted to the Council for the Restitution of Justice and Law in the banking securities registration department and was an advisor to the Netherlands Ministry of the Treasury in the matter of the property which had been confiscated by the Nazis.

  3. Collection of Max Lowenthal who served in the Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US forces in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany

    The collection contains: Postwar documentation from the time of the US occupation of Germany regarding reparations for Jewish cultural property looted during World War II, 1945-1947.The main documentation: - Monthly reports by the Offenbach Archival Depot, Office of Military Government, Greater Hesse, Economics Division, regarding Jewish cultural property that was collected;- Letters, memos, reports and similar documents regarding questions concerning the restitution of Jewish cultural property collected in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany; - Correspondence between Max Lowenthal (as US Gov...

  4. Collection of Meyer Sluyser, regarding the Dutch Government in Exile and the fate of the Jews in the Netherlands during 1940-1945

    Collection of Meyer Sluyser, regarding the Dutch Government in Exile and the fate of the Jews in the Netherlands during 1940-1945 Journalist Meyer Sluyser dealt in information publicity for the Dutch Government in Exile, and followed the fate of the Jews in the occupied Netherlands and the deportation of the Jews to Eastern Europe during 1940-1945; Included in the collection: Documents collected by M. Sluyser, including a professional opinion by the BRvA Council in London regarding various proposals for legislation, 1943-1944; Texts of the "De Flitspuit" radio program broadcasts in the Neth...

  5. Collection of Mr. C. J. M. Schaepman in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of Mr. C. J. M. Schaepman in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Collection of the Secretariaatsarchief College van Secretarissen-Generaal archive administered by Schaepman, a Foreign Ministry person, 1940-1945; Included in the collection: Official documentation regarding anti-Jewish legislation in the Netherlands during 1940-1941; Documents regarding the establishment of a Jewish Quarter in Amsterdam in 1941; Documents regarding the sterilization of Jews in the Netherlands in 1943.

  6. The Collection of Nathan Schwalb, the representative of the World Center of the Hechalutz movement in Geneva, Switzerland during World War II

    Schwalb spent World War II in Geneva as the representative of the World Hechalutz movement, serving as contact person and a financial welfare source for the Jews. He corresponded with hundreds of people in the occupied countries and was active in many areas including the sending of parcels via the Red Cross, mainly to Poland, and transferring funds via messengers whom he drafted for this purpose. The Collection contains correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings and more.

  7. Collection of newspaper clippings, posters and pamphlets produced by Ukrainian Nationalists and the German authorities in the Zhitomir region, 1941-1944

    Collection of newspaper clippings, posters and pamphlets produced by Ukrainian Nationalists and the German authorities in the Zhitomir region, 1941-1944 Included in the collection: - Newspaper clippings from the "Ukrainske Slovo", "Golos Volyni", "Nova Doba", "Boyevoy Put" and "Nabat" newspapers; - Appeals, posters, announcements and instructions of the German and Ukrainian local authorities; - Appeals and posters intended for Red Army soldiers, partisans and the Ukrainian population; - Appeals issued by Grigori, the governor of Zhitomir and Vinnitsa; - Instruction sent by Erich Koch, the R...

  8. Collection of Ommen camp (Arbeitseinsatzlager Erika, in German) in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of Ommen camp (Arbeitseinsatzlager Erika, in German) in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Ommen camp served as a prison for people put on trial by the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands during 1942-1943; the Germans gave the camp a new name, Arbeitseinsatzlager Erika, in 1943, and imprisoned in the camp Dutchmen who attempted to evade forced labor and students who refused to sign a declaration of loyalty to the Germans.

  9. Collection of Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft, the Deutsche Revisions und Treuhand A.G. and the Wirtschaftprüfstelle, regarding the administration of Jewish property in the Netherlands during 1940-1945

    Collection of Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft, the Deutsche Revisions und Treuhand A.G. and the Wirtschaftprüfstelle, regarding the administration of Jewish property in the Netherlands during 1940-1945 Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft, the German Office for the Aryanization of Jewish Businesses in the Netherlands, was a German trustee company in Berlin before the war; the Wirtschaftprüfstelle, the organization that supervised the Aryanization of Jewish businesses, gave the order to Omnia for the implementation of the Aryanization process in 1941; Omnia received approximately 16,000 orders for the diss...

  10. Collection of Ottó (Natan) Komoly, Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség (Hungarian Zionist Organization), 1941-1944

    Most of the collection is original and can be divided into two parts: A) The first part is Komoly's documentation from the period before World War II to the end of the war (Files 1-48). - Lectures and research papers prepared by Komoly in his professional area as an engineer and his activities as a Jewish Zionist leader;- Correspondence with Jewish organizations from Hungary and other countries, public figures and the Hungarian authorities regarding the rescue of the Jews of Hungary; - Eleven volumes of the work appointment book conducted by Komoly in Budapest, 1934-1944;- Newspaper clippin...

  11. Collection of passports of Jews, submitted to the prefecture of the city of Riga, Latvia during 1919-1940

    Collection of passports of Jews, submitted to the prefecture of the city of Riga, Latvia during 1919-1940 The passports were submitted to the local authorities for the purpose of renewal or for receipt of Latvian citizenship; the passports contain personal information, including passport photos of the Jews.

  12. Collection of personal files of Jewish teachers employed in the Riga municipal education system, 1923-1941

    Collection of personal files of Jewish teachers employed in the Riga municipal education system, 1923-1941 In the collection there are personal files of Jews, teachers and educational system workers in Riga, arranged according to the Latvian alphabet.

  13. Collection of personal files of Jewish teachers prepared by the Commission for Teacher Certification of the Jewish Education Division of the Latvian Republic Ministry of Education, 1920-1941

    Collection of personal files of Jewish teachers prepared by the Commission for Teacher Certification of the Jewish Education Division of the Latvian Republic Ministry of Education, 1920-1941

  17. Collection of photographs of anti-Jewish signs photographed on the Bentheim-Hannover-Berlin Highway in Germany, 1935, from the Osoby Archive in Moscow

    Collection of photographs of anti-Jewish signs photographed on the Bentheim-Hannover-Berlin Highway in Germany, 1935, from the Osoby Archive in Moscow The collection was photographed by a Dutch motorcyclist travelling on the highway. A typical sign in the collection: "The Jews Are Not Wanted"

  18. Collection of postcards sent from the occupied areas to the Relico Organization in Geneva and Lisbon as confirmation of receipt of parcels

    Collection of postcards sent from the occupied areas to the Relico Organization in Geneva and Lisbon as confirmation of receipt of parcels The postcards were sent as confirmation of receipt of parcels in accordance with the request of the family members outside occupied Europe. - 600 postcards were sent to Lisbon, Portugal; - 3,700 postcards were sent from Poland to Geneva, Switzerland; 2,800 from France; 2,800 from various camps; 1,950 from Germany; 800 from Czechoslovakia; 1,600 from Vienna; 800 from Belgium; and 800 from other places.

  19. Collection of protocols from the Population Registry, compiled in the Lodz Ghetto

    Collection of protocols from the Population Registry, compiled in the Lodz Ghetto