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  1. Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and neighboring countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press and by witnesses, October 1943

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות 18/49

    Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and neighboring countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press and according to eye-witnesses, October 1943 Poland: Riots in the Bialystok Ghetto and the Lodz Ghetto including burning of factories, breaking down of walls and joining the partisans; liquidation of the Bochnia Ghetto; deportation of Jews to annihilation; the Bedzin affair and deception of the Jews by the Germans; the exhibition "The Jewish World Plague" in Krakow; Denmark: The Jews of Denmark and the reaction of the Danish and Swedish population; ...

  2. Records of the American Jewish Committee Paris Office (FAD-41) Files.

    The “Series I: Geographic Files” contains interesting material on the Belgian Jewish community. Firstly we point out the reports on visits to Belgium and the situation of the Jews there (1947-1950, 1955); see box 5, folder nr. 41. Box 5, folders nrs. 37, 39, 42 and 43 contain monthly reports and correspondence by AJC correspondents (i.a. Regine Orfinger-Karlin and Joseph Lehrer) in Belgium, resp. for 1956-1957, 1945-1951, 1946-1948 and 1949-1951. Correspondence, various reports, press clippings etc. on general subjects (the Jewish population, refugees, anti-Semitism, contacts with Jewish co...

  3. Vaad Hatzala Collection.

    Apart from the usual general series of correspondence, reports, press releases, notes, newspaper clippings etc. this fonds contains several files with explicit reference to Belgium. In the series of correspondence concerning immigration and rehabilitation, we find a list of refugees in Italy and Belgium (box 18 folder 107), dating back to 1946. The series of correspondence with Vaad Hatzala representatives in foreign countries contains several interesting files. Box 27 folder 50 holds letters from yeshivot in France and Belgium (year 1949) and box 40 folder 187 contains general corresponden...

  4. Selected records from the Croatian State Archives related to the prewar history of the Jewish communities of Croatia

    Contains selected records created by the regional authorities within Croatia related to Jews and Jewish communities in Croatia in 1918-1941. It includes information about Jewish organizations and associations active in prewar Croatia. The bulk of the collection relates to the foreign Jews entering or transiting through the territory of Croatia from the neighboring countries. It includes individual police and surveillance files, various name lists, police files of foreign Jews, including a list of Jewish refugees from Germany, Poland and Hungary, statistics, permission for temporary stay or ...

  5. Attività dell'Unione delle Comunità Israelitiche Italiane fino al 1933

    • Activities of Union of Italian Jewish Communities untill 1933
    • AUCII fino al 1933

    The above mentioned series are important since they can document the situation in Europe, the flee of Refugees, the necessity to recover them; beside that, the series "Demografia e Statistica; anagrafe" can be important to know the situation before the census of Jewish population, of immigrant population, and the total amount of italian and foreign Jews before the 1938 racial laws

  6. Relocation of displaced persons

    INT, processing center for IRO (International Relief Organization). Families line up at desks where young men and women review their identity papers, create new documents, and arrange for them to emigrate to North America (Canada, United States), and various countries in South America. They are fingerprinted as well. VS, CUs of the refugees talking to the IRO workers. Expressions on the faces of refugees range from terrified to elated. 01:03:23:28 CU of a set of identity papers being created for a young woman, and her fingerprints being imprinted on the back of the paper. The same action is...

  7. Fred Schiller papers

    The papers consist of five photographs of Miroslav (Fred) Schiller, his friends, and fellow members of a jazz band; identification cards; visas; applications; and a bill passed by the United States House of Representatives for the relief of Fred Schiller.

  8. Emergency Rescue Committee collection

    The Emergency Rescue Committee collection documents the efforts of Varian Fry in assisting three of the more than 1,500 refugees he helped escape while living in France from 1940-1941. As a member of the Emergency Rescue Committee, Fry was sent to Marseille, France, to assist in the escape of prominent intellectuals and artists who were living in recently German-occupied France. The correspondence and cables concern Max Ernst, Elena Frank, and Wilhelm Herzog, in addition to a list of clients for the Emergency Rescue Committee that were living in various countries in 1943. The Emergency Resc...

  9. Selected records from the State Archives of the Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan related to evacuation of civilians in the former USSR

    Records related to the evacuation of civilians to Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan during WWII that includes information about resettlement, employment and food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. This collection includes various lists of evacuees arriving to Pavlodar from various regions of the former USSR: Communists and specialists arrived in Pavlodar Region, persons arrived from the front line; the list of Polish citizens living in Pavlodar Region, lists of Polish-Jewish citizens traveling to Poland; correspondence, statistics, reports, materials related to the...

  10. Herman Yablokoff papers

    1. Herman Yablokoff collection

    The Herman Yablokoff papers include correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Yablokoff’s 1947 tour of displaced persons camps in Germany, Austria, and Italy, his visit to Cuba later in the year, and, more broadly, the work of the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) with displaced persons. Correspondence includes letters of introduction, gratitude, and praise for Herman Yablokoff and his performances at displaced persons camps from survivor committees, displaced persons, and JDC offices in Hallein, St. Ottilien, Bergen‐Belsen, Frankfurt, Salzburg, Rome, and Muni...

  11. Marble topped dressing table with mirror from cafe used as rendezvous point by French resistance

    1. Cafe Beylier collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn522881
    • English
    • a: Height: 45.630 inches (115.9 cm) | Width: 32.500 inches (82.55 cm) | Depth: 17.500 inches (44.45 cm) b: Height: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm) | Width: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    Dresing table with mirror from cafe-coiffeur (cafe-hairdressing salon) of Mere Beylier in the village of Chateau-Cherviz, in the Limosin region of France. The cafe was near two orphanages operated by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants [OSE: Children’s Aid Society], Chateaus Chabannes and Montintin. Both homes sheltered Jewish children and other young refugees from deportations during the German occupation of France. The cafe, which was the town gathering place, also served as a resource center and temporary refuge for Jews and others who opposed the German occupation and the pro-German Vichy...

  12. Otto Zaugg papers Nachlass Otto Zaugg (1906-1998)

    Contains records relating to the administration of refugee camps in Switzerland during and immediately after World War II.

  13. Manski family papers

    The collection documents the pre-war and wartime experiences of Samuil Manski and his family in Lida, Poland (modern day Lida, Belarus). The collection primarily contains pre-war photographs of Samuil, his extended family, and friends. Also included is Samuil’s visa obtained through Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Kaunas, Lithuania; postcards from Japan; and Samuil’s report cards.

  14. Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1937-1949

    Records include: correspondence with Jewish communities throughout Turkey, Romania, and Palestine; extensive documentation regarding shipments of food packages and other supplies to concentration camps such as Theresienstadt and Bergen-Belsen (including a postcard sent by Rabbi Leo Baeck, the renowned German scholar, from Theresienstadt acknowledging receipt of a AJJDC care package); cables and news releases; lists of survivors, including thousands of files from the Central Location Index; wartime testimonies; and correspondence regarding Joel Brand’s and Rudolf Kasztner’s negotiations in 1...

  15. Sigmund A. Cohn papers

    The Sigmund A. Cohn papers primarily comprise correspondence between Cohn and his wife and children and Cohn’s parents, Georg and Sophie Cohn in Breslau and date from the Sigmund Cohn family’s arrival in America in 1939 until the United States declared war on Germany at the end of 1941. The correspondence describes family life in Athens and in Breslau and focuses on unsuccessful attempt to secure visas for Georg and Sophie Cohn to immigrate to the United States. Occasional correspondence with the American Friends Service Committee, the US Department of State, the National Council of Jewish ...

  16. Julius Schellenberg papers

    The Julius Schellenberg papers consist of biographical and genealogical materials, correspondence, and restitution files documenting Schellenberg’s family, his immigration to the United States, communications with friends and family who remained in Germany or also immigrated to America, and his efforts to receive restitution for the confiscation or forced sale of his parents’ property. Biographical and genealogical materials include Schellenberg’s birth certificate, genealogical research, and a family tree. Correspondence files consist of letters and postcard between Schellenberg and his fa...

  17. Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons collection

    The Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons collection consists of material created by the Committee in support of legislation concerning displaced persons in Europe. Editorials and press releases inform readers on the progress made on said legislation, while memorandum updates members and coordinating organizations of the Committee. Internal information consists of a variety of lists and news useful to members of the Committee. Also included is a report on immigration of European displaced persons to the United States. The Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons collection contains materia...

  18. Rolf Preuss papers

    The Rolf Preuss papers include biographical materials, genealogical materials, notes, and business cards documenting Preuss’s childhood as a Jewish refugee in Shanghai from 1939-1947. Biographical materials include rental agreements, business contracts, a vaccination record, identity papers in lieu of passports, a receipt for the payment of a tax related to American immigration, and student records. Inquiries from the Committee for the Assistance of European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai document the efforts of Adolf and Frieda Preuss’s family members to escape Germany for Shanghai. Genealogi...

  19. "Dancing through the minefields"

    Consists of a copy of "Dancing through the minefields," a typescript memoir by Fred Schiller and Janice Blumberg. The memoir describes Schiller's early life in Yugoslavia, his career as a jazz musician, his flight from Yugoslavia after the establishment of the Nazi-Ustashi (Ustaša) government, his experiences as a refugee on various Yugoslav islands in the Adriatic Sea, his service with the United States Army, and his immigration to the United States in 1948.

  20. Isaac Bitton collection scrapbook, photographs, and other materials relating to the Nahariya memorial and the illegal immigration of Jews aboard the "Aliya" at Nahariya in 1943

    1. Isaac Bitton collection

    Contains information about the memorial to Jewish refugees at Nahariya, Israel, and the illegal immigration of Jews aboard the "Aliya" at Nahariya in 1943. The photographs depict scenes of the wreck of the "Aliya" in 1943 and the memorial erected near the wreck site circa 1985 by Hamy Gal.