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  1. Isaac Bitton collection photographs of the prisoners exchange of Libyan and Tunisian Jews for German POWs in 1944

    1. Isaac Bitton collection

    Contains six gelatin silver copyprints of Libyan and Tunisian Jews who were exchanged for German POWs in 1944. The photos depict the refugees in preparation for the emigration from Lisbon, Portugal, to Palestine in October 1944.

  2. Earl G. Harrison papers

    The Earl G. Harrison papers consist of the journal Harrison kept during his summer 1945 tour of displaced persons camps, a typescript of his article "The Last Hundred Thousand" about the camps he visited and people he met, excerpts from addresses about displaced persons he delivered in the fall and winter of 1945, a broadcast transcript of a radio program from July 1946 featuring Harrison's support of Jewish migration to Palestine, and newspaper and magazine clippings about displaced persons and Harrison’s work.

  3. Anton and Marion P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anton and Marion P., who served in the administration of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Jewish displaced persons camps in Germany in 1945-1947. Mrs. P. reflects on her wartime life in Holland and the subtle effect of antisemitic propaganda on even anti-Nazi audiences; serving as translator in a postwar trial of fourteen Dutch Nazis in Wolfratshausen; being sent by UNRRA as a welfare officer to a Jewish displaced persons camp at Fo?hrenwald; learning Yiddish to better communicate with refugees; and the difficulties of dealing with v...

  4. Anton P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anton P., who was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1917. Mr. P., who served in the United States Third Army, tells of being wounded in France; evacuation to England; returning to the front to aid in the relief of Bastogne; his artillery unit's rapid advance across Germany in April 1945; passing through Buchenwald hours after its liberation; and dining with a German who denied knowledge of Buchenwald, but whose home overlooked the camp. He recalls being temporarily reassigned to serve with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), where h...

  5. Shanghai register of Polish citizens from 1934-1941 Szanghajski rejestr obywateli polskich z lat 1934-1941

    Shanghai Ledger contains the records on Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai in 1934-1943. The ledger was the supporting administrative tool for the diplomatic outpost as well as for the citizens, who settled in a given consulate jurisdiction. Based on the ledger, Polish citizens were able to apply for various documents and compensation. They could also be found more easily by their relatives and were able to get through all the formalities at the consulate faster. The ledger records the experiences of the citizens listed and the material evidence of the care and help...

  6. Kitchener Camp report and other papers

    Papers of and about Ernest Martin Joseph including transcript of a lecture on the history of Richborough (Kitchener Camp) for refugees and protocol of a meeting of thanksgiving for Ernest Martin Joseph's life.

  7. Jewish Community of Athens Jüdische Gemeinde Athen (Fond 1427)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    The collection includes community registration documents, bylaws, minutes, court decisions, marriage contracts and divorces, financial documents, instructions on teaching at schools, Contains also registers of members, photographs of the community members, numerous documents on the religious life and special services, and documentation on the transport of Jewish refugees from Western and eastern Europe to Palestine via Greece. Majority of collection constitute official communal correspondence: correspondence of the chief rabbinate and Athens community leaders with Greek central and municipa...

  8. Correspondence of the German Jewish Aid Committee

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains material of a correspondence between the German Jewish Aid Committee in London and couple of Refugee organizations, like the Jewish Refugee Committee/ Trainee department in Leeds, the British Committee for Refugees from Czecho-Slovakia and the York Refugee Committee. The correspondence is regarding visa and trainee possibilities for Jews who want to escape Germany or other occupied countries and stay in Great Britain. All of the organizations tried to save as many Jews as possible by the use of trainee visa for Great Britain. Unfortunately Jews who applied need to be in a ...

  9. Civilförsvarsstyrelsen

    • Swedish Civil Defence Board
    • Krigsarkivet
    • Civilförsvarsstyrelsen
    • English
    • 1944-1986
    • 467 linear meters of mainly textual records.

    Among the documents are letters to and from authorities, correspondence, activity reports, as well as documents relating to the operations in Lübeck and in camps in Sweden. The documents also include reports from inspections of refugee camps. In one of the archive's series (D), there are registers of refugees (and survivors). In another series (F 7), there are a large number of documents regarding the reception and initial care of survivors from concentration camps in Nazi Germany who were evacuated to Sweden in 1945. In these documents, there are also details about the conditions in the va...

  10. American Friends Service Committee Refugee Assistance Case Files

    Consists of more than 20,000 case files created and maintained by staff and volunteers with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker relief and rescue organization. The files are concerned primarily with the sponsorship of individuals for immigration to the United States and the process of their adjustment to America, including job-hunting and the placement of young adults in colleges and training programs. The collection contains a wealth of detail on individual refugees, the bulk of whom were fleeing Nazism, including their experiences before or during the war and the effor...

  11. Enameled porcelain vase with a floral pattern owned by Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

    1. Sara Kupinski Cohen collection

    Colorful, enameled, porcelain vase acquired by Sara Kupinski’s (later Cohen) family in Shanghai, China, where her family fled using Japanese and Dutch transit visas supplied by diplomats in Soviet-occupied Kovno, (Kaunas), Lithuania. Sara lived outside of Lida, Poland (now Belarus) with her parents, Eliasz and Slawa, brother, Hirsz, and uncle, Samuel. Following Germany and the Soviet Union’s invasion of Poland in September 1939, Eli and Samuel fled to Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania) because they were considered wealthy landowners. Slawa, Hirsz, and Sara later joined them. Having obtained the...

  12. Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

    1. Sara Kupinski Cohen collection

    Silver rickshaw and runner figurine acquired by Sara Kupinski’s (later Cohen) family in Shanghai, China, where her family fled using Japanese and Dutch transit visas supplied by diplomats in Soviet-occupied Kovno, (Kaunas), Lithuania. Sara lived outside of Lida, Poland (now Belarus) with her parents, Eliasz and Slawa, brother, Hirsz, and uncle, Samuel. Following Germany and the Soviet Union’s invasion of Poland in September 1939, Eli and Samuel fled to Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania) because they were considered wealthy landowners. Slawa, Hirsz, and Sara later joined them. Having obtained th...

  13. Silver bowl with a dragon owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

    1. Sara Kupinski Cohen collection

    Decorative, Zee Sung Silver bowl acquired by Sara Kupinski’s (later Cohen) family in Shanghai, China, where her family fled using Japanese and Dutch transit visas supplied by diplomats in Soviet-occupied Kovno, (Kaunas), Lithuania. Sara lived outside of Lida, Poland (now Belarus) with her parents, Eliasz and Slawa, brother, Hirsz, and uncle, Samuel. Following Germany and the Soviet Union’s invasion of Poland in September 1939, Eli and Samuel fled to Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania) because they were considered wealthy landowners. Slawa, Hirsz, and Sara later joined them. Having obtained their...

  14. Illustrated postcard with finger holes owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

    1. Sara Kupinski Cohen collection

    Hand-illustrated card carried by Sara Kupinski’s (later Cohen) family as they fled from Poland, via Lithuania, the Soviet Union, Japan, and China, during the Holocaust, eventually settling in Canada. They were able to flee by using Japanese and Dutch transit visas supplied by diplomats in Soviet-occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. Sara lived outside of Lida, Poland (now Belarus) with her parents, Eliasz and Slawa, brother, Hirsz, and uncle, Samuel. Following Germany and the Soviet Union’s invasion of Poland in September 1939, Eli and Samuel fled to Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania) because the...

  15. Flüchtlinge I

    1. Sammlungen
    2. Grossmann, Kurt (Demokr. Flüchtlingsfürsorge, Emigration, Wiedergutm.)

    Denkschriften zur Flüchtlingsfrage 1936-1945 (hektographisch und maschinenschriftlich): unter anderem Memoranden des Tschechoslowakischen Nationalkomitees für deutsche Flüchtlinge 1936; Flüchtlingsstatus nach den Beschlüssen der Internationalen Konferenz für Asylrecht, Paris, 20./21. Juni 1937, Exposé über Auswanderung nach Bolivien, Nr. 5/1938 der Correspondance de Génève zur Konferenz von Evian; Emmanuel Celler, Entrance of Refugees Into the United States, Rede am 24. Januar 1944 im Repräsentanten-Haus (Sonderdruck aus Congress Record): Einwanderungspolitik der USA, statistische Angaben, ...

  16. Albert and Theresia Schwager papers

    The Albert and Theresia Schwager papers contain telegrams and correspondence relating to Albert and Theresia Schwager’s attempt to emigrate from Germany aboard the MS St. Louis. The telegrams and correspondence detail their experiences aboard the MS St. Louis and arrangements for their eventual arrival in England. The collection also contains Cuban immigration documents, identification cards, and a quota number document issued by the United States consulate in Stuttgart, Germany, August 19, 1938.

  17. Frieder estate in Manila; family visits Baguio

    Pan of the Frieder family villa exteriors in Manila, including gardens, grounds, lush vegetation. People work in the large garden. View of Manila beyond the estate from roof(?) of villa. 00:02:56 Brief shot of the girls at play followed by views of the grounds at Camp John Hay in Baguio City in 1933. Jane and Peggy Frieder with their nanny and toys. 00:03:58 The girls pose with their dolls by a decorated Christmas tree in the garden. 00:04:08 An American flag waves, mountains visible in the distance. HAV of camp's amphitheater. 00:04:19 Jane, Peggy, and their Filipino nanny walk down a stee...

  18. Claude Zaidenband papers

    Collection of documents and photographs documenting the experiences of Claude Zaidenband and his family at home in Belgium and as refugees in France and Switzerland during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Documents include a poem titled "Espoir!" by Claude’s brother Henri, dated January 1945, and a letter from an association of former Jewish partisans, dated 1950, presumably responding to a request from Claude’s father Natan that he be added to their membership. One 1945 family photograph bears a 1995 inscription on the back.

  19. German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

    Woman selling newspapers on the street. Cut to scene behind the American Embassy where, according to Julien Bryan's book "Siege", all the Americans were during the Siege. Scene of Americans practicing for heading underground during an attack, American flag in the ground, sand bags, etc. They are trying to string the flag so that it will somehow be visible from the air so that the Germans will not bomb them. Several of the men are wearing armbands. VS, sandbagging the American embassy in Warsaw. The men continue to point towards the sky, as they head underground, one man takes still photos. ...

  20. Judefrågan. Allmänt. Hjälp åt flyktingar.

    1. Utrikesdepartementet
    • The Jewish Question. General. Refugee aid.
    • Riksarkivet
    • Judefrågan. Allmänt. Hjälp åt flyktingar.
    • English
    • 1933-1952
    • 8 folders of textual records.

    The collection was created by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and consists of documents (originals, and contemporary copies and transcripts) connected to the situation for the Jews in Europe during the Nazi era and the immediate post-war years. It includes reports from Swedish diplomats in countries about the policies on Jewish refugees of different countries, and also reports from countries under Nazi rule about the situation for the Jewish population, as well as newspaper clippings on the same subjects. Some of the Swedish diplomatic correspondence includes antisemitic statements ...