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  1. Archive of Ministry of Internal Affairs. Refugees from Germany Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken (BiZa)/Vluchtelingen Duitsland

    Records of the Bureau General Secretariat and Compatibility, the Bureau Armwezen/Vluchtelingen and the refugee camps Westerbork, the Lloyd-hotel (later Oostelijke Handelskade) in Amsterdam, the quarantine station Beneden-Heyplaat in Rotterdam and the Koninginnehoofd refugee camp in Rotterdam. The collection consists of records relating to financial and personnel matter, the construction and the layout of the camps. There are also weekly reports and strength records of camp residents, personal cards, sightings etc., and records relating to the Committee of Jewish Refugees, concerning the med...

  2. Pair of espadrilles used as part of a disguise by anti-fascist refugees fleeing France

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7154
    • English
    • a: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) b: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm)

    Espadrilles used as part of a disguise by anti-fascist refugees fleeing France. The town of Banyuls, France, was the beginning of an escape route for refugees fleeing France. The refugees fled on foot over the Pyrenees dressed in the costumes of the local peasants who wore such espadrilles.

  3. Portfolio with notepad, pencil, ruler and nib holder brought with Jewish refugees

    1. Bielski family collection

    Leather portfolio with a notepad, a pencil, ruler, and pen nib holder brought with Drs. Hildegard and Johannes Bielski, who left for the United States, with their daughter Mation, in November 1939. In July 1938, the Drs. Bielski were forbidden to practice medicine because they were Jewish. With assistance from a family friend, they received US visas. Marion later married Herbert Boxer who fled Nazi-occupied Europe with his parents, arriving in the US in 1940.

  4. Ministry of Foreign Affairs : The Legation of the Refugees Administration (Group 17M pk 367-404)

    Records related to the protection of Danish nationals in Europe, Danish refugees in Sweden, including members of the resistance and Jews: includes information on their residence, work, education, support, etc.; reports of activities and financial matters of refugee office. Also consists of a name card index of Danish refugees who arrived in Sweden between 1943-1945. The name index is used as the entrance to the files.

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jewish refugees, Jewish Brigade in Palestine, Jewish Agency

    Young Jewish refugees, having escaped the Germans, arrived at the Athlit Camp near Haifa wanting to join the Jewish Brigade. 05:13:08 Yellow stars pinned to coats and vests. General shot of the recruiting. 05:13:27 Several young Jews stand before the table to sign up. MS, Jews signing up, Yellow Star of David is apparent. 05:14:28 General shot of young Jews entering the Recruiting Department of the Jewish Agency of Tel Aviv. 05:14:45 CU, sign of recruiting bureau in Hebrew and English. 05:14:58 The Mobile Jewish Brigade of Tel Monte - a special armed Jewish brigade authorized by the English...

  6. Large brown suitcase used by Hungarian Jewish refugees on the Kasztner train

    1. Bela Gondos family collection

    Large suitcase carried by Dr. Bela Gondos when he was transported from Budapest, Hungary, to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on the Kasztner train in June 1944 with his wife Anna and 7 year old daughter Judit. They were advised to bring all their belongings. Each carried a suitcase filled with their best clothing since they believed they were going to Portugal. They used it as a bed, table, and chair on the cattle car to the camp. Jews were increasingly persecuted by the Hungarian regime, which had anti-Semitic policies similar to Germany's. Bela worked on 2 or 3 forced labor battalions un...

  7. Bricha: Jewish refugees leave Europe for Palestine; Ebensee camp at liberation; Belsen DP camp

    11:00:12 Refugees getting on board buses and trains, UNRRA officials help. Refugees waiting at the border at Nachod, a village on the Czech/Polish border. Reception center at Bratislava. 11:07:25 Jewish refugees leaving Europe for Palestine. Groups of DPs (Bricha Underground) crossing the Alps from Gnadenwald, Austria to Italy in February 1948. Many shots of walking up paths, climbing slopes, jumping over streams, sheltering under a bridge. Arriving at foot of mountain, getting instructions. 11:18:27 (color) Traun Lake and castle in the town of Ebensee. Local Austrians. Roadside statue of J...

  8. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Isaac Meir Berman, b. 1906, a trader from Lodz, who describes the beginning of the war and the bombardment of Lodz, as well as the arrival of refugee from the surrounding countryside. He describes how he left Lodz with his family, making his way by car to Jezow, then Warsaw and Minsk Mazowiecki under heavy bombardments, together with other refugees. Many of the bombarded cities suffered casualties. He arrived in Vilnius by train. Protocol No.14 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to V...

  9. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Isaac R,. 26 year old tannery worker from Warsaw. He was in Warsaw at the beginning of the war, the fire-warden for his building, and describes the emergency procedures take during the bombardment. He left Warsaw before the Germans entered it, making his way to check on his mother via Pulawy, Ryki, and Kazimierz Dolny, and then returning to Warsaw. He describes the damage inflicted by the German aerial bombardment, and says that in Pulawy the Germans were already seizing Jews for forced labour. In Pulawy, likewise, the Germans ruined the Jewish community financially by confisca...

  10. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of rabbi E. S., from Kremenets, a yeshiva student from the Beit Yossef yeshiva in Międzyrzec. He describes attempting to return home to Kremenets from Międzyrzec under German bombardment. At first in Międzyrzec bombs destroyed the railway but no casualties resulted, however, incendiaries and more bombs killed over 200 people in the city. The author made his way to Terespol, then to Luzhki and Divin, encountering a flood of refugees, both civilian and military, and eventually to Kobryn where the Germans caught up with him, drafting him for forced labor to bury German and Polish sol...

  11. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland:Statement No2]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Aaron Berg, a 26 year old radio-mechanic from the town Kolumna near Łódź testifies abut his experiences during the invasion of the Nazis in Poland between the 1st to 14th of September 1939. He depticts the changes of behavior of christian Poles towards their jewish neighbours, heavy bombardments from the Nazis and the suffering of strong hunger. His protocol is an extract from a volume of protocols provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugees. The statement is presumably a translation from Yiddish, but the original is missing. Statement No 2

  12. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Protocol No. 10 is an extract from a volume of protocols provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugees. In 1939 they formed a comittee to collect evidence about the condition of the Jews in Poland under Nazi Germany occupation. Protocol No 10 is in Yiddish and given by Shlomo Ferkal (24 yrs., living in Vilnuius / Lithuania). In it he describes how in September 1939 his town Mezhirichi was bombed by the Nazis and how he was fled towards Kovel. He is depicts the bombardements of civilians/ refugees, the life of the refugees and the treatment of Jews by non-jewish citizens.

  13. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Avraham Mlotek, 31 year old from Warsaw. He describes leaving Warsaw with two friends on September 7th. He describes bombardments and destruction, and Jews fleeing from towns. He made his way through Wawer, Międzyrzec Podlaski and Biala, where heavy bombardments resulted in destruction, fear and injuries, and onto a passenger train which was shot on by the Red Army at the border. Protocol No. 20 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1939 they formed a committee...

  14. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of D. K.. 25 year old yeshiva student in the Kleck yeshiva, resident of Brisk. He describes the heavy bombardment of the German planes, and the incendiaries which destroyed parts of the city, and led to multiple casualties. The Germans occupied Brisk and conscripted both Jews and Poles to forced labor, forced Jews to open stores on the Sabbath, and looted Jewish businesses. They detained many in the city but the detainees were freed when the Russians were about to take over the city. The Russians in their turn detained ethnic Germans in a camp and shot several as spies for the Ger...

  15. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Rachel B., 43 year old woman from Rozan. She describes the conquest of the city by the Germans and the beginning of atrocities committed against Jews in her town and the surrounding area. These include arbitrary shootings targeted at children and the elderly, and burning of Jews in synagogues. She and her two children left to Goworowo, where all jews were ordered into the synagogue with the market on fire, and men were taken out and shot. On officer stopped the mass burning because there were too many Jews, but much of the Jewish neighbourhood burned with many casualties. She d...

  16. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of N. B. a 15 year old yeshiva student from Goworowo, who gives a brief account of the state of several towns under German occupation. Lapy, occupied by the Germans then by the Soviets, mostly destroyed by bombardment. Goworowo, occupied by the Germans; most of the Jews were forced to leave the city and many were killed. He lists names of several of the victims. Protocol No. 52 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1939 they formed a committee to collect evidence ...

  17. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The author, S. M. from Lodz, describes how at the order of Major Ulyushkovsky he and many other Jewish refugees left Lodz on September 6, 1939. He describes the difficulties on the road to Warsaw, including German bombings and machine-gun fire behind Pruszkow and anti-Semitic incidents from the Polish army. At the village of Wiskitki he learned the Germans occupied Warsaw and returned to Lodz. He provides a description of the initial repressive orders given the Lodz Jews, including curfew, expulsion from schools, firing of all state employees and physicians, and confiscation of radios. On N...

  18. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of A. J., from Wyszkow, 44 year old kaftan-maker, member of the local Bund committee, socialist delegate and a chairman of the laborer front. He describes initial bombardments and refugees arriving from nearby towns such as Pultusk and Maków Mazowiecki. He and his family hid in the orchard during the last period of the war, and were arrested by Germans on their return to Wyszkow. The Polish men were released but the Jews were held. After being held the Jews, too, were freed. He describes anti-Semitic incitement of the Polish population by the occupying German soldiers in Wyszkow, ...

  19. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of J. L., 18 years old, and Z. L., 21 years old carpenter, brothers from Ostrow Mazowiecki, giving details about the massacre of 561 of the city's Jews by the Germans. They describe how the Germans together with the local Poles drove the Jews out of their homes, took them outside of town, and forced them to dig mass graves. They were then forced to lie in the graves, and to take their children down into the graves, and were shot with rifles and revolvers. The survivors fled to the Russian side of the border. Protocol No. 192 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements pro...

  20. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Pessie R, from Suwałki. She describes that when the Russians left Suwalki, and the Germans entered it, they looted all merchandise fgrom Jewish stores, and fined the proprietors and the rich large fines. They issued an order that Jews must gather three days' worth of food, and were arresting people and holding them in the synagogue. The author was warned by a Polish neighbors, and hid in the cellar while her three children fled. She was let out by a neighbor, and left town for the Lithuanian border with other refugees. They remained in the no-man's-land on the border, and sever...