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  1. Documents regarding Jews from Poland in the Soviet Union, 1941-1943

    Documents regarding Jews from Poland in the Soviet Union, 1941-1943 Reports and sources from the Polish Embassy in the Soviet Union regarding Polish Jews in the Soviet Union; in the documentation, among other items are documents concerning the distribution of aid to the Jews of Poland; correspondence between Kot, the Polish Ambassador, and Izchak Gruenbaum in Eretz Israel, from December 1942; a list of rabbis in the Soviet Union; lists of Jews deported to the Far East; the Erlich and Alter affair; Jews serving with Anders Army in Teheran.

  2. Henry Cohn postcards

    Five postcards (containing the contents of three letters), sent by Henry Cohn, of Paris, from September - November 1944, to his uncle, Albert Cohn (the donor’s grandfather), in London. In the postcards, Henry Cohn describes some of his experiences during the German occupation of France, as well as what happened to his mother, Meta Johanna Cohn (1896-1942) who was deported to Auschwitz in July 1942. The contents of the first letter, dated 23 September 1944, are written on three separate postcards that were mailed in succession, and numbered accordingly.

  5. Documentation of the regional and district Police in Bobruysk, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the regional and district Police in Bobruysk, 1941-1944 Included in the file, among other material: - Documentation of the Ordnungsdienst (Order Service); - Lists of POWs and refugees; - Orders of the Bobruysk Police; - Lists of policemen; - Antisemitic propaganda; - Lists of detainees in the prison in Bobruysk.

  6. Schlesinger family papers

    1. Schlesinger family collection

    The papers consist of certificates, a repatriation card, registrations of residence, a note, and correspondence used during and after the Holocaust by the Schlesinger family, particularly Erna Seidner Schlesinger [donor's mother]. See accession file for detailed numbered list.

  16. Dr. Georg Goldschmidt

    1. Biographical press cuttings collection (1945-1970s)

    This online document contains information about a Wiener library's envelope about Dr. Georg Goldschmidt, former head of department of the refugee ministry of the German Federal Republic. The envelope contains two abstracts of German newspaper articles (Die Zeit and Rheinischer Merkur).

  17. ITS Monthly Report for the month of December, 1952, and Annual Report for Year 1952

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The report contains information gives an outline of the work done by the ITS in 1952 with emphasis on Mail distribution and central files, general information, documentation and administrative service.

  18. Ministarstvo zdravstva i udružbe Nezavisne Države Hrvatske

    • The Ministry of Health Associations

    The General Directorate of Health Associations (udružba) contains records on the care and help bestowed to refugees, labor and pension insurance, legislation and plans related to the work of companies, information about associations connected to health and public health and safety, cadets, transport lists of people sent to work to Germany (and people sent to'work'to Germany), statistics on immigrants, and different records (books) on institutions and funds providing child care.

  19. The Attorney Jean Brunschvig Personal Archive: Certificates from the San Salvador Consulate in Geneva, 1942-1944

    The collection is composed of documents signed by Mantello certifying that the bearer of the document is a San Salvadorian citizen.

  20. Collection of Anti-Jewish Legislation - the World Jewish Congress

    Included in the Record Group: A. Collection of anti-Jewish legislation enacted in various countries, organized in files according to the countries. Sometimes the law is quoted as it was published in the law books of that particular country, and sometimes there are surveys regarding the law or newspaper clippings with a description of the law.B. Correspondence between the World Jewish Congress (including with the United Nations) regarding anti-Jewish legislation such as laws regarding emigration, the status of refugees and displaced persons, reparations from Germany and more.