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  1. General Association of Jews in France. Camp Commission

    Consists of records relating to the operations of the Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF) Commission des Camps, The Commission des Camps was headquartered in Toulouse, halfway between the camps of Gurs and Rivesaltes, and proximate to three other camps. The Commission's goal was the centralization of camp archives. The collection includes hundreds of letters from refugees and internees, testifying to the plight of Jews in France during occupation.

  6. Foreign Office and Predecessors: Control Commission for Germany (British Element), T Force and Field Information Agency Technical. Selected records.

    Contains FIAT files of captured enemy documents relating to Montan Anlage Auschwitz and Montan-Auschwitz Vertragsfragen. Also contains files relating to Jewish affairs and the treatment of Jewish DPs (Operation "Oasis") and various private office papers and administration and local government branch files.

  8. Triangular birth pendant given to Ruth Wermuth

    1. Wermuth family collection

    Triangular metal birth pendant belonging to the donor's mother Ruth Polilnger (nee Wermuth, 1929-1970), that sailed with her from Frankfurt, Germany to New York in 1940. It is engraved with her date of birth, place of birth (Frankfurt A.M)., and "Mazel Tov". These birth pendants were traditionally given to newborn girls in Frankfurt, Germany between 1928 and 1929.

  9. Ginette Kalish photographs

    Contains photographs of Ginette Kalish [donor] and other children in Canet Plage, France, who were part of a group of seventy other orphaned children from Barcelona, Spain, who had escaped Franco and were assisted by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. This group of children were later moved to a chateau in La Vercantiere that included a school and church until their liberation in 1945. Also includes a collection of prewar and wartime photographic prints and a photographic postcard documenting the Druker family, friends from Canet Plage and the Château de Masgelier children's home in Francet.

  10. Ministry of Defense Archives records

    Contains name lists, correspondence, diaries, reports, and trial documents. Documents concern the Soviet prisoners of war, including Soviet Jews, kept in Finnish camps during World War II; the organization of the Office of Prisoners of War within the Home Front headquarters of the Finnish Army; the personal diary of Walter Horn, Finnish military attaché in Berlin, from September 1940 to October 1944; and the trial records (1947 and 1948) of Arno Anthoni, wartime head of the Valpo, Finnish Security Police (Etsivä keskuspoliisi; later Valtiollinem poliisi, Valpo).

  11. Photographs of Armenian genocide from the Armin T. Wegner collection

    The collection consists of 56 copy photographs depicting the results of the Armenian genocide from 1915 to 1923 in the Ottoman Empire. Images are of children and adults in various activities, corpses in ditches, hangings, Armenians as refugees living in tents in the Syrian desert, and piles of skulls and burned bodies.

  12. Jüdische Gemeinde Köln collection

    Contains records from the Jewish communities in Köln. Includes undated deportation lists; death registers at the Israelisches Asylum 1932-1942; Gestapo card files and name lists, 1939 and 1943; records relating to the refugee camp on Blankheimer Str.,1945-1946; postwar letters and reports about persecutions of Jews, 1946-1960; postwar reports about many subjects including restitution, name lists, confiscation of property; and family document collections.

  13. Selected records from the Departmental Archives de la Haute-Garonne

    This collection contains records on internees in the Noé, Récébédou, Vernet, and Brens camps. Records include name, date and place of birth, and (occasionally) date of internment. The collection also includes information about the administration of the camps; arrests and deportations; the Commissariat for Jewish Affairs; and legislation concerning Jews and Freemasons.

  15. Berish and Paula Gurtman photographs

    The collection consists of six photographs depicting Berish and Paula Gurtman and other refugees in Kibbutz Hatikvah in Hofgeismar, Germany, and in a displaced persons camp in Badgastein, Austria, after World War II.

  16. Fundraising newsreel for postwar rehabilitation in the Netherlands

    Volkshertsel Amsterdam, 1945. Dutch newsreel containing retrospective footage from throughout WWII, aimed at inciting the Dutch public to give money to support government postwar rehabilitation programs. Narration of the misery of war, accompanied by scenes of people pushing their belongings in the street, soldiers scrambling, burned out buildings, and blindfolded corpses. A train arriving, followed by men walking out of the station under a Dutch flag, changes the tone to the present, and scenes outline various government programs ("Joodische Ontvangst Commissie"-- "Jewish Reception Committ...

  18. Jewish Children DP Center in Kloster Indersdorf, Bavaria

    Between August 1946 and September 1948, this center served as a home for young refugees from Poland, Hungary, and Romania. Men set up a light or camera. INT, man stands, speaking, a man with glasses seated next to him. EXT of Indersdorf building. CU of sign in English and Hebrew reads “JEWISH CHILDREN DP CENTER UNRRA TEAM 182.” Children seated on grass with a female teacher, copying her hand motions. CU of the teacher leading a song with children in the BG, AJDC patch on her shoulder visible. CU of the children singing. CU of teacher singing. Children working in a garden. Girls pick beans. ...

  19. Kader family photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Symcha and Eda Kader (Harvey Kader's parents), Moishe and Lola Kader (Harvey Kader's uncle and aunt), and Anna and David Kader (Harvey Kader's twin cousins) in a refugee camp in Stuttgart, Germany, after World War II. Also included are two Rosh Hashana greeting cards bearing images of Anna and David Kader as infants.

  20. Selected records from the former archive of the city of Westerbork

    Contains registers, together with death certificates, of deported and arrested persons in the vicinity of Westerbork, Netherlands.