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  1. Jewish Labor Committee Records, Part II: Holocaust Era Files.

    In “Series III: Foreign Countries” of this fonds, we find several files containing “mixed materials” on Belgium, for the period 1948-1956. See box 80, folders nrs. 25-32 and box 81, folders nrs. 1-2. These numbers correspond with microfilm reels nrs. 237-238. In “Subseries IV:C: Child Adoption Program: Correspondence files” of “Series IV: Immigration, Resettlement and Refugee Aid” we note the following files: “Belgium: General & Lists” (box 114, folder nr. 29), “Belgium: Mila Alter” (box 114, nrs. 30-31) and “Belgium: Poale Zion” (box 114, nr. 32). These files mostly contain corresponde...

  2. Jelgavas apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Jelgava District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Kreis Mitau

    The fonds contains information about activities of the police institutions in the district since 1919. The wartime documents contain information about prisoners of war and war refugees, pursuit and apprehension of communists, Jews and Roma, Roma escapes from prisons (1941-1942), and lists of persons drafted into the German Army (1944).

  3. Vuosien 1939-1944 sodat ja niistä johtunut toiminta: Suhteet Saksaan

    1. Valtiollisen poliisin II arkisto
    • Wars 1939-1944: Relations with Germany

    The records concern Finland’s relations with Germany during World War II. Subgroup G 5 is especially important; it includes records concerning deportations of Jewish refugees to Germany.

  4. Correspondence with Berent, Ernst

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence sheds light on Berent’s bonds with his German home. The letters centre on source material on the Jewry of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), and a critical discussion of an anti-German article published in the Library’s Bulletin. Contained are birthday wishes as well as a letter of condolence on Berent’s passing.

  5. Correspondence regarding Dokumentenwerk - with Brügel, Johann Wolfgang

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Comprising primarily notes and memos the correspondence centres on meetings with The Wiener Library’s project researcher Francis L. Carsten as well as a meeting with IfZ project researcher Hans Mommsen and a review of his work.

  6. Correspondence with Alexander, Kurt

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence centres on a request to Alfred Wiener for a reference or introduction letter, with which Alexander hoped to boost his chances for a job in New York. Other addressed issues are: his salary at the Jewish Central Information Office or The Wiener Library respectively, the hiring of a third person at the United Restitution Organization, and a condolence note to his widow following his sudden passing. Contained is a not dated résumé of Alexander’s as well as a letter to a third person named Lola Alexander.

  7. Correspondence with Bloch, Julius

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence centres on the whereabouts of the of the Jewish community in Friedberg near Frankfurt am Main. Contained are letters of several other individuals involved in the object’s tracing process. Upon his passing the acquisition of parts of Bloch’s estate is briefly discussed.

  8. Correspondence with Breslauer, Walter

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence concerns various administrative, financial, and mostly historical aspects, i.e. those related to the Nazi persecution of the Jews. Particular reference deserves the discussion of a draft of a new constitution for The Wiener Library (1948-49). Beside several handwritten letters by Breslauer the correspondence contains on letter in Dutch language.

  9. Correspondence with Bondy, Louis Wolfgang

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence centres on everyday issues, mainly the acquisition of books. Contained is also the copy of a certification of employment dates and salary of Bondy for his time at the Jewish Central Information Office (JCIO) in Amsterdam.

  10. Correspondence with Bund der Verfolgten des Naziregimes (BVN)

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding historical subjects and political activities of the BVN. This includes among others the terms of access to German records in British archives, information about prominent Nazis and now West German officials Werner Naumann and Wilhelm Voss, the fate of Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis liner, the conditions in Buchenwald concentration camp in the wake of the November Pogrom in 1938, and the controversial German-Jewish author and right-wing activist Josef Ginsburg (aka J. G. Burg).

  11. Correspondence with Buxton, Dorothy Francis

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The hand- and typewritten letters concern Buxton’s offer to provide The Wiener Library with selected books and material from her private collection. She further claimed to have met and briefly interviewed Hermann Göring in Germany on March 26, 1935. Beside letters, the correspondence contains a memo about a meeting with Buxton as well as a clipping of her obituary published in .

  12. Correspondence with Eschelbacher, Max

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence centres on Eschelbacher gathering and providing information on numerous Library enquiries on individuals as well as events. Furthermore, light is thrown on his involvement in the Library’s eyewitness testimony project including the contribution of an own account on his experiences in Düsseldorf during the November Pogrom 1938.

  13. Publishing

    1. Michael Marrus fonds

    Series consists of records relating to Prof. Marrus’s vast publishing record. In particular, files pertain to specific publication projects (predominantly book projects), and include contracts, reviews, and correspondence with publishers, literary agents and readers. Few files include research notes. Files are arranged chronologically by publication date, with a general file of reviews at the end.Publications documented in these files• The politics of assimilation: a study of the French Jewish community at the time of the Dreyfus affair (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1971).• Vichy et les Jui...

  14. Annie Hoek-Wallach: Personal papers

    These papers document in part the life of a German Jewish immigrant who lived in the Netherlands during the Nazi era and whose mother and husband, a Dutch Jewish teacher, were deported to concentration camps where they perished.

  15. Marion Lesser collection

    This collection contains papers pertaining to the family of Marion Lesser nee Oschitzky and comprises correspondence from her parents and other papers

  16. Copy article re Walther Rathenau

    Typescript translation of a newspaper article by an unidentified former member of the French Foreign Legion. The adjutant of the camp on the Libyan border was Tessier, someone who showed particular kindness to the Jewish legionnaires. When a new legionnaire by the name of Rathenau arrived, Tessier confessed that he was one of the murderers of Walther Rathenau, the former's uncle, and he produced a letter which Rathenau's mother had written to Tessier's mother after her son was killed. The author of the report met Tessier again in Marseille, where he helped many refugees escape.
    German 3 pages

  17. Allen Rezak photograph collection

    1. Rezak family collection

    The collection consists of thirty-one photographs taken at Feldafing DP Camp in Germany after World War II.

  18. Maljean and Totman family papers

    1. Maljean and Totman family collection

    Consists of photographs, documents, correspondence and other original materials pertaining to the experiences of Emile-Georges Maljean, Prefect of Police in Toulon and Marseille, and family, prior to the war and later in German-occupied France. The documentation addresses Maljean's resistance activities, the relief he offered to refugees, and his later role in Allied occupation of Vienna. Correspondence, documents, and photographs from the period also document the experiences of Maljean's later son-in-law, James C. Totman (donor's father), who served on the staff of General Mark Clark in th...

  19. Part of a woven fourragère associated with Emile-Georges Maljean

    1. Maljean and Totman family collection

    Part of a woven fourragère associated with Emile-Georges Maljean, Prefect of Police in Toulon and Marseille during World War II. It is part of a collection documenting his experiences, and those of his family, prior to the war and later in German-occupied France. The collection addresses Maljean's resistance activities, the relief he offered to refugees, and his later role in Allied occupation of Vienna.

  20. Part of a woven fourragère associated with Emile-Georges Maljean

    1. Maljean and Totman family collection

    Part of a woven fourragère associated with Emile-Georges Maljean, Prefect of Police in Toulon and Marseille during World War II. It is part of a collection documenting his experiences, and those of his family, prior to the war and later in German-occupied France. The collection addresses Maljean's resistance activities, the relief he offered to refugees, and his later role in Allied occupation of Vienna.