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  1. Hans Oppenheimer letter

    The Hans Oppenheimer letter is a letter written by Hans Oppenheimer (1901-1945), a German Jewish bank official who was detained in Westerbork transit camp and later perished in Bergen-Belsen. The collection is comprised of a single letter written by Hans from Westerbork in 1943 to Dr. K. Prager, a non-Jewish friend and business associate in Amsterdam. In the letter, Hans discusses his wife and children and a little about life in the camp.

  2. Ernest R. Stiefel papers

    The Ernest R. Stiefel papers include photocopies of emigration and expropriation documents, Jüdische Kultusvereinigung and Jüdischer Kulturbund documents, and personal narratives describing the Nazi persecution of the Stiefel family from Frankfurt am Main; German and international barriers to German emigration; and the confiscation of money, property, and possessions of family members who emigrated from Germany and of those who stayed behind. Emigration and expropriation documents consist of photocopies of original materials documenting the processes the Nazis used to confiscate money and p...

  3. Mayer, Bierig, and Ehrmann families papers

    1. Mayer, Bierig, and Ehrmann families collection

    The Mayer, Bierig, and Ehrmann families papers consist of biographical materials and correspondence documenting the family’s lives in Nazi Germany, emigration to England, deportation to France, and immigration to the United States. Biographical materials include identification papers; birth, registration, marriage, and death certificates; education, training, and employment records; emigration and immigration records; ration books; and a family tree documenting the lives of the Bierig, Ehrmann, and Mayer families in Germany and their departures for England and the United States. They also i...

  4. Max and Shari Bronner papers

    The Max and Shari Bronner papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and immigration files documenting Max Bronner’s successful efforts to bring Shari Bronner to the United States from Nuremberg via France and his unsuccessful efforts to bring his parents to the United States from Nuremberg via Palestine, Mexico, Cuba, or the Dominican Republic and to bring relatives Frieda Eichenbronner, Maximillian Schaefer, and Simon and Gertrude Einhorn to the United States. Biographical materials include Max Bronner’s birth certificate, driver’s license, French identification document, G...

  5. Rose Silberberg Skier papers

    The Rose Silberberg Skier papers include a diary, photographs, and materials related to Silberberg’s time at the Convent of the Gray Sisters in Neisse and at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp documenting the Silberberg family in Jaworzno, Poland, Silberberg’s wartime experiences in hiding, and her post‐war experiences at Zeilsheim. The diary records Silberberg’s wartime memories and her daily life in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp. The photographs include copy prints of Rose Silberberg with her family and acquaintances before and during the war and original prints and copy prints o...

  6. Rosenbaum family papers

    The Rosenbaum family papers consist of correspondence and documents related to the attempts of Ernst Rosenbaum, who immigrated to England in 1936, to bring his family, one by one, from Germany in 1938-1939. Includes correspondence with family members and immigration officials, testimony regarding Kristallnacht, and a preprinted postcard sent from Theresienstadt (Terezin) in 1944 sent to one of the Rosenbaum's cousins. Also includes an autograph album with entries mainly dating 1906-1908 but also an entry written by Eva Rosenbaum prior to joining her father in England. Includes information r...

  7. Olga Klein Astrachan papers

    1. Olga Klein Astrachan collection

    The Olga Klein Astrachan papers consist of original and photocopied biographical and photographic materials and personal narratives documenting Russian‐born Olga Klein Astrachan and her family’s survival in France during the Holocaust. The papers also include postcards from her husband’s relatives confined to the Otwock ghetto and printed materials documenting German‐occupied France and French collaboration. Biographical materials include identification and registration papers for the Astrachan and Klein families in France, receipts documenting efforts to send help to Astrachan family membe...

  8. Inge Fischer Engel papers

    The Inge Fischer Engel papers consist of biographical materials, a diary and autograph book, photographic materials, and printed materials documenting the Fischer family from Vienna, the two years Inge and her sister spent in England, the family’s emigration to Trinidad, their internment in Trinidad, and their immigration to the United States. The collection also includes photographs documenting Inge’s uncle in Shanghai and the Canidrome where he worked as director, photographs of her husband’s family from Vienna, and student and employment records documenting her brother-inlaw, Otto Engel....

  9. Harry and Clare Lerner papers

    The Harry and Clare Lerner papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, printed materials, reports, memoranda, and subject files documenting Harry Lerner’s work as UNRRA director of Displaced Persons centers in Stuttgart, Hof, Rehau, and Vilseck, Clare’s work alongside him, and their marriage. Biographical materials include assignment and travel orders issued to Harry and Clare Lerner and Clare Lerner’s Occupational Force Travel Permit. Correspondence consists primarily of letters written by Harry and Clare Lerner at the Stuttgart and Vilseck DP centers to Harry’s family descri...

  10. La Defense du People anti-Jewish propaganda stamp

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Antisemitic propaganda stamp featuring symbols associated with the Volksverwering (or Volkswering, Defense of the People), a Belgian nationalist and anti-Jewish organization, active during the late 1930s and early 1940s. It features a red design on a black background, with text directed at Jews and the image of a human skull beside the organization’s symbol, an encircled Othala rune. The rune was part of a pre-Roman alphabet used in Europe. The Nazis adopted the rune as a symbol, using it as the divisional insignia for two SS divisions. Nazi use of the rune inspired other antisemitic groups...

  11. La Defense du People anti-Jewish propaganda stamp

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Antisemitic propaganda stamp featuring symbols associated with the Volksverwering (or Volkswering, Defense of the People), a Belgian nationalist and anti-Jewish organization, active during the late 1930s and early 1940s. It features a red design on a black background, with text directed at Jews and the image of a human skull beside the organization’s symbol, an encircled Othala rune. The rune was part of a pre-Roman alphabet used in Europe. The Nazis adopted the rune as a symbol, using it as the divisional insignia for two SS divisions. Nazi use of the rune inspired other antisemitic groups...

  12. La Defense du People anti-Jewish propaganda stamp

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Antisemitic propaganda stamp featuring symbols associated with the Volksverwering (or Volkswering, Defense of the People), a Belgian nationalist and anti-Jewish organization, active during the late 1930s and early 1940s. It features a red design on a black background, with text directed at Jews and the image of a human skull beside the organization’s symbol, an encircled Othala rune. The rune was part of a pre-Roman alphabet used in Europe. The Nazis adopted the rune as a symbol, using it as the divisional insignia for two SS divisions. Nazi use of the rune inspired other antisemitic groups...

  13. La Defense du People anti-Jewish propaganda stamp

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Antisemitic propaganda stamp featuring symbols associated with the Volksverwering (or Volkswering, Defense of the People), a Belgian nationalist and anti-Jewish organization, active during the late 1930s and early 1940s. It features a red design on a black background, with text directed at Jews and the image of a human skull beside the organization’s symbol, an encircled Othala rune. The rune was part of a pre-Roman alphabet used in Europe. The Nazis adopted the rune as a symbol, using it as the divisional insignia for two SS divisions. Nazi use of the rune inspired other antisemitic groups...

  14. Goldlust family papers

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences of the Goldlust family of Konstanz, Germany including Manja Goldlust and her children Paula and Leo’s deportations to the Gurs and Rivesaltes internment camps in France, correspondence from the camps with Manja’s husband Bernhard Goldlust in England, and Bernhard’s attempts to help them immigrate to England. Biographical material consists of Bernhard’s Foreigner passport (Fremden Pass), primarily postwar identification documents of Paula (some documents place her birth as 1928), an affidavit and related documents...

  15. BOROD (BORODITSKY), Sam and Layah = Canadian Jewish Servicemen Memoir and Pioneer Women Na'amat

    Diary written while a World War II soldier, in a small notebook, also available in digital format; comprising 33 out of the approximately 127 pages of scanned materials, which also include newsclippings and photographs. CD of the digital copies of the diary and other documents, as initially received and scanned by Tatiana Jour in the context of her Russian Jewish Archives Project. It was noted at the time of the donation to the Archives that further materials on UNRAA (postwar aid to refugees) and Na'amat could be donated by the Borods at a later date. Added in 2007: Materials in prose, poe...

  16. Hans Seelig: papers

    This collection contains the personal and family papers of Hans Seelig, university lecturer and musician and former Kindertransport refugee from Mannheim, Germany. The papers include material which documents Hans' life as a school student, his life as a languages student in Oxford, his life as a school teacher and later a university lecturer, his role as chairman of the Club 1943 (1860/1/6), and his activities as a musician (1860/1-2). Also included are papers and correspondence of his father Eugen (1860/2), mother Franziska (1860/3/1) including correspondence with friend of the family Alfr...

  17. Stephanie Brady and Walter and Paula Bolton: personal papers

    Readers should reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection contains the personal papers of Viennese Jewish refugees Walter and Paula Bolton, and Steffi Brady (née Kohn).

    Personal papers including copy correspondence by Josef and Jenny Hausmann from Camp de Recebedou, photograph of a class taught by Josef Hausmann, copy articles relating to the school in Karlsruhe where Hausmann worked; and paper entitled 'Die zerschlagene Tafel - Jüdisches Leben in Durlach'. 

  18. Heydecker: family papers

    This collection contains personal papers and correspondence of the Heydecker family, German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany who settled in Great Britain shortly before the outbreak of World War II.

  19. George Vulkan collection

    The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between Abraham and Amalie's children in England, Scotland and Austria, in particular letters to Marcel and his sister Regina (Regi). A major theme of the letters is the attempts to help the family members in Austria escape to Britain and the frustrations arising out of the difficulty of this. There are also materials on German, Austrian and Czechoslovakian refugees’ life in Britain in the 1940s, as well as notes and texts written by George Vulkan on his family history.

  20. Records of the Executive Committee of the World Jewish Congress, Paris Exekutivkomitee des Jüdischen Weltkongresses, Paris (Fond 1190)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Records related to the organization of the First World Jewish Congress (WJC). Includes minutes of the sessions of the WJC central bureau and executive and administrative committees, accounts and correspondence related to the political and organizational activities of the Committee, letters, petitions, memoranda, and press releases related to the persecution of Jews in various countries, correspondence with Jewish organizations, international organization (League of Nations), government and public officials, lists of local WJC committee members and leaders of Jewish organizations in various ...