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  1. Selected records, Obóz Koncentracyjny w Buchenwaldzie Konzentrationslager Buchenwald (GK 127)

    Orders of the camp commandant, statistics, alphabetical list of refugees, interrogations of prisoners, personal files, list of clerical prisoners, transport lists, Effektenkammer files, lists of deceased prisoners, daily reports of the camp hospital, name lists of prisoners numbers: 43001-51000; 59001-121400; 128401-140068; a fragment of the personal files of Polish prisoners who arrived at the camp in April 1945, card files of prisoners No. 1-1201; Veraenderungsmeldungs (reports on changes in the number of prisoners in the camp).

  2. Registration lists of the Polish citizens and ethnic Poles repatriated from the Soviet Ukraine to Poland (Fond 3229)

    The collection contains case files and registration lists of Polish citizens and ethnic Poles who applied for repatriation to Poland from Soviet Ukraine. Registration lists include the names of the returnees, gender, nationality, date of birth, marital status, place of residence, occupation and description of movable personal property (cattle, agricultural tools and machinery, etc.). The repatriation of Polish citizens and ethnic Poles was carried out under the auspices of the L’viv Regional Office of the Chief Representative of the Government of Soviet Ukraine on Repatriation Issues. This ...

  3. Hampstead Garden Suburb Care Committee for Refugee Children: index

    These index cards are evidence of the activities of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Care Committee for Refugee Children in connection with the Movement for the Care of Children from Germany (British Inter-Aid Committee). The index cards of the children contain personal data and passport photographs. It seems that the cards were produced following a British Government initiative to simplify admittance procedures for children up to the age of 17 years.There are essentially 3 types of index card. One gives the particulars of the child, including the fate of the parents, and often has passport phot...

  4. Dann family papers and the records of Bulldogs Bank

    This collection comprises two separate, though linked, archival fonds. The papers at 1070/1-4 record the lives of the Dann family, a renowned Augsburg Jewish family. Documents relating to Sophie and Gertrud Dann, the depositors of this collection, feature most prominently.At 1070/5 are papers which document the history and activities of the Hamstead Nursery and Bulldog Bank. For an account of the sisters' work there see some of the autobiographical accounts in the personal papers of Sophie Dann at 1070/3.

  5. Siegfried Meyerhof: Family papers

    This collection comprises the mostly 19th century papers of the Meyerhof family including certificates, military service papers, family trees, papers re the synagogue community, Wolfhagen, inheritance certificates, tax records, powers of attorney 

  6. Ruth Ibbitson (née Peschel) collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Ruth Peschel, a Jewish girl from Breslau who emigrated on a Kindertransport to the UK in 1939.These comprise correspondence with her family including a letter from her brother in Auschwitz concentration camp, as well as documents, including: work reference, police clearance certificate, tax clearance certificate, police notice of departure, identity card for young persons admitted to the UK under the care of the Inter-Aid Committee for Children and short life histories. There are digital copies of her passport and steamship...

  7. Papers regarding Erich Wolfsfeld

    This collection consists of papers relating to German Jewish artist and professor at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, Erich Wolfsfeld.Papers Including mainly press cuttings regarding his exhibitions, exhibition catalogues, drawings, photographs and correspondence from Franka Minden. Also includes a short autobiography.

  8. Elli Kamm: personal papers on Terezin ghetto

    This collection contains the personal papers of Elli Kamm relating to her and her sister's restitution claim.Personal papers Including restitution papers, eyewitness testimonies, Elli Kamm's 'Arbeitsbuch' and various work references.English, German

  9. Rolf Oppenheimer: family papers

    This collection comprises one folder containing the personal papers of Rolf Oppenheimer including his father's WWI Iron Cross certificate, work references, RAF application papers, naturalisation papers; also his uncle, Walter Fels' restitution claim including an affidavit from Ernst Niquet confirming that he hid Walter Fels in Berlin during the latter years of the war. In an audio interview the donor describes life in Berlin during the Novemberpogrom, 1938 prior to coming to Great Britain, including his membership of the Hitler Youth; details of the desperation of residents trying to l...

  10. Captain Robert Philip Baker-Byrne: personal papers

    This collection of personal papers documents, in part, the life of Robert Philip Baker-Byrne, formerly Rudolf Philipp Becker, a German Jewish emigrant to Great Britain who, having served in the Pioneer Corps, ended his war time activities working for the British Secret Service, and after the war as a war crimes investigator.

  11. Mira Hamermesh family papers

    This collection contains papers relating to Mira Hamermesh including  correspondence between Mira and father, Genia, 1938-1940 (1862/1/1-20); general correspondence, 1939-1940 (1862/2/1-21); Correspondence Mira to Mietek with transcriptions, 1942-1943 (1862/3/1-30); postcards from Mira's parents to Mira with translations (1862/4/1-12) copy photographs (1862/5); obituaries (1862/6-7); a chronology of Mira's life (1862/8); personal account by Mira Hamermesh (1862/9); Fay Weldon's introduction to The River of Angry Dogs (1862/10) 

  12. Eyewitness testimony collection

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection consists primarily of testimonies of Holocaust survivors who describe life before during and after the Nazi era. Most of the material focuses on the period of persecution. Some of the items in the collection are not testimonies per se but contemporary documents which were donated and later subsumed into this collection. These latter have nonetheless been catalogued and indexed in the same way as the testimonies.

  13. Eva Williams: Family papers

    This collection comprises the papers of Emanuel Kohn including certificates and testimonials, photographs, copy Red Cross telegrams, family tree; also letters from Kazakhstan from Richard Kohn to Eva Williams, 1983-1997.  

  14. Wahle family papers

    The collection comprises a significant amount of incoming and copy outgoing correspondence between Karl and Hedwig and various friends, colleagues and relations. 

  15. Raphael Lemkin papers

    This collection of Raphael Lemkin's papers documents his intense interest in the subject of genocide. The originals are held at the New York Public Library, from which the text of the following catalogue was obtained. The papers largely document Lemkin's intense interest in the subject of genocide. With the exception of a draft of his autobiography, Unofficial Man, the collection contains very little personal material. The correspondence is both incoming and outgoing, with public officials, newspapers, academics, and religious groups. It relates to Lemkin's struggle for support for the rati...

  16. Szymon Burg family papers

    1. Eugenia Josefsberg Burg collection

    Contains 24 photographs, dated circa 1914-1949, and documents relating to the Szymon Burg family of Boryslaw (Galicia), Poland. Documents include typed post-war testimonies, registration documents for Central Committee of Polish Jews, and paperwork prepared for restitution purposes, including affidavits from friends of Szymon and Eugene Burg living in Israel, who confirmed the veracity of their stories.

  17. Association of Jewish Merchants and Craftsmen, Vienna Verband der jüdischen kaufleute und handwerker, Wien (Fond 1191)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    This collection contains various office records of the Association of Jewish Merchants and Craftsmen in Vienna, Austria: correspondence; minutes of board meetings and general meetings of the membership; records pertaining to the association's publication "Die Wirtschaft"; and financial records. Includes also questionnaires about association member’s professions; issues of the Vienna commercial and industrial newspaper and of the Czechoslovakian economic bulletin “Vestnik”; and informational bulletin of the Austrian Chamber of Exports. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  18. Central Office for Austrian Emigrants, Paris Zentrale Vereinigung österreichischer Emigranten, Paris (Fond 542)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    This collection contains various documents about the terms of reference of the Central Office, which functioned as a clearinghouse of information for emigrants. Topics include the activities of Austrian expatriates, events in Austria, and the experience of Austrian prisoners in camps such as Buchenwald and Dachau. Types of documents include press clippings, letters, reports, manuscripts, periodical articles and bulletins of the Central Office. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  19. World Organization against Racial Hatred and Poverty (Vienna) Weltorganisation gegen Rassenhaß und Menschennot (Harandbewegung), Wien (Fond 520)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Contains bylaws, memoranda, minutes, instructions, and appeals of the Weltorganisation gegen Rassenhass und Menschennot (World Organization against Racial Hatred and Poverty); biographical information on the organization's leader, Irene Harand; applications to join the organization; correspondence with subscribers to the newspaper "Gerechtigkeit" (organized by country), lists of subscribers; correspondence on providing aid to the Jewish population of Vienna; letters of invitations to Harand; proposals for publication, orders for journals and books; articles on the situation of Jews; a card ...

  20. I'm An American -- Johannes Steele

    1. "I'm An American" NBC radio broadcasts

    On April 13, 1941 Johannes Steele spoke with Mr. Edward Shaughnessy, Deputy Commissioner of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, about democracy and his hope for a united Europe. Johannes Steele explains why he chose America as his adopted country, as well as the importance of democracy and small town newspapers. The columnist states the American public is the best informed because American journalists have the most rights in the world. Steels discusses his prediction of the war in his book, "The Second World War." He also references how European refugees, who have conf...