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  1. Archive of the Federation of Swiss Jewish Communities (SIG) Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund (SIG)

    Pertains to the activities of the Federation of Swiss Jewish Communities (SIG). Contains records relating to immigration and emigration of Jews; to the rescue of Jews from Nazi-occupied areas of Europe; care of the refugees’ financial needs; founding of the Hilfe und Aufbau commission, which goal was to support and rebuild the ravaged, remaining Jewish communities in Europe and to assist stateless Jewish Holocaust survivors with emigration to Palestine, Israel, and to other destinations.

  2. Yvette Farnoux collection

    Consists of copies of two letters, in English. Dr. René Bine, Jr wrote the first letter to his parents, René Bine, Sr., MD and Alma Bine, in San Francisco after visiting his relative, Yvette Baumann Bernard Farnoux, and her family in Paris in September 1945. In the letter, he describes Yvette's experiences as a high-ranking member of the French Resistance, her activities in the French underground, her arrest, and her experiences in Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and a forced labor camp near Dresden. She was given the rank of Captain in the Reserves as an honor after her return from the camps. Yvet...

  3. Nachlass Avner W. Less papers

    Contains correspondence, memos, diaries, newspaper clippings, lectures, articles, photographs, transcripts of the Israeli Police, case studies, registers of records , and audio interviews from the Adolf Eichmann trial. This collection documents the interrogation of Adolf Eichmann by Avner W. Less and the subsequent trial in Israel. Also includes photocopies from the Bundesarchiv Koblenz of the transcripts of the Eichmann interview conducted by Wilhelm Sassen in 1956. Includes correspondence by Avner Less with publishing houses and newspapers, as well as individuals such as Robert Kempner, J...

  4. Simon Silver collection

    Consists of one typescript biography, 44 pages, entitled: "Simon: from Darkness at the Break of Noon 'til Dawn's Early Light, an Abridged Oral History" by Dave Hunterman (pen name), written in 2011. Huntermann describes the experiences of his father, Simon Silver, who was born in Chelm, Poland. After the German invasion and after briefly spending time in the Warsaw ghetto, he returned to Chelm and managed to briefly escape deportation. He was sent on a death march and bribed a Nazi soldier with a gold coin to avoid being shot. Simon, his brother, brother-in-law, and friend escaped during a ...

  5. Alliance of Concentration Camp Survivors, Vienna KZ-Verband Wien

    Contains 14,087 membership applications and their respective case files of Austrian former concentration camp inmates. The KZ-Verband (Association of Concentration Camp Survivors) in Vienna collected these applications from concentration camp survivors. The membership in the KZ-Verband was crucial in getting a formal recognition as a victim of Nazi persecution and compensation from the Austrian government. Approximately 75% of the collected cases pertain to political victims while the remaining 25% (approximately 3,750 cases) pertain to Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. The association fo...

  6. Hashomer Hatzair in Yugoslavia (RG 3-2)

    Consists of records of the Hashomer Hatzair Worker Committee in Yugoslavia. Contains personal papers of Menachem Shelah and of Rachel and Zvi Loke including speeches; leaflets; the alumni newspaper; letters and postcards, 1930 to 1940; various photographs of refugees from Italy, dated July 1943; name lists of students; and records pertaining to the movement of Communist educational activities in Zagreb, June 14, 1937.

  7. Hashomer Hatzair Prague-Bratislava Office (RG-33)

    Contains correspondence, letters, diaries, activity reports of the Hashomer Hatzair, Prague-Bratislava office concerning refugee camps, immigration, summer settlements, and a seminar held in Lindenfels (Germany). Records relate to the Hashomer Hatzair movement in various European countries or areas such as Poland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Romania, Transylvania, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Italy, and France.

  8. Hashomer Hatzair Paris Office (RG-34) הלשכה האירופאית בפריס

    Contains correspondence and letters with the Hashomer Hatzair movement in various countries, such as France, Belgium, Israel, England, Austria, Chile, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Germany, Italy etc.; also letters written by the leadership, activity reports, accounting and financial reports, newspapers of the movement. Included are MAPAM (United Worker's Party) correspondence, reports and correspondence with the Conference of Jewish Materials Claims against Germany (CJMCAG).

  9. Hashomer Hatzair Buenos Aires Office (RG 35)

    Contains correspondence and letters of the Hashomer Hatzair leadership, Israel Rappaport, Meir Sal, Rotem Eliezer, Ariel Said, Sandra Tz'mh, Pesach Zskin, Hao Senkman, Shlomo Slutzky, Avery Fisher, Enrique Zvika, Shani Haim, Daniel Geller, Diana Niimark, and Dario Teitelbaum (founder of the Ken headquarters, i.e. "nest"). Also includes various advertisements, and other records regarding a construction site in Santa Fe, Argentina, and a collection of articles about missing persons in Argentina during the "Dirty War" from 1976 to 1983.

  10. Hashomer Hatzair World Headquarters Representation in Palestine (RG 1.2-ה)

    Contains correspondence, and letters of the top leadership of the Hashomer Hatzair in Palestine with the offices in various countries such as France, Belgium, Israel, England, Austria, Chile, and Morocco. Includes action reports, newspapers, and other documents concerning activities of Jewish communities, organization of the pioneer conferences, colonies, kibbutzim, trainings, immigration, refugees from Germany, and the Hashomer Hatzair union branches in Galicia. Also contains records pertaining to the youth movements Maccabi and Keren–Hashomer; the National Conference, 1932; the Chief Coun...

  11. Hashomer Hatzair World Headquarters Warsaw (RG 2-ה)

    Contains records pertaining to the Hashomer Hatzair Supreme Leadership - Center in Warsaw, Poland. Includes correspondence with the envoys from the Zionist Organization and Gordonia, from countries such as Cuba, Poland, Lithuania, Sweden, Greece, England, Romania, Egypt, Argentina, Denmark, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Germany, and Austria. Main subjects relate to kibbutzim, colonies, immigration, the youth alliance, scouting, the global Zionism movement and education, Jewish communities, trainings, pioneer conferences, the Zionist Congress, the camp in Belgium, Zionist workers, and the establishme...

  12. Bernard Rolland de Miota collection

    Consists of copies of official documents, identity cards, telegrams, transcripts, and notes submitted to Yad Vashem by Alain de Toledo as supporting documentation for the case that Spanish Consul in Paris Bernard Rolland de Miota be considered Righteous Among the Nations for his role in saving Jews. Includes part of a masters thesis by Pascale Blin, in which she interviewed those saved by de Miota, and documents from various Spanish archives about his activities.

  13. Ivan Backer testimonies

    Consists of a series of short written testimonies written by Ivan Backer between 2002-2009 about his childhood in pre-war Czechoslovakia, the German invasion, leaving for England on a children's transport, and adjusting to life in England.

  14. "My Uncle"

    Consists of one manuscript, 11 pages, entitled "My Uncle" by Yisrael Rudi Lichtner, written in 2011. In the manuscript,Yisrael describes his childhood in Rome, Italy, and the experience of meeting his uncle David, who spent the war as a Hungarian Jewish prisoner in a Siberian prisoner of war camp. He describes David's experiences searching for any family members who survived the war, finding Yisrael's family, getting married and then being separated from them when the Iron Curtain fell over Hungary. David and his wife were able to reunite with them in 1958 and then immigrated to Israel. Yis...

  15. "Dear Family"

    Consists of one memoir, 147 pages, entitled "Dear Family," by Hans Joachim Haller, originally of Berlin, Germany. He describes his childhood in a wealthy family in Berlin, being persecuted by the Nazis, his family's escape over the border to Czechoslovakia and joining family in Czernowitz.The family moved to Bucharest and Hans describes the Russian occupation, the beginning of the war, being moved into the ghetto, and various forced labor assignments outside the ghetto. He hid his Jewish identity and joined the Romanian Army as a mechanic, deserting in 1943. He returned to Czernowitz and ma...

  16. "The Fine Line"

    Consists of one memoir, 176 pages, entitled "The Fine Line" by Asriel Waldman, originally of Czernowitz. In the memoir, Waldman describes his childhood memories in Vicna and in Zastavna, his memories of his relatives, and of Jewish life. He describes the changes that occurred after the outbreak of the war and after the 1940 Russian occupation. The Waldman family was deported from Zastava on October 14, 1941 to Bershad in Transnistria and Asriel's parents both perished within the first year. In February 1944, Asriel, his siblings, and a cousin were selected to return to Romanian and travel t...

  17. Sven Nordström collection

    Consists of documents related to Sven Nordström's claims for restitution as a subject of medical experimentation in Buchenwald and Dachau and his claims for recognition for his post-war role as a Nazi hunter and as a person who discovered Nazi treasure. Nordström petitioned various levels of American government for this recognition and the collection includes his supporting biographical statements.

  18. 166th Signal Corps liberation images

    Consists of paper cards with printed photographs of images of concentration camp liberation which were taken by the 166th Signal Corps company. Includes the burial of slave laborers killed near Nurnberg and near Wetterfeld and Schwarzenfeld as well as images of corpses discovered at the Ohrdruf, Buchenwald, and Hergenheim concentration camps.

  19. Irving and Ennis Rosenberg photograph album

    Consists of five pages from a photograph album owned by Irving and Ennis (Chumley) Rosenberg, who worked on the cruise ship USS Leviathan, and through that visited Bremen and Hamburg, Germany, in 1932. Includes postcards of Adolf Hitler and candid photographs of Hitler, of a Nazi parade and rally, and of local architecture. Ennis Rosenberg annotated the album pages, questioning the future of Germany with Hitler as potential leader.

  20. Borowczyk family photographs

    Consists of a copyprint image of Jozef Borowczyk, who was a Polish prisoner of war who was imprisoned in Germany from 1939 until he was killed at the end of March 1945. Also includes a photograph of Maria Borowczyk, Jozef's wife, who raised their four children. The family finally learned of Jozef's death in July 2010.