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  3. Gerszmon Ronie letter

    1. Barry Kogan collection

    A letter written by Gerszmon Ronie, an inmate of the camp N1041 in Windsheim, in the American occupation zone in Germany. It is addressed to Mr. Trygvie Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations, and requests that Ronie be taken from Windsheim camp and be allowed to live in Palestine.

  4. Selected records from the State Archives of the Andijan Region related to the evacuation of civilians during WWII

    Collection contains records related to the evacuation of civilians to the Andijan Region of Uzbekistan during WWII. It includes correspondence of the state authorithies regarding resettlement and employement of evacuated civilians, list of factory workers relocated to Andijan, lists of orphans, correspondence related to search of misssing relatives and other documentation

  6. Wasservogel Wellerson families collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence relating to Dorrit Wasservogel Wellerson (donor’s late wife), born in Vienna, Austria in 1923, and her parents Marcel and Klara Wasservogel. The Wasservogel family left Austria on August 20, 1939 for India. On September 1, 1939 the war broke out and they were trapped in Naples, Italy not being able to proceed. They later moved to Rome, but in 1940 they were placed in internment camp in Atripalda in Forino, Italy, not far from Naples. From October 1943 Forino was under Allied control. In July 1944 the Wasservogel family joined approxim...

  7. Harold Fishbein collection

    1. Harold Fishbein collection

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Harold Fishbein, Director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration’s Schlachtensee DP camp (Düppel Center) near Berlin. Included is personal correspondence, a draft copy for a book he was writing about the DP camp, speech outlines and miscellaneous documents, and over 400 photographs depicting Fishbein, Schlachtensee DP camp, and displaced persons.

  8. Torah-style scroll and case signed by residents of Schlachtensee DP camp

    1. Harold Fishbein collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn530985
    • English
    • 1946
    • a: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) b: Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm)

    Torah-style scroll with blue velvet cover bearing the signatures of several residents of Schlachtensee DP camp in post war Germany. The scroll was dedicated to Harold Fishbein and dated 1946, in honor of Fishbein’s 25th wedding anniversary.

  9. Anti-Polish propaganda just prior to outbreak of war

    Excerpts from the last newsreel before the outbreak of war. Women and children who have allegedly suffered at the hands of the Poles are interviewed in a German refugee camp. A weeping woman tells her story. The ship Schleswig-Holstein arrives in Danzig harbor. Joyous civilians and members of the Kriegsmarine wave to the the ship from the shore. Men in formal navy dress uniforms leave the ship and review sailors lined up on the dock. A banner reads "Wilkommen Schleswig-Holstein". German draftees, still wearing civilian clothes, stand at attention at roll call, then are issued shoes and unif...

  10. Selected records from the State Archives of the Samara Region, Russian Federation

    Contains selected records of the former Communist Party Archives of the Samara (Kuĭbyshev) Region related to the evacuation of Soviet civilians to the Samara Region during WWII. It includes correspondence files related to their resettlement and name lists of communists evacuated to the region from various regions of the former USSR.

  11. Ann & Kurt Jacoby collection

    Collection consists of documents, photographs and correspondence pertaining to Martha and Eric Jacoby and their sons Gerhard and Kurt who were forced to flee Berlin in late November 1938 and settle in Shanghai, China, where they stayed until 1947. The collection also includes photographs of Herta and Paul Berghausen and their daughter Hannelore (later Ann Jacoby), as well as extended family in pre-war Hamm, Germany before the immediate family fled to the United States in 1938.

  12. Jewish Union for resistance and mutual aid Fonds David Diamant/Union des Juifs pour la Résistance et l'entr'aide (UJRE)

    This collection contains information about David Diamant (David Erlich), a Communist who remained in Paris during World War II, took part in the Resistance, and after the war worked with the UJRE helping Jewish refugees from Poland. It includes documents concerning Jewish immigrants in the Communist Party; documents of Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War; the final letters of Jewish resistance fighters before their execution; postwar personal files on Polish Jews requesting aid; files on children in Communist-sponsored orphanages (Comité central de l'enfance); books from lending libr...

  13. 120. [Corrispondenza Delasem] - I-J

    1. Lelio Vittorio Valobra
    2. Delasem Svizzera. Corrispondenza ordinata alfabeticamente sulla base del mittente

    Corrispondenza relativa a richiesta di aiuti alla Delasem Svizzera. I corrispondenti si rivolgono a Valobra per vari motivi: per ottenere un lavoro, l'uscita dal campo, un sostegno economico o un aiuto pratico per garantire ai figli piccoli un'istruzione in Svizzera, notizie relative a parenti o amici deportati o scomparsi, proteste per difficoltà cui la Delasem non era stata in grado di ovviare. Il fascicolo contiene lettere di corrispondenti la cui iniziale del cognome è la lettera I-J: Jacchia Enrico; Jewish Search Centre; Irgun Olè Italia; Juna; Jarach Guido; Girolamo Isetta; Jewish Ref...

  15. Records relating to the work of William H. Ramkey with displaced persons in Allied-occupied Austria

    1. William H. Ramkey collection

    Consists of ten documents (photocopies and originals) concerning William Ramkey's involvement with displaced persons programs in Allied-occupied Austria. Among the papers are personal letters to and from the donor and various documents relating to Ramkey's work with the 83rd Infantry Division, the Displaced Persons Advisory Board, and the experiences of displaced persons in Austria.

  16. Records relating to the work of William Ramkey with displaced persons in Allied-occupied Austria

    1. William H. Ramkey collection

    Consists of documents relating to William Ramkey's involvement with displaced persons in Allied-occupied Austria. Among the papers are reports written by Ramkey as a member of the 83rd US Infantry Division, materials relating to the Displaced Persons Advisory Board, and UNRRA.

  17. Records relating to the work of William Ramkey with displaced persons in Allied-occupied Austria

    1. William H. Ramkey collection

    Consists of documents relating to William Ramkey's work with displaced persons in Austria after World War II. Among the topics found in the documents are displaced persons, the situation of Jews in Austria, rationing programs for displaced persons, activities of the US Army in the occupied areas of Austria, and information concerning the UNRRA.