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  1. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 10 cent note

    1. Michael W. Barnes collection

    Westerbork voucher, value 10 cents, acquired by Michael W. Barnes. This scrip was issued in Westerbork transit camp beginning February 15, 1944. Inmates were not allowed to have currency, which was confiscated. The vouchers [gutschein] were distributed as an incentive for doing work. Netherlands was occupied by Germany in May 1940. The camp, in northeast Holland, was originally set up by the Dutch in 1939 to intern Jewish refugees. In July 1942, the German security police and the SS turned it into a transit camp to hold prisoners before deporting them to concentration camps in the east, whe...

  2. Marlo S. and Sella K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marlo S., who was born in 1930, and her mother Sella K., who was born in 1910. Mrs. K. recalls growing up in Angerkrug, Germany (now We?gorzewo, Poland); marriage; and moving with her family and parents to Kovno in 1938 to escape the Nazis. Mrs. S. recalls Soviet occupation; confiscation of the family business; German invasion; ghettoization; her grandparents' execution; a German guard who helped her escape an "aktion"; transfer with her family to a forced labor camp; her aunt's efforts to make her appear older; separation from her father and brother a year later (she...

  3. Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (S26)

    Contains various records and correspondence on the situation of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe and on Jewish refugees in Palestine. Includes reports prepared by envoys in Istanbul, correspondence concerning Australian, Argentinean, South African, Iraqi and other Jewish communities, search requests for missing relatives, aid requests from individuals in Palestine and abroad, requests for the release of prisoners from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, correspondence regarding compensation, assistance to children and youth, and the situation of Jewish refugees after the Holocaust. Contains t...

  4. Bernat family photographs

    Consists of photographs of Andre Bernat and Magda (née Szemere) Bernat and their son Istvan (Stephen) while the family was living in a displaced persons camp in Bamberg, Germany. Included is a photo of the Bernats at the time of their wedding in 1946 as well as photos of the Bernats among friends and family. Among surviving relatives depicted are Andre's sister, Ibolya Weiss (later Violet White), and Magda's grandmother Julia Kainer Neufeld.

  5. Jean F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean F. who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1924. She recalls a happy childhood despite prevalent antisemitism; warnings from German refugees; German invasion in 1939; immediate arrests and shootings of Jews; ghettoization; her selection for transport to Gleiwitz in March 1942; slave labor in an ammunition factory; a death march to a train in January 1945; and escape from the train in Czechoslovakia. Mrs. F. describes a village woman's efforts to hide them; arrest and imprisonment in Prague; transfer to Theresienstadt; and liberation by the Red Cross. She recounts he...

  6. Documentation regarding the establishment of the War Refugee Board, the negotiations with SS representatives regarding the rescue of the Jews in Hungary and the Baltic States, financing of the JDC's relief activities, and other matters, 1943-1945

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Documentation regarding the establishment of the War Refugee Board, the negotiations with SS representatives regarding the rescue of the Jews in Hungary and the Baltic States, financing of the JDC's relief activities, and other matters, 1943-1945 - Discussions between Saly Mayer and Daniel J. Reagan in the United States Legation in Bern, regarding the transfer of monies from the United States to Switzerland, with the aim of giving help to the Jewish refugees (see files 1-4); - Documentation regarding the financing of relief activities in France; - Announcement by the US State Department reg...

  7. Betty G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betty G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1914. She recalls a comfortable life; frequently hearing antisemitic remarks; attending a Jewish school; marriage; German invasion; her husband's mobilization; anti-Jewish laws; receiving messages from her husband; escaping with her sister to join him in Soviet-occupied Baranavichy in February 1940; separation from her sister (she never saw her again); arrest with her husband in June; a six-week journey to Siberia; forced labor in a remote camp; freezing conditions and hunger; being freed when Germany attacked the Soviet Uni...

  8. [Measures taken against Jews]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several documents dealing with regulations and procedures against Jews by the Nazi military commanders in France. Information and telegrams about confiscations of Jewish property and aryanizations are given. Under the topic of measures against Jews correspondences regarding the confiscations of Jewish property in Epinal, France are attached. The Lehmann Sohn company, buying and selling cotton waste, was managed on January 6, 1941 under the provisional rule. The German authority had ordered the determination of the stocks. The contents of Levy Charmes' warehouse were also c...

  11. Madelyn L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Madelyn L., who was born in Dereczyn, Poland (now Dzi?a?re?chyn, Belarus)) in 1933, the seventh of eight children. She describes their poverty; her father's emigration to Paris to obtain a rabbinical position; traveling to join him a few years later (1937); a week's stay in a Berlin convent waiting for their documents from Poland; settling in Paris; German invasion; evacuation to Normandy to avoid bombings; returning to Paris; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the yellow star; her mother's detention in Drancy; her older's sister's efforts to obtain their mot...

  12. Salomon Windmuller collection

    The Salomon Windmuller papers document Windmuller’s life in Germany, internment in France, and immigration to the United States and consist of a school certificate, World War I commendation, Reichsbund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten membership card, American immigration quota number, tax office clearance certificate, internment camp release certificate, transit pass, request for leave from the Gurs concentration camp, and an identification card renewal receipt as well as photocopies of a safe passage certificate, of a letter from the American Consulate in Marseille, and of a telegram confirming th...

  13. Loni K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Loni K., who was born in Essen, Germany, in 1913. Mrs. K. recalls illegally emigrating to Holland in mid-1933; working as a servant and a legal secretary in Amsterdam; German occupation; her mother and sisters' emigration (her father was deported in 1942 and died in Theresienstadt); imposition of antisemitic restrictions; protection from deportation because she worked for the Joodse Raad; transport to Westerbork in mid-1943; transport to Theresienstadt in February 1944; working in a coffin factory; and details of her arrival at Auschwitz in May 1944. She tells of tran...

  14. Ludwig H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ludwig H., who was born in Gru?nberg, Germany in 1902. He describes moving to Breslau, then Dortmund where he spent his youth and young adulthood; anti-Semitic incidents prior to the war; arrest in 1933 by three Nazis; imprisonment with his dog; the return of his dog by the S.A. to Mr. H.'s mother; his own release after eight days with a document certifying his imprisonment; and escape with his brother to Paris, where he was allowed to remain because of the document which proved he was a victim of religious persecution. He recalls working for a banker; his marriage in...

  15. Brunner and Albin family collection

    Consists of a collection of identity cards, documents, and immigration paperwork related to Robert and Alice Albin Brunner, originally of Vienna, Austria. Includes documentation related to their 1938 immigration to Bolivia, and immigration in 1944 to the United States. Also includes one typed testimony, 5 pages, written by Peter Brunner in 2011. In the testimony, Mr. Brunner describes his parents' Holocaust experiences; this testimony was prepared to assist Mr. Brunner in obtaining Austrian citizenship. Also includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Brunner and Albin famili...

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    Working Girls Hostel, women reading magazines in the rest room. EXT of building. Hand weaving, chair caning. Sign on door, "Beth Hachalutzoth" (built in 1936). 01:34:18 INT, bank in Tel Aviv where immigrants receive loans, people applying for loans, receiving money. 01:34:54 EXT, street, laborers gathered outside main entrance of Labor headquarters building in Tel Aviv where registration and distribution of work to all laborers gets processed. 01:35:19 Construction for housing project/cooperative in south Tel Aviv, land provided by the Jewish National Fund. Children crossing street. Sign at...

  17. 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.

  18. Adler family papers

    Consists of correspondence received by the Adler family while they were residing as refugees in Switzerland. The letters, primarily addressed to the donor's parents, Camillo Adler (1905-1985) and Martha Kraus (1901-1969), were from other refugees and forced laborers from refugee and labor camps.

  19. Testimony of Vojtech Dov Glaz, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk and in combat in Kiev, Bila Cerkev, Sokolovo and Dukla

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Vojtech Dov Glaz, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk and in combat in Kiev, Bila Cerkev, Sokolovo and Dukla Life of a privileged Jewish political group in the Soviet Union, 1939-1941; life of Austrian political refugees in the Soviet Union; situation of refugees after outbreak of war, 1941; role of Jewish volunteers in the foundation of the Czechoslovakian battalion in Buzuluk, 1942; Sokolovo battle, 1943; role of Jewish nurses and doctors; retreat and regrouping in Veseloye; Jews i...

  20. Ava Schonberg photographs

    Consists of twelve original photographs and five copies of photographs of Ava Schonberg, her mother Roza, and sisters Celine and Alice, while they were living in wartime Switzerland and in post-war Belgium. Includes photographs of large school gatherings, of Ava alone and with friends, and of the post-war Tiefenbrunner children's home in Antwerp.