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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. La Nationalité française 8) : a) Textes sur la déchéance de la nationalité (fin 1940) ; - b) Commission de révision des naturalisations (mars 1942 - septembre 1943) ; - c) Loi sur la nationalité (20 août 1943) et projets qui l'ont précédée ; - L'Oeuvre législative de Vichy : La Nationalité française 8) d) "Affaire japonaise" : dossier présenté par Paul-Louis Weiller devant la Commission d'examen des cas de déchéance de la nationalité française, en vue d'obtenir sa réintégration ; le titre du dossier fait allusion aux poursuites exercées contre P.L. Weiller pour espionnage au profit du Japon ; parmi les nombreuses interventions, une lettre autographe de quatre pages de Paul Claudel, du 20 août 1941 (Paul Claudel était administrateur d'une des Sociétés dirigées par P.L. Weiller, "Gnome et Rhône"). Divers 9) : Textes relatifs à : a) Acte constitutionnel n°7 (responsabilité des ministres... et hauts fonctionnaires, et possiblité de les traduire devant la Cour Suprême) ; - b) Divorce ; - c) Délais de procédure ; - d) Révision des naturalisations ; - e) Exploitation d'immeubles par des étrangers f) Etat de sièges ; - g) Biens ruraux ; - h) "Jury" ; - i) Régimes matrimoniaux ; - j) Reconstruction des immeubles détruits par la guerre ; - k) Notariat ; - l) Protection de la naissance. Avis demandé 10) sur des textes relatifs à a) Qualité de citoyen français ; - b) Profession d'avocat ; - c) Création d'une Cour d'appel à Tunis ; - d) Reconstitution des outillages détruits par la guerre ; - e) Prorogation des délais de procédure ; - f) Promotions de travailleurs étrangers ; - g) Création d'une Caisse centrale de Dépôts et de Virements de Titres ; - h) Réglementation de la vente des textiles ; - Avis demandé 10) sur des textes relatifs à i) Manifestations publiques ; - j) Suppression des Conseils de Préfecture ; - k) Séjour des étrangers ; - l) "Zone" autour des grandes villes, surtout Paris ; - m) Exercice de la médecine ; - n) Extension de clientèle des Cabinets vétérinaires ; - o) Successions vacantes et biens sous-séquestres ; - p) Lutte contre le chômage ; suppression des cumuls ; - q) Réglementation des ventes dans les magazins ; - r) Déclaration des stocks ; - s) Exportation des capitaux, change, commerce de l'or ; - t) Autorisation de circuler ; - u) Presse ; - v) Pouvoirs de la Cour de Dakar étendus au Gabon ; - w) Constitution d'un Corps civil de la Marine (bordereau seulement) ; - x) Exhibition d'insignes factieux à Madagascar (lettre d'envoi de l'amiral Platon (septembre 1940), seulement) ; - y) Terrains urbains inutilisés ; - z) "Zones réservées" dans les villes ; - aa) Interdiction de transformer des produits alimentaires en produits non alimentaires ; - ab) Avis du Conseil d'Etat ; - ac) locations aux réfugiés ; - ad) Réglementation des prix dans les restaurants ; - ac) Hausse illicite des prix. Code de l'Enfance délinquante 11) Dossier du projet de loi portant , 1941-1942.

    1. Secrétariat général du ministère de la Justice, commissariat à la Justice à Alger, cabinet du garde des sceaux, service de recherches des crimes de guerre 30 BB - 1701 - 1831 1 Versements du Ministère de la Justice des 1er mars 1956, 12 janvier 1959 et 18 janvier 1961 Secrétariat général du ministère de la Justice, commissariat à la Justice à Alger, cabinet du garde des sceaux, service de recherches des crimes de guerre (1940-1954). Rép. num. détaillé dact., par P. Cézard, 1966, 145 p.
    2. 30 II. BB 1707-1723 1 Documents de la période de "Vichy" provenant, pour la plus grande partie, du "Secrétariat général du Ministère de la Justice" (1940-1944)

  6. La Secrétairerie d'Etat à l'Ambassade du Brésil

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • The Secretariat of State to the Brazilian Embassy

    The Secretariat of State of the Holy See inform the Brazilian Embassy that the inter-nuncio in The Netherlands Mgr Paolo Giobbe wrote that 156 non-Aryan catholic refugees, now hosted in that country, are willing to emigrate to Brasil. The Secretariat of State ask if the Brazilian Embassy in The Hague could grant them visas.

  7. La Secrétairerie d'Etat à l'Ambassade du Brésil

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • The Secretariat of State to the Brazilian Embassy

    The Secretariat of State recommends to the Brazilian Embassy 11 non-Aryan catholic refugees in Great Britain willing to emigrate to Brazil.

  9. Lace bordered white handkerchief brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland

    1. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    Lace bordered white handkerchief that Nadzieja Klein took with her when she, her husband, Jerzy, 3 year old daughter, Joanna, and her aunt, Elizawieta Palcew, escaped Warsaw, Poland, after living under German occupation since September 1939. Jerzy had applied for US visas in 1936 following Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, but was unsuccessful because of restrictive US entry quotas. Jerzy acquired false travel papers for roundtrip travel to Peru via Italy. The family traveled by train to Trieste where they obtained transit permits through Yugoslavia and Greece to Turkey. Up to thi...

  10. Lace-trimmed Handkerchief with a cutwork floral accent owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee

    1. Leopold and Herta Stoer family collection

    Lace-trimmed handkerchief brought to the United States by Herta Schwarzbart Stoer when she emigrated from Vienna, Austria, in February 1939. Herta lived in Vienna with her parents, Arthur and Pauline Schwarzbart, and four siblings: Hilda, Fritz, Ella, and Hansi. In August 1914, Arthur was selected to fight in World War I, and three months later, he died of tetanus. As a result, Pauline had to close the lingerie business they ran together before the war. Her daughter, Hilda began making and selling children’s clothing. Pauline’s younger children, Fritz, Ella, Herta, and Hansi, were sent to a...

  11. Lace-trimmed headband or cap owned by a Hungarian chambermaid

    1. Brust family collection

    Uniform headband belonging to a maid employed by Livia Brust (later Lilly Brust Gach) before and during World War II (1939-1945) in Hungary. Livia was living in Budapest, Hungary, with her husband, Elek, and their daughter, Eva, when Hungary joined the German-led Axis Alliance in November 1940. Elek was a prominent member of the Jewish community in Budapest and a prosperous manufacturer. Beginning in late 1940, Jewish males were required to do forced labor service and Elek was sent to a labor camp. Livia managed the business while he was gone, and eventually obtained his release with black ...

  12. Laced leather billfold with a painted harbor owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Peter Victor family collection

    Decorated leather billfold acquired by Peter Victor when he lived as a refugee in Shanghai, China, from 1938-1947. The name of his wife, Berta Manis Victor, is inscribed inside the wallet. They met in the United States after Peter's emigration from Shanghai in December 1947, and married in 1951. Berta left Germany for the US in 1938. Peter, age 18, left Berlin for Shanghai in 1938 to escape the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi-led government. His parents, Carl and Elsa, arrived in Shanghai in 1939. Carl died in 1940 and Elsa in 1942. Shanghai was liberated by the United States Army on Septe...

  13. Lady Rose Henriques Archive

    The Henriques Archive comprises the working papers of Rose Henriques from 1945 to 1950, when she served as head of the Germany Section of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad (JCRA) and led one of the Jewish Relief Units (JRU) into the former concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen.

  14. Lala F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lala F., who was born in Kam?i?a?net?s??-Podil?s?kyi?, Russia in 1922. She recalls her family fleeing from the Bolsheviks to Lwo?w, Poland; attending a private school; her sister's birth in 1931; Soviet occupation; her mother assisting Jewish refugees from Poland; her brother's draft into the Soviet army; her father's disappearance during a round-up; refusing to move into the ghetto; obtaining a work permit; arrest during a round-up; escaping from Janowska (she later learned that her father saw her there); obtaining false papers for her mother, sister, brother's girlf...

  15. Landesarchiv Berlin records

    Contains questioners, protocols, name lists, correspondence, and other administrative and judicial documents relating to the Jews and non-Aryans of the city of Berlin since 1925 to 1945. Collection contains files pertaining to the Jewish properties, artwork, refugees, and other war a related issues in Berlin (Germany).

  16. Landrat (District Councillor) of Aš

    The fonds contains record and accounting books, registry finding aids and files from the activity of the office of German state administration on the territory of the Sudetenland for the district Aš. In the section containing matters from the area of competence of the alien police, under inv. № 132 there are applications of Czech and Jewish firms for the return of property from 1939. In the part of the fonds kept under inv. № 133, lists are included of Czech and Jewish refugees from 1938–1940. In the section of sovereign matters, in the context of housing under inv. № 408 there are lists of...

  17. Landrat (District Councillor) of Králíky

    The archival fonds includes documents related to the accounting and social work matters, correspondence, filing cabinets and statistics. There is one inventory number concerning Jewish history directly: an overview of homesteads left by Czech and Jewish refugees.

  18. Landscape of Barracks Birds-eye view of the overcrowded Gurs barracks drawn by a German inmate

    1. Gert Wollheim collection

    Pencil drawing of seemingly endless rows of densely packed Gurs barracks drawn by Gert Wollheim while a prisoner in Gurs internment camp in late 1940. There were tall structures, such as a water tower, that could provide this overhead view. The French established Gurs, the largest internment camp in France, in April 1939 to hold political refugees. In early 1940, about 4000 German Jewish refugees were interned as enemy aliens. Wolheim, who fled Nazi Germany for Paris in 1933, was arrested by the French in spring 1940 as an enemy alien. France surrendered to Germany in June 1940. Northern Fr...

  19. Langenscheidt's pocket dictionary Dictionary

    1. Salomon and Berg families collection

    Alfred Berg was a teenage boy living in Vienna with his parents and younger sister Charlotte when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. Alfred was targeted by bullies because of his Jewish heritage and on November 9-10 during the Kristallnacht pogrom, his father was arrested and later released by local police. In May 1939, Charlotte was one of fifty Jewish children from Vienna selected by Americans Gilbert and Eleanor Krauss to be rescued from the Nazis and taken to the United States. Days ...

  20. Langer family papers

    1. Langer family collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Robert Langer and his parents Ignatz and Stefanie Langer, including their emigration from Vienna, Austria to Shanghai, China after the German annexation of Austria in 1938, and post-war immigration to the United States. The collection consists of biographical material, immigration documents, correspondence, and photographs. Biographical material includes clippings and articles about the Jewish community in Shanghai, identification papers such as birth and marriage certificates, identification cards, passports, work books (arbeitsbuch), e...