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  1. [Condition of Jewish Communities in Wartime, a Survey Pt. 3]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Entries documenting the state of Jewish communities in the period of September 1939 – November 1939. This entry surveys Przemyśl (Occupied by the Germans for three days, then by the Russians, heavily damaged in bombardment with multiple casualties, Jewish shops and businesses looted, elderly Jews shot, the Jewish population displaced); Gabin (Occupied by the Germans, all Jewish houses synagogues and schools destroyed, several casualties); Stoczek Łukowski (Occupied by the Germans, destroyed in bombardments)' Kutno (damaged in bombardments especially the Jewish sections, multiple casualties ...

  2. Mayer family correspondence

    The Mayer family correspondence consists of sixteen letters from Babette Mayer and Paula Hein in Bollendorf and Wolfenbüttel; Moritz Mayer in Liège; and Berta Lazard in Differdingen, Avallon, and Verteuil to their family members in the United States. The letters describe conditions in Germany, Belgium, and France and ask for emigration help.

  3. O.10 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Yugoslavia, mainly during the Holocaust period

    O.10: Documentation regarding the Jews of Yugoslavia, mainly during the Holocaust period In the Record Group there is documentation regarding the Jews of the former Yugoslavia (according to the April 1941 boundaries) during the 20th century, and concerning various topics from the Holocaust period. Some of the documentation was photocopied from material in various archives in Yugoslavia and in other countries, including Israel, and some of the documentation was submitted to Yad Vashem by private individuals. Among the sources for the documentation are the Federation of Jewish Communities in ...

  4. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of an anonymous author who is named "a pioneer"; he describes the German and Soviet occupation of Łomża. The Germans occupied the city in early September and the soviets entered it on September 29th. He describes arrests and repressions by both German and Soviet occupying forces. The soviets forcibly registered all young and middle aged men for immigration, and arrested political leaders of Zionist organizations and the Jewish Bund. The Germans looted stores and Jewish property, and arrested men. The bombardment destroyed buildings in the city including the markets, synagogues, an...

  6. Maria S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926, the younger of two sisters. She recalls her mother's death in 1937; her sister's emigration to the United States in 1938; completing primary school in 1939; German invasion; bombings; escaping with her father three months later to the Soviet zone; living in Białystok and a nearby town; deportation with her father to Siberia; forced labor in a forest; the supervisor helping her avoid the difficult work; being allowed to leave after the German invasion; moving to Tashkent; marriage to a Polish Jew; working as a telephon...

  8. Ester Ajzen Lewin family photographs

    The Ester Ajzen Lewin family photograph collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs of the Ester Ajzen and the Ajzen family of Chełm, Poland. The collection also includes photographs of the the Lewin family of Derazhnya, Ukraine; Ester Ajzen Lewin’s husband, Abram Lewin and his brother Misha Lewin. Both served as Soviet soldiers.

  9. Wyższy Dowódca SS i Policji Wschód Der Höhere Schutzstaffeln (SS) und Polizeiführe Ost (GK 901)

    Consists of collection of orders of the Reichsführer-SS regarding the forced labor of Polish workers, 1939-1944, the organizational decree no. 1, 26 June 1942 regarding activities of police authorities in occupied Poland, set of guidelines for general matters, a daily order no. 46 regarding the transfer of officers to other positions, 1943; name lists of associates of SS-Obergruppenführer Krüger , and officers of the WD office, as well as names of civil and military administration institutions, and a name list of Polish and Ukrainian police in the General Government, 1940-1944. Includes a c...

  10. Ilse M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse M. who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928. She recalls the Anschluss; expulsion from school; her father's incarceration in Dachau for a year starting in 1938; his departure for Italy immediately upon release; leaving a few weeks later on a 1939 children's transport to England; her unhappy life with a childless couple in Prescot; avoiding the husband's sexual advances; cessation of correspondence from her mother in 1941; several live-in jobs; and continuing school while working in Manchester, then London. She describes a visit from her mother's brother after the ...

  11. Trudy H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Trudy H., who was born in Wachenheim, Germany in 1931. She recalls her parents' orthodoxy; the trauma of seeing them beaten on Kristallnacht; several days later being sent with her brother to Paris; living in children's homes, hospitals, and a chateau near Marseille; physical and emotional deprivation; being smuggled with a group of fifty children via Lisbon and Casablanca to the United States; and seeing her parents for the last time from the train en route. Mrs. H. recounts living at a Rothschild home in 1941; living with an aunt, where her brother remained when she...

  12. Records relating to Jews in Amsterdam

    The collection consists of records relating to the situation for Jews in Amsterdam, Netherlands, including: German anti-Jewish measures; Jewish schools and education during the German occupation; hospitals and health; transportation; expulsion of Jews from the civil service; Jewish market traders; Aryan declarations and refusals to sign; registration of Jewish property; files on Jews in the Amsterdam population registry; Amsterdam Police records (including documents on collaboration on Jewish deportation); documents from the Mayor of Amsterdam relating to Jews; Jewish-German refugees; the g...

  13. Survey of the situation in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and the neighboring countries as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by visitors with emphasis on the condition of the Jews, September 1943

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות 14/45

    Survey of the situation in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and the neighboring countries as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by visitors with emphasis on the condition of the Jews, September 1943 Poland: Transfer of inmates from Auschwitz to camps in Germany and the bringing of new inmates; murder of Polish inmates by gas in Majdanek; central role of the Jews in the Polish economy; Caucasus Region: Mass murders of Jews according to an eye witness; Minsk: There were Jews and now they are not; Germany: The harsh situation of the Germans; rubble and the condition of the ...

  14. Martin E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin E., who was born in Weinheim, Germany in 1929. He recalls anti-Jewish harassment; anti-Jewish laws, including expulsion from public school; attending a Jewish school in Karlsruhe; his father's arrest on Kristallnacht; his return from Dachau six weeks later; deportation with his parents and sister to Gurs in October 1940; obtaining extra food for his family because children could leave the camp; a French family offering to keep him; refusing to leave his family; removal of the children to an orphanage in Aspet a few months later (he never saw his parents or sist...

  15. Jacob G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob G., who was born in 1910 and grew up in Warsaw. He recalls his father's death when he was twelve; working to help support his family; his mother's death two years later; joining a trade union in 1924, then a Communist youth group; imprisonment for five years for his political activities; escaping arrest in 1938 by entering Belgium with forged papers; connecting with a Jewish communist group; feelings of betrayal after the German/Soviet pact; German invasion; his and his wife's active involvement with the Resistance; her deportation to Auschwitz; being shot durin...

  17. Refugees crossing bridge

    Refugees carrying their children and belongings across a bridge. Stevens, in shorts holding machine gun, firing gun into river. Caravan of soldiers and refugees, seven abreast, walking across bridge carrying belongings followed by women and other refugees. Sign in Russian, with date reads: "May 30, 1945." Underneath Russian sign there is a sign that reads: "Friendship Bridge constructed by 250 Engineer Combat BN 1146 Engineer Combat Gp, US Army."

  18. Julius Hirsch family papers

    Manuscript drafts of song and poetry texts, mostly written for Jewish holidays, and used by various members of the family of Julius Hirsch, originally of Hamburg, Germany, circa 1935-1940. Some of the poetry may have been written while Hirsch was interned as an enemy alien in Great Britain in 1940-1941 at the Hutchinson camp on the Isle of Man, but much of it dates from earlier years. Collection also includes a printed sheet with lyrics and music of the "Hutchinson Camp Song," written by internees at the Hutchinson camp, 1940, as well as newspaper clippings from British newspapers, circa ea...

  19. Cila Rudashevsky papers

    1. Cila Rudashevsky collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of school children in Vilna, Poland, two song sheets from Poppendorf DP camp, a school certificate from Emden DP camp, identification cards, and certificates documenting passage on the "Exodus 1947" relating to Pola and Shoshana Rudaszewska [donor and donor's mother] and their experiences immediately following the Holocaust. Accretion: collection of photogarphs of preWWII and wartime images of Cila Rudashevsky and her family from the Soviet Union, Vilna, Uzbekistan, and the Leipheim and Emden DP camps

  20. Edith R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith R., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1930, the older of two children of Polish émigrés. She recounts attending Jewish summer camp; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing with her family to France; living on a non-Jewish family's farm; attending school; traveling to Toulouse; incarceration in Claremont-Ferrand; escaping approximately six weeks later after her father bribed a French guard; walking to Paris; returning to Brussels; expulsion from school; being sent with her brother to a summer camp in Uccle; returning; hiding with her parents; their arranging ...