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  1. 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...

  2. 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

  3. 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 ...

  4. Ernst and Hildegard Israel papers

    1. Ernst and Hildegard Israel collection

    The Ernst and Hildegard Israel papers include Ernst’s and Hildegard‘s1943 Shanghai marriage certificate, a 1939 refugee identification card issued to Hildegard Ksinski (Israel) in Shanghai, a 1938 German passport for Ernst Israel, a 1934 invoice on the back of stationery from the Shanghai button factory Ernst managed, and a photograph of Hildegard’s brother, Alfons Cohn, with the Ward Home Kitchen staff in Shanghai.

  5. Ilse Sheldon: family correspondence

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection contains letters sent to Oskar Bart by his mother Josefine Bart-Eigner in Prague as well as a transcript of an interview with Ilse Sheldon (Josefine Bart-Eigner's daughter). Oscar had emigrated with his wife Erna and their daughter Eva to London in 1938 to escape Jewish persecutions. His sister Ilse emigrated to Palestine whilst their mother stayed behind in Prague and was later deported.

  6. Herman B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herman B., who was born in Beuthen, Germany in 1909. He recalls the family's move to Berlin in 1918; their great affluence; his father's significant art collection (sold in 1931); attending opera, concerts, and other cultural events; one sister's emigration in 1933; appointment as a judge due to his high standing in law school; dismissal due to the Nuremberg laws; moving to Bordeaux, then Paris; returning to Germany due to his father's illness; his emigration to the United States in 1936 (his other sister also subsequently left); his parents' refusal to leave; marriag...

  8. Selected records from the archives of the kingdom of Belgium

    Contains records created and collected by the central and regional groups of the Association of Jews in Belgium (Association des juifs de Belgique), formed on November 25, 1941, at the order of the German occupation authorities, to serve as a national Judenrat. The materials consist mostly of registration forms containing personal data completed by all Jews in Belgium and registration forms containing data about Jewish-owned businesses and other properties. Additionally, there are files of change of address forms, organizations offering aid to refugees, immigration applications and processe...

  9. Recollections of a Polish Holocaust survivor

    Contains information about the early life of Mieczyslaw Paul Makowski (a Polish Christian) in Poland; his participation in the Polish resistance against the German occupiers; his incarceration in Pawiak Prison, Majdanek, Buchenwald, and Flossenbürg; his experiences on a death march from Flossenbürg; his liberation; and his subsequent life in the United States.

  10. Frederick S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frederick S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1907. He recalls his family's financial instability; completing law school in 1931; supporting his mother after his father's death; arrest following the Anschluss in 1938; incarceration and receiving a severe beating; transfer to Dachau; his release after obtaining an English visa with assistance from his boss and the Quakers; traveling to England in March 1939; working for a committee helping Czech refugees; arranging for his mother and fiancee to join him; their emigration to the United States; marriage to his fiancee...

  11. Gerald L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerald L., who was born in Gumbinnen, Germany (now Gusev, Russia) in 1929. He recalls his parents' divorce; living with his father and stepmother; moving to Ko?nigsberg (Kaliningrad), then Danzig (Gdan?sk, Poland); emigrating with his father, stepmother, and other family members to Shanghai in July 1939; his father's death six months later; living with his stepmother among the Jewish refugees in a Chinese working-class district; financial support from his uncle's dental practice; attending a Jewish school (the center of his social life); Japanese occupation; confineme...

  13. Yona and Foa family memoirs

    Two unpublished memoirs, related to the Holocaust experiences of the Yona and Foa families, of Turin Italy: “A Memoir of an Immigrant who Escaped the Holocaust in 1940,” by Eva Yona Deykin, 53 pages, typescript; and“Memoires of David Yona,” by David Yona, typescript, 223 pages. The memoir by Eva Yona Deykin relates the history of the families of both of her parents, David Yona and Anna Foa, their life in Turin after their marriage in 1932, the arrest of Anna Foa's brother, Vittorio Foa, for his anti-fascist activities in 1935, and his betrayal by the writer Pettigrilli (Dino Segre), who had...

  14. Sonia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia R., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1929 of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father. She describes her father's anti-Nazi activities; Gestapo harassment; emigration to Italy, then France, in January 1933 because of her father's politics; her mother's art work; expulsion from France nine months later; her father's return to Germany and her mother's refusal, leading to their divorce; moving with her mother to San Remo; her third sibling's birth; receiving government orders in October 1939 to leave because they were foreigners; a German consular official helpin...

  15. Hans Schmoller: Family papers

    This collection contains the personal correspondence and papers of Hans Schmoller.Papers containing correspondence from Hans Peter Schmoller to his parents, Hans Israel and Marie Schmoller (1690/1) and other family members and friends, ranging from the time of his studies in London in the early 1930s to his emigration to Morija, Basutoland (now Lesotho) in 1938 and subsequent internment in Ganspan camp in 1939; detailed accounts by his parents of the persecutions and worsening conditions for Jews in Nazi Germany particularly after the November pogroms; and his parents' incarceration at Ther...

  16. Moses D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses D., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1933, the oldest of four children. He remembers their affluence; a maid caring for the younger children; separation from their parents when they were placed on a train in July 1939; adults from the kindertransport accompanying them to London; being met by an uncle and aunt; his younger siblings being sent to foster homes; briefly staying in a hostel; living with his uncle and aunt; close calls during the blitzkrieg; visiting his siblings; antisemitic and anti-German harassment; learning his parents had left Germany; his un...

  18. Mimi O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mimi O., who was born in approximately 1926. Ms. O. recalls growing up in Maria?nske? La?zne?, Czechoslovakia; her family's affluence; participating in a Zionist youth organization; destruction of Jewish stores during Kristallnacht; traveling with her parents to Prague the next day; living in Koli?n; German invasion; a non-Jew deceiving Germans who wanted to arrest Ms. O.'s father; traveling on a children's transport to England; living on a Zionist organization farm; receiving letters from her family through the Red Cross; the group moving to a castle in Wales; learni...

  19. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Exchange of letters with Yitzhak Weisman in Lisbon regarding diplomatic assistance to Jewish refugees in Portugal and Spain and regarding organizing the work done by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the Jewish Agency i

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Exchange of letters with Yitzhak Weisman in Lisbon regarding diplomatic assistance to Jewish refugees in Portugal and Spain and regarding organizing the work done by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the Jewish Agency in Lisbon Also in the file: - Copies of letters to WJC members in New York and London; - Copies of letters to Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Dr. Aryeh Tartakower regarding the situation of refugees in Spain, 08 July 1943, and in Portugal, 16 October 1943 and 05 January 1944; - Copy of a letter to Dr. A. L. Kubowitzky regarding refugees in Italy, 18 ...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of J. F., 27 years old lacemaker from L'viv. After initial bombardments, he describes the German control of L'viv, and the sabotage of efforts to establish Jewish civilian authorities after the invasion. He describes the welcome of the Ukrainian population and their actions against the Jews of the city by serving as informers. Likewise, he described the fleeing of the Jewish population from the neighboring city of Krystynopol, and the temporary retaking of it by the Polish military. The Jews of Krystonopol received the Poles with joy and resisted the Germans with Molotov cocktail ...