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  1. Larisch family papers

    The Larisch family papers include biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Larisch family from Vienna, Austria, their time in England and India during the Holocaust, and their immigration to the United States after World War II. Biographical materials document Kurt Larisch, his wife Ramah, his parents Moritz and Dora, and his daughter Linda. They include identification papers, birth and marriage certificates, and immigration records. Correspondence includes a 1920 letter from Kurt to his grandmother; a 1941 letter from Ernst Polaček in Derventa, Bosnia to Mori...

  2. Larry Rosenbach papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Larry Rosenbach (born Eliezer Lajziu Rosenbach) and his family, originally of Leżajsk, Poland. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs depicting the Föhrenwald and Zeilsheim displaced persons camps in Germany, the Bielski partisans, and passengers on board the "Champollion" en route to Palestine. Also included are three postcards from Larry’s mother, Ewa Rosenbach, written in Zaklikov (Zaklików), Poland to cousins in Przemyśl, Poland describing the first deportation that occurred in her town and begging her cousins to t...

  3. Larry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Larry S., who was born in Hofheim, Germany in 1922. He recounts moving to Bamberg in 1934 or 1935 so his father would not be placed in a concentration camp; his father fleeing to Holland; attending gymnasium in Wu?rzburg with his brother; his father's return; attending school in Florence in 1936; his arrest during Hitler's visit; apprenticeship in a tool and die shop in Nuremberg; his father's arrest during Kristallnacht; being placed on a children's transport to England; living with an aunt and uncle; working as a tool and die maker; and emigrating to the United Stat...

  4. Lasker family: papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Lasker family, a Jewish family from Breslau. The parents, Alfons and Edith Lasker, were deported in 1942 leaving their two daughters Anita and Renate behind. Both sisters survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps but their parents perished.

  5. Laura M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Laura M., who was a social worker for the National Refugee Service, then the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. She recalls arriving in Havana, Cuba in February 1939; dealing with many German Jewish refugees; knowing in advance the St. Louis was arriving and its passengers would not be allowed to disembark; the staff not sleeping for the eight days the ship was in harbor in their efforts to assist; her colleague visiting the ship daily; arranging disembarkation in European countries other than Austria and Germany; transfer to Shanghai in April 1941; working...

  6. Laura Selo collection

    Personal papers including Poesie album; Lodz Ghetto bread ration card; copy family photographsReaders need to reserve a reading room terminal to access an audio interview with the donor.

  7. Lavoslav Schick (Šik) collection

    Personal papers of Lavoslav Schick (Šik). The collection consists of several hundred of his manuscripts, articles, speeches, reports, and extensive correspondence with individuals and organizations throughout Europe. Lavoslav Schick was a prominent Zagreb lawyer, killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp. He was a Zionist, but of the kind who did not wish to actually leave for Palestine themselves, and a well-known public figure in Zagreb’s inter-war period. Zagreb’s Jewish history cannot be told without talking or examining of his work.

  8. Le cardinal Maglione à l'internonce à La Haye Giobbe

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • Cardinal Maglione to Inter-nuncio in The Hague Giobbe

    Maglione makes Giobbe known that the Brazilian ambassador in The Hague gave the Brazilian consul in Amsterdam the permission to grant visas to 156 catholic refugees of Jewish origin.

  9. Le cardinal Maglione au vicaire apostolique de Shanghai Haouisée

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

    Maglione informs Haouisée that the Pope extremely approves aid activities carried out by Catholics in Shanghai towards Jewish refugees.

  10. Le cardinal Maglione aux nonces à Bucarest, Budapest, Kaunas, Riga

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • Cardinal Maglione to nuncios in Bucharest, Budapest, Kaunas, Riga

    Maglione informs nuncios in Bucharest, Budapest, Kaunas, Riga that the Holy See Secretariat of State is creating an intelligence service in order to collect information about war prisoners and refugees. Addressees are invited to cooperate.

  11. Le grand rabbin Herzog au cardinal MacRory

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • Great Rabbi Herzog to Cardinal MacRory

    Great Rabbi Herzog pleads with Cardinal MacRory for intervention of the Holy Father with Lithuanian Government about the conditions of Polish Jewish refugees, now at Vilna, threatened by forcible repatriation to German and Russian occupation zones. Herzog states that Jewish Relief Organisations are ready to provide their maintenance and to arrange gradual emigration to Palestine and overseas.

  12. Le nonce à Berne Bernardini au cardinal Maglione

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • The Nuncio in Bern Bernardini to Cardinal Maglione

    Bernardini reports Maglione the difficulties he is facing in order to help Jewish refugees. Bernardini says he contacted on this matter the Lucerne-based « Unione Svizzera di Carità », and relates that South-American Embassies and Consulates in Switzerland became much stricter on issuing visas, even to Catholics.

  13. Le nonce à Berne Bernardini au cardinal Maglione

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • The Nuncio in Bern Bernardini to Cardinal Maglione

    Bernardini informs Maglione that non-Aryan refugees in Switzerland are still waiting for a Brazilian visa.

  14. Le president Keller à Mgr Dell'Acqua

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • President Keller to Mgr Dell'Acqua

    Keller asks Dell'Acqua if there is still a possibility to enable mass emigration of Jews to Venezuela.

  15. Le professeur Schmutzer et le P. Strathmann O. P. au Pape Pie XII

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • Professor Schmutzer and Father Strathmann O. P. to Pope Pius XII

    Prof. Schmutzer and the Dominican friar Strathmann write to Pope Pius XII about an International Committee for Catholic refugees. The letter third annexe (A.E.S. 5190/38) is a memorandum written by Pope Pie XII (at that time cardinal Eugenio Pacelli) in 1938, who suggests protecting converted-to-Catholicism Jews who are forced to leave Italy and Germany.

  17. LE SERVICE DES RAPATRIEMENTS

    1. État français, délégation générale du gouvernement français dans les territoires occupés. DGTO, Interventions et recours. Relevé nominatif détaillé des dossiers d’interventions

    I. - L'article 19 de la Convention d'armistice et les questions soulevées par son application. L'article 19 de la Convention franco-allemande d'armistice du 22 juin 1940 prévoyait non seulement la remise immédiate aux troupes allemandes des prisonniers de guerre faits par les troupes françaises, mais aussi celle des "prisonniers civils allemands y compris les prévenus et condamnés ... pour actes commis en faveur du Reich Allemand" Plus encore, le gouvernement français était également tenu de livrer, sur leur demande, aux autorités du Reich "tous les ressortissants Allemands désignés nominat...

  18. Le?on K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Le?on K., who was born in Lotte, Germany in 1911. He recalls moving to Paris in 1933; difficulties with his citizenship status starting in 1934; enlisting in the French military in 1941; German invasion; returning to Paris after the armistice; deportation to Pithiviers in May; playing chess and sharing food packages among his group; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June 1942; slave labor doing various jobs; public hangings; assistance from a prisoner-doctor when he was ill; observing corpses everywhere; a death march, then train transport to Ebensee; transfer to M...

  19. Lea A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lea A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1929. She recounts that her father was Jewish and her mother Christian; their affluence; her father leaving for Paris in January 1933; she and her mother joining him in May; their impoverishment; moving to Saint-Ouen in 1935; her parents opening a restaurant in Paris; attending school; a Jewish organization sending her for summers to a Jewish family in Zurich, then to another in Thun for several years; her parents managing the Bund canteen in Paris; German occupation; feeling excluded when she was told she was not Jewish and ...

  20. Lea A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lea A., who was born in Yelizavetgrad, Russia (now Kirovograd) in 1906. She describes fleeing the revolution for Poland, then Danzig in 1921; anti-Jewish actions; emigration to Brussels to attend university in 1934; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1935; her father's death in 1935; her mother, sister, and brother joining her; and the absence of discrimination. She recalls marriage; the birth of a child in 1938 (who died six weeks later); the German invasion; anti-Jewish legislation; her mother and siblings' escape to southern France (they survived); an escape ...