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  2. Joseph E. White letter

    1. Wilfred Kay collection

    The letter written by Joseph E. White, Chief Engineer/USAT "General R.L. Howe," recommends "Katz Solomon" [donor] as a "good and willing worker." White and Katz worked together bringing displaced persons from Bremerhaven, Germany, to New Orleans, LA.

  10. Abe Morgenstern photographs

    1. Abe Morgenstern collection

    The collection consists of two photographs from a DP camp in Bari, Italy, after World War II and one photograph of the graduating class from a business school in Chortkov, Poland (now Chortkiv, Ukraine), in 1939.

  11. Efterforskningsavdelningen

    1. Statens Utlänningskommission
    • Kontrollbyråns efterforskningsavdelning
    • Tracing Department
    • Statens utlänningskommission Kontrollbyrån Efterforskningsavdelningen
    • Riksarkivet
    • Efterforskningsavdelningen
    • English
    • 1945-1952
    • 13 linear meters of textual records.

    The archive includes correspondence with foreign relief organizations and tracing agencies, and registries and lists of names of individuals who came to Sweden with the assistance of the Red Cross in the spring of 1945 and the so-called UNRRA-transports of July 1945. The archive contains separate registries of Polish and Danish citizens as well as of Jews. The Swedish Red Cross' archive in the National Archives in Täby hold duplicates of these registries. The archive also includes personal files from 1945 to 1947, transmitted to the State Foreigners Commission in the spring of 1947 from the...

  14. Toiletry kit

    The toiletry kit was given to and/or used by the Strochlitz family in a displaced persons camp in Berlin, Germany. The kit was hand-carried by family members when they emigrated to the United States. The kit contains: a-leather case, b- nail file, c- scissors, d- brush, e- brush with handle and f- soap dish with soap. There are several items missing from the kit.

  15. The future of European Jewry

    From opening credits of film: "The story of Europe's Jews Today as told by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Herbert H. Lehman, Edward M.M. Warburg, Harold F. Linder, Moses A. Leavitt. This film has been made possible by the active guidance and counsel of Al Paul Lefton and the cooperation of numerous persons and organizations including: United Jewish Appeal, South African Jewish Appeal, United Jewish Relief Agencies of Canada, News of the Day, Paramount News, Film-Polski, Decca Reocrds, The American Federation of Musicians, Larry Adler, and others." Leaders of the JDC convene in New York City to disc...

  16. Letter of protection issued by the Spanish Embassy in Budapest

    Contains a "Letter of protection" (Védlevél) issued for a Jewish man named Miklós Hreblay on behalf of the Spanish Embassy in Budapest, dated November 1, 1944. The letter indicates that the bearer of the letter is under the protection of Spain. Typewritten on official letterhead of the Spanish Embassy of Hungary, photo of bearer affixed, stamped with ink stamp of Spanish Embassy and ink stamp of Ángel Sanz Briz, who was later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations for his actions assisting Jews in Budapest.

  17. J Malan Heslop papers

    The papers consist of two binders holding photographs, newspaper clippings, a copyprint of a cartoon, a pamphlet, "Betrifft Widerstand," and an unpublished memoir by J Malan Heslop, who was a photographer with the 167th Signal Corps Unit that documented the experiences of the United States Army in Europe during World War II culminating with the liberation of Ebensee and Mauthausen concentration camps.

  18. Natan Huppert postcard collection

    Three postcards, sent from family members and acquaintances living in Auschwitz (Oświęcim) Poland, to Natan Huppert, living in Lwow, Soviet-occupied Poland, and later in the Arkhangelsk region of Russia, 1940-1941. Two of the postcards, from February and March 1940, were sent to Huppert in Lwow from his father, Heinrich Huppert, the latter of whom was living in Auschwitz. The third postcard was sent from Erna Bachner, living in Auschwitz, and addressed to Huppert in Arkhangelsk, Russia, in February 1941. All three postcards also are addressed to Dora, who was presumably Huppert's wife and...

  19. Frydman family photographs

    1. Anna Friedman Prager collection

    The collection consists of photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Anna Prager (born Chana Frydman) and her family, originally of Chmielnik, Poland. Contains photographs and color slides depicting Anna's family before World War II in Poland and after World War II in Sweden, Germany, and the United States.