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  1. Sketchbook created by young Jewish girl in Nazi-Occupied France

    1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

  2. Sketchbook created by young Jewish girl

    1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

  3. Sketchbook created by young Jewish girl

    1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

  4. Sketchbook created by young Jewish girl in Nazi-Occupied France

    1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

  5. Sketchbook created by young Jewish girl in Nazi-Occupied France

    1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

  6. Sketchbook created by young Jewish girl in Nazi-Occupied France

    1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

  7. Sketchbook created by young Jewish girl in Nazi-Occupied France

    1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

    Sketchbook created by young Jewish girl in Nazi-Occupied France

  8. Cover pages of sketchbook created by young Jewish girl in Nazi-Occupied France

    1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

  9. 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...

  10. Lichtenstein and Tisch families photographs

    Consists primarily of postwar photographs of the Tisch and Lichtenstein family members and friends. Many of the photographs are associated with Jozef and Mania (née Tisch) Lichtenstein's stay in the Eschwege DP camp. Included is also photograph of Mania's rescuer Janina Zawadzka.

  11. Československý úřad pro hospodářskou pomoc a obnovu, Praha

    • Czechoslovak Office for Relief and Rehabilitation, Prague
    • UNRRA
    • Národní archiv
    • 313
    • English
    • 1943-1951
    • 28,5 linear metres from which 28,5 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible.

    In the fonds there can be found lists and summaries of delivered suplies, reports about the economic situation in the Czechoslovak Republic, various reports from the proceedings of committees. There are also files related to the transport of supllies, another draft plans for relief and rehabilitation of the country (also for the Slovak part of the republic), bills or photographs. The Holocaust or Jewish related documents are in several boxes concerning the matter of repatriation of citizens from the Great Britain. There are lists of persons authorized for the repatriation in April and July ...

  12. Passport of Heyman Roet and Catharina Freso. Collection

    A Dutch passport issued in October 1940 by the Vice-consul for the Netherlands in Toulouse, France, to Heyman Roet and his wife Catharina Freso. The document contains a photo of both spouses and visa for Spain and Portugal as well as for the United Kingdom

  13. Fondo Aucii dal 1934 (Attività dell'Unione delle Comunità Israelitiche Italiane dal 1934)

    • Activities of Union of Italian Jewish Communities since 1934

    Very important are the Delasem papers, an organization for the assistance to the refugees; other subjects the documents related to the persecution of italian Jews in the Fascist Era; Racial Laws; Israel; Censuses on population and heritage possessed by Jews.

  14. Central Office of Romanianization (Aryanization)

    1. Ministerul Muncii, Sanatatii si Protectiei Sociale

    Contains material of the Central Office of Romanianization (the OCR) under the Ministry of Work, Health and Social Protection, concerning the Romanianization of personnel of various private enterprises, the sacking of Jews, the hiring of ethnic Romanians in their stead, and "doubling"-the practice of having the sacked worker continue on for a time to teach the new worker his job. Included are proposals to accelerate "Romanianization"; a draft law to that effect; explicatory memoranda about it; the structure of the personnel of the OCR; its budgetary expenses; draft law on Romanianization of...

  15. Αρχείο του Εμπορικού και Βιομηχανικού Επιμελητηρίου Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Archive of the Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry
    • Archeio tou Emborikou kai Viomechanikou Epimeleteriou Thessalonikes

    The archive consists of listing of companies and businesses that have been established in the city of Thessaloniki since 1919. From 1992 and onwards, the registration is digital. Its physical form which is handwritten is divided into three periods: i. 1919 - 1935 (58 inventory books) ii. 1935 - 1970 (46 inventory books with approximately 12,000 entries) iii. 1970 -1990 Greek Jewish activity consists of a significant part of the archive, when in March 1943, all Jewish businesses were banished, under the orders of the Supreme Military Governor of the North Aegean.

  16. Westerbork, Jewish transit camp Westerbork, Judendurchgangslager (Fond 250i)

    This collection contains documents relating to the Westerbork Jewish transit camp between 1942-1945, including are reports, maps and some photos as well as pre-war correspondence, and post-war court proceedings. The collections also contains documents on the refugee camp Westerbork between 1939-1942, as it was still under Dutch administration. A special component of the collection is called “Westerbork kartothek” containing lists of name and date of birth of deportees, their last official place of residence before leaving for Westerbork and the date of shipment from the camp. These lists we...

  17. Marion O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marion O., who was born in Andernach, Germany in 1929. She describes anxiety after Hitler came to power in 1933; her father's disbelief that anti-Jewish laws would affect them; attending Jewish school in Cologne in 1936; Kristallnacht; walking with her mother to Aachen; illegally crossing the Belgian border; fleeing with her parents from Malme?dy to Brussels, then Luxembourg; German invasion in May 1940; her father's arrest; learning in 1941 that he was in Saint Cyprien; traveling with her mother to Marseille; moving to Aix-en-Provence; her father's visits from Les Mi...

  18. David D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David D., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1937, the youngest of four children. He recounts living with foster parents in Bournemouth, England after being sent on a kindertransport (he thought they were his biological parents); good relations with them and their daughters; being told in 1946 that his parents were alive and he had three siblings; resentment at leaving the only home he had known; living with his siblings, uncle, and aunt in London for a year; reunion with his parents in New York in 1947; his sense he was living with strangers; and only recently learn...

  19. Henry and Lottie M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry and Lottie M. Ms. M. was born in Dresden, Germany in 1921 to an affluent, assimilated family. She recounts her mother's death when she was one; her maternal grandmother living with them; her father's remarriage; her parents sheltering her from politics; vacations in Prague; expulsion from school in 1938; her father's and brother's arrests during Kristallnacht; her stepmother obtaining emigration documents for them through contacts in England; their release once they proved they would emigrate; her own emigration with assistance from the Quakers; living with a fa...

  20. Emil S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emil S., who was born in Zagreb, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy(presently Croatia) in approximately 1917, one of five children. He recounts his father's medical practice; his mother's death in 1926; his bar mitzvah; attending university; joining Hashomer Hatzair in 1933, then Akiva in 1935; expulsion from university due to anti-Jewish laws; working for Shalom Freiberger, chief rabbi of Zagreb; contacts with Zagreb's Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac, who saved many Jews; visiting Palestine in 1939; marriage in 1941; his daughter's birth in 1942; receiving false papers from a no...