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  1. Lotte Oppenheim: personal correspondence

    This collection consists of the personal correspondence of Lotte Oppenheim regarding the tracing of her mother, Berta Fraustaedter, after the Second World War. Berta Fraustaedter was a Holocaust survivor of Theresienstadt concentration camp.Included are correspondence with the Jewish Refugee Committee, the International Committee of the Red Cross and friends regarding arrangements for her mother to move to the UK.

  3. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    People on dock waving to refugees aboard ship, the Marine Flasher. Men, women, and children arriving at New York City on May 20, 1946 after a voyage that departed Bremerhaven Germany on May 11, 1946. CU refugees on board. Crowds waiting. Guards behind barrier. Women hugging. Survivors show tattoos. Children and women. The young man with tattoo B3073 is Berek Gola (also called Bernard Gola) a 19 year old Jewish man from Poland. He had been imprisoned by the Nazis at Treblinka and Auschwitz (where he received the tattoo).

  4. Marianne Hood: Memories of the war years in Holland

    Copy typescript autobiographical account of how a German Jewish woman spent her teenage and early adult years in Amsterdam concealing her Jewish identity.Originally from Berlin, she last saw her mother when she was put on the train to Amsterdam in 1938. She describes how she assumed a new identity, spent much of her time learning and practising the piano and how she would listen to English radio programmes and read foreign newspapers to keep abreast of events.German 9 pages 

  5. 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.

  6. Justitiedepartementet

    • Ministry of Justice
    • Riksarkivet
    • Justitiedepartementet
    • English
    • 1840-1996
    • Textual records.

    Series E1 A and E1 B contain consular files containing the so-called citizenship acts, i.e., applications for Swedish citizenship with accompanying documents. All refugees from Nazi persecution, and Holocaust survivors, who later became Swedish citizens have a citizenship file in the Ministry of Justice's archives. In addition to applications and notifications of citizenship, the files contain all other documentation that the Ministry considered relevant to the decision. In the files are short accounts of personal experiences reproduced in police interrogation reports, biographies, certific...

  7. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Carteggio

    1. Comunità Israelitica di Venezia
    2. Anagrafe e stato civile
    3. Delegazione per l'Assistenza degli Emigranti Ebrei
    • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Correspondence

    Conserva documenti relativi alla ricerca di notizie nel secondo dopoguerra: 1. minuta di nomi, firmata "J. Kuntz", mss; 2. 3 ottobre - 15 ottobre 1945, veline dell'Inter Governamental Committee on Refugees per informazioni sui dispersi, dss con annotazioni, cc. 8; 3. 19 ottobre 1945, scheda di ricerca della famiglia Rubinfeld.

  8. Refugees; Einstein; Belsen liberation

    Excerpt from "Genocide" documentary film. Still photos and archival footage fade into one another. Immigration. Refugees. Einstein on boat. 06:21 Chamberlain. Boycott. Newspaper headlines. Kristallnacht (the audio recording of C. Brook Peters reporting the events of Kristallnacht was recreated for the film - it is NOT an original radio broadcast) Destruction of synagogues. Newspaper headlines. Propaganda posters. 06:22:55 Einsatzgruppen murder (long, graphic). Military trucks, peasants. Mass graves at Belsen, bulldozers. German civilians forced to confront atrocities. ***Other parts of the ...

  9. Testimony of Shmuel Labin, born in Tarnobrzeg, Poland, regarding his experiences in Tarnobrzeg, the Soviet Union, Iran and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1943

    1. O.12 - Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943

    Testimony of Shmuel Labin, born in Tarnobrzeg, Poland, regarding his experiences in Tarnobrzeg, the Soviet Union, Iran and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1943 Deportation from Tarnobrzeg towards the Soviet border; crosses the border; internal deportation in the Soviet Union; life as a refugee; forced labor; escape to Iran; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1943. The testimony was recorded during the war.

  10. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    Refugees arriving at Ellis Island on the "Marine Flasher" ship. Crowd waving. A scuffle breaks out among refugees, one woman is visibly upset and yelling toward the camera. Refugees embrace, some with bundles. CU of a woman holding a baby. Side view of a boy waving. Various shots of two children. Two women show tattoos to camera (they seem to be mother and daughter, but this is not confirmed.)

  13. John Kaufmann album "Deutschland, England, Australien"

    Album entitled "Deutschland, England, Australien" created by John Kaufmann (born Hans Werner Kaufmann), originally of Heidelberg, Germany. The album includes writings, drawings, and photographs chronicling his family and his Holocaust experiences as a German refugee who fled to England in August 1939, was sent to Australia in July 1940 aboard the HMT Dunera as an enemy alien, and interned in the Hay internment camp in New South Wales.

  15. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    Refugees wave from ship, the Marine Flasher, to people at dock. Men and women kissing, toting luggage. Children waving to camera. Refugees showing tattoos to camera. Scan of people waiting for refugees to arrive. Seqeuences repeated, although there are a few additional scenes and color bars. Weber family with tags standing together at 06:05:40 (top row: Gertrude, Senta, Ruth, Alfons; bottom row: Renee, Judith, Bela). Sonia Weissman appears briefly at 06:05:50.

  16. Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, March 1947

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • ועדת - ההצלה של הסוכנות היהודית לארץ-ישראל ,בולטין, פברואר 1947

    Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, March 1947 Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing: - Information regarding the Jewish refugees in Germany and Austria, 1947; - Testimony regarding the murder of Jews in Norway; - Testimony regarding the Risiera Di San Sabba camp.

  17. Trunk

    1. Lore Gotthelf Jacobs collection

    The trunk was sent to England to Lore Gotthelf Jacobs who left Frankfurt-am Main, Germany, on the Kindertransport Rectangular form constructed of brown textile-covered wood; lid attached to base by metal hinges and clasps; four wooden support bards attached by metal nails on all sides; metal footing along all edges; two leather handles attached at center on left and right sides;"L.J." and"12" painted on top of lid; interior covered by biege paper; blue canvas and metal straps attached to interior

  18. Irena and Manes Wysoki papers

    Repatriation identification: issued to the Drimmer family from Drohobycz, allowing them to leave the USSR for Poland, as Polish citizens. They arrived in Walbrzych, Poland on January 13, 1946. Collection of photographs: images of the Wysoki family after their escape from German occupied Poland to Magnitogorsk, Soviet Union and after the war in Walbrzych, Poland. Report card: issued to Manes Wysocki in the USSR for the year 1944-1945 and 1945-1946; two letters written by the niece of Perla Wysoki, who survived the Auschwitz death camp, dated 1947

  19. Council for German Jewry: Correspondence

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection consists of correspondence of the Council for German Jewry on the following subjects: dismissals of Jewish staff at Göttingen University (608/1); Austrian Jewish refugees from the Burgenland; various synagogue congregations in Germany (608/2); emergency relief organisation for German scientists abroad (608/3). Also a report by the Jewish Agency for Palestine re emigration, 1933-1934 (608/4)

  20. Heinemann and Epstein family collection

    This collection contains photographs and a family tree relating to the Epstein family, a large Jewish family from Frankfurt.Photographs, family tree, also included is a notebook of poetry and correspondence addressed to Adelheid Heinemann who fled Nazi Germany with her husband, son and mother