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Country: Israel

  1. [Casualties World War II (2)]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the second out of two files containing various documents on the number of casualties during World War II. The documents include typewritten and handwritten notes and excerpts, as well as copies from books and articles. The information regarding statistics of casualties, victims, refugees, and the extent of destruction stems from various sources, such as encyclopedias, books, newspaper articles and research articles published between 1941 and 1975. Some of the documents deal with authors and publications promoting Holocaust denial. The sources were published in various languages:...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Isaac R,. 26 year old tannery worker from Warsaw. He was in Warsaw at the beginning of the war, the fire-warden for his building, and describes the emergency procedures take during the bombardment. He left Warsaw before the Germans entered it, making his way to check on his mother via Pulawy, Ryki, and Kazimierz Dolny, and then returning to Warsaw. He describes the damage inflicted by the German aerial bombardment, and says that in Pulawy the Germans were already seizing Jews for forced labour. In Pulawy, likewise, the Germans ruined the Jewish community financially by confisca...

  3. Aus der Emigration II

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the continuation of Curt Rosenberg's account of his life in Scotland after his flight from Nazi Germany including his legal struggles with his landlord. He describes life in London in 1942 and his work in the German Refugee Center in Glasgow. He also recounts a court hearing, the differences between German and British jurisdiction, and the difficulties refugees face when settling in foreign surroundings.

  4. [Interministerial Commission for German Refugees - Protocols]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file deals with the outpouring of political and economic refugees from Germany from 1933 onwards as a result of the takeover of the NSDAP party under Adolf Hitler. Therefore an interministerial commission had been convened in the Belgian capital, Brussels, in order to address the refugee crisis and deal with the influx of refugees from Germany. The file contains the protocols of those sessions, including delegates named, topics discussed as well as assessments made of the overall political and economic situation in Germany after the Nazi government had come to power in early 1933.

  5. Minutes of a meeting of the editing sub-committe held at the offices of the Council of the German Jewry, Woburn house, on Thursday, 2nd June, 1938, at 11:00 a.m.

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Summary of a meeting and the tasks to consider the draft memorandum, which the chairman had prepared and should be given to the Council for German Jewry, and to suggest headings for material to be prepared by the Jewish organizations for submission to the Evian Conference.

  6. [DALJEWCIB correspondence with Jewish emigrees from Germany categorized into professions]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    DALJEWCIB correspondence with Jewish emigrees and interested parties from Germany, as well as Jewish relief organizations categorized into professions.

  7. [Court and denaturalization preceedings regarding Feodor Fedorenko, Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains extensive material in the form of court proceedings regarding the war criminal trials and subsequent denaturalization and deportation of Feodor Fedorenko, a former Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility in occupied Poland. Fedorenko is accused of having actively participated in the massmurder conducted in Treblinka and testimony alleges his presence and participation in shootings of numerous victims. The Fedorenko trial was the 1st trial that sought to deal with US citizens who participated actively in the Holocaust and later came to the United States under...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of rabbi E. S., from Kremenets, a yeshiva student from the Beit Yossef yeshiva in Międzyrzec. He describes attempting to return home to Kremenets from Międzyrzec under German bombardment. At first in Międzyrzec bombs destroyed the railway but no casualties resulted, however, incendiaries and more bombs killed over 200 people in the city. The author made his way to Terespol, then to Luzhki and Divin, encountering a flood of refugees, both civilian and military, and eventually to Kobryn where the Germans caught up with him, drafting him for forced labor to bury German and Polish sol...

  9. [Exchange of letters to and among several British officials]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Exchange of letters between several British officials regarding the question of immigration of German Jewish refugees and the resolution adopted at the Evian Conference on 14th of July 1938.

  10. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland:Statement No2]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Aaron Berg, a 26 year old radio-mechanic from the town Kolumna near Łódź testifies abut his experiences during the invasion of the Nazis in Poland between the 1st to 14th of September 1939. He depticts the changes of behavior of christian Poles towards their jewish neighbours, heavy bombardments from the Nazis and the suffering of strong hunger. His protocol is an extract from a volume of protocols provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugees. The statement is presumably a translation from Yiddish, but the original is missing. Statement No 2

  11. [Liste des Israélites libérés de camps de concentration d'Allemagne at arrivés en Belgique]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains two lists of liberated Jews from German concentration camps. One list gives informations about former Jewish citizens of Belgium, who immigrated back to Belgium from the 31st of March till the 31st of July 1946. An other list shows Jewish transits who passed through Belgium to an other destination. This list shows transits also from the 31st of March till the 31st of July 1946. Both lists include first and last names, informations about the native town, birthday and their nationality if they had one.

  12. The Kitchener Camp Review

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains two examples of the journal the 'Kitchener Camp' for refugees, a monthly Camp newspaper on the Isle of Man (self-governing crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland). Kitchener Camp was taken over by the Central British Fund of the Council for German Jewry (CBF) at the beginning of 1939 to rescue threatened Jews from Germany and Austria. Conditions for admission were that inmates must be aged between 18 and 40 and that they have a definite prospect of emigration overseas. The newspaper of the camp reports about the activities in the...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Protocol No. 10 is an extract from a volume of protocols provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugees. In 1939 they formed a comittee to collect evidence about the condition of the Jews in Poland under Nazi Germany occupation. Protocol No 10 is in Yiddish and given by Shlomo Ferkal (24 yrs., living in Vilnuius / Lithuania). In it he describes how in September 1939 his town Mezhirichi was bombed by the Nazis and how he was fled towards Kovel. He is depicts the bombardements of civilians/ refugees, the life of the refugees and the treatment of Jews by non-jewish citizens.

  14. The Refugees and Immigration

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A memorandum discussing the size of the refugee problem as well as arguments pro and against immigration. It further discusses the finance and retraining possibilities of refugees.Discribes the immigration policy and situation of Jewish immigrants in France and Palestine.

  15. [Correspondence of DALJEWCIB regading a variety of topics related to the living conditions, including housing, work arrangements, exit- and entry permits of Jewish emigrees into Manchdchukuo, Shanghai and Japanese occupied China, permanent resident status, danger of deportation and difficulties with an intransigent Manchurian bureaucracy]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence of DALJEWCIB regading a variety of topics related to the living conditions, including housing, work arrangements, exit- and entry permits of Jewish emigrees into Manchdchukuo, Shanghai and Japanese occupied China, permanent resident status, danger of deportation and difficulties with an intransigent Manchurian bureaucracy. The File also contains reports from and to DALJEWCIB and Jewish Relief and Aid organisations in Europe, as well as personal correspondence detailing said topics in detail.

  16. Das Laterndl

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several informations about the 'Laterndl, Wiener Kleinkunstbühne' (the Lantern). The material which is attached includes programms, announcements of performances and social events, texts and drafts of satirical pieces, documentary photographs of performances and rehearsals. The Lantern was a small theater, founded and run by Austrian exiles in London during World War II. It was connected to the 'Austrian center', the 'Free Austrian Movement' and the 'Interniertenfond'. Opened on June 21st, 1939, it was active throughout the war years, with a break between summer 1940 and 1...

  17. [Correspondence between British and Czech Jewish relief organisations]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several lettes, telegrams and one memorandum. Mostly between the Relief Committee of Jews from Czechoslovakia, American Jont Distribution Committee and the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation. Topics mentioned in the letters are establishing hostels in Bratislava, religous schools in Slovakia and opening a Kosher Kitchen in Prague for Jews passing through Prague on their way to Western Europe. As it might be a specifically Jewish need for some refugees and essential for their welfare. Also grants have been asked for necessary reconstructions of synago...

  18. [Advice by the Far Eastern Central Information Bureau on the possibilities of emigration to Shanghai and Tientsin]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Advice by the Far Eastern Central Information Bureau on the possibilities of emigration to Shanghai in China and Tientsin in Mandchukuo, the difficulties of obtaining exit-permits and entry visa to Mandchukuo, as well as the overall situation of Jewish refugees in the Far East.

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Avraham Mlotek, 31 year old from Warsaw. He describes leaving Warsaw with two friends on September 7th. He describes bombardments and destruction, and Jews fleeing from towns. He made his way through Wawer, Międzyrzec Podlaski and Biala, where heavy bombardments resulted in destruction, fear and injuries, and onto a passenger train which was shot on by the Red Army at the border. Protocol No. 20 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1939 they formed a committee...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of D. K.. 25 year old yeshiva student in the Kleck yeshiva, resident of Brisk. He describes the heavy bombardment of the German planes, and the incendiaries which destroyed parts of the city, and led to multiple casualties. The Germans occupied Brisk and conscripted both Jews and Poles to forced labor, forced Jews to open stores on the Sabbath, and looted Jewish businesses. They detained many in the city but the detainees were freed when the Russians were about to take over the city. The Russians in their turn detained ethnic Germans in a camp and shot several as spies for the Ger...