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  3. Adler family: official personal documents

    Collection of official personal documents, correspondence and press cuttings of members of the Adler family who emigrated to the UK in 1936. Includes certificates of birth and death, speeches, work references, certificates of naturalisation, passports, marriage certificates, declaration of acquisition of British nationality and school reports of Bruno and Meta Adler (1664/1), Erich and Ursula Adler (1664/2), Moritz Israel and Elise Mecklenburg (1664/3), and Feist and Betty Landau (1664/4).

  4. Elise Steiner: personal papers and correspondence

    This collection contains the personal papers of Elise Steiner, a former Jewish refugee from Vienna who arrived in England on a Kindertransport in 1938. Her parents and younger brother were murdered at Kowno concentration camp in 1941. Includes family correspondence (together with typescripts) documenting the day to day activities and aspirations of a Jewish family in Vienna. Reoccurring themes include their gratitude that at least one child was able to escape and continue with her education, efforts to find a place on the Kindertransport for Elise's brother Leo Steiner, news of the fate of ...

  5. Peter Ury: personal papers

    This collection contains the papers of Peter Ury, a Jewish composer from Cologne who emigrated to England in 1939 to escape persecution in Germany. Included are some musical scores of his work, correspondence and press cuttings. Also included are various membership and ID cards of Alfred and Ernina Unger (parents of Peter Ury's wife).

  6. Erfgoed van de Oorlog, Bystander Memories, interview RG-50.570.0019

    1. World War II

    De geïnterviewde woonde in Amsterdam in een wijk waar veel Joden woonden. Zijn vader had een fabriek waar matses werden gemaakt. Hij vertelt levendig over verschillende arrestaties en razzia’s waarvan hij getuige was en noemt enkele schrijnende voorbeelden waarbij onder meer onwetendheid , gehoorzaamheid en angst als factoren voor het gedrag van de Joden worden aangedragen. Onderduik komt eveneens aan de orde in dit interview. Hij gaat tot slot in op de eigen avonturen die hij als kind tijdens de oorlog beleefde. The interviewee lived in an area of Amsterdam were many Jews lived. His father...

  7. Erfgoed van de Oorlog, Bystander Memories, interview RG-50.570.0004

    1. World War II

    De geïnterviewde werd geboren op 22 november 1914 in Frankfurt am Main. In 1925 vertrok het gezin naar Nederland. Hier raakte ze geïnteresseerd in met name de linkse politiek. Vanuit dit perspectief gaf ze zich als verpleegster op om een bijdrage te leveren aan de Spaanse Burgeroorlog, om zo te strijden tegen het fascisme. Over deze oorlog vertelt ze uitvoerig. Terug in Nederland was ze actief in het herbergen van vluchtelingen uit Duitsland. Gedurende de Duitse bezetting breidde deze activiteiten zich uit tot een verzetsgroep, actief in de omgeving van Vlaardingen. Ze hoefde, als joodse vr...

  9. Lists

    1. The Finnish Jewish Archives
    2. The Jewish Community of Helsinki Archives
    3. COMMITTEES RECORDS/Refugee committee

    Lists of refugees, list of transmigrants 1946-1947, part of refugee card index. HICEM refugees’ ID cards.

  10. Other records

    1. The Finnish Jewish Archives
    2. The Jewish Community of Helsinki Archives
    3. COMMITTEES RECORDS/Refugee committee

    Statistical reports, records concerning refugees’ upkeep, travels, account receipts, etc.

  11. Other records

    1. The Finnish Jewish Archives
    2. The Jewish Community of Helsinki Archives
    3. COMMITTEES RECORDS/Refugee committee

    Records concerning refugees’ upkeep, general journal 1938-1941, cash book 1940-1941.

  12. Other records

    1. The Finnish Jewish Archives
    2. The Jewish Community of Helsinki Archives
    3. COMMITTEES RECORDS/Refugee committee

    Records concerning extradition of the Jewish refugees, e.g. documents related to Arno Anthoni’s trial in 1947, etc.

  13. Second World War

    1. The Finnish Jewish Archives
    2. The Finnish Jewish Photograph Collection
    3. OTHER PHOTOS

    Individual and group soldiers photos, “Scholkas shul” field synagogue. Memorial services and burials. Austrian Jewish refugees.

  14. Polish Red Cross – Lublin District (1939-1946)

    The records of the Polish Red Cross handed over to the Archives of the State Museum at Majdanek in 1957. The materials are connected with the activity of the Polish Red Cross in the Lublin district in the years 1939-1946. They include: the personal records of the prisoners of Majdanek and the Lublin Castle, who received parcels from their families by hand of the Polish Red Cross; postcards confirming the receipt of the parcels; lists of Polish soldiers who were wounded or killed in 1939; and a register of former forced labourers, people coming back from the camps, refugees and foreigners lo...

  15. Riječka prefektura

    • Prefettura di Fiume
    • The prefecture of Rijeka

    The collection is important for the study of the state policy/politics of the Kingdom of Italy in the area of ​​Rijeka (Kvarner province) from 1941 to 1945 and the neighboring areas annexed beginning of World War II . Most of it consists of cabinet and general files whose content is similar , with the cabinet records documenting more political , administrative and general and administrative jurisdiction of the creator. Cabinet and general files are archived from 1924 to 1945 according to three classification systems , and the names of their individual components best reflect the content of ...

  16. David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany

    This record group is a collection of testimonies recorded by David Boder, a Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in DP camps in Europe in 1946. The collection is comprised of testimonies of Jews and non-Jews, recorded in various languages and translated into English. The testimonies focus on the events in the lives of the survivors during the war in the ghettos and camps, while serving in the military, in hiding and in children's homes. The testimonies also contain information regarding the rehabilitation of the survivors from immediately after the war until the ...

  17. Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of SIG (the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    The documentation is from 1939-1950. Most of the documentation describes the activities of Saly Mayer as the (unofficial) representative of the JDC in Switzerland during World War II.Saly Mayer transferred JDC funds to persecuted Jews in Europe and Shanghai in different ways. He also distributed money for the care of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland. As part of his activities, he received information regarding what was happening in Europe against the Jews, for example in Slovakia (from the Bratislava Working Group). He was in contact with representatives and activists of various Jewish or...

  18. The Recha Freier Archive: Founder of Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1935-1951

    The collection contains Recha Freier's personal files, including correspondence with various international organizations, among them the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of the United States, which directed its main efforts to the project to rescue Jewish children during the Holocaust.

  19. Documentation of the Central British Fund

    The documentation covers the period from the end of the war until after 1960 and primarily relates to Jews displaced during the war. There is also documentation regarding activities in other countries as well as problems related to Eretz Israel and the creation of the State of Israel in the Record Group. The documentation in the Record Group describes the efforts that were made to evacuate Jews from Nazi-controlled Europe, 1933-1944, the subsequent care of these refugees, post-war reparation, the impact of the Holocaust on the Zionist movement, and many other issues. The archive is all the ...

  20. Documentation of the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Krakow, Poland regarding the organization activities in Poland, 1939-1942

    The documentation includes the welfare and assistance activities of the AJDC to the Jews of Poland; it consists of four main parts: 1. AJDC correspondence with the German administration authorities in occupied Poland; 2. AJDC correspondence with Jewish institutions and organizations in Poland; 3. AJDC correspondence with Jewish institutions and organizations outside of Poland; 4. Survey reports, charts and statistical data. 1. Correspondence with the German administration authorities in occupied Poland, August 1940-January 1942, including requests for the issuing of various permits, such as...