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  1. Blue, white and yellow Jewish Relief Unit Star of David badge worn by a German Jewish nurse

    JRU [Jewish Relief Unit] Star of David shaped pin worn by 26 year old Alice Redlich while working as a nurse at Bergen Belsen displaced persons camp. The British Army liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice had left Germany in 1938 to study nursing in Great Britain. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, arrived with Team 110 in Bergen-Belsen. She cared for infants, children and young women, and taught hygiene. When Alice left Berlin, she left behind her parents Ella and Georg and younger ...

  2. Blueprint copies for Buchenwald

    Includes three copies of the blueprint plans for Buchenwald concentration camp. Also included is a report by the Sixth Service Command describing conditions in Buchenwald in 1944. This report contains testimony by Henry Glass, a prisoner of Buchenwald for approximately four months, from September 1938 to January 1939. The report describes the physical layout of the camp, its administration, methods of torture practiced in the camp, and the colored markings used to identify the prisoners.

  3. Blum and Manuel Family collection

    Contains correspondence received by Margot Manuel in New York from her relatives in Germany. The majority of the letters were written by her parents, Leopoldine and Hermann Manuel, as well as brother Alfons and Siegfried. Leopoldine and Hermann Manuel, as well as Siegfried, did not survive the Holocaust.

  4. Blum family collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the Blum family from Berlin. Richard Blum, a high fashion tailor, was arrested on Kristallnacht and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen. Includes an example of Richard's business cards; Betty Blum's German passport; various identification documents related to immigration efforts; and photographs taken aboard the MS St. Louis. Richard and Betty left Germany on the MS St. Louis in May 1939 and disembarked in Belgium when the ship returned to Europe. They were briefly imprisoned in the Gurs internment camp in France, and survived the war ...

  5. Blum family papers

    Contains letters written to Richard J. Blum from Hans Wagner on March 26, 1938, and from Leo Haas on December 4, 1938. The letters describe the authors' fear of persecution of themselves and their wives because they were Jewish. Also contains a photograph of Liesel Haas.

  6. Blum, Max

    Zitierweise BArch N 2028/...

  7. Bluma B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bluma B., who was born in Warsaw (Praga), Poland in 1922. She recalls graduation from gymnasium in June 1939; German invasion; ghettoization; a Judenrat member helping her family locate living quarters; round-ups by Jewish police; streets strewn with corpses; her mother's and sister's deportation (she never saw them again); forced factory labor; living with her father at Mila 5; youth activities; surviving the big selection at the end of 1942; hiding with her father in a bunker during the winter; the Jewish uprising in 1943; being burned out; deportation to Majdanek; ...

  8. Bluma Fischer collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of the family of Bluma Fischer. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Bluma Krzepicka papers

    The Bluma Krzepicka papers consist of two postwar identification cards documenting Bluma Krzepicka and her husband, Hersz Mendel Krzepicki, and 18 photographs documenting Krzepicka and her family in Poland before the Holocaust and Krzepicka with fellow survivors in Sweden after the Holocaust.

  10. Blumberg family photographs

    Contains a photo album with images of activities and vacations with friends of Shlomo Baruch Blumberg (donor's father) who immigrated to Palestine in 1934 from Warsaw, Poland.

  11. Blume, August

    Bestandsbeschreibung Biographische Angaben: Gewerkschafter (SPD); 2. Vors. des Deutschen Sattler-, Tapezierer- und Portefeuiller-Verbandes (1929-1933); Vors. des ZV der IG Leder (1946-1950) Bestandsbeschreibung: Persönliche Dokumente; Erinnerungen an Karl Liebknecht und Rosa Luxemburg. Umfang, Erläuterung 3 AE Zitierweise BArch NY 4403/...

  12. Blumenfeld, Erik

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1388
    • German
    • 1953-1989
    • Nachlässe 235 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 10,7 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Blumenfeld, Erik B.: Profile. Persönliches und Politisches 1955-1970. Hamburg 1970 Witter, Ben: Erik Blumenfeld: "Meine Härte habe ich in Auschwitz verbraucht."- In: Witter, Ben: Spaziergänge mit Prominenten. Hamburg 1982.- S. 51-57 Zitierweise BArch N 1388/...

  13. Blumenstein family collection

    Consists of photographs, documents, and correspondence relating to the experiences of the Blumenstein family in Vienna, Austria, on board the MS St. Louis, in hiding in Holland, and their efforts to flee Nazi-occupied Europe. Includes a photograph of the donor's father in Sosua, Dominican Republic and a photograph taken in a Quaker camp for refugees in Havana, Cuba.

  14. Blumenthal family papers

    The Blumenthal family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, emigration and immigration papers, and photographs documenting the Blumenthal family from Hüttengesäß; Albert, Alice, and Ellen Blumenthal’s immigration to the United States before World War II; and Bernhard Blumenthal’s deportation to Theresienstadt during the Holocaust. Biographical materials include Albert Blumenthal’s identification papers and World War I military papers; Alice and Ellen Blumenthal’s immunization records; tracing documents attesting to Bernhard Blumenthal’s imprisonment and deportation; a co...

  16. BNB-sector Ronse.

    Dit bestand bevat een aantal relevante stukken en dossiers. Zie vb. de brief inzake suggesties voor het opsporen van textielfabrikanten die stof hebben geproduceerd voor o.a. de ‘Jodensterren’ (nr. 71), de (reproductie van een) brief betreffende de Shoah in België en Polen (nr. 76), persknipsels over de herdenkingen van de bevrijding van de concentratie- en vernietigingskampen (nrs. 83 – 85) en ten slotte een dossier inzake de herdenking van de 50ste verjaardag van het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog en de bevrijding van de kampen, te Ronse op 6 en 7 mei 1995 (nr. 96). Onder nr. 3 vinden w...

  17. Board of Deputies of British Jews records

    Contains documents relating to the response of the British Jewish community during World War II, including aid for refugees, immigration and Palestine issues, reports of persecution and conditions for Jews in Europe, as well as correspondence with Jewish communities and organizations in Europe and throughout the world, and President's and Secretaries' papers. Correspondents include: Neville Laski, Adolph Brotman, Selig Brodetsky, and Barnett Janer. Also contains Aliens Committee minutes and papers, Foreign Affairs Committee minutes, and Press Committee publicity material. Also contains reco...

  18. Board of Deputies: Defence committee papers

    FOR PERMISSION TO ACCESS THIS ARCHIVE PLEASE CLICK THE LINK BELOW IN THE ATTACHED DOCUMENTS FIELD AND PRINTOUT, FILL OUT AND SEND TO ADDRESS GIVEN.The Defence Archive contains reports from the Jewish community's observers who attended many local and national meetings held by these groups, assessments of the groups' aims and capabilities, correspondence with the police and government, as well as the minutes of the Board's committees. Part of the Defence Archive has remained closed but in 2011 it was decided to put it on long term loan with the Wiener Library so that researchers of the perio...

  19. Board of Health Reviews in Official employments (civil servants)

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Nævnet for Helbredsbedømmelser i Tjenestemandssager
    • Danish, English
    • 1947-1981
    • 11 parcels

  20. Board of Jewish Population Delegation in Będzin Centralna Rada Starszych Gmin Żydowskich w Będzinie (Sygn. 212)

    Contains instructions issued by Chaim Israel Merin, “chairman of the board” of the Judenrat in Będzin (Zarząd Przedstawicielstwa Ludności Żydowskiej w Będzinie); lists of the names and addresses of Jews in Będzin; reports of Jewish police activity; identification cards and photographs of some Jews from Będzin; a list of Jews deported during liquidation actions in the Będzin area; a list of Jewish intellectuals killed by the Nazis; notices to German firms in Będzin concerning the employment of Jews; an alphabetical population list of Jews in Będzin from 1942 to 1943; a list of Jews sent to t...