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  1. Carimbo de autorização de visto em passaporte

    Documentação referente à utilização de carimbo de autorização nos vistos pedidos à Embaixada de Portugal em Londres.

  2. Carl and Edith Zucker papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Carl Zucker, originally of Zakroczym, Poland, and his wife Edith Zucker (née Guzy), originally of Olkusz, Poland, in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp. Included is biographical material such as identification cards, birth and marriage certificates, displaced persons documentation, and restitution paperwork. There is also a small amount of photographs primarily depicting Edith’s sister Esther Guzy and her brother Lajzer Guzy, both of whom perished in the Holocaust. Biographical materials include documents related to Carl, Ed...

  3. Carl and Flora Wertheim collection

    The collection consists of 2 suitcases used by Carl and Flora Wertheim when they emmigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938.

  4. Carl and Gertrud Lutz in a garden

    Carl and his wife sit close to one another on a set of steps, holding hands and talking, in Chicago (date unknown). She kisses his cheek. He gets up to adjust the camera and rejoins her, putting his arm around her. They smile for the camera. Gertrud in a fur coat and hat. Carl sits with a group of people in rocking chairs. Carl and his wife on a pier, smiling for the camera. The two walk arm in arm on the deck of a ship, looking out over the railing, and in a garden (seen in RG-60.6976). They kiss. Gertrud wears sunglasses and sits with another man (Emil?) on a bench. Carl joins them. CUs, ...

  5. Carl and Robert Gamer papers

    This collection is clearly delineated into two parts, each potentially very valuable for future scholarship. The Dr. Carl Gamer papers cover the coursework, research, and writing of his 1940 doctoral dissertation at the University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana, “Freedom of Religion in Germany: A Study of Theory and Practice Under the National Socialist Regime, with Special Attention to Free Churches of American and English Origin.” The term "free churches" referred to the non-established churches that historically had been either churches stemming from the Reformation but (in the early 19th ...

  6. Carl Atkin collection

    The collection consists of photographs, artwork, documents, a ribbon, and scrip relating to the experiences of Carl Atkin’s work after the Holocaust with the UNRRA and later at the American Financial and Development Corporation for Israel.

  7. Carl Ebert collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge and a satirical French flier relating to the experiences of Carl Ebert as a US army soldier in the Signal Corps in Europe during World War II.

  8. Carl G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Carl G., who was born in Vec?a, Czechoslovakia, in 1929. Mr. G. recalls childhood in the large family of a cantor and kosher butcher; attending a German language school in Bratislava; returning home when the borders closed in 1938; ghettoization in 1944; his father's conscription into a Hungarian labor battalion; hiding his mother's rings in the garbage pit; her refusal to leave her children with Romanies; deportation to a brick works in E?rseku?jvar; transport to Birkenau; believing the crematoria to be bakeries; and throwing food to female inmates. He relates incarc...

  9. Carl Gärtig collection

    The Carl Gärtig papers consists of color photocopies of photographs, letters, and documents relating Carl Gärtig and his family while he was imprisoned in Kassel, Germany and Buchenwald concentration camp; post-war letters written to Gärtig from fellow survivors; pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs; a brief biography of Carl Gärtig; and Carl Gärtig's memories of the death of Reverend Paul Schneider (1897-1939) in Buchenwald concentration camp.

  10. Carl Goldstein collection

    Contains documents, photographs, certificates, and other materials concerning the experiences of Dr. Kurt Isidore Goldstein, his wife Irma, and son Carl Max Alexander and their experiences as refugees fleeing Germany through India and eventually to the United States. Includes a certificate of identity in lieu of a passport, issued to the family, signed by the undersecretary to the Government of Madras, India on March 19, 1941, with US immigration visas (under Polish quota) stamped on the reverse and dated March 25, 1941; three certificates of good health issued to the Goldstein family by a ...

  11. Carl H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Carl H., who was born in Kirchheimbolanden, Germany in 1933. He recalls traveling to a Jewish school in Worms because Jews could not attend public school; confiscation of their home; deportation to Gurs, then Rivesaltes in southern France; reluctantly departing from his parents (they convinced him to leave) for a children's home in Saint-Raphae?l; corresponding with his parents and brother until they were deported; and transfer to another children's home, then to a farm family in Saint-Apollinaire-de-Rias for three years; being found by a cousin after the war; joining...

  12. Carl H. Knuemann photograph collection

    The collection consists of ten images of Carl H. Knuemann during and after World War II. Also included in the collection is an image of a former professor of Carl H. Knuemann, Dr. Steinhaeuser, and an image of Alboin Gunther, the sales director of the firm Kirst and Sons that supplied ovens to the Oranienburg concentration camp, and his family.

  13. Carl Landauer Papers

    Correspondence, printed matter, and sound recordings of interviews, relating to economics, world politics, and efforts to aid German Jewish refugees to the United States during the 1930s and World War II. Sound use copies of sound recordings available.

  14. Carl Lutz collection

    Private papers of Carl Lutz (1895-1975), a Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest (1942-1945). The collection contains a part of Lutz's papers (another part is held by the Yad Vashem Archives) and consists of biographical materials and personal documents: CV, honors, photographs, diaries, audio recordings, and correspondence, e.g. with the US Holocaust Museum, Washington DC (1989-1990), (File 137); diplomatic reports relating to Palestine (1934-1940), economic relations Switzerland-Palestine, the protection of German interests in Palestine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Berlin (1941), and the sit...

  15. P.19 Collection of Carl Lutz, Swiss Diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations, 1935-1970

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019608
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1935-1970
    • Album Letter List of names Newspaper clippings Official documentation Passport Personal documents Photograph Research article Survey report

    P.19 Collection of Carl Lutz, Swiss Diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations, 1935-1970 Carl Lutz (1895-1975) was the Swiss Vice Consul in Jaffa, Eretz Israel, 1935-1941, and in Budapest, Hungary, 1942-1945. Following the German occupation of Hungary, 1944, he was extremely active in rescuing Jews with United States, British, Romanian, El Salvadorian and other citizenships, as well as on behalf of those with certificates to make aliya to Eretz Israel. - The collection was submitted to Yad Vashem in 1981, through the generosity of Agnes Hirschi, Lutz's adopted daughter; - The collection is c...

  16. Carl Lutz commemorative material

    Consists of a first-issue commemorative stamp and envelope, issued on September 29, 1999, featuring Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz. Also includes a post-war photographic print portrait of Lutz, and a printed program for a ceremony at George Washington University, dated March 3, 2014, at which Lutz was posthumously honored with the University's President's Medal for his work in Budapest in 1944.

  17. Carl Lutz family

    Two older women walk arm in arm through a garden (unknown location and date). They sit at a table with a younger woman. They smile at the camera. Carl Lutz laughs and smiles. The women talk. Carl poses with his arm around the eldest woman. He pats her cheek. They pose together standing up near a window. Carl and the woman, arm in arm, walk through a garden. He points out various plants. Another woman sews. Another woman joins and they smile and talk. CU of the eldest woman’s eyes and mouth. Various flowers. The eldest woman smiles at the camera.

  18. Carl Lutz with his wife Gertrud in America

    Carl Lutz with his wife Gertrud and parents, possibly in Cincinnati, unknown date. They sit on the steps of a fountain and talk. Carl pulls out a camera, which Gertrud looks at. Gertrud sits by a pond looking at and touching flowers. Carl's mother stands with her arm around Gertrud, next to Carl's father. They all look at and touch the different flowers. Carl joins them. The parents and wife walk in this garden, continuing to look at and touch the flowers. More shots of Gertrud amongst the flowers. Carl joins her. She picks a flower and pins it to his lapel. They both stop and smile at the ...

  19. Carl Nelson collection

    Consists of photographs collected by Private Carl Nelson, Jr., a member of the United States military during World War II and who participated in the liberation of an unknown concentration camp. The photographs depict various concentration camps after liberation, as well as photographs of United States military personnel. Also includes a copy of a certificate honoring Carl Nelson's service and a copy of his discharge papers.

  20. Carl Romack letter

    The Carl Romack letter is a three-page letter was written by Carl Romack, a 1st Lieutenant in the United States Air Force to family in the United States, April 17, 1945. The describes his eyewitness experience of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.