Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Against a background of authentic newsreel footage showing the condition of the remaining survivors, the audience is urged to give to the campaign. The funds will allow these people to immigrate, either to Palestine, or the United States, where they can resettle. The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) endorses United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and American Jewish Joint Distribution ...

Typed report into the fate of Rabbi Dr. E. Steckelmacher and his wife during the Nazi era including an account of their experiences in their home town of Dürkheim, Württemberg, in 1933, when the Nazis came to power; 1934 at the time of the boycott of Jewish shops and businesses; Kristallnacht; conditions in Gurs Concentration Camp, Pyrenees, France; conditions in Camp du Recebedon, near Toulouse and ...

The archive was created in 2007 and covers the period around 1930 until Halina Neujahr died in 2006. The archive primarily contains documents relating Halina Neujahr's own experiences from the Warsaw ghetto and her time in Sweden in the form of lectures and newspaper articles, as well as the documentary film _In Memoriam_ with Halina Neujahr, in which she talks about her life in the Warsaw ghetto and ...

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Introduction: The transnational community. - I. From concern to outcry 1939-1942. Chapt. I. The Hebrew-language press in Palestine (Davar, Hatzofe, Ha'aretz, Haboqer, Hamashqif). - Chapt. 2. Sounding the alarm: the American Jewish press, 1939-1942. - II. The illusion dashed 1942-1945. - Chapt. 3. The Hebrew-language press in Palestine. - Chapt. 4. The American Jewish press. - Chapt. 5. The British ...

Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

Traces the development and organization of the Nazi concentration camp system through its several phases. From 1942, with the arrival of mass transports of Jews, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek became mainly extermination camps for Jews, whereas other camps became reservoirs of forced labor mostly for non-Jews. In April 1944, because of the exigencies of war production, Hitler ordered that concentration ...

Contains identification documents, including an Austrian birth certificate, an application for US immigration visa, a US quota immigrant visa document, a "Kinderausweis" (child identity card), a US immigrant identity card, all issued to Hans Ament (donor's brother). The family was unable to successfully emigrate despite receiving US visas, and Hans went into hiding in an orphanage in Izieu, France. ...

Documentation of the regional Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Bialystok, dated 1945-2003
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 Lists of residents of the Bialystok region who perished in camps and prisons, including in Mauthausen, Dachau, Ravensbrueck, Dzialdowo, Bialystok, Gross-Rosen, Stutthof, Bergen-Belsen, Dora, Buchenwald, Majdanek and Auschwitz ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die nach dem Reichstagsbrand aufgrund der Notverordnung zum Schutz von Volk und Staat vom 28. Februar 1933 in großer Zahl verhafteten politischen Gegner des NS-Regimes wurden in unabhängig von Polizei- und Justizgefängnissen eingerichtete Konzentrationslager (KZ) ver‧bracht. Eine systematische Organisation und Vereinheitlichung der KZ und ihrer Wachmann‧schaften, der ...

Papers relating to the family of Ruth Locke (nee Neumeyer). Printed material relating to Martin Ephraim (1992/N.d.); Typed testimony of Dr Hirschberg's experiences of Auschwitz (1944-1945); Typed letters from Vera Neumeyer (1942); Handwritten letter from Vera Neumeyer to her children in England (N.d.); Typed letter from Julius Kohn to Ruth and Raimund (1939). Photocopies of originals.

244 files, 4 opisi Manuscrips, drafts, and notebooks of the writer, correspondence with editors and colleagues. Opis 2: 1949 - 1963 Manuscripts of "Life and Fate" (1960). Notebooks, diaries, interviews with red army soldiers (1943-1945) Opis 3: Notebooks (1941-1950)

Copyright Holder: Instytut Zachodni im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego

Maria Rozengarten Rose was born in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland, to Matias Rozengarten (1877-1942, originally of Siedlce) and to Golda Keis (1875-1941, originally of Warsaw). Maria had an older sister, Ruta, and a brother, Marek, who was the middle child. Marek completed trade school and opened a haberdashery in Warsaw. He married Maryla Wahl, and had a son, Czesio, born in 1934. In 1935, Ruta married Adam ...

Roman Karmen was born in 1906 in Odessa. He enrolled in the Gerasimov Institute for of Cinematography in Moscow in 1929. Throughout the 1930s, Karmen worked at the Central Studio of Documentary Film and as a correspondent for Soviet newspapers. He covered the Civil War in Spain in 1936-39. During World War II, Karmen was present on the front lines, documenting the Leningrad blockade, the surrender ...

A Lublin family remembered consists of one postcard, one pamphlet, and one videorecording (not digitized), all relating to the unveiling of a memorial to the Zajfsztajn family of Lublin, Poland, at the Glusk Jewish cemetery in June 1995.

The Max Poznanski collection contains documentation acquired by Poznanski, in an effort to gain reparations for his medical conditions. Poznanski suffered from bronchitis and severe nervousness, gained from his time working in the coal mines while a prisoner in several concentration camps. The majority of the collection contains medical reports and diagnoses in English, German, Czech, Russian, and ...

The collection documents the unsuccessful efforts of Szilard and Hella Diamant to emigrate from Berlin, Germany in 1938-1939. Includes correspondence and other documents regarding his attempts to secure visas, affidavits and money through the efforts of family in the United States and the Hilfsverein Der Juden in Deutschland [Aid Association of German Jews].

P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969
 
 The estate of Benjamin Sagalowitz was submitted to Yad Vashem by B. Froehlich, the executor of the estate in 1972; it was transferred to Israel by Herbert Rosenkranz.
 
 In the Record Group:
 
 - Drafts and galley proofs of Benjamin Sagalowitz's ...

Session 63. Attorney General talks about correspondence between Hajj Amin (Mufti of Jerusalem) and Bulgarian Foreign Ministry and Minister of Romania [T/1264] in relation to Oliver Stanley allowing Palestinian immigration permits for 4000 Jewish children. He is against their immigration to Palestine - they could side with the enemy, go into other Middle Eastern countries, threaten Arab persons. Wants ...

In 2005, friends and neighbours of the Morgens offered the bequest of Konrad Morgen (1909-1982) as a gift to the Fritz Bauer Institute. Konrad Morgen was a SS judge and witness at the First Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. Before her death, Morgen's wife had transferred her husband's bequest with all rights to the couple living in the neighbourhood of their vacation home in Niedernhausen im Taunus. Konrad ...

"The Trial of Forty German Butchers of Auschwitz Camp," November 24-26, 1947. LS, building in which the trial of Auschwitz takes place. Market scene. 02:36:45 MS, crowd listening to loudspeaker on steps of building. MS, crowd outside of building listening to prisoners' examination. 02:37:05 VS, German prisoners jumping out of lorries and marching into the Court of Justice. 02:37:22 VS, Maria Mandl, ...

Wanda Rotbart (formerly Natka Kronenberg and Wanda Levenkopf), was born to Moishe and Chava Kronenberg in Warsaw, Poland where Moishe worked as a furrier. There, she attended school until the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, when she had to suspend her education during her second year of high school. A year later in 1940, Wanda and her family moved into the Warsaw Ghetto. 1942 Wanda’s mother and sister ...

Reports, correspondence, hearings of witnesses regarding the action of the Polish underground in Warsaw, materials about the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 - various information, studies, accounts, notes, list of executions, situational sketches and maps, list of commanders and military units; account of German crimes committed in September 1939; investigation materials against Erich von dem Bach, Heinz Reinefarth, ...