Field camp of German anti-aircraft soldiers. Title card: “Forced labor camp of Poles, Russians and French" Low brick buildings of unidentified forced labor camp. Men, women and children dressed in civilian clothes, daily activities. Title card: “Just married this morning! I just missed it. Romance blossoms under any conditions it seems”. Social gathering in town center. Title card: “The Germany of ...

As a representative of the Swiss Red Cross in 1944, Maurice Rossel was asked to inspect Theresienstadt. He admits that he gave Theresienstadt a clean bill of health and would probably do so again today. He was also given a tour of Auschwitz, which he did not realize was a death camp. Lanzmann's questioning points to the degree to which Rossel and others were manipulated by the Nazis and to what extent ...

Photocopy of a death certificate for Samuel Roth, the donor's father-in-law, who died at Buchenwald. Photocopy of a prisoner card with photograph of Eugene Roth. Original typescript letter from the International Red Cross, International Tracing Servicing, circa 1963.

Contains records of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Commission of Prisoners, Internees, and Civilians (PIC) from ACICR series G 44, Otages et détenus politiques, relating to aid for hostages and political prisoners in Nazi concentration camps; hostages and political prisoners in prisons and concentration camps in Germany; hostages, political prisoners, and resistance fighters imprisoned ...

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Copyright Holder: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung

Consists of copies and enlargements of the passport issued by the Italian delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross to Ricard Klement, a pseudonym used by Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann used this passport to immigrate to Argentina in 1950.

Contains two copies of "Public Status of the International Red Cross Committee under International Law and Publicity of its Activities and Reports"; a copy of a transcribed letter from S.Z. Kantor to Cordell Hull, July 28, 1943; copy of a transcribed letter from S. Z. Kantor to Norman H. Davis, March 6, 1944; five photographs from Ohrdruf following Liberation taken by a friend of Gideon Kantor; and ...

Pertains to the activities of Hans Weyermann as the delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1944 in Budapest. Includes material relating to the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. Weyermann remained in Budapest after the Soviet forces had driven out the Germans and he was one of few eyewitnesses who saw Wallenberg in 1945, shortly before his disappearance.

The collection consists of correspondence from the International Tracing Service of the International Red Cross, sent to Jerry and Esther Besser, of Atlanta, in response to requests that had placed in 1987. Included is a letter with information about Jerry (Gezel) Besser's internment at Gross-Rosen and Dachau, and a letter with information about Edzia Zajbel (born 1930), and her interment at camps ...

Collection of materials documenting the experiences of David and Dora Ruskin (donor’s parents) and their experiences during the Holocaust. Includes a manuscript entitled “The Journey Home” by Michael Ruskin about his his parents experiences during 1939-1945 during the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe, Kaunas, Lithuania and the Kovno ghetto; post-war documents from the International Red Cross; marriage ...

Since Somalia, the international community has found itself changing its view of humanitarian intervention. This volume of original essays by international policy leaders, practitioners, and scholars brings together insights into the conflicting moral pressures present in different kinds of interventions ranging from Rwanda and Somalia to Haiti, Cambodia, and Bosnia. From their various cultural and ...

The letter, sent by Josef Frenkiel from Algiers in 1939 via the International Red Cross, inquires as to whether members of his family still live in Warsaw, Poland. The response, on the opposite side of the first letter, also written in 1939, revealed that members of Frenkiel's family were still living in Warsaw, Poland.

Copyright Holder: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung

3rd ed. 421, [1] pages ; 23 x 30 cm

Copyright Holder: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung

"Greenwar is part of the Panos Sahel Programme, supported by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), the Ford Foundation, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), Oxfam (UK), and the Swedish Red Cross"--Title page verso. 156 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm

Contains six documents that include a letter of "representation of Polish Jews," regarding Dr. Emil Reich of Oświęcim, a Hapoel Hamizrahi rescue letter for a Czech Jewess refugee in Hungary, a small broadside to donate funds to 150 rabbinic refugee families who escaped from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, a letter to a committee for Polish affairs from a Polish war invalid in Israel, an International ...

Circular 15226 from 1919 established the scope of action for the Presidential Department of the Foreign Ministry. This scope consisted of setting the agenda and centrally administering the Ministry, organizing the diplomatic representation, employing the personnel of Hungarian foreign policy, assuring the acquisition of proper offices abroad as well as equiping and maintaining them, organizing foreign ...

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Wiktor Poznanski was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland on November 1, 1912. He graduated from the Uniwersytet Warszawski Wydział Prawa in 1935. Wiktor was imprisoned in Mauthausen concentration camp during the Holocaust.

Also about the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Jewish Agency. X, 429 p. ; 24 cm.

Contains correspondence and documents relating to the donor's father's internment in Camp Gurs and Les Milles: drawings made by Gurs inmates in 1939; documentation of attempts to obtain visas; photographs taken by donor's husband while in Germany with the U.S. Army, some from Dachau taken two days after liberation; documents from the Red Cross International Tracing Service concerning the donor's mother's ...