According to the 1918 act of union of Bessarabia with Romania, there were introduced changes in the territorial-administrative division of the territory between Prut and Dniester rivers. The territory of Bessarabia was divided into counties, which were divided into several districts. The lower administrative unit was a commune, which united several localities. At the head of each district, there were ...

The Gestapo office in Stettin was under the command of the Berlin Gestapo office. The Stettin office conducted surveillance on all organizations active in the region, and on individual persons suspected of political unreliability; it also engaged in counterintelligence. The structure of the Gestapo office as of 31 December 1939 included three sections, which in turn were organized into departments. ...

Firstly, we note in this fonds several series of correspondence which are of interest to this guide. Files Z4/30867 - Z4/30870 contain correspondence regarding “Zionist work” in Belgium (for the years 1927-1946). Correspondence on immigration from Belgium (often with lists of immigrants) and family research can be found in the files Z4/32408 to Z4/32412 (1943-1947). Various correspondence (regarding ...

Moritz Wolfgang Friedler (1918-2000) was born in Vienna to Mendel and Chane Friedler. He was a member of Religious Zionist youth groups and worked on agricultural farms in preparation for eventual emigration to Israel. He was beaten during Kristallnacht and escaped with his cousin to England, where he worked for the Jewish Agricultural Training School in Abergelle, North Wales. His father was deported ...

Printed catalogue, Author: Zuzana Ščamburová, 1997. In the Researcher´s Room of the archive.

O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
 
 The collection is primarily comprised of original documents: typewritten documents, manuscripts, surveys and duplicated reports entrusted to the Yad Vashem Archives over the years, mostly by private bodies. 
 
 The internal division of the Record group was changed a few years ago, and the original ...

partly accessible

Charles (Carl) Lutz (1895-1975) was the Swiss vice-consul in Budapest between 1942 and 1945. Born in Walzenhausen, Switzerland, Lutz moved to the United States in 1913 at the age of 18. While studying at the George Washington University, he joined the Swiss diplomatic service and became chancellor at the Swiss legation in Washington, D.C. In 1935, Lutz was sent to Palestine, where he was appointed ...

Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus were an affluent, secular Jewish couple from Philadelphia. Gilbert Kraus, an attorney, became increasingly distressed by reports of Nazi atrocities against German and Austrian Jews and became determined to do what he could to help. Kraus was approached by Louis Levine, then the Grand Master of Brith Sholom, to discuss a possible plan for Brith Sholom to organize a rescue mission. ...

Copyright Holder: Mr. Paul Fairbrook

Ruth von Wild (1912 -1983) was a Swiss teacher who dedicated her life to the care of refugee children. Ruth von Wild grew up in Barcelona as a Swiss citizen abroad. Her parents were from Glockenthal in the canton of Bern. She graduated from the University of Neuchâtel, and taught from 1933 to 1936 at the Swiss School in Barcelona. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War the school was closed and ...

A set of the digital files is also held by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.

<p>This collection comprises the personal papers of Herbert Elliott (formerly Eisenthal), a former Kindertransportee from Vienna who escaped Nazi persecutions in 1938. His sister emigrated to Palestine. His father was unable to leave Vienna but survived his imprisonment at Terezin concentration camp, where he was held for almost three years.</p><p>Personal papers including Herbert Elliott's school ...

René Goldman was born on March 25, 1934 in Luxembourg, Luxembourg to Wolf Goldman (b. May 9, 1911 in Wieruszów, Poland, d. January 1945) and Mirel (Mira) Shaindl Goldman (neé Arensztein, b. April 17, 1907 in Kalisz, Poland, d. after September 1942 in Auschwitz, Poland). Wolf and Mirel Goldman lived in Poland until around 1930, then moved to France and Luxembourg, where they were married in October, ...

The Fritz Rosenthal Family papers measure 0.5 linear foot and date from 1900-1995. The collection contains biographical materials, correspondence files, photographic materials, and professional records documenting major life events of Rosenthal family members, the immigration of Fritz, his wife Marty, and his father Karl Rosenthal to America, the lives of the Rosenthals in the United States, and Fritz ...

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P.69 - Archive of the Levy family, from Essen, Germany, 1863-1993&#x0D; &#x0D; About the Levy family:&#x0D; &#x0D; Dr. Ernst Levy (b.1872) was the eldest son of physician Dr. Hermann Levy (b. 1838) and his wife Emma, née Hirschland (b. 1847). &#x0D; Dr. Ernst Levy and his wife, the former Martha Ruthenburg (b. 1878) lived in Essen, Germany, where Dr. Levy was a general practitioner and researcher. ...

There is an inventory available in Czech, English and German for the Documents of Persecution collection, which is gradually added to. The Documents of Persecution collection is accessible in the archive of the Shoah History Department of the Jewish Museum in Prague. It has been completely digitised. On-line access is planned.

Max Webb (1917-2018) was born Menashe Weisbrot on 2 March 1917 in Szydłowiec, Poland to Abraham and Sheva (née Blumenfeld) Weisbrot. He had six siblings: his twin sister Lola, Preva, Faiga, Sima, Toba, and Isaac. Max grew up in Łódź where his father owned a grocery store. The family was Conservative and spoke Yiddish and Polish at home. After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Max was ...

Ross Allen Baker was born on November 13, 1886, in Greencastle, Indiana, to Philip S. and Luemma Allen Baker. His father was a chemistry professor at DePauw University. Ross received a BA in chemistry from DePauw and a PhD in 1914 from the University of Wisconsin. He married Helen Fredericka Porter on December 30, 1914. The couple had five sons: Philip, Porter, Frederick, Stanley, and Raymond. He held ...

Title: "All over the world the elections to the Congress are carried out on the principles of democracy. In Erez-Israel, 10 parties applied for a mandate to the 19th Zionist Congress. Election day in Tel Aviv." Men post election broadsides in Tel Aviv. People stand in line to vote at the Great Synagogue on Allenby street. People vote in other locations, interior and exterior shots. Advertisements for ...

The Norbert Wollheim papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Wollheim’s prewar family life in Europe, his efforts to receive restitution for his slave labor at I.G. Farben, his immigration to the United States, and his continued work with other Holocaust survivor organizations such as the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors, the Auschwitz/Buna Memorial, ...

Abraham Tolkowsky, born on 5 June 1838 in Russia, migrated from Bialystok, Poland, to Belgium in the 1880s and became a diamond merchant in Antwerp. He married Lifsche Moed and several of their nine children also became active in the diamond industry. The family business prospered from the 1890s with the founding of diamond polishing business A.M.I. Tolkowsky. Son Moise (Maurice) invented several techniques ...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the jurisdiction of district 11 of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith included the entire Eastern Mediterranean region. A lodge was established in Belgrade in 1911, with Adolf Resovski as president. The Zagreb lodge, founded in 1927, was Zionist in orientation, as was the Sarajevo lodge, founded in 1933. In 1935, Yugoslav lodges succeeded in ...