When Hong Kong fell to the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941, Macao was left as a tiny isolated enclave on the China Coast surrounded by Japanese-held territory. As a Portuguese colony, Macao was neutral, and John Reeves, the British Consul, could remain there and continue his work despite being surrounded in all directions by his country's enemy. His main task was to provide relief to the 9,000 or more ...

"In the face of the German onslaught in World War II, the Soviets succeeded, as Molotov later recalled, 'in relocating to the rear virtually an entire industrial country.' It was an official declared, 'one of the greatest feats of the war.' Focusing on the Kirov region, this book offers a different and considerably more nuanced picture of the evacuations than the typical triumphal narrative found in ...

Copyright Holder: Genika Archeia tou Kratous (Greece)

<p>Otto Schiff was born in Frankfurt am Main on 8 May 1875 to Philipp and Bertha (née Dreyfus) Schiff. He came from a distinguished family of bankers. Schiff arrived in London in 1896, where he established the stockbroking firm Bourke, Schiff &amp; Co. In 1901 he became a British subject. Schiff also devoted himself to charitable work on behalf of Jewish immigrants, working on the Jewish Board of Guardians ...

Charles Paul Kogel (1910-2009) was born November 22, 1910 in Antwerp, Belgium to Chaim Kogel and Mariem Kornreiek Kogel. He had one sister, Lena, and two brothers, Isack and Saul. He was a tailor and lived in Antwerp, Belgium with his wife Leah and daughter when World War II started. He was taken to France in 1942 to perform forced labor. His wife and daughter were deported in September 1942 or 1943 ...

Eva Abraham-Podietz (born Eva Rosenbaum) was born on May 22, 1927 to Ernst and Else (Jacobus) Rosenbaum in Hamburg, Germany. Her father worked in the import-export business. She had one brother, Heinz-Peter Rosenbuam born in 1924. During the summer of 1938 Eva's father moved to England and made preparations for the family to join him. Heinz-Peter followed him in September 1938, after being sponsored ...

Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section

In German.

Shows that the deterioration of the housing conditions of the Jews of Berlin and the concentration of the Jews in shelters as part of the planned grandiose reconstruction of the German capital was a stage in a process which culminated in their deportation in 1941-43. Albert Speer was appointed overseer of the Welthauptstadt Germania project launched in 1937, but only a small portion of it was realized. ...

Welt im Film. Issue no. 75 Title: Der Wahltag in Berlin [Voting day in Berlin]. People pass out election literature in the run-up to the first free vote in Germany in 14 years. Election posters and signs (Wahlpropaganda) for the SPD and the SED on buildings, including on the Reich Chancellery. Sign reading: You are Leaving the American Sector. People stand in line to vote and inside a polling place. ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Felicitas Garda

Manfred Marcuse was born on April 17, 1927, in Berlin, Germany. His father, Bruno Marcuse, owned and ran a construction business. His mother, Hedwig Marcuse, was a homemaker who loved creating art. Although Hedwig was a Gentile, Manfred and his family observed Jewish holidays. Manfred had two half-siblings, a brother and a sister, from his father's previous marriage. In 1933, only months after Adolf ...

The Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, CKŻP (Central Committee of Jews in Poland) was the most prominent official Jewish institution in Poland following the Holocaust. CKŻP attended to the needs of Jews from the fall of 1944 until 1950. It sponsored a variety of programs, providing food, shelter, education, medical assistance, cultural activities, and employment services and vocational training. The ...

O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981&#x0D; &#x0D; Leyb Koniuchowsky was born in Lithuania on 18 November 1910. An engineer by profession, he resided in Kaunas (Kovno). During the German occupation he lived in the Kaunas Ghetto and worked there until his escape. He found shelter in a bunker at a farmer's home where he remained until the liberation ...

<p>This collection contains the personal papers of Agnes Balint describing her experiences as a Jewish woman at the time of the Nazi occupation in Budapest during the Second World War.</p>The papers submitted to Yad Vashem in support of her nomination of her rescuers being named "Righteous amongst the Nations" (1725/2), she provides details of her rescue, her life in hiding, the siege of Budapest, ...

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, was founded in the 1881 in the Lower East Side of New York City. Their original mission was to rescue Jews in Eastern Europe and Russia who were being persecuted and murdered in pogroms. They provided the recent refugees with meals and shelter, and helped them find jobs. In 1904, HIAS set up an office on Ellis Island and expanded their aid services to new arrivals, ...

Agnes Feher was born on October 24, 1925 in Miskolc, Hungary. Her father, Andor, was a tailor and her mother, Ilona Klein Feher, was a hairdresser. Andor and Ilona also had a son, György (George) born in 1928. On April 1, 1944, Agnes married Endre Erdos, who was from Budapest and was serving in a forced-labor camp in Miskolc. Shortly after the wedding he was transported to Budapest. In May 1944, Agnes ...

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Records of the Wydział Produktywizacji of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP) (Central Committee of Polish Jews): employment offices, vocational courses, production co-ops, individual workshops, farms, financial aid for enterprises, and statistics.

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The collection consists of biographical material, immigration paperwork, correspondence, and photographs documenting the pre-war lives of Leo and Eva Freyer (née Lichtenstein) and their children Marion and Ursula in Berlin, their emigration from Germany to the United States in 1939, and wartime correspondence with family members and friends still in Germany. There is a small amount of material related ...

Contains post-war photographs of Marguerite Birnbaum with her parents on the streets of Belgium. Marguerite was hidden child in an abbey in Limbourg with the help of Father Armand Elens; Father Elens' sister, Marie-Josephe Dincq, took 7-8 month old Marguerite and raised her for the next two years until the family was reunited in 1945. Marguerite's parents also survived the war in hiding in Belgium ...