Nederlandse Consulaten-Generaal te Chicago, 1942-1954 en San Francisco, (1918) 1945-1954; (Vice-)Consulaten te Los Angeles, 1940-1954, Cleveland, 1952-1953 en Tampa, 1936-1954 > CONSULAAT TE LOS ANGELES (1940-1954) > MILITAIRE REGISTRATIE > Stukken betreffende het regelen van de registratie van vrijwilligers en dienstplichtigen met de Nederlandse nationaliteit voor het vormen van een troepenmacht in ...

Memoir, typescript, 129 page, written by Imre Gross (Emery Robert), describing his childhood and youth in Hungary, his conscription into a forced labor battalion between 1942-1944, his imprisonment by the Arrow Cross and subsequent escape and hiding in Budapest, liberation, and return to his hometown in 1945. Also described are his experiences in the immediate postwar years, including reunion with ...

The Peter Mansbacher papers include a memoir, correspondence files, and subject files documenting Mansbacher’s efforts to obtain a visa to the United States, his passage to England on a Kindertransport, subsequent internment in England and Canada, and eventual immigration to the United States. Mansbacher's 1991 memoir, Refugee from Nazi Oppression: an Autobiography by Peter Mansbacher, describes his ...

Charles W. Alexander was born on 2 June 1915 in Paola, Kansas. Prior to World War II, he worked in advertising in Chicago. He was drafted in 1943 and served as the photographer for the commander of the 5th Army. He was discharged in 1945 in order to take a position as a photographer at the Nuremberg trials. He later published two books of photographs of the trials including Justice at Nuremberg, which ...

The Clippings Archive of the Second Resistance, known since 1942 as the Czechoslovak Archives in New York, was part of the Czechoslovak Information Center in New York and is associated with the name of its founder, Arne Laurin. Thanks to him, a unique archive of clippings was created, gathering clippings mainly on foreign political and military events during the Second World War, on the situation in ...

Title: "The Jewish Ghetto." Exquisite color footage of Jews in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw, EXTs, sunny day, on or near Nowolipki street, a commercial area. Steady pan of Jews mingling in the streets, milling about, shops line the streets in the BG, signs in Polish. Two men dressed in shambles sleeping on the curb. MS, group of old and young Jews, boys horsing around and teasing another with a large ...

Annette Linzer (née Lederman), 1940-1998) was born on 5 June 1940 in Saint-Gaudens, France to Mordechai (Mordka, 1906-1942) and Reizla (née Zylberszac, 1909-1944) Lederman. Her parents were from Łódź, Poland, but had lived in Belgium and France during the 1930s. In 1941 the family moved back to Brussels, Belgium and Annette’s sister Marguerite (later Marguerite Mishkin, also known as Margo) was born ...

Paul Weber Jacobs was born in Atchison, Kansas, on September 23, 1909. He married Ruby Vandeveer on May 20, 1941, and their first son, Peter, was born on October 4, 1942. Paul obtained a masters degree in Social Work from the University of Chicago in 1937 and worked for a Missouri Synod Lutheran orphanage in Addison, Illinois, prior to being drafted into the United States Army at the end of 1942. He ...

Ilona Foldes (1902-2001) was born Ilona Laszlo to Edward Laszlo and Yetta Springer in Felsőszvidnik, Hungary (now Vysni Svidnik, Slovakia). She lived in Prešov with her husband Arthur Révész and their son Paul until they were arrested by the Gestapo in 1944. They were sent to Berlin and then Oranienburg, where Ilona was separated from her husband and child, whom she never saw again. Ilona was sent ...

Magisterium Dissertation in Mathematics, "On Convex and Subharmonic Functions," by Ela-Chaim Cunzer. Copy of original and translation from Polish by Krzysztof Wlodarski. Foreword and background notes by Esther Rudomin Hautzig. University of Wilno Documents relating to Mr.Cunzer's dissertation and his application to the University in Polish and Latin. Documents in Polish and Latin: index of courses ...

In the mountains (Alps?). A man and a woman talk before a tree and look at the camera. Several young men smoke and pose for the camera at the foot of a ski slope. Guesthouse. Visiting the traditional frescoed facades of the Bavarian village Oberammergau and the Ettal Monastery. Pan across the mountain landscape and small towns below. Three men pose near the summit mount with their skis. People ski ...

Nederlandse Consulaten-Generaal te Chicago, 1942-1954 en San Francisco, (1918) 1945-1954; (Vice-)Consulaten te Los Angeles, 1940-1954, Cleveland, 1952-1953 en Tampa, 1936-1954 > CONSULAAT TE LOS ANGELES (1940-1954) > CONSULAIRE ZAKEN ALGEMEEN > Stukken betreffende het verzamelen en verstrekken van informatie over de activiteiten van een Nederlander in verband met zijn pro-Duitse en anti-Britse den ...

Kurt Laemmle was born in Laupheim, Germany on April 14, 1909. Kurt worked in the Ritz Theatre in Chicago. He became a naturalized US citizen on May 21, 1936 and married Alyse in October 1937. In 1938, Kurt and his older brother Max (b. May 4, 1906) founded Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles, CA. Kurt is the nephew of legendary Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle.

These family papers, including original correspondence, document in part the life of a German Jewish refugee.

Nederlandse Consulaten-Generaal te Chicago, 1942-1954 en San Francisco, (1918) 1945-1954; (Vice-)Consulaten te Los Angeles, 1940-1954, Cleveland, 1952-1953 en Tampa, 1936-1954 > CONSULAAT TE LOS ANGELES (1940-1954) > POLITIEKE RICHTLIJNEN > Stukken betreffende de toepassing van richtlijnen voor het houden van lezingen of redevoeringen, ontvangen van de ambassadeur te Washington,,

Fritz (Fred) Rosenwald (1907-1977) was born in Bünde, Germany to cigar factory owner Bendix Rosenwald (1862-1919) and Emma Weinberg Rosenwald (1869-1953) who lost their business under the National Socialist government. He immigrated to the United States in 1935 with the help of his father's cousins, William Rosenwald and Sophie Rosenwald Adler, son and sister respectively of Sears, Roebuck, and Co. ...

Buitengewone Raad voor de Scheepvaart > STUKKEN VAN BIJZONDERE AARD > onderzoeken > Dossier inzake de moeilijkheden met de bemanning en het daardoor langdurige verblijf (25 juni tot 7 oktober 1940) van het m.s. 'PRINS WILLEM III' te Chicago. Commissieafdoening.

Frajda Tauba Birsztajn (Frida, later Frances Karp, 1897-1974) was born in Warsaw, Poland to Icek Birsztejn and his second wife, Aidla Berlandsztein. She had at least five siblings including Rywka (Becky, ?-1984), Leon, Ewa, Thea, and Lola. Frajda married Lajb Karper (later Louis Karp) in 1922 and immigrated to the United State in 1930, but her mother and their extended families remained in Warsaw. ...

Nederlandse Consulaten-Generaal te Chicago, 1942-1954 en San Francisco, (1918) 1945-1954; (Vice-)Consulaten te Los Angeles, 1940-1954, Cleveland, 1952-1953 en Tampa, 1936-1954 > CONSULAAT TE LOS ANGELES (1940-1954) > NEDERLANDS MILITAIR BUREAU TE NEW YORK > Stukken betreffende de indiensttreding in het Nederlandse leger van personen wonende in het ressort van het consulaat van Los Angeles,

One photograph album, containing 67 prints, depicting displaced persons camps operated by UNRRA in and around Linz, Austria, 1946-1947. Also contains 25 loose snapshots depicting Holocaust memorials in Germany, concentration camp sites, aid workers, and activities to smuggle Jewish refugees out of Europe to Palestine.

MS Laemmle family on vacation in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Shots include Kurt's parents, Siegfried and Alice Laemmle; Kurt and Alyse; and Kurt's brother, Max, and his wife, Bobby, and young son, Robert. They gather on a snowy mountain wearing skis. VS of the group, some don costumes, including one with a comically large moustache, a couple in wedding dress, and two people as a horse (probably during ...

Correspondence from Rachel Rottersman, a social worker who had worked with UNRRA at displaced persons camps in Germany following World War II, and Dr. Grace Cohen Grossman, curator at the Spertus Museum in Chicago, dating from 1979-1980. The correspondence largely deals with requests from Rottersman regarding research about a mass grave near Baumholder, Germany; efforts to recognize a Polish couple, ...