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Private papers of Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989), Holocaust survivor from Konstanz, Germany. The collection consists of school and work documents, passports, identity cards, photographs concerning childhood and youth in Konstanz as well as imprisonment in Dachau concentration camp and Gurs internment camp, and asylum in Switzerland; correspondence, lectures, publications, newspaper clippings, and various ...

Contains general correspondence from the British Embassy and Consulate in Turkey relating to asylum for Jews and persecution of Jews, 1944.

20:00:41 (LIB 5168-LIB 5170) Hadamar Murder Mills, Hadamar, Germany, April 7, 1945. LSs building of insane asylum where interrogation is taking place. INT, Dr. Adolf Wahlmann, Karl Willig, and Adolph Merkle being interrogated by War Crimes Investigation team. MSs, CUs, political prisoners leaving building and entering car. Car driving off. 20:05:45 (LIB 5211) Atrocities at Ohrdruf, near Gotha, Germany, ...

This article explores the response of the Northern Ireland government to the Jewish refugee crisis during the years preceding the outbreak of the Second World War. The author examines the government's treatment of asylum seekers, and in particular its attempts to attract refugee businessmen who might contribute to solving Ulster's chronic unemployment and economic blight.

Describes the internment camp in Les Milles in the south of France, based on testimonies of survivors (or their families) and archival material. Set up in September 1939, it served at first as a military camp. After 1940 it was a camp for foreigners who sought asylum in France, including Jews. Between 3 August-10 September 1942 it served as a transit camp for Jews sent to Auschwitz via Drancy. Includes ...

Propaganda for sterilization (15m10s); "Kampf ums Dasein" [struggle for life] (2m12s); enactment of the marriage health law (4m30s); positive Nazi goals (1m50s). Nazi racial propaganda film about mentally and physically disabled people and the danger and drain they are on the Aryan nation. This film (like "Erbkrank") shows footage of men, women and children who have been placed in hospitals, asylums, ...

The Simon Langner papers contain primarily immigration and legal documents related to Simon Langner, a Holocaust survivor. Included are a World ORT machinist’s trade certificate, an identity card, an affidavit and testimony for Simon, and a court ruling for reparations. Also included are a copy of his brother’s Abram Langner’s birth certificate, and a photograph of Simon.

Miklós Kállay (1887-1967), politician, Minister of Agriculture in the cabinet of Gyula Gömbös who then served as Prime Minister of Hungary between 1942 and 1944. Kállay belonged among the more moderate members of the establishment but largely kept the ministers who served under his predecessor Bárdossy in their positions. His premiership was characterized by a new Hungarian foreign policy aimed at ...

A revised version of two courses of lectures delivered as part of the Broadcast University series of Israel Army Radio. Discusses the struggle of Jews for survival under Nazi rule, and attempts at aid and rescue by Jews in the Western democracies and Palestine, by foreign governments, and by "Righteous Gentiles". Emphasizes that the Nazis decided to murder all the Jews only in autumn 1940; until then ...

During the period 1933-38, ca. 10,000 refugees entered Belgium from Germany, most of them Jews. 5,000 of them were granted political asylum in other countries. Less than 1,000 were officially accepted in Belgium. From the spring of 1938, following the Anschluss in Austria, until the summer of 1939, ca. 24,000 more Jewish refugees entered Belgium from Germany, among them 250 from the ship "St. Louis". ...

A study of immigration to France, emigration to the colonies, and the evolution of the right of asylum. Examines French public discourse on the subject and stereotypes attached to immigrants since the 19th century as a background to the development of antisemitism and racism. Ch. 4 (pp. 207-286), "L'affaire Dreyfus et la stigmatisation des origines", deals with Édouard Drumont's "La France juive" and ...

The Arditti family photographs consist of 62 family photographs mounted on photograph album pages. The images depict members of the Arditti family, a Turkish Jewish family from Smyrna, who emigrated from Turkey to France in 1920. Identified family members include Jacques Arditti, his parents, his brother and sister, his sister’s son, Jean-Pierre Franck, and his wife, Jacqueline Guiard. Photographs ...