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The Joseph Rosen papers consists of photographs, mostly of concentration camps after liberation with captions in French on verso. Most of the images are copies of widely-published press photos. Also included are two documents in French relating to Joseph Rosen: the first one recognizes him as former concentration camp internee, originally from Czechoslovakia but who had survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald; ...

Consists of photographs of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp as well as photographs of the repatriation of survivors. The photographs were taken by William B. Duff, a member of the medical detachment of the 117th Infantry division. Also includes Mr. Duff's medic's armband, as well as a copy of the July 10, 1945 issue of "Army Talks," which discusses Buchenwald, and clippings regarding ...

Contains a 103-page memoir about David Arie Landau's life in Galicia, Poland, prior to the Holocaust, an attempted escape to Romania, his imprisonment in Stanislawow and Biala Cerkow concentration camps, service in the Russian Army, work in the Repatriation Office in the city of Szcziecin, Poland, and later emigration to Israel.

This collection consists of index cards containing information on 9,765 Jewish men, women and children who in general lived in Belgium before the Second World War and who were interned in or deported from French internment camps during the war. The group of index cards for a specific person can contain a file card drafted by the Sicherheitspolizei-Sicherheitsdienst in 1941-1944 in case of a person ...

The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was an international relief agency representing 44 nations, but largely dominated by the United States. Founded in 1943, it became part of the United Nations (UN) in 1945, and it largely shut down operations in 1947. Its purpose was to "plan, co-ordinate, administer or arrange for the administration of measures for the relief of victims ...

John Daniel Morgan (Dan Morgan) served with the 6th Tank Destroyer Group of the United States Army. From May - October 1945, he and his unit was detailed to the Dachau concentration camp to support the repatriation of internees and the on-going trials of former SS personnel. He assisted in the creation of the 7th Army book about the Dachau concentration camp. Morgan retrieved volumes of materials from ...

Barry Spanjaard (1929-1998) was born in New York in 1929 to Alfred (1903-1945) and Abigail (née Abigael Sophie Roozeboom, 1901-) Spanjaard, Dutch citizens who had immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. Alfred and Abigail married in New York City in 1927. The family moved to Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1932 so Alfred could take over the family antique business after his father’s death. After ...

The collection consists of a suitcase, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alfred Kurz and his parents, Meilach (Emil) and Klara Bieberstein Kurz, and his sister Doriane in Vienna, Austria, The Netherlands, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany before and during the Holocaust, Klara, Alfred, and Doriane's repatriation to the Netherlands after the Holocaust, and Alfred ...

The collection contains the memoir "Gray Shaking Shadows", hand-written by Solomon Mavritsovich Lebovich's wife, Lubov Tartakover. The memoir covers Solomon Mavritsovich Lebovich's time in a series of camps from 1944 to1945, deportation to Birkenau -Auschwitz, his experiences in Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen and other concentration camps, liberation and repatriation. Also includes one photograph and three ...

This fonds consists of various documents from different periods and different administrative creators. History of the fonds dates back to 1938 when after the signing of the Munich Agreement, the Czechoslovak government issued an order No. 292 to establish the Institute for the Care of Refugees at the Ministry of Social Welfare (Ústav pro péči o uprchlíky při ministerstvu sociální péče). The Institute ...

Records of the Jewish communities from Focșani, Bucharest, Giurgiu, Botoșani, Ploiești, Bîrlad, etc. and some Zionist organizations. Records reflect the situation of Jews from Bessarabia and Bucovina, discriminatory policies implemented by the government of Romania such as closing businesses, expropriation of properties, internment in camps, the situation of Jews in the Golta region, emigration ...

Natan Ramet was born in Warsaw, Poland, on 5 June 1925 as the son of Judka Ramet (born on 21 June 1886 in Warsaw) and Sura Polakiewicz (born on 15 January 1898 in Drohosiem, Poland). He had an older sister named Felicie who was born on 27 August 1921. In 1930, the family emigrated from Poland to Belgium as they were regularly confronted with antisemitism and violence against the Jewish community in ...