Benes Edvard

• Czechoslovak Red Cross, London
• ČsČK-L
• NAD 634

• Národní archiv
• 634
• Czech, English
• 1940-1945
• The collection consists of 25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.
• Updated 5 months ago

The collection primarily consists of organisational material of the Czechoslovak Red Cross, including its main offices in London and its branches, as well as documents concerning their tasks. The annual report provides information about the medical and social care of Czechoslovak citizens in exile. The most important Holocaust-related documents in the collection of the Czechoslovak Red Cross - London include the card files and directories of Czechoslovak Jews who were interned in concentration camps erected shortly after the Reichskristallnacht in the Sudetengau, of Jews who were interned i...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500866
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a memoir entitled "Contribution to the History of Slovakia (The So-called 'Jewish Question' - Partial Autobiography)" relating to the experiences in Slovakia from 1925 to 1947. In the memoir Georg Keleti discusses childhood in Slovakia, local antisemitiesm, the history of the Hlinka Guard, and the Free Slovak Republic. The memoir was written in or after 1991and ends with a note about the author's 1991 visit in Slovakia.

1. James G. McDonald collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522522
• English
• 1873-2010
• boxes oversize boxes 19 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The James G. McDonald collection consists of diary entries, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and printed materials documenting McDonald’s work as chair of the Foreign Policy Association, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany, chairman of President Roosevelt’s Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Jewish Problems in Palestine and Europe, U.S. Special Representative to the Jewish State, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel. McDonald’s diaries take the form of dictations he made to his staff, who typed and mai...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524128
• English
• 1905-2005
• 25,993 digital images, JPEG 29 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Reports, publications, interviews, obituaries, and photographs pertaining to the careers of Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Documents record the Sharps’ early social work in Meadville, PA, and their humanitarian and rescue work in World War II Prague, Czechoslovakia; Marseille and Pau, France; and Lisbon, Portugal. Materials also document Martha Sharp’s postwar campaign for Congress, activities in Israel, continuing work for the Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia, family and personal life, and work with the Cogan Foundation and other charitable agencies. The collection includes Martha’s unpubli...

• Ministry of Social Welfare - London
• MSP - L
• NAD 1007

• Národní archiv
• 1007
• Czech, English
• 1940-1945
• 15,8 linear metres of documents from which 15,5 linear metres are processed and inventoried and 0,3 linear metres unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 7 months ago

The fonds includes various administrative correspondence (this correspondence refers to requests for social supports or finding a job opportunity), questionnaires of repatriates, circulars, information booklets, studies, reports and records of the Czechoslovak National Council and its committees. Jewish related documents can be found in various boxes, such as in boxes 58 and 59, there are files of Jewish associations, clubs and Jewish committees including the Federation of Czechoslovak Jews, The Union of Orthodox Jews from Czechoslovakia or Central Board of Jews. There are also documents fr...

• Presidium of Ministerial Council
• PMR - L

• Národní archiv
• 1006
• Czech, English
• 1940-1945
• 14,5 linear metres from which 14,5 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible and 0,3 linear metres are unprocessed and not accessible.
• Updated 6 months ago

1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731948
• English, Hebrew
• Typewritten original 23 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimony of Vilem Bernard, Dr., born in Nachod, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union and as a soldier in the Czechoslovakia Army in the Soviet Union Born in Czechoslovakia; Chairman of the Students' Union in Prague, 1935-1936; leading member of the Czechoslovakian Social Democratic Party. Flies to Poland, 1939; joins Czechoslovakian Resistance Movement abroad, connection with General Lew Prchala; active in H. Field Refugee Committee in Krakow; rejection of Jewish refugees by the Czechoslovakian military camp in Bronowice; flies into the Soviet occupie...