1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3689904
• English, Hebrew
• 1939-1963
• Original 246 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Articles that appeared in the Swiss press regarding the policy towards Jewish refugees, 1939-1963 In the file: Articles written during the war years and afterwards dealing with the question whether, and if so, under what conditions, Switzerland should take in Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazis; the articles appeared in the following newspapers and journals: - "Grenzbote", published in Schaffhausen, of 15 April 1939 (p. 4); - "Der Beobachter", September 1957 (pp. 8-85); - "Der Aufbau", 08 May 1942 (pp. 86-93); 05 November 1943 (pp. 144-151); 12 March 1...

1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3689903
• English, Hebrew
• 1933-1955
• Gothic script Print פוטוקופיה 424 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Clippings from Swiss newspapers regarding treatment of the Jews, especially the Jewish refugees who sought asylum in Switzerland from the Nazis, 1933-1955 In the file: - Photocopies of pro-Nazi Swiss newspaper clippings, 1933-1943 (pp. 2-47); - Photocopies of postwar Swiss newspaper clippings, 1947-1955 (pp. 48-57); - Clippings from anti-Nazi Swiss newspapers, 1933-1945 (pp. 58-195), including a photocopy of the front page of "Goniec Obozowya", the Polish language paper, 10 September 1944 (p. 189); - Clippings from various Swiss newspapers published 1941-1948, d...

1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3689648
• English, Hebrew
• 1947-1949
• Original 188 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Editions of the JUNA (“Juedische Nachrichten” press agency of SIG [Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland]) newsletter, 1947-1949 In the file: Editions of the JUNA newsletter including: - Clippings regarding the trials of the Swiss Nazis Lugrin, Oltramare, Fonjallaz and Bonny, 1947; - Much information regarding the situation in Eretz Israel and Aliya Bet, including the "Exodus" Affair; - Documentation regarding the 2nd WJC (World Jewish Congress) general meeting in Montreux, 1948; - Many clippings regarding the Nuremberg Trials.

1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3689647
• English, Hebrew
• 1945-1946
• Original 120 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Issues of the JUNA (Juedische Nachrichten, press agency of SIG [Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland]) information sheet, 1945-1946 In the file: - Issues of the JUNA information sheet including information regarding Holocaust survivors after the war (DPs); Jewish refugees who remained in Switzerland; Zionism and the Jewish population in Eretz Israel prior to the establishment of the State of Israel; postwar displays of antisemitism in Europe and other subjects.

1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3689641
• English, Hebrew
• 1946-1957
• Handwritten, original Original Typewritten copy Typewritten original 74 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: JUNA (“Juedische Nachrichten”) correspondence regarding Neo-Nazism in Switzerland, 1946-1957 In the file: -JUNA correspondence regarding activities of Neo-Nazis in Switzerland, particularly in relation to Georges Oltramare, editor of the "Gaston Armand Pilori", Armadruz, the editor of the "Courrier Du Continent", and the "Volkspartei Der Schweiz" (People's Party of Switzerland); among the correspondence is a letter from Attorney Jean Brunschvig from Geneva to Georges Brunschvig regarding his discussion with Mr. Helg, head of the Justice and Police Office in the ...

1. Cesia Carol Redlich collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn84562
• English
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a Hebrew primer and notes, dictionary, booklet and pages of notes taken during ORT classes by Cesia Uncyk (Carol Redlich; donor's wife) in displaced persons camps after the war. Also includes a copy of a "Certificate in lieu of passport" issued to Cesia Uncyk in Munich, Germany by the American Consulate, dated May 27, 1947, and stamped that Cesia was admitted into the United States on August 3, 1947; a "Declaration of Intention" for American citizenship for Cesia Uncyk dated December 27, 1947, in New Jersey; eight lab reports issued by Dr. I. Selikoff of the Board of Health, City o...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50557
• English
• 1913-2013
• box oversize folders 1 2 2 frame,
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of documents and photographs related to the experiences of Chaim Kamelmacher (later Harry Kamel) in displaced persons camps after World War II. Includes photographs taken at Kibbutz Tarnow in 1945; photographs taken at the Lechfeld, Landsberg am Lech, Wasseralfingen, and Wetzlar/Lahn displaced persons camps; workbooks, photographs, and certificates from ORT training; and documents attesting to Mr. Kamelmacher's wartime experiences as a Polish Jew inducted into the Red Army. Also includes several pre-war family photographs and material related to the commemoration of the Jews of Man...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1223
• English
• 1946-1947
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

Copy correspondence between the Jewish Relief Unit and the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad re the provision of relief parcels for non-Jewish Hamburg residentsEnglish 2 items 

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn543335
• English
• oversize folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The David Granat papers consists of materials relating to a May 1946 performance by members of the Jewish Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra in Nuremberg, Germany. The Orchestra was composed of survivors of the Kovno ghetto and various Nazi camps, and the event was produced for a special concert for the war crimes prosecutors and staff. Also included is a photograph of what appears to be the orchestra in street clothes, as well as a photograph of the orchestra performing onstage dressed in striped prison uniforms. The front of the stage is lined with which is inscribed "Am Israel Hai" ("The Is...

1. David Schneider collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn543452
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The David Schneider papers consists of Mauthausen scrip; an identity card for the Selfaid of the Jewish Former Concentration Camp Inmates of Upper Austria, including a photograph; and two Ausweises (identification cards), one bearing a red ink stamp reading "Liberated Camp of Ebensee," the other bearing stamps along with handwritten and typewritten information about the bearer.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• M.1.B
• English
• 1945-1948
• 14 Files
• Updated 1 decade ago

This Collection contains the correspondence of the Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews (CHC) with its various branches in the DP camps, Jewish leaders and institutions in different countries, and the German municipal authorities. The correspondence deals mainly with gathering documentation regarding the Holocaust, cultural activity in the DP camps and the editorial work of the CHC.

1. Eva Ebin collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn548861
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains postwar identification documents issued to Eva Szegel Ebin, including a certificate ("Igazolvany") dated 6 August 1945 stating that Eva Veronika Szegel of Munkacs was liberated at Lenzing by "the glorious army" and requesting military and civilian assistance for bearer to travel from Budapest to Munkacs; an "Ausweis-Certification" (provisional identification card) issued by U.S. Army military government in Schärfling, Austria on 4 June 1945, stating that Eva Szegel, internee Nr. 853, was imprisoned from 24 May 1944 until 4 May 1945, and was liberated from Mauthausen concentration c...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1816
• English
• 1939-1991
• 2 boxes
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection contains the personal papers of Eva Mills and her mother Gertrude Najman. Eva was sent to England on a Kindertransport in 1938 whilst her parents fled Germany separately aiming to reach Palestine. Eva's father, Jankiel Najmann, managed to get to Haifa in 1944 after spending several months at Ferramonti di Tarsia internment camp in Italy. Her mother, Gertrude Najmann, became a prisoner at Semlin concentration camp in Yugoslavia. She survived and was released in May 1942. Gertrude was unable to leave Yugoslavia until the end of the Second World War when she joined her husband ...

1. Manuskripte
2. Erinnerungen, Erlebnisberichte, Autobiographien

• Erinnerungen eines Jahrhundertzeugen eines lebenslangen Heimatlosen

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• MS 743 / 2
• German
• 1945-1949
• Manuskripte 80 Seiten
• Updated 10 years ago

Im zweiten Teil seiner Erinnerungen beschreibt der Verfasser die Situation der Displaced persons, die Lebensbedingungen in den verschiedenen Lagern, den Schwarzmarkt, die Verhöre der Auswanderungskommissionen bis zu seiner Ausreise nach Australien;Mschr., Kopie, verfasst 1997.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1814
• English
• 1924-2002
• 2 folders
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection comprises the personal papers of Herbert Elliott (formerly Eisenthal), a former Kindertransportee from Vienna who escaped Nazi persecutions in 1938. His sister emigrated to Palestine. His father was unable to leave Vienna but survived his imprisonment at Terezin concentration camp, where he was held for almost three years.Personal papers including Herbert Elliott's school reports and qualifications; birth certificate; certificate of origin (Heimatschein); declaration of property taken to England for the Foreign Exchange Office (Devisenstelle); steamship ticket from Hook to H...

1. Image Collection NIOD

• NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies
• 6576
• Dutch
• 1945
• Updated 5 years ago

Inspect living conditions at Jewish center in Germany. Looking over living quarters of Jewish displaced persons at Landsberg, Germany, during an investigation of the center, are Judge S.H. Rifkin, theater commander advisor on Jewish affairs and Lt.Gen. W. Bedell Smith, USFET chief of staff.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1242
• English
• 1948-1949
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

These papers consist of information sheets; administrative and provisional orders; and printed IRO statistics on the occupational skills of refugees.

1. Segreteria di Stato
2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• Apostolic Delegate to Turkey Roncalli to Cardinal Maglione

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S. 10660/40, Rap. nr. 3325
• English
• 1940
• Updated 6 years ago

Roncalli informs Maglione that he got a message from von Papen just after his return to Turkey. Roncalli also speaks about internally-displaced Christians and Jews in Turkey. Roncalli says that they are now located close to Istanbul, and that their conditions considerably improved.

1. O.22- The Mecker Collection: Letters and newspaper clippings from the "Forverts" newspaper published in New York regarding the search for relatives, 1940-1951

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5596035
• English, Hebrew
• 1947
• Handwritten, original 12 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Letters written by the Holocuast survivor A. Gutman, from Linz DP camp, to the Forverts editorial board in New York and to Henri Turk, director of the editorial branch in Baltimore, regarding his experiences during the Holocaust, 02 July 1947 Gutman's experiences as a youth from Brisk in a yeshiva and the Warsaw Ghetto including participation in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising together with Mordecai Anielewicz; combat with the Polish underground using an Aryan identity; promoted to Major; life in a DP camp in Linz.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 4019568
• English, Hebrew
• Legal documentation List of Nazi war criminals Names of perpetrators Official documentation Record of persecuted persons Survey report Testimony
• Updated 12 months ago

M.9 - Simon Wiesenthal Collection, Archive of the Juedische Historische Dokumentation (Center for Jewish Documentation), Linz, 1938-1951 The Jewish Historical Documentation Center in Linz was established in 1947 by Simon Wiesenthal, an engineer from Buczacz, Poland. After his liberation from Mauthausen camp in Austria, Wiesenthal worked toward locating and arresting war criminals. He was also the moving force behind the Association of Former Inmates of Concentration Camps in Austria, and among the founders of the International Organization of Former Inmates of Nazi Camps. As the chairman of...