The Everett Goldstein collection consists of a 35 page typescript report entitled "Program of general measures of Relief and Rescue of Jews threatened with extermination by the enemy," made by the World Jewish Congress and submitted to the War Refugee Board in 1944 regarding measures and policies that should be enacted in order to help with Jewish refugees and victims of Nazi persecution. Also includes ...

Paul Frazer, formerly Fehl, (1924-2001) was born in Vienna and came to Great Britain on the Kindertransport in 1938. His parents were Moritz and Franziska Fehl, who died in the Holocaust. He was adopted by the grandmother of the donors, Johanna Goldstein née Wolff (1898-1988), a Jewish family also from Schneidemuhl, Germany, whose son, Hans Goldstein, had befriended him. The two boys went to Ashburton ...

Consists of interviews and transcripts collected by the Raoul Wallenberg Project containing testimony of Holocaust survivors from Hungary. The interviews contain information about the diplomatic work of the Swedish government and its agents, among them Raoul Wallenberg, Per Anger, and Charles Lutz, in Hungary (primarily Budapest) during 1944 and 1945. Also contains records copied from Sweden's Foreign ...

Collection of materials documenting the experiences of David and Dora Ruskin (donor’s parents) and their experiences during the Holocaust. Includes a manuscript entitled “The Journey Home” by Michael Ruskin about his his parents experiences during 1939-1945 during the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe, Kaunas, Lithuania and the Kovno ghetto; post-war documents from the International Red Cross; marriage ...

Family home movies of the de Brouwer family at their home in St Denis-Westrem, near Ghent, Belgium. Summer 1943, the children push a cart loaded with hay. Jean-Marie holds a cow's tail while it is milked before returning to the house. The neighboring de Hemptinne house. Yvonne Hemptinne and her mother-in-law walk down the stairs before posing with Joseph for the camera. The children rush to greet Aunt ...

Sophie Friedländer (1905-2006) was the only daughter of five children of a Jewish family of teachers in Hamburg. When she was one year old the family moved to Berlin. She studied at the University of Berlin and did her teacher training at her father's school, the Karl Marx Schule in Neuköln, a progressive reform education school. She qualified as a teacher in 1933. As she was not allowed to teach at ...

Roswell Dunlop McClelland (1914-1995) was born in Palo Alto, California, to Ross St. John McClelland and Alice (Alys) M. Mitchell. He studied French, German, Italian and American literature, graduating with a BA from Duke University in 1936 and an MA from Columbia University in 1940. During his studies, Roswell learned to speak German and Italian. On November 19, 1938, he married Marjorie Helen Miles ...

This collection contains material collected by the late historian William A. Spiegler, who was preparing to write a biography of Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. Though much of the collection consists of copies from various archival sources and publications, it is an excellent resource for historians studying DuBois and his work with the War Refugee Board and on the I.G. Farben trial. The collection includes ...

The Stein family came originally from Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad), Czechoslovakia. Arnold Stein (born in 1890 in Karlovy Vary), was a women's clothes shopkeeper. He got married to Erna Eisenberger (1897-1943) with whom he had a daughter, Gerda Kamilla (born in 1927), and one stepdaughter, Johanna Travnicek (1920-2007), from Erna's previous marriage. Erna owned a knitwear manufacturing business in Karlsbad. ...

This collection contains the personal papers of Elise Steiner, a former Jewish refugee from Vienna who arrived in England on a Kindertransport in 1938. Her parents and younger brother were murdered at Kowno concentration camp in 1941. Includes family correspondence (together with typescripts) documenting the day to day activities and aspirations of a Jewish family in Vienna. Reoccurring themes include ...

The Ann Goldman papers document her work with the Vaad Hatzala in the 1940s. The documents contain a dinner program, vaccination certificate, travel documents, refugee data sheets, passenger list for the R.M.S. Queen Mary, and two undated letters. The photographs include photos of Ann’s brother Moti Leibman and his wife; Ann with Vaad Hatzala staff in Frankfurt and Munich, Germany; dinners for Henry ...

Henry Morgenthau, Jr. was born on May 11, 1891 in New York, NY, and was raised in a secular German Jewish family. His father, Henry Morgenthau, Sr., was appointed Wilson’s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, 1913-1916, and Henry Jr. visited his father in Istanbul. Though Henry attended Cornell University, he did not graduate but instead bought a large farm in Dutchess County, NY, near the home of Franklin ...

P.12 - Chaim Pazner Archives: Representative of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel in Switzerland during World War II
 
 The record group contains a variety of documentation collected by Dr. Chaim Pazner (Chaim Posner) over the course of his life, mainly while serving as Director of the Eretz Israel Office in Geneva, Switzerland.
 
 - Files 80-112 include files of the War Refugee ...

Portrait sketch of Kurt Singer saved by his daughter, Margot. It was drawn by Clara Asscher-Pinkhof in 1942 in Amsterdam when he lived there as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Singer was a neurologist and the Director of the Berlin Opera. Soon after the Nazis came to power in 1933, he lost his position at the Opera due to a law that ousted Jewish civil servants from public positions. In May, he co-founded ...

Nathan Schwalb (April 1,1908-March 24, 2004) was born on April 1, 1908 in Stanisławów, Poland (currently Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine). His father was a language and religion professor at the local Jewish academic high school and his mother was a private tutor. Nathan became a member of several Jewish organizations, including Makkabi Hazair, Gordonia, and Hechalutz. In 1929 he immigrated to Palestine and ...

<p>This collection contains the family papers of the Jewish family of Victor and Marianne Strauss and their sons Helmut and Kurt. The family emigrated from Germany in 1939 to excape Nazi persecution. Includes transcripts and translations of a selection of Helmut Strauss's letters.</p><p>Included are correspondence and papers relating to Helmut's school education in England and internment in the UK ...

Berthe Silber (now Bracha Scheinman) was born November 2, 1930, in Antwerp, Belgium to Chaim and Mania (Wasser) Silber and had two sisters: Sara (b. 1934) and Chava, who died as a young child before WWII. Chaim worked as a diamond cutter. After the Nazi occupation of Belgium, Berthe and her family fled to Bagneres-deLuchon, France, where they were arrested in October 1940 and sent to a detention camp ...

King George and Queen Elizabeth arrive at Union Station, Washington, DC, and are formally greeted. The Queen and Mrs. Roosevelt enter an automobile for transit to the White House. President Roosevelt and his guests board the Potomac. FDR and the Queen converse. The press films the event, including Henry Morgenthau, Jr. The King lays a wreath on Washington's tomb at Mt. Vernon and visit the gardens. ...

The Stolz and White families papers include biographical material, correspondence, school records, writings, restitution material, and photographs relating to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Erika Stolz and her parents, Leon and Rosa, originally of Vienna, Austria. At the beginning of the war Erika was sent on a Kinderstransport to Christian boarding school in England. Leon and Rosa ...

Henry Feingold, author and professor of American Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, discusses, in an interview with Claude Lanzmann, the American response to the Holocaust with particular importance on the failure to admit refugees and to create a resettlement option. FILM ID 4606 -- Feingold (NY) -- Camera Rolls 145-148 146 (01:00:43) Claude Lanzmann and Henry Feingold sit at a cluttered office ...

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Arthur L. Zegart (1917-1989) was born in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago. During World War II, he was part of a U.S. Army Air Force combat photography unit. He covered postwar relief and refugee efforts by UNRRA and the JDC in Czechoslovakia and Austria. He became chief of the United Nations film division in the late 1940s. Later, Zegart was involved in the production of 125 documentaries, ...

Records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), Geneva Office, relating to global overseas operations in the immediate post-World War II (WWII) period: global rescue and relief efforts, primarily focused on resettling Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors around the world; facilitating the renewal of Jewish life in Europe; rebuilding Jewish communal institutions; and providing ...

One of the most remarkable and stirring episodes of World War II involved a young Swede from a distinguished banking family named Raoul Wallenberg. Wallenberg had watched the progress of the war and the treatment of the Jews from his neutral country with growing horror and the burning ambition to do something. When in June of 1944 he was approached to oversee a rescue operation of Hungarian Jews being ...