Fonds consists of various documents collected by the employees of the Scientific Institute: documents of different Vilnius city and Vilnius region Jewish public organizations and institutions; Jewish community documents, correspondence with Jewish communities abroad; documents of activities of educational institutions, Jewish theatres, printing houses, trade unions; documents regarding pogroms in Byelorussia ...

<p>Correspondence re the history of Jews in Poland with special reference to the blood libels of Tarnobrzeg and the 1946 Kielce pogrom. Also included is a copy translation of the historical files of Tarnobrzeg<br /></p><p>This collection of copy correspondence between Michael Honey, a Polish born Jew, and a number of correspondents, deals with Polish antisemitism with special reference to the blood ...

On November 7, 1938, a Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, fatally shot a German diplomat in Paris. Within three days anti Jewish violence erupted throughout Germany, initially incited by local Nazi officials, and ultimately sanctioned by the decisions of Hitler and Goebbels at the pinnacle of the Third Reich. As synagogues burned and Jews were beaten in the streets, police stood aside. Men, women, ...

Pt. 1 (pp. 1-176), "Geographic and Historic Background", contains a historical essay on the Holocaust in Romania and Romanian-annexed Transnistria. Deals with the antisemitic policies of Antonescu's regime in 1940-44; pogroms in Romania before it entered the war (e.g. in Dorohoi and Bucharest), the pogrom in Iaşi in June-July 1941, and pogroms in reconquered Bessarabia and northern Bukovina; deportations ...

NEMYRIV (Nemirov): Fifth Anniversary. Pioneers. 250 children, some homeless, survivors of pogroms. Shtetl view, VS, children painting and drawing with an instructor's guidance. Images of metal tools, furniture, paintings and drawings, clothing. The children's work is displayed on walls in a makeshift gallery type setting. There are also sculptures in stone, in the round and in relief. Several framed ...

Information on Silviu Brucan b. 1916, d. 2006; Married Alexandra Sidorovici; General prosecutor in the postwar trial of the Romanian war criminals. With his wife, a member of the Communist Antifascist Resistance movement in Romania. After the WW II, he was deputy editor in chief of Scinteia, newspaper of the Romanian Communist Party. He was the first Romanian ambassador to the U.S. and the U.N. in ...

Contains records of the Federation of Union of Jewish Communities and the O.S.E. Bucharest branch relating to its relief and aid activities for Jews who were deported to Transnistria and those in Greater Romania. Also contains name lists of Jews originally from Transylvania and interned to the USSR, lists of orphaned children and the victims of the Iasi pogrom, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Romania ...

Consists of one memoir, 99 pages, entitled "The Brown Terror," by Dr. Otto Schorrman, originally of Tarnopol, Poland. He describes the arrival of the German army and the first Tarnopol pogrom, life in the Tarnopol ghetto, and life in hiding.

Testimony, 14 pages, typescript, from Ruth Sien (born Rachele Faust), of Cranbury, NJ, originally from a village near Rzeszow, Poland. Describes German occupation of Poland, hiding in farms and forests, posing as a Gentile, and survival through war, liberation, pogroms, immigration to U.S.

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Copyright Holder: Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Z︠H︡ytomyrsʹkoï oblasti

The collection consists of four original drawings depicting the persecution of Jews and the Holocaust by Romanian artist Marcel Janco. Janco immigrated to Israel in 1941, shortly after his brother's murder during the Bucharest Pogrom. The drawings were created during the 1940s.

Consists of two photographs taken on November 9, 1938 in Oldenburg, Germany. The photographs depict the Nazis arresting Jewish men in Oldenburg as part of the Kristallnacht pogrom. The men were then taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Scope and content: Ooggetuigeverslagen van de pogrom in het joodse getto van Rome op 16 oktober 1943. 69 p. ; 22 cm.

Dr Adolf Neumann, born on 13 August 1878, was director and part owner of the literary publishing firm Ruetten & Loening in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Adolf and Margot Cahn met on 10 June 1933. Both, Adolf's and Margot's diaries stop in November 1938, just before the November pogroms ('Kristallnacht'). Adolf fled to Oslo whilst Margo emigrated to England in 1939. In 1942 Adolf went to Sweden to work ...

Compilation of footage (produced earlier than HMM153) on wartime Lwow, including the Lwow pogrom in 1941. Scenes show Jews being rounded up and beaten. ** Please see HMM153 for an updated version. **

This two reel "agitka" (short propaganda film) was one of the first produced by the Soviet regime. Made in 1919 to show to Red Army troops, often on trains, the film tells the tale of a Jew who survives a pogrom and becomes a leader in the Red Army.

The Tsilya Tochilnikov papers consist of personal narratives and photographs documenting Tsilya's flight from Voznesensk, Ukraine, during World War II and the loss of relatives killed in the war and in the Holocaust. The narratives describe Tsilya’s happy early life in Voznesensk, fleeing from German bombs in 1941 on a long and arduous journey, finding refuge in Tbilisi, learning her relatives had ...

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Consists of a five page excerpt from the oral history of Julia Pirotte regarding her memories of the 1946 pogrom in Kielce, Poland. Ms. Pirotte went to Kielce as a journalist and photographer and describes the photographs she took of the violence.

Abraham Brumberg on "The Yiddish Voice" radio program, primarily in Yiddish. Disc 1: August 8, 2001, Abraham Brumberg talks with Mark David about the new book "Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Antifascist Committee" (2001), edited by Rubinstein. He also presents the poetry of Soviet writers. Disc 2: August 13, 2008, A program in memory of the late Dr Brumberg, featuring ...

Copies of a published article in German and a unpublished manuscript in English, which describes Werlau, Germany during the prewar and WWII era, and the Holocaust; discusses the town's residents, professions, etc.; discusses the end of the Jewish community in the town; tells about the numerous pogroms and the deportation of Werlau Jews to Theresienstadt (Terezin) and to Auschwitz.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 518-535) and index. xxiii, 4 unnumbered pages of plates, 541 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Otto Kapp (1889-1982), a distant relative of the donor, grew up in the small town of Napajedla in Moravia. During term time he lived with his maternal grandparents in nearby Holešov. It was here that a pogrom took place in 1899, an account of which forms the main part of this collection. Otto married his non-Jewish secretary and survived World War Two with the help of his wife’s family in Slovakia ...