1e dr. [2], 28 p. ; 22 cm.

Consists of notes, photocopies, photographs, interview transcripts, book excerpts, and other research material created and collected by Tela Zasloff for the preparation of her book, "A Rescuer's Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France." Includes correspondence and interviews with those who knew Toureille; copies of documents from the World Council of Churches in Geneva; photographs of ...

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Rabbi Armin Frieder and his family in Nové Mesto, Czechoslovakia (now Nové Mesto, Slovakia). Included are biographical materials of Armin including his passport and death certificate, his son Gideon’s report cards, and his sister Gittel’s school exercise book. The bulk of the collection consists of Armin’s writings and sermons, many of which ...

50 pages 24 cm

15:47:55 Mario Blardone was a Resistance fighter assigned to assassinate Barbie. In May 1944, he suffered 18 days of interrogation and torture and was then deported to Dachau. He tells how he saw Barbie watch prisoners return from interrogation, wait until they reached the third step of the prison, and draw his revolver and shoot them. At 16:08:50, President Cerdini calls for recess; video continues ...

Pp. 32-85 present reports, testimonies, and documents on the fourth deportation of Jews from Frankfurt to Lublin in May 1942, the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto in April 1943, and the deportation of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz in June 1944. The booklet begins and ends with prayers and sermons held in Basel and Zürich in June-July 1944 on behalf of the persecuted Jews. 108 pages 21 cm

The archive is composed of writings and works by Rabbi Italiener and material about or collected by him.

FDR and Churchill confer on Atlantic Charter aboard ship HMS Prince of Wales. Churchill hands letter to FDR as both stand at ship railing of Presidential yacht. Members of British and American staffs present. Back aboard Prince of Wales, several shots of FDR and Prime Minister Churchill seated on deck in presence of many staff officers including General Marshall, General Arnold, Sumner Welles, Harry ...

Harris M.Lazarus (1878-1962) was born in Riga, the son of Julius (Judel) Lazarus and Esther Golda Lazarus. He was educated at Jews' College, London, and became dayan of the United Synagogue, minister of Brondesbury Synagogue, and deputy for the Chief Rabbi, 1946-8. Lazarus was President of the Sabbath Observance Employment Bureau.

Contains four volumes of scrapbooks compiled by Siegfried Wenzel, as a child or adolescent while living in Germany, between 1939 and 1943, consisting of clippings from German newspapers of the era, reporting on wartime events. Consisting of four separate numbered volumes, titled "Kriegstagesbuch," with handwritten annotations added by Wenzel from that time, the volumes report on German military advances ...

221 p. ; 21 cm.

Sir Israel Brodie (1895-1975), the son of Aaron Brodie of Newcastle upon Tyne, was educated at Rutherford College, Newcastle upon Tyne; Jews' College, London; University College, London; and Balliol College, Oxford. Between 1917 and 1919 Brodie served as a Jewish Chaplain to the Forces. He worked for social services in the East End, London, 1921-3; as a rabbi in Melbourne, Australia, 1923-37; and as ...

Bishop Wilhelm Berning of Osnabrück was known as the "Nazi bishop"; he was instrumental in carrying out Cardinal Bertram's policy of close relations with the Nazi regime and opposition to Nazi measures through confidential petitions rather than public protest. Argues that this image can be corrected through study of Berning's sermons, in which he spoke out against racism. After 1934 he progressively ...

Correspondence and papers relating to the West London Synagogue, including correspondence with individuals, papers from religious classes and papers about alterations to and the decorations of the synagogue. Correspondence and newspaper articles relating to Reinhart's resignation, 1957. Correspondence, papers and financial material for the Westminster Synagogue. General correspondence files, including ...

The Seymour Z. Mann collection includes reports, correspondence, a diary, cultural programs, questionnaires, and printed materials documenting the Evangelical Church and the Social Democratic Party in Ludwigsburg, Germany before, during, and after the Nazi years and Nazi cultural programming in Ludwigsburg during World War II. Adolf Dörrfuss (1875-1948) was a pastor in Ludwigsburg and his 157-page ...

The Very Revd Joseph Herman Hertz (1872-1946) was born in Slovakia, but moved to the United States of America in 1884. He graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in 1894. He was rabbi of Adath Yeshuran Congregation, Syracuse, 1894-6, rabbi at Johannesburg, 1899-1911, rabbi at the Orach Chaim Congregation, New York, 1911-13, and Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, 1913-46. Hertz was ...

"The Mark of Cain fleshes out a history of conversations that contributed to Germany's coming to terms with a guilty past. Katharina von Kellenbach draws on letters exchanged between clergy and Nazi perpetrators, written notes of prison chaplains, memoirs, sermons, and prison publications to illuminate the moral and spiritual struggles of perpetrators after the war. These documents provide intimate ...

John Stanley Grauel (1917-1986) was born in Worcester, MA, and graduated from a theological seminary in Maine in 1941 as a Methodist Minister. He joined the Christian Council of Palestine (later the American Christian Palestine Committee) in 1942, and in 1944 he joined the Haganah’s efforts to smuggled European Jews into Palestine. He was included in the mission of the Exodus 1947, a former naval vessel, ...

The archive is composed of material relating to Nathan and Sarah Laski and their sons Neville and Harold, papers relating to Jewish defence and other papers collected by Neville Laski. Nathan Laski (1863-1941) worked as an Indian merchant for over fifty years. He retired in 1930 and devoted himself to social work. Laski was chairman of the Manchester Jewish Hospital and Manchester and Salford Jewish ...

The collection consists of the personal records of the Nachlass Landesbischof Theophil Wurm (Bishop Theophil Wurm). The collection is divided into four parts. The first part of the collection contains a variety of speeches, sermons, and correspondence which span the entirety of Bishop Wurm’s professional life. Most bear no immediate relevance to the war but were included as they provide historical ...

Rabbi A.B.N. Davids (Aaron Barend) was born in August 28, 1895 in Amsterdam and died Feb. 22 2, 1945 in Bergen-Belsen. Davids studied at a Jewish primary school in Amsterdam and at the rabbinical seminary there. In 1921 he received a degree in classical studies from the University of Amsterdam, and in 1923 was ordained as a rabbi. He studied at the rabbinical seminary in Berlin as well. During the ...

Filmed by the local photography shop owner. “Die Aufnahmen Stammen aus dem Photohaus Risch- Lau R. Mathis in Landeck.” In color, men women and children in traditional Austrian dress, some holding large flags. They watch a priest perform a sermon outdoors. Changes to black and white as people walk along. People look down from a balcony. A woman leans out an open window, smiling. Marching band. [cut ...

Uriel Cohn was born on July 13, 1940, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Adolph, a graphologist, and Elfriede Strauss Cohn, a teacher. He had an older brother, Michael, born in Amsterdam in 1936. His parents had emigrated from Germany in1935 because of the increasingly harsh anti-Semitic policies and persecution of Jews by the Nazi government. They were refused permission to immigrate to Palestine, so they ...