OEuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) was a worldwide organization for child care, health and hygiene among Jews, with headquarters in Paris. Founded in 1912 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The name OSE was originally an acronym for Obshchestvo Zdravokhraneniya Yevreyev (Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jews). The OSE maintained branches in Russia, Poland, Rumania and Central and Western Europe. ...

Gender and the Long Postwar examines gender politics during the post-World War II period and the Cold War in the United States and East and West Germany. The authors show how disruptions of older political and social patterns, exposure to new cultures, population shifts, and the rise of consumerism affected gender roles and identities. Comparing all three countries, chapters analyze the ways that gender ...

Catalogue, Okresné a miestne ľudové súdy, Author: Zuzana Kolesárová, 1991. Copy in the Researcher´s Room of the State Archive in Prešov

Digital copy available as collection KD_01014 at Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

Lillian Levy (1913-1986) served as Bureau Chief in Washington D.C. for the National Jewish Post and Opinion, the largest Jewish weekly in the United States. She wrote for the Jewish Post on a number of topics, including international affairs, civil rights, and other matters of Jewish interest. Levy was a member of the State Department Correspondents Association and the Women’s National Press Club. ...

"Refugees in Europe, 1919-1959 offers a new history of Europe's mid-20th century as seen through its recurrent refugee crises. By bringing together in one volume recent research on a range of different contexts of groups of refugees and refugee policy, it sheds light on the common assumptions that underpinned the history of refugees throughout the period under review. The essays foreground the period ...

The fonds contains documents of the State Attorney´s Office in Nitra. As far as the Holocaust-related documents are concerned the fonds contains documents concerning the revision of passports of Jews, and censorship-related files. Besides that, there are penal case files of Jews including cases pertaining to the property of Jews (hiding of property, property census- related cases, etc.). Other files ...

The material also contains personal data that is inaccessible under archive law. The material or the protected personal data contained therein will become accessible 75 years after the creation of the material or 10 years after the death of the person concerned if the date of death is known. The part of the VIS and SOVA material created after 17.5.1990 contains classified information that is inaccessible ...

"The United States and the Nazi Holocaust is an invaluable synthesis of United States policies and attitudes towards the Nazi persecution of European Jewry from 1933 right up to the modern day. The book, which includes 20 illustrations, weaves together a vast body of scholarly literature to bring students of the Holocaust a balanced, readable overview of this complex and often controversial topic. ...

"Why are certain responses to past human rights violations considered instances of transitional justice while others are disregarded? This study interrogates the history of the discourse and practice of the field to answer that question. Zunino argues that a number of characteristics inherited as transitional justice emerged as a discourse in the 1980s and 1990s have shaped which practices of the present ...

<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access </strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>a digital version of&nbsp;</strong></span><strong style="color: #ff0000;">this archive.</strong></p><p>Report on the situation of Jews in Europe&nbsp;detailing the situation of Jews in the immediate post-war period in the following countries. Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, ...

The Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief (CBF) known variously in the 1930's as the CBF for German Jewry (1933), the Council for German Jewry (1936), and the Central Council for Jewish Refugees (1939), was founded in Britain in early 1933 by a group of Anglo-Jewish communal leaders who represented the breadth of the liturgical spectrum and widely diverse political loyalties of the community. ...

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A catalogue is available online at: http://www.elia.org.gr/elia-thessaloniki/?#catalogue .

Contains records of the immediate post-war period of the Youth Aliyah. These records include correspondence regarding orphanages in Italy and France, records from the orphanages “Cambous” and “Rocquefort La Bedoule,” correspondence with the Youth Aliyah offices in Geneva, Marseille, Paris and Jerusalem, personal files, and other material. Also includes correspondence with the American Jewish Joint ...

Anna Erlich was born in Antwerp on 12 June 1928. Two years prior her parents, Szymon Michal Erlich (18 March 1899, Warsaw) and Fryda Liberman (20 April 1895, Pultusk) had moved from Poland to Belgium. Fryda’s brother immigrated to Antwerp before the First World War and had been able to get visa for his family, including his sister Fryda. In Antwerp, Szymon and Fryda raised two children : Anna and her ...

M.56 - Documantation of the Central British Fund&#x0D; &#x0D; The Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief (CBF) known variously in the 1930's as the CBF for German Jewry &#x0D; (1933), the Council for German Jewry (1936), and the Central Council for Jewish Refugees (1939), was founded in Britain in early 1933 by a group of Anglo-Jewish communal leaders who represented the breadth of the liturgical ...

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

The Eichmann Trial Collection is a wide-range collection of documents dating from 1937 to 1962, related to the Adolf Eichmann’s trial held in Jerusalem between April and December 1961. The collection mainly consists of the documentary basis presented by the Israeli Police for the prosecution case against the Nazi SS chief, one of the major organizers of the “Final Solution”. Records include hundreds ...

Simon Steil is the son of Adolf Steil and Eliza nee (Meizels) Meissels Steil. Simon was born on May 4, 1938 in Antwerp Belgium. He had one older brother Mark who was born in 1929 in Lvov, Poland. In 1931 Simon's parents and brother moved to Belgium where his father worked in the diamond business. In May 1940, Germany invaded Belgium and two years later began deporting Jews to the death camps in Poland. ...

Court files in civil and criminal matters in which one of the parties was a person of Jewish origin. Post-war materials regarding real estate owned by Jews, applications for correction or reconstruction of birth, death or other documents. In addition, case repertories and indexes containing accurate information about all cases in that court during a given period.

Robert Dreyfus (1913-2002) was born in Sélestat, Alsace on 4 June 1913, the son of Fernand (1867- ?) and Delphine (née Levy, 1874-1934) Dreyfus. After his schooling there, he began studies at the University of Strasbourg in 1930, planning to become a dentist, but a religious awakening led him to change course, and in 1932 he decided instead to study to become a rabbi, and entered a rabbinical school ...

This collection contains materials related to social welfare, tributes and taxes on civilians (1940-1941), as well as information regarding sending people to forced labor in Germany, lists of real estate, workshops and manufactures belonging to Jews (from 1941), lists of Jewish inhabitants of Mińsk Mazowiecki (above the age of 14), announcements of the German authorities, documents related to the ghetto, ...