Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski was born on February 27, 1877, in Ilino, Russia, to Reuven Rumkowski. His brother, Josef, was born on August 8, 1884. He relocated to Łódź, Poland, in the early 1900s, and worked as a merchant and velvet manufacturer before beginning a career as an insurance salesman. In the early 1920s, with funding from the Joint Distribution Committee and other business entities, he opened ...

The ritualized memory of genocide has been a cornerstone of Roma political mobilization during at least the last three decades. A uniqueness paradigm has been developing for some time, applying a memorial discourse inspired by the Jewish Holocaust model. While paralleling each other in time, the mass murders of Jews and Roma during the Second World War differed on several points. In the General Government ...

Describes the journey of the ship "St. Louis", aboard which more than 900 German Jews tried to escape to Cuba in spring 1939. Despite a previous agreement, Cuban authorities refused to accept the refugees, as did the U.S. government. Captain Gustav Schröder, who was ordered to return to Germany, managed to set his passengers ashore at Antwerp. One-fourth of them were able to travel to England, while ...

Contains records from the libel trial against Malkiel Gruenwald who had accused Dr. Rudolph (Rezsö) Kasztner, a well-known official in the Israeli government, of being a traitor, charging that Kasztner, as the former head of the Jewish Rescue Committee in Budapest, had made a traitorous bargain with the Nazis and had allowed half a million Jews to die unwarned so that he might escape with 600 (including ...

Mordechai (Michael) Podchlebnik recognized the corpses of his wife and children when unloading bodies from a gas van at Chelmno. He was a witness at many postwar trials, including the Eichmann trial. He tells Lanzmann of his escape from Chelmno and how he tried to inform people about Chelmno, but he was not believed at first, until his story was corroborated by another escaped prisoner. FILM ID 3294 ...

Wooden doors of the Łódź ghetto Hospital No.1 (later the Helena Wolf Hospital), removed in 1989, prior to the building’s renovation. On September 1, 1939, German troops invaded Poland, and occupied Łódź the following week, renaming it Litzmannstadt. In February 1940, the German authorities established the Łódź ghetto in the existing slum of Baluty, and forced 160,000 Jews to relocate into one and a ...

Philip Ellovich (1898-1986) was born in Botosani, Romania to Joseph Ellovich (1836-1918) and his second wife, Tillie Herman Ellovich (1872-1951). The three immigrated to the United States around 1903 and settled in Pittsburgh where they had family. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy in 1916 and worked for his half-brother Israel "Joe" Ellovich at Forbes Pharmacy before ...

Ellen (Maexie) Regenstreif Illich (1901-1965) came from a family of converted Sephardic Jews who had settled in Germany. Her industrialist father, Fritz (Pucki) Regenstreif (1868-1941), had a lumber business in Bosnia where he owned a sawmill at Zavidovic and an Art Nouveau villa on the outskirts of Vienna in Pötzleinsdorf built by Friedrich Ohmann. Piero Ilic (1890-1942) came from a landed family ...

The first record of Telč dates to 1207. Since the middle of the 14th century it has been possible to speak of Telč as a town. The town was the center of the estate owned by various aristocratic families, from the 17th and 18th centuries it was the Lichtensteins-Kastelkorns and in the years 1761-1945 it was the Podstatskýs of Lichtenstein. The town of Telč was part of the political districts of Dačice ...

This fonds consist of a cash book (maintained until April 1938) and fragmentary accounting records of the Jewish prayer association in Nejdek. It also includes an acknowledgement of receipt of the cash book, of the accounting records, and of savings book from a savings bank in Nejdek, which was issued by the Supreme Council of the Associations of Jewish Religious Communities in Bohemia, Moravia and ...

Exile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the intertwined lives, careers, and writings of a group of prominent Jewish intellectuals during the mid-twentieth century―in particular, Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Isaiah Berlin, Albert Hirschman, and Judith Shklar, as well as Hans Kelsen, Emmanuel Levinas, Gershom Scholem, and Leo Strauss. Informed by their Jewish identity and experiences ...

No title card, but includes German intertitles. Film can says "Bilder aus Italien (1937)". The Illich family visits Rome (there are no shots of family members in the entire reel). Pan of the cityscape, the Coliseum, and other ruins, statues, fountains, buildings. Includes brief views of Italians, street scenes, and other spectators. The family then tours Perugia, Assisi, and Venice. Gondola ride, populated ...

Contains an identification document issued to Oskar Fiedler, a Jewish refugee in Shanghai, China during the war. Also contains a certificate for innoculation and vaccination for Berta Fiedler, in Shanghai, dated 1949.

The Henriques Archive comprises the working papers of Rose Henriques from 1945 to 1950, when she served as head of the Germany Section of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad (JCRA) and led one of the Jewish Relief Units (JRU) into the former concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen.

Ellen (Maexie) Regenstreif Illich (1901-1965) came from a family of converted Sephardic Jews who had settled in Germany. Her industrialist father, Fritz (Pucki) Regenstreif (1868-1941), had a lumber business in Bosnia where he owned a sawmill at Zavidovic and an Art Nouveau villa on the outskirts of Vienna in Pötzleinsdorf built by Friedrich Ohmann. Piero Ilic (1890-1942) came from a landed family ...

Used Star of David badge given to 18 year old Bettina Mayer in Deggendorf displaced persons camp in 1945 by another camp resident. It was worn by the unknown person in Cologne, Germany, and it was given to Bettina because she was originally from Cologne. Jews were ordered to were a Judenstern badge at all times to identify them as Jews. Bettina, her parents, Siegmund and Johannette, and her brother, ...

The history of many originators of the fonds overlap with the history of individual participants and witnesses of the Czech resistance and Nazi occupation, or institutions that joined the resistance or later included the former resistance movement participants.

The three Illich boys stand outside a car with their luggage. Boarding a Lufthansa bus. A Nazi plane ("TACA D-AJAT" and swastika) takes off from an airfield. On the river, large buildings, taking photographs at a bridge, swastika banners. City street scenes, INT of café. Salzburg train station. Shots of the countryside from a train. The twins walk through a field. Taking a boat tour of the lake, photographs, ...

Memoirs of a Jew who was a pharmacist in Prešov (Slovakia). Relates her experiences in the Holocaust from September 1944, including a period in hiding, separation from half of her family, and deportation to concentration camps. Between November 1944-March 1945 she was interned in Ravensbrück, with her second son Ivan. Her elder son was separated from her when she arrived at the camp, and she never ...

Mandil Family photograph collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs of the Mandil family, Konfino family, and the Ben-Yosif family all of Yugoslavia, as well as the Veseli family of Krujë, Albania. The photographs of the Mandil family include photographs of Gavra and Irena Mandil used as advertisement for the family’s photograph studio including a photograph of the Jewish children standing ...

This collection comprises Zdenĕk Leder's personal papers including documents, notebooks and correspondence; papers documenting the publication of his book on the Theresienstadt Ghetto; compensation claim papers; papers documenting his activitities as an employee of Radio Free Europe.

The Pollak family papers consists of civil documents, diplomas, photographs and memorial albums relating to the Pollak family of Liptovsky Svaty Mikulaš, Czechoslovakia before, during, and after the war. Also included are images of Albert Pollak and other Slovakian Jews performing forced labor in a Slovak Labor Battalion in Svety Jan, Czechoslovakia, circa 1940-41.

Dolista K. – Heřman J., Židovská náboženská obec Olomouc 1850 - 1944, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 13 s., ev. č. 101.

Jakovas (Jacob Josef) Bunka (1923-2014) was born in Plungė, Lithuania, to Leib (1895-1943) and Toybe Ril Bunka. Jakovas had three sisters, Dina, Hene, and Chane, and one brother, Avrom Lazar. His father fought for Lithuanian independence after World War I, and was awarded a Freedom medal and some land to work. Roughly half the town’s population of 5,000 were Jewish. Jakovas’ family regularly attended ...