The author describes Rwanda's history with clarity and narrates the killings based on testimony from survivors. These include a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren. Originally published: ...

Reprint from the Manchester Guardian, Monday, January 28, 1935. Article that informs about the legal, social and cultural situation of Jews in Germany.

Consists of photographs from the Loeb family, as well as three documents: a death certificate from 1915; a notice from the military informing of the battlefield death of a son, 1915; and notice of recognition of WWI service of David Loeb, 1934.

Congress mandated the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to lead the nation in annual civic commemorations of the victims of the Holocaust, called Days of Remembrance. The Days of Remembrance give us all an oppotunity to advance the Museum's primary mission to inform Americans about this unprecedented tragedy, to commemorate those who suffered, and to inspire visitors to contemplate the moral ...

The collection of Broadcasts from Radio Oranje (Radio Orange) contains a selection of the radio broadcasts that were transmitted between 1940 and 1945. They were broadcasts created by the Dutch Government in exile in London, transmitted to encourage and inform the people of the Netherlands whilst under occupation. This digitized audio file is a so called semi-finished product. During digitization an ...

The collection of Broadcasts from Radio Oranje (Radio Orange) contains a selection of the radio broadcasts that were transmitted between 1940 and 1945. They were broadcasts created by the Dutch Government in exile in London, transmitted to encourage and inform the people of the Netherlands whilst under occupation. This digitized audio file is a so called semi-finished product. During digitization an ...

Telegram sent by Hedwig (Hedy) Alexander Bronitsky (donor's mother) in Brooklyn, NY to her father Robert Alexander in Vienna, Austria informing him that his immigration visa has been approved and he is to be ready to depart immediately.

The papers consist of correspondence after the Holocaust between Max Schweitzer in Romania to his sister, Esther Williams, in the United States informing her of his deportation and their parents' deaths in Mohyliv-Podilśḱyi (Mogilev Podolski), Ukraine.

Benjamin and Sophie Esterman were American citizens who were traveling in Europe, and visited Germany in order to see for themselves and to inform others where Nazism was going.

The letter was written by the Ameican Consul in Belgium, R.M. de Lambert, to Josef Wajs (donor's father) during the Holocaust informing him that he has been put on the waiting list for immigration to the United States since the immigration quota from Poland has already been met.

Postcard sent to Anna Schlamm (donor's paternal grandmother) in Brooklyn, New York, from her nephew L.P. Klink in Riga, Latvia, 1946. In the postcard, he informs her that ."..all of our relatives have been cruelly murdered..."; dated February 1945, but postmarked February 1946.

Documents, post-war, relating to Otto and Regina Jacoby. Includes letter from Ministry of Social Welfare in Prague, 1947, informing him of fates of several family members who were deported to Theresienstadt and from there to Poland in 1942, and French identification documents for Regina (nee Karpel) Jacoby. Also, one handwritten letter in German, sent to Jacoby by Harry Noll, in Prague, Sept. 1945, ...

Consists of one memoir, written by Arkadiy Pilnik, describing the town of Dobroye, Nikolayevskaya oblast, Ukraine, and the aktion on August 28, 1941, which resulted in the deaths of the Jewish residents of the town, including many members of Mr. Pilnik's family. Included are copyprints of photographs of his father, sister, and grandmother, who perished in the aktion; copyprints of photographs of the ...

Claim form for purchase of grave plot at Karlsruhe Jewish cemetery, from Julius Haas (1904); copy official documentation including a letter from the local mayor informing Berta Haas of her compulsory name change- to include ‘Sara' (1938) 

The papers consist of correspondence from Edward Remey [family friend] and the Westchester Committee for Refugees, Inc. to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Baruch [donor's parents] confirming the deaths of Marianne Ziegler [donor's aunt], Thekla Baruch Ehermann [donor's aunt], and Gerda and Fritz Hammerstein during the Holocaust. The papers also include a postcard from Marianne Ziegler to her brother, Richard ...

Benjamin and Sophie Esterman were American citizens who were traveling in Europe, and visited Germany in order to see for themselves and to inform others where Nazism was going.

The letter was sent from the local chairman of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront German Workers Front to the mayor of Andernach, Germany, informing him that August Gutmann, owner of a toy and sport shop in Andernach, participated in the funeral of the Jew, Loeb, and asking him to note that Gutmann is not a member of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront.

Benjamin and Sophie Esterman were American citizens who were traveling in Europe, and visited Germany in order to see for themselves and to inform others where Nazism was going.

This collection includes correspondence, including Red Cross letters sent to and from Israel and Grete Sacher, in Vienna, to their son Friedrich, in Tel Aviv, 1941; copies of documents (2) obtained by Friedrich Sacher prior to his emigration from Austria, 1938-1939; letter to Friedrich Sacher from Jewish Council of Prague, 1946, informing him of his mother's deportation to Theresienstadt in 1942 and ...

The papers consist of a false identification card under the name Danielle Servouze and journal entry from Dina Moses Servouze, a letter from the Crédit Municipal de Paris informing Dina’s father Israel Moses that his property will be confiscated if he does not testify that he is not a Jew, a photograph of Dina Servouze taken circa 1938, and photographs taken in August 1944 and 1945, depicting Dina, ...

Kurt Rosenthal worked as a banker in Berlin, Germany. In 1933, he left Berlin and moved to France. Rosenthal was interned in Les Milles and Gurs internment camps in France as an “enemy alien.” His son is Robert Ronald.