Swiss wrist watch with a contemporary band taken by 21-year-old Abraham Lewent, possibly from the body of a dead SS guard, around April 1945. After the collapse of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943, Abraham and his father Raphael were deported to Majdanek concentration camp where his father was killed. After two months, Abraham was transferred to Skarżysko-Kamienna slave labor camp, then to Buchenwald ...

Pertains to the activities of Hans Weyermann as the delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1944 in Budapest. Includes material relating to the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. Weyermann remained in Budapest after the Soviet forces had driven out the Germans and he was one of few eyewitnesses who saw Wallenberg in 1945, shortly before his disappearance.

"This book examines the circumstances surrounding SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Karl Wolff's escape from prosecution for war crimes in 1945. Wolff avoided prosecution because of his role in 'Operation Sunrise', negotiations conducted by high-ranking American, Swiss and British officials - in violation of the Casablanca agreements with the Soviet Union - for the surrender of German forces in Italy that enabled ...

"Himmler's Diary 1945: A Calendar of Events Leading to Suicide is an exceptional work with unpublished diary entries made by Himmler that shows in detail how The Third Reich fell to ruin in its final bloody year. Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler was instigator of the largest programme of racial mass murder in history. 1 January 1945 saw Heinrich Himmler at his peak in Nazi Germany, controlling the ...

The documents within the Paul Fisch collection were created by a Hungarian student group in Zurich, Switzerland. The report includes a summary of The Auschwitz Protocol, also known as the Vrba-Wetzler Report, which contains eyewitness accounts of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Also included is a report of the state of Hungarian Jews in 1944, and a document that describes the process for growing ...

Marcel Wolf Zyto (1923-2010) was born in Paris on May 30, 1923 to Polish immigrants Jakob (Jacob) and Sima (Syma, née Finkelstein) Zyto. He had one brother, Henri, and one sister, Henriette, who died in early childhood and was buried in their native Poland. The Zyto family lived in the 20th district in Paris, and as a teenager Marcel studied to be a pharmacy assistant, receiving a diploma in 1939. ...

The Charles Froelicher papers consist of photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp and children who were part of the transport Charles Froelicher accompanied from Buchenwald to Switzerland in June 1945; a document issued by the Allied Expeditionary Force Military Government authorizing him to accompany the transport; two German language clippings about the transport; and a blank questionnaire ...

Copyright Holder: Mrs. Arlene Erlebacher

This collection contains one photograph and three photocopied documents : picture of Fanny Biber and her husband Abraham Max Lipschutz wearing the yellow badge ; a "Schutzbrief" from the Swiss embassy in Berlin certifying Fanny Biber's British nationality ; a displaced person card ; a declaration from the staff at the Vittel camp proving that Fanny Biber received the certificate from the Suisse em ...

Established by Decree no. 15226 of the Foreign Ministry in 1919, the Legal Department was responsible for cases of international public, criminal and civil law and administrative legal aid. Initially had three departments: International Public Law, International Criminal and Civil Law and International Legal Aid, which later were divided into various sub-departments. Most relevant are the survived ...

Memoir, typescript, 129 page, written by Imre Gross (Emery Robert), describing his childhood and youth in Hungary, his conscription into a forced labor battalion between 1942-1944, his imprisonment by the Arrow Cross and subsequent escape and hiding in Budapest, liberation, and return to his hometown in 1945. Also described are his experiences in the immediate postwar years, including reunion with ...

The collection contains correspondence, identification papers, photographs, testimonies, and restitution claims documenting the experiences of Regina Gruber and Tuvia Sheres in Poland, Lithuania, and Italy during the Holocaust, and their post-war experiences in Italy prior to immigrating to Canada. Included are papers regarding their time as displaced persons in Bari, Italy; and their work with the ...

Alexander Bartal was born Aleksander Ziser Bicz in 1927 in Pabianice, Poland, to tailor Abram Bicz (b. 1902) and his wife Rozka Rajzl Halberg (b. 1905). His brother Izak Icus was born in 1931. The family was confined to the Pabianice ghetto in 1940. When the ghetto was liquidated in 1942, Alexander’s family was sent to the Łódź ghetto, and when the Łódź ghetto was liquidated in 1944, they were sent ...

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Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov, Scranton - London 2010.

Large, two pocket rucksack used by Elek Brust while a forced laborer from 1941 and 1943-1944 in Hungary. He then used it while living in hiding with his family during the German occupation through February 1945. Elek was a manufacturer and prominent member of the Jewish community in Budapest where he lived with his wife Lilly and young daughter Eva. In 1941, Jewish males were required to do forced ...

Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, actor, broadcaster, and traveler. He was the voice of Movietone News.

Vera Lechtman (b. 1938) was born to Sioma (1916-1945?) and Tonia (nee Bialer,1918-1996) Lechtmann in Paris, France. Born in Dunajewce, Russia (now Dunaivtsi, Ukraine), Sioma soon moved with his parents Israel and Feiga (nee Blatt) Lechtmann to Vienna, Austria. He had three sisters: Hava and twins, Luba and Buza. Following a period of increasing violence and the outbreak an Austrian civil war in 1934, ...