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Consists of original and digital documents and photographs related to the life of Suse Lore Alice Samson (later known as Alice Samson), originally of Edesheim, Germany. Includes Alice's written testimony, copies of documents and photographs, and correspondence regarding her attempts to find out the fates of her family and restitution for lost property. Includes correspondence with the International ...

P.35 - The Collection of Nathan Schwalb, the representative of the World Center of the Hechalutz movement in Geneva, Switzerland during World War II
 
 Nathan Schwalb was born in Stanislawow, Poland (today Ivano Frankovsk, Ukraine) in 1908. He made aliya to Eretz Israel and was member of Kibbutz Hulda. He spent World War II in Geneva as the representative of the World Hechalutz movement, ...

The collection has been digitized and are available online through the textual collections portal of the JDC Archives database.

Excerpt of well-known propaganda film made by the Nazis to show the International Red Cross and others that they were not mistreating Jews in the "ghettos." Documentary footage depicts the life of Jews in the ghetto of Theresienstadt [Terezin] in Czechoslovakia as harmonious and joyful. They wear yellow stars on their civilian clothing but are euphemistically called residents ["Bewohner"] instead of ...

The Czechoslovak Provisional Government in Exile was appointed by President Dr. E. Beneš on 22 July 1940. The Ministry of Social Welfare took care of refugees, members of foreign armies and their families in terms of social and health care, arranged for the registration of Czechoslovak citizens abroad, provided them with employment opportunities, prepared proposals for post-war reconstruction and repatriation, ...

O.75: Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period or regarding the Holocaust
 
 In the Record Group are personal letters collected by Yad Vashem since its establishment. The letters were written before, during and after the Holocaust period in the Nazi occupied countries - in ghettos, camps and hiding places, and in the countries to which the Jewish refugees from Europe succeeded in escaping ...

The footage begins near the opening of Session 82 with Servatius questioning Eichmann on the stand. Servatius presents communications between Himmler and Kaltenbrunner about the deporation of 5,000 elderly Jews from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz. There is some confusion regarding the date of the document. Servatius presents another document, which describes a change in the Jewish leadership of Theresienstadt ...

Reports, correspondence, publications, notes and other documents related to the condition of national minorities in Poland, Switzerland and Europe, many records refer to Polish Jews. Also included are records related to condition of refugees and internees, as well as social relief and its organization by the Polish and International Red Cross, taking care of Polish citizens in Switzerland, passport ...

United States Navy Lieutenant E. R. Kellogg certifies motion pictures of Nazi concentration camps in an affidavit presented in the "Nazi Concentration Camps" film by the Americans as evidence during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Kellogg had expertise in motion picture and photographic techniques through his employment with Twentieth Century Fox Studios in California from 1929 to ...

Title: "Nazi Concentration Camps" Foreword: "This is an official document made by U.S. military photographers as they advanced into Germany," etc. Two exhibited affidavits attesting to the authenticity of scenes in the film are shown, one signed by Lt Col George E. Stevens and the other by Capt John Ford. A map shows the location of concentration camps in Germany and Europe. "Leipzig Concentration ...

Includes photocopies of documents from the Dutch Red Cross and the International Tracing Service relating to Coenraad Rood's efforts to trace the fate of relatives who were victims of the Holocaust. Also included is a copy of "Report, 1942-1945" by Coenraad Rood. The memoir describes Rood's experiences of persecution, imprisonment, and survival during the Holocaust. *See collection list for titles ...

The Commission (Cie.) was established in 1949 by the Ministry of Justice and dissolved in 1962. After the WWII there were tens of thousands of (especially Jewish) Dutch people who were not officially determined that they had died. This involved all kinds of legal complications, such as inheritance issues. In order to solve these problems, in June 1949 the 'Act, containing provisions concerning the ...