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Consists of one memoir, referred to in the text as a CV or Vitae, by Dr. Zvi Richter, who was born Budapest, Hungary and raised in Berehovo. In the memoir, Dr. Richter describes life in Berehovo, the Jewish and Zionist community, establishing his own law firm, and his memory of the Hungarian occupation in 1938. He served in the Horthy army for a brief period in 1940, but was recalled after the German ...

This unbound volume was produced by Yad Vashem in 1966 to mark remembrance day for the Holocaust and Heroism, and was designed for use in schools. It contains photographs depicting the rise of Nazism; the destruction and desecration of synagogues in Vienna, 1938; the Warsaw Ghetto; Yellow Stars; Lodz; Dachau; partisans and the Jewish Brigade.

Karl Loewenstein (1887-1976) was born to Jewish parents in Siegen, Germany, and in 1917 he married Margot Hamburger, who also came from a Jewish family. In 1919, however, he converted to Christianity as a Lutheran. After having served as a naval officer during World War I, he worked as a director of a bank in Berlin, named Busse and Co. He was active in a Lutheran parish in Berlin-Weissensee, and in ...

Lot 139. Album of personnel. Search bureau for missing persons (May 1946) Search Bureau For Missing Persons, album containing fifty-three original snapshot photographs, each captioned with name and departmental office. Compiled by the Jewish Brigade personnel attached to the Bureau. Dedicated to Col. J.R. Bowring, founder of the Bureau. ff. 24. Original printed stiff wrappers.

M.41.ZGAPin - Documentation from the Regional State Archive in Pinsk
 
 The Regional Archive of Pinsk was established in 1940. During the German occupation, the Archive's activity was halted during 1941-1944 and was renewed only in August 1944. The Archive changed its mission following the dissolution of the Pinsk region, and it became the Municipal State Archive of Pinsk in 1954. In September ...

Israel Yitzhak Miedzyrzecki was born on February 13, 1892, in Warsaw, Poland, to Berisch and Feiga Halberstadt Miedzyrzecki. He had 8 siblings and a large extended family. Israel was a tanner. He married Rivka Rybak, who was born on May 30, 1896, in Warsaw. They had four children: Stela, born 1916; Benjamin, born February 19, 1918; Mordecai, born 1922; and Genia, born May 21, 1934. Israel and Rivka ...

The collection consists of a sewing box, two pillowcases, six tablecloths, correspondence, documents, photographs, and a siddur relating to the experiences of Käthe Steiner Stecklmacher, her daughters, Maud and Karmela, and her family before the Holocaust in Prostejov, Czechosloavakia, during the Holocaust in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp, as well as to the experiences of Shimon Beer and his family ...

According to the 1918 union of Bessarabia with Romania, a network of institutions was set up, with the task of consolidating public order. By the Decree of the Romanian Government of 1918 on the organization of police in each county (județ), the Police Prefectures were opened, as well as the Special Brigades of Security. Police Prefectures were subordinated to the General Directorate of Police and ...

This collection contains: a postcard from Fernand, a neighbour and/or friend of the Luks-Wellner family in Antwerp, to Aaron Joseph alias Jos Luks in Switzerland, informing him about the ‘sudden disappearance’ of his ‘friends’, meaning Jos’ father Juda alias Isidore Luks, his mother Tauba alias Tonia Wellner and his youngest brother Marcel Salomon Luks, 1942 ; a letter from the Belgian Red Cross formally ...

Consists of one manuscript, in print and on CD-ROM, entitled "A Long Road Home: The Life and Times of Grisha Sklovsky, 1915-1995", written by John Nicholson in 2007. Mr. Sklovksy was born in Siberia, but following the Russian Revolution, his family moved to Berlin, where he attended school. In 1934, Mr. Sklovsky moved to France and studied at the University of Lyon. In October 1939, he joined the Czech ...

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 ...

After the Second World War, several resistance organizations emerged in the Czech lands. The Czechoslovak Legionary Union, an organization of participants in World War I, founded in 1921, was the first to be restored. Resistance fighters returning from concentration camps, prisons and penitentiaries, from the Eastern and Western fronts or from emigration, were organized in the Union of Liberated Political ...