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David Sando (1909-2002) was born David Sandomirski on 7 November 1909 in Vienna, Austria to Feige and Aron Sandomirski. His parents owned a sausage factory, but after it failed they earned their living as landlords for a building they owned. David married Edith Menkes in May 1938 in Vienna. He worked as professional piano player who performed in nightclubs. In August 1938, after his father learned ...

The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Ernst Bürgin from the historian Dr. Florian Schmaltz in March 2007. Ernst Bürgin was born in Wyhlen on July 31, 1885. After attending school in Basel, he studied chemistry and electrochemistry there and in Berlin. In 1911, he earned his doctorate. Subsequently and only interrupted by his deployment in World War I, he worked as a chemist for various ...

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Rita Oppenheimer Gelman, originally of Berlin, Germany, including her flight from Germany to Palestine in 1940. Included are postcards, photographs, and a small amount of documents. The postcards are primarily received by Rita’s maternal uncle Arno Lewenberg, who survived the Holocaust in Davos, Switzerland, from family members in Berlin. One ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Geschichte Nach der Reichsgründung 1871 stand die Bildung einer gemeinsamen Eisenbahnverwaltung für alle deutschen Länder zunächst nicht auf der Tagesordnung. Die süddeutschen Staaten fürchteten das Übergewicht Preußens und lehnten Bismarcks Reicheisenbahngesetz 1875 endgültig ab. Lediglich die Eisenbahnstrecken in den von Frankreich abgetrennten Gebieten Elsass und ...

The collection consists of the personal records of the Nachlass Landesbischof Theophil Wurm (Bishop Theophil Wurm). The collection is divided into four parts. The first part of the collection contains a variety of speeches, sermons, and correspondence which span the entirety of Bishop Wurm’s professional life. Most bear no immediate relevance to the war but were included as they provide historical ...

The Berlin Zionist Union (BZU), a local chapter of the Zionist Federation of Germany, was founded in 1897 at the initiative of Heinrich Lowe. According to its charter, the BZU aimed to support the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine. The union sought to assist in the settlement of Palestine, strengthen Jewish national selfconsciousness, and propagate Zionist ideology in Germany. Membership ...

Private papers of Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet (1916-2010), a Swiss helper and human rights activist. The collection consists of biographical materials, school photos, documents concerning honors, film and radio broadcast about Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet, reports from the Swiss Red Cross, applications concerning the child support of the Swiss Red Cross, handwritten and typed manuscripts "La Filière" und ...

The Israelite Community of Kreuzlingen, since 1965 Jewish Community of Kreuzlingen (Jüdische Gemeinde Kreuzlingen), was founded on 23 August 1939. In the spring of 1938, 91 Jewish adults with 17 children were counted in 43 households in Kreuzlingen. In 1939 the number of Jewish inhabitants rose to about 130 persons. There was a prayer room, a religious school and a cemetery. A rabbi or a Jewish teacher/ ...

P.12 - Chaim Pazner Archives: Representative of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel in Switzerland during World War II
 
 The record group contains a variety of documentation collected by Dr. Chaim Pazner (Chaim Posner) over the course of his life, mainly while serving as Director of the Eretz Israel Office in Geneva, Switzerland.
 
 - Files 80-112 include files of the War Refugee ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Johannes Haller, Lebenserinnerungen. Gesehenes, Gehörtes, Gedachtes, Stuttgart 1960 NDB 7, S. 552 f. Historiker, Hochschullehrer Lebenslauf o. Professor für mittelalterliche Geschichte an der Universität Tübingen 16. Okt. 1865 Geboren in Keinis/Estland Besuch der Reiter- und Domschule in Reval 1883 - 1888 Geschichtsstudium an der Universität Dorpat 1889 Oberlehrerprüfung ...

Ralph Voigt recorded his family's travel to Europe in 1938, likely in celebration of Ralph's graduation from high school, Title- EUROPE 1938. Couple, probably Elmer and Nellie Voigt, at desk with pamphlet ‘How to See Europe’. The Americans are well-dressed and packing nice clothes. 1:02 Moving train. Ship smokestacks. Map of Europe with the travel itinerary: Havre, Paris, Versailles, Basel, Lucerne, ...

For the most part, the collection reflects the activities of the JDC European Executive Bureau in Paris during the period 1933-40. The collection includes the JDC charter (1931); accounts of JDC activities (1932-38); minutes of sessions of the presidium of the JDC executive committee in New York (1929-33, and 1938), of the JDC managing committee in New York (1937-38), and the JDC presidium and executive ...