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This collection contains reports, articles, clippings, and various other documents relating to the persecution and execution of Jews in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine); the activities of the Jewish council (Judenrat) in the Lwów ghetto; the confiscation of Jewish property; the eviction of Jews from their homes; various "actions" in the ghetto, some specifically targeting elderly Jews; the mistreatment ...

The collection includes the oral history transcripts of Ukrainian Jews who were born between 1894 and 1949, recorded by the staff of the Judaica Institute of Kiev, Ukraine, for their project. Transcripts have detailed information about the daily life, religious activities, family life, education, and survival through pre-war pogroms, and survival during the Holocaust and after World War II.

This collection contains documents pertaining to the treatment of Jews in French North Africa, particularly in Algeria, and the expropriation of their property by Vichy officials. Topics include the "Jewish question," antisemitism, the establishment of camps, refugees from Spain and/or from the International Brigades, the local Jewish community in Algeria, Jews from France, and the commune of Ain Temouchent. ...

Ch. 8 (pp. 305-349), "Les Juifs et, accessoirement, les francs-macons", discusses attitudes toward Jews in Belgium before and during World War II. Mentions the ideology of the Flemish National Party and other nationalistic, pro-German groups in Flanders, and their antisemitism. Discusses Belgian policy toward the Jews after the "Kristallnacht" pogrom. Quotes excerpts from the Belgian press reflecting ...

Efforts to commemorate the victims of the 1903 Chişinǎu (Kishinev) pogrom and the Holocaust in Bessarabia and Transnistria have achieved varying degrees of success in the Republic of Moldova. Gaining public recognition for these experiences has proven a convoluted process. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the local Community has led an enduring memorialization campaign, which has steadily ...

Memoirs written in Havana in 1941 by Freund (1898-1982), who endured forced labor in Berlin from April 1941, in a laundry and then in an armaments factory. She had sent her three children to England in January 1939, following the "Kristallnacht" pogrom. She managed to emigrate to Cuba with her husband in October 1941, only a few days before emigration was no longer permitted; in 1944 they went on to ...

Surveys the history of Jews in Rhineland and Westphalia. Pp. 54-87 deal with the Nazi period. Discusses Jewish reactions, e.g. the establishment or increase of Jewish social and welfare institutions, educational and cultural associations, youth movements and sports groups, and courses for professional training. Describes the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, after which the number of Jewish residents in the ...

Describes the "Kristallnacht" pogrom in the Bavarian town of Schweinfurt: pillaging of shops and homes, arrest of all the Jewish men, intimidation and humiliation of the remaining Jews, destruction of the synagogue. Hitler youth threw stones at Jews herded together in the cattle market. Traces the sources of Nazi antisemitism in medieval Christianity and the racism of the Wilhelmine era. Chronicles ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

Contains an identification document issued to Oskar Fiedler, a Jewish refugee in Shanghai, China during the war. Also contains a certificate for innoculation and vaccination for Berta Fiedler, in Shanghai, dated 1949.

Handmade, Star of David patch on a black background that belonged to Pincu Kaiserman’s sister, likely Rosa, in Romania, sometime between September 10, 1941 and 1943. In September 1940, Romania fell under the rule of a radical military coalition led by General Antonescu and the Iron Guard, a fascist, anti-Semitic military group of Nazi collaborators. In November, Romania joined the Axis Alliance and ...

Memoirs of a Jew who was born in 1900 in Posen and later lived in Berlin, based on notes written upon his arrival in England in spring 1939. Reichmann, a former trustee of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens, was arrested in the course of the "Kristallnacht" pogrom and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen. His report includes a description of the persecution of German Jewry between ...