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"Nobel Prizes Presented in Sweden" - newsreel fanfare. In Stockholm, Sweden, amid traditional regal pageantry, the Nobel Prizes are awarded by King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden. Brief shots of Max Born, German professor, receiving Nobel Physics Prize. Five Americans are Nobel Prize recipients: Dr. Linus Pauling of the California Institute of Technology in the field of chemistry; Drs. John F. Enders of ...

Contains one memoir, 30 pages, entitled "Memories of an Interrupted Youth," by Rachel Feitsma Friedensohn, originally of Antwerp, Belgium. Her family escaped to France before the German invasion, lived in Toulouse and Boulogne-sur-Gesse before receiving their exit visas in November 1942. Rachel and her mother left for Madrid, where they were reunited with her father, who had been imprisoned in the ...

<div>Ruth Dresel née Goldmann was born 4 November 1910 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia. Her father, Leo Goldmann, a paper-hanger and decorator, joined the army at the beginning of the First World War. He was wounded and discharged and later killed in a train accident.</div><div><br /></div><div>Life was difficult for her mother, who worked very hard to make ends meet. Ruth’s grandmother persuaded her mother ...

Fritz (now Fred) Buff (1921-2017) was the son of Julius and Emma Buff. He was born on July 26, 1921 in Krumbach, Germany, a small Bavarian town where his family had lived for several generations. There, his parents ran an upholstery supply business. Fritz has one sister, Anni (now Anne), two years younger. At the age of ten, Fritz left home to attend a secondary school in Ulm, where he also went to ...

Nederlands Gezantschap in Cuba (Havana) > Stukken van bijzondere aard > Archief Gezantschap Havana 1945-1948 > Correspondentie inzake moeilijkheden bij de inwisseling van, wegens de oorlog geblokkeerde, bankbiljetten van J. Bonnewit

"It is widely acknowledged that Congo became an East-West battlefield during the first half of the decade of the 1960s, yet the participation of Cuban exiles in the struggles is rarely noted. In this volume Villafaña details the contribution made by Cuban exiles to the preservation of democracy in Congo. When Congo was given its independence by Belgium in the 1960, most of its people believed their ...

Nederlands Gezantschap in de Verenigde Staten van Amerika > STUKKEN OP RUBRIEK GEORDEND > REGERING EN VERTEGENWOORDIGING CUBA > Stukken betreffende de Nederlandse vertegenwoordiging bij de inauguratie van de Cubaanse presidenten Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar en Ramon Grau San Martin,

Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação da Suíça ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para 55 emigrantes, de nacionalidade não identificada e residente na Suíça, com destino a Cuba. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação da Suíça ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para 10 emigrantes, de nacionalidade não identificada e residente na Suíça, com destino ...

Reveals the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps from 1890s Cuba to the Philippines and southern Africa in the early twentieth century, to the Soviet Gulag and detention camps in China and North Korea during the Cold War. Pitzer discusses their use for civilian relocation and exposing their role as dehumanizing sites for political repression that have claimed millions of lives. ...

Contains documents about the activities of the Maccabi Aid Committee and the Maccabi World Union. The activities involved the 1939 organization of illegal transports of Jewish refugees travelling by boat on the Danube River from Vienna, Austria, across Hungary and Yugoslavia, to Palestine. Another activity was to find a place in Bolivia to settle hundreds of Jewish refugees. Includes an atlas of Bolivia. ...