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Marcel Pierre Lob (1902-1990) was born on 12 May 1902 in Paris, France to Gaston and Lucie Levy Lob (1872-1944). He had two siblings: Mathieu (b. 1898) and Stephanie. His brother Mathieu married Gilberte May and they had two daughters, Francine and Huguette. His sister Stephanie (b. 1905) married Ernest Carrance (b. 1894), and they had three children, Jacqueline (b. 1929), Jean-Jacques, and Bernard. ...

The Istanbul Collection testifies to JDC’s efforts from 1942-1949 (with a few earlier materials dating from 1937) to oversee the planning of rescue and relief operations from its office in Turkey, a neutral country strategically located at the crossroads of war-torn Europe and the nascent Jewish state in Palestine. These records highlight the Istanbul office’s partnership with other relief organizations--such ...

James B. Donovan. United States Navy Commander. Associate Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, where he coordinated and presented all Nazi films at the trials. General Counsel to OSS. Negotiated the exchange of Bay of Pigs prisoners with Fidel Castro as an independent lawyer under backdrop of the missile crisis, securing the freedom of nearly 10,000 people. Portrayed by Tom Hanks in "Bridge of Spies". ...

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 ...

Propaganda film about hygiene with good graphics. 01:31:31 Animated text is on fire and exclaims, "Aus Not Geboren!" A picture of a city is slowly covered with black smoke and overlying text refers to a nutrition problem. Title card states, "Abgeschlossen von Luft und Sonne verbringt der Großstädter sein dasein." Different apartment buildings and big city streets show crowded conditions. Men and women ...

The Silbermann family papers comprise correspondence and photographs documenting Curt and Else Silbermann and their families from Würzburg, Germany, before, during, and after the Holocaust. Extensive family correspondence to Curt and Else Silbermann, who had immigrated to the United States, relates news about life in Nazi and postwar Germany. Six photograph albums document Else Kleeman Silbermann and ...

Ana (Hannah) Waldner, born 1900, was married to Chaim Waldner, who was born in 1895 in Chelmek to Tvi and Dubi Waldner. They were one of only ten Jewish families in Chelmek, where Chaim was the town butcher. The couple had three children, Dorotha (Dora), born on September 25, 1926, and two younger sons, Karpeck, born ca. 1929, and Beneck, born ca. 1931. The family kept kosher and observed Shabbat and ...

Simche Münzer (Simcha / Siegfried Minzer, 1904-1945) was born on September 6, 1904, in Kanczuga, Poland to Moses Aron Münzer and Esther Malka Münzer (née Einhorn). Gisele (Gitel, 1905-2001) was born on May 20, 1905, in Rymanów, Poland. The couple, distantly related cousins, met when they were teenagers. In the late 1920’s, Simche moved to The Hague, where his brother Emil lived and opened a tailoring ...

The records of the Institute of Jewish Affairs have been divided into five main sections, as MSS 237-41, maintaining the subject arrangement that the Institute used for its documentation collections. The records of the London office and British section of the World Jewish Congress are distributed in several places in this arrangement. The archive contains: MS 237: information from the press and other ...

This collection documents JDC's global overseas operations in over 70 countries and regions in the immediate post-World War II (WWII) period from 1945 - 1954. These records testify to the complex and multi-faceted nature of JDC's worldwide rescue, relief, and rehabilitation initiatives from its headquarters in New York, which primarily focused upon: resettling and sustaining Jewish refugees and Holocaust ...