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Private papers of Carl Lutz (1895-1975), a Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest (1942-1945). The collection contains a part of Lutz's papers (another part is held by the Yad Vashem Archives) and consists of biographical materials and personal documents: CV, honors, photographs, diaries, audio recordings, and correspondence, e.g. with the US Holocaust Museum, Washington DC (1989-1990), (File 137); diplomatic ...

Consists of documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, copies of articles and speeches, and copies of archival holdings related to the work of George Mandel-Mantello. The material was collected by Mantello and by his son, Enrico Mantello, about his wartime activities as a diplomat for the El Salvadore consulate in Geneva, Switzerland from 1942 to 1945, during which time he created false Salvadoran ...

Brief van het Amerikaanse consulaat aan Hermann van Pels, met inhoud van zakelijke aard over emigratie, geschreven in Den Haag op 10 februari 1939

The International Refugee Organisation was a non-permanent specialized agency of the United Nations. It came into being on 20 August 1948. Its functions were previously carried out by a Preparatory Commission (PCIRO), which assumed on 1 July 1947 functions formerly exercised by its predecessor organizations: The League of Nations; the Intergovernmental Committee on refugees; the United Nations Relief ...

The Gotlieb family collection is comprised primarily of documents and photographs the experiences of Szajndla (later Sally) Frydman Gotlieb and her husband, Zacharias (later Sam) Gotlieb [donor's parents] who were both from Radom, Poland, and were both survivors of the Holocaust.The documents include Sally's DP card issued in Germany and paperwork issued by the United States Consulate in Stuttgart, ...

"Memories: People and Places" is the remembrance of Elisabeth Model as a wife, mother, and artist during the 1940s and 1950s. "In Memoriam: Max Model" is a tribute to Max Model, husband of Elisabeth Model, with information about his persecution during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. See RG list for titles for RG-10.060*01 - *02.

The collection's contents are described in one inventory. The documents are catalogued by type. Featured among the collection's documents are reports on association activities for 1933-40, as well as reports of the constituent session of the association's finance commission for 28 November 1939; minutes of the general assembly of association members from 4 February 1940; lists of members of the Association ...

Emil Lissberger (1873-1942) married Klara Sämann in 1899 in Sugenheim, Germany. They had one son, Moritz (Maurice) in 1901. Emil worked at a Savings and Loan Bank in Creglingen, Bavaria. Moritz grew up to marry Bettina (Bella) Grünfeld in 1928. Between 1939 and 1940, Moritz and Bettina were able to obtain visas and immigrate to the United States. Emil and Klara, however, were not as fortunate, and ...

Greenman was born in 1910 in London to a Jewish family; in 1913 he and his widowed father settled in Rotterdam. Greenman failed to escape to England when the war began, and in 1940 was caught by the German occupation. He lost his British identity papers and, because of bureaucratic procrastination on the part of Dutch officials and of the Swiss consulate that represented British interests, could not ...

The postcard was written by Albert Rapp in Buchenwald concentration camp to his wife, Matilde Rapp, in Frankfurt, Germany. In the postcard, he asks his wife not to worry and assures her that he is fine. He asks her to send him a package containing stockings, handkerchiefs, an undershirt, a jacket, a piece of soap, a toothbrush, and various other supplies for himself and his brother, Arthur, who was ...