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Contains selected records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw. The materials cover a variety of topics related to political and economic situation in Europe and the world in the years preceding the outbreak of World War II: the League of Nations; Polish policy towards Jewish populations and general issues of national minorities; the ban on ritual slaughter in Poland in 1936; Polish clergy ...

German troops struggle through the muddy Serbian countryside in vehicles and on foot. A column of troops crossing a bridge. German troops encounter resistance in a town. Sign in Cyrillic on a building. A Slovenian or Croatian soldier (according to the IWM) smiles as he surrenders his weapon to a German. The German dashes it on the ground and breaks it. Destroyed buildings. A soldier posts a sign that ...

Werner Goldsmith was born in Erfurt, Germany, on Nov. 13, 1928. Werner's father, a textile salesman, died in 1938, and Werner and his mother moved to Berlin, Germany. Werner's mother placed him in the Auerbach orphanage for safety while she lived with another Jewish woman in West Berlin. Werner's mother arranged for him to be placed on a transport to France, and she, as a widow, was able to travel ...

Contains records relating to speeches by Argetoianu, and C. Giurescu, miscellaneous information about the Iron Guard and Antonescu's activities, speeches by prominent Iron Guard members, propaganda articles about Antonescu, material related to the confiscation of Jewish property, and the relationship between Iron Guard and Nazi ideology. Includes reports from Paris about anti-Semitism, foreign views ...

Contains selected records from the Havana consulate of the Polish Government-in-Exile, including a list of Polish citizens (mostly of Jewish origin), 1935-1946; as well as other records relating to applications for entry visas to Cuba, primarily from Polish Jews, 1946-1947.

Charles (Carl) Lutz (1895-1975) was the Swiss vice-consul in Budapest between 1942 and 1945. Born in Walzenhausen, Switzerland, Lutz moved to the United States in 1913 at the age of 18. While studying at the George Washington University, he joined the Swiss diplomatic service and became chancellor at the Swiss legation in Washington, D.C. In 1935, Lutz was sent to Palestine, where he was appointed ...

Collection of the Commissie-Clevering committee, which examined the attitude toward refugees by the authorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1950
 
 Official documentation of the Commissie-Clevering committee, established by the Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands in 1946 for the purpose of examining the attitude of the embassies toward Dutch citizens who escaped to Switzerland, France, Spain, ...

Ellen Weinberg (later Nebel) was born on March 6, 1925 in Hannover, Germany. Her father, Emmanuel Weinberg, was the owner of J.P. Neumark, a piece goods store in Hannover. Her mother Else was a pianist. The Weinberg family was not observant, but still maintained a strong Jewish identity. In the prewar period, the anti-Semitism of the German government restricted Ellen’s life, but she still managed ...

The Heimer family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Heimer family from Vienna, Henry and Ralph Heimer’s immigration to the United States in 1938, their parents’ relocation to Brno and efforts to emigrate, and return trips to Austria and Czechoslovakia by one of the brothers in the late 1960s. Biographical materials include Henry Heimer’s bicycle ...

The collection contains affidavits, correspondence, reports, financial documents, and similar materials documenting the philanthropic activities of the children of late Sears, Roebuck and Company president Julius Rosenwald. Referred to as the “German Relatives Program,” their activities enabled numerous members of the Rosenwald and Nussbaum families, members of their extended relatives, and numerous ...

Hans Yakov Vogel (December 3, 1926-1943), was born in Cologne, Germany, the son of Simon (b. 1898) and Hannah Vogel (b.1898), and had a younger brother, Walter Joseph (August 1, 1929). Hans’ paternal grandfather, Jacob Yakov Vogel, was prominent in a Jewish congregation and worked in the chemical and steel trade, which both Simon and Hannah adopted as their professions. The family celebrated major ...

The collection contains prewar photographs of the family of Bronia Cimmerman Bronkesh in Sarny, Poland (Sarny, Ukraine), including the Cimmerman and Passman families; postwar photographs in the Neu-Freimann displaced persons camp; and a "Certificate in Lieu of Identity" issued to Elka Zimmerman by the American Consulate General in Munich, March 7, 1947.