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Mary Harriet Bixler (who went by "Harriet") was born on July 11, 1921, in Beirut, Syria [now Lebanon], to Dr. Julius and Mary (née Thayer) Bixler. Her father was the president of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and Harriet was born when he was teaching at the American University in Beirut. She graduated from Smith College in 1942. After training in secretarial work, Harriet applied for federal ...

Refugee girls living at a chateau owned by Count Hubert Conquere de Monbrison in Quincy-sous-Senart, located about 30 km south of Paris. De Monbrison and the Princess Irena Paley (a niece of the last Russian czar who later became Monbrison's wife) used the chateau to house refugee girls from the Russian and Spanish civil wars. In 1939 de Monbrison was approached by his children's Jewish physician, ...

Wool checked travel blanket given to 13 year old Mimi Alice Schleissner by her mother Berta to keep her warm when she left on the Kindertransport in May 1939. Mimi's parents Berta and Julius and her brother Edi, 18, stayed behind in Kolin, Czechoslovakia. Until October 1938, the family resided in the spa town Marienbad [now Marianske Lazne], in the Sudetenland region. It was annexed by Nazi Germany ...

<p>This collection comprises the personal papers of Ilse Shatkin, a former Jewish refugee from Vienna who emigrated to England on the Kindertransport in 1939. She lost her mother in the Holocaust.</p>Personal papers including a copy of her diary (1935-1947) together with a translation into English (from 1939), letters addressed to her father Armin Grünwald as well as birth certificate and certificate ...

<p>This collection contains a transcript of Albert Süsskind's report and related correspondence to the Australian High Commissioner of the UK on the conditions on board the HMT Dunera, on which internees and prisoners of war were transported to Hay internment camp in New South Wales, Australia, from England in 1940. Süsskind requested an investigation into the material damage and humiliating treatment ...

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Contains a newspaper clipping from the Streator Times Press, dated June 12, 1944. Headline reads: "Jews Still Being Killed by Germans." The article details President Roosevelt's comments to Congress with his submission of a report on caring for war refugees. "Knowing they have lost the war, the Nazis are determined to complete their program on mass extermination." He then details the work of the War ...

Copyright Holder: Mr. Yücel Güçlü

The index is available in the National Archives Database (NAD): https://sok.riksarkivet.se/arkiv/na2NeBUQrH6d0002H087k3 Carlsson, Carl Henrik. _Källor till judarnas historia i Sverige: arkivguide._ Skrifter utgivna av Riksarkivet 44. Täby: Riksarkivet, 2022. Hallberg, Lars. _Källor till invandringens historia i statliga myndigheters arkiv 1840--1990._ Skrifter utgivna av Riksarkivet 17. Stockholm: ...

Focuses on the activities of Hillel Kook, a Palestinian Jew who spent World War II in the USA, under the adopted name of Peter Bergson, trying to convince the USA and Britain that saving Jewish lives should be a war aim. After failing to persuade the Allies to establish a Jewish army, in 1943 Bergson founded the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, which used high visibility tactics ...