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This collection includes bylaws, minutes of the meetings of the Executive Committee and its subcommittees, reports and statistical information, correspondence with Polish government offices and agencies, Jewish organizations (Joint, Jewish Colonization Society, Central offices of the Jewish communities in Warsaw), commercial shipping companies regarding transportation for immigrants leaving for Argentina, ...

Contains a variety of records of the Soviet governmental and Communist Party regional administration on Jewish communities of the Vinnytsia region. Included are statistical information, family lists, documents about schools and reading rooms, the promotion of literacy and vocational training, bylaws of Jewish religious communities, files on Jews who appealed for the reinstatement of their electoral ...

Adolf Heidemann (born 1887 in Osterholz) was the youngest of three sons of the Jewish couple David and Dina Heidemann (née Herzberg). He worked as an apprentice at Silberstein, a small private bank in Halberstadt. Adolf married Therese Senior from Halberstadt in 1919. They had their only daughter Ruth in 1920. In 1922 Adolf Heidemann obtained a job as manager of the Hamburger Handelsbank in Stade and ...

Exhumation of victims of the NKVD in Brygidki prison in Lviv in the summer of 1941. Laying out the bodies of officers and soldiers. Crowd gathered around bodies. (VQ, very soft, dark) Women poking at bodies which are being laid out in the courtyard, sweeping them clean? Woman running after and beating a man in the crowd. Soldiers pull her back and comfort her. Woman keening. A Ukrainian militiaman, ...

Deals with the problem of commemoration, and stresses the importance of compiling a list of names of all Austrian Jewish victims of the Holocaust. States that in 1934, 191,458 Jews were registered in the country, most of them in Vienna. As a consequence of the pogrom-like acts which preceded the German invasion, between March 1938-May 1939 ca. 90,000 Jews chose to emigrate in order to escape. By the ...

Rudolf Abraham was born in 1908 in Durboslar, Germany, to Marcus and Bertha Kaufmann Abraham. Marcus owned a successful butcher shop. In 1933, the Nazi regime came to power in Germany. Jewish businesses were boycotted and anti-Jewish legislation was passed to persecute the Jewish populace. Some family members were able to flee the country, but Rudolf was unable to obtain a visa. During the Kristallnacht ...

Broadcast on TV on July 18, 1960 including fragments from "Night and Fog" (1956), this film opens with Dr. Gisela Perl, a survivor of the Holocaust. It shows an interview with Dr. Perl and other survivors, including Sonia Weissman (the donor's wife and a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto), Janus T (a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising), and Mr. Friedman (a survivor of Treblinka). Dr. Perl speaks of ...

This collection consists of 1,350 files containing questionnaires with families of Jewish victims of the Pogrom of Iaşi, death certificates, interviews with survivors, hospital release forms, Jews in forced labor in the Iasi area, birth certificates and other family records.

Booklet filled with 216 canceled Republic of China postage stamps that belonged to Rudolf Abraham. After the Nazi regime took power in Germany in 1933, laws were passed to persecute the Jewish population. The family butcher shop struggled when Jewish businesses were boycotted and Jews were forbidden from practicing certain trades. Rudolf was arrested during Kristallnacht in November 1938. His family ...

<p>This collection contains the personal correspondence and papers of Hans Schmoller.</p><p>Papers containing correspondence from Hans Peter Schmoller to his parents, Hans Israel and Marie Schmoller (1690/1) and other family members and friends, ranging from the time of his studies in London in the early 1930s to his emigration to Morija, Basutoland (now Lesotho) in 1938 and subsequent internment in ...

A linguistic and philosophical study of how the fantasy of a definitive disappearance of the Jews, which actually culminated in the Shoah, spread in Europe from the 1850s on. Examines the process through which "minimum antisemitism" progressed as a technique of acclimatization to a persistant rumor hinting (from the Kishinev pogrom on) at the idea of a world without Jews. The history of the swastika ...