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Lillian Levy (1913-1986) served as Bureau Chief in Washington D.C. for the National Jewish Post and Opinion, the largest Jewish weekly in the United States. She wrote for the Jewish Post on a number of topics, including international affairs, civil rights, and other matters of Jewish interest. Levy was a member of the State Department Correspondents Association and the Women’s National Press Club. ...

This collection consists of the typescript transcripts (and editorial notes) of a series of letters from Moses Mendelssohn, the famous German Jewish writer and philospher, and his friend, Friedrich Nicholai,philosopher of the enlightenment.

There are files in the coolection which were selected from among the 60 records groups in the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine. Previously, the Central Archive was known as the Party Archive of the Institute for the History of the Communist Party in Ukraine (the Institute was a branch of the Tsentralny Komitet Komunisticheskoy Partiy Ukrainy [Ukrainian Institute of Marxism-Leninism ...

Portrait sketch of Kurt Singer saved by his daughter, Margot. It was drawn by Clara Asscher-Pinkhof in 1942 in Amsterdam when he lived there as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Singer was a neurologist and the Director of the Berlin Opera. Soon after the Nazis came to power in 1933, he lost his position at the Opera due to a law that ousted Jewish civil servants from public positions. In May, he co-founded ...

<p>Frank Steiner was born into a family of Jewish converts to Catholicism in 1922. His father, Richard Steiner (1878-1944), a high court judge, it is thought, had converted as a student for pragmatic reasons. Frank's mother, Paula, who came from an assimilated Jewish background, followed suit. Both Frank and his brother, Willi (1918-2003), were raised in the Catholic faith. Frank was able to come to ...

The collection documents the Holocaust era experiences of the Hafftka family of Częstochowa, Poland and the Jonisch family of Żarki, Poland. Included are photographs of Ola Hafftka (née Jonsich), her husband Aleksander Hafftka, and their daughter Sylvia Hafftka (now Sylvia Smoller), along with other family members. Also included are photographs of the Hie Maru, the ship that Ola, Aleksander, and Sylvia ...

M.37 - Documentation from the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine, 1941-1977&#x0D; &#x0D; There are files in the collection which were selected from among the 60 records groups in the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine. Previously, the Central Archive was known as the Party Archive of the Institute for the History of the Communist Party in Ukraine (the Institute ...

The fonds contains documents arising from the activities of the Čáslav District Office: official books, file material, accounting material, the associated agenda, and official documents. In individual handling periods, the following is relevant: citizenship, domicile, marital and registry matters, and religious matters. The trade agenda may also be relevant as trade issues from 1912-35 have been well ...

The district office was in operation in the years of 1850 - 1945. In 1850, the district governor's office was established in Kutná Hora with jurisdiction over the Kutná Hora and Čáslav judicial districts. From 1855 to 1868, there was the so-called mixed district office (judicial and political administration) there, the administration being carried out in that period only in the judicial district of ...

The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was an international relief agency representing 44 nations, but largely dominated by the United States. Founded in 1943, it became part of the United Nations (UN) in 1945, and it largely shut down operations in 1947. Its purpose was to "plan, co-ordinate, administer or arrange for the administration of measures for the relief of victims ...