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Congress mandated the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to lead the nation in annual civic commemorations of the victims of the Holocaust, called Days of Remembrance. The Days of Remembrance give us all an oppotunity to advance the Museum's primary mission to inform Americans about this unprecedented tragedy, to commemorate those who suffered, and to inspire visitors to contemplate the moral ...

Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was born to Jewish parents, Solomon and Eugenia Szyk in Łódź, Poland, which at the time was part of the Russian Empire. He had his first public art exhibition at age 15, and then went to Paris, France, for formal art training at the Academie Julian. He visited Palestine in 1914 with a group of Polish-Jewish artists and studied Muslim art. Upon his return, he was conscripted ...

Ce fonds contient principalement de la correspondance échangée entre le Consistoire et des institutions étrangères, organisations basées à l’étranger ou individus résidant à l’étranger. En plus de correspondance, on trouvera des photographies, des rapports, des coupures de presse, des allocutions, des notes et des dépliants. Plus précisément on notera des documents relatifs aux thématiques et organisations ...

Collection of letters and postcards found within the pages of books from the Gerhart Riegner library, which was bequeathed to the Wiener Library in 2002.

The various series of the Bund Archives contain interesting material on Bundism and the Jewish workers movement in Belgium. Due to the structure of this fonds, we are forced to describe relevant files according to the folder list they are mentioned in. From folder list “MG 2”, we firstly note several files on the First World Conference of the Bund, held in Brussels (1947) – see folders nr. 6 (notes, ...

This Record Group contains documentation from Dr. Eliezer Yerushalmi's archives including a diary, memoirs and Dr. Eliezer Yerushalmi's published writings on the Siauliai Ghetto as well as the testimony of his widow, Sara Yerushalmi.

Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was born to Jewish parents, Solomon and Eugenia Szyk in Łódź, Poland, which at the time was part of the Russian Empire. He had his first public art exhibition at age 15, and then went to Paris, France, for formal art training at the Academie Julian. He visited Palestine in 1914 with a group of Polish-Jewish artists and studied Muslim art. Upon his return, he was conscripted ...

The banker, Philip Sydney Vecht (1899-1968) along with his wife, Hettie (nee Bienenzucht) and their two children, Romeo and Rosette, escaped the Holocaust by virtue of their British nationality despite being orthodox Jews in occupied Belgium. Philip’s father, Aaron Vecht (1855-1908), born into the Sephardic community in the Netherlands, had been a successful entrepreneur in the meat processing industry. ...

Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was born to Jewish parents, Solomon and Eugenia Szyk in Łódź, Poland, which at the time was part of the Russian Empire. He had his first public art exhibition at age 15, and then went to Paris, France, for formal art training at the Academie Julian. He visited Palestine in 1914 with a group of Polish-Jewish artists and studied Muslim art. Upon his return, he was conscripted ...

This collection of copy correspondence is concerned with the question of the first dissemination of information about the Holocaust. In particular the correspondence between historians and protagonists addresses Martin Gilbert's assertion that the first news of the Final Solution came via Chaim Pazner, worker in the Palestine Office in Geneva during the war. Correspondence from Dr S. Scheps, former ...