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The collection primarily documents the postwar experiences of Charlene Perlmutter Schiff, originally of Horochów, Wolyn Poland (Horokhiv, Ukraine), including her life in the Föhrenwald and Bensheim displaced persons camps (DP camps) and immigration to the United States in 1948. Included are documents, correspondence, and photographs. Documents include a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ...

National committees were established on the territory of Slovakia during the Second World War based on the decree of the President of the Republic no. 18/1944 of December 4, 1944. National committees have replaced the existing municipal councils in post-war Czechoslovakia. The National Committee of the city of Košice was responsible for administrating Košice between 19th January (the Soviet liberation ...

This body of documents holds the records of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites. Its elements with relevance to the history of antisemitism and the Holocaust range from 1939 to 1945 and include: documents regarding the organization’s responses to the anti-Jewish legislation, such as appeals and petitions written to the Hungarian governmental and legislative authorities; correspondence with ...

Records pertaining to Camp de la route de Limoges in Poitiers: information on accounting, general administration, and aid to the families of internees; files on individual internees; surveillance over internees’ arrivals, departures, and escapes; correspondence with the German authorities; files on Jewish business owners; files on non-Jewish aliens, Freemasons, and Roma and Sinti; Jewish population ...

Discusses the deportation of Jews from Belgium to concentration camps during World War II, focusing on a comparison with the procedures in France. In France the first deportations took place already in spring 1942, urged by the military authorities in Paris who wished that reprisals for the activities of the French resistance should occur in the East rather than in France. In Belgium, the authorities ...

This collection contains more than 19,000 photographs of Jewish deportees and Romanies living in Belgium and deported from Belgium and France to concentration and extermination camps in Eastern Europe.

P.1 - Archive of Recha Freier, the founder of Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1935-1951
 
 Recha Freier was born in Norden, in the northwestern part of Germany, in 1892. On completion of her University Language studies, she worked as a teacher and folklore researcher. In 1932 she conceived of the idea of organizing the sending of Jewish youth to Eretz Israel for education in the kibbutzim. She gathered ...

Contains correspondence, reports, notices, diplomatic memoranda, personal indexes, and other documents relating to the situation of the Jewish population in Europe between 1943 and 1946. The collection pertains to the activities of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the Holocaust and after World War II. Records include the following subjects: Jewish emigration matters; political and economic ...

Correspondence from Rachel Rottersman, a social worker who had worked with UNRRA at displaced persons camps in Germany following World War II, and Dr. Grace Cohen Grossman, curator at the Spertus Museum in Chicago, dating from 1979-1980. The correspondence largely deals with requests from Rottersman regarding research about a mass grave near Baumholder, Germany; efforts to recognize a Polish couple, ...

(LIB 6780) Displaced Russians, Ohrdruf, Germany, May 22, 1945. MSs, CUs, Russian soldiers, using US 2 1/2 ton trucks, transport Russian DPs from camp. CUs, individuals with bundles board trucks. LS, huge crowd waiting for transportation. (LIB 6781) Release of Prisoners of War, Plauen, Germany, May 21, 1945. MSs, German prisoners in front of administration building. Seq: Camera follows the complete ...