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Diary of William Guy Rosenthal used while fighting overseas, prior to his death in July 1943. Book of European postcards sent to the family via Scotland by W. G. Rosenthal. Newsclippings of death notice, Yiddish. Newsclippings of letters to the editor written by W.G. in Yiddish, published 1943. Fragile Canadian naturalization certificate of W.G. and donor's paternal grandfather, 1913. Photograph of ...

Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: until the attack on Pearl Harbor, the nation was deeply, dangerously divided. In Hitler's American Friends, Bradley W. Hart uncovers the homegrown groups who sought to protect and promote Hitler, leave Europeans (and especially European Jews) to fend for themselves, ...

The first record of Vsetín dates from 1308. The town was managed by the municipal council headed by the mayor. After 1949, the administration of the municipality was performed by an elected body - the municipal committee headed by the mayor. During the Nazi occupation, the town was headed by the government commissioner. In 1945, the municipal office of the town was abolished and the local national ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_01014 at Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

John Stanley Grauel (1917-1986) was born in Worcester, MA, and graduated from a theological seminary in Maine in 1941 as a Methodist Minister. He joined the Christian Council of Palestine (later the American Christian Palestine Committee) in 1942, and in 1944 he joined the Haganah’s efforts to smuggled European Jews into Palestine. He was included in the mission of the Exodus 1947, a former naval vessel, ...

"A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists, The Diary Keepers illuminates a ...

This collection contains prewar, wartime and postwar parts of the administrative archive of the Jesode Hatora and Beth Jacob school in Antwerp. KD_00037_0001 : General documents regarding expenses and teaching staff, letters with blessings by Isaac Herzog, chief rabbi of Israel, and Eliezer Silver, rabbi of Ohio, promotional leaflets, speeches and magazines of the parent association and the pupils. ...

<p>This collection consists of the papers of the Toch and Korn families, Jewish refugees from Vienna. Whilst the children Erika and Harry Toch emigrated to England and Palestine, respectively to flee Nazi persecution, their parents Wilhelm and Margarethe Toch were deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp from where only their mother returned. Erika got married to Polish refugee, Salman Korn, in ...

Reel 3A of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). COLOR. Scenes taken from an airplane. Woman with two young children. Gen. Joseph (Sepp) Dietrich, Chief of Waffen SS, CUs on terrace reading documents, playing with Albert Speer's children, holding little girl on lap. Eva with members of family. Scenes of a town. B/W. People conversing possibly on a moving train, including ...

The Jewish Relief Unit was the operational arm of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad, which was formed in 1943 by the Joint Foreign Committee of the Board of Deputies and the Anglo-Jewish Association and under the auspices and financial responsibility of the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation. The Archive consists of 28 folders in 6 boxes. Each Folder contains up to (a maximum ...