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The Karmann family papers relate to the experience of the Karmann family aboard the MS St. Louis. The papers contain Cuban immigration cards for Richard Karmann, Sidonie Karmann, and Annemarie Karmman, as well as correspondence and passenger notifications written on Hamburg-Amerika Line stationery regarding the ongoing negotiations about the ships destination after being denied entry to Cuba. Handwritten ...

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 ...

Robert William Krob and his identical twin brother, Norbert, were born on February 19, 1919, in Ely, Iowa. Robert graduated from Ely High School and then went to work in the family business, operating grain elevators in Iowa. He married Verona Chalupnik on June 10, 1941. After being drafted into the United States Army on October 24, 1942, he was selected to attend the Infantry Officers Candidate School ...

Rubin Kaplan (1912-2003) was born on October 11, 1912 in Zaluze, Belorussia, to Nakhman Kaplan and Yenta Kaplan (née Berman). He had five younger siblings: Sima Kaplan, Yocheved Kaplan, Meir Kaplan, Chaim Kaplan, and Gitle Kaplan. There were only eleven Jewish families in Zaluze. His father traded in cattle and his mother ran a small grocery store. Rubin Kaplan married before the start of World War ...

Title: Staatsrat Spaniol besichtigt nach der Rede in einer Grosskundgebung Bruchsals Kleintierzucht, 28 Februar 1940 [Councilor Spaniol visits the small animal breeding facility after a speech at a rally in Bruchsal, February 28, 1940]. Spaniol inspects the farm and one of the rabbits. 01:18:16 Title: Mit Flugblaettern glaubten die Franzosen den Krieg zu gewinnen November, 1939 [The French believed ...

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 ...