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François Bondy was born in 1915, the son of Fritz Bondy, a Prague-born man of letters and of the theatre, who moved to Switzerland with his family on account of his wife's health. François became a journalist, was editor of a Parisian economics periodical in 1934 and member of the editorial team of a French political newspaper in 1935. He was interned in May 1940 in <em>Camp du Vernet</em> along ...

Contains copies of the Yiddish-language Displaced Persons camp newspaper "Der Najer Moment."

11:00:12 Refugees getting on board buses and trains, UNRRA officials help. Refugees waiting at the border at Nachod, a village on the Czech/Polish border. Reception center at Bratislava. 11:07:25 Jewish refugees leaving Europe for Palestine. Groups of DPs (Bricha Underground) crossing the Alps from Gnadenwald, Austria to Italy in February 1948. Many shots of walking up paths, climbing slopes, jumping ...

George Kadish, born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (1910- 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania ...

Titles in Cyrillic - Serbo-Croatian. Series of head shots, close, of corpses with names superimposed. HAS from airplane. Destruction, ruins in town. Croatian man. Homes. Group of villagers (men) marching, soldiers guarding them. Pan up, gate with "Radna Sluzba Ustaske Obrane Sabirni Logor Br. III" German sign: "Arbeitslager..." Prisoners, soldier with rifles, walking barefoot to perform labor, horse/carts, ...

The papers consist of two manuscripts written by Bronka Grynglas Rezak [donor] for her grandsons, Avi and Ronnen Gruber, and a newspaper article. In the manuscript, titled "The History of our family," she describes the history of her family in Poland before World War II, their experiences in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and various concentration camps during World War II, and their immigration to ...

Group of black and white photographs: 26 mounted on two album pages and 2 loose photographs. Three photo reproductions from newspapers. Photographic prints: two pages, possibly removed from photograph album, bearing 26 captioned images, post-liberation in concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald, taken by Pierre Jean Louis Masson (donor's father) who was part of Red Cross (in France) attached to American ...

Béla Zsolt (born as Béla Steiner, January 8, 1895-February 6, 1949) was a Hungarian radical socialist journalist and politician, novelist, poet, and journalist. Zsolt, who was born at Komárom, joined the editorial board of the radical Budapest newspaper Világ in 1921 and later worked for Magyar Hírlap and, from 1933, for Újság. In addition, he was editor in chief of the radical weekly A Toll. In his ...

Handmade, Latvian, wooden turntable with an inlaid windmill scene created in Kleinkötz Displaced Persons (DP) Camp at Günzburg in the American Zone of Germany between 1945 and 1951. Latvia had a long tradition of woodworking, and many skilled artisans lived in DP camps following the end of World War II (1939-1945), where they made some additional income from the sale of pieces and trained others. ...

Contains photographs taken in the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after liberation; Overseas Service Certificates issued by American National Red Cross to William Swannie; newspaper page with an article entitled “The Nazis Sent Me to a Concentration Camp,” with the testimony of an Austrian refugee, published in The Sunday Oregonian, May 21, 1939.

Testimonies and reports written by Jewish and non-Jewish inmates from the Netherlands, most of them political prisoners, regarding prisons and concentration camps, 1933-1945&#x0D; &#x0D; Lists of people from the Netherlands who perished in camps, and a report regarding the persecution of Jews by the Amsterdam Police, 1939-1945;&#x0D; &#x0D; Correspondence of the Netherlands Tracing Mission, 1945-1948;&#x0D; ...

Collection of documents of Dutch inmates in German camps outside the Netherlands, 1933-1945, including documentation of the Red Cross, until 1950&#x0D; &#x0D; Included in the collection:&#x0D; &#x0D; Lists of survivors and lists of inmates who perished in Dachau, Mauthausen, Gross Rosen, Theresienstadt and Natzweiler camps during 1940-1945;&#x0D; &#x0D; Testimonies of Dutch survivors, regarding their ...