Weesperstraat 107 1018 VN Amsterdam
Contains documents and photographs pertaining to Winifred Levin's role as secretary of the World Jewish Congress in London during World War II. Includes information about efforts to assist Jews affected by the Holocaust.
Collection includes writings by Rabbi Joseph Freudenthal of Worms, Germany, and documents relating to the Freudenthal family and their relatives during the Holocaust in Bergen Belsen, Theresienstadt, Izbica, and Amsterdam.
The Ralph Jaffe papers consist of letters and envelopes sent to Ralph Jaffe in Brooklyn, New York, from his brother Del J. Smuklezyte in the ghetto in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, Also included are letters written by Ralph Jaffe to his father, Leib Jaffe who was residing in Lithuania.
Contains sixteen original certificates including a false Aryan identification card, birth and police registrations, displaced persons papers, INS green cards, one copy of daughter's birth certificate, eighty-one black and white photographs of pre-war and wartime life and of the Lampertheim Displaced Persons camp, and three pieces of Displaced Persons camp scrip.
The papers consist of photographs and a magazine relating to the Ruth Rintel's family in the time period of the Holocaust. The magazine, "Heute" - July 15, 1946, has a black and white photograph of Ruth Rintel as a child on the cover with the caption "Judisches Kind in Landsberg."
The papers consist of a camera permit, a document recognizing honorable discharge from the United States Army, a discharge certificate, and a Separation Qualification Record. All of the materials were issued to Orville Barlow [donor's grandfather] who served in the United States Army during World War II.
The papers consist of letters, Red Cross forms, an American naturalization certificate, and an autograph album relating to the experiences of the Friedman family, their flight from Salzburg, Austria, to Switzerland, France, and Portugal, and their eventual immigration to the United States in 1941.
The papers consist of a service record booklet for the German military and a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Kurt Stern donor's father, a Reisepass issued to Hilde Metzger [donor's mother], and one school diploma issued to Kurt Stern in Germany in 1927.
The papers consist of a Polish passport with a visa allowing residence in Canada for the duration of World War II issued by the Polish embassy in Japan to Lidia Barbara Fruchs [donor] and a permit allowing temporary residence in Japan issued to Lidia Barbara Fruchs.
The papers consist of 14 photographs of members of Anna Sorotzkin's family who were deported to concentration camps and ghettos and two postcards written by her father, Paul Weisz, to her and her mother, Lilly Weisz, while they were in the ghetto in Budapest, Hungary.