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Ruth von Wild (1912 -1983) was a Swiss teacher who dedicated her life to the care of refugee children. Ruth von Wild grew up in Barcelona as a Swiss citizen abroad. Her parents were from Glockenthal in the canton of Bern. She graduated from the University of Neuchâtel, and taught from 1933 to 1936 at the Swiss School in Barcelona. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War the school was closed and ...

The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was an international relief agency representing 44 nations, but largely dominated by the United States. Founded in 1943, it became part of the United Nations (UN) in 1945, and it largely shut down operations in 1947. Its purpose was to "plan, co-ordinate, administer or arrange for the administration of measures for the relief of victims ...

Speculum used by Dr. Bruno Lambert, who immigrated to the United States from Nazi Germany in 1938, and served in the United States Army Medical Corps during the war. Bruno attended medical school in Germany from 1932-1937, but was not allowed to receive a diploma as a Jew under the Nazi regime. He transferred to a university in Switzerland, and earned a Doctorate of Medicine in July 1938. With the ...

Kurt Bigler, born Kurt Wolf, a son of Marta [Martha] Wolf (1925-2007) was a German-Swiss pedagogue. In 1928 was adopted by Joseph Bergheimer, merchant, and Emilie, b. Bloch; in 1950 adopted by Berta Bigler, a teacher. 1932-1940 attended to the primary school and later the Jewish school in Mannheim. In 1940 he was deported to the internment camp Gurs; in 1941 to the internment camp Rivesaltes. In October ...

Unbewältigte Bilder: Eine Einfuhrung. - 1930er / 40er Jahre: Die nationalsozialistische Bildpolitik; WHY WE FIGHT!: Antifaschistische Gegenbilder; Deutschland nach dem Krieg: Das Projekt der Reeducation; Die alliierte Filmpolitik; Personelle Kontinuitaten: Die gescheiterte Entnazifizierung der Filmbranche; Neubeginn im Nachkriegsfilm: Das deutsche Trummerkino; Ausnahmefilme: Erste Narrative der Verfolgung; ...

Herdenkingspenning betreffende de uitzending van Amsterdamse kinderen naar pleegouders in Friesland. Afkomstig uit de nalatenschap van Herman Jan Rijks (Renkum, 2 januari 1900 – 1 maart 1969). Verzetsdeelnemer. A. Zilveren/verzilverde ronde penning, met op de voorzijde de tekst: “Aan de Friesche Pleegouders”, en afbeelding van een bos bloemen met aan weerszijden een wapenschild: links het wapenschild ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Die Bestände der Kriegswirtschaftsorganisationen des I. Weltkrieges waren in den Jahren 1943 und 1944 zunächst auswahlweise nach Staßfurt und dann unter Einbeziehung der gesamten zunächst zurückgelassenen Bestände und Bestandsteile nach Schönebeck ausgelagert worden. Im Zuge der Nachkriegsereignisse gelangten sie in das Deutsche Zentralarchiv, Abt. ...

The Israelite Community of Kreuzlingen, since 1965 Jewish Community of Kreuzlingen (Jüdische Gemeinde Kreuzlingen), was founded on 23 August 1939. In the spring of 1938, 91 Jewish adults with 17 children were counted in 43 households in Kreuzlingen. In 1939 the number of Jewish inhabitants rose to about 130 persons. There was a prayer room, a religious school and a cemetery. A rabbi or a Jewish teacher/ ...

The collection primarily documents the wartime experiences of Aaron Finger, originally of Toronto, Canada, who trained at Camp Ritchie and was in Germany from 1945-1946. Included is an identification card, letter of commendation, a small amount of correspondence, photographs, and a photograph album. Also included are a small amount of documents and photographs related to the family of his wife, Henrietta ...

The Fritz Rosenthal Family papers measure 0.5 linear foot and date from 1900-1995. The collection contains biographical materials, correspondence files, photographic materials, and professional records documenting major life events of Rosenthal family members, the immigration of Fritz, his wife Marty, and his father Karl Rosenthal to America, the lives of the Rosenthals in the United States, and Fritz ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bei den vom Zentralarchiv des FDGB in der Historischen Abteilung zusammengefassten Beständen handelt es sich um Restbestände verschiedener Provenienzen, die zu den seit 1935 im Zentralarchiv der Deutschen Arbeitsfront zusammengeführten Unterlagen gehörten. Die durch kriegsbedingte Verluste stark reduzierten Bestände wurden 1945/1946 dem FDGB übergeben. In der Folgezeit ...