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The Lehman family papers document the experience of Arthur Lehmann and his son, Richard, through their imprisonment at the Ferramonti concentration camp in southern Italy, and later as refugees in Fort Ontario. Included in the papers is Arthur’s handwritten memoir, entitled "Scenes of Life in Ferramonti." Another memoir, from Ruth Gruber, titled "I Went to the Soviet Arctic", is also in the papers. ...

The “History of Jewish Construction and Architectural Activity in Thessaloniki” is a project implemented by the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki with the help of the Municipality of Thessaloniki.

Fonds consists of: a scrapbook of photos and Second World War / Holocaust letters outlining the family history and deportations.

Ellen (Maexie) Regenstreif Illich (1901-1965) came from a family of converted Sephardic Jews who had settled in Germany. Her industrialist father, Fritz (Pucki) Regenstreif (1868-1941), had a lumber business in Bosnia where he owned a sawmill at Zavidovic and an Art Nouveau villa on the outskirts of Vienna in Pötzleinsdorf built by Friedrich Ohmann. Piero Ilic (1890-1942) came from a landed family ...

In 1961 the Union des déportés juifs de Belgique – Vereniging van Joodse Weggevoerden in België (UDJB) [Association of Jewish Deportees of Belgium], presided by Maurice Pioro, launched the idea for the creation of a national memorial dedicated to Jews from Belgium who perished during the Holocaust. As the Dossin barracks in Mechelen, where the former SS-Sammellager had been located, were still being ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...