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Pp. 11-22 survey the history of Jews in Salonika from the ancient period to the 20th century. Pp. 23-39 discuss the Nazi period. Between April 1941-October 1944 Salonika was occupied by the German army. Anti-Jewish measures against the 49,000 local Jews began with arrests of Jewish notables, confiscation of apartments and the Jewish hospital, and the closing of the three Jewish newspapers. In April-May ...

David Mellows was secretary of the Association of Jewish Youth and subsequently secretary of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Bevis Marks.

Contains 4689 administrative duplicates of police identification cards, called Kennkarten, issued to German Jews in the period c. 1939 – c. 1942 from several municipalities in Germany, including substantial numbers of cards from Mainz (Stadt & Land), Frankfurt A.M., Geissen, Darmstadt (Stadt & Land) and Worms.

This collection contains information about David Diamant (David Erlich), a Communist who remained in Paris during World War II, took part in the Resistance, and after the war worked with the UJRE helping Jewish refugees from Poland. It includes documents concerning Jewish immigrants in the Communist Party; documents of Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War; the final letters of Jewish resistance ...

Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche. iii, 165 pages ; 24 cm

The collection includes a photocopy of G6ring's directive establishing headquarters in German-occupied territories for the confiscation of valuables from Jewish and Masonic organizations, Rosenberg's orders establishing the Task Force and laying out its objectives, as well as memoranda and correspondence of the ERR special headquarters in the Ukraine and Croatia. The collection further includes logs ...

In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu tells the story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary ...

Contains records about victims, crimes against persons, and perpetrators as well as information about damage and material losses to personal and government properties ( houses, clubs, theatres, museums, libraries etc), industry and agriculture, caused by the occupation. Including name lists of victims, evacuees, protocols of interrogations of eyewitnesses by local members of the Extraordinary Commission, ...

O.70 - Josef Rosensaft Bergen-Berlsen DP Camp Archives
 
 Bergen-Belsen was liberated by the British Army, 15 April 1945. There were approximately 58,000 survivors at the time of the liberation, of whom approximately 28,000 died from disease and starvation during the first weeks after the liberation. A Displaced Persons (DP) camp was established in Bergen-Belsen and the survivors immediately ...

Documentation of the office of the governor of the Stanislawow region, 1925-1939
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 - Budgets and lists of taxpayers in the Jewish communities in Chocimierz, Wonjilow and Peczenizyn;
 - Information regarding internal matters of the Jewish communities in Kuty, Kolomyja, Peczenizyn and Nadworna;
 - Documentation of communities in the Stanislawow ...

Documentation from the Allgemeines Krankenhaus (General Hospital) in Barmbeck (a suburb of Hamburg)
 
 The General Hospital in Barmbeck started to be partially active in November 1913, and it opened completely in August 1914 with a capacity of 2,400 beds. The hospital was a part of the system of regional hospitals of Hamburg State. For several years during World War II, the hospital was subjugated ...

Forbidden for Jews sign in Dutch, displayed in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940 to May 1945. These signs were used to indicate the ban of Jews from public spaces such as, swimming pools, libraries, and markets. They became widespread throughout Amsterdam in 1941. Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, and the Dutch surrendered five days later. Prior ...