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The collection consists of cancelled envelopes relating to the experiences of Laura Goldberger in Vienna, Austria, and Vilma Gingold in the United States, and scrip relating to the experiences of Julius Gingold in Sonneberg-West labor camp in Germany during the Holocaust.

This collection documents JDC's global overseas operations in over 70 countries and regions in the immediate post-World War II (WWII) period from 1945 - 1954. These records testify to the complex and multi-faceted nature of JDC's worldwide rescue, relief, and rehabilitation initiatives from its headquarters in New York, which primarily focused upon: resettling and sustaining Jewish refugees and Holocaust ...

Presents German versions of the reports by Jerzy Tabeau, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, and Czesław Mordowicz and Arnošt Rosin. The editor's introduction, "Auschwitz: Kannte die Welt schon während des Krieges die Wahrheit über das Lager?" (pp. 7-103), gives brief biographies of the men and describes their experiences in Auschwitz; their places of work and contacts which allowed them to acquire a broad ...

Consists of a large portrait, taken in the 1920s, of a young man (possibly her brother) and older woman who were family members of Malka Finkelstein, originally of Warsaw, Poland. Also includes a post-war photograph of Ida Flint, the daughter of Malka Finkelstein and Mendel Flint, with her father at the Hallerin displaced persons camp in post-war Austria.

The Tadek Korn papers include photographs, clippings, and a biographical statement by violinist Perec Brand that were formerly housed in an album and scrapbook. Photographs from the album primarily depict Tadek Korn, his family, and other displaced persons at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp between 1945 and 1948. Additional photographs from the album depict the Korn family in America and on vacation ...

Emphasizes the relevance of the Holocaust for the contemporary world, and the responsibility of the West, especially of the British government, for allowing Germany to build up its military strength and carry out aggressive policies which made the extermination of the Jews possible. Describes the "Final Solution" from 1942 on, and how Jewish refugees were prevented from reaching Palestine and bombing ...

The Jews in District Soroca; lists of Jews who were active in various Bolshevik organizations (on 11 August, 1941 all Jews were evacuated to a camp. Only 51 Jews, men and women, were left in town working for the Germans and under their control); nominal lists of Jews for year 1941 in Soroca: in the camps, working for the Germans, by occupation etc. Interrogation of Jews suspected of collaboration with ...

<p>In the early 1950s Karl Wittig was a key witness in the trial of Otto John, former head of the West German office for the protection of the constitution, who was found guilty of spying for the communists as a result of Wittig's evidence.<br /></p><p>It seems that latter day accounts of the Otto John trial have sought to cast him in a more favourable light and have focussed on his anti-Nazi credentials ...

Contains information about the Baltimore Emergency Committee post-World War II claims of former European Jews living in the Baltimore area who sought restitution from the government of West Germany and some of its courts for losses suffered during the Nazi regime and who served as court witnesses to Nazi atrocities, especially in Poland. Also included is information about war crimes, war criminals, ...

In 1963, West Germany was gripped by a dramatic trial of former guards who had worked at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. It was the largest and most public trial to take place in the country and attracted international attention. Using the pretrial files and trial audiotapes, Rebecca Wittmann offers a reinterpretation of Germany's first major attempt to confront its past. --from publisher description. ...