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Wiktor Poznanski was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland on November 1, 1912. He graduated from the Uniwersytet Warszawski Wydział Prawa in 1935. Wiktor was imprisoned in Mauthausen concentration camp during the Holocaust.

Also about the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Jewish Agency. X, 429 p. ; 24 cm.

Contains correspondence and documents relating to the donor's father's internment in Camp Gurs and Les Milles: drawings made by Gurs inmates in 1939; documentation of attempts to obtain visas; photographs taken by donor's husband while in Germany with the U.S. Army, some from Dachau taken two days after liberation; documents from the Red Cross International Tracing Service concerning the donor's mother's ...

Timely and controversial, A Bed for the Night reveals how humanitarian organizations trying to bring relief in an ever more violent and dangerous world are often betrayed and misused, and have increasingly lost sight of their purpose. Humanitarian relief workers, writes David Rieff, are the last of the just. And in the Bosnias, the Rwandas, and the Afghanistans of this world, humanitarianism remains ...

Dr. Abraham T. Banen (1909-2014) served with the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II, likely with the 551st Engineer Heavy Ponton Battalion. Banen grew up in Minnesota, majored in German at the University of Wisconsin, and studied dentistry at the University of Minnesota. Banen enlisted in the Army and landed in Normandy with his infantry battalion in July 1944. In March 1945, the 551st Battalion ...

The Drancy File conserved at the ICRC is a census of the Jewish deportees from France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Greece, and Turkey, who were arrested by the Vichy Government on French territory and who transited the camp in Drancy between February 1942 and March 1943. The File was conveyed to the International Committee ...

Includes bibliographical references and index. 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Hedy Epstein (née Wachenheimer, 1924-2016) was born in Freiburg, Germany to a Jewish family. She fled to England on a Kindertransport in 1939 where she remained for the duration of the war. Her parents were interned in the French Nazi concentration camps of Les Milles and Rivesaltes. After the Holocaust, she worked as a research analyst for the American military during the International Military Tribunal ...

Ottó Komoly (Hebrew name: Natan-Zeev Kahan) was born in Budapest in 1892; by profession he was an engineer. In 1940 he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség, and in 1941, he was elected as its Chairman. In 1943, the Budapesti Mentőbizottság (Budapest Relief and Rescue Committee) was established in Budapest and Komoly served as its chairman. In this capacity, he was involved with ...

<p>This collection consists of the personal correspondence of Lotte Oppenheim regarding the tracing of her mother, Berta Fraustaedter, after the Second World War.&nbsp;Berta Fraustaedter was a Holocaust survivor of Theresienstadt concentration camp.</p>Included are correspondence with the Jewish Refugee Committee, the International Committee of the Red Cross and friends regarding arrangements for her ...