The papers consist of three letters written by Susi Cohn (later Susi Cohn Podgurski) in the United Kingdom to Heinz-Egon Glass in Shanghai. The letters describe school, her life in England, and asks Mr. Glass to tell her parents not to worry about her.

The Veres family (excluding Kati's father Bela Krausz) survived the Holocaust by living in hiding. Peter (b. October 23, 1938), the oldest son of Kati and George Veres, was born and baptized as an Anglican in London. As a British citizen, he was protected by the Swiss Embassy. Kati and George arranged for two Swiss women to hide six year old Peter for several weeks during the invasion of Budapest in ...

Copyright Holder: Instytut Polski i Muzeum im. Gen. Sikorskiego w Londynie

National War naval ensign with a swastika and a cross on a red field, obtained by an American soldier during his service in Germany in 1945. This type of flag was used aboard German warships from November 7, 1935 - May 8, 1945. The US soldier who brought the flag home landed at Utah Beach during the D-Day invasion in June 1944, and helped liberate and secure the city of Paris, France in late August. ...

TIJMEN VAN VEEN Tijdens de razzia zag Tijmen de V2's naar Londen overvliegen. Hij heeft aan een nicht van zijn vrouw zijn verlovingsring mee kunnen geven terwijl andere vrouwen hysterisch met de colonne mee liepen. Op het IJsselmeer schoot een soldaat op een overvliegend vliegtuig en kreeg op zijn kop van de officier. Tijmen werd tewerkgesteld bij de spoorwegen, waar hij gebombardeerde treinen weer ...

<p>This collection contains material relating to German-born biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Ernst Chain and his wife Anne Beloff-Chain.</p>Personal papers including press cuttings, announcements and an invitation to a family event, programmes for the scientific colloquium at Hoechst AG and anniversary of the births of Paul Ehrlich and Emil von Behring in 1954, and 'Formeln und Tafeln zum Preisvortrag ...

The collection documents the prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences of Arthur Hecht and his family, who primarily lived in Hörstein, Germany prior to WWII. Documents include birth and death certificates, a naturalization certificate, military discharge papers, a track award, and a 1946 clipping documenting Arthur’s reunification with his parents after their immigration to the United States. Original ...

Description of the files are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room

Papers of Nathan Laski (1863-1941): certificate of Grand Lodge of England, 1889; naturalisation certificate, 1901, letters, press cuttings and photographs, sermons and memorial services, a menu and the citation for his honorary degree at Manchester University, 1933; papers, 1887- 1950. Papers of Sarah Laski: letters, invitations, press cuttings, memorial orders of service and a funeral address, election ...

This collection contains one photograph and three photocopied documents : picture of Fanny Biber and her husband Abraham Max Lipschutz wearing the yellow badge ; a "Schutzbrief" from the Swiss embassy in Berlin certifying Fanny Biber's British nationality ; a displaced person card ; a declaration from the staff at the Vittel camp proving that Fanny Biber received the certificate from the Suisse em ...

<div>Hans Hartmut Weil (1918-1957) was born in Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland Palatinate. His father, a secular Jew, Maximillian David Weil, was the manager of a leather goods factory and a town councillor. His mother, Dorothee Elisabeth Weil née Taubert came from a Protestant Prussian family. The parents met during World War One when his father was an officer and his mother was matron in charge of a field ...

Josef Fǐsera was active in the Czech organization "Relief Committee for Republican Spain," which sent fully equipped hospitals with doctors and nurses to help those fighting against Franco during the Spanish Civil War. Fišera volunteered in Spain for several months and traveled about Czechoslovakia and other countries raising support for Republican Spain. After the 1938 Munich Pact, the Czech government ...

The Veres family (excluding Kati's father Bela Krausz) survived the Holocaust by living in hiding. Peter (b. October 23, 1938), the oldest son of Kati and George Veres, was born and baptized as an Anglican in London. As a British citizen, he was protected by the Swiss Embassy. Kati and George arranged for two Swiss women to hide six year old Peter for several weeks during the invasion of Budapest in ...

The documents in this fonds are either the specific products of Carl Requette's activity as liquidator or copies and original documents collected by him to serve as debt instruments or documentation. They come from the archives of the Belgian Commission for Repatriation (C.B.R.) as well as files transmitted by the Ministry of Public Health concerning Minister Marteaux's "hospital re-equipment" operation. ...

<div>Rolf Daniel Otto Falksohn was born in Berlin in 1925 to Albert Falksohn (1892-1943) and Erna Falksohn (b. Brunke) (1893-1965). He had a sister Tutta aka Lydia (1915-1992), who had emigrated to Palestine in 1934 and a half-brother, Kurt (1910-c1960).</div><div><br /></div><div>Rolf's family on his father's side came from a German speaking Jewish community in Courland, Latvia. Rolf's mother, Erna, ...

Beate Rocker (nicknamed Deta) was born Beate Goldfeld on 7 November 1924 in Vienna, Austria to Israel and Dora Goldfeld. Her father Israel owned a sweater factory in Vienna. Her mother Dora (née Heitner, 1883-1942) was born in Novosolitza, Romania (Novoselytsia, Ukraine). Beate had one brother, Albert (later Albert Goldfield, 1914-2005), who was born on 26 April 1914 in Novosolitza. Beate left Vienna ...

Collection consists of materials relating to Warsaw, Poland, in the Second World War era. Records include correspondence from Komar's family living in the Warsaw ghetto, documents showing a German leaflet dropped on Warsaw in 1938 and accompanying translations and commentary by the donor. Collection has been arranged into two series: German leaflet dropped from planes ([1939?], 1990) and Letters from ...

William A. Davis (1908-1999) served with the U.S.A. Medical Corps and was appointed to the United States of America Typhus Commission established by President Roosevelt’s executive order. He arrived in London in October 1944, was attached to the British 21st Army Group, and worked in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark. In April 1945 he was ordered to report to the Deputy Director ...

Hans Finke was born on August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany. His father, Julius Finke (1882-1943), was a merchant from Petrzkowitz, Poland (Pietrzkowice, Poland); his mother died when he was an infant. His father married Ella in 1922. Hans’s half-sister, Ursula, was born on June 30, 1923. They were not a strictly observant Jewish family though they attended a liberal synagogue and participated in the ...

The collection consists of photographs depicting Cecile Rojer Jeruchim's experiences as a hidden child in Belgium during the Holocaust. Included are depictions of Cecile, her siblings Anny and Charles, and parents Abraham and Geshewa before World War II, the children's home of "Hirondelles," a meeting with Sister Clotilde in 1946, and post-war trips to London, England, and Rochefort, France.

Vera (nee Pick) Gara (b. May 1, 1933, Vienna, Austria) is the only child of Hungarian parents Irma and Moric Pick. Vera’s parents both worked in a salami factory in Vienna owned by her father. The Pick family fled Austria in 1938 or 1939, after Vera’s father was arrested on false charges of fraud, and moved into Vera’s grandmother’s bungalow apartment in Szeged, Hungary. The family owned a radio which ...

Jan Karski tells of his capture and torture by the Gestapo when he was a courier for the Polish underground. He also describes his clandestine visit to the Warsaw ghetto and his meeting with Szmul Zygielbojm, six months before Zygelbojm's suicide. See pages 491 - 494 of the English translation of Lanzmann's memoir The Patagonian Hare (March 2012) for a description of his interactions with Karski after ...

The Jewish Community of Berlin-According to a census of June 16, 1933, the Jewish population of Berlin, Germany's capital city, was about 160,000. Berlin's Jewish community was the largest in Germany, comprising more than 32 percent of all Jews in the country. In the face of Nazi persecution, many Jews emigrated from Berlin. Berlin's Jewish population fell to about 80,000 people as a result of emigration ...

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