Eva Sekules (1926-2003) was born in Vienna, Austria on 7 April 1926. After immigrating to Great Britain (ca. 1939), she lived in children's homes of the Caldecott Community between 1940 and 1944, first at Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent, and then at Hyde House, Wareham, Dorset. She was ordered to report to duty in the Auxiliary Territory Service in Pontefract, Yorkshire, in 1944, and served in this from ...

Mayer Abraham Stern was born on 19 June 1894 in Stryj (Ukraine). He studied pre-med and economics at Vienna University and became a cosmetics producer and dealer, owning a factory in Warsaw. By 1920 he had moved to Berlin where, on 21 April, he married Flora Lachs, born in Warsaw on 14 May 1899. She held a degree in chemistry from Warsaw University. The couple was well-to-do and settled in a good neighbourhood ...

Records relating to the surveillance of Iron Guardists, 1945-1959; Protestant churches, 1920-1945; Freemasons; Jewish organizations, 1924-1952; and Zionists.The emigration of Jews to Palestine, 1941-1943; other files on Jewish emigration, 1939-1944, wartime surveillance of ethnic Germans, wartime occupation of Northern Transylvania. Seven files (CNSAS 11-1) documentation of Communist secret police ...

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Personal papers and correspondence of Martin Fisher

Family footage, possibly around 1931 in the United States. House with a long driveway, a woman leans over the front porch railing to look at a car leaving the driveway. A well manicured lawn, with lots of flowers and stones. Couple walks into the garden. They talk. An older man sits on the porch. Another woman joins the couple in the garden. (2:36) A woman laughing and smiling presents a bouquet of ...

Reel 7 of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). According to IWM shotlist, the following individuals appear in this footage: Gustl Schulze-Cossens, Karl Jesko von Puttkammer, Walter Hewel, Albert Bormann, Baldur von Schirach, Heinrich Hoffmann, Khalid al Hud, Martin Bormann, Wilhelm Brueckner, Dr. Theodor Morell, Fritz Wiedemann, Nicolaus von Below, Sepp Dietrich, Dr. Otto ...

Information about persons convicted of anti-Romanian activities; correspondence with the Bălţi gendarme legion on the execution of arrest warrants; bribery cases; cases of surveillance of the activities of various nationalist organizations in the Bălţi city; cases on charges of belonging to legionary organizations; correspondence on the progress of criminal investigations; staff correspondence; acts ...

Wilfrid Israel, born in London in 1899 to an English Jewess and a German Jew, enjoyed a very privileged existence growing up in Berlin, where he inherited the family business, the famous N. Israel department store, with its 2000 employees. Whilst conforming to family expectations, he entertained interests in socialist Zionism, pacifism and internationalism.<p>During the war years he became a secret ...

The collection consists of photographs depicting Herbert Krogman’s life in Copenhagen, Denmark prior to World War II; his flight to Sweden with his parents, Herman and Frieda Krogman, in 1943; and his service in the Danish Army in 1945.

Fonds consists of five file folders: 1. Hillel Academy 1979 yearbook 2. Jewish Community Center Theatre Guild program and news clippings for "An Inspector Calls" 1962 3. Program for Hillel Academy 30th Anniversary Dinner and Memorial Service in tribute to Golda Meir 1978 held at Beth Shalom 4. Ottawa Talmud Torah Board Permanent Teacher's contract 1976 5. Song sheet (transliteration of Haleluyah) ...

Cases of registration of commercial industrial firms (including a manufactory store by Goldenberg Nukhim, a grocery store by Goldenshteyn Abram, a printing house by Golzer Haim-Wolfe, a grain and fodder store by Grabois Boruch, a grocery store by Gruzman Haim, a grocery store by Dorfman Moses, a glass shop by Etelman Gersh-Leyba, a sparkling water factory by Siebenberg Isaac, lubricant materials factory ...

Leonid Edelstein was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, on 4 January 1906 as the son of pharmacist Magnus Edelstein (b. 17/12/1869 in Vilna, Poland) and Rywa Kamuscher (b. 06/02/1884 in Vilna, Poland). Leonid emigrated via Berlin to Belgium on 20 October 1923 to study at the university of Liège. His brother Eugene (b. 07/12/1911 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia) arrived 11 days later via Italy. The two routes ...

Side street. German officer stands next to a car: “M30 Pf4 4 To.” He kneels beside the car and talks to a mechanic working underneath it. He climbs up to the driver’s seat. River. People ride bikes. The Schlossbrücke bridge in Mitte, Berlin, with the Berliner Dom in the BG. The Pont d'Iéna bridge across the River Seine in Paris, and the Eiffel tower. Large building with a dome. Other Paris buildings. ...

<p>Harry Ralton was born Karl-Heinz Rosenthal on 2 May 1907 in Breslau (Wrocław) to Salo, a wholesale merchant, and Margot. After showing considerable musical ability as a child, he pursued a career in music, first in Silesia, then from 1931 in Berlin. Two years later he took on the professional name Harry Ralton. Some of the most prominent figures of interwar light music performed his songs, including ...

Dr. Letitia Fairfield (1885-1978), born of Irish extraction received her medical education at Edinburgh and spent her working life in London, becoming the first woman senior medical officer to the London County Council.</p><p>She joined the LCC service in 1911 and in 1920 was sent on a mission to the West Indies- and in 1938 to Malta- to advise on how to deal with venereal diseases in women. In 1943 ...

János Beér was born in Budapest, Hungary, on February 27, 1923. His parents were Budapest natives as well. János Beér joined the Hungarian Army at an early age. After learning about the availability of a position with Raoul Wallenberg in the Swedish legation from his friend Tom Verés, János deserted from the army. In October 1941, János marred Maci. The two lived in a rented room during part of World ...

Kodak. Title: Holiday in Germany August 1937. Vacation scenes interspersed with images of a hand drawing lines on the map that correspond to various destinations. The Bates family leaves their house (in Halling, Kent). The car is lifted by crane onto the ferry at Dover. Busy street scene in Antwerp, Belgium, with bicycles, a streetcar, and ornate buildings. The next stop is Duesseldorf where the family ...

Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

This collection mainly consists of papers related to Julius Carlebach (1922 - 2001) moved life, concerning his work in the Jewish Orphanage Norwood, his academic career and his religious placements and engagement. Few papers providing personal impressions reflecting his early life experiences in Nazi Germany, arriving in Great Britain as a refugee through the first Kindertransport in 1938 and commemorations ...

Motke Blum was born in Racaciuni (Moldava), Romania, on April 5, 1925, to Arie Lieb (1898-1983), and Leah Josef, (9/1904- 12/1989) His father was a shoemaker. Motke has two siblings, Haim, born in 1923, and Nissan, born in 1932. Prior to World War II, his family moved to Bucharest, Romania, where Motke attended a Jewish school and belonged to the Gordonia Zionist movement. In January 1939, Romanian ...

https://kazernedossin.memorial/biografie/simon-gronowski/?lang=fr ; http://www.getuigen.be/Getuigenis/Kaplan-Chana/link/index.htm ; https://righteous.yadvashem.org/?search=Delsart&searchType=righteous_only&language=en&itemId=4439087&ind=0

In order to deal with numerous complaints, the Belgian Government-in-exile in Poitiers established the Office for the Identification and Liquidation of Belgian Goods through a decree passed by ministers in council on 3 June 1940. The mission of this office was to identify goods and preserve the property rights of Belgian goods in France whose owners were absent as a result of the war; to follow up ...