The banker, Philip Sydney Vecht (1899-1968) along with his wife, Hettie (nee Bienenzucht) and their two children, Romeo and Rosette, escaped the Holocaust by virtue of their British nationality despite being orthodox Jews in occupied Belgium. Philip’s father, Aaron Vecht (1855-1908), born into the Sephardic community in the Netherlands, had been a successful entrepreneur in the meat processing industry. ...

LS over women's camp, sky gray, cloudy. Tents in foreground, huts behind. Dark MS of two women attempting to cook meal during rainstorm. MS of mobile bath units, two women showering outdoors, wringing out clothes, makeshift privacy. MCU of two women in shower, scrubbing themselves vigorously. Lots of activity. LS shower area, barracks and trees in FG, pumping unit connected to open, concrete reservoir. ...

The Greek Embassy in London was among the first diplomatic missions established after the foundation of the Hellenic Kingdom in 1828. Distinguished Greek Ambassadors at the Court of St James were Spyridon Trikoupis (1834-1837, 1841-1843, 1849-1862), who also served as Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Charilaos Trikoupis (1862-1865) who served seven times as Prime Minister, Ioannis Gennadius ...

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This collection contains photos of the Rajter family, including: passport photos and wedding photos of Estera Rajter and Abram Ciechanow, photos of Estera Rajter and Abram Ciechanow with their son Willy Rajter (Ciechanow), a photo of Willy Rajter (Marks) and his mother Gitla Rajter, and wartime photos of Willy Rajter while housed at the Baron de Castro children’s home led by the Association of Jews ...

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Ernest Gidaly (1891-1945) and Margaret Kunitzer Gidaly (1900-) lived in the 8th district of Budapest on Vig Street #18. They had a son named Paul (born 3/22/1925) and a daughter named Elly (born 12/1927). Two days after the Nazi occupation of Budapest in March 1944, Ernest, a successful Jewish merchant of textiles, was taken from a streetcar on his way to work and sent to an internment camp in Kistarcsa. ...

Consists of one memoir, 65 pages, entitled "My Account: The Honest Truth" by Magda Klein Dorman, originally of Kecskemét, Hungary. She describes persecution after the German invasion of Hungary and the memory of her father being taken for forced labor in April 1944. After a brief attempt to be assigned labor outside the city, Magda was forced to return to Kecskemét, where she was interned in the ghetto ...

The collection documents the efforts of the Spreekmeester family of Amsterdam, The Netherlands to prove their English ancestry and citizenship in order to obtain British passports for emigration and to avoid deportation to a concentration camp. The majority of the correspondence is with the Embassy of Switzerland in Berlin, and regards efforts to obtain British passports for Emanuel and Rebecca Spreekmeester ...

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 ...

"Malaya under Japanese occupation is the scene of this remarkable novel. Its author was born and raised in that country as one of a large Chinese fmaily. He eventually became a school-teacher and a master of English ... Mr. Chin Kee Onn's experiences and observations ... gave him both the knowledge and the determination to write about the period. The inclusion in his story of specific guerilla and ...

1945: the most significant year in the modern history of Vietnam. One thousand years of dynastic politics and monarchist ideology came to an end. Eight decades of French rule lay shattered. Five years of Japanese military occupation ceased. Allied leaders determined that Chinese troops in the north of Indochina and British troops in the South would receive the Japanese surrender. Ho Chi Minh proclaimed ...

Contains a displaced person index card (A 10193) issued to Lily Kaufman (Lilly Goldstein) by the Allied Expeditionary Force in 1945 and a vaccination form for Lili Kaufman issued a displaced persons camp in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1945.

The Nestor Hobe photograph collection consists of 38 photographs relating to Nestor Hobe (Hochglaube) and his family. There are 37 original photographs of Nestor Hobe and Jacques Hochglaube, his brother, as well as an enlarged photograph of the siblings.

Joel Brand was born in Naszód, Transylvania in 1906. In 1934, after a stay in Germany, he settled in Budapest, Hungary, where he joined the Poalei Zion Party. In 1935 he married Hansi Hartmann and together they set up a glove factory. In 1942 Joel and Hansi were among the founders of the Relief and Rescue Committee, the Budapest-based underground organization, which worked on behalf of Jewish refugees ...

The papers consist of documents; identification cards; newspaper clippings; a CD of memoirs, family photographs, and a family tree related to the Levy family of Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece. The documents relate to life under the German occupation, forced labor as Jews, and life in the Salonika ghetto. After being warned of upcoming deportations, the Levys went into hiding in Athens, where they ...

The German invasion of Norway, which happened on April 9, 1940, simultaneous with the invasion of Denmark. The Norwegians offered much more resistance than the Danes, and they did not capitulate until May 9. Airplanes in the air. Interior of the plane with German soldiers, smiling and talking. The plane lands on an airfield on the coast of Norway and the troops disembark and gather their weapons and ...

The Welt im Film [World in Film] newsreel series was produced by the American and British military governments to support the denazification campaign in Germany and Austria. Screening was compulsory in cinemas in the American and British zones of Germany until the late 1940s.

Identification documents, military records, immigration documents, postcards, and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Lore (née Baron) and Simon Rosen, both of whom survived in England. Documents include is Lore’s 1939 Kindertransport identification card, British Army pay books and Soldier’s Release Books, Simon’s British passport, documents related to the Rosen’s immigration to ...

<p>This collection contains the personal papers of Agnes Balint describing her experiences as a Jewish woman at the time of the Nazi occupation in Budapest during the Second World War.</p>The papers submitted to Yad Vashem in support of her nomination of her rescuers being named "Righteous amongst the Nations" (1725/2), she provides details of her rescue, her life in hiding, the siege of Budapest, ...

Contains both a diary and memoirs of a Holocaust survivor, born in Vienna in 1920. The diary (pp. 1-57), originally written in German, covers the events of 1938; it was first published in the form of a booklet called "In die Emigration" (Vienna: J & V Edition, 1988). It was here translated by Christa Faeser. The memoirs (pp. 59-164), written in the 2000s in Dutch, cover the period 1939-45. The diary ...

Stanisław Maciejewski collection consists of records relating to activities of the Association of Polish Former Political Prisoners of Prisons and Concentration Camps in Germany. These records include prisoner questionnaires containing comprehensive bibliographical information about the prisoners and prospective association members as well as photographs, fingerprints, and Verification Commission notes. ...

"Some notes about my life" describes the experiences of Victor Adler and members of his family after the German occupation of the Sudetenland; in particular, it relates how Adler escaped Czechoslovakia; fled to Hungary and then to Palestine; enlisted in the Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade under British command; fought in the European theater during World War II; and emigrated to and rebuilt his life ...

George David Schwab was born on November 25, 1931 in Libau (Liepaja in the Latvian), Latvia. His father, Arkadi Jakob Aron Schwab, b. 1884, was a gastroenterologist and his mother, Klara Jakobson Schwab, b. 1903, was a trained musician. George had an older brother, Bernhard Boris Schwab, who was born in 1921. The family resided on Korn Strasse 27 (Graudu iela in the Latvian) and their phone number ...