Reel 2 opens inside a busy cafe, where Mayor Nettelbeck discusses Napoleon with two other men. Young Claus, the son of Nettlebeck's close friend Werner, hands Nettlebeck a proclamation in which Napoleon claims that he wants only to secure peace and prosperity in Europe. Nettelbeck is the only one of the three who thinks that Prussia should attempt to stand up to Napoleon. Back to the festival, where ...

Collectie 182_ENG: Inventory 4. > National Bureaus 4.4.1. > Department Goor

The German Jewish Aid Committee was founded as the Jewish Refugees Committee in 1933 by the Jewish Banker Otto Schiff under the aegis of the Central British Fund for the Relief of German Jewry. Its purpose was to assist Jews to escape from Nazi Germany to England. At first, the organization took upon itself the costs of arranging for the admission of refugees to England and their maintenance, training, ...

The collection consists of four flyers distributed in the United States by four different organizations to mobilize support against Fascism and the Nazi Party and in support of human rights.

Consists of one typed affidavit, in English, dated May 27, 1941, attesting that Helena Rubinstein (born Helena Gourielli), president of the cosmetics company Helena Rubinstein, Inc., was submitting the affidavit in support of the immigration of Rubin and Dina Lewinson, who where then in Cannes, France. The affidavit lists other refugees sponsored by Ms. Rubinstein and describes her means to support ...

Collectie 182_ENG: Inventory 4. > National Bureaus 4.4.1. > Department Goor 227-228 > Letters from Mr. L.D. Frank as head of the Central Bureau of the department for Support and Social Work, respectively the Committee for Monetary Management to Wolff in his position of inspector of the department Collections from the aforementioned Committee for Gelderland, Overijssel and Southern Drenthe concerning ...

Collectie 182_ENG: Inventory 4. > National Bureaus 4.4.1. > Department Goor 227-228 > Letters from Mr. L.D. Frank as head of the Central Bureau of the department for Support and Social Work, respectively the Committee for Monetary Management to Wolff in his position of inspector of the department Collections from the aforementioned Committee for Gelderland, Overijssel and Southern Drenthe concerning ...

Collection consists of 88 oral testimonies, conducted in the early 1980s by Sophie Caplan and Konrad Kwiet, with Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Australia before and after the war. Collection includes supporting documentation about interviewees and outlines of each testimony, as well as supporting personal documents such as letters, newspaper clippings, and memoirs.

Louis Satvsky collection consists of photographs and documents relating to the efforts of Otto and Gitla Waga to immigrate to the United States from Vienna, Austria with the assistance of their cousins, the Stravsky family. The documents include letters written to the Stravsky family in the United States requesting assistance in securing an affidavit of support, copies of correspondence with the American ...

The series E/1/12 contains correspondence with the Matteotti Committee in Copenhagen, the refugee committees in Oslo and Helsinki regarding the entry and support of German and Sudeten German refugees 1938-1944, and with Social Democratic refugee aid committees and other organizations in France, Great Britain, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria, Belgium, and Poland 1938-1939. Some of the refugees that the ...

The Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection contains correspondence between Lawrence B. Goldsmith Sr., various members of the Schiffman and Marx families living in Germany, and United States government officials. The correspondence relates to the families’ requests for assistance in immigrating to the United States from Nazi Germany in the form of signed affidavits of support and financial assistance. ...

The collection contains statues, correspondence files, membership lists, circular letters, minutes of the board meetings, applications for membership of the trade unions, professional, cultural , emigration and health organizations active in the prewar Lithuania: Artisan Union “ Ezras Paolim” in Telsiai, Lithuanian Jewish Coop Enterprises Association, ORT, “Education and Work”, Jewish Teachers Association ...

First-hand account of the split in SOE-Cairo over whom to support in Yugoslavia; author at one point headed the operations section for Yugoslavia, and supported extending support to Tito. Maps on lining papers. 288 pages : maps ; 23 cm

In Hungary, anti-Jewish legal discrimination became increasingly severe during the late 1930s and early 1940s. The Jewish community responded to the hardship its members experienced by organizing aid programs through various channels. The Jewish community of Pest was by far the largest and wealthiest of the Jewish communities of Hungary and, accordingly, it played a leading role in these initiatives. ...

The Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons was formed in the United States in 1946, by leaders of the American Jewish Committee and the American Committee for Judaism. This broad based group of noted Americans were gathered for the goal of influencing Congress so that it would pass legislation relaxing immigration quotas and permitting the entrance of displaced persons from Europe to enter the United ...

Collection contains card files created in Budapest, Hungary, in 1945 and early 1946, by the charitable organization called DEGOB (Magyarországi Zsidók Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottsága/National Committee of Hungarian Jews Supporting Returning Deportees). The individual cards usually carry the name and personal data of the client, and details about the support she/he received (e.g. financial ...