Papers and correspondence, relating to Brodetsky's early scholastic achievements, personal material and the Board of Deputies and Zionist matters, 1900-53, together with newspaper cuttings from 1916 onwards. Papers for 1939-53, when Brodetsky was President of the Board of Deputies, include correspondence with Chief Rabbi Hertz and Ivan Greenberg.

Documentation regarding Keren Hayesod in Riga, 1920-1940
 
 Keren Hayesod was established at the annual conference of the World Zionist Organization held in London in July 1920, as the fundraising arm of the Zionist movement. The Keren Hayesod Manifest of 1920 reflected the determination and decisiveness of the new Zionist organization: "The time has arrived for the concentration of the Jewish ...

The Samuel and Franka Baral papers consist of biographical information, correspondence, immigration documents, and testimony relating to Samuel Baral and Franka Baral’s experiences fleeing Kraków, internment in a ghetto, going into hiding, and immigrating to Palestine and Australia. The collection includes a certificate of naturalization and a certificate of registration for Australia issued to Franka ...

Selected files from the following departments of the Ministry of Public Administration in Warsaw: The Cabinet of the Minister (Gabinet Ministra), Political Department (Departament Polityczny), Department of Administration and Law (Departament Administracyjno-Prawny), Department of Religious Denominations (Departament Wyznaniowy). The materials refer to: repatriation, the organization and activities ...

Nechama Shneorson was born Nechama Santocki in 1929 in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania to butcher shop owner Jacob Santocki and his wife Ethel. She had three sisters: Zlata, Ida, and Genya. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union they were sent to the Seventh Fort and then to the Kovno ghetto in August 1941. Ida was killed in a fire during the liquidation of the ghetto in July 1944. The rest of the family ...

O.12- Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943 
 The Perlman Collection consists of 64 testimonies gathered by Jewish Agency representatives during the years 1942-1943, mainly from Jews who arrived to Eretz Israel during World War II. 
 
 Most of the testimonies were given by Jews who held Mandatory Palestine citizenship, were married ...

Abraham (Abram) Winiger (1905-1993) was born December 21, 1905 in Nadwórna, Poland (now Nadvirna, Ukraine) to Israel and Sarah Winiger. Mina Winiger (1913-1979) was born May 5, 1913 in Majdan Górny, Poland to Markus and Sobel Händel and moved to Nadwórna. The couple were married in 1938, and their son Jakob (Jankl) was born March 1, 1941. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a ghetto ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

The Abraham Lewent papers include biographical materials, correspondence, immigration materials, poems, and personal narratives documenting Abraham Lewent, the concentration camps he survived during the Holocaust, his refugee and displaced person status and job training after liberation, and his immigration to the United States. Biographical materials include a list of the places Lewent was incarcerated, ...

An EAD-inventory can be consulted via the CJH-database, accessible from the reading room.

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Bevat: - 23 na-oorlogse tweede distributiestamkaarten van Nederlandse joden, geboren rond 1923-1927, waarvan de meeste met adres Noordenbergsingel 4 in Deventer of Ridder van Catsweg 61 in Gouda; - ca. 20 ontvangstbewijzen van ingenomen tweede distributiestamkaarten, ingeleverd wegens 'tijdelijk of definitief vertrek naar buitenland'; - identiteitsbewijzen van Günther Bernitz, geboren 1914; - Nederlands ...

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