The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Jacob and Suzanne Waksman of Antwerp, Belgium including their flight from France to Italy and as refugees with their son André at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York from 1944-1946. Included are identification documents, affidavits in lieu of passports, a telegram, documents granting visas for the Waksmans to enter the United States from Fort Ontario, ...

The Swedish government established the Civil Defence Board on 1 October 1944 to exercise Sweden's central civil defense management. It also came to supervise research in civil defense, conduct civil defense training in special civil defense schools and other educational facilities, and oversee the construction of air-raid shelters. The board replaced the previous _Air Protection Inspectorate_ (Luftskyddsinspektionen) ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 13, No. 943, Part 1. Release date, 01/17/1941. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: 12:42:00 Part 1A: "New Congress Hears FDR ask All-Out Aid" Washington, DC. Epochal scenes in our history, as the 77th Congress convenes to map plans for enlarging our defense machine to meet US and British needs. President Roosevelt, addressing the legislators and the entire world, ...

Amateur film shot by Paul Engelmann, a Czech chemical engineer incarcerated by the French authorities in the internment camp at Beaune-la-Rolande (Loiret). Film ID 4338 (excerpt from reel 1): Paul Engelmann in Prague before his emigration to France in March 1939. Paul and a woman smile while holding and petting a dog. The couple walks towards the camera smiling in Prague. Film ID 4339 (excerpts from ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

Jecheskiel Lewin (1897-1941) was born in Rohatyn in 1897. His father was Rabbi Natan Lewin, rabbi of Rohatyn and Rzeszów. His brother was Aaron Lewin (1879-1941). Jecheskiel Lewin was a doctor of philosophy and served as rabbi in Katowice (1925-28) and Lviv (1928-1941). He married twice, and had three sons, Kurt I. Lewin, Natan Lewin, and Leib Lewin. Jecheskiel Lewin was murdered by the Germans in ...

Quote from opening Yiddish credits of film: "This is a documentary film depicting the life of the children in the Medem Sanatorium in Miedzeszyn, near Warsaw. The Sanatorium was founded and directed by the Central Organization of the Yiddish-Secular Schools and the General Jewish Labor Bund in Poland. It bore the name of the Bundist leader Vladimir Medem. The Sanatorium was in existence from 1926 until ...

"In this groundbreaking study, Professor Barbara Engelking sheds light on an aspet of the Holocaust in Poland that has not been thoroughly discussed. While many books have been dedicated to the suffering and murder of Jews in the ghettos and various camps, relatively little is known about the struggle of those who managed to escape to the Polish countryside and the threats and challenges they faced. ...

Mania Lichtenstein was born in Włodzimierz Wołyński, Poland (presently Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Ukraine) in 1923 to Gerszon and Gitel Tisch. She had two older sisters, Rivka and Nechama. The family remained in Włodzimierz Wołyński through the Soviet occupation of the city in 1939. With the German invasion in 1941 the family faced increasing persecution and in February 1942 were forced in to the first of ...

Werner Goldsmith was born in Erfurt, Germany, on Nov. 13, 1928. Werner's father, a textile salesman, died in 1938, and Werner and his mother moved to Berlin, Germany. Werner's mother placed him in the Auerbach orphanage for safety while she lived with another Jewish woman in West Berlin. Werner's mother arranged for him to be placed on a transport to France, and she, as a widow, was able to travel ...

Includes title of the film and intertitles. From opening credits of the film (Foreword): "American Jews at the outbreak of the World War in 1914, organized the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to aid the Jewish masses overseas suffering from war, pogroms, famine and pestilence. The following episodes depict the activities in Russia only." Brief shots of Felix Warburg and Julius Rosenwald, ...

The collection consists of four photographs taken by the Red Cross at Bergen-Belsen at the time of liberation, one photograph of a memorial at Bergen Belsen, and one photograph of Dr. Erich Cohn testifying at the trial of Dr. Fischer.

Includes title of the film and intertitles. From opening credits of the film (Foreword): "American Jews at the outbreak of the World War in 1914, organized the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to aid the Jewish masses overseas suffering from war, pogroms, famine and pestilence. The following episodes depict the activities in Russia only." Brief shots of Felix Warburg and Julius Rosenwald, ...

Castle Films was started in 1924 by Eugene W. Castle, the former Pacific Coast film editor at Fox Movietone News. Castle became a successful producer of industrial and advertising short subjects. Castle began compiling shorts, travelogues and newsreels for use in schools. The lure of the home movie market proved lucrative for Castle. In 1936, they became one of the first home movie companies to actually ...

This collection documents the activities of the Special Commission of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland. It contains protocols; reports related to antisemitic incidents; statistical documents; correspondence; and civil defense plans for Jewish properties in Białystok, Częstochowa, Kraków, Opole, Sosnowiec, Szczecin, Zabrze, Otwock, and Wrocław. It also contains lists of individuals who collaborated ...

Alice Ferrières (1909-1988), was born in Paris in a Protestant family. She grew up in Ganges, in Hérault. Graduated in mathematics, she obtained a position as professor at the École primaire supérieure of young girls of Murat in 1938. In 1941, when Nazi occupiers seized French Jewish businesses, Ferrières began helping Jews in any way she could, eventually rescuing around 50 adults and children, despite ...

When Hong Kong fell to the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941, Macao was left as a tiny isolated enclave on the China Coast surrounded by Japanese-held territory. As a Portuguese colony, Macao was neutral, and John Reeves, the British Consul, could remain there and continue his work despite being surrounded in all directions by his country's enemy. His main task was to provide relief to the 9,000 or more ...

"In the face of the German onslaught in World War II, the Soviets succeeded, as Molotov later recalled, 'in relocating to the rear virtually an entire industrial country.' It was an official declared, 'one of the greatest feats of the war.' Focusing on the Kirov region, this book offers a different and considerably more nuanced picture of the evacuations than the typical triumphal narrative found in ...

Copyright Holder: Genika Archeia tou Kratous (Greece)

<p>Otto Schiff was born in Frankfurt am Main on 8 May 1875 to Philipp and Bertha (née Dreyfus) Schiff. He came from a distinguished family of bankers. Schiff arrived in London in 1896, where he established the stockbroking firm Bourke, Schiff &amp; Co. In 1901 he became a British subject. Schiff also devoted himself to charitable work on behalf of Jewish immigrants, working on the Jewish Board of Guardians ...

Charles Paul Kogel (1910-2009) was born November 22, 1910 in Antwerp, Belgium to Chaim Kogel and Mariem Kornreiek Kogel. He had one sister, Lena, and two brothers, Isack and Saul. He was a tailor and lived in Antwerp, Belgium with his wife Leah and daughter when World War II started. He was taken to France in 1942 to perform forced labor. His wife and daughter were deported in September 1942 or 1943 ...

Eva Abraham-Podietz (born Eva Rosenbaum) was born on May 22, 1927 to Ernst and Else (Jacobus) Rosenbaum in Hamburg, Germany. Her father worked in the import-export business. She had one brother, Heinz-Peter Rosenbuam born in 1924. During the summer of 1938 Eva's father moved to England and made preparations for the family to join him. Heinz-Peter followed him in September 1938, after being sponsored ...

Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section

In German.