Brief van het Amerikaanse consulaat aan Hermann van Pels, met inhoud van zakelijke aard over emigratie, geschreven in Den Haag op 10 februari 1939

Copyright Holder: Argentina. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto.

The Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers document the journey of Alfred Lewy and Ellen Katz, two German Jews who immigrated with their families to Shanghai, China soon after the Kristallnacht. Documents include passports, registration cards, correspondence with the Consulate General, and other documents obtained in both families’ pursuit of a visa, first to China and later to the United States. Also included ...

Photographs and biographical materials documenting the experiences of Enny Bachrach and her husband Siegfried Steinhardt. Photographs include WWI images of Louis Bachrach, Enny’s father, in his battalion and in a field hospital, and later undated images of various family members. Biographical materials include birth certificates for Siegfried Steinhardt, Enny Bachrach, Evelina Steinhardt, and two immigration ...

Copyright Holder: Archivo Nacional de la Administración (Chile)

Private papers of Carl Lutz (1895-1975), a Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest (1942-1945). The collection contains a part of Lutz's papers (another part is held by the Yad Vashem Archives) and consists of biographical materials and personal documents: CV, honors, photographs, diaries, audio recordings, and correspondence, e.g. with the US Holocaust Museum, Washington DC (1989-1990), (File 137); diplomatic ...

Consists of documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, copies of articles and speeches, and copies of archival holdings related to the work of George Mandel-Mantello. The material was collected by Mantello and by his son, Enrico Mantello, about his wartime activities as a diplomat for the El Salvadore consulate in Geneva, Switzerland from 1942 to 1945, during which time he created false Salvadoran ...

L'Archivio conserva i fondi prodotti da ambasciate, consolati e rappresentanze diplomatiche del Regno d'Italia e della Repubblica Italiana.

The International Refugee Organisation was a non-permanent specialized agency of the United Nations. It came into being on 20 August 1948. Its functions were previously carried out by a Preparatory Commission (PCIRO), which assumed on 1 July 1947 functions formerly exercised by its predecessor organizations: The League of Nations; the Intergovernmental Committee on refugees; the United Nations Relief ...

This fonds contains correspondence on the situation of and assistance to hostages and political prisoners. In section BG 44 04 we find correspondence (1943-1945) on this subject with the CICR delegation in Belgium (file BG 44 04-151) and the former Belgian Congo (BG 44 04-150), with the Belgian Red Cross (BG 44 04-194) and the Belgian government, particularly consulates and embassies (BG 44 04-172). ...

The Clippings Archive of the Second Resistance, known since 1942 as the Czechoslovak Archives in New York, was part of the Czechoslovak Information Center in New York and is associated with the name of its founder, Arne Laurin. Thanks to him, a unique archive of clippings was created, gathering clippings mainly on foreign political and military events during the Second World War, on the situation in ...

"Memories: People and Places" is the remembrance of Elisabeth Model as a wife, mother, and artist during the 1940s and 1950s. "In Memoriam: Max Model" is a tribute to Max Model, husband of Elisabeth Model, with information about his persecution during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. See RG list for titles for RG-10.060*01 - *02.

Copyright Holder: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Emil Lissberger (1873-1942) married Klara Sämann in 1899 in Sugenheim, Germany. They had one son, Moritz (Maurice) in 1901. Emil worked at a Savings and Loan Bank in Creglingen, Bavaria. Moritz grew up to marry Bettina (Bella) Grünfeld in 1928. Between 1939 and 1940, Moritz and Bettina were able to obtain visas and immigrate to the United States. Emil and Klara, however, were not as fortunate, and ...

The postcard was written by Albert Rapp in Buchenwald concentration camp to his wife, Matilde Rapp, in Frankfurt, Germany. In the postcard, he asks his wife not to worry and assures her that he is fine. He asks her to send him a package containing stockings, handkerchiefs, an undershirt, a jacket, a piece of soap, a toothbrush, and various other supplies for himself and his brother, Arthur, who was ...

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Ferdinand Rubel was born in a small village, Steinbach am Donnersberg in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, in 1900. His family worked as barley and grain brokers. Most of his extended Rubel family had immigrated to Chicago in the mid-19th century. Ferdinand had been involved in ad hoc anti-Nazi groups who broke up Nazi rallies. Soon after the January 1933 Nazi takeover, Ferdinand was arrested as a political ...

George Blau (Vienna, Austria, 17 Nov. 1911-1999) was born to a Jewish family. He left Austria at an unknown date and settled in Marseille, France, where the authorities picked him up and had him interned in Les Milles, France. Released on 18 Sept., 1939, he was interned again, from May to Aug. 1940. At the end of Mar. 1941, Blau fled to Martinique, then to Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, ...

Charles (Carl) Lutz (1895-1975) was the Swiss vice-consul in Budapest between 1942 and 1945. Born in Walzenhausen, Switzerland, Lutz moved to the United States in 1913 at the age of 18. While studying at the George Washington University, he joined the Swiss diplomatic service and became chancellor at the Swiss legation in Washington, D.C. In 1935, Lutz was sent to Palestine, where he was appointed ...

Erica Levy (born Gudrun Erika Levy, 1931-2007) was born in Viersen, Germany to Leopold (b. 1895) and Laura (née Liffgens, 1895-1975) Levy and had two sisters: Carole (1916-2009) and Irene (b. 1917). In 1938, Erica was sent to Brussels, Belgium, with her sister, Carole, where she attended a convent. Her parents and Irena later left for London with the hopes to immigrate to the United States. After much ...

Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov, Scranton - London 2010.

P.63 - David Kranzler Collection
 
 Dr. David Kranzler dedicated himself for many years to the research of the rescue of Jews in occupied Europe, and published many books regarding organizations and people active on behalf of this aim. Dr. Kranzler collected, for the purpose of his research, a vast amount of detailed documentation regarding various rescue activities:
 
 - Rescue ...

The Werner and Trudy Coppel papers include correspondence, identification papers, and printed materials documenting the couple’s status in Berlin after the war as displaced persons and victims of fascism and their immigration to the United States. Correspondence includes a letter and five telegrams to the Coppels from the American Consulate in Berlin about their immigration and two letters of appreciation ...

Charles (Carl) Lutz (1895-1975) was the Swiss vice-consul in Budapest between 1942 and 1945. Born in Walzenhausen, Switzerland, Lutz moved to the United States in 1913 at the age of 18. While studying at the George Washington University, he joined the Swiss diplomatic service and became chancellor at the Swiss legation in Washington, D.C. In 1935, Lutz was sent to Palestine, where he was appointed ...