The World Jewish Congress (WJC), an international Jewish representative organization, was formed in 1936. The Organization Department of WJC was originally established in Paris, ca. 1937, under Baruch Zuckerman to increase membership, strengthen relations with and between affiliates, maintain contacts with branch offices, and improve the image of the WJC with its affiliates. When rescue activities ...

James B. Donovan. United States Navy Commander. Associate Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, where he coordinated and presented all Nazi films at the trials. General Counsel to OSS. Negotiated the exchange of Bay of Pigs prisoners with Fidel Castro as an independent lawyer under backdrop of the missile crisis, securing the freedom of nearly 10,000 people. Portrayed by Tom Hanks in "Bridge of Spies". ...

United States Navy Lieutenant E. R. Kellogg certifies motion pictures of Nazi concentration camps in an affidavit presented in the "Nazi Concentration Camps" film by the Americans as evidence during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Kellogg had expertise in motion picture and photographic techniques through his employment with Twentieth Century Fox Studios in California from 1929 to ...

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The Silbermann family papers comprise correspondence and photographs documenting Curt and Else Silbermann and their families from Würzburg, Germany, before, during, and after the Holocaust. Extensive family correspondence to Curt and Else Silbermann, who had immigrated to the United States, relates news about life in Nazi and postwar Germany. Six photograph albums document Else Kleeman Silbermann and ...

Propaganda film about hygiene with good graphics. 01:31:31 Animated text is on fire and exclaims, "Aus Not Geboren!" A picture of a city is slowly covered with black smoke and overlying text refers to a nutrition problem. Title card states, "Abgeschlossen von Luft und Sonne verbringt der Großstädter sein dasein." Different apartment buildings and big city streets show crowded conditions. Men and women ...

Simche Münzer (Simcha / Siegfried Minzer, 1904-1945) was born on September 6, 1904, in Kanczuga, Poland to Moses Aron Münzer and Esther Malka Münzer (née Einhorn). Gisele (Gitel, 1905-2001) was born on May 20, 1905, in Rymanów, Poland. The couple, distantly related cousins, met when they were teenagers. In the late 1920’s, Simche moved to The Hague, where his brother Emil lived and opened a tailoring ...

Ana (Hannah) Waldner, born 1900, was married to Chaim Waldner, who was born in 1895 in Chelmek to Tvi and Dubi Waldner. They were one of only ten Jewish families in Chelmek, where Chaim was the town butcher. The couple had three children, Dorotha (Dora), born on September 25, 1926, and two younger sons, Karpeck, born ca. 1929, and Beneck, born ca. 1931. The family kept kosher and observed Shabbat and ...

The Istanbul Collection testifies to JDC’s efforts from 1942-1949 (with a few earlier materials dating from 1937) to oversee the planning of rescue and relief operations from its office in Turkey, a neutral country strategically located at the crossroads of war-torn Europe and the nascent Jewish state in Palestine. These records highlight the Istanbul office’s partnership with other relief organizations--such ...

The records of the Institute of Jewish Affairs have been divided into five main sections, as MSS 237-41, maintaining the subject arrangement that the Institute used for its documentation collections. The records of the London office and British section of the World Jewish Congress are distributed in several places in this arrangement. The archive contains: MS 237: information from the press and other ...

Catalogues in Russian

James B. Donovan. United States Navy Commander. Associate Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, where he coordinated and presented all Nazi films at the trials. General Counsel to OSS. Negotiated the exchange of Bay of Pigs prisoners with Fidel Castro as an independent lawyer under backdrop of the missile crisis, securing the freedom of nearly 10,000 people. Portrayed by Tom Hanks in "Bridge of Spies". ...

M.46- Documentation from the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF), 1939-1960
 
 In the RG there is documentation from the following organizations:
 
 - The Council for Religious Affairs of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, 1943-1953, and the Council for Religious Affairs of the Government of the Soviet Union, 1943-1954
 
 The documentation includes ...

The records in this collection have been digitized and are searchable online through the textual collections portal of the JDC Archives database.

The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Carl Zucker, originally of Zakroczym, Poland, and his wife Edith Zucker (née Guzy), originally of Olkusz, Poland, in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp. Included is biographical material such as identification cards, birth and marriage certificates, displaced persons documentation, and restitution paperwork. There is also a small amount ...

This collection contains: three pre-war photos of members of the Antwerp sports club Joodse Arbeiders Sportklub or JASK [English: Jewish Workers Sports Club (Antwerp) or YASK], including Philip Swaab and possibly a brother or future brother-in-law called Marcel ; a pre-war group photo of pupils at a school or colony, including Bertha and Eugenie alias Jennie Tygel ; two pre-war photos of Philip Schwaab ...

The Stolz and White families papers include biographical material, correspondence, school records, writings, restitution material, and photographs relating to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Erika Stolz and her parents, Leon and Rosa, originally of Vienna, Austria. At the beginning of the war Erika was sent on a Kinderstransport to Christian boarding school in England. Leon and Rosa ...

This version includes scenes from the children's production of "Brundibar." Excerpts of well-known propaganda film made by the Nazis to show the International Red Cross and others that they were not mistreating Jews in the "ghettos." Documentary footage depicts the life of Jews in the ghetto of Theresienstadt [Terezin] in Czechoslovakia as harmonious and joyful. They wear yellow stars on their civilian ...

Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

Copyright Holder: Deborah Schifter

Stephen Joseph Fraenkel (born Stefan, 1917-2002) was born on 28 November 1917 in Berlin, Germany to Max and Martha Fraenkel. His father Max (born Sali, 1878-1944) was born in Zülz, Upper Silesia (Biała Prudnicka, Poland) to Simon (1830-1882) and Anna (née Kaufmann, 1840-1919) Fraenkel. He had three sisters, Rosa (b. 1861), Klara (b. 1864), and Hedwig (b. 1869). Max was a banker and moved to Berlin. ...

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György (George Pick) was born March 28, 1934 in Budapest, Hungary. He was the only child of middle class Jewish parents. György’s father, Istvan, was an engineer responsible for producing hydraulic grape presses for wineries. His mother, Margit Pick (née Kornhauser), worked as a legal secretary. The Pick family could trace its history in the Austro-Hungarian Empire back 230 years, and György had many ...

This collection of records about and from Nazi concentration camps was collected by a working group in Lund in Southern Sweden, led by a Polish academic in exile, Zygmunt Łakociński. Initially, the working group that was later named the Polish Research Institute (Polska källinstitutet, PIZ) was a sub-section of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Utrikespolitiska Institutet) and also received ...