This collection contains confidential reports from various Argentinean government agencies and political offices to the Argentine Ministry of the Interior, including the Ministry of Foreign Relations, various provincial Governor's offices, the national police, the Ministry of War, the Postal and Telegraph Service, the Ministry of Agriculture, and others. Also includes records pertaining to Jewish immigration ...

Documents pertaining to the family of Salomon and Estera Brandstaetter, originally of Brzesko and Będzin, Poland. Includes birth certificates for Salomon (issued in Brzesko 1936) and Estera (issued in Będzin, 1980), school certificates for Salomon (1931 and 1935), a ketubah, documenting the wedding of Salomon and Estera in Lwów, Poland (12 April 1940), an envelope that formerly contained a letter (not ...

In 1941 Fascist Italy established the so-called Centers for the Study of the Jewish Problem in an effort to develop an Italian variant of 'spiritual racism' as a fitting counterpart to Nazi racial doctrine. The most active of the Centers was located in Trieste, home to one of Italy's largest Jewish communities. The Institute's close ties with the German consulate and SS contingent played a crucial ...

Consists of documents, eight pre-war family photographs, and two books written in German and Hebrew entitled, "Gebetbuch and Stunden der Andacht" from the estate of Ms. Eva Rosemarie Feigl. The documents included in the collection are: Eva Feigl’s naturalization certificate, Alien Registration card, high school diploma, birth certificate, and a photocopy of an affidavit in lieu of a passport, issued ...

Sofie Gerstle (née Schwarz, 1871-1944) was married to Nathan Gerstle, who worked as a horse dealer. They had two sons: David (b. 1894) and Gustav (1897-1941). Sofie and Nathan raised their sons in Ichenhausen, Germany. During the Holocaust Sofie and Gustav attempted to emigrate from Stuttgart, Germany with the aid of relatives in the United States but were unsuccessful. Sofie was deported Theresienstadt ...

Unknown date. Carl Lutz and a woman sit in a train car. Another woman travels with them. CU, Mother Lutz with the woman. Man with a mustache. Carl and two women look out the window at the passing landscape, pointing at things. Carl puts his arm around his mother. They gesture out the window. Off the train, there are various close shots of the different woman smiling. The mustached man. CU, elderly ...

Salomon Windmuller (1886-1954) was born in Beckum, near Dortmund, Germany, to Philipp and Sophie (Reingenheim) Windmuller. He fought in World War II, married Berta (Bertha) Kahn in 1922, and had two sons. He took over the ownership and management of his mother-in-law's dry goods store in Dortmund. He was jailed with his older son for several days following Kristallnacht and forced to sell his store. ...

Memoirs of a German Jew, born in Suhl in 1924. Pp. 25-71 deal with the Holocaust period. His family decided to emigrate in 1937; they asked American relatives for an affidavit, which was received. During the night after the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, Mühlfelder's father was arrested, but he was released after his official emigration papers were delivered by the American consulate. An additional obstacle ...

Kurt Goldmann (1921-2003) was born in Eschwege, Germany on September 8, 1921 to Paul (1883-1958) and Hedwig “Hede” (née Baum, 1892-1959) Goldmann. Paul was the son of Philipp (1845-1933) and Franziska (née, Levy, 1862-1891) Goldmann. Paul was the proprietor of the family business, named for his grandfather Jacob Goldmann (1807-1887), which was established in Eschwege in 1880, though the first family ...

Copyright Holder: Drejtoria e Përgjithshme e Arkivave

Diplomatic dispatches, cables, and confidential reports sent by the Argentine embassies and consulates in Europe to the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Relations and Culture in Buenos Aires during World War II and in the immediate postwar years. Includes information about Jewish refugees and visa applicants, the political relationship between Argentina and Nazi Germany, a list of the crew of the German ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Judy Pitson

Contains selected records created by the regional authorities within Croatia related to Jews and Jewish communities in Croatia in 1918-1941. It includes information about Jewish organizations and associations active in prewar Croatia. The bulk of the collection relates to the foreign Jews entering or transiting through the territory of Croatia from the neighboring countries. It includes individual ...

The couple Chana Sara ('Anna') (born 1902, nee Stern) and Samuel Leib Jampel (born 1899) were born in Rozniatov near Lvov, Poland. They got married in 1922 and emigrated to Gelsenkirchen, Germany, in 1938. They had a flourishing shoe shop business until the November pogroms in 1938 during which the business was destroyed. Anna was beaten and began living in hiding with their two young sons Hermann ...

The Werner Isenberg papers include biographical materials and correspondence documenting Werner Isenberg’s family from Dortmund, their emigration from Nazi Germany to South Africa and the United States, and relatives murdered in the Holocaust. Biographical materials include passports for Lina and Simon Isenberg as well as certificates required for emigration. This series also includes a list of relatives ...

Refutes the allegations of Japanese revisionist historians that Japan was hospitable to Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. Japanese attitudes to Jews were ambivalent: on the one hand, there was an exaggerated perception of the Jews' financial power and political influence; on the other, there was antisemitism, promoted by "experts" who had absorbed it partly from White Russian émigrés in Manchuria. ...

Archive of the Directorate of Religious Affairs, Foreign and Minority Schools of the General Administration of Macedonia: Reports, memoranda, caralogues, etc. regarding Occupation and civil war, 1941-1949; Inspection Archive: Circulars and Orders, reports and memos about foreign and minority schools (Armenian, Jewish, Catholic, Muslim, etc.), foreign monasteries, foreign clergy, etc., 1941-1955; Foreign ...

Between 1933-39 Turkey sheltered many Jewish emigres from Germany and Austria; in these and subsequent years, it suppressed the antisemitic and pro-Nazi organizations in the country. The Turkish embassy in Paris and consulates in France managed to save thousands of Jews who were Turkish nationals residing in that country. Turkish authorities assisted in the rescue efforts of the Jewish Agency in Istanbul, ...

The Soviet Information Bureau was a Soviet news agency, operating from 1941 to 196. It was established on 24 June 1941 by a directive of Sovnarkom and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Sovinformburo directed the activity of the war correspondents, communicaion with embassies and consulates, international broadcasting companies, magazines, and newspapers. During World ...

Sixteen films by Carl Lutz of Palestine: Nr. 303 Bethlehem, Jerusalem (Film Nr. 26) [ca. 1936] (09:15) Nr. 305 Palästina 3 (Film Nr. 10) [1935] (11:56) Nr. 306 Palästina (Film Nr. 22) [1935-1936] (12:56) Nr. 307 Palestine, the land of the bible (Film Nr. 21) [1937] (12:41) Nr. 308 Tel Aviv, Hafen (Film Nr. 18) [1936-1937] (11:47) Nr. 309 Palästina 1951 (Film Nr. 13) [1951] (13:16) Nr. 310 Palästina ...

The collection documents the wartime experiences of Blanche Goldszpiner, an American living and working in Warsaw during the Holocaust. Included is a photographic postcard of a seated woman; a letter written by Blanche Goldszpiner in 1940 in Warsaw, Poland, to her cousin in the United States prior her internment in the Warsaw ghetto; and an envelope addressed to "Readers Digest" from Jack Balinsky ...

Twelve films by Carl Lutz documenting life in Switzerland and Hungary: Nr. 295 A Swiss Travel Film by Charles R. Lutz (Film Nr. 35) [ca. 1933] (10:52) Nr. 319 Trachtenfest 1939 (Film Nr. 32) [1939] (09:27) Nr. 320 In the Bernese Oberland (Film Nr. 17) [ca. 1935] (10:59) Nr. 321 A Swiss Travel Film - From Lauterbrunnen to Jungfraujoch I (Film Nr. 29) [ca. 1935] (16:22) Nr. 322 From Lauterbrunnen to ...

Carl Lutz with his wife Gertrud and parents, possibly in Cincinnati, unknown date. They sit on the steps of a fountain and talk. Carl pulls out a camera, which Gertrud looks at. Gertrud sits by a pond looking at and touching flowers. Carl's mother stands with her arm around Gertrud, next to Carl's father. They all look at and touch the different flowers. Carl joins them. The parents and wife walk in ...

Inez Steinberger Lewin was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on August 20, 1916, to Regina Wolf and Salomon Steinberger, a cantor. she had four siblings: Ruth, b. 1911, Judith, b. 1913; Walther b. 1915, and Brigitte, b. 1919. The family kept an orthodox Jewish home and the children received a strict Jewish education. Both Salomon and Regina were born in Hungary and moved to Frankfurt around 1914. ...