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Elias Meyer Simonovich Joelson was born in 1887 to a German-speaking Jewish family in Friedrichstadt (today's Jaunjelgava) in the Russian Governorate of Kurland, south of Riga. He first trained as a pharmacist at the University of Jurieff, now Tartu in Estonia. Joelson then went to St. Petersburg and entered a painting school. But after 1-2 years he started working in pharmacies, in St. Petersburg ...

The archive of Law firm Julius Hepner contains client files from victims of Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews and the Holocaust whom the firm assisted in seeking reparations, known as Wiedergutmachung, from West Germany. There is no index or catalog, but the client files are in alphabetical order A-Z. The archive contains series of correspondence concerning Wiedergutmachung and other documents relating ...

The Jewish memories project ran from 1994-1998 at the Nordiska museet and resulted in a rich and comprehensive collection of Jewish life in the 20th century.

The collection contains concert pianist Ruth Jacobsson's (1912-1947) memoirs, 'Mein Leben', including her and her daughter's time in concentration camps.

The archive was created in 2007 and covers the period around 1930 until Halina Neujahr died in 2006. The archive primarily contains documents relating Halina Neujahr's own experiences from the Warsaw ghetto and her time in Sweden in the form of lectures and newspaper articles, as well as the documentary film _In Memoriam_ with Halina Neujahr, in which she talks about her life in the Warsaw ghetto and ...

The archive originates in Fritz Hollander's documents which were deposited with the National Archives, and contains documents after Baltiska Skinnkompaniet, A.J. Hollander, Fritz Hollander and successors for the period 1862-1996. Hollander, Fritz Hollander and successors for the period 1862-1996. The archive also contains documents relating to Swedish and foreign Jewish organizations, documents relating ...

The Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea CDEC is an independent Institute for Italian Jewish History and Culture. It was founded in Venice in 1955 by the Federation of Italian Jewish Youth, in celebration of the ten-year anniversary of the liberation of Italy, the fall of the Fascist government of the Italian Social Republic, and the end of Nazi occupation. According to its first ...

The collection includes several items relating to the Holocaust. Among these is a writing pad (item number: UM032489) kept as a memory of the patients treated at the Margaretegärdeskolan emergency hospital in Uddevalla in the summer of 1945. In the spring and summer of 1945, the school was transformed into an emergency hospital for survivors of Nazi Germany's concentration camps. The white buses arrived ...

• 13 stories of children written by Lena with her evaluation of their condition. • 4 testimonies and a memoir of children who were in Lena's children's home. • Postcards and letters Kuechler wrote to Edith Zierer, a former child in Kuechler's children's house. • Letters written by Kuechler to Frances - Zipora Schaff (Fanka Beder) a former child in Kuechler's children's house. • 2 files with items belonging ...

Very few Jewish children survived the holocaust (approx. 11%). During the formative years of their lives these children witnessed and experienced the horrors of the war and these decisive experiences followed them like shadow in the years that followed. While they went through rehabilitation in children's homes and educational facilities, some of those rehabilitating them (Teachers, instructors, most ...

The series include 1,529 personal files in 16 volumes. The files contain information about refugees and Holocaust survivors who came to Sweden and stayed in Gothenburg from 1937 to 1947. One volume also contains circular letters and guidelines for the treatment of refugees from the authorities and one volume contains correspondence.

The Ukrainian Society's archives contain testimonies about the Holocaust, including the following volume: F 4 Audio recordings concerning the personal experiences of I. Wanczyckyj, W. Bretan, M. Radekko and B. Skobowitsh-Okolot's personal experiences during the Second World War. The recordings are on 12 cassette tapes (12 x 90min). The recordings are in Ukrainian and made on 1989-03-10-11. They contain ...