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The Blue Card was established by the Jewish community in Germany in 1934, as a means of helping Jews in Germany who were being persecuted by the Nazi regime through the loss of jobs, the confiscation of Jewish-owned businesses, and other measures. In 1939 The Blue Card was re-established in the United States, with the aim of assisting Jewish refugees who had fled Europe due to Nazi persecution. In ...

The collection documenting the activities of the Press and Cultural Department of the Foreign Ministry has three major parts: first, there are records of the distribution of Hungarian press organs abroad, reviews of foreign press, information bureaus and radio-related matters, second, there are records of the distribution of foreign press organs in Hungary, their permits, and papers on connections ...

Paramount News Vol. 2, No. 36. 01:36:36 "Africa - Fighting French and American Drive" (Voice of Gregory Abbot) US and Free French troops march in Tunis. Shows the Sultan of Morocco. 01:37:12 "Fighting French Manpower" French prisoners join the free French forces. 01:37:54 "The Yanks Still Come Home" US soldiers disembark. 01:38:30 "Holiday Train Wreck" (Voice of Henry Gladstone) The wreckage of two ...

The donor's mother, Hilda Sargent (1914-1969), trained as a shorthand typist before the war. The Pitman company encouraged shorthand penpals. She took great advantage of the scheme and wrote to dozens of Pitman penpals including one Austrian law student, Josef Stedronsky, an ardent Nazi. Stedronsky was an excellent cartoonist/ draughtsman and filled his letters with drawings and sketches, many of a ...

Films by American soldiers who first entered Nazi prison camps in the spring of 1945, and survivors rebuilding lives in DP camps. (19:49 minutes) Part Three of a three-part video series representing the Holocaust experience with the rich and very personal imagery found in the Museum’s private film collections. Such vivid cultural documents is at once familiar, intimate, and individual, and captures ...

This is the copy of a school book which was originally the property of the depositor, a pupil in a school in Cologne, 1933-1934. The contents of the book were dictated by the teacher and consist of notes on the racial characteristics of the various ethnic groups which comprise the German people, also notes on the theory of racial hygiene.

The photograph album contains images from the Priory children's home in Selkirk, Scotland, for refugee children that arrived on a Kindertransport in 1939. Many of the photographs show Gunther Abrahamson, who lived in the home, and Netta Pringle, assistant matron in the Priory home, who took the majority of the pictures and assembled the album. In 1996 Netta gave the album to Gunther and he added some ...

Mayer Pasternack (1910-1999) was born Majer Pasternak on November 18, 1910 in Radom, Poland to Izek David Pasternak (d. 1943) and Ester Lea Pasternak (née Ledermann, d. 1943). Mayer had 8 siblings: Shayva Pasternak (later Sylvia Birenbaum, b. 1920), Chaya Pasternak (later Helen Broad), Moshe Pasternak (later Moshe Gutman), Ruben Pasternak, and 4 others whose names are currently unknown. After the September ...

Moving train, railroad tracks. Ethel sits by the window next to another woman (Piepers?) and smiles. The family stands by their car and stows their belongings in the vehicle. The residence in Dahlem, Germany. The children play in the yard. A toddler, probably Peter, takes some of his first steps. He occasionally receives help. He falls over and recovers.