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The collection holds the records of the Mayor, the head of the administration of the town of Nagykőrös between 1872 and 1950. Records from the years 1938-1944 include, but not limited to documents concerning the implementation of Jewish Laws and other antisemitic bureaucratic procedures, including the withdrawal of trade licences and permits, quitting rental agreements of Jews, exclusion of Jews from ...

Caroline Woolsey Ferriday (1902-1990) was the only child of Henry Ferriday, a New York dry goods merchant, and Eliza Woolsey Ferriday. After a brief acting career on Broadway, she began working as a volunteer at the French consulate in New York City. During World War II she raised money to assist French children, particularly war orphans. After the war, she aided victims of pseudo-scientific experiments ...

Jack (Heinz) Honig (1921-2012) was born in Alsenz, Germany, to Julius (1886-1924) and Rudolfine (née Sternheimer, 1889-1942) Honig. He was imprisoned for several months at Dachau following Kristallnacht. He left for England on a Kindertransport in July 1939 and immigrated to the United States in March 1940. His mother, Rudolfine Honig, and grandmother, Sarah Sternheimer, were deported to Gurs in 1941. ...

The Koordynacja ("The Zionist Coordinatsia for the Redemption of Children in Poland") was an organization in postwar Poland that operated with the aim of redeeming children from monasteries and catholic families after the holocaust. The "Koordynacja" was established on January 1946 following a meeting between Sara Dushnitski (in years to come - Shner Neshamit) and Arie - Leibl Goldberg – Sarid who ...

Contemporary sculpture created by Baruch Wind based upon his experiences and in memory of his family and the many Galician Jews who were persecuted and killed during the Holocaust in Poland. The work is in three sections that join together to form the sculpture. It presents a group of bronze figures pulling a large stone wheel chiseled with concentration camp numbers up a sloped base that resembles ...

The collection holds the records of the Mayor, the head of the administration of the town of Sopron between 1902 and 1945. Records from the years 1938-1944 (Boxes 242-499) include, but not limited to documents concerning the implementation of Jewish Laws and other antisemitic bureaucratic measures, including the withdrawal of trade licences and permits, quitting rental agreements of Jews, exclusion ...

In this fonds we firstly point out the relevant files containing correspondence with the WJC office in Brussels, Jewish organisations and individuals (files nrs. C2/1002 and C2/1317; years 1959-1962), with the Belgian ambassadors in London concerning the Bergen-Belsen memorial (C2/1766; 1948-1952), with He’atid – Federation of Zionists (C2/1196; 1942-1947), with the Conseil des Associations Juives ...

Photos and family documents pre- and post-Nazi regime. Information concerning founding of German-Jewish refugee congregation - Hartford, Connecticut. Letter signed in 1947 by Eleanor Roosevelt asking for funds for war orphans. Personal history of Spanier family written by Albert Spanier prior to his death in November of 1996. German-language newspaper published on May 12, 1939, in Paris listing Spanier ...

Feliks Puterman (1910-1955, also referred to as Stefan Feliks Samuel Puterman) was born Samuel Puterman on 13 January 1910 in Mszczonów, Poland to Jakob Puterman (1885-1943) and Regina Puterman (b. 1886, née Pomeranzenbaum). He had two sisters, Irena Puterman (b. 1921, later Barbara Irene Sifneos), and Basia Puterman. The family lived in Poznań and Warsaw. Feliks pursued a career in art, and attended ...

The Fred Strauss papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Fred Strauss’ attendance at the Israelitische Waisenanstalt school in Frankfurt, his inclusion in a Kindertransport from Frankfurt to Paris in 1939, his life as a child refugee in OSE homes in France, his immigration to the United States as part of an USCOM children’s transport ...