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In de collectie van het Letterenhuis – een omvangrijk geheel van archivalia, documentatie en iconografisch materiaal – vinden we heel wat stukken die voor deze gids relevant zijn. De onderwerpsmappen bevatten doorgaans vooral krantenknipsels, brochures, programmaboekjes, publicaties, flyers, affiches, uitnodigingen en vaak ook losse archiefstukken. Via de Agrippa-databank kan men bladeren in de collectie, ...

This collection contains, in colour and black-and-white, six sketches, one painting and 11 ‘educational’ caricature drawings informing the Jewish staff at the Dossin barracks about daily life and procedures at the camp. This art was created by the Jewish artist inmates of the 'Malerstube' (painters workshop), among whom Gyorgy Bekeffi, Irene Spicker-Awret, August (Alexandre) Polak and Kopel Simelo ...

Title: "Streets of Paris. Cafes on the Champs-Elysees. Arc de Triomphe. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Place de la Concorde." Sightseeing in Paris, including street scenes, cafe with red tables and chairs, Arc de Triomphe, Eternal Flame for Unknown Soldier (WWI) with wreath and flowers, French police, Eiffel Tower, Place de la Concorde, statues, cars on Champs d'Elysee, and aerial views from the Eiffel ...

A collection of cabaret pieces and some serious poems produced in Theresienstadt. The editor's introduction (pp. 11-55) describes the wealth of cultural activities in the ghetto - concerts, theater, opera, cabaret, lectures - both in the early months when they were carried out clandestinely and under the most difficult conditions, and after September 1942 when the SS encouraged and supported them for ...

Benjamin Morris Gasul (1898-1962) was born in Latvia. He traveled to the U.S. on the "Empress of Russia" ship at the age of 16 and settled in Kenosha, WI. He graduated from Rush Medical School in Chicago and continued his studies in Vienna where he married American Lala Rosenzweig (she sang in the opera house). Dr. Gasul practiced pediatrics until 1945 when he became focused on heart disease in children. ...

"In Terezín, a Nazi camp where 35,000 people died, a remarkable community of musicians and artists answered despair with creativity. Here is their astonishing world, captured firsthand in lively concert critiques by composer, scholar, and prisoner Viktor Ullmann. We meet Terezín's choirs and solo artists, luminaries of European cabaret and opera, and a generation of accomplished composers silenced ...

Arnold Schleifer (1872-1950) was a Vienna-born restaurateur who leased and managed the Claremont Inn and Tavern-on-the Green in New York City for many years. In 1943, Arnold Schleifer and his nephews, Arthur Schleifer and Julius Berman, won the contract to operate the restaurant. They enlarged the dance floor and offered nightly music. A large outdoor patio offered dining al fresco. Trees were first ...

The papers in this collection are evidence of the literary and artistic talents of Peter Kien, a young Czech Jewish artist and writer and inmate of Theresienstadt who was later murdered at Auschwitz.<br /><div><br /></div><div>The collection was begun in the mid 1980s on the initiative of Käthe Fischel, a cousin of Peter Kien, and consists of a number of separate deposits from different sources all ...

<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.</strong></span></p><p>I: original correspondence between the Polizeipräsident of Berlin and the KBDJ concerning all the activities of the organisation, eg. Theatrical performances, engagement of the actors, venues etc, 1933-1935<br />R:\Document collections\MF54\Working ...