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Contains a printed announcement in letter form about the "Refugee Assistance Fund." The letter indicates that some money was raised at Albert Hall "as a result of his (Einstein's) generous and unselfish help when he spoke to the only public gathering he has ever addressed," but more money is needed for the cause.

Consists of 11 photographs taken of the Gardelegen atrocity, including photographs of corpses carried on stretchers in preparation for burial. Also includes one letter, dated July 28, 1945, written by Daniel J. McCue, Jr. in Bad Aibling, Germany, to his father, Daniel J. McCue, Sr. In the letter, McCue writes that he is enclosing photographs taken "at a concentration camp..snapped by one of our boys." ...

<p>The Waldmann-Mandels were a blended family. Maurice Donat Waldmann was a Jew from Berlin who came to the UK in about 1938 to avoid persecution. In April 1940 he married Helena Mandelbaum, but this marriage was dissolved. Together they had a daughter. </p><p> Maurice married Rita Munter in February 1947. Rita was from a village in Bartenstein. However, after being expelled for refusing to give the ...

Describes the organization and functions of the sections of the Gestapo concerned with Jewish matters in the Düsseldorf district - i.e. in Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Krefeld, Mönchengladbach, Wuppertal, and smaller towns. Most of the officials were policemen who were chosen on the basis of vocational competence rather than political orientation; their methods included intimidation, but hardly ...

The collection contains interviews with survivors conducted by Dr. Júlia Vajda as part of the “Totalitarianism and Holocaust Project” of the University of Debrecen, Hungary, 2004-2007, and documentation regarding these interviews. There are 332 audio testimonies in the collection: 308 interviews with Jewish survivors and 24 with non-Jewish witnesses.Documentation regarding the interviews: - Completed ...

"This book informs the public for the first time about the impact of American psychiatry on soldiers during World War II. Breaking Point is the first in-depth history of American psychiatry in World War II. Drawn from unpublished primary documents, oral histories, and the author's personal interviews and correspondence over years with key psychiatric and military policymakers, it begins with Franklin ...

Consists of 20 photographs depicting the work of the International Red Cross, primarily in Europe but also in Asia, at the end of the Second World War and in the immediate postwar period. Original Spanish language inscriptions on the reverse describe the scenes captured and provide additional context related to aid efforts undertaken by the organization.

Consists of eight pre-war and wartime photographs from the collection of Gustav (Gus) Goldberger. The Goldberger family emigrated to Denmark in 1935, where Jeno Goldberger was the chief cantor in Copenhagen. The photographs include kindergarten pictures, piano recital pictures, and other pictures that demonstrate the daily life of the family in pre-war and wartime Denmark. The family escaped to Sweden ...

Testimony, 3 pages, handwritten by Jacques (Izak) Segal, originally of Poland but who immigrated to Belgium with his family as a child, and describes life in hiding during the occupation.

Gertrud Koh was born on June 3, 1901, in Gratz, Germany (Grodzisk Wielkopolski, Poland), to Alex and Dorothea Koh. She had two brothers and a sister. Following the end of World War I, Gertrud’s family moved to Berlin, Germany. As a young woman, she learned to sew and with additional training became a master seamstress. In May 1931, Gertrud married Julius Isaacsohn, a Berlin native. He was born on November ...