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Introduced in 1939, the Labour Service was a specific form of Hungarian military duty during WWII. The nationalistic Hungarian state considered certain minority groups politically unreliable and forced them to perform unarmed service in the army. The majority of the labour servicemen were Jewish, with conscription for other targeted groups only selectively implemented. Before Germany’s occupation of ...

The collection contains i.a. documents of Sochaczew city governor’s office, including lists of shops owned by Jews; ordinances from the period of the occupation concerning or affecting Jews, including some concerning the establishment of a Jewish quarter in January 1941; correspondence of the Judenrat concerning forced labour and food ration cards; lists of Jews by labour details.

The collection consists of a passport issued to Charlotte Neumann Rapaport, partially used ration card issued to Gerti Neuman Agoston, prescription for medication written for Irma Stein Neuman, postcard requesting aid for Irma Stein, and draft of a letter requesting housing for Irma Stein Neuman.

Contains materials related to Helene Wiesenberg (donor) and her experiences in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Includes ration cards, work certificates stating that she participated in the delousing of arriving convoys, examples of camp scrip, and documentation granting her permission to leave Terezin in June 1945. Also includes a typewritten poem, dated March 1945, apparently written in observance of Passover ...

The Greta Fischer collection consists of biographical materials about Fischer's UNRRA career; concentration camp materials including a map and a ration card; photographs of children and employees at the D.P. children's centers at Kloster Indersdorf, Prien, and Gstadt; printed materials, reports, memoranda, and speeches about UNRRA's work with displaced children; and souvenirs from the children's centers, ...

The collection consists of documents relating to Dorothy Jones [donors' mother] (b. July 17, 1914) who on July 1, 1945 began to work as Assistant Welfare Officer of UNRRA in US zone in Germany and left in September 1948 as Chief Welfare Officer. The documents include different reports, passports, lists, correspondence, UNRRA publications, and others. Two UNRRA uniforms (2 jackets and 3 skirts), sweaters, ...

Orders concerning activities; requests for obtaining passes; lists of Germans and Volksdeutsche; certificates for goods confiscated from evacuees; lists of inhabitants; lists and certificates for obtaining bread and ration cards; budget documentation; receipts. Selected files containing information about the Holocaust: File 25 – Statistical data about population of Kriukiv; register of Beletsk ceramic ...

Documentation of the municipal administration of Brest, 1941-1944
 
 Personal forms completed by Jews from Brest in order to receive identity cards, November 1941-October 1942; documentation regarding tax payments by the Jews, 1941-1942; orders and directives issued by the municipal administration commander regarding Jewish forced laborers, and prohibitions and limitations pertaining to Jews; ...

Laura Selo née Gumpel (b. 1923) came to England with her two sisters on 1 June 1939 on one of the Nicholas Winton Kindertransports. Originally from Berlin they were sent to a convent school in Bohemia in 1935. Their father, Karl Gumpel, formerly director of the company, Edeka, followed them as did their mother later.