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The Berlin Zionist Union (BZU), a local chapter of the Zionist Federation of Germany, was founded in 1897 at the initiative of Heinrich Lowe. According to its charter, the BZU aimed to support the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine. The union sought to assist in the settlement of Palestine, strengthen Jewish national selfconsciousness, and propagate Zionist ideology in Germany. Membership ...

Anna Altenberg-Burshtain (born Anna Altenberg) was the daughter of Necha (Markowicz) and Bernard (Berek) Altenberg, both of whom immigrated to Belgium from Tomaszów Mazowiecki and Kałuszyn, Poland in the interwar period. Anna was born in 1932 in Antwerp, where her father was a photographer and the owner of a large photo studio called Bernard Studios. He was also the inventor of the first electric copier, ...

"Gorgeous War argues that the Nazis used the swastika as part of a visually sophisticated propaganda program that was not only modernist but also the forerunner of contemporary brand identity. When the United States military tried to answer Nazi displays of graphic power, it failed. In the end the best graphic response to the Nazis was produced by the Walt Disney Company. Using numerous examples of ...

The Society for the Support of Jewish Performing Arts was established in Wilno in 1927 to provide support to Jewish performing arts and Jewish theater. The society provided financial support to Jewish theaters in Wilno, assistance in staging theatrical performances, organized concerts, lectures, exhibitions, published theatrical works, sponsored professional development of Jewish actors, and many other ...

The collection contains minutes of the Germany Emergency Committee, which was later renamed the Friends Committee for Refugees and Aliens (FCRA). Records relate to the situation of Jews in Germany, support for refugees, internment, political prisoners, and visits to concentration camps. The collection also includes the pamphlet “An Account of the Work of the Friends Committee for Refugees and Aliens, ...

This fonds contains documents concerning the Jewish communities in Belgium (mainly Antwerp and Brussels) during the interwar period, collected by David Trotsky. The bulk of the material is dated 1920-1938. We mostly find printed matter (newsletters, posters, flyers, …), circulars, reports, membership cards, invitations, election materials, clippings, … covering virtually all aspects of Jewish political, ...

"Unlikely Allies offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language analysis of German-Ukrainian collaboration in the General Government, an area of occupied Poland during World War II. Drawing on extensive archival material, the Ukrainian position is examined chiefly through the perspective of Ukrainian Central Committee head Volodymyr Kubiiovych, a prewar academic and ardent nationalist. ...

Jacob Kriegel (1896-1970) was born in Nadworna, Poland (then a part of Austro-Hungary) on February 12, 1896 to Privah and Chume Elchanan Kriegel. Between 1915 and 1918 Jacob served in the First World War. In his first year of service Jacob was severely wounded. As a consequence of his injury Jacob was sent to a school for officers and eventually became a quartermaster. In 1920 he emigrated from Poland ...

Correspondence and reports related to antisemitic attacks and special regulations for Polish Jews issued by German authorities in Silesia, and letters from the Jewish community in Łódź and the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs protesting antisemitic attacks.

Wooden doors of the Łódź ghetto Hospital No.1 (later the Helena Wolf Hospital), removed in 1989, prior to the building’s renovation. On September 1, 1939, German troops invaded Poland, and occupied Łódź the following week, renaming it Litzmannstadt. In February 1940, the German authorities established the Łódź ghetto in the existing slum of Baluty, and forced 160,000 Jews to relocate into one and a ...