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21. Nachlass Jean Nordmann (1908-1986)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.97.1 | RG Number: RG-58.039
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2001
Alternate Title:
Jean Nordmann papers
… trained in Germany, England and France. During the Second World War, he worked with his wife to help Jewish refugees. He was elected to the Jewish Central…
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 … war Präsident der Jüdischen Gemeinde Fribourg. Ab 1980 war er Mitglied des Centralcomités des SIG; 1984 Vizepräsident, ab 1993 Präsident des…
22. Nachlass Pfarrer Paul Vogt (1900-1984)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.86.1 | RG Number: RG-58.040
Date:
inclusive: 1882-2000
Alternate Title:
Pastor Paul Vogt papers
… Swiss Ecclesiastical Auxiliary Committee for Evangelical Refugees. After the war, Vogt fought for an understanding between Christians and Jews. He was the…
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 … Flüchtlinge eingerichtet worden war; Initiant der 1945 gegründeten Arbeitsgemeinschaft von Christen und Juden; Mitglied der Gesellschaft Schweiz-Israel…
23. Nachlass Dr. iur. Veit Wyler (1908-2002)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.87.1 | RG Number: RG-58.041
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2002
Alternate Title:
Veit Wyler papers
… delegate. The collection consists of photographs, certificates from schools, doctoral studies, military service records, records of his early activities as a…
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 … aus einem von Eva Walter-Geissler für Veit Wyler erstellten Album. Walter-Geissler war mit dem Schweizer Spanienkämpfer Armin Walter verheiratet und…
24. Nachlass Luise Wetter (1917-1991)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.89.1 | RG Number: RG-58.043
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1991
Alternate Title:
Luise Wetter papers
…Luise Wetter (1917-1991) was a teacher and aid worker in Switzerland for refugee children during and after the war..…
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 … Emili (geb. Keller); Geschwister Margrit und Martin (welcher ebenfalls in der Kinderhilfe tätig war); Gymnasium in Winterthur; 1939 Lehrer-Diplom…
25. Nachlass Ruth von Wild (1912-1983)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.90.1 | RG Number: RG-58.044
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1982
Alternate Title:
Ruth von Wild papers
… Swiss School in Barcelona. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War the school was closed and Wild went to England to earn an English diploma. In Aug…
26. Nachlass Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.91.1 | RG Number: RG-58.045
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1982
Alternate Title:
Elisabeth Eidenbenz papers
… decided to join the Asociación de Ayuda a los Niños en Guerra ("Association to Aid Children in War"). After the fall of the Spanish Republic many…
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 … spanische Königin Sofia, Madrid, 14.2.2006 2006 16 Stück Innen-, Aussen- und Porträtaufnahmen der Verleihung Hinweis: - Elisabeth Eidenbenz war an der…
27. Nachlass Konsul Carl Lutz (1895-1975)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.95.1 | RG Number: RG-58.049
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1988
Alternate Title:
Carl Lutz papers
… Austrian border. After the war Lutz received a letter of reprimand from authorities in Switzerland for overstepping his authority in helping the Jews of…
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 … Rettungsaktionen beteiligt gewesen war. Dokumente zu Lutz aus ungarischen Archiven, die für das AfZ durch Prof. Dr. László Karsai zusammengetragen wurden, der…
28. Ernst Fink papers
Document | Accession Number: 2023.128.1 | RG Number: RG-58.053
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1989
Alternate Title:
Einzelbestand Ernst Fink
… completing studies in business, he opened specialist orthopedic stores in Zurich and Basel. He served in the military during World War II, performing 193 days…
29. Ostrava Jewish Community collection
Document | Accession Number: 2014.15 | RG Number: RG-59.082
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2010
… experiences during the war, and in the postwar period, in many cases to the present: including information and photographs of the survivor's families, trips to…
30. Selected records of the World ORT Archive (WOA), London
Document | Accession Number: 2018.468.1 | RG Number: RG-59.084
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1983
… Russian Jews by instructing them in trades and agriculture, including farming, sewing, and mechanics. During World War I (1914-1918), ORT provided…
31. Institut d'Etudes du Judaïsme collection, late 19th century-1980s
Document | Accession Number: 2018.92.1 | RG Number: RG-65.025
Date:
inclusive: before 1900-circa 1980
…Correspondence, reports, and files relating to Jewish residents and refugees in Belgium before, during, and after World War II that document the…
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 …--Jewish resistance--Belgium. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Belgium. Photographs. CONTAINER LIST Series I : Comité d’aide et d’assistance aux Réfugiés…
32. Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.180 | RG Number: RG-67.017
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2005
bulk: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Reports, publications, interviews, obituaries, and photographs pertaining to the careers of Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Documents record the Sharps…
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 … wartime photographs taken in Europe. The last section of this binder contains post-war (contemporary) photographs from Camp de Gurs (Gurs concentration camp…
33. Territorial collection-Holland (RG-116-Holland)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.335 | RG Number: RG-67.043M
Date:
inclusive: 1790-1980
bulk: 1940-1949
…-1840) and financial records of the Rotterdam community in the 19th century; as well contains the post-war materials: records of the Dutch Red Cross…
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 … used by the Nazis to their great advantage, manufacturing arms and other supplies crucial to the war effort. Many issues concerning Holland and its Jews…
34. Sammlung Egon Michael Zweig und familie (P 149)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.16.1 | RG Number: RG-68.212
Date:
inclusive: 1750-1973
Alternate Title:
Collection of Egon Michael Zweig and family
…Genealogical documents, correspondence, photographs, published materials, records related to the political activities in Zionist movements, and…
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 … dem Studium in Wien und arbeitete im frühen 20. Jahrhundert dort als Hof- und Gerichtsadvokat mit eigener Kanzlei. Bereits im Alter von 19 Jahren war er…
35. Personal papers of Holocaust survivors in Argentina
Document | Accession Number: 2018.291 | RG Number: RG-72.040
Date:
inclusive: 1871-2004
bulk: 1946-1964
…Contains four small collections of personal documents, photographs, correspondence of survivors to Argentina: 1. Klippel-one file from the office of…
36. Morgenthau family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.255.1
Date:
inclusive: 1860-2005
bulk: 1930-1950
… Cleveland, Ohio. The United States declared war on Germany and Japan in December 1941. Morgenthau joined the United States Army. In 1943, he graduated from…
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 … correspondence, documents, photographs, and research notes related to the Morgenthau family. The collection includes material related to the Ottoman Empire and…
37. Lessing family papers
2017.642.16 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.642.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2017
… Lessing family. The books cover pre-war family history, their Holocaust experiences, and their post-war lives through 2015. Photographs consists of pre-war…
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 … post-war lives through 2015. Photographs consists of pre-war images of Ed with his Jewish scout group and wartime images of him with the Dutch Resistance…
38. Haber family papers
2015.236.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.236.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-circa 1990
bulk: 1897-1954
…, 1939. Included are photographs and clippings of Fritz and the other children documenting their trip on board the SS President Harding and arrival to the…
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 … American immigration of fifty Jewish children from Nazi- occupied Vienna in May, 1939. Included are photographs and clippings of Fritz and the other children…
39. Schames family Papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.460.1
Date:
inclusive: 1871-1984
… letters received from family in Stuttgart. Photographs includes prewar family photographs, depictions of Max Schames during World War I, and depictions of…
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 … Schames during World War I, prewar letters received by Käthe, and wartime letters received from family in Stuttgart. Photographs includes prewar family…
40. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… Harvey Goldfarb, written by Aimee Povich, entitled “Ethics and the Holocaust, Part 1 and Part 2,” 2004-2005. The photographs include pre-war photographs…
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 … by Aimee Povich, entitled “Ethics and the Holocaust.” Photographs include pre-war photographs of the Mutterperl family and friends in Dokszyce, Poland…