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Fragment of a desecrated torah scroll discovered by Max Hausspiegel (later Houss) in the rubble of the Pforzheim synagogue in the days following the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938. He took the torah fragment with him when his family emigrated to the United States in the spring of 1939.

Following the pogrom of November 1938, Jewish life in Germany was extremely curtailed. Almost immediately, the large number of Jewish newspapers available were shut down. In their place, the Nazis ordered the creation of one new Jewish newspaper, "Das Jüdische Nachrichtenblatt." This newspaper was kept under close watch by the Nazi authorities. It published discussions and news items about the Jewish ...

Contains a variety of archival records as well as complete archival collections related to the history of the Jewish communities of Ukraine. Includes the following parts: 1. Ministry of Jewish Affairs of the Ukrainian People’s Republic; 2. Ministry for Jewish Affairs of the Ukrainian State; 3.Central Jewish Committee on Aid to Victims of Pogroms; 4.All-Ukrainian Jewish Committee on Aid to Victims of ...

Oscar Loeser (b. 1894), a Jew from Hamburg, was taken in to so called ‘protective custody’ in the immediate aftermath of the November Pogrom. According to his wife, Käte Loeser, he had fought for Germany in France and Russia during World War I, where he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class.

Consists of one memoir, 122 pages, in Russian, entitled "Tishkovska Saga," by Dora Malina Aizenshtein, originally of Moscow, Russia. In May 1941, Dora and her sister were left in the care of relatives in the Ukraine and spent several years under German occupation. After escaping from a small camp near Gaysin (Haisyn) and living on the run and in hiding until she was able to reunite with her family ...

<p>This collection contains the personal papers of the Sturmthal and Löwenstein families from Bad Pyrmont and Steinheim respectively, Germany, who fled to England with the help of the Quakers in 1939.</p>Family papers including birth, marriage and death certificates, German passports (1754/1-3), Dina Löwenstein's certificate of naturalisation and correspondence from Steinheim Town Council regarding ...

Consists of documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Friedrich and Paula (nee Klawir) Haas, who were born in Vienna and fled to Ireland before immigrating to the United States. Includes materials related to their affidavits of support prepared by Lawrence Schnadig of Chicago, IL, who was not related to them. The collection also illustrates Friedrich's imprisonment in Buchenwald ...