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Born in 1897 in Zürich as a son of Dr. Hermann Guggenheim (President of the Schweizerischen Israelitischen Gemeindebundes, SIG (Swiss Association of Israelites), and Leonide Guggenheim-Nordmann; His younger brother was a Professor of State Law, Prof. Dr. Paul Guggenheim. Childhood spent in Zurich-Enge; in 1917-1922 studied law in Zurich, Geneva, Berne and Leipzig; From 1922 employed in the law office ...

P.34: Collection of Rabbi Stephen Wise, American Zionist leader
 
 Stephen Samuel Wise (1874-1949), the son and grandson of rabbis, was born in Budapest in 1874. When Wise was an infant, his parents emigrated to the United States with their family. From a very young age, Wise aspired to be a rabbi, like his father Rabbi Aharon Wise. Wise completed his studies at Columbia University with Outstanding ...

Hilel Storch was born in Dvinsk, Latvia, he went to Riga where he was engaged in his father's world-wide business activities. He arrived in Stockholm in 1940 in transit to the USA. He decided to stay in Sweden primarily to keep in closer touch with his relatives who remained in Latvia.<br /><div><div><br /></div><div>Before he arrived in Sweden he was already an active Zionist, having represented the ...

"This present volume, which includes a selection of the papers presented at the 18th Yad Vashem bi-annual international scholars' conference dedicated to the topic 'Hiding, Sheltering, and Borrowing Identities: Avenues of Rescue During the Holocaust' (December 19-21, 2010), is an attempt to add new insights to the multi-faceted picture of rescue at the grassroots level."--Introduction "This present ...

Stephen Samuel Wise (1874-1949), the grandson and son of rabbis, was born in Budapest in 1874. When Wise was an infant, his parents emigrated to the United States. From a very young age, Wise aspired to be a rabbi, like his father. Wise completed his studies at Columbia University with excellence at the age of 18, and was ordained as a rabbi in 1893. He served as the rabbi in a number of communities ...

11:00:12 Refugees getting on board buses and trains, UNRRA officials help. Refugees waiting at the border at Nachod, a village on the Czech/Polish border. Reception center at Bratislava. 11:07:25 Jewish refugees leaving Europe for Palestine. Groups of DPs (Bricha Underground) crossing the Alps from Gnadenwald, Austria to Italy in February 1948. Many shots of walking up paths, climbing slopes, jumping ...

P.48 - Aryeh Kubovy Personal Collection&#x0D; &#x0D; The Collection includes mainly documentation from 1951-1952, the years when Dr. Aryeh Kubovy served as the Legate for Israel in Czechoslovakia and Poland.&#x0D; &#x0D; Aryeh Leon Kubovy (Kubovitzki) was born in Kursenai, Lithuania, in 1896. In 1906 his family emigrated to Belgium, where he acquired the rest of his education. He completed his studies ...

A key ambition that emerged right after the Holocaust in Hungary was to collect the names of the hundreds of thousands of victims, most of whose exact fates still needed to be clarified. Compiling name lists of victims who in most cases had no graves was understood as an essentially important task but also proved a difficult and prolonged process that has lasted until today. Next to the Országos Zsidó ...

Relates Simon Wiesenthal's biography and the most prominent of his activities. Wiesenthal was born in Galicia, and during the Second World War went through a number of labor and concentration camps. Disappointed by the laxity of American military authorities, he founded his own Documentation Center in Austria to trace Nazi war criminals. Wiesenthal played a key role in tracking down Eichmann, Mengele, ...

Selected records contain correspondence with domestic offices and international organizations; minutes and reports from meetings and events; records of the Department of Education such as curricula in schools in Hebrew or Yiddish; reports from dayrooms for pupils; personal files and correspondence of the Towarzystwo-Społeczno Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce (TSKŻ), branch in Lublin. Note: Reproduction of ...