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David Cohen-Paraira and his daughter Ellis visit London in 1938 before Ellis started high school. Brief shot of Ellis and her father David. Spectators observe the changing of the guard in London. 01:07:03 Aunt Jessie (Jessica Vaugh) watering her garden. Jessie (a Scottish non-Jew) was married to David's brother Salomon. Ellis, her aunt, and her cousin, Pamela, play with a ball. 01:07:30 Ellis and Pamela ...

This collection contains documents pertaining to the treatment of Jews in French North Africa, particularly in Algeria, and the expropriation of their property by Vichy officials. Topics include the "Jewish question," antisemitism, the establishment of camps, refugees from Spain and/or from the International Brigades, the local Jewish community in Algeria, Jews from France, and the commune of Ain Temouchent. ...

Consists of a black and white image of fourteen children and two adults standing and seated together outside; verso: handwritten in blue ink “April 1944/Bari – Italy/Jewish children/saved by members/of the Jewish/Brigade – 8th Army”; dated April 1944; Bari, Italy.

Tombstone fragment with engraved Hebrew text recovered long after the war by William (formerly Wolf) Ungar from the Jewish cemetery in Rimaliv, Tarnopol District, Ukraine, formerly eastern Poland. Wolf was mobilized into the Polish Army when Germany invaded in September 1939. He was wounded, captured, released, and then returned to Lwow (Lviv, Ukraine), now under Soviet control. In June 1941, Germany ...

The Henriques Archive comprises the working papers of Rose Henriques from 1945 to 1950, when she served as head of the Germany Section of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad (JCRA) and led one of the Jewish Relief Units (JRU) into the former concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen.

Consists of a soldier's passbook and two documents certifying employment and good conduct, which were issued to Mr. Andrey Freund, a member of the British Forces, Jewish Brigade. The passbook notes his World War II inoculations, training, and other pieces of information, though there are few details about his presence in military theatres. Also includes two documents, both dated May 1948, attesting ...

According to the 1918 union of Bessarabia with Romania, a network of institutions was set up, with the task of consolidating public order. By the Decree of the Romanian Government of 1918 on the organization of police in each county (județ), the Police Prefectures were opened, as well as the Special Brigades of Security. Police Prefectures were subordinated to the General Directorate of Police and ...

Describes the author's life in Kraków, Poland; her hiding inside and liquidation of the ghetto in Tarnów, Poland; her separation from family members; how she passed as a Gentile and found employment; her attempts to communicate with her sisters who were concentration camp inmates; her move to and war-time employment in Austria; the end of World War II; her meeting with members of the Jewish Brigade; ...

The testimony describes Emil Jacoby's Holocaust recollections and his return to Eastern Europe to visit various concentration camps in 1987. Included is information about imprisonment at Auschwitz, survival of a death march in Austria, liberation by the Soviet army, and Jacoby's involvement in a Zionist organization called the Palestine Brigade (a.k.a. Jewish Brigade).

Anti-Nazi caricature depicting animals with the faces of prominent Nazi leaders, published in Palestine in the early 1940s. If the instructions on the paper are followed, and the sheet is properly folded, the joined animals will create an image of Adolf Hitler. To escape persecution from the Nazis, many German and European Jews began immigrating to Palestine, which was awarded to Great Britain following ...