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List of Quakers from Germany who helped Jews

File Number : 948

Type of Material : List of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

Lists of Jewish students rejected by Humboldt University in Berlin, and a list of Quakers who helped Jews

File Number : 948

Type of Material : Letter, List of Students, List of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

Eve Cahen, born in Orleans, France, 1880; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Eve Cahen, born in Orleans, France, 1880; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Toulouse from 1942; work as assistant to Dr. Jules Hofstein, the physician, in the CAR (Refugees Aid Committee) and OSE (Children's Aid Society) offices; raises money and prepares parcels for Gurs inmates; occupation of southern France by the Germans; search for solutions for children at risk; distribution of food on the deportation trains with help from the Quakers; arrest by the Gestapo; deportation to Auschwitz on Transport 76, 30 June 1944. In the file: - Photograph...

File Number : 143

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Personal Documents, Photograph

Language : French

Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France) correspondence, Zone Sud regarding social welfare matters, handling of refugees from Zone Nord; budget; monthly reports submitted by the First Department and more, 1942-1944 The material was created by: Robert Kahn, Director of the 1st Department "Family" for the Director-General In the file: Correspondence regarding social welfare matters, handling of refugees from Zone Nord, budget, and the transfer of various UGIF services from Marseilles to other places. Also in the file: - Some monthly reports regarding activities of...

File Number : 165

Type of Material : List of Deportees, Names, Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : French

Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France), Zone Sud correspondence with relief organizations, a letter from the Red Cross and a letter and circulars regarding the status of Jewish veterans, 1941-1943 The material was created by: General Director: Liaison with Private Organizations In the file: UGIF correspondence with relief organizations, such as the Quakers, the Unitarian Service Committee and the American Friends Service Committee, mainly regarding assistance to children and detainees in camps and forced labor companies Also in the file: - Letter from the...

File Number : 154

Type of Material : Circular, Official Documentation

Language : French

Booklet by Ruth Lambert regarding children in Gurs, memoirs of Dr. Gaston Levy, the pediatrician, from the war period, memorandum regarding OSE (Oeuvre de Secours Aux Enfants) activities in southern France and more In the file: Booklet A: - Memoirs of Ruth Lambert regarding children in Gurs, 16 December 1984; - Memorandum written by an unknown author, June 1943 regarding OSE activities in southern France, June 1940-April 1943; - Summary by Abbe Albert Gross regarding the Gurs camp, late 1943; - Report by an unknown author regarding the activities of Dr. Gaston Levy in Gurs, 05 December 1942-01...

File Number : 141

Type of Material : Booklet(s), Survey Report

Language : French

Testimony of Bat Ami Henig, born in Memel, Lithuania, 1928, regarding her experience as a refugee in Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Bat Ami Henig, born in Memel, Lithuania, 1928, regarding her experience as a refugee in Switzerland Her family and life in Memel; death of her mother when the witness was 4 years old; her life with foster families. German occupation, 1939; move to Kaunas; meets her father; travel to Berlin; travel to Geneva by train and then to Zurich; life in Switzerland as refugees and the attitude of the Swiss toward the Jews; receives help from a voluntary organization run by Quakers that found her a place to live in a Christian home for two years; membership and activities in Zionist youth movements;...

File Number : 9067

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shimon Friedrich Hamel, born in Strasbourg, France, 1907, regarding his experiences in the Jewish Scouts in France, Taluyers and Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Shimon Friedrich Hamel, born in Strasbourg, France, 1907, regarding his experiences in the Jewish Scouts in France, Taluyers and Switzerland Assimilated family; studies in the faculty for natural sciences; makes contact with the Jewish Scouts movement from the start of its establishment, 1923; influence of refugees from Germany on the pioneering education in the Scouts movement. Establishment of children's homes and agricultural aliya training groups with the outbreak of the war; meets with the head of the Scouts movement, Robert Gamzon; coordination of practical work; establishment and...

File Number : 3472

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Olga Halle regarding aid and rescue efforts by the International Quaker community in Germany on behalf of Jews and others persecuted by the Nazis, 1934-1945

Testimony of Olga Halle regarding aid and rescue efforts by the International Quaker community in Germany on behalf of Jews and others persecuted by the Nazis, 1934-1945 In the file: - Cover letter from Dr. Ball-Kaduri, addressed to Yad Vashem, regarding the testimony of Olga Halle, 26 March 1972 (p. 2). - Postwar testimony of Olga Halle, formerly a clerk in the International Quakers Office in Berlin, describing her experiences in the Quakers Office at the end of 1940; at that time, she could not help any more persecuted Jews with immigration visas to the United States (p. 3). - Further...

File Number : 328

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

Summary of a research paper by Marianne Golding regarding the stories of the rescue of her father Edouard Seidler from Brno and of two Jews, who, as children, were smuggled to places of refuge in France by French rescue activists - Summary of a research paper by Dr. Marianne Golding regarding the stories of the rescue of her father Edouard Seidler and two other Jews named Ron Fried and Menachem Mayer, who as children were smuggled to places of refuge in France; they were smuggled by three rescue activists, members of the Quaker organization - Alise Resch Synnestvedt and Mary Elmes, and Andree Salomon, member...

File Number : 612

Type of Material : Study

Language : English

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