United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47323
• English
• 1945-1956
• 13,811 digital images, JPEG 13 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Records from trials at the District Court in Zamość, 1945‒1966, for crimes committed by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Stalinist propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47324
• English
• 1945-1956
• 9,728 digital images, JPEG 9 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Records from trials at the provincial court in Lublin, 1945‒1966, for crimes committed by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Communist propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47326
• English
• 1945-1956
• 3,800 digital images, JPEG 4 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection contains selected files of the prosecutor’s investigations from the Prosecutor’s Office of Special Appeal Court in Lublin during the years 1945-1956. These investigations pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Most of the investigation was discontinued. These investigations were based on the decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment o...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47327
• English
• 1939-1950
• 2,960 digital images, JPEG 6 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains selected records of the district Starosties (Landraturen) in Konin, Ostrów, Śrem, municipal files of Czerniejewo, Gołańcz, Kłecko, Buk, Dolsk, Kostrzyń, records of the Umwandererzentralstelle (Central Office of Migration) in Poznań, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (NSDAP) in Poznań, the collection of announcements, posters, and leaflets as well as records of the Bodenamt SS (Land Office) in Poznań. Includes records relating to displacements of people, the relationship of Germans towards Poles and Jews, registration of Jews occupied in medical service, statistics of ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47328
• English
• 1933-1946
• 2,688 digital images, JPEG 3 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains records relating to Jewish communities in the cities of Chodzież, Piła, Szamocin, and Trzcianka, in Poland. Included are mainly correspondence, regulations relating to marriages, schools, cultural institutions, and religious objects for Jews. Also contains a name lists of the French prisoners of war and Polish and German workers working in German factories.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47329
• English
• 1942-1944
• 345 digital images, JPEG 1 microfilm reel (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains various documents from concentration camp KL Lublin-Majdanek, e.g. identification cards (Personalasweis), soldier’s identification cards (Soldbuch), private and official correspondence, certificates and calendars.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn4733
• English
• overall: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Scrip, valued at 20 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47331
• English
• 1944-1950
• 7,323 digital images, JPEG 7 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

This collection includes the records of the Personnel Department of the Centralny Komitet Żydὀw Polskich (CKŻP). Contains documentation relating to employees of CKŻP, e.g. job applications, questionnaires (comprising of resumes and photographs), cards of the staff, insurance papers, certificates and statements, holiday leave, roll cards, sick leave, reports concerning the current number of employees, etc.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn4734
• English
• overall: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47341
• English
• 1933-1963
• 1,565 digital images, TIFF 3 microfilm reels, 35 mm 1 DVD-ROM, 4 3/4 in.
• Updated 1 year ago

This collection includes personal papers of Maurice Laserson, a social worker involved with the resettlement of Jewish refugees. The papers reflect his work with the Obshchestvo remeslennogo i zemledelʹcheskogo truda sredi evreev (Soviet Union) (ORT) and his connections with the Australian Jewish colleagues. Includes reports, newspaper clippings, writings and publications by J.M. Machover, Walter Lippmann, Rabbi Schenk and his articles from 1937-57, as well as correspondence on the plight of German Jewish refugees, including James McDonald's correspondence about the Jews in Europe,1933-1934.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47342
• English
• 1941-1983
• 1,445 digital images, PDF 3 microfilm reels, 35 mm 1 DVD-ROM, 4 3/4 in.
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains the research papers and original sources used by Cyril Pearl in writing his book on the Dunera ship ("The Dunera Scandal: Deported by Mistake") and the records on the internment camps in Australia. In 1940 German refugees seeking asylum in England were sent to Australia as an enemy alien aboard the Dunera ship and interned in Australia at the Hay internment camp for a year and a half. In 1942, England realized their mistake in holding these refugees and they were released. Records include ephemera from the Hay camp, newspaper clippings about the Dunera affair,1941-1983, hansard ext...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47343
• English
• 1940-1989
• 554 digital images, PDF 1 microfilm reel, 35 mm 1 DVD-ROM, 4 3/4 in.
• Updated 1 year ago

This collection contains the papers of Wolf (Bill) Matsdorf, a social worker and one of the originators of the Australian Jewish Welfare Society Sheltered Workshop, established in 1955. He was also involved in other activities within the Jewish community including the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism and the Society for the Rescue of European Jewry. Papers include: documents of the Australian Jewish Welfare Society, the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism, the Australia-Israel Society for Cultural Exchange; the Kimberley plan; personal records and papers on ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47344
• English
• 1940-1973
• 1,939 digital images, PDF 4 microfilm reels, 35 mm 1 DVD-ROM, 4 3/4 in.
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains records of the Magen David Adom (a "Jewish Red Cross" founded in Tel Aviv in 1930 as a First Aid Society) collected by Benzion Patkin. Includes annual reports, correspondence, newspapers, and photographs and relates to the Magen David Adom assistance to Palestine, and to Jews in Europe and Shanghai.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47345
• English
• 1935-1969
• 4,494 digital images, JPEG 6 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains records of the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism, including correspondence, minutes, annual reports, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and magazines.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn4735
• English
• overall: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Scrip, valued at 100 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47386
• English
• 1939-1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of correspondence and photographs related to the family of Max and Fritzi Lustig Adler, who were able to emigrate from Prague to England and later to Canada in 1939. Includes pre-war photographs of the Adler and Lustig families, and wartime and post-war photos of Max, Fritzi, and daughter Doris, who was born in 1940 in Canada. Also includes correspondence from 1939-1940 from Max's sister, Marianne, and mother, Emma, both of whom later perished in the Holocaust.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47387
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consist of approximately 16 photographs taken of the Gardelegen atrocity by Robert Marchik, a member of the United States Army. The photographs depict the burial of corpses and of the Gardelegen cemetery.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47391
• English
• 1935-1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of seven photographs of the Weidlinger (now Veidlinger) family, originally of Hungary. Includes wartime photographs of the family, including images in which the members are wearing Magen David (Stars of David). Also includes Andor (Andrew) Weidlinger's Red Cross identity card in Hungary, dated October 10, 1944; the card was altered into a Russian identity card in 1945. The family received Salvadorean citizenship papers via George Mantello.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47394
• English
• 1919-1933
• folders oversize folder 3 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of loose photographs, photograph albums, and documents related to pre-war Zionist Congresses and of photographs related to young Zionists in Latvia and Lithuania. The photographs depict groups of men and women in formal and informal settings. Includes a photograph album of the 18th Zionist Congress, held in Prague in 1933, and documents from the 14th Zionist Congress, held in Vienna in 1925. The material was collected by Samuel Gotz.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47400
• English
• 1940-1982
• 162,667 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains records of the Brusseler Treuhandgesellschaft. This organization was founded by the German occupiers in October 1940 as an "anonymous corporation" that seized control of enemy goods, including bank accounts and real estate. These documents provide an account of how the Jews residing in Belgium were looted by the German regime.