United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610183
• English
• 1910-1965
• box oversize box 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of photographs, a photograph album, documents, and correspondence, owned by Hugo Zulawski, originally of Vienna, Austria. Mr. Zulawski immigrated to the United States in 1939 on a transport organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus (the "50 children" transport). Prewar, wartime, and postwar family photographs include those Hugo took while in the United States military (1944-1947) and images of his parents while they were at the Kitchener Camp in England. Documents include restitution paperwork for property confiscated in Poland.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610189
• English
• 1 digital file, WAV
• Updated 1 year ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn61019
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of 14 photographs and photographic postcards depicting life in prewar Kolno, Poland, as well as pre-war photographs of members of the extended family of Betzalel (Charles) and Tzipporah (Faye) Olek Rosenbaum of Kolno.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610190
• English
• 2011-2012
• 16 digital files, MP3
• Updated 1 year ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610196
• English
• 1937-1949
• 7,774 digital images, JPEG 11 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Reports relating to religious cults, the surveillance by the Iron Guard of Adventists and Jews; the confiscation of Jewish-owned land, properties and companies; the elimination of Jews from state jobs, the confiscation of Iron Guard properties by the Romanian government, internment in Târgu Jiu camp; Iron Guard activities in various localities, various complaints against Roma, lists and nominal files of of properties confiscated from Jews in Târgovişte, confiscation of goods from Roma who were deported to Transnistria, the status of Jews and Polish refugees. Records relating to epidemics, c...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610210
• English
• overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Star of David badge worn by Tibor Fisch in Budapest during the Holocaust.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610211
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a photograph of the Buchenwald concentration camp taken soon after liberation. The image depicts cart of deceased bodies stacked and people standing in the background, one wearing concentration camp uniform and the rest appear in civilian clothing. Includes an envelope pre-printed "censored photographs" and addressed to "Capt. Russel [sic] G. Blixt-0373750/705th.TD.Bn..."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610212
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

U.S. Signal Corps photographs taken shortly after liberation at Reichenau, Dachau, and Landsberg camps; includes photographs of a survivor of a death march to Munich and of a mass grave near Waldlager 11.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn61022
• English
• 1920-1950
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of photographs (45) from the collection of Leib Szapiro, originally of Pruz︠h︡any, Poland (now Belarus), and his wife, Jenta Dobes Szapiro, originally of Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). Consists of pre-war photographs of Leib and Jenta's extended families, and life in the Feldafing displaced persons camp, including photographs of Jewish life in the camp. Includes a 1947 certificate of identity in lieu of a passport for the couple and copies of the American naturalization papers.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn61024
• English
• 1945
• folders 3
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of enlarged prints, photographs, and photographic negatives of images taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, including a print showing the headline of the 45th Division News when the war ended, prints of images of survivors, perpetrators being arrested, and of the Dachau death train. Also includes one narrative entitled "Remembering the Holocaust" by Marilyn Spencer, describing the experiences of a Jewish intelligence officer (unnamed in the text, but identified as Chester Kaplan) who participated in the liberation of Dachau.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn61025
• English
• 1953
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

One air mail envelope, printed with the return address of Dipl.-Ing. Simon Wiesenthal, Linz-Donau, Pacherstrasse 3, Austria. Addressed to Ernesto Klinger, Casilla Correo 2157, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and postmarked 9 April 1953 from Linz. No letter was found in envelope.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610256
• English
• 1938-1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of color copies of report cards, a Swiss protective pass (Schutzpass), handwritten poems, postcards, letters, and photographs. The collection was created and owned by Ágnes Grünwald, who was sixteen years old when she was deported from Budapest in October 1944. The postcards, poems, and letters were sent from a forced march. Grünwald perished in a concentration camp (likely Bergen-Belsen).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610257
• English
• 1944-1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of color copies of materials related to György Rosenberg (later György Ránki), who was fourteen years old when he was deported from Budapest. The collection includes copies of the note he threw from the train addressed to his father; identity papers he received after his liberation in Lübeck, Germany, and later in Sweden; a Red Cross search card; and other documents.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610262
• English
• 1929-1943
• 69 digital images, JPEG 8 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm 4,793 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Correspondence, reports and statistics of the Jewish Community Rm. Vâlcea, 1929-1942, and the Jewish Community of Drăgăşani, 1941-1943. A digital file contains a fragment of the census of Jews in 1941 (69 digital pages).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610263
• English
• 1938-1949
• 19 microfilm reels, 35
• Updated 1 year ago

Records relating to the confiscation of Iron Guard goods, the Iron Guard rebellion, neo-Protestant Churches, prisoners of war, Romanies sent to Transnistria; confiscation of properties of Romanies; taxes and goods for Jews, the hunt for those accused of war crimes, the round up of nomadic Romanies, refugees, deportation to Transnistria of Jews, deportation of Romanies, and Jewish affairs. Included are lists of properties of Romanies, and lists of Jews.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610264
• English
• 1818-1940
• 21,761 digital images, JPEG 20 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Records of the Jewish communities from Focșani, Bucharest, Giurgiu, Botoșani, Ploiești, Bîrlad, etc. and some Zionist organizations. Records reflect the situation of Jews from Bessarabia and Bucovina, discriminatory policies implemented by the government of Romania such as closing businesses, expropriation of properties, internment in camps, the situation of Jews in the Golta region, emigration of Jews from Romania, repatriation of Jews interned in camps in Transnistria, Germany, and Poland, and aid activities to Jews by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or other Jewish o...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610267
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Memoir, typescript, 45 pages, English translation of Czech original, describing the experiences of Dagmar Lieblová, originally of Kutná Hora, Czechoslovakia, in which she describes her childhood in Kutná Hora, the Jewish community there, the German annexation of Bohemia and Moravia, the subsequent introduction of antisemitic policies, the deportation of her family to Theresienstadt, the daily life during her 18 months of internment there, her participation in the children's play "Brundibár," her subsequent deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and experiences as a forced laborer there, the murd...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn61027
• English
• 1947-1949
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains 22 photographs showing unidentified displaced persons in various locations in southern Germany, includes wedding photographs, New Year's greeting photographs, funerals, and pictures of individuals and groups. Most photographs contain inscriptions on verso in Polish or Yiddish. Also includes a driver's license issued to Moses Kolin in Eichstaett, June 1948; a delegate's pass to the second national convetion of Brit Ha Zhoar, Munich, December 1947; and a program for a musical recital in Bucharest, Romania, on behalf of HaOved HaZioni, with the Orchestra Fratii Honigsberg, November 1947.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610274
• English
• 1916-1960
• folders 8
• Updated 1 year ago

The Abraham family papers contain documents and photographs pertaining to Walter and Ruth Abraham, a German-Jewish family, as well as their siblings and parents. During the Holocaust, the Abraham family evaded capture by hiding in several non-Jewish German homes. The documents consist mainly of identification papers such as birth and marriage certificates and identity cards for the Abraham family. Also included are post-war identification material for Walter’s mother Elsa Abraham, and a declaration of death for Ruth’s mother Henriette. Other documents include documentation for Ruth’s sister...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610275
• English
• 1944-1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of personal letters; Swiss protective passes (Schutzpasses); a report to the police about crimes committed by the Arrow Cross in Budapest; and other documents related to the Koch family.