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"Hlas Pudy Q306" issues
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn514456
- English
- 1944
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains photocopies of "Hlas Pudy Q306", a children's magazine written and published by eleven children, all under the age of twelve, who lived in the attic numbered Q306 in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto in Czechoslovakia. The children--editor-in-chief Mariana Kornova, Zdenek Grunhut, Hana Brockova, Jiri Kreisl, Anita Brandeisova, Tomas Sladkus, Jan Brod, Petr Abrahamovsky, Petr Fischl, Tommy Brandais, and Kitty Langendorfova--all perished in Auschwitz in the fall of 1944. In the magazine, they wrote short stories, poems, puzzles, and humorous observations about their lives and about...
"Krulik's Story"
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn72316
- English
- 1995
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of one memoir, 13 pages, entitled "Krulik's Story," by Israel (Krulik) Wilder. Wilder describes his childhood in Piotrkow, Poland, the German invasion in 1939, his family's escape to Radom, and life in the Radom ghetto. Israel Wilder got a job working forced labor at the Hortensia glass factory, where he worked until November 1944. He was deported to a series of camps, ending at Buchenwald concentration camp in December 1944, where he remained until the final weeks of the war, when he was sent to Theresienstadt, from which he was liberated. He was sent to England to recover, marrie...
"Lost and Waiting to be Found"
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn69538
- English
- 2011
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of one memoir, 59 pages, entitled “Lost and Waiting to be Found,” written by Jackie (Jacky) Young (born Jona Spiegel), originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, Jackie, who was born in December 1941 in Vienna, Austria, but was raised by adoptive parents in England, describes slowly learning about his own past, which his parents had kept from him despite his own faint memories and hints mentioned by relatives. In the memoir, Jackie describes his visit to Theresienstadt, where he was deported as an infant; to Maly Trostinec, where his mother, Elsa Spiegel, was deported and perish...
"Once upon four decades, 1939-1979"
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn502749
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of a copy of "Once upon four decades, 1939-1979" written by Margaret Collin. The volume contains testimonies of several Holocaust survivors seeking restitution from the German government. The various testimonies describe the experiences of the survivors in concentration camps, escape from the Nazis, life in hiding, episodes of suicide, and great mental anguish suffered since the end of the Holocaust. Also included are recollections of Margaret Collin about her own escape from Germany and the loss of her family. Intermingled in the text are several photocopies of Holocaust-related d...
"One in 6,000,000" One Woman's Story of Survival
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn90296
- English
- 2014
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of one memoir, 36 pages, entitled, "One in 6,000,000: One Woman's Story of Survival," by Hilde Geisen. In the memoir, she describes her childhood in Cologne; her memories of Nazi persecutions; her failed attempt at immigration to the United States; the deportation of her parents; life in Theresienstadt; post-war life in Deggendorf; and immigration to the United States in 1947. Includes a copy of her identity card and a 2002 portrait.
"Shakespeare Saved My Life"
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn36019
- English
- 2007
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of one memoir, 84 pages, entitled "Shakespeare Saved My Life," by Eva Porges Rocek. In her memoir, Eva describes her family's history, her memories of the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, the antisemitic laws and regulations, her family's deportation to Theresienstadt (Terezin) and then Auschwitz, her liberation by the Russian Army in January 1945, and her life after the war in the United States.
"The words of our mouths: our family's heritage as told by members of the Beer-Lasner, Goss-Kaufman, Katz-Rosenstein, Ribak-Weiner families"
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn503277
- English
- 1992
- folders 3
- Updated 1 year ago
Includes of a copy of "The words of our mouths..." written by Robert H. Weiner. It concerns the family heritage of the Weiner family and other related families of American Jews. The work includes information about Jewish emigration in the 19th century, the assimilation of immigrant Jews into American Society, and European History. Weiner uses quotes of family members and quotes from family correspondence in order to illustrate the family's story in both Europe and the United States. Special "Who's Who" segments, used alongside photographs, help trace the family tree. Also included is an ess...
(Typhus) SS Transport, Theresienstadt 1942 Dem Zyklus Terezin (Transportmittel SS) The Terezin Cycle (SS Transport) Leo Haas aquatint of a truck overloaded with the sick, dying, and dead
1. Leo Haas collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn513924
- English
- 1942
- overall: Height: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm) | Width: 19.625 inches (49.848 cm) pictorial area: Height: 8.625 inches (21.908 cm) | Width: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Aquatint created by Leo Haas in 1966 based upon sketches made in 1942 of scenes he witnessed while an inmate of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. It depicts the large bed of a truck overloaded with dead, dying, and ill inmates. Haas was an inmate of Terezin from September 1942-October 1944. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and a professional artist, was arrested in 1939 in Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia for being a Communist. He was deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, then shipped back to Ostrava to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, whe...
1981 International Liberators Conference collection Terezín
1. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn502663
- English
- 1981
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains of materials in various formats relating to the Terezín (Theresienstadt) concentration camp and to visits paid to the camp by members of the United States Army shortly after liberation by Soviet troops. The materials include information about the numbers of Jews in Terezín, the survival of Dr. Leo Baeck, and Terezín prisoners quarantined for typhus.
51.
- Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea CDEC
- 000012
- Italian
- fascicolo cartaceo 4 cc.
- Updated 6 years ago
Elenco dei convogli di ebrei deportati dall'Italia tra il 1943 e il 1944 verso i campi di Auschwitz, Terezin, Buchenwald, Libenau, Flossenburg e Meklenburg.
Abraham family papers
- 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...
Abraham Zemach papers
1. Abraham Zemach collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn503818
- English
- 1945-1994
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains 36 photographs (some with captions) taken by unknown parties and the U.S. Signal Corps from 1942 to 1945 depicting Nazi atrocities witnessed by Abraham Zemach while serving as a Jewish chaplain in the 76th US Infantry Division during World War II and after the war while ministering to Jewish displaced persons; an Occupational Forces Travel permit with handwritten annotations; two pieces of Terezin currency; a memoir relating to the experiences of Abraham Zemach during the war; a facsimile of a birthday letter from General Mark Clark dated 5 Jan.1946; a memorandum dated 22 Jun.1945 ...
Adler family papers
1. Denes and Janos Adler family collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn537260
- English
- boxes book enclosures oversize folders oversize box 4 8 3 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The Adler family papers document the Holocaust experiences of brothers Denis and János Adler, originally of Szeged, Hungary, and members of their extended families. The collection contains correspondence, biographical materials, immigration documents, restitution claims, and photographs regarding pre-war family lives; Denis’s emigration from Szeged in 1939; János’s conscription into the Hungarian Labor Service that accompanied German troops during the invasion of the Soviet Union, and his subsequent wounding and imprisonment in the field hospital in Alexajewka-Nikolajewka; the imprisonment ...
Agudat Yisrael collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn44067
- English
- 1939-1944
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The Agudat Yisrael collection consists of correspondence, telegrams, and names lists related to rescue attempts by the World Agudat Yisrael organization and various Swiss Jewish organizations to save the Jews of Hungary and Czechoslovakia between 1939-1944. Includes letters by Dr. Ya'akov Griffel and Ludwig Kastner, who worked with Turkish transit visas, a request for transit visas to Palestine for a list of rabbis, and a names list (with addresses) titled "from Theresienstadt to Slovakia until the end of June1944."
Albert David Hamburger papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn514900
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Albert David Hamburger and his parents Abraham and Rosa Hamburger of Gorinchem, Netherlands. Included are four letters written by Betty Bouten-Bergen, who hid David and his sister in Amsterdam; family photographs; copies of documents related to Albert’s release from Theresienstadt; and a Dutch translation of a diary written by Sergei Kaplan, husband of Olga Kaplan, who adopted Albert while he was in Theresienstadt.
Albert R. Sabaroff papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn521358
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists of 2 pieces of scrip from Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia, a newspaper obituary for George Silver, and a newspaper article from November 15, 1942, about George Silver.
Album
1. Zdenka Eismannova collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn47187
- English
- overall:
- Updated 1 year ago
Album; originally housed 5 watercolor on paper created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was interned in Theresienstadt; carved wooden album depicts a view of Prague [front] and designs [back]. The artist of the watercolors, Zdenka Eismannova, born in Prague in 1897, was deported to Theresienstadt in September 1942. From there she was deported on June 9, 1943 to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where she is presumed to have perished.
Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986
1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn546848
- English
- 1939-1986
- boxes oversize folder 97 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The Alexander Kulisiewicz collection contains microfilms, correspondence, music scores and notation, personal narratives, artwork, poetry, manuscripts, research notes, photograph, negatives, and various other documents compiled by Aleksander Kulisiewicz from 1945 until the time of his death in 1982. The materials in the collection relate to a variety of Holocaust topics, but mainly music, poetry, art, and theater in the concentration camps during World War II. Kulisiewicz compiled the small archive of music, poetry, literature, photographs, and sound recordings during the years after his li...
Alfred Eisner papers
1. Alfred Eisner collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516214
- English
- 1945-1948
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Alfred Eisner, originally of Teplice-Šanov, Czechoslovakia (Teplice, Czech Republic), including his deportation to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1944. Included are a registration certificate issued to Alfred by the Czechoslovakian Repatriation Office and an identification card issued to Alfred by the Sdruz̆ení Osvobozených Politických Vězňů A Pozustalých (SOPVP) in Budejovice, Czechoslovakia (now Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic).
Alice Fahrer papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516471
- English
- 1898-1951
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The papers consist of two studio portraits of Joseph Ornstein, one taken in 1898 and one (a copy print) printed in 1951, and a postcard send by Joseph Ornstein from Theresienstadt concentration camp to Karoline Zisdka in Vienna, Austria.