• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn74530
• English
• 1925-1980
• folders 4
• Updated 1 year ago

The Edwin Dutkiewicz papers consists of biographical material, a diary, and photographs relating to Edwin’s time as a forced laborer in Finland and Norway with Organisation Todt during World War II and his life in Norway as a displaced person after the war. Biographical material includes a Polish passport, fragments of Edwin’s identification card issued by Organisation Todt, which he tore up after the war, and a postcard from the displaced persons camp at Bodø. Edwin’s diary, which he began in 1941, describes his pre-war life and childhood in Poland, his experiences as a forced laborer, lif...

1. Kurt Schlesinger family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn376
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

German passport ["Deutsches Reich Reisepass"] issued to Egon Klappholz Woods (donor's late husband), August 1935, Berlin, Germany. Issued by Lord Mayor, Berlin in 1935; letter "J" stamped in red ink; contains immigration visa for the United States, dated February 17, 1939; contains a stamp dated March 16, 1939 at Harwich in the United Kingdom, alongside a visa for transit through the UK to the United States issued in Berlin on February 20, 1939.

1. Elfriede Gerson Hillelsohn collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn563772
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a Reisepass and other documents related to Elfriede Gerson (donor's mother), who was living in Hamburg and immigrated to the United States in 1941, where she married her fiancee Kurt Hillelsohn who had arrived in November 1938.

1. Löwenstein family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn533061
• English
• 1938-1966
• folders 5
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection primarily contains letters to Elfriede Löwenstein from her mother Berta Saalberg Löwenstein and her sister Irma Löwenstein in Frankfurt, Germany, 1938-1942. Also included is her German passport, a few immigration documents, letters to her father-in-law Leopold Gärtner; and a roster for Company M, 151st Infantry division of the United States Army with whom her husband Walter Gärtner served.

1. Elisabeth and Maurits Munichman family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521930
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers consist of six photographs of members of the Visser family, one photograph of a group of men and women at the Joodsche Schouwburg the day before their deportation, and letters and postcards sent from Visser family members at Vught and Westerbork concentration camps to Schoontje Visser [mother of Elisabeth Munichman].

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn77975
• English
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a Dutch passport issued to Elisabeth Steinhardt Welvaars donor's great aunt), and loose photographs and three photo albums illustrating the pre-war and postwar life of Elisabeth Steinhardt. The photographs primarily consist of vacation images from travels through Italy, Switzerland, France, London, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and include postwar photographs of South America, particularly Bolivia, where Elisabeth's immediate family immigrated. Elisabeth, who survived the Holocaust in the Netherlands, ultimately immigrated to Argentina after WWII.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn620827
• English
• folders 3
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of Alzbieta and Bernhard Kasmacher (later Kasmar) in Vienna, Austria, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Includes Reisepasses, letters, birth certificates, US naturalization certificates, and newspaper clippings documenting the couple's journey from Vienna to England before arriving in the United States in 1940.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn537262
• English
• 1929-1950
• folders folders 8 8
• Updated 1 year ago

Birth certificate, passport, autograph book, newsletter, photograph, and other documents related to the immigration of Ella Spiegler (later Goldstein), who left Austria for the United States in 1939 as one of the fifty children sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. The Stammbuch is a booklet that was given to Ella before her departure from Vienna in 1939, and in which friends and relatives wrote poetry, greetings, drew pictures, and left other expressions that wished her well as she prepared to leave her homeland. However, since her father, Wilhelm, was the first family member who was abl...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn639576
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a Deutsches Reich Reisepass issued to Emil Engl (donor's father); marked with red "J" stamped on first page; issued in Vienna, Debruary 27, 1939. Emil fled Vienna and immigrated to Palestine in 1939, where he joined the Haganah.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn34234
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Emil Hischler and Margarethe Broeder (Bruder), who fled Nazi-occupied Slovakia (Emil) and Vienna (Margarethe) via Rhodes (on board the "Pentcho," which sank off the coard of Kamila Nisi, Rhodes in 1940) and the Ferramonti camp in Italy.

1. The Jewish Religious Community in Prague under the occupation
2. IV. Various
3. Empty forms

• Židovské muzeum v Praze
• DOCUMENT.JMP.ARCHIVE/312/IV/139/001
• Czech, English
• Updated 10 years ago

1. Neu family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514812
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Deutsches Reich Reisepass, passport, issued to German Jewish man, Erich Neu, Born May 8, 1912 in Strasbourg, France, first page, inside cover, stamped with red letter "J" which is dated October 14, 1938, passport dated September 5, 1938, Offenburg, Germany, in German, issued French transit visa in Karlsruhe, Germany and United States immigration visa in Stuttgart, Germany on January 12, 1939.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn551003
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a "Deutsches Reich Reisepass" issued to Erich Manfred Hassberg (donor's father) on September 17, 1938 in Vienna, Austria; black and white photo of bearer affixed on page 2, red ink "J" stamped on first page; slip of paper regarding baggage inserted between pages 22-23. Also contains a document confirming that Erich Hassberg completed a bookkeeping course in Vienna, Austria, dated May 11, 1938; and a typewritten letter, in English, addressed to Gertrud Hassberg (donor's grandmother), from "Fred" in Prague, dated August 5, 1945.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn34265
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a passport issued to Erich Oppenheim upon his leaving Germany in January 1935, and documents and photographs relating to Mr. Oppenheim's family in Nentershausen, Germany. His parents and two brothers were murdered, and his sister left Germany on Kindertransport in 1939.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn35152
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a "Fremdenpass" issued to Erika Samel (donor), with large red ink "J" stamped on inside front cover; photograph of child (bearer) attached on page 3; nationality listed as "stateless." Erika was born on October 22, 1932 in Vienna; in 1939, Erika left Vienna for Havana, Cuba, where she lived until 1941.

1. Erna Meier Schlesinger Summerfield collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn4377
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

German passport issued to Erna Meyer Schlesinger, July 1939, Berlin, Germany. "Deutsches Reich Reisepass" issued by the Director of Police, Berlin; letter "J" stamped in red ink; middle name "Sara" added; contains immigration visa Dutch border stamp, both dated July 13, 1939; quota immigration visa #134 for United States on July 13, 1939.

1. Erna Weyl and Walter Rothschild collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn620560
• English
• boxes 14
• Updated 1 year ago

Documents, photographs, pamphlets, books, and clippings concerning the experiences of Walter Rothschild and Erna Weyl Rothschild. Includes photo albums; loose prewar, wartime and postwar photographs; correspondence (some with translation); personal documents including citizenship papers, Army documents, birth, marriage, and death records; passports and identification cards; a US Army file including maps, photos, official documents, clippings, a menu from Camp Ritchie, and ID cards; and documents from the Holland America line.

1. Ernst Deutsch collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn543442
• English
• 1937-1938
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains material related to Ernst Deutsch and his efforts to emigrate from Vienna, Austria. Includes a certificate of residence issued in July 1937; a German passport with a red in stamp of the letter "J"; and a document from the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community of Vienna) certifying that the bearer is a "full Jew" for military recruitment authorities in post-Anschluss Vienna.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524389
• English
• 1939
• folder 1 1 passport case,
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection consists of four Deutsches Reich Reisepasses issued for Ernst Frank [donor] dated March 6, 1939; his parents Johanna Frank, dated June 26, 1939; and Solomon Frank, dated February 27, 1939; and grandmother Yetta Frank, dated June 26, 1939. Ernst Frank escaped Germany via England with his family and emigrated to the United States in 1939. Included is accompanying red textile passport case.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn755006
• English
• 1933-2011
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the experiences of Ernst Graf, originally of Berlin, Germany, including his immigration to the United States in 1938, his training at Camp Ritchie, and service with the United States Army during World War II. Included are passports; birth, death, and marriage certificates, military records, and restitution paperwork.