• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501170
• English
• 1945-1995
• folders 4
• Updated 1 year ago

The Renata Laqueur collection includes the typed transcript of diaries and relevant background information for Renata Laqueur, a Holocaust survivor. The diaries were written while Renata and her husband were imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen. Also included are the curriculum vitae and dissertation abstract for Renata Laqueur.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn36018
• English
• 1939-1944
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection, spanning 1939-1992, consists of one memoir and a diary chiefly documenting life in France leading to and including war. The memoir of Renée de Monbrison (September 1939 to August 1944) is a bound copy typed in French. Entries describe time spent in Biarritz, an arrest in Hossegor, plans of fleeing to England, and her attempts to save her aunt, Loulou Warshawsky, from a camp near Tours. The memoir also includes copies of letters, documents, clippings, and post-war writings. Also included in the collection is one memoir typed in English by Colette Cahen d'Anvers Moore, entitle...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501796
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection contains an excerpt from the donor's diary describing her underground schoolwork in the Warsaw ghetto from 1940 to her Gestapo arrest in May 1943. After being beaten in the Warsaw prison, Gorzędowska was sent to Auschwitz until January 1945. On January 17, 1945, she and others were led on a four-day march to an unnamed train depot, packed into boxcars, and taken to Ravensbrück; she arrived on January 25, 1945. In February 1945, she and others were transported to a camp located at Neustadt-Gleve. While there, Gorzędowska was able to be detailed to "house help" in the children's b...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn693771
• English
• 1920-1942
• folders 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The Richard and Ernestine Benes papers contains a diary, biographical material, and emigration and immigration documents relating to Richard and Ernestine Benes attempts to emigrate from Austria to the United States. The diary was written by Richard from June 6 - July 4 1941. In the diary Richard writes about their emigration from Austria to Prague, Berlin, Paris, and Spain as well as their time aboard the ship and arriving in New York City. Biographical materials include birth and baptism certificates, a marriage certificate, proof of citizenship, identification cards, passports (Reisepass...

• Inventory and Conservation of Holdings Department

• Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
• VŽM
• English
• Judaica holdings are classified as primary (VŽM) and academic support (VŽMP) collections under the Museum’s statute with consideration of the extant value of the item as a museum piece. Currently around 30,000 items are being conserved. Primary collection consists of: 1. Household decorative items, ritual equipment, tangible exhibition pieces of historical significance. 2. Writings and documents. 3. Photography. 4. Visual and decorative art. 5. Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz‘s memorial collection. 6. Archive of Josif Shapiro (collector of ex-libris).
• Updated 7 months ago

The collections include: 1. Household decorative items, ritual equipment, tangible exhibition pieces of historical significance. Materials include metal, wood, leather, ceramics, precious metals, textiles, bone and other materials. Among these items are around 100 unique artifacts from Paneriai mass killing sites, material from the ghetto period and from prisoners, people who perished and people who survived. There are also artifacts of the Great Synagogue and from Jewish cemeteries. 2. Writings and documents include books, press, manuscripts, posters, documents. There are 5000 items in tot...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502330
• English
• 1938-1946
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Robert H. Harlan was an American exchange student from the University of Chicago studying abroad during the academic year 1938-1939 at the Philipps-Universitat in Marburg, Germany. His diary was written between September 7, 1938 and November 14, 1938, in Germany and English, on pages of a date book and include his impressions of the treatment of Jews during Kristallnacht. In a separate typed document, Robert recorded these same events in greater detail after he returned from Germany. The typed chronology details Robert's ten-day visit to the home of German Jews Bruno (1880-1957) and Frida S...

1. Roger Francois collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516386
• English
• 1936-1990
• oversize boxes 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The Roger François papers consist of a scrapbook and diary documenting the life and experiences of Roger François, an active member of the Belgian Resistance during World War II who was captured and imprisoned at the Buchenwald and Flossenbürg concentration camps. The diary was written in Dutch by Roger from 1944-1945 and documents his life and experiences during the war, including recounting his experiences imprisoned in Buchenwald and Flossenbürg. The scrapbook contains original and copies of wartime and post-war documents including a birth verification, identification and membership ca...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn558457
• English
• 1914-1966
• 17,201 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Private papers of Rolf Henne (1901-1966), a Swiss attorney and politician of the National Front (NF) and pro-Nazi movements. The collection consists of his personal documents; diaries, 1914-1918, 1920-1924, and 1939-1945; photographs; press releases; documents on various organizations and on political opponents of the National Front and New Front; speeches and lectures, 1932-1939; preparatory work for a never-realized book project on the history of the Swiss Confederation; records on the 04 Jan. 1944 bombardment of Schaffhausen; Swiss demography; press and language policies; the Swiss-Germa...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502079
• English
• 1941-1944
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection includes one journal written by Rosa Mayer-Murr about her experiences in Gurs, three envelopes addressed to Mr. Alfred Lyon, one identification card for Rosa Mayer-Murr, one black and white photograph of Rosa Mayer-Murr, and one composition book relating to Rosa Mayer-Murr's Holocaust experiences.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502140
• English
• 1929-1999
• folders 14
• Updated 1 year ago

The Rose Silberberg Skier papers include a diary, photographs, and materials related to Silberberg’s time at the Convent of the Gray Sisters in Neisse and at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp documenting the Silberberg family in Jaworzno, Poland, Silberberg’s wartime experiences in hiding, and her post‐war experiences at Zeilsheim. The diary records Silberberg’s wartime memories and her daily life in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp. The photographs include copy prints of Rose Silberberg with her family and acquaintances before and during the war and original prints and copy prints o...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn561117
• English
• 1915-1956
• box book enclosure 1 9
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the families of Elsie Mosler (born Ilse Rosenberg in Hamburg) and her husband, Claude Mosler (born Klaus Mosler in Berlin). Both families fled Germany due to antisemitic persecution by the Nazis during the 1930s. Biographical material includes Hermann Rosenberg’s German army papers from World War I, birth and marriage certificates, a diary written in German and English kept by Elsie as a teenager, report cards of Ernest Mosler, and Claude Mosler’s United States Army papers. Photographs primarily document pre-war family life and travel in Europe and wartime life in N...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn625764
• English
• folders book enclosure 4 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains approximately 40 letters written by Aharon (Arnold) Rosenkrantz and his brother David (Dovid) Rosenkrantz to their parents, Josef and Pesia, in Vienna in 1938-1939, as well as a postcard of the ship Patria, in which one of the brothers, possibly both, boarded. Includes envelopes, with stamps removed. The collection also includes two letters by a brother from a Jewish summer camp in southern Austria in 1936, diary entries from Aaron from 1947, notebooks containing stories and poems written by Aaron, as well as birth certificates and his school and his physics and science studies not...

1. Ross Baker family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn38391
• English
• 1933-1938
• box oversize boxes oversize folders 1 2 5
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection was gathered by Ross Baker and his family while living in Austria and documents the Anschluss in 1938, the treatment of Jews, and the family’s experiences as a non-Jewish American family living in Vienna in the late 1930s. The collection includes a diary written by Helen Baker; letters written by Baker family members; leaflets, newspapers, and magazines relating to the Anschluss; US Coast Guard photographs of Cherbourg and the invasion at Normandy; liberation photographs of Ebensee; and a document specifying that the Baker family owed no taxes or fees and could leave the coun...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn702336
• English
• 1908-1968
• box oversize folder 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Rothschild family papers include biographical material, printed material, writings, and photographs relating to Salli and Johanna Rothschild and their family before the war in Bremen, Germany, their immigration, and the relocation of their bakery to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1937. Biographical materials include a birth certificate for Jack Leiner; a birth certificate and work papers from the Office of Censorship for Ilse Rothschild; a birth certificate, German passport (Reisepass), and a certificate of naturalization for Johanna Rothschild; and a birth certificate, German passport (Re...

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1595
• English
• 1942
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection comprises a photocopy and transcript of the diary for the year 1942 of SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Dr Rudolf Brandt, Himmler's former personal Referent. The entries record the details hour by hour of telephone conversations and consultations between Brandt, Himmler and outsiders. In a covering note, as if to make a point,the depositor highlights the infrequency of references to the Final Solution.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn551016
• English
• 1899-1986
• folders book enclosure oversize box 5 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Ruth Mueller papers include biographical material, a diary, correspondence, and photographs relating to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Ruth Mueller and her family, originally of Frankfurt, Germany. Biographical material includes a birth certificate, marriage certificate, death certificate, and driver’s license for Paul, Ruth’s father, as well as a copy of a death certificate for Maria, Ruth’s mother. The diary is written in German and was started by Ruth in 1930. In the diary Ruth writes about escaping Germany, her voyage to the United States, and adjusting to life in...

1. Ruth Rappaport collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47973
• English
• boxes oversize folders 6 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The Ruth Rappaport papers consists of biographical material, correspondence, diaries, and photographs relating to Ruth Rappaport’s pre-war and wartime experiences fleeing Germany and immigrating to the United States. The collection also includes extensive correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to Ruth’s work and travels as a journalist in Palestine and Israel from 1948-1949 preparing for a mission trip and reporting on the Israeli War of Independence. Biographical material includes Ruth’s birth verification, United States passport application and passport, naturalization paperw...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn512190
• English
• 1933-1948
• folders 4
• Updated 1 year ago

The Ruth Szmarag papers include poems, plays, a diary, and photographs relating to Ruth Szmarag’s pre-war and wartime experiences in Vienna and in hiding in Belgium. The poems, plays, and diary were written by Ruth during her time in hiding. The collection also includes pre-war photographs of Ruth and her family in Vienna as well as wartime photographs of Ruth and her mother, Flora, while in hiding and immediately after liberation in Belgium.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn558454
• English
• 1913-1982
• 1,248 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Private papers of Ruth von Wild (August 3, 1912 -April 26, 1983), a Swiss teacher and aid worker for refugees. The collection consists of a diary, diploma, certificates, correspondence, postcards and reports of holiday travels by former employees of the Swiss Working Community for Children of Spain (Ayuda Suiza, SAS) [Schweizerischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Spanienkinder], and for the Swiss Working Community for Children with Disabilities (SAK) [Schweizerischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Kriegsgeschädigte Kinder], personal photo albums on the activities of the children's colony of the Swiss Re...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn551209
• English
• 1939-1945
• 50,779 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Selected records from the following departments of the Regierung des Generalgouvernements (General Government) in Poland: 1. The Department of Internal Administration (Haubtabteilung Innere Verwaltung), which includes records relating to matters such as the organization of the Sonderdienst and Baudienst; religious denominations and national minorities; registry books of the Jewish population in the districts of Krakow, Radom, Warsaw, and Lublin; and the list of books owned by Jews and transferred to the National Library in Krakow, 1939-1944, (File 422/1-573), 2. The Department of Labor (Hau...