1. Lisbeth Modley Kornreich collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn702396
• English
• 1912-1984
• box book enclosure oversize folder 1 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Lisbeth Modley Kornreich and her parents Augusta and Wilhelm Modley of Vienna, Austria. Included are biographical materials, immigration papers, correspondence, writings, and photographs regarding their pre-war lives in Vienna and emigration from Austria. Also included is a copy of Augusta’s sister Nellie Zehetner’s (née Lipiner) husband Hans Zehetner’s wartime diary. Biographical materials include Lisbeth’s birth certificate and gymnasium and university papers; Augusta’s German passport and a document stating that Augusta added Sara...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500491
• English
• 1901-1957
• boxes 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The Lissberger family papers contains mainly identification and documentation papers for Moritz, Bettina, Klara, and Emil. Included in this collection are marriage, birth, and death certificates, certificates of good conduct, inoculation papers, transport orders, witness declarations, and school records. Other items include correspondence with foreign consulates and post-war restitution paperwork. Also included are personal items, including correspondence, photographs, a wedding invitation for Moritz and Bettina, and Bettina’s school diary, memory book, and Hebrew lesson notebook.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn513124
• English
• 1910-1941
• folder 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The Litman Turovsky papers contain a photograph of Litman, 4 photographic postcards with scenes of Rėchytsa around the early 20th century, and a diary kept by Litman between 1910 and 1941. The diary records his daily life in Rėchytsa and also discuss Jewish tradition, famine, and the effects of war on the community during the town period recorded. The last entry was recorded three weeks before Germany invaded the town.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn505278
• English
• 1939-1945
• box oversize box oversize folders 2 1 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The Lorenz Schmuhl papers consist of correspondence, writings, diaries, photographs, and documents relating to Major Lorenz Schmuhl's service as the first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also includes information about Karl Koch, Kommandant of Buchenwald during World War II, and his wife, Ilse Koch, as well as testimonies and writing about Buchenwald and Lorenz. Photographs include originals and copies of Buchenwald during and after the war. Correspondence includes letters, announcements...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn627046
• English
• 1939-1994
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Louis Oppenheimer papers include a memoir written in 1939 by Louis Oppenheimer recounting his four-week internment in Buchenwald concentration camp as well as a transcription of a questionnaire answered by Eleanor Oppenheimer, Louis' daughter, relating to her family history.

1. Louis Ranciato collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn539510
• English
• folder oversize box 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Louis Ranciato collection includes a journal, photographs, and newspaper clippings relating to Staff Sergeant Louis Ranciato’s experience in the United States Army and as a liberator of the Dachau concentration camp. The journal includes entries and poems recalling his experiences, starting in 1941, and provides a timeline and his comments on the development of the war and returning home. The entries dated May 2-7, 1945 describe his observations of Dachau. The collection also includes photographs of a man believed to be Louis during his time in the military and of Dachau after liberatio...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn507348
• English
• 1903-1944
• folders book enclosure 9 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The Lucien Dreyfus papers primarily consist of five parts of a seven-part diary written by Lucien Dreyfus from 1940 to 1943. An intelligent and discerning man, Lucien used his diary to document his intellectual and social life as a refugee in the south of France, his observations on the rise of antisemitic laws and violence, his cardiac condition, his daughter’s family and their emigration to the United States, and his efforts to retrieve his confiscated property. The diary includes information about Lucien’s students, his opinions about the limited utility of assimilation in fighting antis...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn515706
• English
• 1945-1952
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a memoir by Maksymilian Wolfsthal about his experiences in the ghetto in Lʹvov, Poland (now Lʹviv, Ukraine) and in Janowska, his deportation to Bergen-Belsen in 1943, and life in Bergen-Belsen. He began the diaries on October 3, 1945 after his emigration to Belgium. The memoir is in two volumes, with volume one covering June 21, 1941--September 1942, and volume two covering October 1942 until his liberation from Bergen-Belsen.

1. Malcolm A. Vendig collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn694079
• English
• 1932-1967
• boxes 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The Malcolm A. Vendig papers, 1932-1967, relate to Captain Malcolm A. Vendig’s service with the 83rd U.S. Infantry Division and his tenure as the military governor of Dachau, Germany after the liberation of the concentration camp in 1945. Topics discussed include the activities of the 83rd U.S. Infantry Division before liberation, daily operations at the Dachau concentration camp after liberation, military and personnel incidents, the administration of public safety, the distribution of food, and the revitalization of industry in the vicinity of Dachau, Germany. The papers largely consist o...

1. Manfred Lewinnek collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn38208
• English
• 1915-1983
• boxes oversize folders 2 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection primarily documents Manfred Lewinnek’s emigration from Stuttgart, Germany in 1938, his United States Army service, and correspondence with his parents Adolf and Lina Lewinnek in Stuttgart from 1939-1941. Included is correspondence, military records, diaries, and immigration paperwork. Biographical material includes 6 diaries chronicling Manfred’s early years as an immigrant in the United States, documents related to Manfred’s immigration to the United States and his efforts to secure visas for his parents in Stuttgart, identification and education papers, and restitution reco...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502144
• English
• 1937-1945
• oversize box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of a diary kept by Marga Himmler, the wife of Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer of the SS.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502327
• English
• 1945
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a diary written by Margarete Brinkmann, a German citizen who began her diary on May 9, 1945, commenting on the defeat of Germany and her perceptions about the effects of Nazism on German society. Also includes color copies of wartime family documentation and correspondence, revealing the family's awareness of concentration camps and of their devotion to Hitler.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501593
• English
• folder 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The Maria Gunsberg and Gustav Engel collection consists of a photocopy of a diary, in Polish, describing Maria Engel Gunsberg's life from 1939-1945, including time spent in hiding in Eastern Poland. Also includes a photocopy of the diary of her father, Gustav Engel, also written in hiding. Engel's diary gives extensive information about the events of the Holocaust near Tarnopol, Poland. The original diaries are located at Yad Vashem.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50967
• English
• 1914-1967
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of seventeen bound volumes containing diaries written by Dr. Maria Madi, a non-Jewish female physician living in Budapest, Hungary, between December 1941 and September 1945. In the diaries, which are handwritten in English, Dr. Madi describes what she is hearing about the war, about propaganda in Hungary, and about missing her daughter, who immigrated to the United States in 1939 and started a family. After the German invasion of Hungary in March 1944, Dr. Madi describes constant air raids, intense deprivation, and what she knows and sees of the ongoing persecutions against Jews. S...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514665
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers consist of a false identification card under the name Danielle Servouze and journal entry from Dina Moses Servouze, a letter from the Crédit Municipal de Paris informing Dina’s father Israel Moses that his property will be confiscated if he does not testify that he is not a Jew, a photograph of Dina Servouze taken circa 1938, and photographs taken in August 1944 and 1945, depicting Dina, her husband Monique Grenier, and their daughter Marianne Servouze, and American soldiers in Coupvray, France (Seine-et-Marne).

1. Marianne Kemeny Santos Wolfe collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn38367
• English
• 1944-1957
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The Marianne Szanto papers include a booklet, part diary, part autograph book, written by Marianne Szanto mainly while imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and Hessisch Lichtenau labor camp. The booklet was made with pieces of paper found in the munitions factory and includes poems and entries. The collection also includes loose pages of entries, drawings, and poems, also believed to be kept by Marianne.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn550720
• English
• 1935-1937
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection contains two diaries written by Marta Goldschmidt Neuhaus in Esslingen, Germany. One diary, dated 1935-1936, describes her life in Germany including her family’s efforts to leave. The second diary, dated 1936-1937, begins at the point of the family's departure in January 1936 through July 1937.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524128
• English
• 1905-2005
• 25,993 digital images, JPEG 29 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Reports, publications, interviews, obituaries, and photographs pertaining to the careers of Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Documents record the Sharps’ early social work in Meadville, PA, and their humanitarian and rescue work in World War II Prague, Czechoslovakia; Marseille and Pau, France; and Lisbon, Portugal. Materials also document Martha Sharp’s postwar campaign for Congress, activities in Israel, continuing work for the Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia, family and personal life, and work with the Cogan Foundation and other charitable agencies. The collection includes Martha’s unpubli...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500259
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The Martha Bernstein collection includes photocopies of material originally created in the 1940s relating to the wartime experiences of the Bernstein and Heumann families. Included in the collection is correspondence from Therese Heumann, Martha Bernstein's oldest sister, letters between the Bernstein and Blakenstein families, poems written by Benjamin Blankenstein, a fourteen-page diary written by Helene Blumenfeld, and documents issued in Westerbork and Theresienstadt.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn41833
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection includes a diary written by Ilona Braunstein Korach in 1945, documenting her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland and Buchenwald concentration camp sub-camps Gelsenkirchen and Sömmerda. The diary was created by Livia Klein with whom Ilona and her daughter Martha were in camp with. The front cover of the diary states "Ilu [Ilona] Béla [Ilona’s husband who perished] and Marti” and the back states “minden elmulik egyszer” ("this too shall pass").