• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn555370
• English
• 1944-2009
• box oversize folder 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the initial publication of Warsaw Ghetto: A Diary by Mary Berg in 1945 and subsequent efforts by S.L. Shneiderman, the original editor and translator of the diary, his son Ben Shneiderman, and historian Susan Pentlin to republish the book. Included is correspondence and documents regarding various efforts to republish the diary, clippings, reviews, interview transcripts, manuscript fragments, photographs, and copies of writings regarding the diary. Diary publication materials include copies of contracts and documents related to subsequent efforts to republish the di...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn73442
• English
• 1939-1945
• 1,342 digital files, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection contains various records collected by the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation (FPNP) during the project related to the payment of indemnities to Polish citizens for their forced labor on the territories of the Third Reich. Records include questionnaires, accounts, memoirs, diaries, interviews, correspondence, press cuttings; some photographs or other related documents are attached to the forced laborers files.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn600034
• English
• 1943-1945
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Meir and Paula Stein diaries and photographs consist of three diaries written by Meir Stein and five diaries written by Paula Stein while in hiding in Białystok, Poland describing their experiences from 1941-1944. Also included in the collection are photographs from the Białystok Central Committee and pictures of Meir and Israel, Meir and Paula’s son. Meir Stein wrote four diaries while in hiding in 1944, but the first diary was lost after the war. The diaries are written in German and describe his experiences in the Warsaw and Białystok ghettos and the time his family spent in hiding f...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn523466
• English
• folders book enclosure 4 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Melania Fogelbaum papers consist of writings and correspondence documenting Melania Fogelbaum’s experiences in the Łódź ghetto between 1941 and 1944. The collection includes a notebook of poems and several loose pages from a journal of poems, drawings, and journal entries written by Melania while in the ghetto. Correspondence includes postcards between Melania and friends and family including Hala Frumkowska, Szymon Gliksman, Hipolit Fogelbaum, Cyla Fogelbaum, Jozef Fogelbaum, and a letter from the Jewish Council notifying Melania that due to her illness, she will receive additional rat...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn551471
• English
• 1942-1944
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection includes a diary, in Polish, written by Melania Weissenberg from 1942-1944 while hiding in Dabrowa Tarnowska with an older Jewish girl. The collection also includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of Molly and her family and a letter written by Molly's cousin Bina, dated September 11, 1942.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524073
• English
• 1945-1946
• 56,133 digital files, PDF 91 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection contains several hundred of memoirs, testimonies and diaries of former prisoners of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, collected over several decades after World War II. This collection provides personal insights into the experiences of prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The collection is open, memoirs and testimonies are still being collected.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504386
• English
• 1939-1945
• 322 digital files, PDF 42 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm 11 DVDs,
• Updated 1 year ago

Record group 302. Consists of memoirs of Jews written during the German occupation of Poland, 1939-1945, and deposited in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. In addition to memoirs by Jews, there are some written by Poles who witnessed atrocities. There are 5 DVD-Roms plus 2 duplicate sets of those 5 DVD-Roms, and in addition 1 DVD entitled "A Missing Diary."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn592398
• English
• 1939-2011
• 19,064 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Diaries, memoirs, narratives, questionnaires, correspondence and letters of various individuals, articles, and press clippings. Records relate to experiences of Poles and Jews during the WWII. Included are records relating to German provocations before WWII, the course of the September campaign of 1939, German settlement action and treatment of Poles, forced labor, armed resistance of Poles, intensive germanization, displacement and round-ups, executions of Poles in Mosina and Szamotuły district, working conditions in labor camps, secret teaching, terror and murders of the Poles carried out...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn44374
• English
• 1940-2000
• folders 4
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection contains texts of songs and poetry written by Flack during his internment at Theresienstadt, including typescript copies and a leather-bound diary containing hand-written poetry by Flack, dated 1940-1941. Collection also contains correspondence, news clippings about Flack following his immigration to the United States, and materials related to the play "Ester," by E.F. Burian, which was produced at Theresienstadt, including a performance that was directed by Flack, and which received renewed interest in the 1990s.

1. Michael J. Kraus collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn535243
• English
• 1945-1947
• box oversize box folders 1 1 17
• Updated 1 year ago

The Michael J. Kraus papers contain documents and diaries concerning Kraus’s experiences as a child survivor of the Holocaust. Selected by Dr. Josef Mengele as one of the "Birkenau Boys," Kraus was interned at Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Mauthausen before being liberated in 1945. Included in his collection are records pertaining to his parent’s property and assets and letters his parents wrote from the concentration camps. Among the post-war material is correspondence between Michael and his liberators, a diary describing his memories from the war written between 1945 and 1947, ...

1. Mikhail Lev collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn42502
• English
• 1940-2008
• boxes oversize folders 7 19
• Updated 1 year ago

The Mikhail Lev collection consists of the writings, research materials, and correspondence of the Yiddish language author Mikhail Lev. The collection also includes items from the personal archives of Josef Rabin, Yaakov Shternberg, Moini Shulman, and Aharon Yeyman, as well as the diary of Mendel Rosengauz; literary works by Girsch Dobin (1905-2001), a survivor of the Minsk ghetto; and photocopies of drawings from the Ravensbrück concentration camp. The collection consists of Mikhail Lev’s correspondence with readers, colleagues, friends, Holocaust survivors, other Yiddish writers, publishi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524071
• English
• 1917-1959
• 5,669 digital images, JPEG 6 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains mainly personal papers, correspondence, diaries, and similar materials written by German officers and soldiers during World War II.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn511035
• English
• 1940-1948
• 2 microfilm reels, 16 mm 2 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains name lists, correspondence, diaries, reports, and trial documents. Documents concern the Soviet prisoners of war, including Soviet Jews, kept in Finnish camps during World War II; the organization of the Office of Prisoners of War within the Home Front headquarters of the Finnish Army; the personal diary of Walter Horn, Finnish military attaché in Berlin, from September 1940 to October 1944; and the trial records (1947 and 1948) of Arno Anthoni, wartime head of the Valpo, Finnish Security Police (Etsivä keskuspoliisi; later Valtiollinem poliisi, Valpo).

1. Mira Taube Stillman collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn515306
• English
• 1945-1947
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection includes two hand-written diaries and seven black and white photographs relating to Mira Taube Stillman from Uzbekistan after the war and Zeilsheim DP camp in Germany.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn38649
• English
• 1916-1958
• folders oversize box 6 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Miriam Korber papers contain a diary and photographs concerning the Holocaust experiences of Miriam, a teenager from Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Romania who was interned in the Djurin Ghetto in Transnistria, Romania (present day Moldova) from 1941 until her liberation in 1944. The diary begins in 1941 shortly after Miriam’s deportation and concludes in 1944. The photographs primarily depict Miriam’s family in Câmpulung before the war and a few photographs of Miriam after the war.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn106396
• English
• folders book enclosure 4 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Marie Zelwer papers include a diary, autograph book, and post-war documents relating to Marie Zelwer’s post-war experiences aboard the SS Exodus in 1947 and her life in Germany at the Bad Aibling IRO Children's Village, an International Refugee Organization (IRO) camp. The collection also includes an English translation of "And the Ram Was Not Caught in the Thicket: The Life of Avraham 1939-1944." In her diary Marie writes about her experiences aboard the SS Exodus in 1947 and her return to Germany and eventual immigration to the United States. The diary includes several poems and song ...

1. Morgenstern and Merkur families collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn555298
• English
• 1913-1949
• folders oversize box oversize box 12 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of the Morgenstern family of Barycz, Poland and Vienna, Austria, and the Merkur family of Vienna. The Morgenstern family materials include identification papers of Regina Morgenstern, who took a Kindertransport from Vienna to England in 1938; letters from her parents Taube and Mendel Morgenstern to her in London; and her diary from 1945. Also included are photographs of the Morgenstern family, including a photograph of Regina, Bernhard, and Helli Morgenstern reunited in Vienna after the war. The Merkur family materials include a book and lo...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn538334
• English
• 1912-1966
• box folders 1 24
• Updated 1 year ago

The Morris and Lucy Breitbart papers contain documents and photographs concerning Morris Breitbart of Szczakowa, Poland and his wife, Lucy Gliklich of Nisko, Poland, whom he married at the Rosenheim displaced persons camp after World War II in 1949. Included in the collection is a diary written by Morris while he was in hiding in Poland from 1943 until 1944, postwar documents regarding his credentials as a dentist, immigration to the United States, and restitution claims against the German government. Photographs in this collection depict the Gliklich family before the war in Nisko, Poland,...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn44332
• English
• 1902-2007
• 320 digital files, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains correspondence, memos, diaries, newspaper clippings, lectures, articles, photographs, transcripts of the Israeli Police, case studies, registers of records , and audio interviews from the Adolf Eichmann trial. This collection documents the interrogation of Adolf Eichmann by Avner W. Less and the subsequent trial in Israel. Also includes photocopies from the Bundesarchiv Koblenz of the transcripts of the Eichmann interview conducted by Wilhelm Sassen in 1956. Includes correspondence by Avner Less with publishing houses and newspapers, as well as individuals such as Robert Kempner, J...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502879
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a copy of a survivor testimony written by Gabriel Mermall in diary form. The diary recounts the experiences of Mermall and his son, Tommy, during six months of hiding in a forest near the Carpathian Mountains. The diary also contains information about Christians who aided Mermall and his son, activity of partisans in Hungary, and the advance of the Soviet Army at the end of World War II. Portions of the testimony are written in narrative form and are intermingled with the diary entries.