1. Dezsofi family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn715063
• English
• folders 10
• Updated 1 year ago

The Dezsofi family papers include biographical material, correspondence, school notebooks, writings, and magazines relating to the pre-war experiences of twin sisters Dolly and Marianne Dezsofi in Budapest, Hungary as well as during the war while in hiding. Biographical material includes a death certificate and union identification card for Imre Tieberger, Dolly and Marianne’s uncle, two pre-war greeting cards with photographs Dolly gave to her mother for mother's day, and a pre-war photograph of Dolly and Marianne in first grade, dated 1937. Correspondence includes letters written by Dolly...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517710
• English
• 1939-1943
• 156 digital images, JPEG 1 microfilm reel, 35 mm 1 CD-ROM, 4 3/4 in.
• Updated 1 year ago

Contain a diary by Dr. Aharon Zwergbaum. He traveled on December 1, 1939 from Prague to Bratislava, embarked on September 3, 1940 on the steamship "Helios," transferred in Tulcea, Romania onto the ship "Atlantic" and traveled to Haifa, Palestine where the British authorities arrested the Jewish refugees and deported them to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The diaries consist of various contributions by different authors and artists who were on the refugee transport, such as reports, poems, caricatures and illustrations, hand-drawn maps, and photographs that chronicle the voyage...

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1277
• English
• 1939-1943
• 1 box
• Updated 2 years ago

This set of manuscript war-time diaries from an Austrian Jewish refugee provide a unique insight into a refugee's life and his interpretation of national events. A number of enclosures were found loose within the diaries. These have been catalogued separately [1277/16] with a note of their place of origin. Hollitscher begins his English diaries by remembering his last days in Vienna, but soon turns to a discussion of the political news of the day. In this case a secret meeting between Hitler and Mussolini. Hollitscher is furious about Hitler's treachery, abandoning South Tyrol as a gift to ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn510095
• English
• 1939-1945
• 3 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains diaries, chronicles, and memoirs pertaining to World War II and the Holocaust. Includes a diary written by Ludwik Landau, distinguished economist and social researcher. His manuscript contains notes written over approximately 1600 days from 1939 to 1944. The notes relate to the political and economic situation of Poles and Jews in Poland under Nazi occupation as well as comments about the German press.

1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3684636
• English, Hebrew
• Microfilm 670 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Diary (with a calendar) of Saly Mayer, including documentation regarding the care of the Jewish refugees after the war, the establishment of a Jewish old age home in Vevey, Mayer's participation in the JDC conference in Paris, and other matters, 1948-1949 Diary (with a calendar) of Saly Mayer, including: - General documentation regarding the care of the Jewish refugees after the war and, mainly, the support of the intellectuals; - Documentation regarding the establishment of a Jewish old age home in Vevey on the shore of Lake Geneva, 20 March 1949; - Documentation regarding the presence of ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501372
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Donor's mother describes life in Budapest during the Holocaust.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn507334
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The memoir details the separate lives of Herbert R. Ert and that of his father, Samson Reichstein. In addition to describing Ert's life in the United States, the memoir also describes Reichstein's simultaneous experiences in Nazi-occupied Europe. The author has indicated that, contrary to the text of the memoir, his mother died in Belzec, and not Bergen-Belsen, and that the Anne Frank which he mentions in his memoir was not the diarist. He mistook her for an adolescent of the same name.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn42479
• English
• 1941-1943
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The diary of Anna Dashevskaya, a Jewish young student of the Kiev University, provides thorough account of her family evacuation from Kiev to the Ural Mountains describing major events, daily life and many problems she and her family encountered during the evacuation to the Urals.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502396
• English
• 1941
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The diary was written by a unknown Austrian soldier on the Eastern Front between 23 September 1941 and 27 December 1941. In the diary the soldier provides very detailed descriptions of daily life and his experiences. On 23 September 1941 he describes witnessing Jews march down the road wearing yellow stars and on 30 September 1941 he describes arriving at an unidentified town where Jews had recently been hanged for supposedly burning a bridge. The diary includes French vocabulary practice and some brief entries in shorthand.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500130
• English
• 1909-1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains photocopies of pages of Eugenie Singer's diary as the pages appeared in the original diary and a copy of the transcription located at Beit Theresienstadt.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502261
• English
• 12 microfilm reels, 16 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains the diary (day book) of Hans Frank, governor of occupied Poland during World War II. The journal is in typed format, in chronological order, covering all aspect of Generalgouvernment (GG) administration from its seat in the royal Wawel castle in Krakau (Kraków). The entries reflect careful, thoughtful consideration of administrative matters, rather than the spontaneous thoughts or feelings usually found in a diary.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524108
• English
• 1959-1962
• folder 1 87 digital images, TIFF
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection includes the 85-page photocopied memoirs of M. Zhabotinskii, written between the years of 1957-1962.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500504
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one typed, bound, and translated copy of the memoir of Mrs. Paul Wolf, which was written in diary-form. In the memoir, which describes the period between March 19, 1944 and January 18, 1945, Mrs. Wolf described the German invasion of Hungary, the takeover by the Arrow Cross, the bombing of Budapest, and the Russian liberation of the city. Includes handwritten and typed notes at the end of the memoir.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn652242
• English
• oversize box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The diary of Nelly Epstein includes entries, drawings, clippings, and maps written from January 1, 1935 - January 18, 1943. Nelly began the diary with entries about friends, family, and activities, such as travel, theater, and life in general in Vienna. In the later years, Nelly documented her journey with her husband Emil (Aryeh) Katscher and other young Zionists fleeing on vessels down the Danube River, across the Black Sea, through the Gallipoli Peninsula to the Aegean, and the Mediterranean Sea, and finally landing in Haifa, Palestine. The diary includes illustrations of their journey. ...

1. O.70 - Josef Rosensaft Bergen-Belsen POW Camp Archive

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3686883
• English, Hebrew
• Map Original
• Updated 6 years ago

Diary of nurse M. Doharty from Australia, who worked in the Bergen-Belsen hospital on behalf of UNRRA, from July 1945 The subjects in her diary include: - Bergen-Belsen camp and its surroundings; - description of the SS camp; - her first impressions of the camp; - report by the first British Army soldiers who entered the camp; - the organizations and various institutions that offered help to the liberated inmates; - the murder of inmates by the Hungarian Guard after the liberation; - the sanitary conditions, disease, physical condition of the inmates, nutritional conditions in camp and the ...

1. O.70 - Josef Rosensaft Bergen-Belsen POW Camp Archive

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3686876
• English, Hebrew
• 1945-1947
• Original 145 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Diary of the Jewish theater in Bergen-Belsen, "Tag buch un matilern fun der Yiddish theater studio, Kazet-Theater", edited by Sami Feder, the art director of the Bergen-Belsen theater The diary includes: - descriptions by Sami Feder regarding the establishment of the theater and its activities; - descriptions, articles and reviews of the theater performances and plays; - plans and placards regarding the theater plays and performances; - correspondence of the theater management; - personal documents of the theater members; - material related to other cultural activities in the camp; - photog...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524234
• English
• 1933-1940
• 648 digital images, JPEG 1 microfilm reel (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains four volumes of the diary of Walter Tausk. Walter Tausk describes own experiences in Nazi Germany related to antisemitism and polices against Jews. The diary contains also newspaper clippings, photographs of leading Nazis, letters to Walter Tausk, fascists leaflets, business cards of companies Tausk worked for and meal vouchers for Jews.

1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731378
• English, Hebrew
• 1941-1955
• Typewritten
• Updated 6 years ago

Diary written by Djura Rajs, born in Petrovgrad, Yugoslavia, 1930, in Petrovgrad camp, and memoirs written by his brother, Jovan Rajs, born in Petrovgrad, Yugoslavia, 1933, regarding his experiences in Petrovgrad camp, in hiding in Belgrade, in Austria and in Bergen-Belsen 1. Part of a diary written by Djura Rajs in Petrovgrad camp, 1941; 2. Diary written by Jovan Rajs in Bergen-Belsen, 1944-1945; 3. Memoirs written by Jovan Rajs regarding his experiences in Petrovgrad camp, in hiding in Belgrade, in Austria and in Bergen-Belsen.

1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3684560
• English, Hebrew
• 1945
• Microfilm 863 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Diary written by Saly Mayer and separate pieces of paper with notes written by Mayer regarding his activities in the JDC organization, 1945 Diary [apparently titled], "Agenda 1945", written by Saly Mayer in 1945, including: - Documentation regarding the "ARBA" [?] negotiations with SS representatives and, in main, with Herbert Kettlitz; - Documentation regarding the transfer of 1,210 Jews from Theresienstadt to Switzerland as a result of the negotiations held with SS representatives and Swiss statesman Jean-Marie Musy, 07 February 1945; - Documentation regarding the care of the refugees (th...

1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3684559
• English, Hebrew
• Microfilm 863 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Diary written by Saly Mayer including documentation regarding his visits in Geneva and meetings with various people, including Israel Kasztner and Isaac Sternbuch, and a meeting in the context of the "ARBA" [?] negotiations and other matters, 1944 Diary [apparently titled], "Agenda 1944", written by Saly Mayer, 1944, including: - Documentation regarding Saly Mayer's visits in Geneva and his meetings with various people regarding Jewish refugees and the persecuted Jews in Europe; - Notes regarding Israel Kasztner and Isaac Sternbuch (the representative in Switzerland of the Rescue Committee ...