• Lietuvos Literatūros ir Meno Archyvas
• F. 182
• English
• 1928-1988
• One subfond and 248 files.
• Updated 9 years ago

Personal fonds of the activities of the famous Lithuanian composer, conductor, violinist (includes drafts of music pieces, scores of music, songs, photos, personal documents, etc.).

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 4412167
• English, Hebrew
• 1941-1943
• Announcement Poster
• Updated 3 months ago

Announcements and placards regarding various cultural events held in the Vilna Ghetto, 1941 - 1943 The various cultural events include: plays, concerts, sport competitions, lectures, and other events; most of the announcements include the names of the artists who implemented the events.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• M.57
• English
• 1933-1941
• 19 files on microfish
• Updated 10 years ago

This Record Group is the private archive of the director-actor Fritz Wisten, who was one of the organization activists. The documentation that arrived at Yad Vashem consists of photocopies of the original documentation in the archive, which is housed at the Stiftung Akademie der Kuenste Archive in Berlin. Most of the documentation in this Record Group is in German, dealing primarily with the Kulturbund activities after 1938. The Record group contains documentation of all the Kulturband activities:- Discussions with Hans Hinkel; - Organizational activities;- Surveys of organizational activit...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn628568
• English
• oversize boxes folders 2 5
• Updated 7 months ago

The Henry Eisenman collection includes sheet music related to the work of composer and musician Henry Eisenman. The collection includes the score and parts for "Hebrew Rhapsody" (alternative title, "Jewish Rhapsody") by Eisenman, which was part of the repertoire of Henry Baigelman's jazz band, "The Happy Boys," while touring displaced persons camps after the Holocaust. The collection also includes sheet music and arrangements for "Balet [sic] Suite No. 1," “Bess You is My Woman” from Porgy and Bess, “The Canary’s Escape,” “Flameco [sic],” “Funeral March,” “I Apologize,” “Lolita (Spanish Ser...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn613016
• English
• Updated 7 months ago

Side A: Kabootar (Khatibi) ["La Paloma" by Sebastian de Iradier (c. 1860)] - Columbia G.P. 107/CO 189. Side B: Yasseman (Fakoor) ["Solamente una vez" by Agustin Lara (1941)] - Columbia G.P. 107/CO 191. An instrumental recording featuring Polish popular jazz band, "The Jolly Boys," exiled to Iran. The performers include Stanislaw Sperber, Sonia Vartanian, Ghanbary, F. Socolow, and Igo Krischer. The Jewish band found unexpected sanctuary in Tehran, where they had been invited to perform at the future Shah’s wedding party (in the summer of 1939), and where they continued to perform as a group ...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 4019710
• English, Hebrew
• Official documentation Record of persecuted persons
• Updated 3 months ago

M. 57-Kulturbund der Juden in Deutschland (the Cultural Organization of German Jewry) History of the Organization Following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, the Jews were forbidden to attend cultural performances or to be employed in cultural institutions in Germany. Kurt Singer, the Director of the Berlin Municipal Opera (who was dismissed in 1933 because he was Jewish), decided to set up an alternate Jewish organization with the goal of arranging cultural activities for Jews. The new organization was also meant to solve the unemployment problem of the Jewish artists and workers who had bee...

1. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history volunteer collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn543072
• English
• 1 digital file, WAV
• Updated 7 months ago

1. Liberation 1945 oral history collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn511052
• English
• 1 videocassette (D2), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
• Updated 7 months ago

1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/255
• English, Hebrew
• pages 72 Passport Personal documents Newspaper clippings Handwritten, original Typewritten Original Stamps xerox
• Updated 9 years ago

Passports belonging to Paul Weiss, born in Vienna, Austria, 1898, and Aurelia (Feuermann) Weiss, born in Timisoara, Romania, 1900, issued 1930-1939, and the identity card of Paul Weiss, issued in Shanghai, 1945 - Austrian passport belonging to Paul Weiss, born in Vienna, Austria, 12 October 1898, issued at the Austrian Consulate in Berlin, 24 May 1930; his son Richard Weiss, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 26 November 1927, is also entered in the passport; - Austrian passport belonging to Aurelia (Feuermann) Weiss, born in Timisoara, Romania, 26 September 1900, issued in Vienna, 17 December 1...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn593672
• English
• 1920-1971
• folders 2
• Updated 7 months ago

Photographs and negatives documenting the lives of Ludwig Singer of Uzhhorod (Ukraine) and his wife Atalia Rosenheck of Nadwórna, Poland (Nadvirna, Ukraine). Includes depictions of family life in Nadwórna and Jerusalem, Ludwig's opera performances, and various friends and relatives. Negatives are housed separately.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn564140
• English
• folders oversize folder 6 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The Tadek Korn papers include photographs, clippings, and a biographical statement by violinist Perec Brand that were formerly housed in an album and scrapbook. Photographs from the album primarily depict Tadek Korn, his family, and other displaced persons at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp between 1945 and 1948. Additional photographs from the album depict the Korn family in America and on vacation in Eilat, Israel and Corinth, Greece. Photographs from the scrapbook include one depicting Tadek Korn wearing the clothing he had on upon arrival at the Zeilsheim DP camp, one depicting him...

• Jewish Musical Institute in Vilnius

• Lietuvos Literatūros ir Meno Archyvas
• F. 272
• English
• 1925-1941
• One subfonds and 18 files.
• Updated 9 years ago

Files of the institute’s activities; regulations of the institute; lists of personnel and students; registers and protocols of exams; protocols of the teacher board’s correspondence with "Joint" organization in Warsaw concerning financing and graduation certificates of students, and correspondence with other organizations about concerts of institute students and applications to the chief of the Vilnius city and district to obtain permissions for the concerts. At the beginning of the Nazi occupation all Jewish students and teachers were dismissed. They were moved to the Vilnius ghetto in Sep...