• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn685158
• English
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Documents, correspondence, and photographs associated with the experiences of the extended Meinhardi family (families Strahl and Stolze) under National Socialism and in postwar Germany. Also includes material related to the Meinhardi family, formerly of Germany, who immigrated to the United States at the end of the 19th century. The Meinhardis continued to correspond to their relatives in Engish throughout the period and received first hand accounts of life in Nazi Germany into the immediate postwar years.

• 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
• irn49127
• English
• 1930-1947
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Photographs relating to the experiences of Meir Shapiro and his family surrounding the Holocaust in Poland and Germany. Included are pre-war photographs of Meir's mother Jenta and father Chaim as well as post-war photographs of Meir and his sister Judith in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany. Also included is an image of David Ben-Gurion speaking to a group at the Zeilsheim camp in 1947 and group photographs of a Zionist youth organization, or kibbutz in Łódź, Poland, in which both Judith and Meir are pictured as well as a photograph of Miriam and Musia Brodzky, Meir’s cousins,...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50763
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of photographs depicting Arpad Meitner and Berta Mahler Meitner before the war in Budapest, Hungary.

• 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
• irn614088
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of photographic prints including vintage and contemporary photos and copy prints relating to Molly Applebaum and her rescuers, Wiktor and Emilia Kulaga, who were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations.

1. Melanie Keck Spitta collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521467
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Melanie Keck Spitta papers consists of photographs of German Romanies belonging to the Sinti group.

1. Bertha and Isak Melchior family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn535237
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains photographs and documents regarding the experiences of Isak and Bertha Melchior in Vienna, Austria and their sons Norbert and Hugo (donor's father).

1. Melvin Goldfarb collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn523532
• English
• 1946-1948
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers consist of documents relating to Melvin and Estera Goldfarb and their experiences as displaced persons in Austria, including post-war certificates of vaccinations, letters stating their wartime experiences, and invoices for package deliveries. Also included is a post-war photograph of a memorial site.

1. Giorgio Rossi, Archivio Fotografico

• Community members

• Biblioteca Archivio "Renato Maestro"
• 408
• Italian
• 1930-1950
• Updated 6 years ago

Conserva ristampe di fotografie che ritraggono membri della comunità: 1. fotografia, seppia, cm 10 x 7, ritrae gruppo a Ravenna, 11 maggio 1939; 2. 2 fotografe, seppia, cm 10 x 15, ritraggono la laurea di Giovannina Reinisch Sullam; 3. 2 fotografie, seppia, cm 15 x 10, ritraggono Bruno Banon; 4. 2 fotografie, seppia, cm 15 x 10, ritraggono figure femminili; 5 1 fotografia, b/n, cm 18 x 12, ritrae seder dei bambini 1933; 6. 1 fotografia, b/n, cm 18 x 12, ritrae 3 uomini e una donna.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502778
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a copy of a 47-page French-language typescript entitled "Memoires pour mes petit-enfants (Memoirs for My Grandchildren)" by Sandor (Alexandre) Bokshorn. The memoir, which is dated July 1985, describes the author's early life in Hungary. He attended school at the Sorbonne then entered his family's furrier business. He describes increasing antisemitism in Hungary beginning in the mid-1930s, slave labor, deportations, Soviet liberation, deportation to the Ukraine, and life in postwar communist Hungary until the 1956 revolt and his escape to France in the following year. The memoir ...

1. P.7- Archive of Marc Jarblum, Zionist Leader and one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in France, 1941-1967

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3690901
• English, Hebrew
• Original Stencil Typewritten copy 28 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of a Polish officer regarding Auschwitz and memoirs regarding Russian POW camps in Germany - Memoirs of a Polish officer regarding Auschwitz with five photographs documenting the atrocities; - Memoirs regarding Russian POW camps in Germany written by an unknown author.

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

• Emlékek a pusztulás és hősiesség napjaiból

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731351
• English, Hebrew
• 1955
• Original 38 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Chava Éva (Beregi) Zahavi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1913, regarding her experiences in Budapest, transport on the Kasztner train; in Bergen-Belsen, Saint Gallen and the Caux sur Montreux DP camp Life before the war; her parents are Zionist activists in Tel Aviv; life in Tel Aviv in order to complete a Ph.D. in Chemistry; marriage to János Détshy, a chemical engineer, autumn 1942; birth of their son, András Ábrahám, 05 October 1943. German occupation, 19 March 1944; turning of the family home into a marked house; deportation of her husband to a labor battalion, Jászberény, 27 Ju...

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

• Élményeim és szenvedéseim az 1941-1945 években a Hitler korabeli magyar fasiszta uralom idején

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731412
• English, Hebrew
• 1955
• Original 133 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of László Blahm, born in Pivnica, Yugoslavia, 1881, regarding his experiences and those of his family during the Holocaust period, 1941-1945 Termination of studies for his sons Ottó (born 20 October 1919) and Ervin (born 26 June 1921) at Belgrade University; their transfer to Novi Sad (following the Hungarian occupation of Újvidék), February-March 1941; draft of his son, Ottó, to the Yugoslavian Army; annexation of the Délvidék county to Hungary, April 1941; return of Ottó from his military service; Hungarian gendarmerie activities against the Jews in the area; draft of the Jewish m...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn73438
• English
• 1939-2005
• 23,808 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of 589 Polish testimonies along with photographs, letters and other personal documents. It contains accounts of Polish victims of WWII, their experiences of German atrocities in Poland and as forced laborers in Germany. The testimonies were sent for the contest "Pomóżcie Nam Zachować Pamieć" organized by the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP) and Polska Unia Ofiar Nazizmu in 2005. Contains also other WWII materials collected by the foundation: as photographs, audio and video records. The most interesting materials were published by FPNP in two volumes under a title: “Za...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn542729
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains nine postwar photographs of Menachem Shapiro and his parents in the Santa Maria di Leuca camp in Italy and in Palestine, dated 1946-1949.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518450
• English
• 1926-1980
• folders 3
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of documents, identity cards, photographs, and haggadot related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of the Menashe family, originally of Thessaloniki, Greece. Includes birth certificates, marriage certificates, and United States naturalization certificates, as well as two family copies of the haggadah. Also includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of members of the Menashe family. Of the nine children of Issac (Ino) and Sara Menashe, only four survived the war: Pauline immigrated to the United States before the war, Oro and Sylvia survived Auschwitz, and Ni...

1. Menczel, Kahn and Reichnitzer family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn725556
• English
• folders book enclosures oversize boxes oversize folder 4 4 2 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Prewar and wartime photographs depict Fanny, Wilhelm, and their families, including siblings, parents, and cousins. The collection also includes Frieda Reichnitzer’s poetry book and cookbook, two of Fanny’s autograph books, and Lory Kahn’s autograph book.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn37525
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of documents, photographs and correspondence relating to the Fuchs and Polak families of Wulchovce (Vilkovtsy), 133 km WSW of Chernowitz, and Solotvina, 157 km WSW of Chernowitz. Helene Fuchs and her sisters Sara and Rachel were taken to Kolomyja ghetto in August 1941; in April 1943 they were taken to Munkac labor camp, and in April 1944 they were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. In October 1944 they were transferred to Gelsenkirchen, and later to Sommerda, both subcamps of Buchenwald. The Fuchs sisters were liberated after a death march. Helen met Mendel in her hometown and the t...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn43598
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of two identification documents for Mendel Awerbuch (also spelled Averbuch), one from the Polish Consulate in Brussels confirming his Polish citizenship, and the other from the town of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, permitting Awerbuch to stay in that town and confirming he had formerly been a prisoner at Buchenwald, both documents dated 1945. Includes four photographs of men and women, including Awerbuch, on a street in post-war Belgium; some wearing old concentration camp uniforms. Also includes passport-sized photos of a different man, with addresses in Paris and in Israel.