• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn713701
• English
• 1940-1944
• 270 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Telephone and address book of the Office of the Head of Warsaw District and subordinate German authorities and institutions in Warsaw; ordinances and circulars, reports regarding the political, economic and cultural situation in the Warsaw District at the end of March 1940. Includes official correspondence, personal files of prison guards at Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw, reports on escaped prisoners, and situational reports.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn38667
• English
• 1941-1945
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains copies of personal documents and letters sent by the political commissar Usher Korol’ from the Front to his family, which had been evacuated to Bukhara, in Uzbekistan.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn548625
• English
• 1925-2013
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Vakar family papers consist of correspondence, memoirs, manuscripts, news clippings, postcards, and other documents and materials related to the immigration of the Vakar family from France to the United States in 1940-1941, as well as the role of the American aid workers who helped them, Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Collection includes postcards and correspondence from the period of their immigration, later memoirs written by various members of the family recounting their experiences during their escape and their arrival in the United States, as well as news clippings and other material ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn606781
• English
• 1944-1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of the April-June 1944 correspondence of the Válas family and a 1945 document written by the donor's mother about the early start of the deportations of the Jews from Alsógöd (Hungary, 8km north of Budapest). Collection includes typed transcripts of the documents and a note written by the donor about the family relationship of people mentioned in the correspondence.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn43456
• English
• 1942-1967
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Correspondence and documents pertaining to the extended family of Teodor Valentin and Vilma (Politzer) Valentin. Includes a memoir written by Vilma Valentin titled "Kalište Report," which details the family's experiences from 1942-1945, while in hiding in the partisan-controlled village of Kalište, Slovakia, near Banska Bystrica

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516497
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Jean Gemähling (1912-2003) was a French Catholic educated at an English boarding school and worked as one of Varian Fry's assistants in Marseilles. In his January 9, 1945 letter to Gemähling, Fry asks for news of Gemähling’s survival and arrests in Vichy France and describes his 1945 memoir Surrender on Demand, his work at the New Republic and establishing the American Labor Conference on International Affairs, and his personal life as well as those of common friends and acquaintances. Among others, he mentions Jay Allen, Heinz Behrendt, Daniel Benedite, Georg Bernhardt, Victor Brauner, And...

1. P.41 -Collection of Oskar Schindler, Righteous Among the Nations, personal documentation, mostly from after 1945

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3762644
• English, Hebrew
• Typewritten
• Updated 6 years ago

Various documents including decisions by Courts of Law in Germany, 1950s and 1960s, regarding compensation claims filed by Oskar Schindler following the destruction of the enamel factory he owned in Krakow during the war Included in the file: Documents regarding the enamel factory in Krakow, from the years it was operational, including a diagram of the factory.

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
• 3690898
• English, Hebrew
• 1943-1944
• Original Typewritten copy
• Updated 6 years ago

Various letters and copies of letters, dealing mainly with financial matters and certificates

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn558451
• English
• 1850-2002
• 40,975 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Private papers of Veit Wyler (August 28, 1908 - October 18, 2002), attorney, Swiss refugee aid worker, Jewish community official, and Zionist delegate. The collection consists of photographs, certificates from schools, doctoral studies, military service records, records of his early activities as a lawyer, files of the federal prosecutor, documentation of his commitment to Jewish refugees and of the David Frankfurter trial, autobiographical writings and reports, private and business correspondence, honors, press articles, obituaries, a diary, poems, records of his family history, edited new...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn592551
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of photographs, documents, and correspondence relating to Vera Gutmann (donor's aunt) and her family's experiences before, during and after the Holocaust, as well as post-war restitution papers. Vera surived in Berlin throughout the war along with her mother, Lotte Friedman, living and working under a false identity as a secretary. Vera and Lotte emigrated to the United States in 1946 on board the "Marine Flasher," settling in Chicago where Vera's brother Hans Freeman lived with his family.

1. Vera Waisvisz-Reiss family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn510984
• English
• 1924-1947
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of correspondence and photographs relating to the Reiss and Duim families' experiences during and after the Holocaust in the Netherlands, especially Vera Reiss's experience as a hidden child with the Von Pelt family in Baarn, Netherlands. The papers include 39 photographs depicting Vera, her relatives, and her foster family, the Von Pelts, before, during, and after the Holocaust as well as eight letters and four postcards sent to Vera's parents.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn74196
• English
• 1938-1946
• 4 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm digital images,
• Updated 1 year ago

Primarily records of individuals seeking to convert to Catholicism, related correspondence among Church authorities, documentation of conversion, documents of name changes. Postwar administrative and political documents mainly related to adaptation to the new government and circumstances, for instance defending priests and defending church property.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn551039
• English
• 1935-1984
• boxes oversize boxes book enclosure 6 3 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Victor Bienstock papers document the pre-war and wartime work of journalist Victor Bienstock, as he served as an overseas correspondent for the Overseas News Agency, a subsidiary of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The collection contains materials relating to the on-the-ground coverage of wartime events from various locations (London, Cairo, Rome, and France) during World War II, with a particular focus on stories related to Palestine, refugees, and the fate of Jews in Nazi occupied lands. The Victor Bienstock papers contains travel materials; ephemera; correspondence; diaries; an unpubl...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47282
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one letter written by Vilma Grunwald to her husband, Dr. Kurt Grunwald, on July 11, 1944, while she was imprisoned in the Czech family camp at Auschwitz. The letter was written shortly before Vilma and her 16 year old son, John, were taken on trucks to the gas chambers. In the letter, she describes that she is aware of her impending fate, that she is calm, and thinking about him and about their son, Misa [later Frank Grunwald]. Also includes the blank piece of paper in which the letter was wrapped.

1. Violet Herkovits Mainzer collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn94996
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains documents, photographs and correspondence regarding the experiences of Rabbi Boril Herschkovics, who immigrated to the United States in the late 1920s ahead of his immediate family. Documents include recommendations of employment for Boril. Also includes correspondence with organizations including the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Society regarding the efforts of his daughter Alice Herst to arrange for the immigration of Edith and Rose Herskovits, then in Hungary, to join the rest of the family in the United States.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500366
• English
• 1944-1947
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Correspondence (8 letters) from Gemma Vitale Servadio, written to friends, family and an attorney, June 1944. Servadio sent these letters from the Fossoli internment camp, after she and her mother, Nina Levi Vitale, were arrested, and prior to their deportation to Auschwitz. Collection also contains the text of a lecture given by Servadio’s brother, Col. Massimo Adolfo Vitale, in 1947, after he observed the trial of Auschwitz camp commandant Rudolf Hoess in Warsaw, and subsequently visited the camp.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn583788
• English
• 1944
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of letters written by Benvenuto Mario Vitta (Mario) in 1944 to his wife Ines and daughter Adriana who were in hiding. The letters were likely written in Milan and the Fossoli di Carpi concentration camp. There is also one letter to Mario from his friend Alessandro Sgatti who was hiding Mario's son Adolfo with his family in Marina di Carrara.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn43015
• English
• 1938-1941
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Vogel and Baer family consists of Berta (Bertha) Baer Vogel of Untergrombach, Germany, her ex-husband Albert Vogel, their children, Inga and Ellen, and extended family. The daughter of a Jewish ironmonger, Berta lived in Karlsruhe, Germany with her family until her and Albert separated in 1930 and she immigrated to Basel, Switzerland. The Vogel and Baer family correspondence comprises letters primarily from Inga, who was a student in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to her Berta, Ellen, and her grandparents in Basel, Switzerland between 1938 and 1941. The letters detail her studies, life in the...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn44549
• English
• 1920-1994
• folders 8
• Updated 1 year ago

The Vollweiler family collection consists of identity documents, family history materials, and correspondence related to the Vollweiler family, originally of Heidenheim, Germany. Justin Vollweiler was arrested on Kristallnacht in 1938 and imprisoned in the Dachua concentration camp. He was able to immigrate to the United States after his release. His wife, Else and daughter Inge were able to join him in May 1939. His son Jack was born in the United States in 1940. Includes identity and education information, a postcard sent to Justin while he was imprisoned in Dachau, and extensive correspo...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn506431
• English
• 1933-1947
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The von Halle family papers consists of correspondence, certificates, identification cards, and various other documents relating to the Holocaust experiences of the von Halle family in the Netherlands, including Gerd Siegmund von Halle (later Gerald von Halle), Oscar Louis von Halle, Henriette von Halle (née Cohn/Cohen), and Hans Jürgen von Halle. The papers include correspondence written by von Halle family members from the Schoorl concentration camp, Mauthausen concentration camp, and Herzogenbosch concentration camp. A manuscript entitled "Loss, Perseverance, and Triumph: The Story of Ge...