• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501304
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a letter dated May 4, 1945, relating to Buchenwald atrocities, a certificate of service, and an affidavit.

1. Charles A. Weingarten collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn612024
• English
• boxes oversize folders 15 13
• Updated 1 year ago

The Charles Weingarten papers include biographical materials, correspondence (some illustrated), photographs, printed materials, and restitution files documenting Weingarten’s extended family, hiding with his mother under a false identity in Nice, France, during World War II, their postwar lives, and Weingarten’s unsuccessful efforts to obtain compensation for Holocaust-era claims. The collection also includes records documenting the family of Weingarten’s stepfather, Karl Delius. Biographical materials include real and falsified identification papers for Charles and Margarethe Weingarten, ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn59537
• English
• 1942
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one handwritten letter, 2 pages, written by Charlotte Delbo (who went by her married name of Charlotte Dudach at the time), to her sister Odette, on 21 March 1942 (though the letter is physically dated 1941, it was actually written in 1942). The letter, written while Charlotte was imprisoned in the Depot prison in Paris, gives Odette instructions regarding personal property and notes that Charlotte has been separated from her husband, George. Also includes four photographs of Charlotte Delbo taken between 1970-1985.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514223
• English
• 1937-1946
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of a passport issued to Charlotte Neumann Rapaport, partially used ration card issued to Gerti Neuman Agoston, prescription for medication written for Irma Stein Neuman, postcard requesting aid for Irma Stein, and draft of a letter requesting housing for Irma Stein Neuman.

1. Charnitzki family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn84851
• English
• 1939-1947
• box oversize folder 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Charnitzki family papers consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, and an autograph book related to the experiences of the Charnitzki family of Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad). Includes documentation of pre-war life in Königsberg, life in Shanghai, and their emigration to the United States in 1947, including correspondence with family members who perished during the Holocaust.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn555305
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence documenting Jozef and Paulina Sciezynski (Stieglitz) [donor’s parents], their children, Mira, Ewa (donor), and Dan, extended family and friends in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Soviet Union, Iran and Palestine. Ewa Elovik survived as one of the “Tehran Children.”

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504128
• English
• 1939-1941
• 4 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains information about evacuations of Poles and Jews in the Poznań (Posen) areas and the resettlement of Germans in their place; transports of evacuated persons; camps for evacuees in Poznań and Łódź; removal of Jews and Poles to make room for military training grounds; evictions of Poles and Jews; population statistics in the areas of Poznań and Łódź; and Germanization of eligible Poles. Also contains case files of SS personnel and Umwandererzentralstelle employees.

1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn615070
• English
• 1920-1944
• 1 microfilm reel (partial), 16 mm 1,557 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Original collection at source archive consists of various records relating to construction projects in the entire territory of German Reich: Opis 1: Instructions for the treatment of prisoners of war; protocols of the Reich Ministry of Labor (RAM) for the provision of prisoners of war; a list of the request of prisoners of war, correspondence and protocols on planning construction of subway, airports, ports; minutes of the first session of the "Wissenschaftseinsatzschaft Armausausbau"; proposals by the four-year plan authority (Göring) for rationalization and austerity measures in armaments...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn634722
• English
• 639 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Administrative records of the Chief of the Civil Administration in Brno (Chef der Zivilverwaltung in Brünn) from the period of March 15, 1939 to April 15, 1939. Includes reports and correspondence relating to Aryanization of Jewish owned property in Ivančice, Moravská Ostrava, and in other rural area. of Brno.

1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn599262
• English
• 1941-1944
• 5 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 5,218 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection contains reports, German translations of documents, minutes, circulars, orders, reviews, secret publications, financial documents, correspondence, special bulletins, transcripts of testimonies, and various materials such as copies of documents and maps. Includes information on police activities against partisans and other resistance efforts in the Occupied Eastern Territories; the activities of Einsatzgruppe A; directives and instructions of Himmler and other senior police officials about the treatment of foreign workers; measures for their punishment; the treatment of Commun...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn55161
• English
• 1946
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of two letters, written by brothers Alfred and Hermann Chimowicz (later Herman Shine), from Karlsruhe, Germany, in the spring of 1946. The letters were sent to their cousin, Masha Glicenstein, who had immigrated to Palestine in 1937. The letters describe their own Holocaust experiences and those of the extended family, who were from Swarzędz (Schwersenz), Posen, Kalisz, and Łódź. Includes details of life in the Łódź and Warsaw ghettos, concentration camps Auschwitz, Stutthof, and Flossenbürg; a death march from Dresden to Theresienstadt (Terezin), and their post-war lives, includin...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516308
• English
• 1942
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The stationery card has "Adolf Hitler" embossed in the upper left corner. A message in German is written on the recto and has an illegible signature. A message in English is written on the verso: "Merrie sic Xmas and Happy New Year / from me, too, Jack! / Adolf is sending his greetings / this year / Love, Kisses, Hugs, [signature illegible] / P.S. That signature is authentic!."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn714704
• English
• 1941-1945
• 5,521 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Consist of selected records of the Stadthauptmann office in L’viv. Included are ordinances, circulars, reports, German personnel files, lists, correspondence, regulations, announcements, and financial books of taxes related to German population, Ukrainian police, ownership of properties, abandoned Jewish properties, and taxes.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524203
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains documents, photographs, and identification cards relating to the Shipper family before and during World War II. Includes letters written by Osias Shipper asking for help, dated 1937-1939; false identity documents; a school diploma; passports; a family photograph; a portraits of the donor's parents, who were murdered in Auschwitz; and two documents relating to the Shipper family before the war.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn513018
• English
• 1940-1942
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains letters written between December 1940 and September 1942 by Clara and Wilhelm Dreyfuss in concentration camps in France, addressed to Clara's sister and her husband, Recha and Wilhelm Reutlinger, in New York City. The letters contain information about the conditions in the camps; the Dreyfuss's experiences in Gurs, Les Milles, and Rivesaltes; and their unsuccessful quest to leave Europe. Each handwritten letter is accompanied by a German transcription and an English translation.

1. Minnie Vromen family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524112
• English
• 1927-2005
• box oversize folder 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences of Clara Vromen, originally of Enschede, Netherlands, along with her mother Minnie van Dam, her grandparents Clara and Isidor van Dam, and her brother Jaap Vromen. Included are biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, a personal narrative, and clippings. Biographical materials include identification documents, paperwork regarding Westerbork, and a list of gold and silver items owned by Isidor. There are also false identification cards for Minnie and Isidor under the names of Mininie Helene Lebeboer and Frederi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn46474
• English
• 1945
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of seven photographs taken at the beginning of May 1945 depicting the aftermath of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Also includes a transcription of a letter originally dated May 8, 1945 written by Clarence Alberg, who worked for "The Stars and Stripes" during the war and arrived at Dachau on May 4, 1945. In the letter, dated May 8, 1945, Clarence described what he witnessed at the camp. Clarence is also depicted in one of the photographs.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn37691
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one letter, four double-sided pages, written by Clayton Lee Shedivetz, a member of the United States Army, on 14 June 1945. In the letter, Mr. Shedivetz describes taking a tour, with a former inmate guiding him, of the Buchenwald concentration camp; the history of the camp, and what he witnessed there. He urges his wife to keep the letter because he felt the visit was very important.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn605704
• English
• 1945
• folders oversize folders 5 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The Clinton Gardner collection contains several items collected by Clinton Gardner during his time administering the Buchenwald concentration camp. Included in this collection are a report on the history of Buchenwald, worker requests, and a record of cigarette distribution to the prisoners. The correspondence was written by Clinton Gardner to his parents, and describe his responsibilities and the conditions of the camp. The SS soldier identity card belongs to Adam Theis, who was killed by prisoners after the liberation of the camp. Also included are two oversized documents. The newspaper c...

1. Cohen family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn708877
• English
• 1939-1942
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Cohen family collection consists of postcards sent to Morris Cohen, primarily from his sister-in-law Esther Feyge (Fagel), regarding their family in Rutki-Kossaki, Poland, 1939-1940. The collection includes a postcard sent to Morris Cohen from a family friend in Rutki-Kossaki regarding the murder of family members in 1942.