• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn85606
• English
• 1938-1950
• folders 10
• Updated 1 year ago

Correspondence sent to Kurt (Chaim) Flaschner, following his emigration to Palestine (1939-1942), from his parents in Vienna, Josef and Regina Flaschner, who were subsequently deported to Maly Trostinec and perished there. Also includes other related correspondence sent to Kurt Flaschner, dating from approximately 1940-1950, from relatives in Czechoslovakia and Austria, and friends in Palestine. Contains news from family members in Austria, descriptions of conditions in Vienna in the months following Kristallnacht, discussions of acquaintances who had emigrated from Austria, and efforts to ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn611491
• English
• 1936-1996
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection includes documents, correspondence, and photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences of Kurt and Hennie Reiner of Vienna, Austria including their emigration from Vienna in 1939 into Milan, Italy and Marseille, France; Kurt’s internment at Les Milles; and their immigration to the United States in 1940. Biographical material includes identification papers of Kurt and Hennie Reiner, Kurt’s grades at the technical school of Vienna, papers related to his employment in the United States, and a copy of the their marriage certificate. Also included is a small amount of paperwork r...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn715047
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of two letters written by Kurt Dreyer, a member of the Essen Reserve Police Battalion 67, to his wife and son Hans-Jürgen in Essen regarding his actions in Krasnobród, Poland. In the first letter, dated 15 November 1942, he discusses his participation in a killing operation in Krasnobród on 13 November 1942 where accused partisans were placed in a barn and burned alive. He writes that he also shot at those who tried to escape, and that they later burned down the farmer’s house and executed the family as accomplices. He then discusses the capture and execution of 3 Je...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn711079
• English
• folders 14
• Updated 1 year ago

The Kurt Gutfreund papers include biographical materials, Theresienstadt postcards and receipts, photographs, and a clipping. The Theresienstadt material documents Kurt Gutfreund’s imprisonment in the Theresienstadt concentration camp from 1943-1945 with his mother Hildegard. Postcards and receipts primarily document packages Hildegard’s sister sent them in Theresienstadt. Some of the postcards include coded messages from Hildegard in the addressee field requesting specific foods in the next package (for example “Dear Onion” to indicate she wanted onions). Additional postcards from the Gutf...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501629
• English
• 1935-2006
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of photographs and papers related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Kurt I. Lewin [donor]. Includes identity cards, permits to travel, work permits, documents forged while the donor was in hiding as a Studite monk, Polish army documents, entry documents into Palestine, and photographs of family members and of Studite clergy members. Also includes Mr. Lewin's handwritten 1947 memoir, "Aliti MiSpezia," as well as Polish and Hebrew typed transcripts of the same. The memoir describes his childhood, wartime, and postwar experiences.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn79194
• English
• 1941-1942
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Letters written on concentration camp form stationary from Kurt Kastan to his wife Rosa (Rosel) and their daughters in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). The letters are primarily written from the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück concentration camps, between February 1941 and February 1942.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501399
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The Kurt Rosenthal papers consists of letters addressed to Kurt Rosenthal and his sisters, dated 1940-1941. Some of the letters were written while Kurt Rosenthal was imprisoned in Les Milles and Gurs internment camps in France as an “enemy alien.” The letter dated November 8, 1940 informs about the arrival of Jews in Gurs internment camp from Baden.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn601201
• English
• 1938-1941
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Kurt Schwarz papers consist of correspondence, photographs, telegrams, and documents related to the immigration of Kurt Schwarz, originally of Vienna, Austria, to the United States by way of Italy and Cuba, 1938-1940; as well as extensive correspondence from his mother, Helene Schwarz, in Vienna, 1938-1941. Includes telegrams from the American theatrical producer, Billy Rose, as he sought to help Kurt Schwarz immigrate to the United States, 1938-1939. Also includes later correspondence with Idy Sherer, the daughter of Kurt Schwarz, as she researched the fate of her grandmother, Helene S...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn562692
• English
• folders book enclosure oversize box 3 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of documents, photograph albums, and correspondence related to Kurt Weiser's experiences during World War II. Born in 1922 in the Czech Republic, Kurt was raised in Chorzow, Poland and deported or forced to flee to Siberia and further east into the Soviet Union. After the war, Kurt settled and worked in the New Ulm displaced persons camp, and eventually immigrated to Buffalo, NY.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn160618
• English
• 1937-1938
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of photographs and correspondence documenting the travels of David and Lena (Liza) Kurtz in Europe in the summers of 1937 and 1938, including trips to Lena's hometown of Berezne, Poland, in 1937, and to David's hometown of Nasielsk, Poland, in 1938. Includes still photographs taken of both trips and correspondence sent to the Kurtz's daughter Shirley.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn41463
• English
• 1945-1951
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Kurz family collection consists of six photographs depicting Salomon Kurz and his children: Izak, Moshe, Helen, and Abraham, all from Kosice, Czechoslovakia. Also included are eight documents relating to Izak Kurz and his father after the war in Regensburg, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Karlove Vary, Czechoslovakia, dated circa 1945-1951.They survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and other concentration camps.

1. Alfred Kurz family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn44499
• English
• 1903-1959
• boxes 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The Kurz family papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, immigration papers, business records, and photographs related to the lives of Meilech Kurz and his wife Klara Kurz-Biberstein in Vienna, Austria, and with their children Alfred and Doriane in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Westerbork transit camp, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. The papers include letters Meilech wrote to Klara, birth and marriage certificates, identification cards, government registration papers, immigration papers for Palestine and the United States, papers related to Meilech’s optical fr...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn593681
• English
• 1948-1986
• 165 digital images, TIFF
• Updated 1 year ago

Records from the the office of Mr. José Moskovits, a Holocaust survivor and attorney in Buenos Aires. Consist of correspondence, memorandums, photographs and newspaper clippings relating to Nazi war criminal Walter Kutschmann who lived in Argentina after World War II under the false name Pedro Ricardo Olmo.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn594468
• English
• 1933-1962
• 12,549 digital images, TIFF
• Updated 1 year ago

Files of the Comité Central Israelita del Uruguay (1940-1975), the Organización Sionista del Uruguay (OSU) (1954-1975), Sociedad israelita Hungara del Uruguay" (SIHPU) (1933-1962), Keren Hayesod (Campaña Unida pro Israel) del Uruguay (1948-1964), Keren Kaiemet LeIsrael (1948-1976), WIZO (1938-1959), the Congreso Judío Mundial en Uruguay (1941-1970); files of the various Jewish communities (1920-1972), the Vaad Hajinuj del Uruguay and various Jewish schools (1939-1975); youth, social and other organizations (1908-1972) in Montevideo as well as many periodicals and publications (1942-1979).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn513143
• English
• 1944-1950
• 108 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains agreements between the Bulgarian Government and Soviet military representatives regarding passports for Jews and Turks; assistance for Jews after World War II; correspondence with the National Committee of Liberation regarding homelessness and destitution, persecution of Bulgarians by Nazis, and immediate relief after liberation; correspondence with the Central Jewish Consistory regarding assistance with coal; appeals from Jewish organizations for restitution of property and money confiscated under the Defense of the Nation Act; appeals (arranged by geographical place) from politic...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn84509
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Julius and Yetta Ladenheim and their children Marcel and Henry in France and the United Kingdom before, during, and after the Holocaust. Contains pre-war, wartime and postwar images including image of Marcel in hiding with Olga Masoli, who along with her sister Esther hid him in Paris and cared for him until 1948. Includes letters from Marcel to his mother and to his rescuers, Olga and Ester Masoli, around 1948 after he was removed from their home by a maternal aunt and her husband and brought to the United Kingdom. His father d...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn78124
• English
• 1911-1958
• folders 9
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of documents, correspondence and papers relating to the experiences of Ladislaus (Louis) and Friederike Reisz (donors' parents) from Vienna, Austria and their families before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes birth certificate, academic records from the University of Graz, and letters of reference and other documents related to the career of Ladislaus Reisz as an attorney in Vienna; educational records documenting the training Friederike Kohn (later Reisz) received as a pharmacist; financial records and other materials related to Heinrich and Julie Kohn, including effort...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn558190
• English
• 1932-2007
• 2,231 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Private papers of Lajser Ajchenrand (1911-1985), a Holocaust survivor and author. The collection consists of personal documents, photos, press articles, the vernissage in the Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ), Switzerland, correspondence with Max Brod, Marc Chagall, Max Frisch, Hermann Hesse, Abraham Karpinovitch, Jo Mihaly, Carl Seelig, Nelly Sachs, Abraham Sutzkever, et al., poems various texts and reviews relating to Holocaust experiences and his intelectual life and literary work.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn509441
• English
• 1926-1945
• 4 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains questioners, protocols, name lists, correspondence, and other administrative and judicial documents relating to the Jews and non-Aryans of the city of Berlin since 1925 to 1945. Collection contains files pertaining to the Jewish properties, artwork, refugees, and other war a related issues in Berlin (Germany).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn720334
• English
• 1962-1976
• 2,027 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Postwar court records of Nazi-related cases in the state court in Eisenstadt, Austria.