• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn42064
• English
• 1937-1948
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Gottschalk family correspondence consists of correspondence from the Gottschalk family of Libau (Liepaja), Latvia, in the period before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes correspondence to Agnes Arnsdorff, who had immigrated to Palestine from her family from 1937-1941, and after 1944. Most of the family was murdered by the Einsatzgruppen in December 1941.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504390
• English
• 1939-1944
• 2 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains correspondence, questionnaires, name lists, situation reports, and various other documents from the office of the Gouverneur des Distrikts Lublin (Generalgovournement) and police offices in Lublin, Hrubieszów, Pulawy, Bilgoraj, and Chelm districts. The documents contain information about activities of the Gouverneur's office; activities of police in the Lublin area; population statistics for Jews and other nationalities in the Lublin area; activities of partisans (bandits); crime in the Lublin area; confiscation of Jewish property in the Lublin area; executions of Poles; and Poles...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504197
• English
• 1941-1945
• 1 microfilm reel, 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains correspondence, reports, criminal case records, and various other documents relating to water management in Radom, Poland; economic matters in the Radom district; the military and political situation in Radom; the defense of Lublin; regulation of work time for General Gouvernement offices; the criminal case of Wladyslaw Stefanski; police protection of prisons; and leaflets prepared by the German Army to entice Poles to fight the "Jewish Bolsheviks."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn700012
• English
• 1940-1944
• 18,349 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of records concerning Jewish civilians in government jobs at the French Ministry of Defense. The decree of the 2nd Statute, June 2, 1941 (a replacement of the Decree, October 3, 1940) defined who was to be considered a member of the "Jewish race" elaborating rules concerning grandparents. The Article 4 of this decree listed the professions and positions that Jews could not exercise (positions in ministries). Exceptions were made when an individual could prove that he and/or his family had provided exceptional service to the French nation. This law applied to all of French territory...

1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn566611
• English
• 1931-1941
• 5 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm digital images,
• Updated 1 year ago

Records relating to the activities of the Grand Lodge of B'nai B'rith in Yugoslavia and its affiliated lodges "Serbia", "Sarajevo" and “Zagreb." Consists of circular letters, register of proceedings ("Serbia" lodge), list of board members, biographical information on the leaders, letters of recommendation and application of candidates, bylaws, minutes and agendas of the meetings (“Zagreb" and "Sarajevo"), list of members and leaders of the "Menorah" lodges in Osijek and "Manat Yad" in Subotica; correspondence with the Yugoslav authorities, various reports on activities (struggle against ant...

1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn611135
• English
• 1928-1937
• 6 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 6,062 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Constitution of B'nai B'rith and other materials of the Great Lodge of Germany (B'nai B'rith), including minutes, financial reports, lists of members who were lawyers, proceedings, and information for local lodges; minutes of the executive committee of the Great Lodge; minutes of a 1932 secret meeting about annual reports, charity, and other questions; communications to the Ministry of the Interior and the Gestapo; correspondence with other lodges in Europe; correspondence with individuals regarding immigration conditions in other countries, in particular Argentina; correspondence with bran...

1. Greenbaum family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn712897
• English
• folders 5
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers consist of documents, photographs, and letters documenting the prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences of the Greenbaum family, originally of Gąbin, Poland, including Henry Greenbaum’s prewar work as a physician in Poland, and his services as a wartime medic with the United States Army. Documents include a birth control calendar and pamphlet created by Henry. Correspondence consists of prewar, wartime, and postwar family correspondence in the United States and Poland. Photographs include prewar and wartime depictions of the Greenbaum family in Gąbin, including Henry, his wife Es...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn559261
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Correspondence; from relatives in Berlin, dated September 1933, in Yiddish; from Anna Greissman Aronsfrau, sister of donor’s grandmother; dated December 12, 1940, from London, UK, in English; letter from Sophie Kanarek Aronsfrau from Lisbon explaining whose names should appear on an affidavit, dated January 22, 1941; and a telegram sent by Sophie Kanarek Aronsfrau from Lisbon on March 15, 1941 asking about the status of the affidavit. Also includes the front cover of a prayer book; inside, Mary Greissman wrote the names of her children, their dates of birth and Bar Mitzvah.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn548037
• English
• 1938-1948
• folders 6
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the experiences of Manfred (Fred) and Greta (née Neumann) Burg, both originally from Vienna, Austria, who separately fled Europe to Sosúa, Dominican Republic during World War II. The collection includes letters to Fred in England and Sosúa from his family in Vienna and Lwów, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine); two immigration documents regarding Fred’s attempts to bring his mother and brother to Sosúa; Greta’s birth certificate and naturalization certificate; and photographs of the Burg and Neumann families, including depictions of family life in the Dominican Republic.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn724614
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Gross and Lichtman Papers include World War II Food Ration Books issued to the family of Emerick Gross and a letter to Emerick and Violette Gross from their nephew Leon Lichtman, who served in the 120th Evacuation Unit after the liberation of Buchenwald.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn82133
• English
• folders 4
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of photographs and documents relating to the Grünberg family from Krakow, Poland: Ziuta (b. October 11, 1927), daughter of Zygmunt ( b. Feb. 1, 1896), an architect, and Berta Miller (b. Nov. 7, 1898). Ziuta’s older brother, Roman (b. October 12, 1922) was sent by his father to a boarding school in London, on April 20, 1939. Zygmunt Grünberg was forced to become the chief architect and engineer of the Płaszów concentration camp. The family was deported to Auschwitz and Zygmunt was transferred to Flossenbürg and murdered there in the stone quarry on April 23, 1945. Ziuta and her mo...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn543332
• English
• 1922-1944
• oversize folder folder 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Grünberg family papers relate to the wartime experiences of the Grünberg family of Vienna, Austria. The papers include the birth certificates of Siegfried Grünberg and Irma Katz; reissued copies of the marriage certificates of Siegfried and Irma Grünberg, June 5, 1932, and Juda Lieb Katz and Chaja Zilsel Margulies, February 21, 1909; a naturalization certificate for Siegfried Gruen, December 5, 1944; and a certificate for the completion of coursework in elementary education for Siegfried Grünberg, June 1940. Also included are three German passports, Deutsches Reich Reisepass, issued to ...

1. Walter Gumpert family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn85719
• English
• 1936-1941
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Gumpert family correspondence primarily consists of letters from Isidor Gumpert in Berlin to his son and daughter-in-law, Walter and Erna Gumpert, who had immigrated to Uruguay. The collection also includes correspondence from relatives and friends in Berlin and Lübeck, Germany; Labes (now Łobez), Landsberg an der Warthe (now Gorzów Wielkopolski), and Schneidemuhl (now Piła), Poland; London, England; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Montevideo, Uruguay; Rio de Janiero, Brazil; and New York City.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn37067
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of photographs of the families of Manya Reichman and Maurice Gunczberger including pictures of siblings and extended family members, dated c. 1930s-1940s, documents: from Slovakia, dated early 1930s, and correspondence written by loved ones in Slovakia to family in the United States, dated early 1940s. Also includes passenger list from the Cunard White Star Line for Maurice's voyage.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn95231
• English
• 1913-1948
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Gunther and Harry Rice correspondence consists of letters and postcards received by both Gunther Rice and his uncle Harry Rice, from family members living in Germany, Poland, and England. The correspondence mainly documents the efforts in trying to bring family members from Germany to the United States from 1938-1941. The correspondence collected by Gunther Rice are from his time living in Otwock, Poland and Cardiff, England, and consists mainly of letters written by his parents (Chiam and Lea Esther) and sister, Betti, while they lived in Zbaszyn and Lwow, Poland (L’viv, Ukraine). They...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524787
• English
• 1937-1999
• folders 18
• Updated 1 year ago

Correspondence, family tree, articles and copies of photographs, related to the family of Camilla Günther-Kohlmann, originally of Brodenbach a.d. Mosel, Germany, and her husband, Walter Kohlmann, of Kirchheim a.d. Eck, both of whom left Germany to escape Nazi persecution in the late 1930s, and who subsequently met and married in New York. Includes correspondence from her parents, in Brodenbach, 1937-1941; correspondence from friends and other family members from her hometown during the same time period, and some correspondence from the family of her husband, Walter Kohlmann, dated 1940-1942...

1. Dr. Lili Endlich and Dr. Marc Gurwith collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn523423
• English
• box oversize folder 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Papers consists of passports, letters, a family book, and other materialdocumenting the experiences of the Gurwith family in Poland, France, and the United States. Also includes are photographs relating to Liliane Gurwith Endlich's childhood in France. The family left Europe for the United States in 1942.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500367
• English
• 1938-1939
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Gustav Spitzer letters contain correspondence sent to Gustav Spitzer while he was living in Chicago from 1938-1939. The letters come from Vienna and Prague, all from Jewish citizens with the same surname of Spitzer. Though they have no relation to Gustav, they are requesting that he assist them in granting them affidavits so they may immigrate to the United States. The letters show the desperation and discrimination that Jews were facing at this time in Austria and Czechoslovakia, that they would explore any possibility to escape their conditions.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524140
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collections consists of photographs and correspondence relating to donors family before and during the war, including their time in the Łódź ghetto.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522692
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers consist of documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to Guta Jean Kryger's experiences during the Holocaust and her claims for restitution after her immigration to Canada.