• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn543450
• English
• 1941
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Includes a postcard from Szloma Erlich in the Łódź ghetto to her sister's family in the U.S. (Brooklyn address, but forwarded to New Jersey), dated 1941. Card written in German, but with Yiddish sentence across top. Pleads for them to send more packages with food, as their mother is elderly and quite weak, and wonders why they haven't responded to the cards she had previously sent. Also includes a photo reproduction of an image of a round-up of people.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn39507
• English
• 1939-1948
• 3,602 digital images, JPEG 4 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains records of the Municipal Commission in Lublin to Investigate the Nazi Crimes of the Lublin territory, Poland. Records are very diverse and include files of investigation of German crimes; administrative files, including lists of the members of the Commission; reports and correspondence of the Commission; log books of correspondence, questionnaires with information about places and facts of German crimes; name lists of the deported, arrested and murdered people during the WWII; witnesses’ testimonies; registration cards of the wanted war criminals; name lists of the German officers ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn671052
• English
• 1922-1939
• 1,924 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Various registers, protocols and other records relating to construction and administration of the Hamburg yard, fortification and other buildings.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn85886
• English
• 1945-1951
• 3,396 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains situation reports, correspondence, and reports relating to the Kielce pogrom of July 4, 1946, as well as attempts to organize anti-Jewish riots in Częstochowa where two persons were shot. The majority of materials includes situation reports, materials of the Jewish Committee of 1945, records relating to the establishment of the Religious (Mosaic) Association, lists of Polish and Jewish children in orphanages (1940-1947), correspondence related to mass graves and war crimes and restitution of estate property and enterprises.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn551184
• English
• 1945-1950
• 1,372 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Minutes of sessions of the Municipal Government of Rawa Mazowiecka, Poland, from the period immediately following World War II. Includes lists of war damages, statistics related to the town from 1945, matters related to synagogue and Jewish graveyards, matters of exhumation of bodies, lists of war graves, various certificates related to the estates, a list and administration of abandoned property in the area of Rawa Mazowiecka, and issues related to the provision of help to the war victims.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn634844
• English
• 1945-1950
• 355 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Records pertaining to the post-war restitution of Jewish property.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn557827
• English
• 1937-1944
• 4,499 digital images, TIFF
• Updated 1 year ago

Records pertaining to anti-Jewish regulations and decrees, the persecution of Jews, Jewish forced laborers, and the Aryanization of Jewish property in the town of Bardejov in Slovakia. Also includes lists of Jews and Roma, and statistical reports on the number of Roma living in and around Bardejov.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524057
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Correspondence: sent from Sokółka and Dąbrowa near Grodno in Poland by family and friends of Szejna Sylvia Jaroszewska (later Sylvia Bassman, donor's mother) in Brooklyn, NY. Photographs: images of family and friends of Szejna given to her on the occasion of her leaving Poland for the USA in 1939. None of the relatives in Poland survived the Holocaust. Prayer book: hand-bound with an inscription on the cover, dedicated to Szejna by her brother Israel Zvi Jaroszewski.

1. Myron Halpern collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn555273
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Photographs, documents, correspondence concerning Myron Halpern's experiences in the 75th Infantry Division of the United States Army in Europe, on his way back to the US, and reuniting with his son Jason and his wife. Includes telegrams notifying Myron of his son's birth; a letter; Honorable Discharge papers; and negatives of some of the photographs.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47983
• English
• 1928-1984
• approximately 8,000 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains personal papers of Paul Schmid-Amman, a chief editor of "Volksrecht." The collection includes correspondence with public figures and representatives of the Swiss-Jewish community, publications, manuscripts, and reviews. Consists of correspondence with: Konrad Akert, Hermann Böschenstein, Robert Bratschi, Willy Bretscher, Hans Conzett Emanuel Dejung, Emil Egli, Jonas Frankel, David Frankfurter, Erich Gruner, Walter King, Ernst Laur, Leonhard Ragaz, Willy Spühler, Paul Trautvetter, Werner Weber, Hans Wildberger, and many others.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47984
• English
• 1936-2002
• 7,229 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of personal papers of Samuel Jean Richard, primarily from his time as head of refugee work camps, refugee homes and as the inspector of the central camp administration. The collection includes a sub-collection of 403 colored pencil drawings done by Jewish refugee children. In addition, contains 140 forms that include personal information about the refugee children. These forms were indexed by Samuel Jean Richard and added by the Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ) to its refugee databank. The collection also contains an additional 319 drawings done by unknown children fo...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn555239
• English
• 1936-2016
• box oversize folders 1 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The Nachmias family papers consist of documents related to the immigration of Jacob Nachmias (born 1928), and his parents and sister, from Sofia, Bulgaria to the United States in 1939, as well as biographical documents pertaining to various generations of the Nachmias family of Russe, Bulgaria, between the 1870s and 1910s. Included are letters written by Jacob Nachmias to his father in the summer of 1939, prior to emigration from Bulgaria, and a journal kept by Jacob recounting events on their voyage in August and September 1939. Genealogical documents pertaining to the Nachmias family incl...

1. Nacht family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn543438
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of documents, photographs, concerning the Nacht family (father, Max Nacht; son, Felix Nacht) and their life in Shanghai in the immediate postwar period, including Felix's attendance at a Jewish school, efforts of Max Nacht to receive restitution for property seized by Japanese during occupation, and related subjects.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn84796
• English
• 1946-2004
• 2,188 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Personal archives of Nachum Bone (1913-2012) contains his identity documents, memoirs, correspondence, research papers and articles on the Jewish community of Pińsk including papers on the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Pińsk and names lists of members of the community. Includes also papers and reports as the Hashomer Hatzair emissary to Poland in 1946-1947 .

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514204
• English
• 1942-1943
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of 2 pieces of correspondence: a letter, dated August 1942, sent by Gizela and Dragutin Weiss to their daughter Nada, who was in "Merkur," a hospital in Zagreb, Croatia; a postcard, dated May 15, 1943, sent by Nada Weiss, an inmate in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, to her uncle Stjepan Magdic in Zagreb, Croatia.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47516
• English
• 1938-1941
• 466 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

This collection contains 62 letters written to Dawid Naimark and his cousins: D. Solarz, A. Naimark and Rabbi A. Kronenberg in New York City from his relatives and acquaintances in Poland and other countries starting on November 2, 1938 through October 1941. Most of the letters written to Dawid Naimark were from his siblings and other relatives in Poland. Before the war, the family lived in Warsaw, Miedzeszyn and Góra Kalwaria. Part of the family remained in Warsaw during the war; one brother and one sister fled to Białystok and one brother escaped to Grodno. The letters were written in Yid...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn713695
• English
• 1939-1945
• 2,260 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Correspondence relating the employment of Poles by Germans, mattaers of NSDAP party, statistics on various nationalities, resistance movement, church matters, displacement of Poles and Jews, extermination of civilians, racial policy, and gremanization of Polish orphans in Kalisz and Kirchdorf. Includes a register book with names of Poles, Jews and Russians murdered by gendarmerie and Gestapo, 1939-1945 (Wieluń, Wieruszowa, Ostrzeszowa, Pajęczno), and a name list of prisoners from the labor camp in Wąsowo, Poland.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn515174
• English
• 1939-1942
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers consist of documents, correspondence, songs, and identification cards relating to Naomi Elath's experiences in the children's homes at LaGuette and La Bourboule, France.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn509326
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The Natalie Baum collection consists of photographs of the Tisch family in Vienna, Austria and Antwerp, Belgium prior to their deportation and correspondence written by Jakub Tisch and Wittie Tisch in Antwerp, Belgium, to their daughter, Natalie Tisch in Denmark, and their son Leo Tisch in Austria, 1939-1942. Also included are documents relating to Jakub and Wittie Tisch’s deportation; a birth certificate of Natalie Tisch; correspondence with the US Embassy in Copenhagen relating to Natalie’s efforts to immigrate to the United States; money transfers from her parents in Antwerp to Nelly in ...

1. Nathan and Edith Litvin collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn73465
• English
• 1945-1946
• box oversize boxes 1 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The Nathan and Edith Litvin collection document the marriage of a Jewish American soldier and an Auschwitz survivor, likely one of the first “war brides” to come to the United States as such. The collection includes some pre-war photographs of the Festinger family, and of Edith Festinger and her sister Hilda (and some of other siblings) after liberation, as well as some documents attesting to Edith’s wartime experiences and post-war work. However, the majority of the collection relates to Nathan and Edith’s marriage in Paris in July 1946 and return to the United States, where they held a re...