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  1. Edith Moses Mayer correspondence

    The Edith Moses Mayer correspondence primarily consists of postwar letters Ludwig Moses addressed from Germany to his daughter Edith and other relatives in the United States. The correspondence also includes a 1942 letter Edith wrote from Baltimore to her parents in the Gurs concentration camp in France and a 1944 letter to Edith from a maternal relative in New Jersey. Edith’s 1942 letter was returned to her, likely because it did not reach Gurs before her parents were deported to Auschwitz.

  2. Liny Yollick papers

    The Liny Yollick papers were created in 1942 and include a “Sauf Conduit,” safe conduct pass in lieu of a national passport, issued to Liny Paula Pogin, Nice, France, 1942. A black and white photograph of Liny is affixed and a stamp of the emblem of the Regional Police of Nice. A pencil sketch of a man wearing a chef’s cap drawn by an unknown man that Liny befriended while in Nice, France, 1942. A postcard written in French and addressed to Liny in memory of time spent aboard the SS Nyassa. On the front of the postcard is a full color reproduction of a drawing of the SS Nyassa. A vaccinatio...

  3. Ingeborg W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ingeborg W., who was born in Hannover, Germany in 1923. She recalls increasing antisemitism; expulsion with her parents and younger sister to Zba?szyn? in October 1938 because her father was a Polish citizen; assistance from Polish Jews; living with an aunt in Kalisz; forced transfer to Krako?w, then Szczerco?w; smuggling themselves to Warta; imprisonment in Szczerco?w; ghettoization in Warta; a public hanging of Jewish community leaders; separation from her mother and sister at a selection (she never saw them again); transfer with her father to the ?o?dz? ghetto; for...

  4. Leah Lipman photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs documenting the wartime and post-war experiences of Ethel (née Fischman) and Abraham Kleinman, both of whom survived the Holocaust and met and married in the Fürth displaced persons camp. The photographs include depictions of Ethel and Abraham shortly after their engagement in Fürth and their wedding day on 26 August 1946. There is also one photograph depicting Israel Fischman (standing third from right) among a group of Hungarian Jewish laborers, circa 1941-circa 1944.

  5. Katz family papers

    The papers consist of documents and materials relating to H.W. Katz, his wife Friedel (née Kramer), and their daughter, Eve. Includes identity papers, demobilization papers, receipts, letters of recommendation, safe conduct passes, visa information, and correspondence related to the family's escape from Paris to Marseilles, life in Marseilles, and escape in 1941 to Lisbon to await the ship that took them to the United States.

  6. Walter M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter M., who was born in Spišská Nová Ves, Czechoslovakia in 1930, one of six brothers. He recounts posing as a non-Jew successfully due to his "Aryan" appearance; working for a German officer; obtaining food for his family; his father's arrest in 1944; seeking assistance from the officer; his positive response despite learning Walter M. was Jewish; taking food to his father; learning one of his brothers had died; his father's release for the mourning period; round-up with his parents; their transfer to a prison in Prešov, then deportation to Auschwitz three day...

  7. Martin Perlmutter papers

    The Martin Perlmutter papers contain biographical materials and photographs documenting Perlmutter’s time in Italy with his wife, primarily in the Bari displaced persons camp, after World War II before their immigration to the United States. Many of the photographs depict camp demonstrations against British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin and restrictive Palestine immigration policies. Biographical materials include identification papers and travel papers documenting the displaced persons status of Martin and Dora Perlmutter and their immigration to the United States. Documents include immigr...

  8. Jack Zimmermann papers

    The papers consist of pre-war photographs of the Zimmermann family in Przemyśl, Poland and post-war photographs of Malwina Zimmermann, Jack Zimmermann, and Cesia Zimmermann at the displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany and of the Zimmermann family after they immigrated to the United States in 1949. Also included is a certificate from the ORT-UNRRA trade school in Landsberg for Jack, a driver's license issued to Jack in Landsberg, and a letter sent to Jack from Mulke, in 1948.

  9. Herman and Dwora Flamholc papers

    The Herman and Dwora Flamholc papers consist of two photographs of Herman Flamholc, Dwora while he was a refugee in Kara-Balta, Kyrgystan; a postcard sent from Ewa Chawa Flamholc, Dwora's aunt, in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, to Salek Flamholc in Chett, Siberia; a certificate that Dwora attended a Jewish school in Charkov, Ukraine; and two certificates of repatriation from the Soviet Union to Poland for Dwora and Herman Flamholc.

  10. Bracha Plotnik photograph collection

    The collection consists of pre-war photographs of Bracha Plotnik with family and friends in Bedzin, Poland, several wartime photographs, and postwar photographs from various displaced persons camps including the Weiden and Beyruth DP camps.

  11. Rabbi Eli A. Bohnen photograph collection

    The collection contains photographs and a photograph album documenting the experiences of United States Army Chaplain Rabbi Eli Bohnen in Austria and Germany from 1943-1946. The photograph album was presented to Bohnen, who worked with Jewish Holocaust survivors in the Bad Gastein displaced persons camp, Austria, by the residents upon the closing of the DP camp in 1946. The album depicts the residents, school, organizations, drama society, workshops, protests, and Rabbi Bohnen. The photographs contain wartime and post-war images of Bohnen, along with fellow soldiers and friends primarily in...

  12. Abram Pukacz papers

    The Abram Pukacz papers consist of correspondence and photographs documenting Abram and his family from Łask, Poland. The letters were written by Abram to his cousin in Tel Aviv shortly after World War II, and describe the loss of his family in the Holocaust, his loneliness, and his impatience to immigrate to Palestine. Photographs depict Pukacz family members and family home in Łask before the Holocaust, Abram and other young people in the Bergen Belsen displaced persons camp, and the Ayanot agricultural school in Israel. Ayanot photographs include a picture of David Ben-Gurion and other o...

  13. Seizure of the S. S. Dromit cargo

    Consists of letters and other documents (some originals and some photocopies) relating to the seizure of foodstuffs and Jewish possessions from the S. S. Dromit in 1949. Included among the documents is a German-language "statement of witness" submitted to the British Civil Police Unit in November 1949 by Josef Rosensaft.

  14. UJA relief efforts

    Title card reads, "UJA Report from Israel." Immigrants wave from a ship's deck while the narrator explains that these are Holocaust survivors arriving in Israel from Europe. Survivors disembark in Haifa as a crowd waits on the dock behind a fence. People sort through luggage and other belongings. A man stacks blankets and a woman searches for her baby carriage among several others. Items are loaded onto a truck which then takes immigrants to a camp. Dramatic CU of International Herald Tribune headlines: "Heavy Burden Of Immigrants Strains Israel," "Situation Called Explosive,"(article writt...

  15. Leonore Gumpert correspondence

    The Leonore Gumpert correspondence consists of letters and postcards dated 1938-1942 to Leonore in America from her mother, Clara Joseph, in Kassel and Darmstadt and from her sister, Inge, in Kassel, Darmstadt, Brussels, Seyre, and Chateau de la Hille. Some correspondence from Germany includes messages from Leonore's aunt Martha and grandmother Josephine. There are also a few letters and postcards from Leonore's father, Julius, and from relatives in New York. Most of the letters and postcards describe daily life in Germany, Belgium, and France and relate efforts to immigrate. One October 19...

  16. Ester Ajzen Lewin family photographs

    The Ester Ajzen Lewin family photograph collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs of the Ester Ajzen and the Ajzen family of Chełm, Poland. The collection also includes photographs of the the Lewin family of Derazhnya, Ukraine; Ester Ajzen Lewin’s husband, Abram Lewin and his brother Misha Lewin. Both served as Soviet soldiers.

  17. Ticket for a performance of the Jewish Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra acquired by an American soldier

    1. Arnold Gladstein collection

    Entrance ticket received by 18 year old Arnold Gladstein, a Jewish American soldier, for a concert by the Jewish Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra in Furstenfeldbruck, Germany, on July 21, 1946. He was given the ticket at a Shabbat service held at the base. This orchestra had been formed at the St. Ottilien displaced persons camp near Schwabenhausen, Germany, in 1945 and relocated to Fuerstenfeldbruck in 1946. Also known as the Shearith HaPleitah Orchestra, or the survivor’s orchestra, it was founded by former members of the Kovno ghetto orchestra, and expanded as other musician/refugees, suc...

  18. Bessie and Jacob K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bessie K. and Jacob K. Mr. K. was born in Zwolen?, Poland in 1923. Mr. K. describes his childhood in a close-knit, observant family; celebration of Jewish holidays; social closeness of the community; attending a Polish school; anti-Semitic incidents; the beginning of the war; and the destruction caused by bombing, including his home. He recounts increasing tension; anti-Jewish legislation; forced labor; extreme hunger and hardship; atrocities committed against the Jews; the final deportation from Zwolen? (which he and his brothers avoided); their work in Zwolen? clean...

  19. Victor C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victor C. (accompanied by his daughter Belinda) who was born in Strzemieszyce Wielke, Poland in 1914. He relates his father's death; the family's move to Sosnowiec; extreme poverty; his mother's efforts to raise and educate four sons; studying in Krako?w; being drafted into the Polish army in 1939; being taken as a prisoner-of-war; and his escape. He describes returning to Strzemieszyce; his marriage; the birth of his child; ghetto conditions and organization; transfer with his family to Be?dzin; forced labor; transfers to many camps; the variety of conditions and org...

  20. Jacob H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob H., who was born in Os?wie?cim, Poland in approximately 1924, one of five children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; his mother's death a month prior to his bar mitzvah; German invasion; fleeing with his father by train to Krako?w, then walking east; their return home; forced labor cleaning barracks, then at German police headquarters; two German soldiers offering him papers as a non-Jew; his father's refusal to prevent their separation; moving with his father to Chrzano?w in early 1941 with assistance from a non-Jewish friend;...