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  1. Walter Lubran papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Walter Lubran, originally of Sebnitz, Germany, including his immigration to the United States in 1938, his military career during World War II, and his restitution cases against the German government regarding property claims, insurance, and pensions. Included is a small amount of biographical material related to Walter and his father Benno Lubranitzki, letters from Walter to his wife Pearl while he was overseas with the Army, restitution paperwork, and a small amount of pre-war family photographs. Biographical material includes the ...

  2. Star of David badge printed with Jude worn by a German Jew

    1. Beate and Ernest Oppenheimer family collection

    Star of David badge that belonged to Beate Ada or Ernest Oppenheimer. Beate and Ernest emigrated separately from Germany to the United States in 1938-1939. The badge was worn by a family member who stayed in Germany. In September 1941, the Nazi government ordered all Jews over the age of six to wear a Judenstern [Jewish star] badge on their outer clothing at all times. Official persecution of the Jews following Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 made life extremely difficult. Ernest, who lived in Mannheim, was arrested with his father during the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938. They...

  3. Thermometer with silver case used in the Warsaw ghetto

    1. Irena Urdang de Tour family collection

    Thermometer and case used by Felicia Ehrlich vel Sluszny in Warsaw, Poland, before and during the Holocaust. Felicia, her husband, Seweryn, and her two daughters, 16 year old Irena and 11 year old Danuta, were confined to the Warsaw ghetto in 1940. In March 1943, Irena escaped to the Christian sector. April 1943 brought the Warsaw ghetto uprising and its violent suppression by the Germans, with mass deportations of all Jews in Warsaw and the annihilation of the ghetto. Seweryn, aged 39, was killed during the uprising. Felicia and Danuta escaped and were hidden the rest of the war by Juana D...

  4. Gold necklace, bracelet, and pendant received in a displaced persons camp

    1. Irena Urdang de Tour family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn42236
    • English
    • 1945
    • a: Height: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) b: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) c: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)

    Jewelry set given to Irena Ehrlich vel Sluszny’s family by Julius Balbin in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp after the war. Balbin was an Auschwitz survivor, who met the family in Bindermichl in 1945. Irena, her parents, Felicia and Seweryn, and younger sister, Danuta, were confined to the Warsaw ghetto in 1940. In March 1943, 19 year old Irena escaped to the Christian sector of Warsaw. April 1943 brought the Warsaw ghetto uprising and its violent suppression by the Germans, with mass deportations of all Jews in Warsaw and the annihilation of the ghetto. Her father, aged 39, was kille...

  5. Darning needle and case used in the Warsaw ghetto

    1. Irena Urdang de Tour family collection

    Darning needle used by Irena Ehrlich vel Sluszny and her family in the Warsaw ghetto. Irena, her parents, Felicia and Seweryn, and younger sister, Danuta, were confined to the Warsaw ghetto in 1940. In March 1943, 19 year old Irena escaped to the Christian sector of Warsaw. April 1943 brought the Warsaw ghetto uprising and its violent suppression by the Germans, with mass deportations of all Jews in Warsaw and the annihilation of the ghetto. Her father, aged 39, was killed during the uprising. Her mother and 14 year old sister escaped and were hidden for the rest of the war by Juana Dylag. ...

  6. Cream colored handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto

    1. Irena Urdang de Tour family collection

    Handkerchief that belonged to Irena Ehlrich vel Sluzny's s maternal grandmother, Leokadia Lubelczyk. Leokadia was deported, and it is believed, killed in a concentration camp around 1943. Irena, her parents, Felicia and Seweryn, and younger sister, Danuta, were confined to the Warsaw ghetto in 1940. In March 1943, 19 year old Irena escaped to the Christian sector of Warsaw. April 1943 brought the Warsaw ghetto uprising and its violent suppression by the Germans, with mass deportations of all Jews in Warsaw and the annihilation of the ghetto. Her father, aged 39, was killed during the uprisi...

  7. Striped wool jacket used in the Warsaw ghetto

    1. Irena Urdang de Tour family collection

    Jacket worn by Felicia Ehrlich vel Sluszny in the Warsaw ghetto and Bindermichl displaced persons camp. It was hand-woven by peasants in Zakopane in the Carpathian Mountains in 1939. Felicia, her husband, Seweryn, and her two daughters, 16 year old Irena and 11 year old Danuta, were confined to the Warsaw ghetto in 1940. In March 1943, Irena escaped to the Christian sector of Warsaw. April 1943 brought the Warsaw ghetto uprising and its violent suppression by the Germans, with mass deportations of all Jews in Warsaw and the annihilation of the ghetto. Seweryn, aged 39, was killed during the...

  8. Isaac Schwartzbart

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Organization Department
    3. Executive Files

    Box F1. Folder 1. Correspondence, 1942 Box F1. Folder 2. Correspondence, 1943 Box F1. Folder 3. Correspondence, 1945-1947 Box F1. Folder 4. Correspondence, 1948-1949 Box F1. Folder 5. Correspondence, 1950 Box F1. Folder 6. Correspondence, 1951 Box F1. Folder 7. Correspondence, 1952 Box F1. Folder 8. Correspondence, 1953 Box F1. Folder 9. Correspondence, 1954 January Box F1. Folder 10. Correspondence, 1954 February Box F1. Folder 11. Correspondence, 1954 March Box F2. Folder 1. Correspondence, 1954 April Box F2. Folder 2. Correspondence, 1954 May Box F2. Folder 3. Correspondence, 1954 June B...

  9. Digitale kopie van het archief van de International Tracing Service te Bad Arolsen.

    Dit indrukwekkende geheel is in feite een conglomeraat van archieven van heel wat verschillende organisaties en instellingen, samengebracht en/of gekopieerd door de ITS om opzoekingen naar personen mogelijk te maken. De focus van dit complexe archief ligt dan ook op de voornaamste groepen slachtoffers – vervolgde personen, dwangarbeiders en displaced persons. De Centrale Naamindex is met meer dan 42 miljoen digitale beelden de meest uitgebreide reeks. Dit steekkaartensysteem fungeert als het globale zoekinstrument voor de identificatie van personen. De verschillende types steekkaarten dekke...

  10. Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    The Istanbul Collection testifies to JDC’s efforts from 1942-1949 (with a few earlier materials dating from 1937) to oversee the planning of rescue and relief operations from its office in Turkey, a neutral country strategically located at the crossroads of war-torn Europe and the nascent Jewish state in Palestine. These records highlight the Istanbul office’s partnership with other relief organizations--such as the Jewish Agency, the U.S. War Refugee Board, and the International Red Cross--in rescue operations and in large-scale enterprises to identify and locate survivors during and after...

  11. Markheim, Feldman, Orzech, and Silberspitz families papers

    The collection documents the pre-war and post-war lives of the Markheim family of Kraków and Bochnia, Poland and relatives in the Feldman, Orzech, and Silberspitz families. Documents include post-war identification papers of Maurice and Michael Markheim as well as restitution paperwork. Photographs include pre-war and post-war depictions of family members in Poland, DP camps, and Israel. Documents of Maurice Markheim include Bindermichl and Regensburg DP camp identification papers, including a card identifying him as a former prisoner of Mauthausen, a driver’s license, copies of his birth c...

  12. Peter Feigl papers

    The Peter Feigl papers consist of correspondence, diaries, identification papers, photographs, printed materials, and photocopies documenting Feigl’s wartime experiences in summer camps, children’s homes, and schools in Condom (Gers), Le Chambon‐sur‐Lignon (Haute‐Loire) and Figeac (Lot), his teachers and classmates there, his escape to Switzerland, immigration to the United States, memorials to the deportations of Jews from France at Drancy, and the work of the American Friends Service Committee with Jewish refugees in France. Correspondence includes letters from Peter and his parents in Fr...

  13. UNRRA selected records AG-018-024 : Luxembourg Mission

    Consists of correspondence and reports of the mission. Records relate to tracing of displaced persons, settlement of non-repatriable Poles, and help to deported Jews.

  14. Ada Abrahamer papers

    1. Ada Abrahamer collection

    The Ada Abrahamer papers primarily consist of a diary and photographs related to Ada Abrahamer’s wartime experiences in work camps and concentration camps in Poland, as well as her postwar life in displaced persons camps in Austria. Abrahamer kept a diary from September 1939 until March 1946, but the only remaining pages are from Spring 1944 to March 1946. The surviving pages describe her experiences in Oskar Schindler’s airplane parts factory, Plaszów concentration camp, Auschwitz concentration camp, the Lichtewerden bei Freudenthal (Consolidated Flaxspinning Factory) in Sudeten Germany, a...

  15. Eva Baumohl papers

    The Eva Baumohl papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, personal narratives, and photographs documenting Eva Baumohl’s family in Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Antwerp; her father’s and brother’s expulsion into Poland in 1938; Eva’s survival in Auschwitz with her sister Erna; and her husband, Naftali Baumohl. Biographical materials include Eva’s wartime and postwar foreigner identification card in Belgium, her Belgian travel card for foreigners, and her son Bernard’s business card. Correspondence include letters and postcards among Eva Baumohl, her parents, and her siblings in Berl...

  16. Goldfarb family papers

    The Goldfarb family papers document the experiences of Polish-born Leopold Goldfarb, his Belgian-born wife Jenny, and their daughter Nina; as they sought to escape Belgium following the German invasion in 1940, and immigrate to the United States, by way of Portugal, Jamaica, and Cuba, following Jenny’s death in France. The papers contain identification and immigration documents, correspondence, including over a dozen postcards sent to Leopold Goldfarb by members of his extended family in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940-1941, family photographs, and correspondence related to Goldfarb’s efforts to ...

  17. Friedl Wollmerstedt papers

    1. Friedl Herzfeld Wollmerstedt collection

    The bulk of the collection is composed of correspondence and documents relating to Friedl Herzfeld Wollmerstedt and her family's life in prewar Germany, her immigration to England, restitution matters and life in Germany after her return to Germany, from 1916 to 1975. The photograph album contains images from the Herzfeld family's life in Germany prior to World War II.

  18. Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection

    The Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection contains primarily photographs of Arthur Gelbart, who was a resident of Częstochowa ghetto and several labor camps, and Rose Grosman, who was kept hidden throughout the war. The photographs show both at several separate displaced persons camps as well as life prior to the war.

  19. Tova Goldszer photograph collection

    The collection primarily documents the pre-war lives of the Goldszer, Josefzohn, and Sztajner families. The photographs include depictions of Jadzia Josefzohn and Adek Brodza on their wedding day in Warsaw, Poland on 20 February 1938; David Sztajner; Tova's maternal grandmother; Feiga and Yakov Tzvi Goldszer; and Tova Goldszer at an internment camp in Cyprus in 1947.

  20. Béla Ingber family papers

    The collection consists of correspondence and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Béla Ingber, originally from Munkács, Hungary (now Mukacheve, Ukraine) as a forced-laborer in Hungary during World War II and as a Jewish refugee in Italy from 1945-1947. Correspondence includes postcards to Béla while he was a forced-laborer from his father Kálmán Ingber in Munkács, and post-war letters from his brothers Jóska, Miki, and Oli and his sister Libu. Photographs include depictions of pre-war family life, Béla and his brothers in the Czech Army, Béla as a forced-laborer in Hung...