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  1. Wolf Zajac letter

    The letter was written by Wolf Zajac, in Poznań, Poland, on August 28, 1939, to Lydia Zajac (now Kessler) who was in England. A translation in English is also included.

  2. Johanna and Max Liebmann papers

    The papers consist of documents and correspondence relating to the experiences of Johanna and Max Liebmann in France and Switzerland during and immediately following World War II.

  3. Gabriella Alter papers

    The papers consist of photographs and documents relating to the experiences of Gabriella Knöbel (now Gabriella Alter), originally of Nowy Sącz, Poland, with the Teheran Children in Russia, Iran, and Palestine. Included are depictions of children in a school near Irkutsk, the arrival of the Tehran Children in Palestine, and former Tehran Children in Kibbutz Givat Brenner.

  4. Wanda Zofia Ciecierska papers

    1. Wanda Zofia Ciecierska collection

    The Wanda Zofia Ciecierska papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed material, and writings documenting Ciecierska’s experiences in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and during the Warsaw Uprising, as a forced laborer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war. The papers also document her husband Stanislaw Ciecierski and his experiences in Nazi-annexed Poznań and as a displaced person in Germany. Biographical materials include marriage certificates, immigration, immunization, and travel records for Wanda Zofia and Stanislaw. Additional wartime records docum...

  5. Eva Rindner papers

    The collection consists of documents, a personal narrative, and photographs primarily documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Eva Rindner (née Schultzmann) and her mother Lola Blonder (previously Lola Zipser and Lola Schutzmann), including Eva’s treatment for tuberculosis as a child, her father’s death in 1937, and the family’s emigration from Vienna, Austria to Haifa, Palestine (Haifa, Israel) in 1938. Included are documents related to Lola’s work as a volunteer nurse during World War I, financial documents, and letters. The letters were addressed to Eva from her parents, and were rec...

  6. Henry Knepler papers

    The Henry Knepler papers include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and writings documenting Henry Knepler and his relatives, their lives before the war in Vienna, where Hugo Knepler was in the music business, Henry’s travel to England via Kindertransport and subsequent internment as an enemy alien in England and Canada, his mother’s survival in Austria by hiding under a false identity, and Hugo’s escape to Monaco, eventual arrest, and transport to Auschwitz where he did not survive. Some of these materials are photocopies. Biographical materials document the lives of Henr...

  7. Flat top brown steamer trunk used by a German Jewish woman during emigration

    1. Eleanor and Ernest Fried collection

    Trunk used by 22-year old Eleanor Lustig when she left Germany for the United States in 1937. Eleanor was Protestant but her father was born Jewish, though he had converted to Protestantism before marrying her mother. The anti-Jewish laws enacted by the Nazi government beginning in 1933 used genetic ancestry to determine racial purity. Under these laws, Eleanor was considered Jewish and the anti-Semitic persecution made life difficult for her. She left Hamburg on the SS Washington for the United States in November 1937.

  8. Morgenthau family vacations in Mexico, the Alps, and Israel and at leisure at their farm in New York

    Various exterior shots in color: boat on an ocean, apple orchard on the Morgenthau farm at springtime, the pump house, trees and rivers in a forest and the flowers in front of one of the Morgenthau homes. Elinor in a car. 00:48:39 Bullfight in Mexico, around 1946. Scenes in Mexico, where Henry Jr. brought Henry III on vacation following his release from the Army. Henry Jr. and Henry III ride horses. 00:49:44 In 1938, the family vacations at a seaside resort in Cap D'Antibes on the French Riviera, then in the Alps in southern France. Villa with paintings in Switzerland. 00:51:35 Henry Jr. so...

  9. George Schwab photograph collection

    The George Schwab photograph collection consists of twenty photographs relating to the experiences of George Schwab during the Holocaust. Seventeen photographs are images from Blankensee displaced persons camp near Hamburg, Germany; images on board the "Marine Perch" to the United States; and images from Bremen and Berlin, Germany. Three photographs depict images from Rīga, Latvia.

  10. Hilde and Ruth Simon papers

    The papers consist of two letters sent by sisters Hilde and Ruth Simon, who had traveled from Germany to Harrogate, England on a Kindertransport in 1939, to the Mizrachi family in the United States. The Mizrachi family sponsored the sisters to immigrate to the United States in 1944. The first letter, dated 1 October 1939, thanks the Mizrachis for agreeing to sponsor them. The second letter, dated 10 April 1943, gives an update on the sisters' lives in England and expreses their continued wish to immigrate to the United States when it is possible.

  11. Werner and Trudy Coppel papers

    The Werner and Trudy Coppel papers include correspondence, identification papers, and printed materials documenting the couple’s status in Berlin after the war as displaced persons and victims of fascism and their immigration to the United States. Correspondence includes a letter and five telegrams to the Coppels from the American Consulate in Berlin about their immigration and two letters of appreciation for Werner Coppel from the American Joint Distribution Committee and from the captain of the troop transport ship General J.H. McRae. Identification papers include identity cards issued to...

  12. Inge Berner papers

    The papers consist of post-war photographs of Inge Gerson Berner and her husband, Wolf Berner, during their time as refugees at the Wittenau displaced persons camp in Berlin, Germany as well as three certificates relating to Wolf’s employment in the DP camp.

  13. ORT Shanghai Course in Cutting Men's Clothing by M. Wacs

    1. Ilie Wacs collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn517220
    • English
    • 1943-1945
    • overall: Height: 14.250 inches (36.195 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) overall: Height: 14.120 inches (35.865 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm)

    Book of menswear patterns created by Moritz Wacs in Shanghai. Moritz Wacs was able to re-establish a tailoring business in Shanghai after he arrived there as a refugee from Nazi tyranny. He created this pattern book as a training manual. The Wacs family left Vienna for Shanghai soon after Kristallnacht in November, 1938. Nazi Germany had annexed Austria in March 1938 and the persecution of Jews was increasingly violent. In 1943, the Japanese, who controlled Shanghai, forced most Jewish refugees into ghettos. Conditions were very harsh, but the family survived the war.

  14. Spielman family papers

    The collection primarily documents the experiences of the Spielman family of Kraków, Poland after the Holocaust in Budapest, Bratislava, and the Gabersee displaced persons camp in Germany. Included are photographs from Budapest, Bratislava, Gabersee, and a small amount of pre-war family photographs. Documents include a Christian identity paper issued by the Polish Ministerium in Hungary to Simon and Czarna Spielman and their children Arthur and Helen under the false name "Nieczkowski", membership cards, birth certificate, citizenship papers, and a World ORT Union document. Most documents r...

  15. Friedler family papers

    The Friedler family papers include JDC and HIAS records, biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, writings, and drawings documenting Moritz and Trude Friedler, his parents’ deaths during the Holocaust, her mother’s survival, both families’ efforts to escape Austria before the war, Moritz Friedlers’ work for the JDC and HIAS after the war, and their immigration to the United States. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society materials consist of correspondence, name lists, and reports documenting Moritz Friedler’s postwar work for the JDC in Aus...

  16. Fred Manasse collection

    The collection primarily consists of photographs depicting the Holocaust-era experiences of Manfred Manasse (Fred), originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, including pre-war and wartime photographs of his parents Alfred and Trude Manasse and his sister Miriam, all of whom perished in the Holocaust. Other photographs include depictions of Fred and his brother Gustav in an orphanage in Lisbon, Portugal waiting to immigrate to the United States, having previously fled Germany on a Kindertransport. Documents include Fred’s immigration visa, affidavit in lieu of passport, and alien registratio...

  17. Double-sided drawing of tanks and a windmill by a hidden child

    1. Charles A. Weingarten collection

    Two-sided colored pencil drawing done by 4 year old Charly Weingarten circa 1944-1945 while living in hiding with his mother. The drawing depicts, on one side, tanks entering a village and, on the other side, a wind-mill and a man leading a horse. Charles was born in 1941 in Italian occupied Nice not long after his mother Margarethe's release from Gurs internment camp. She was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who had resided primarily in France since the early 1930s. In 1943, the Germans, who had occupied northern France since May 1940, assumed control of much of southern France. Margaret...

  18. Gold cross pendant worn by a Jewish child or his mother in hiding as Catholics

    1. Charles A. Weingarten collection

    Gold cross pendant worn by 4 year old Charly Weingarten or his mother Margarethe when they lived in hiding under assumed identities as Catholics in Nice from 1943-1944. Charles was born in 1941 in Italian occupied Nice not long after his mother Margarethe's release from Gurs internment camp. She was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who had resided primarily in France since the early 1930s. In 1943, the Germans, who had occupied northern France since May 1940, assumed control of much of southern France. Margarethe went into hiding with Charly under assumed identities as Catholics. They liv...

  19. Sketchbook with 7 pages of drawings created in hiding by a young Jewish boy 2

    1. Charles A. Weingarten collection

    Sketchbook used by 6 year old Charly A. Weingarten in 1947. The drawings depict landscapes, animals, war scenes, and buildings. Charles was born in 1941 in Italian occupied Nice not long after his mother Margarethe's release from Gurs internment camp. She was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who had resided primarily in France since the early 1930s. In 1943, the Germans, who had occupied northern France since May 1940, assumed control of much of southern France. Margarethe went into hiding with Charly under assumed identities as Catholics. They lived in poverty on the grounds of an estate...

  20. Double-sided drawing of a woman and Roman gladiators created by a hidden child

    1. Charles A. Weingarten collection

    Two-sided pencil drawing done by 4 year old Charly Weingarten circa 1944-1945 while living in hiding with his mother. The drawing depicts, on one side, a woman and, on the other side, Roman warrios with shields and swords. Charles was born in 1941 in Italian occupied Nice not long after his mother Margarethe's release from Gurs internment camp. She was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who had resided primarily in France since the early 1930s. In 1943, the Germans, who had occupied northern France since May 1940, assumed control of much of southern France. Margarethe went into hiding with ...