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  1. Gertner family papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Regina, Lucy, and Samuel Gertner in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp. Biographical materials include DP camp identification papers, International Refugee Organization documents, immigration papers, marriage certificates, report cards, postcards received at Foehrenwald, and restitution claims. Photographs include pre-war depictions of Regina’s first husband, Hersch Fenster and his sister Scheindale, Lucy as a hidden child in a convent in Czerwonogrod, Ukraine, and the family in Foehrenwald.

  2. Kleinhandler family photographs

    1. Varda Cohen collection

    Consists of photographs pertaining to the Kleinhandler family before the war in Chmielnik, Poland; during the war; and after the war, depicting funerals for victims of the Kielce pogrom in 1946, their immigration from Kielce, Poland, to Argentina, circa 1947, and in Chmielnik, Poland in 1945.

  3. Krieser family papers

    1. Krieser family collection

    The papers relate to the experiences of Soloman and Perla Krieser [donor's parents] and their children, Hilda [donor] and Hannah, from the time period of the Holocaust. Included in the papers are correspondence sent between members of the Krieser family who were in the Rivesaltes transit camp and the Pringy Children's Home in France, a false identification card issued to the donor while in hiding, and a document from the Swiss Red Cross releasing the donor and her sister from Rivesaltes.

  4. Paper sheet with two drawings of a couple being separated and then reconciling

    1. Fritz and Thea Lowenstein Klestadt family collection

    Two pencil drawings side by side on white paper with colored pencil details created by Thea Kelstadt depicting the life of an adult couple in Cleveland Ohio. The left drawing shows the couple separating, while the right shows their reunion. In 1935 Thea married Fred Klestadt. In September, the Nazis announced the Nuremberg Laws which excluded Jews from citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of German blood. The laws defined a Jew as a person who had 3 or more grandparents that were Jews, regardless of their religious practice. In 1937, fleeing ...

  5. Silberman family collection

    The Silbermann family papers comprise correspondence and photographs documenting Curt and Else Silbermann and their families from Würzburg, Germany, before, during, and after the Holocaust. Extensive family correspondence to Curt and Else Silbermann, who had immigrated to the United States, relates news about life in Nazi and postwar Germany. Six photograph albums document Else Kleeman Silbermann and her family in prewar Germany. Correspondence primarily consists of letters to Curt and Else Silberman in the United States from his parents, Adolf and Ida Silbermann, and her mother, Therese Kl...

  6. Thomas Rey papers

    1. Thomas Rehfisch collection

    The Thomas Rey papers primarily consist of letters he received in England from family members in Germany. Correspondents include his parents Lilli and Hans Rehfisch, his grandmothers Hedwig Rehfisch and Agnes Stadthagen, his aunts Käthe Wassertrudinger, Toni Salomon, and Hilde Stadthagen, and his friends Rolf Einzinger, Selma Wohl, and Gabi Sachs. Most of the correspondence is addressed from Berlin, but some of Lilli’s letters were sent from Neubabelsberg (Potsdam), some of Käthe’s letters were sent from Palestine, and some of Thomas’ friends wrote from elsewhere in Germany, Switzerland, an...

  7. Paul Mayer papers

    1. Paul Mayer collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust and post-war experiences of Paul Mayer, originally of Frankfurt am Main, including his forced labor in the Blankenburg am Harz concentration camp in 1945, his father Fritz Mayer’s deportation and death in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943, his immigration to the United States in 1947, and his studies at the University of Cincinnati. Included are biographical materials, immigration papers, correspondence, diaries, an illustrated personal narrative titled Vom Main zum Ohio, and one photograph. Biographical materials include clippings related to Paul while he wa...

  8. Helmuth Baer photograph

    1. Baer family collection

    The collection consists of one photograph of Helmuth Baer sent from Shanghai to his daughter Lore Baer (Kircheimer) in England. The photograph is inscribed in English.

  9. Serafina and Bola Friedler papers

    The Serafina and Bola Friedler papers comprise documents and photographs concerning Serafina and Bola Friedler, a mother and daughter from Borysław, Poland (now Boryslav, Ukraine) who survived the Holocaust after being liberated from Auschwitz in 1945. Among the documents collected by the Serafina and Bola are Red Cross identification cards issued to them after their liberation, an autograph book used by Bola while living at the Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camp, correspondence, and documentation of Serafina’s role as a witness in the trail against Nazi high official, Fritz Hildebrand ...

  10. Ben Zion Kalb papers

    The Ben Zion Kalb papers consist of a diary, photographs, and documents related to the rescue work of Ben Zion Kalb (later Colb) who helped refugees cross the border between Hungary and Slovakia as part of the Slovak Working Group. The collection includes lists of names of those he assisted, photographs of Kalb with people he rescued, and correspondence with Itzak Zuckerman and Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl as well as a partial typed copy of the Vrba-Wetzler report. The diary was kept by Ben Zion from September 4, 1944 to January 1945.

  11. Korman and Maizel families collection

    1. Korman and Maizels families collection

    Contains photographs of the Korman family in Krasnik, Poland, sent to family in the United States before the Holocaust; documents issued by the Committee of Liberated Political Prisoners in Germany, including identification documents issued to Szlama Majzels and Runia Majzels; a driver’s license issued to Szlama Majzels; death certificates for Abraham Korman (Runia’s brother), Kiwa Korman (Runia’s father), Ezril Majzels (Szlama’s father), and Hanna Korman Kucheik (Szlama’s sister), all of whom were murdered in the Budzyn slave labor camp in November 1942; a certificate of eligibility issued...

  12. Henry Greenbaum papers

    The collection contains photographs and identification papers documenting Henry Greenbaum’s Holocaust-era experiences as a refugee in several displaced persons camps. Documents include identification papers from the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, a Jewish Committee membership card from Neunberg vorm Wald, a document stating that he was an inmate of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, and a driver’s license. Photographs consist of fourteen photographs from the Zeilsheim DP camp, including portraits of Henry's friends.

  13. Concentration camp uniform jacket and pants worn by a Catholic Polish prisoner in several camps

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn523852
    • English
    • a: Height: 27.750 inches (70.485 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) b: Height: 39.500 inches (100.33 cm) | Width: 15.750 inches (40.005 cm)

    Striped jacket and pants worn by Mieczyslaw Lewicki during his imprisonment in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, and Dora-Nordhausen concentration camps from September 15, 1942-April 9, 1945. Nineteen year old Mieczyslaw, a Catholic, was arrested in Radom, Poland, on September 1, 1942, for taking food to Jews in the ghetto who worked at his family's shoe factory. He was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp where the uniform was issued and a mug shot taken. On August 15, 1944, he was transferred to Buchenwald in Germany. He was then sent to Dora-Nordhausen slave labor camp where he worked...

  14. Pistiner family papers

    1. Josef Pistiner family collection

    Correspondence, travel documents, photographs, certificates, and printed materials related to the history of the family of Josef Pistiner, including his parents, Aron and Taube Pistiner, and brother, Max. Materials document the histories of Aron and Taube Pistiner’s families in Galicia and Bukovina, the World War I service of Aron Pistiner, the marriage and move of Aron and Taube to Berlin, the birth and childhood of their two sons, their business as furriers there, and their eventual emigration from Berlin in 1939, their stay in China and Manchuria, and immigration to the United States. Al...

  15. U.S. lobby card for the film “The Mortal Storm" (1940)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Lobby card for the American feature film, “The Mortal Storm,” released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in June 1940. Lobby cards were promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. “The Mortal Storm,” based on a 1938 novel of the same name, was MGM’s first film that openly criticized Nazi Germany. Beginning in 1933, just after Hitler’s appointment as chancellor, it features a Jewish professor of medicine and his daughter, whose fiancé and stepbrothers join the Nazi party. The professor is sent ...

  16. U.S. Window Card for the film “The Mortal Storm" (1940)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Window card for the American feature film, “The Mortal Storm,” released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in June 1940. Window cards were mass-produced promotional materials used until the mid-1980s. They included a blank section at the top for individual theaters to write in dates and show times, and placed in locations outside of the theaters. “The Mortal Storm,” based on a 1938 novel of the same name, was MGM’s first film that openly criticized Nazi Germany. Beginning in 1933, just after Hitler’s appointment as chancellor, it features a Jewish professor of medicine and his daughter, whose fia...

  17. US War Department Orientation Film for US Military Personnel in Occupied Germany

    Orientation Film no. 8. U.S. propaganda film telling the history of Germany with various atrocities and depicting Germans as friendly, trustworthy people. This film was used to demonstrate proper conduct to U.S. military personnel in postwar occupied Germany. Muddy faces of German POWs. CU, Hitler, swastika banners in street, Goebbels concentration camp gates, all "disappear." Ruins, small village. Bismarck's parade band, fighting on horseback across field. Idyllic country scenes, farming, dancing. Kaiser Wilhelm, "Deutschland ueber Alles", German troops marching in 1914 (scratchy), marchin...

  18. Odbočka Ústredne štátnej bezpečnosti pri Policajnom riaditeľstve v Prešove

    • State Security Headquarter´s Branch at the Police Directorate in Prešov
    • UŠBO

    The fonds contains the preserved documents of the State Security Headquarter´s (Ústredňa štátnej bezpečnosti), which was the political police and the secret service of the Slovakia (1939-1945). More precisely it contains the documents of one regional branch of this political police: it branch in Prešov. The majority of the fonds consists of files on specific persons. The fonds contains information on various issues including ethnic relations, minorities, resistance as well as the persecution of Jews. The fonds contains personal files of many Jews with reports on their activities. This inclu...

  19. Sophie Friedländer: personal papers and interviews

    This collection contains the personal papers of Sophie Friedländer, who was a teacher at the Jewish boarding school in Caputh, near Potsdam and later emigrated to the UK as a German Jewish refugee.Personal papers including correspondence, photographs, papers and press cuttings relating to the former Jewish school in Caputh; correspondence with German broadcasting companies regarding the production of a TV documentary on Kindertransporte and the former school in Caputh 'Als ob man nur ein bischen wegfährt' (1990); draft autobiography of Hilde Jarecki and correspondence regarding a joint auto...

  20. Gertrud and Max Joseph, Ida and Paul Simons and Arthur and Hans Bial: papers

    This collection contains papers relating to the Jewish family of Gaby Glassmann-Simons, in particular her grandparents, Gertrud and Max Joseph and Ida and Paul Simons.These papers include personal accounts as well as interviews with Walter Rau and Hans Sahl. Also included is other material relating to Jewish persecution such as an article by Gaby Glassman regarding Irene Bloomsfield's work on intergenerational communication within families affected by Nazi persecution (2003), and correspondence and papers relating to the Jewish community in Stralsund.The collection also consists of the pers...