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  1. Ellen Kaufmann Boucher papers

    The Ellen Kaufmann Boucher papers include Holocaust-era and postwar correspondence addressed to Ellen in the United States from family and friends in Europe, the memoir Ellen drafted between 1988 and her death, prewar and wartime photographs of her family in Mainz, Germany, and a transcript of an interview she gave in 1995. Holocaust-era letters are addressed to Ellen primarily from her parents and sister Marianne in Mainz and relates family news and good wishes. A letter from a friend of Marianne’s in Montevideo describes an opportunity for Marianne to immigrate to Uruguay. A letter from a...

  2. Groszman family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Groszman family of Vámosmikola, Hungary, including wartime life in Budapest, Hungary; post-war immigrations to Vienna, Austria and Buenos Aires, Argentina. It also documents the experiences of Gabriel’s Groszman’s wife Ruth Heda and her family, primarily of Trnava, Slovakia, including their immigrations to England and Argentina. The collection consists of biographical materials, immigration paperwork, and photographs. Biographical material includes identification papers; birth, marriage and death certificates; education papers of...

  3. Small leather case with a detached lid used by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Walter Gumpert family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn85720
    • English
    • a: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 13.625 inches (34.608 cm) | Depth: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) b: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    Small leather attache case with a detached lid used by Walter Gumpert to store letters from relatives, including his father Isidor, still in Germany. As anti-Semitism increased under the Nazi dictatorship, Walter and his wife Erna left for Montevideo, Uruguay, in spring 1936. Isidor was later imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and released on November 29, 1938. Walter received four Red Cross telegrams from Isidor from Berlin. The last was sent on December 23, 1942. Some family members believed that Isidor was killed in Auschwitz in 1943.

  4. Lilienthal and Fraenkel families papers

    1. Lilienthal and Fraenkel families collection

    The Lilienthal and Fraenkel families papers consists of correspondence from Eugen Lilienthal, originally of Berlin, sent following the end of World War II, from Theresienstadt following his liberation from that concentration camp, and from the Deggendorf displaced persons camp, during the period when he was trying to establish contact with the families of his two daughters, who were living in New York. The collection also contains correspondence and documents sent to one of the daughters, Margot Fraenkel, from various officials and aid organizations as she sought to help her father immigrat...

  5. Antisemitism Questionnaires Cuestionario antisemitismo

    A survey on antisemitism conducted by José Moskovits in the 1970s by mailing a questionnaire on antisemitism to almost 5,000 dignitaries in 150 countries worldwide. The questionnaire was mailed to heads-of-state and other leading politicians, authors, journalists, scientists, artists, doctors, as well as corporate, military, civic, and religious leaders. Mr. Moskovits received almost 1,000 filled-out questionnaires back, often with additional letter responses attached. The purpose of the survey was a book to be edited by Dr. Asher Mibashan (1914-2005), the Buenos Aires bureau chief of the J...

  6. Langer family papers

    1. Langer family collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Robert Langer and his parents Ignatz and Stefanie Langer, including their emigration from Vienna, Austria to Shanghai, China after the German annexation of Austria in 1938, and post-war immigration to the United States. The collection consists of biographical material, immigration documents, correspondence, and photographs. Biographical material includes clippings and articles about the Jewish community in Shanghai, identification papers such as birth and marriage certificates, identification cards, passports, work books (arbeitsbuch), e...

  7. UNRRA selected records AG-018-003 : Bureau of Supply

    Selected records of the UNRRA Bureau of Supply, including the Country Programs Division Operations and Programming Branches: reports on China, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Greece, Italy, and Poland, and other various reports. Other divisions files relating to the coordination and transportation of supplies; including are files of the Agricultural Rehabilitation Division, Industrial Rehabilitation Division, Clothing Textiles, and Footwear Division, Food Division, and Medical and Sanitation Supplies branch.

  8. Shaving brush received in a concentration camp

    Shaving brush given to Elias Cala for safekeeping by a fellow inmate in 1944 at Auschwitz III-Monowitz concentration camp. The other inmate was a barber who gave the brush to Elias when he became ill. He was sent to the infirmary, but never returned. Elias had been deported to Monowitz from the Jewish ghetto in Mlawa, Poland, in November, 1942, with his wife and one-year-old daughter. His wife and daughter were selected for death upon arrival at Auschwitz. Elias was assigned to work as slave labor in the I.G Farben company’s Buna plant associated with the Monowitz camp. In January 1945, Eli...

  9. Refugee girls at the de Monbrison chateau in France

    Refugee girls living at a chateau owned by Count Hubert Conquere de Monbrison in Quincy-sous-Senart, located about 30 km south of Paris. De Monbrison and the Princess Irena Paley (a niece of the last Russian czar who later became Monbrison's wife) used the chateau to house refugee girls from the Russian and Spanish civil wars. In 1939 de Monbrison was approached by his children's Jewish physician, who was a member of the board of the OSE, and asked whether he would take in a group of forty German Jewish refugee children. The count agreed and the Kinderstransport of boys arrived on July 4, 1...

  10. Singer sewing scissors used by Jewish Romanian woman who was killed during a massacre

    1. Ratza Solomonskaya collection

    Singer sewing scissors that Ratza (Reyza) Solomonskaya used to earn her livelihood as a seamstress in the small town of Pepeni, Romania (now Pepeny, Moldova), during the Holocaust. She lived with her husband, a shoemaker named Mark Solomonski, and their teenage daughters, Khayka and Ita. During World War II, their town was in Bessarabia, a historically contested region, which had been part of Romania following World War I until it was ceded to the Soviet Union in June 1940. In June 1941, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Romania recaptured the region. On July 13, Romanian sold...

  11. Brown Fibrolin trunk used by a Polish Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Rita Tewel Newberg Weiger collection

    Brown trunk used by 28 year old Ryfka (Rita) Tewel when she left Bartkowka, Poland, for the United States in July 1938. Ryfka's US visa was sponsored by a maternal aunt and her husband in Pittsburgh, and Ryfka settled there. In 1941, Rita married Benjamin Newberg, who agreed to help bring her brother and four sisters to the United States. They sent money to Rita’s siblings, but never heard from them again. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The war ended with Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. During the German occupation, at least three million Jewish citizens of Poland we...

  12. Cunard White Star red oval luggage label used by a Polish Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Rita Tewel Newberg Weiger collection

    Cunard White Star luggage label used by 28 year old Ryfka (Rita) Tewel when she left Bartkowka, Poland, for the United States in July 1938. Ryfka's US visa was sponsored by a maternal aunt and her husband in Pittsburgh, and Ryfka settled there. In 1941, Rita married Benjamin Newberg, who agreed to help bring her brother and four sisters to the United States. They sent money to Rita’s siblings, but never heard from them again. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The war ended with Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. During the German occupation, at least three million Jewish c...

  13. Cunard White Star blue luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Rita Tewel Newberg Weiger collection

    Cunard White Star blue luggage tag used by 28 year old Ryfka (Rita) Tewel when she left Bartkowka, Poland, for the United States in July 1938. Ryfka's US visa was sponsored by a maternal aunt and her husband in Pittsburgh, and Ryfka settled there. In 1941, Rita married Benjamin Newberg, who agreed to help bring her brother and four sisters to the United States. They sent money to Rita’s siblings, but never heard from them again. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The war ended with Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. During the German occupation, at least three million Jewis...

  14. Hillel Storch papers

    The Hillel Storch papers consist of correspondence, photographic negatives, personal papers, printed materials, and subject files documenting Storch’s work on behalf of the World Jewish Congress in Sweden to rescue Jews during the Holocaust and to resettle survivors after the Holocaust. Records document his missions, activities, and meetings with Nazi leaders to save Jews from the extermination camps, and include materials about his work with Heinrich Himmler’s assistant Franz Goering and physical therapist Felix Kersten, and SS Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg about the “White Buses” oper...

  15. Prewar Jewish family in Ošelín, Czechoslovakia

    Walter with his sister Irma Rauscher Eisner and their mother Clementine Schnurmacher walk towards the camera in Ošelín around 1937-1938. Walter opens a car door with Czechoslovak license plate. Irma’s husband, Leo Eisner, embraces her. Headstone for Oskar Rauscher in the Jewish cemetery in Stříbro [Mies]: “Oskar Rauscher Aus Oschelin” with the dates March 17, 1887 to June 4, 1936. Walter eats kumquat from tree. Irma with nurse holding baby girl, Hana Miriam Eisner (later Hanna Eaton, born March 23, 1937). Several family members across generations hold baby Hanna and smile at the camera in t...

  16. Rita Sloan collection

    The collection documents the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of the Slepian family of Warsaw, Poland. Included are documents, photographs, and a photograph album related to the Wasseralfingen displaced persons camp where Nathan Slepian was the director.

  17. Palestine as a haven from persecution

    Bad quality footage at first. Scenes from World War II: planes, bombs falling, explosions, tanks, soldiers running across battlefields. Narrator describes it as "the face of war," and discusses the soldiers who fought. Images of Allied soldiers. A picture of an elderly Jewish man is shown, which the narrator describes as "more horrible still than even the face of warr," as it calls to mind the horrors of the Holocaust, the horrors of the deaths of millions, innocent and defenseless. Liberation of Nordhausen and other concentration camps. 01:04:02 Superimposed over a color map of Europe are ...

  18. Levy family papers

    1. Alfred and Meta Mayer Levy family collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of the Levy family of Saarlouis (present day Saarlouis, Germany). Included are identification papers; birth, marriage, and death certificates; immigration and travel documents; and family books that document the movements and lives of Alfred, his wife Meta (née Mayer), and their children Marlyse and Theo as they encountered increasing Nazi persecution in the pre-war and wartime years in the French cities of Saarlouis, Saarbrücken, Thionville, Villefranche-de-Rouergue, as well as Luxembourg. Also included are photographs depicting Alfred Lev...

  19. Rosenwald and Stahl families papers

    1. Rosenwald and Stahl families collection

    The Rosenwald and Stahl families papers consists of correspondence, identification and travel documents, postcards, photographs, an autograph album, financial documents and restitution files, and other similar materials related to the emigration of the family of Otto and Elfriede Rosenwald, and their daughter, Helen, from Germany in 1936, to escape Nazi persecution, as well as the later emigration of Otto’s father, Simon. Includes selected photographs and documents related to the family of Helen Rosenwald Stahl's husband, Gerhard (Gerald) Stahl, documenting their own lives in pre-war German...

  20. Hauptmann family papers

    1. Hauptmann family collection

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Ignaz, Etta, and Karolina Hauptmann, including their life in the Ulm displaced persons camp from 1946-1949, immigration to the United States in 1949, and testimony in the trial against SS Officer Friedrich Hildebrandt. Included are Ulm DP camp identification cards, Karolina’s report cards, affidavits and testimony about the family’s Holocaust experiences, restitution paperwork, declarations of intention and naturalization certificates, documents and correspondence related to Ignaz and Etta’s testimony during the Bremen county trial agains...