Jewish experience ephemera and manuscript collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn46831
• English
• 1935-1936
• folder oversize folders 1 2
• Updated 7 months ago

Collection of 26 pages of lists of candidates for immigration to Palestine, varied provenance, both handwritten and typewritten, arranged by name of sponsor in Palestine, with information about candidates including names, countries of origin, addresses, age, and gender. Included are letters addressed to the Aliyah Department, Jewish Agency.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn46832
• English
• 1942
• folders 2 7 caricatures,
• Updated 7 months ago

One typescript memoir, with five unattributed woodcuts, documenting the author's experiences as a would-be emigrant from Czechoslovakia to Palestine in 1940. The ship he was traveling on, the Atlantic, was seized by British authorities and the author and other passengers were interned on the island of Mauritius until 1945. The memoir, written in 1941-1942, documents this experience. Also included is a separate, handmade booklet containing seven pen-and-ink drawings of shipboard life and internment, by Fritz Haendel and another unidentified artist.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn46833
• English
• 1948
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

One leaf, four printed pages, containing the printed text of a song in Hebrew, in honor of the day of Israel's independence, 1948. The song was rhymed by Refa'el Edre'ii, and printed in Morocco. The leaflet contains two additional liturgical songs and poems.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn46834
• English
• overall: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Miniature German propaganda poster issued during the week of September 30 to October 6, 1942, from the Parole der Woche (Word of the Week) series. The poster claims that United States President Franklin Roosevelt set up a committee of advisors dubbed “the Brain Trust,” comprised of Jews and Jewish sympathizers. The poster then shows photos of Roosevelt’s supposed advisory committee: Bernard M. Baruch, Henry Morgenthau, Felix Frankfurt, Sol Bloom, Fiorello La Guardia, Cordell Hull, and claims that they are the real rulers in the U.S. In reality, Roosevelt’s “Brain Trust” was established in 1...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn46887
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Booklet containing information about planned variety and theatrical perfomances of "Die Optimisten," a group of German Jewish emigre actors and performers in Amsterdam, April 1940-July 1940. The performers belonged to an organization called "Amsterdamer Gesellschaft der Freunde."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn46888
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

One handwritten note, written in a bunker by inhabitants of the Wadowice Ghetto, February 1945. Contains linguistic riddles, Purim greetings, and expresses the hope that the war will end soon.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn46889
• English
• 1942
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Two prayer leaves, issued on behalf of Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, calling upon people to observe a public fast and day of prayer, April 1942. Issued under the auspices of the Chief Eretz Israel rabbinate and the Society of American and Canadian Rabbis.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn46890
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Program for a theatrical production of the Idischer Dramatischer Krajz (Jewish Dramatic Group) at the displaced persons camp, Landsberg/Lech, undated, circa late 1940s.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn46891
• English
• overall: Height: 15.375 inches (39.053 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

One sided handbill issued by a Jewish cultural group in Munich, Germany, March 1951, concerning the future of Yiddish journalism in Germany.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn46963
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

One notebook, 31 leaves, produced by the American Joint Distribution Committee in Italy, undated. One cover contains a map of Israel with the name of the committee in Hebrew, the other cover contains a map of Italy with the name of the committee in English. The handwritten contents consist of act 2 of the play "Shver tsu zayn a Yid," by Sholem Aleichem. An ink stamp on the verso of the front cover states, in Hebrew, that this belonged to the "Estate of Michael Greenstein, director and actor of the Yiddish theatre, 1915-2004, and Dr. Miriam Greenstein, 1916-2000."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn46964
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Contains approximately 47 pieces of correspondence addressed to Oded Yarkoni, a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, sent to him primarily in 1945 and 1946 from locations throughout Europe (Tournai, Rotterdam, Goteborg). The collection also contains a few letters from wartime and pre-war Poland.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn46971
• English
• 1939-1946
• box 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Correspondence, identification documents, immigration forms, and related documentation concerning the family of Mendel and Lea Brandel (Bronka) November, their exile in the Soviet Union during World War II, their correspondence with Mrs. November’s family in Poland during the German occupation, and their subsequent return to Poland after the war and immigration to Israel. The bulk of the correspondence and documents relate to the experiences of Mendel November and his wife, Lea Brandel (Bronka). The documents in this collection are arranged according to type and origin. One series of corres...