COHASCO collection

Identifier
irn516676
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.124
Dates
1 Jan 1911 - 31 Dec 1994
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
  • Polish
  • French
  • Hebrew
  • Portuguese
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired this collection from Cohasco, Inc. on Mar. 22, 2004.

Scope and Content

Collection includes post-war refugee tracing forms; propaganda leaflets; the final, 1949, issue of the camp newspaper in Cyprus (where Jews wishing to immigrate to Palestine were detained); letters sent by internees at Camp Du Vernet, France, in 1940; a letter written and signed by David Zvi Pinkas, a signer of the Israel's Declaration of Independence; a 1911 antisemitic broadside published by Theodore Fritsch; a 1947 circular listing the aims of the first Zionist Congress after the Holocaust; a copy of the 1943 "Proclamation of the Children," proclaiming that children in Jerusalem ask the children of the nations to help save the Jews; a souvenir leaflet for the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising; a booklet sent to donors of the Palestine Jewish Institute listing its goals for the coming year; a 1946 leaflet soliciting money to aid Jews wishing to come to Israel; a 1932 Nazi propaganda broadside announcing "Give Hitler Four Years!"; three wartime invoices from Buchenwald; one postwar Dachau visitor's pass; search requests for Holocaust survivors; one 1944 Belgian Jewish registration form.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.