COHASCO collection
Extent and Medium
folder
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Creator(s)
- COHASCO, inc
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
- Document