Harry Goldsmith collection

Identifier: irn521715
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988 by Ellen and Kenneth Goldsmith as executors for the Estate of Harry Goldsmith.

Scope and Content

The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period

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Displaying items 1 to 20 of 26

Harry Goldsmith collection, Book 1
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn482
- English
- 1946-1948
- 1 album collection,
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period. Book 1 concerns the Theresienstadt Ghetto.
Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn485
- English
- 1939-1945
- overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Armband identifying a Jewish inmate of Theresienstadt
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn494
- English
- overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Armband identifying Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt.
Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn513619
- English
- 1939-1945
- overall: Height: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Westerbork transit camp voucher, 50 cent note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn523649
- English
- overall: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Westerbork voucher, value 50 cents, acquired by Harry Goldsmith. This scrip was issued in Westerbork transit camp beginning February 15, 1944. Inmates were not allowed to have currency, which was confiscated. The vouchers [gutschein] were distributed as an incentive for doing work. Netherlands was occupied by Germany in May 1940. The camp, in northeast Holland, was originally set up by the Dutch in 1939 to intern Jewish refugees. In July 1942, the German security police and the SS turned it into a transit camp to hold prisoners before deporting them to concentration camps in the east, where...
Harry Goldsmith collection, Book 2
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545623
- English
- 1946-1948
- 1 album collection,
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period. Book 2 concerns the Theresienstadt Ghetto.
Harry Goldsmith collection, Book 3
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545625
- English
- 1946-1948
- 1 album collection,
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period. Book 3 contains materials concerning Dachau, Spittal, Postelberg, Mittelbau, Biberach, Liebenau, Natzweiler, Tittmoning, Laufen, and Drulle.
Harry Goldsmith collection, Book 4
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545626
- English
- 1946-1948
- 1 album collection,
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period. Book 4 concerns Buchenwald.
Harry Goldsmith collection, Book 5
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545630
- English
- 1946-1948
- 1 album collection,
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period. Book 5 concerns Treuenbrietzen, Selterhof, Ravensbrück, Gross-Rosen, Tutthof, Litzmannstadt, Radomski, Tomaschow, Langenstein, Damgarten, Lebrechtsdorf, and Dibog.
Harry Goldsmith collection, Book 6
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545631
- English
- 1946-1948
- 1 album collection,
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period. Book 6 concerns Flossenbürg, Nauthausen, Bistrai, Neuengamme, Bergen Belsen, Litten, Camp Drutte, Sabac, and Neu-Sustrum.
Harry Goldsmith collection, Book 7
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545633
- English
- 1946-1948
- 1 album collection,
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period. Book 7 concerns Otwoc, Lemberg, Cracow Ghetto, Belzec, Heruschau, Opole, Villijampole, Bochnia, Izbica, Modliborzyce, Lublin, Krosno, Kutno, Kielce, Kolomea, and Lowitsh.
Harry Goldsmith collection, Book 8
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545636
- English
- 1946-1948
- 1 album collection,
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period. Book 8 concerns Scheveningen, Minsk, Kamionka, Sajczyce, Westerbork, Sluis, Herzogenbusch, Graudenz, Hungary, Hellevoetshuis, Bulgaria, Jaworzno, Strzemieszyce, and Michiesgestel.
Harry Goldsmith collection, Book 9
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545638
- English
- 1946-1948
- 1 album collection,
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period. Book 9 concerns Camp de Breus, Camp du Vernet, Decebedou, Les Milles, Corropoli, Ferramonti, Rodi, Solofra, Campagna, Perpignan, Vinchiaturo, and Potenza.
Harry Goldsmith collection, Book 10
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545639
- English
- 1946-1948
- 1 album collection,
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period. Book 10 concerns internment camps at Mauritius, the Isle of Man, Cyprus, Morroco, and Andalusia.
Harry Goldsmith collection, Book 11
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545641
- English
- 1946-1948
- 1 album collection,
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period. Book 11 concerns the Gurs, de Argeles, and Vittel camps.
Harry Goldsmith collection, Book 12
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545642
- English
- 1946-1948
- 1 album collection,
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period. Book 12 concerns Bendsburg.
Harry Goldsmith collection, Book 13
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545643
- English
- 1946-1948
- 1 album collection,
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period. Book 13 concerns Auschwitz.
Harry Goldsmith collection, Book 14
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545644
- English
- 1946-1948
- 1 album collection,
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period. Book 14 concerns the Warsaw Ghetto, Tarnow, and Pargzew.
Harry Goldsmith collection, Book 15
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545645
- English
- 1946-1948
- 1 album collection,
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period. Book 15 concerns Sachenhausen and Oranienburg.
Harry Goldsmith papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn548173
- English
- box 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Inludes envelopes that once contained letters sent to the Jewish Labor Committee in New York from displaced persons and those who worked with them in Poland, Austria, and Italy after WWII. Also includes examples of antisemitic propaganda; a letter from an inmate at Westerbork; documents related to Julia Petzer, from Austria; and issues of "Information zur Judenfrage," released by the "Welt-Dienst" of the Internationales Institut zur Aufklaerung ueber die Judenfrage, Frankfurt.