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  1. Michael Schwartz memoirs

    Consists of one typed memoir, 85 pages, entitled "Memoirs," written in 2006 by Michael Schwartz, originally of Debrecen, Hungary. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in Hungary; his father's disappearance while part of a forced labor battalion, his deportation to Auschwitz, where his mother, sister, and grandmother were murdered; his subsequent deportation to Dachau with his brother, Tibor; their liberation in April 1945 and return to Hungary; their immigration to the United States in 1947; and their post-war lives in America.

  2. Aron Lutwak photograph collection

    The collection contains photographs and photograph postcards depicting the deportation of Jews from Coesfeld, Germany to Riga, Latvia on 10 December 1942; post-Holocaust memorials and historic sites in Germany and Poland, including the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp; and a tunnel for an unidentified camp.

  3. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Żyrardów Sąd Grodzki w Żyrardowie (Sygn. 21)

    Records of criminal cases involving offenses committed by Jews.

  4. Kahn family collection

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to Fanny and Werner Kahn (donor's grandmother and father) documenting their life in Gemmingen, Germany and their immigration to the United States via Italy in 1939-1940. Collection includes pre-war family photographs, their German passport (Deutsches Reich Reisepass), and a receipt attached to the passport.

  5. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Nowe Miasto on Pilica river Sąd Grodzki w Nowym Mieście nad Pilicą (Sygn. 1836)

    Court civil cases related to repayment of debt, eviction, theft and other matters. The cases relate to Jews, inhabitants of Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą during the occupation of Poland. The files contain personal data about participants of lawsuits.

  6. Court of the First Instance in Zwoleń Sąd Grodzki w Zwoleniu (Sygn.1054)

    This collection contains selected so-called “Zg.” files; that is, cases of declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes those who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: including those arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring the death of a person, testimonies of two witnesses filled out on standard forms, and the correspondence and sentence of the court. The law dete...

  7. Selected records of the Commune of Korabiewice, located in Puszcza Mariańska Akta gminy Korabiewice z siedzibą w Puszczy Mariańskiej (Sygn. 902)

    Records include ordinances and official correspondence from the period of the German occupation, statistics, lists of the Jewish and German population in the commune of Korabiewice, and records pertaining to the establishment of the Jewish Council and ghetto in Skierniewice.

  8. Sieraczek family papers

    The Sieraczek family papers include biographical material, correspondence, and photographs relating to Henryk Sieraczek and his son Jerzy Sieraczek’s (Jerome Sears) experience living in the Warsaw ghetto, going into hiding, and living in the Zeilsheim DP camp. The collection also includes papers relating to their immigrating to the United States. Biographical materials include Henryk’s passport for stateless persons and identification card as well as Jerzy’s identification card for his school in Lodz. Correspondence include letters from Henryk to his family about his experiences during the ...

  9. Selected records of the City Pruszków Akta miasta Pruszkowa (Sygn. 87)

    This collection includes register books of identification cards issued in 1936, and a register of deaths in 1939 and 1940; files of properties in Pruszków, 1941-1944, and a book of the permanent inhabitants of Pruszków, 1837-1927.

  10. Eugene and Tadeusz Zuber collection

    Consists of color copies of post-war identity documents for brothers Eugeniusz (Eugene) and Tadeusz Zuber, originally of Lapy, Poland. The brothers, who were Roman Catholic, were arrested as resistance workers during the Warsaw Uprising and were imprisoned in concentration camps in Austria, including Mauthausen, Ebensee, and the Schlier subcamp. Includes copies of prisoner cards, DP cards, the ship manifest for their 1949 immigration to the United States, and a brief narrative of their experiences written by Eugene's daughter, Elizabeth Weaver.

  11. Krup family photograph collection

    Collection of photographs documenting donor and her parents, and other survivors from Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy, dated 1946-1948

  12. Art installation

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn694102
    • English
    • a: Height: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Depth: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) s: Height: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Width: 33.500 inches (85.09 cm) | Depth: 19.000 inches (48.26 cm) t: Height: 21.000 inches (53.34 cm) | Width: 47.750 inches (121.285 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)

    Artistic installation entitled "Voyage" by Diana Kurz, who documents in this piece the flight of her immediate family from Austria to the United States in 1938.

  13. Sgt. Charles J. Stim collection

    Collection of black-and-white photographs documenting the Ohrdruf concentration camp immediately following liberation; images include burial of victims, American GIs, a camp watch tower, and forced confrontation by local civilians; some captioned on verso by Sgt. Charles J. Stim (donor’s husband) in pencil. Also include a document entitled: “I had no shoes, and complained. ‘Till I met a man, who had no feet.' The concentration camps at Ordoff [sic], Germany Linz, Austria”; dated April 1945.

  14. Tajna Policja Państwowa. Oddział w Sieradzu Selected records of the Secret State Police. Branch in Sieradz Geheime Staatspolizei. Aussendienststelle Schieratz (Sygn. GK 707),

    This collection contains instructions, correspondence, minutes and reports on searching for escaped prisoners of war, deserters and criminals (events of "special importance”). The records relate to religious matters and persecution of Jews, anti-German offences, the transport of detainees to concentration camps, hostile attitudes towards Germans, avoidance of work, refusals to sign Volksliste, sabotage, assaults, the resistance movement, passport matters and prisoners of war.

  15. Selected records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Angers Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych w Angers (Sygn.768)

    Selected materials include protocols, speeches and transcripts of meetings I-XI of the National Council of the Republic of Poland in Angers, France in 1940. Part of speeches and presentations is related to the persecution of Polish and Jewish people in occupied Poland. One of the members and a participant in the meetings was Ignacy Schwarzbart, a prominent Polish Zionist.

  16. Jewish Community of Romania Comunitati Evreiesti din Romana

    Records of the Jewish communities from Focșani, Bucharest, Giurgiu, Botoșani, Ploiești, Bîrlad, etc. and some Zionist organizations. Records reflect the situation of Jews from Bessarabia and Bucovina, discriminatory policies implemented by the government of Romania such as closing businesses, expropriation of properties, internment in camps, the situation of Jews in the Golta region, emigration of Jews from Romania, repatriation of Jews interned in camps in Transnistria, Germany, and Poland, and aid activities to Jews by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or other Jewish o...

  17. Mondschein family photograph collection

    The Mondschein family photograph collection contains five photograph albums relating to the Mondschein and Leniower families in Poland prior to the World War II, and their post-war time in the displaced persons camp near Steyr, Austria, 1946-1949.

  18. Selected records of the district of Grodzisk Mazowiecki Starostwo Powiatowe Grodzisko-Mazowieckie (Sygn. 243)

    Correspondence and statisctis of minorities living after World War II in the county of Grodzisko-Mazowieckie, the register of cemeteries, real estate properties owned by Jews and Germans before the war, the records of the Jewish community in Grodzisk, testimonies of witnesses about German crimes committed against Poles in the county during the war, registers of war criminals.

  19. Nurses at field hospital

    The 51st Field Hospital at a campsite (in France?). Beatrice takes of her helmet and glasses and poses for the camera near other corps members and a cluster of tents. Pan of tentsite, corps members, and an ambulance. 01:08:13 Man in glasses exits a tent and smiles for the camera. Laundry hanging to dry outside. 01:08:22 Large group of military personnel sit in the grass for a meeting. Beatrice (on the right) and two women sunbathe. 01:08:34 Beatrice sits on a jeep and poses for the camera before helping another nurse sort laundry items in the grass.

  20. Sarah Radzeli photograph collection

    Consists of copyprints and photographs from the collection of Sarah Schneider Ben-Ami Radzeli. Includes a copyprint of a portrait of Moishe Radzeli taken around the period of World War II and a copyprint of a portrait of Moishe's wife Ita with her grandchildren (Louis's niece and nephew Yankel), all of whom perished during the war. Also includes a pre-war portrait of the family of Esther (Adler) and Mordachai Neuman of Berezovo, Czechoslovakia; a group photo taken at the 1939 wedding of Rachel Adler of Berezov; and a portrait of Basya (Fromovitz) Katz. Basya, her husband Yossel, and the Neu...