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  1. Goldschmeid and Burstyn families collection

    Documents, correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Imré and Borbala Wirth Goldschmeid and their daughter Veronika Goldschmeid. Included are pre-war images and documents such as birth certificates and report cards for Imré and Borbala, and post-war documents concerning Veronika, Borbala, and Borbala's mother Julianna who were together in Budapest until 1944 at which time Vera was placed with the Red Cross, and Borbala and sister Margit were deported to Bergen Belsen where they survived. Juliana and Mor (Borbala's parents) perished of hunger in January 1945 in Budapest....

  2. Irving Bashevkin collection

    The collection primarily consists of photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp following liberation. Includes captioned on verso in English; dated April 1945; “Soldiers of ’44 / 107th EVAC Events” and packet of copies of newsletters published weekly by and for the Officers and Enlisted Men of the 107th Evac Hospital.

  3. David Newman memoir

    Manuscript memoir, in Yiddish, 120 pages, describing David Newman's experiences in the Skarżysko-Kamienna forced labor camp in Poland during the German occupation, and his subsequent imprisonment at Buchenwald, written by Newman in 1988. An English translation by Miriam Beckerman, from 2006, is also included. The text begins with an account of the pre-war history of the Jewish community in his hometown of Chmielnik, Poland, the experiences of Newman's family during the initial stages of the German occupation of Poland, when his family lived in Łódź, their subsequent move to Staszow, and ...

  4. Collection on Vught, concentration camp in Herzogenbusch (Collection Prisons and camps) Collectie gevangenissen en Kampen-deelcollectie Vught, Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch (Fond 250g)

    This collection contains documents relating to the Vught concentration camp in Herzogenbusch between 1943-1944. Including are documents, maps and some photos as well as pre-war correspondence and court proceedings.

  5. Oral history interview with Ruth Lederer

  6. Census from the city Cluj, Romania, 1924 and 1938

    The collection contains an inventory of the Romanian citizens in Cluj county, dating from 1924-1952; as well as lists of Jews and Christians in Cluj, Gherla, Mociu commune, Câțcău commune, Dej, and Turda, Romania, compiled in 1938, 1945 and 1949. Lists complaied in 1938 are mainly based on the lists of 1924.

  7. Selected records of the district of Sochaczew Starostwo Powiatowe w Sochaczewie (Sygn. 98)

    Contains various records related to the Jewish Committee of Sochaczew, other Polish organizations and societies, Jewish graveyards, lists of war graves, Poles and Jews inhabiting the county of Sochaczew, and additionally included are licenses for running private enterprises.

  8. Congregation Adath Israel commemorative material

    Consists of one folder of envelopes, postcards, and programs produced by Congregation Adath Israel of Woodbridge, NJ, as part of their Holocaust commemoration. The envelopes, many of which carry WWII commemorative postage stamps, commemorate the rescue of the Danish Jews in 1943, the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps in 1995, the 60th anniversary of the sailing of the MS St. Louis. The postcards include artwork of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, commissioned upon the Museum's opening, and the programs were produced for commemorative events at the syn...

  9. Fred Freuthal papers

    The Fred Freuthal papers include correspondence, personal narratives, and photocopies of clippings and photographs documenting Fred Freuthal’s immigration to the United States as one of a group of children selected by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus ("the 50 children") in the spring of 1939, his parents’ immigration in the fall of 1939, and their efforts to help his grandmother immigrate in 1941. Correspondence includes letters and a postcard Fred Freuthal wrote to his parents in Vienna from France and the United States just before and after his immigration and a letter from a caregiver assuring ...

  10. Zvi Terlo papers

    Collection consists of selected papers of Zvi Terlo (1932-2010), who served on the prosecution team at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961-1962. Includes correspondence, printed trial testimony, pamphlets, and photographs, mostly relating to particular phases of the trial, but also including papers from Shabtai Rosen, legal advisor for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from Foreign Minister Golda Meir. Most of the material relates to arguments about the legality of trying Eichmann in an Israeli court rather than an international court, as well as the legality of his ...

  11. Sylvia Neulander collection

    The Sylvia Neulander collection consists of a letter written by Sylvia Neulander, who worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) after the war in the US Zone of Germany; addressed to Sylvia's sister Alice in 1946. In the letter, Sylvia describes accompanying a group of orphaned children from Marseille to Eretz Israel (Palestine) in April 1946, and visiting other children who previously had gone to Kibbutz Buchenwald. The collection also includes a photograph of Sylvia in uniform.

  12. Selected records of the commune in Guzów Akta gminy Guzów (Sygn.5)

    Book inventory of the municipality Guzów in Poland: Contains the inventory of property and financial spending of commune Guzów, 1928-1936.

  13. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  14. Léon Prays photograph collection

    Contains three black-and-white photographs of the donor visiting Miraville in Belgium, the children's home where he lived after the war; photos taken in 1956, when donor was on leave from military service.

  15. Eduard Wirths collection

    The Eduard Wirths collection relates to SS-Standortarzt Dr. Eduard Wirths (1909-1945), his family, and colleagues, before and while he was stationed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The collection consists of fifteen original photographs, some taken at Solahütte, a resort for Nazi personnel located at Auschwitz, and of other physicians, including Dr. Carl Clauberg (1898-1957). The collection also includes a 1944 presentation album, entitled, "SS Truppenlazarett erbaut von der Zentralbauleitung der Waffen-SS und Polizei, Auschwitz OS 1944" which was created to document the const...

  16. Selected personal files of the beneficiaries of the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP) Teczki osobowe beneficjentów Fundacji Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP)

    This collection contains copies of 20,534 personal files of those assisted by the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP). These files often contain beneficiary’s application (with individual call number) which details the places and conditions of work (forced labor); statements; accounts or testimonies; letters from the period of occupation and/or other documents (most often copies) in support of a claim; doctor’s certificates; notarized copies of archival documents; photographs; certificates from various institutions; and correspondence with the Foundation.

  17. Selected records of the social insurance institution in Żyrardów Ubezpieczalnia Społeczna w Żyrardowie (Sygn.105)

    Contains registers of people employed by Jewish enterprises: brick factories, sawmills, bakeries, tanneries in Biała Góra, Błonie, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Izabelin, Milanówek, Skierniewice, Sochaczew and Warsaw, and the people employed by the Board of Jewish Religious Communities.

  18. Rose Shwarz collection

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs illustrating the experiences of Rose Shwarz in postwar German Displaced Persons Camps Bergen-Belsen and Mergentheim in Germany, and the United States, circa 1945-1948. Thesis written postwar by physician who interviewed survivors in Hocking.

  19. Mickey Mouse figurine in a handmade frame

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn519804
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.953 inches (7.501 cm) | Width: 1.181 inches (3 cm) c: Height: 3.937 inches (10 cm) | Width: 2.756 inches (7 cm) e: Height: 4.055 inches (10.3 cm) | Width: 2.205 inches (5.601 cm) | Depth: 0.709 inches (1.801 cm) f: Height: 5.197 inches (13.2 cm) | Width: 3.150 inches (8.001 cm) | Depth: 1.378 inches (3.5 cm) g: Height: 5.197 inches (13.2 cm) | Width: 3.150 inches (8.001 cm) | Depth: 0.709 inches (1.801 cm)

    Box containing small Mickey Mouse figure framed by an artificial flower garland that belonged to Pierre Seel, who at age 18 was arrested on May 3, 1941, in Mulhouse in German occupied France for homosexuality. His mother created the boxed setting with the toy as a memorial device to remember and protect her son. The flower garland was originally part of her wedding veil. Pierre was brutally tortured for 10 days by the Gestapo and then sent to Schirmeck-Vorbruck, a re-education camp near Natzwiller Struthof concentration camp in Alsace. The torture and abuse continued and he was a forced lab...

  20. Eve Lasch Whyte Drazen photograph collection

    Collection of photographs of Eve Lasch (later Eve Whyte and Eve Drazen) [donor's mother] before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes photo of her as a child in Czechoslovakia (c. 1938), and as a teenager after the war. Eve, who was Jewish, was imprisoned in the Liebenau concentration camp during the Holocaust.