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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Frank Bearse collection

    Contains a document marked “…large examination document of the confessions of the former Camp Commander, Mauthausen, Standartenfuerhrer Franz Ziereis”; 3 pages typed recto and verso; dated 24 May 1945. Also includes a two-page typed document titled “Record of Events Co. “E” 260 Infantry”; an envelope addressed to German Jewish Children’s Aid in New York, NY, postmarked May and November 1940, with some stamps have detached from the envelope, thought to have been used to send birth certificates of Jewish children for immigration or purposes.

  2. Family in Dahlem 1932

    In Dahlem, Germany, the family goes for a walk. CU baby in a pram. Street scenes, automobile traffic. They walk and skate on a frozen pond. A child runs around the yard with a toy. The children ride on scooters. More CUs of the three children with their mother.

  3. Oral history interview with Harold Hicks

  4. Registration cards of the Jewish residents of Ivano-Frankivs'k city and its region (formely Stanisławów) from the regional Social Insurance Office (Fond 57)

    Consists of 9445 registration cards of Jewish residents of Stanisławów city and region (now Ivano-Frankivs'k). Collection contains selected (based on the ethnic origin) cards of the Jewish residents who were registered by the local Social Insurance Office during the Nazi occupation of this city while performing various work details and labor assignments inside and outside Stanisławów ghetto in 1941-1942.

  5. Hadassah Virshup collection

    Contains pre-war family photographs from Lida, Poland and Vilna, Lithuania, bearing inscriptions in Hebrew or Yiddish. One photo postcard shows a school or youth group, dated 1932.

  6. Records of the Danish Jewish Community : Refugees, travel of emigrants, postwar support (Group 10411)

    Selected records of the Danish Jewish Community. This contains the following collections from the Group No. 10411: The Secretary for Jews Post-War Support, including records relating to: address searches and refugee questionnaires, 1945-1950, various correspondence relating to postwar assistance, Hechaluz, and stateless persons, unaccompanied Jewish children youth Aliyah, as well as a list of Jewish who arrived in Sweden. 1945; The Committee for Jewish Agricultural Trainees: consisting of student lists and accounting statements, 1939-1942; The Chief Rabbi Max Friediger records consisting of...

  7. Judenrat in Kowno Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Kowno (Sygn. 260)

    Records of the Judenrat in Kaunas (Vilijampolė), Lithuania. Consists of documents of Efroimas Ošri: ausweis (an identity card), a labor card from the Kaunas concentration camp, March 1-May 2, 1944, and a certificate of employment.

  8. Children in Dahlem, 1934; Baby Oda

    Boy outfitted with a feathered headdress rides in a toy car and plays in a teepee in the yard in Dahlem. His older sister with braids takes a turn in the car. Father pushes the youngest child in a wheelbarrow. The family walks through a park in Dahlem by the pond. Man with hat and glasses holds a camera case. The youngest child plays in the sandbox and gets ready for another ride in the wheelbarrow. CU of newborn Oda Lindemann (born 1934) in crib. Family members take turns looking at and holding baby Oda.

  9. Blatt family papers

    Consists of documents, photographs, passports, correspondence, and other original material pertaining to Gunter H. Blatt and Marie Blatt, formerly of Berlin, Germany, who immigrated to the United States in 1941.

  10. Legacies and papers of Dr. Mikołaj Łącki Spuścizna Dr. Mikołaja Łąckiego (Sygn.1293)

    Papers of Dr. Mikołaj Łącki. The collection consists of prints, manuscripts, typescripts (own and foreign works, various papers, statistics-mostly in the form of tables), notes, calculations, letters. Materials concern the extensive activity of dr. Łącki and living conditions of the people in the Warsaw ghetto.

  11. Reich Commissioner for the Reunification of Austria with the German Reich : Correspondence-Josef Bürckel Reichskomissar für Wiedervereinigung Österreichs mit dem Deutschen Reich : Korrespondenzen-Josef Bürckel (Sign. AT-OeStA/AdR ZNsZ RK)

    Correspondence of Reichskommissar für die Wiedervereiningung Österreichs mit dem Deutschen Reich 'Reich Commissioner for Reunification of Austria with the German Reich' (Josef Bürckel (1895-1944)) with authorities and individuals regarding aryanization and expropriation of Jewish property and assets, racial laws, police, cultural matters, finances, propaganda and media.

  12. Kirstein family photographs

    The Kirstein family photographs contains two photographs of a Zionist rally at an unidentified displaced persons camp, likely in Germany. The photographs show Jewish children sitting in front of banners and posters with Hebrew slogans and images of Zionist leaders. Sara Kirstein, later Sara Scolnick, and her parents Abraham and Manya Kirstein are likely pictured in the photographs, circa 1947-1949.

  13. Wooden hearse used to bury Jews in the local cemetery of Piatra Neamt, Romania

  14. Prayer book

    Consists of a Tefilat Yiśraʼel (Israels gebete) prayer book, published c. 1943 Basel which includes names and addresses of various contacts inscribed by the donor's father, a Holocaust survivor, while living as a displaced person in Leipheim.

  15. Buchenwald negatives collection

    Negatives and corresponding prints depicting Buchenwald shortly after liberation. Includes a color print of the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald reunion.

  16. Oral history interview with Hajzer Bojku

  17. Rose Zysman Murra and Nathan Murra collection

    Contains three original photographs of Rose and Nathan Murra and their "niece" Bronia in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp. There are also three copy prints of Rose and Nathan during the time period surrounding the Holocaust.

  18. Else Cheimovits Parnes papers

    Contains a handwritten document, prepared by Elsa Cheimovits (born 1925 in Velkysevlus, Czech Republic) on January 28, 1947, while she recuperated in the Renstrams Civic Hospital in Göteborg, Sweden after being liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp with her sister Irene. The document records the deaths of Elsa's parents, Jeno and Zuhanna, and her siblings Eva, Elisabeth, Blanka, Frida, Mozes and Judith [Judit], whom Elsa believed all perished at Auschwitz.

  19. Broadside from Tel-Aviv announcing closures to mourn the sinking of the refugee ship "Struma"

    Broadside issued by the Municipal Corporation of Tel-Aviv and mayor, Israel Rokach, announcing closures and a day of mourning in response to the sinking of the refugee ship, Strumah, in the Black Sea off of Istanbul, Turkey, in February 1942. The Strumah (Struma) was an illegal immigrant ship that left Constanta, Romania, on December 12, 1941, with 767 Jewish refugees fleeing policies enacted by the German-allied, Romanian government. The ship was headed for Istanbul, where the passengers hoped to get visas to enter Palestine (now Israel). The old cargo barge was unsafe and overcrowded. The...

  20. Selected records of the City Tuszyn Akta miasta Tuszyna (Sygn.2135) : Wybrane materiały

    Post-war materials regarding property matters of the Jewish and Polish population. Includes registers of properties, and the permanent and temporary population of city Tuszyn.