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

  1. Antisemitic leaflet

    Contains a leaflet voicing support for Ferenc Szálasi, leader of the Arrow Cross Party and successor of Miklós Horthy.

  2. Simai Győrgy photographs

    Contains eight photographs, dated 1939 to 1947, showing Simai Győrgy, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. She was arrested and eventually deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp and then Spandau to perform slave labor, before being transffered to Oranienburg slave labor camp, where she was liberated in May 1945. After returning to Budapest, Győrgy met and married Ference Polgar, ultimately immigrating to Venezuela in 1956 with their daughter Eva.

  3. The Palestine Post clipping

    Newspaper: Front page from extra edition of The Palestine Post dated May 7, 1945 with banner headline "ALL GERMANS SURRENDER: Doenitz Announces Unconditional Capitulation."

  4. Oral history interview with Eugene Kohan

  5. Oral history interview with Ruth Neray

  6. Blake and Anna Schiff papers

    Documents, correspondence, identification papers, and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of Blake and Anna Schiff in the Warsaw Ghetto, Grodno, and in hiding in Novosiolki. Biographical material includes documents regarding Blake’s education and employment in the United States, Blake’s false identity card under the name Stephan Podolski used in post-war Poland, and social security cards. Correspondence includes letters sent by Blake to Mary and Helene Daily, his aunt and cousin in the United States, regarding his efforts to immigrate to the U.S. in 1939 as a student, and sc...

  7. Wooden Lazy Susan decorated with an inlaid windmill scene created by a Latvian in a displaced persons camp

    Handmade, Latvian, wooden turntable with an inlaid windmill scene created in Kleinkötz Displaced Persons (DP) Camp at Günzburg in the American Zone of Germany between 1945 and 1951. Latvia had a long tradition of woodworking, and many skilled artisans lived in DP camps following the end of World War II (1939-1945), where they made some additional income from the sale of pieces and trained others. Kleinkötz had a population between 1,000 and 2,500 refugees, and a large percentage of those were from the Baltic nations, including Latvia. Following the end of the war, Allied forces established...

  8. UNRRA selected records AG-018-010 : Austria Mission

    Consist of administrative files related to displaced persons, repatriation, emigration, tracing of people, child welfare, Children's Homes, welfare assistance by various international organizations; special monthly reports and statistics from British, French and American Zones; files of the displaced persons camps, narrative reports, correspondence, and registers from the particular UNRRA teams regarding operations of the displaced persons camps.

  9. Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters) -- Czech Jewish refugees arrive in Britain

    Appeal for Czech Jewish refugees who have arrived in Britain following the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Germany. The appeal was broadcast by Earl(?) Baldwin. Footage shows Baldwin at his desk, refugees at a tent camp, INTs mess hall, girls cleaning barracks, and young men writing letters.

  10. District Office in Třebíč Okresní úřad Třebíč

    District administrative records including decrees against Jews and expropriation and aryanization of Jewish properties in Třebíč (German: Trebitsch).

  11. Holocaust memoirs collection

    Contains Holocaust memoirs of Jehoash Alperovitch, Joseph Bainvoll, and Lilli Gontscheroff.

  12. Sydney Asher collection

    Photographs in envelopes of the Pedescala Massacre which took place between April 30th and May 2nd 1945 in Val d’Astico, Italy north of Vicenza in three municipalities, Pedescala, Forni, and Setteca`. The images were acquired by Donor’s husband, Sydney, who was in the 5th Army and who was a lawyer so given the task of investigating the atrocities. Includes an envelope labeled “Vittime di Pedescola” or Victims of Pedescola.

  13. Golodetz family papers

    The collection contains letters sent to Alexander Golodetz from his parents Wita and Mendel Golodetz and other relatives in Poland. Alexander received the letters in New York after his immigration there in 1938. The bulk of the letters are pre-war, sent between June 1938 and August 1939. Included with the collection are donor-provided English translations of the letters. There are three wartime translated letters without the originals, including one from Alexander’s uncle Fishel Landau and the last letter received from his father in the Soviet Union dated 11 February 1941. Also included in ...

  14. Fundación IWO Archive-Idisher Visnshaflekher Institute in Argentina Archivo de la Fundación IWO-Instituto Científico Judío en Argentina

    This collection contains organizational records, photographs, newspaper clippings, etc. Files are arranged at the folder level. The documents relate to the arrival of survivor artists, correspondence with artists, writers and other personalities in the aftermath of World War II, cultural activities and publishing projects of survivors.

  15. Selected records of the General Commissioner of the Republic of Poland in Gdańsk Komisarz Generalny Rzeczypospolitej w Gdańsku (Sygn. 259)

    Selected records of the office of the Komisarz Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Gdańsku (General Commissioner of the Republic of Poland in Gdańsk). Consist of reports, agreements, negotiations of the High Commissioner of the League of Nations in Gdańsk on the situation in the Free City of Gdańsk (Danzig), attacks on Poles and Polish property; records on paramilitary and other German organization, recruitment to NSDAP, Anti-Jewish actions of the National Socialists, attacks on Polish scouts and Polish families in Gdansk; political reports of the General Commissioner RP in Gdańsk on the...

  16. Ole Barfoed collection (Group 860: IV.T.48.O)

    The collection of Ole Barfoed consist of correspondence and reports, mainly from Jews relating to their escape to Sweden during the occupation of World War II, copies of miscellaneous documents from archives, and private notes. During the 1950s Ole Barfoed worked with some 70 Danish Jews who had escaped to Sweden during World War II and persuaded them to write down their accounts of their experiences from that time. The majority of these firsthand accounts were written by Jews who were well connected in society, and who also, for the most part, were above average in terms of personal financ...

  17. District Authority of Vsetín Okresní úřad Vsetín

    Administrative records of Vsetín, a town in the Zlín region. Features records pertaining to cultural and school affairs, including anti-Jewish measures and the expropriation of Jewish properties and assets.

  18. Drawing

    Postcard with self-portrait in front of brick wall and text by donor's father, Janos Gombosi

  20. Help Keep U.S. Out of War pin back buttons on display board

    Help Keep U.S. Out of War pin back buttons on cardboard display board. The board and buttons are dated 1939.