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

  1. Otto and Ann Silber Mandel papers

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Anny Silber (b. 1917) and her husband Otto Mandl (b. 1913) from Vienna, Austria [donor's parents]. Documents include school report cards, Deutsches Reich Reisepass [German passports], correspondence addressing their emigration from Austria and assistance by Otto's cousin Sam Kellner in New York. Also included are State Department letters concerning the 1941 emigration of Anny's parents Sigmund and Malvine from France and birth certificate for Otto ["Otto Bass recte Geiger" parents "Israel Bass recte Geiger und Adele geb. Bornstein...

  2. Activity report for the Basler Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder

    Contains a "Praktikumsbericht" [Activity report]; typed document with handwritten corrections; nine pages, concerning 300 boys and girls from Germany who found refuge in Switzerland in what was titled the "300 Kinder-Aktion" in 1939. The report, written by Eli Mangold of the Basel Relief Organization for Emigrant Children (Basler Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder), describes the group, in particular fifty children of Orthodox families; their time in Langenbruck and later Basel; and their daily lives and activities.

  3. Hillel (Harry) and Liza Zelmanovich collection

    Contains papers, identity cards, photographs, passports, correspondence relating to the experiences of Harry and Liza Zelmanovich. Includes postwar identification documents and medical forms issued in Munich, including an Identity Card for Ex-Con[centrarion] Camp Inmates, and United States naturalization records.

  4. Oral history interview with Laura Manoni

  5. Municipality of Farms 412-4/3 Gemeinde Farmsen

    Selected records of the Gemeinde Farmsen (Commune Farms), Gemeindevertreter (Municipal Representative), and Gemeindebeirat (Municipal Advisory Council) relating to farms, execution of the law for restoration of the civil service, road construction and maintenance, unemployment relief, free gymnastics and sport clubs, school medical examination (1931-1933), and a role of the public library.

  6. Oral history interview with Josef Klima

  7. Magistrate Bergedorf 415-12/1 Magistrat Bergedorf

    Selected records of the Magistrat Bergedorf (Magistrate of the city Bergedorf) related to re-construction of broken memorials in the town, burial places of the Jews on the Gojenberge (Hamburg), 1883-1938, and honorary distinction of the cemeteries. Consists of architectural plans, photographs of burial monuments, clippings, correspondence, bank financial documentations, a register of names of bank customers.

  8. Erich Lilienthal death certificate

    Death certificate issued for Erich "Israel" Lilienthal, a Jewish man who died in Berlin on June 14, 1940 at St. Hedwig Hospital. He was survived by his wife Gerda Amanda "Sara" Lilienthal (nee Sürth); she was deported to Auschwitz on November 29, 1942 and did not survive.

  9. Stella Luftig collection

    Contains two photographs: one, dated 15 May 1927, a studio portrait of two boys; the other, undated, of a woman with three children in a park.

  10. UNRRA selected records AG-018-016 : Czechoslovakia Mission

    Consists of correspondence, reports, transport lists, and forms of individual case of repatriated persons. Records relate to repatriation of Chinese nationals, Czechoslovakian, German and Polish Jews, Poles, Greek nationals, and unaccompanied children. Contains correspondence, reports, transport lists, and individual cases of repatriated German Jews.

  11. Rita Oppenheimer Gelman papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Rita Oppenheimer Gelman, originally of Berlin, Germany, including her flight from Germany to Palestine in 1940. Included are postcards, photographs, and a small amount of documents. The postcards are primarily received by Rita’s maternal uncle Arno Lewenberg, who survived the Holocaust in Davos, Switzerland, from family members in Berlin. One postcard received from Jules Malinowski references Jules’s brother Adolf in Buchenwald. There are also two postcards sent by Klara and Moses Oppenheimer from Theresienstadt to Rosette Kahn in Ba...

  12. Oral history interview with Sara Fransson

  14. Soltz family photographs

    Contains two family portraits from Eishyshok [Eišiškės, Eisiskes; Lithuania], of Baila Leibnitz and Fanushka Soltz.

  15. I.T. Platzner collection

    Contains three photographic postcards of parents and friends in Luhačovice, Czechoslovakia, dated 1947; and one photo of Izhak and his mother at the beach before WWII.

  16. Oral history interview with Maurice Behar

  17. Famous soccer clubs prewar; snowy Szeged; sightseeing

    Soccer matches before the Holocaust at the stadium in Szeged, including Lajos Baróthy and Ferenc Langfelder. 01:30 Postwar, woman and toddler Kati Pető (born 1946) leave their home for a sleigh ride in the snowy city sidewalks. Touring ruins (color) in Athens, Operetta theater, postwar 1960s. Film ends 02:49

  18. David Goldberg collection

    Contains identification documents, restitution paperwork, and passports of various unrelated individuals, most likely all Jews, who fled Nazi occupation.

  19. Oral testimonies of Lewis Schloss and Trudy Schloss

  20. Oral history interview with Fred Haber