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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Selected records from the Archives of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan related to evacuation of civilians in the former USSR

    Reports, correspondence, statistical data, etc. related to the evacuation of civilians to Kazakhstan during WWII; includes information about resettlement, employment and food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. Also includes correspondence between the Communist Party and Soviet government officials, lists of evacuees who arrived to Kazakhstan from various regions of the former USSR.

  2. Rafael and Nelly Brenner family papers

    The Rafael and Nelly Brenner family papers consist of advertisements, photographs, printed materials, and store catalogs documenting the Brenner family’s photograph supply stores in Cologne, their expropriation under the Nazi regime, the establishment of their store in Rome, their escape to the United States, the establishment of their store in Washington, DC, and Leo Brenner’s store in Haifa.

  3. Tsilya Tochilnikov papers

    The Tsilya Tochilnikov papers consist of personal narratives and photographs documenting Tsilya's flight from Voznesensk, Ukraine, during World War II and the loss of relatives killed in the war and in the Holocaust. The narratives describe Tsilya’s happy early life in Voznesensk, fleeing from German bombs in 1941 on a long and arduous journey, finding refuge in Tbilisi, learning her relatives had been killed, her mother’s desperate grief, her own and her brother’s removal to children’s homes, being sent to Baku with her brother, and finding a foster mother in Baku but suffering from contin...

  4. Ruth B. Mandel papers

    The Ruth B. Mandel papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting the Blumenstock family from Vienna, their effort to immigrate to the United States via Cuba aboard the MS St. Louis, and their refuge in England during the war, and their immigration to the United States in 1947. Biographical materials include certificates, correspondence, certificates, identification papers, travel documents, and military papers documenting the Blumenstock family’s efforts to immigrate to the United States via Cuba, their refuge in England, Mechel Blumenstock’s service with the British ...

  5. Institut d'Etudes du Judaïsme transcripts

    1. Oral history interviews of the Institut des Études du Judaïsme collection

    Institut d’Etudes du Judaïsme transcripts consist of transcripts of oral history interviews conducted as part of several documentation projects regarding the Jewish community in Belgium before, during and after World War II. Betty Garfinkels and Max Gottschalk conducted oral history interviews with Belgian Jews and Belgian rescuers for the Centre National des Hautes Etudes Juives de Bruxelles (CNHEJ) between 1964 and 1973. At the same time, Rivka Banitt from the oral history department at the Institute for Contemporary Judaism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem conducted a series of inte...

  6. War Front; FDR speaks about Fifth Column

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 12, No. 879, Part 2. Release date, 05/27/1940. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: 12:35:09 Part 2A: "On the War Front" Milan, Italy. As war fever soars in Italy, Count Ciano, Il Duce's son-in-law and foreign secretary, appears before a huge throng of 100,000. Alexandria, Egypt. Ready to move the minute Italy enters the war, French and British warships stand guard, to protect the vital Empire life-line to India. 12:36:02 Part 2B: "On the War Front" Norway. Graphic scenes of a British naval attack at Narvik, with Nazi bombers trying to silence the warshi...

  7. Edith Stein papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Edith Stein (née Grunwald), her parents Bernat and Golde Grunwald, and her sister Gisela Grunwald including pre-war life in Antwerp, Belgium, wartime life as refugees in France and Altstätten, Switzerland, and post-war immigration to the United States in 1951. Biographical material includes an autograph book, family book (trouwboekje), identification documents, vaccine certificate, and a two-page personal narrative chronicling Edith’s story. Immigration papers include travel visas, Czech passports, declaration of intention forms, and...

  8. Edith Wornian family papers

    1. Wornian family collection

    Documents related to the experiences of the donor's parents, in particular, Edith Wornian (née Affenkraut), and her status as a hidden child in Belgium during the occupation, including the smuggling of her through France to Spain, and her subsequent immigration to the United States and reunion with her family. Documents include a one-page typewritten narrative about her experience, official documents from Germany (birth and immunization certificates), affidavits, educational records, marriage certificates, and U.S. naturalization documents. Also included are documents related to her husband...

  9. Hadassah Goldreich photograph collection

    The collection consists of original and copy print photographs relating to Hadassah Goldreich's family in Poland before World War II and after the war in Landsberg DP camp.

  10. Pilpel family papers

    The Pilpel Family papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and documents related to the family of Franz Josef and Marion (Stern) Pilpel (later Pell), their daughter Nina, and their son Ronald, chiefly related to the family's immigration from their native Austria to India, and their subsequent immigration to the United States. Includes personal and biographical documents, correspondence between members of the Pilpel family, predominantly from the post-war era but also some pre-war correspondence, and correspondence with extended family members and friends in Australia, Israel, and the ...

  11. Records of Ignacy Schwarzbart Akta Ignacego Szwarzbarta (Sygn. 543)

    The collection contains correspondence, notes, press clippings, articles, regulations, speeches, reports, and correspondence. Materials relate to the following subjects: Aid rendered by Schwarzbart to the Jewish emigrants and war refugees from Poland; Jewish emigration, editing of the Jewish newspaper “The Future” in France in 1940 and newspapers in other countries; and Schwartzbart’s activity in the National Council of the Republic of Poland in France during 1939-1940.

  12. Stamp booklet with canceled Republic of China postage stamps

    Booklet filled with 216 canceled Republic of China postage stamps that belonged to Rudolf Abraham. After the Nazi regime took power in Germany in 1933, laws were passed to persecute the Jewish population. The family butcher shop struggled when Jewish businesses were boycotted and Jews were forbidden from practicing certain trades. Rudolf was arrested during Kristallnacht in November 1938. His family got him released in December, but he had to leave the country. Rudolf left for Shanghai, China, and in August 1940, he reached the United States.

  13. H. Frank Brull papers

    1. H. Frank Brull Collection

    Correspondence, photographs, maps, travel brochures, printed materials, documenting the immigration of Hans Frans Brull (later H. Frank Brull) to the United States as a child, correspondence from his parents in Berlin, travel itineraries and brochures from the cruise ship line on which he traveled to the United States; photographs of Brull as a child, his parents, and classmates in Berlin; and booklets and printed material from his military career, as well as a transcript of opening statements at one of the Allied military tribunals held in Nuremberg, 1947.

  14. Jewish Colonization Association (JCA)-Argentina Office-Individual Files

    Contains over 7,000 personal files, mostly of settlers in colonies of the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) in Argentina. The files generally contain lease or purchase contracts between JCA and individual settlers (or between JCA and institutions, such as Jewish cooperatives or government agencies) and occasionally partnership agreements between several colonists and JCA. The files often contain detailed plans of farms or of fields.

  15. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Embassy in Ankara Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Ankarze (Sygn.499)

    Reports, correspondence, Polish and Turkish press, statistics, circulars related to Turkish emigration policy, situation of refugees from Armenia, evacuation of Polish people from USSR to Iran, relocation of Jews in Hungary, and German dependent countries, and activities of international organizations.

  16. Organization of survivors of the Nazi persecution (She'erit Hapleita) Asociación de Sobrevivientes de la Persecución Nazi en la Argentina. Archivo de Sherit Hapleitá

    Organizational records and publications from the Sheerit Hapleita in Argentina held in Sheerit Hapleita office at Paso Street. The records include correspondence, photographs, office files, press releases, and printed material; project folders related to campaigns, memorialization events and other activities of Holocaust survivors in Argentina.

  17. Eugen and Helene Cohn papers

    The Eugen and Helene Cohn papers include correspondence and certificates documenting the couple’s health and status as refugees and internees in France following their return to Europe aboard the MS St. Louis, their efforts to gather the necessary documentation to emigrate to Cuba via Portugal, and their departure for Cuba aboard the SS Nyassa.

  18. British propaganda: anti-German

    Jiri Weiss assembled this documentary footage which he brought from Czechoslovakia to Britain after fleeing German occupation. Film shows images of agriculture, people in folk costumes, and a church Sunday. The narrator describes Czechoslovakia as a "nation of freedom and peace" for nearly 1,400 years. Scenes of Prague during narration about the development of a Czechoslovak democracy in 1918 under Pres. Masaryk, similar to Great Britain's. Czechoslovakia's virtue as a "bastion against fascism" is demonstrated by its "education for freedom, education for peace". Images of the social project...

  19. Szlama Kleiner photograph collection

    1. Szlama Kleiner collection

    The collection consists of 29 pictures depicting Szlama Kleiner and his wife's families before, during, and after World War II in Łazy, Poland, Paris, France, Tel Aviv, Palestine, the Zawiercie ghetto, and the Bergen-Belsen DP camp.

  20. William Malsh papers

    The William Malsh papers consist of letters his parents sent him from Düsseldorf describing their hopelessness and their efforts to escape Nazi Germany. Coded language in letters from November and December 1938 refers to Paul Malsch’s imprisonment in Dachau, letters from summer 1939 document work William expected to receive from Carl Laemmle, letters from the spring of 1940 reflect his parents' reaction to news of his engagement, and an October 1941 letter reveals their expectation that they would shortly be moving to an unknown location. Additional correspondence with his uncles Ernst and ...