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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Martin Perlmutter papers

    The Martin Perlmutter papers contain biographical materials and photographs documenting Perlmutter’s time in Italy with his wife, primarily in the Bari displaced persons camp, after World War II before their immigration to the United States. Many of the photographs depict camp demonstrations against British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin and restrictive Palestine immigration policies. Biographical materials include identification papers and travel papers documenting the displaced persons status of Martin and Dora Perlmutter and their immigration to the United States. Documents include immigr...

  2. Rena Berliner papers

    The Rena Berliner papers consist of photographs, programs, and school records documenting Rena Berliner’s time at the Neu Freimann displaced persons camp, musical performances at displaced persons camps, and attendance at the Händel-Konservatorium in Munich. Photographs depict Berliner performing at the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp and a group of ORT UNRRA vocation school students in front of their classroom at Neu Freimann. Programs document Berliner’s performances at displaced persons camps. School records include an identification card, membership card, report card, certificate, and...

  3. Handthrown ceramic vase with relief design of birds used by a German Jewish refugee family

    1. Edith Simon Rosenthal collection

    Vase brought in a steamer trunk by 13 year old Edith Simon when she, her parents, Willy and Greta, and her sisters, Lotte and Gerda, emigrated from Leipzig, Germany, to the United States in 1937. The vase was a family heirloom, orignally owned by Hedwig Maerker, Edith's grandmother, who was killed in Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942.

  4. Floral and lion patterned needlepoint table covering saved by a German Jewish refugee family

    1. Edith Simon Rosenthal collection

    Bed or table covering brought in a steamer trunk by 13 year old Edith Simon when she, her parents, Willy and Greta, and her sisters, Lotte and Gerda, emigrated from Leipzig, Germany, to the United States in 1937. The needlepoint covering was made in the early years of the 20th century by Hedwig Maerker, Edith's grandmother, who was killed in Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  5. Marion Pritchard collection

    The collection consists of four photograph albums depicting the Föhrenwald and Windsheim displaced persons camps from 1945-1947. The albums depict refugees and staff, including Marion Pritchard and her husband Anton Pritchard, both of whom worked for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in the DP camps after the war. Many of the photographs are annotated on the album pages.

  6. UJA relief efforts

    Title card reads, "UJA Report from Israel." Immigrants wave from a ship's deck while the narrator explains that these are Holocaust survivors arriving in Israel from Europe. Survivors disembark in Haifa as a crowd waits on the dock behind a fence. People sort through luggage and other belongings. A man stacks blankets and a woman searches for her baby carriage among several others. Items are loaded onto a truck which then takes immigrants to a camp. Dramatic CU of International Herald Tribune headlines: "Heavy Burden Of Immigrants Strains Israel," "Situation Called Explosive,"(article writt...

  7. Leonore Gumpert correspondence

    The Leonore Gumpert correspondence consists of letters and postcards dated 1938-1942 to Leonore in America from her mother, Clara Joseph, in Kassel and Darmstadt and from her sister, Inge, in Kassel, Darmstadt, Brussels, Seyre, and Chateau de la Hille. Some correspondence from Germany includes messages from Leonore's aunt Martha and grandmother Josephine. There are also a few letters and postcards from Leonore's father, Julius, and from relatives in New York. Most of the letters and postcards describe daily life in Germany, Belgium, and France and relate efforts to immigrate. One October 19...

  8. Weimar Germany Reichsbanknote, 10 Reichsmarks, owned by a Jewish Polish survivor

    1. Bella and Henry Tovey collection

    Weimar Germany 10 mark note acquired by Henry Tovey. After Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939, Henry was confined to the ghetto on Łódź, renamed Litzmannstadt. The Germans closed the ghetto in summer 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killing centers. Henry later married Bella Jacubowicz, who was from Sosnowiec, Poland. Bella, her parents, and her three younger siblings were forced into the ghetto. At the end of 1942, the family was sent to the ghetto in Bedzin. In 1943, Bella was deported to Graben, a subcamp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp in German...

  9. Herbert Siperstein papers

    The Herbert Siperstein papers consist of correspondence and photographs documenting the Pick family from Vienna, Josefine Siperstein and Elise Pick’s unsuccessful effort to emigrate aboard the S.S. St. Louis, family members’ efforts to help them immigrate to the United States, and efforts to locate Josefine Siperstein after her death at Auschwitz. Correspondence includes letters to Herbert Siperstein from his mother aboard the S.S. St. Louis and then settled in Mirabeau, correspondence with the U.S. State Department and refugee aid agencies, a carbon copy of a letter from Helen Grossman to ...

  10. Mayer family correspondence

    The Mayer family correspondence consists of sixteen letters from Babette Mayer and Paula Hein in Bollendorf and Wolfenbüttel; Moritz Mayer in Liège; and Berta Lazard in Differdingen, Avallon, and Verteuil to their family members in the United States. The letters describe conditions in Germany, Belgium, and France and ask for emigration help.

  11. Selected records pertaining to Jews in Albania

    Contains excerpts from many files of the Albanian Central Archive collections. The contents are records about Jews in Albania before, during and after the Second World War. Some of the varied topics are: taxation of Jews vs. non-Jews; information on the Jewish community in various localities; governmental decisions regarding Jews; Jews in trade and commerce; demographic and census statistics; petitions made by Jews and resulting decisions; name lists of foreign citizens resident in Albania, including Jews holding foreign citizenship; correspondence with James McDonald of League of Nations c...

  12. Weimar Germany, 10 billion mark note, saved by German Jewish refugee

    1. Carl Werner Lenneberg collection

    Weimar Germany 10 billion mark note saved by Carl Werner Lenneberg. This currency was issued by the new democratic government that ruled Germany after World War I (1914-1918), when it was in a period of hyper inflation that threatened the stability of the country. During the war, Lenneberg was a soldier in the 8th (Rhenish) Foot Artillery Battalion, XVI Army Corps, German Army. In January 1933, Hitler and the Nazi regime took power. Anti-Jewish policies put increasingly harsh restrictions on Jewish life. Werner and his brother Georg were arrested during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, a...

  13. Aachen District, 20 billion mark note, saved by German Jewish refugee

    1. Carl Werner Lenneberg collection

    Aachen District, Germany 20 billion mark note saved by Carl Werner Lenneberg. This note was emergency currency, valid for one year, 1923-1924, issued by the local government in Aachen during the period of hyperinflation that threatened the stability of the country. Inflation was unstoppable: in 1919, there were 47 marks to a dollar; in 1922, it went from 1000 to 7000; in 1923, from 17,000 to 4,200,000,000,000. Lenneberg was a decorated World War I veteran orginally from Remscheid. In January 1933, Hitler and the Nazi regime took power. Anti-Jewish policies put increasingly harsh restriction...

  14. Juanita Carmi papers

    1. Juanita Carmi collection

    Photographs (10), of the family of Juanita Carmi, including pre-World War II photos of her paternal aunt, Nechuma Chmielnicki Fuks, and pre- and post-war photos of her stepfather, Markus Kavior. Also includes the certificate of naturalization (United States) for Markus Kavior (1952), as well as a research paper written by Carmi in 1992, for a course at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, titled "Out of Hell: The Immigrant Experience of Jewish Holocaust Survivors." This paper was based on interviews conducted by Carmi with six Holocaust survivors, and audio-recordings of those inte...

  15. Polish Red Cross, District of Lublin Polski Czerwony Krzyż-Okręg Lubelski (Sygn. XI)

    Files of the Polish Red Cross documenting assistance to prisoners in the Lublin-Majdanek camp and the Lublin castle: approximately 10,400 card files (first and last names, date and place of birth, names of parents, camp numbers) of prisoners who received parcels (1943/1944), lists of prisoners receiving assistance, correspondence with families of prisoners; 150 postcards and letters of prisoners to the Red Cross; list of 2,750 prisoners who died in Majdanek camp (compiled by Lublin parish); documents related to prisoners of the Buchenwald, Dachau, Gross-Rosen, Oranienburg, Auschwitz, and Ra...

  16. Book

    1. Isaac Ossowski family collection

    Guidebook of Jewish laws in Russian for the raising of children from the library of Sol Oster. It had been used by his mother, Frida Schwartzbard Ossowski, and her family during her childhood.

  17. Book

    1. Isaac Ossowski family collection

    Shulchan Aruch, a book that codifies Jewish law, from the library of Sol Oster. It had been used by his mother, Frida Schwartzbard Ossowski, and her family during her childhood.

  18. Personal papers of Elsa Lüthi-Ruth Nachlass Elsa Lüthi-Ruth

    Contains personal papers and photographs of Elsa Lüthi-Ruth, a nurse for the Swiss Red Cross and in various internment camps in France during World War II. Papers consist of biographical materials and documentation on the Elsa Lüthi-Ruth activities. The main part of the collection consists of six personal albums that document her youth and studies, as well as her work during the war.

  19. Adam and Helen Gawara papers

    1. Adam and Helen Gawara collection

    Photographs (13), birth and marriage certificates, and restitution postcards documenting Adam and Helen Gawara from Poland. Post-war photographs depict Adam and Helen and their friends in displaced persons camps, including Bergen Belsen and Feldafing (1946-1947). The collection also includes a Polish birth certificate reissued in 1949 for Helen; an identification card for Helen issued by the Central Jewish Committee at Bergen Belsen, June 1945; copies of Adam’s and Helen’s 1949 marriage certificate; and postcards from the restitution office in Hannover, Germany, sent to the Gawaras in 1954 ...

  20. Werner Isenberg papers

    The Werner Isenberg papers include biographical materials and correspondence documenting Werner Isenberg’s family from Dortmund, their emigration from Nazi Germany to South Africa and the United States, and relatives murdered in the Holocaust. Biographical materials include passports for Lina and Simon Isenberg as well as certificates required for emigration. This series also includes a list of relatives of Werner and Therese Isenberg from the Isenberg, Kleeblatt, Freund, Bendorf, Hainebach, Stahl, Kahn, and Levy families who were murdered during the Holocaust. The correspondence series pri...