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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Lissberger family papers

    The Lissberger family papers contains mainly identification and documentation papers for Moritz, Bettina, Klara, and Emil. Included in this collection are marriage, birth, and death certificates, certificates of good conduct, inoculation papers, transport orders, witness declarations, and school records. Other items include correspondence with foreign consulates and post-war restitution paperwork. Also included are personal items, including correspondence, photographs, a wedding invitation for Moritz and Bettina, and Bettina’s school diary, memory book, and Hebrew lesson notebook.

  2. US Foreign Service; Cordell Hull; US diplomats

    March of Time, Vol. 5, No. 4 Title on screen: "The Foreign Service" Footage of cities around the world where the US Foreign Service might be found. Shots of the American flag, the shield of the consulate general, and American embassies. The narrator notes that the most important task of the foreign service officer is to make friends for his country. Washington DC: the Capitol and the Old Executive Office building. Secretary of State Cordell Hull at work in his office. The narrator describes Hull as a man of peace who nonetheless insists that his country must be ready to defend itself. Stage...

  3. Displaced persons camps in Germany records from YIVO

    Consists of records of displaced persons (DP) camps and centers, which were collected by YIVO between 1946-1954. Includes information about Jewish organizations and committees that supported DPs, the occupation authorities, antisemitism, liberation day celebrations, annual congresses, material needs, the housing shortage in Germany, cultural activities, the Jewish community of Berlin, searches for surviving family members, religious life, the placement of Jewish orphans, the Red Cross, relations with American Jewish communities, and immigration possibilities.

  4. Edward Anders papers

    The Edward Anders paper consists of a Latvian identification card issued to Edward Anders (then known as Edwards Alperovics) in 1941; his mother, Erika Alperovics’ Latvian passport, issued in 1942; documents and related correspondence, including his draft notice for the Waffen-SS, in German and Latvian, circa 1943; a pamphlet, in German and English, entitled "Baltic War Criminals, Witnesses Urgently Required Again the Persons Mentioned Overleaf!," published by a Group of Baltic Survivors in Great Britain and addressed to surviving Jews and non-Jews in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia; documen...

  5. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Cyprus Operation, 1945-1949

    Personal letters, petitions, and newspapers published by the deportees. Records contain accounts of the aid activities of the AJJDC in the British detainee camps, including correspondence with the British authorities, medical care, educational programs, welfare activity, immigration to Mandatory Palestine and Israel, and eyewitness accounts of conditions in the camps written by the AJJDC administration. It also consists of many documents related to activities of the British soldiers.

  6. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Honorary Consulate in Zürich Konsulat Honorowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Zürichu (Sygn.496)

    Reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, instructions and regulations related to the condition of national minorities, mainly Jews, in Poland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France and other countries in Europe. Included are materials about matters of visa regulations, Jewish communists, anti-fascist militia, testimony of the refugees, participation of the Polish citizen Lejz Horowitz in the work of the XX Zionist Congress in Zurich, commercial information about Polish Jews in Switzerland, Zionist congresses in Zürich, creation of the Polish-Swiss Export Association and their fraudulen...

  7. Selected records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 149 BM res.)

    This collection includes documents relating mainly to matters as: Communists movements; maters of neighboring states; the Hungarian Nationalists Party movements; Arrow Cross Party activities; Passport and naturalization issues; minority affairs; press affairs; parties and associations affairs; banning Jewish affairs meetings, and “Hungarista movements”. Contains signed and anonymous denunciations; decisions to grant or deny petitions; orders imposing police surveillance, round-ups, arrests, internment, deportations, mobilization, or the confiscation of property; instructions, monthly report...

  8. Ungar family papers

    The Ungar family papers consist of original correspondence received by Eric Ungar’s family in St. Louis from their Ungar and Schlesinger relatives in Austria and England between 1939 and 1944 as well as a copy of a family history compiled by Eric Ungar. The correspondence describes life in wartime Austria and England, particularly the suffering and deprivation of the Schlesinger grandparents in Vienna, relates emigration efforts and complications, and asks for and relays news about family members, including those sent to Theresienstadt, Poland, and Lithuania. The correspondence also reflect...

  9. Julius Strassburger family correspondence

    The Julius Strassburger family correspondence documents his family’s immigration to the United States with the help of his cousins in Pittsburgh. The letters describe his increasingly constrained life in Germany, his cousins’ efforts to secure him a position in Delaware in the leather industry as well as affidavits for him and his family, and the family’s arrival in 1936. The correspondence also includes a 1940 postcard from Selma Strassburger that her father never received, correspondence from 1941 documenting the family’s unsuccessful efforts to bring Julius Strassburger’s sister and brot...

  10. Nazi armband with a swastika acquired by a US soldier

    1. Mordecai E. Schwartz collection

    Nazi swastika armband acquired by Mordecai E. Schwart. Schwartz, a soldier in the United States Army. After the war ended in May 1945, Schwartz was recruited to serve as Area Director for UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration). He worked for UNRRA until 1948, when the organization was deactivated. He then became Area Director for the International Refugee Organization (IRO), supervising twenty-eight displaced persons camps in Germany. The DP camps were set up to house and feed, and to provide medical service and legal protection for survivors of the concentration an...

  11. Handwritten thank you note received by an administrator of a displaced persons camp

    1. Mordecai E. Schwartz collection

    Handwritten letter received by Mordecai Schwartz on February 9, 1947, from a resident in Hasenhecke displaced persons camp, expressing appreciation for Schwartz's work. Schwartz, a soldier in the United States Army, was who was recruited after the war ended in May 1945 to serve as Area Director for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). He worked for UNRRA until 1948, when UNRRA was deactivated. He then became Area Director for the International Refugee Organization (IRO), supervising twenty-eight displaced persons camps in Germany. The DP camps were set up to ...

  12. Circular red cloth UNRRA badge worn by a former US soldier as Area Administrator for Germany

    1. Mordecai E. Schwartz collection

    UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) red circle patch worn by Mordecai E. Schwart. Schwartz, a soldier in the United States Army, was recruited after the war ended in May 1945 to serve as Area Director for UNRRA. He worked for UNRRA until 1948, when the organization was deactivated. He then became Area Director for the International Refugee Organization (IRO), supervising twenty-eight displaced persons camps in Germany. The DP camps were set up to house and feed, and to provide medical service and legal protection for survivors of the concentration and slave labor...

  13. Immediate aftermath of the German invasion of Poland

    INT, broken windows and broken glass. Men outside shovel the glass from the windows of the American Consulate. Soldiers walk by the camera in city. Women milk a cow on the side of the street. Debris from destroyed buildings. People, refugees, destroyed buildings in Warsaw. A crowd surrounds a vehicle. CU, license plate. A plane in the sky. Destroyed American Consulate building, and other bombed buildings.

  14. Selected records from collections of Dâmboviţa branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Reports relating to religious cults, the surveillance by the Iron Guard of Adventists and Jews; the confiscation of Jewish-owned land, properties and companies; the elimination of Jews from state jobs, the confiscation of Iron Guard properties by the Romanian government, internment in Târgu Jiu camp; Iron Guard activities in various localities, various complaints against Roma, lists and nominal files of of properties confiscated from Jews in Târgovişte, confiscation of goods from Roma who were deported to Transnistria, the status of Jews and Polish refugees. Records relating to epidemics, c...

  15. Color drawing of a bust of a general created by a Jewish refugee boy in a children's home

    1. Alfred Ament collection

    Drawing created by Hans Ament, a young Jewish refugee, in an OSE-affiliated children's home in Izieu, France, from which he was later deported.

  16. Mordecai E. Schwartz papers

    Contains, but is not limited to, reports, vocational courses programs, correspondence, and other documents relating to the service of Mordecai E. Schwartz in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and the Preparatory Commission of the International Refugee Organization (PCIRO) and the handling of displaced persons in the United States Zone from 1946 to 1950. Also contains materials relating to the Jüdisches Komitee in Hasenhecke-Kassel and Mönchberg-Kassel, Germany.

  17. Jewish Displaced Persons, JDC efforts 1946

    Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, into buses, trucks, Bratislava camp and trains. Prague: Service (JDC supplied torah). JDC meeting, children's home. Loan co-op office, small businesses. Budapest: Clothing warehouse. Canteen. Germ...

  18. Selected records from the State Archive of South Kazakhstan Region in Shymkent, related to the evacuation of civilians during WWII

    Selected records related to evacuation of the civilian population to Shimkent region in Kazakhstan during WWII. It includes information about resettlement, employment, provision of food supplies and medical assistance to the evacuees by the local Soviet and Communist Party authorities. The collection also includes various lists of evacuees who arrived in Shimkent region in 1941-1942 as well as statistical reports and correspondence files.

  19. "Bikur Cholim" Jewish Society for Visitation and Support of the Ill, Graz "Bikur Cholim" Jüdischer Krankenbesuchs-und Unterstützungsverein, Graz (Fond 710)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    This collection contains office records of the Bikur Cholim: regulations, correspondence, appeals to the Jews of Graz for membership, name lists of members and donors, records of aid to children, and financial accounts. Also included are copies of newspapers “Die Stimme Der Jude” for 1937, and personal papers of the society director E. Grunschlag: personal correspondence with his wife and son. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  20. Association of Polish Jews in France Association des Juifs polonais en France, Paris (Fond 45)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Correspondence with the Polish Emigrant Administration, name lists and bios of members, activity reports, account books, miscellaneous documents, speeches by leaders of the Polish Emigrant Government in France, including Gen. Sikorski and Ignacy Paderewski; a copy of the Jewish newspaper "Semen", and other printed materials. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.