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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  4. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Vosges

    Contains documents concerning “Jewish Affairs,” arrests and round-ups on March 6, 1943 and March 14, 1944, the transfer of Jews to the Ecrouves internment camp near Nancy in the Meurthe-et-Moselle, the Aryanization and later restitution of Jewish property and belongings, foreigners, the loss of French citizenship concerning the deputy to the National Assembly, Camille Picard, registers showing entries to the Epinal prison, documents concerning accounts held by Jews at the local branch of the Banque de France, lists of Alsatian-Lorrain refugees, and list of prisoners released from the prison...

  5. Selected documents from the Departmental Archives of the Indre

    Contains records from local offices including the Prefect’s office and the Police Department dealing with foreigners, the “Jewish question”, the demarcation line between the occupied and unoccupied zones, and refugees, including those from Alsace-Lorraine. Documents from the sub-prefecture of La Châtre (3 Z) are also included, as well as the “Internernent Administratif” section dealing with the camps of Pellevoisin and Douadic. Also contains information on an OSE-created clandestine center to place Jewish children in non-Jewish families in the “chef-lieu, Châteauroux,” lists of arrests and ...

  6. Selected records from the Bologna State Archive

    Contains records from the Prefettura and Questura di Bologna, 1938-46 relating to the 1938 racial laws and their implementation in Bologna, as well as the deportation of the Jews of Bologna and their efforts after 1945 to reclaim their property and rebuild their community. This collection also includes 2,000 individual files with personal data.

  7. Selected records from the Perguia Regional State Archive

    Contains records from the Prefettura and Questura di Perugia, 1938-46 relating to the racial laws of 1938 and their implementation in Perugia, the deportation of the Jews of Perugia and their efforts after 1945 to reclaim their property and rebuild their community. Also included are 200 files containing personal materials on individuals. The collection also contains records from the province of Perugia and include records from smaller cities, such as Assisi documenting their reaction to the racial laws.

  8. Dorit B. Whiteman papers

    1. Dorit B. Whiteman collection

    The papers contain paper documents and photographs collected by the donor working as clinical and consulting psychologist, and writing and publishing books pertaining to the Holocaust.

  9. Frida Gefen family papers

    Correspondence regarding the Holocaust experiences of Jacob Szmulowicz who fled Lida, Lithuania (Lida, Belarus) with his son Samuel to Shanghai in 1939. His wife Liba, daughter Frida, and son Eliezer were deported to Siberia in 1940.

  10. "Süssholz Siblings: The War"

    Consists of one memoir, 50 pages, entitled "Süssholz Siblings: The War" by Friedl Süssholz-Wolfstein, originally of Trier, Germany. She describes her childhood, her father and brother's deportation from Germany as stateless persons in 1938, and her own escape as a child into Belgium, where her family was slowly reunited. After various attempts to escape after the outbreak of war, Friedl and her brothers were arrested in France, and Friedl was deported to Auschwitz, where she worked sorting victim belongings in the "Canada" section of the camp. After Auschwitz was evacuated, Friedl was sent ...

  11. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Deux-Sèvres

    Contains records relating to refugees, including Italians; instructions concerning lists of Jews, their professions, and the confiscation of their property; the appointment of Aryan administrators; the confiscation of radios belonging to Jews; the distribution of Jewish stars; medical examinations of the Jewish population; and documents concerning Roma.

  16. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (formerly Russian Empire): General Correspondence (FO 181)

    Contains general correspondence and reports from the British Embassy and Consulates in the former Soviet Union relating to Jews, including liquidation in Riga, the joint allied declaration condemning Nazi atrocities, settlement of Jews in Uzbekistan, and the situation of Jews in Russia.

  17. Siegfried Abraham collection

    Consists of one CD containing scanned images of documents related to the Holocaust experiences of the family of Siegfried Abraham, originally of Hamburg, Germany. The family, who were living in Amsterdam, were deported to Bergen-Belsen in 1944, but were part of a prisoner exchange in January 1945 in which they were taken first to Switzerland, and then to Algeria. Includes copies of travel documents, family photographs, identity documentation as residents of the UNRRA camp at Jeanne d'Arc at Philippeville, the family's Haitian passports, which they were able to obtain from family friends to ...

  19. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Haute-Loire

    Contains documents concerning the refugee centers in Chambon-sur-Lignon, run by La Cimade (Côteau-Fleuri) and La Maison-des-Roches. Daniel Trocmé, nephew of Pastor Trocmé and director of the latter, was sent to Buchenwald when a round-up occurred (see PV of his arrest). Also includes records from internment camps like Tence, records connected to Gurs on Noé, and police records relating to immigration, foreign workers in forced labor brigades, house arrests and surveillance of foreigners, round-ups, education and teachers.

  20. Sam and Susan Weiss collection

    The Sam and Susan Weiss collection consists of documents and photographs related to the pre-war and post-war lives of Salomon (Sam) Weiss and Zuzana Lehrmanova (later Susan Weiss), both originally of Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia. The collection includes citizenship documents, identification documents, and immigration documents. The photographs include members of the Weiss family and the Lehrmanova family, most of whom did not survive the Holocaust.