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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Bernhard Haas papers

    Two handwritten notebooks kept by Bernhard Haas, a Jewish prisoner in the Atlit detention camp near Haifa, 1944. Includes journal, poems and transcripts of letters. The date and place of writing are recorded on the first page of each notebook: Camp 195, Haifa, February 1944 / Camp 119, Atlit-Haifa, April 1944. The first notebook opens with a brief summary of Haas's life story until his arrest, including his childhood in Giessen, being orphaned of both his parents, the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany, his voyage to Palestine from Trieste, his studies in the Mikveh Israel agricultural s...

  2. Oral history interview with Joseph Grenfell

  3. Selected records of the Central Committee for Social Welfare in Warsaw Centralny Komitet Opieki Społecznej w Warszawie (Sygn. 164/0)

    Questionnaires of children who were abroad (in Denmark and Norway), correspondence and name lists on the persons returned to Poland after the Second World War. Includes documents related to financial assistance for children and lists of former KL Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners who survived the camp.

  6. Cesia Carol Redlich papers

    1. Cesia Carol Redlich collection

    The collection consists of photographs taken at the Bergen Belsen displaced persons camp, five photographs of United Children's Care orphans; one photograph of Cesia Carol Redlich's foster mother and her natural daughter; one photograph of Cesia Carol Redlich with her foster mother's natural daughter; and a memorial card listing the Yahrzeit memorial anniversary dates of the 15,000 Jews deported from Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland. Contains a photograph of Bergen-Belsen survivors at a sign commemorating the victims of Bergen-Belsen; a photograph of high school teachers (Bergen Belsen survivor...

  7. Pamphlet

    1. Ray and Hersch Berman collection

    Pamphlet published by the Office of Jewish Information (OJI).

  17. Prayer book

    1. Kalman and Pauline Barakan collection

    Prayer book owned by Jewish Holocaust survivors who fled Poland in 1968 because of persecution. After Germany invaded Russian occupied Poland in June 1941, Kalman Barakan, a 30 year old lawyer in Bialystok was relocated into a Jewish ghetto. He escaped in 1943 and lived in hiding, constantly on the move. In August, the ghetto was destroyed; Kalman’s entire family was murdered in a death camp. In July 1944, the Soviet Army liberated the area. Kalman was forced into army service until the end of the war in May 1945. He repatriated to Łódź, Poland, and married Pauline Pajes in 1949. Pauline su...

  18. Ruth Salzberg Horwitz papers

    1. Ruth Salzberg Horwitz collection

    The Ruth Salzberg Horwitz papers consist of biographical materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting the Salzberg family of Hamburg, Germany, their immigration to the United States in 1938, and the family members who remained in Europe and were killed in the Holocaust. Biographical materials include identification papers, student records, immigration records, and personal narratives. Photographs depict Ruth and her family and their home in Hamburg. Printed materials primarily document the Salzberg family’s life in the United States.