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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Alfred Jaretzki, Jr. papers

    Reports and correspondence from American attorney Alfred Jaretzki, Jr., reporting on visits to Vienna and efforts to work with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to assist Austrian Jews with emigration, 1938. Includes one report, undated, 11 pages, describing his trip to Vienna in June 1938, including meetings with American diplomats, journalists, members of the Viennese Jewish community, and non-governmental organizations. Among his contacts were Therese Bloch-Bauer, and her daughter Maria; Josef Löwenherz of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien; the American journalist Vin...

  2. Pen and ink desk set carved by Israel Haimovich in a British detention camp

    1. Israel Haimovich collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn607642
    • English
    • 1948
    • a: Height: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Width: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm) | Depth: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) b: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) c: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) d: Height: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) e: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) f: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)

    Desk set with ink wells carved by Israel Haimovich while in a British detention camp in Cyprus in 1948. It is carved in the shape of the bridge that linked two of the camps and the inkwells are carved in the shape of the Nissen huts that housed the detainees, tents, and a guard tower. Israel was originally from Czechoslovakia, which was annexed by Nazi Germany and its allies in 1938-1939. Israel was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp. He was liberated by US troops on April 11, 1945. His siblings, mother, grandmother, wife, and son were all killed during the Holocaust. After recuperat...

  3. Löwenstein and Stern families papers

    1. Löwenstein and Stern families collection

    Documents and photographs regarding the experiences of Alfred Löwenstein and Lola Stern, both of whom separately fled Germany for Shanghai aboard the MN Victoria in 1939, survived the Holocaust in Shanghai, and later married in the United States. Also contains biographical information on their families, including the deaths of Alfred’s parents at Theresienstadt. Biographical materials of Alfred and Lola include German passports, employment references, identification cards, and documents related to immigration to the United States. There are documents related to Alfred’s parents, Siegmund an...

  4. St. Louis and Milwaukee Poster advertising the flagships of the Hamburg-Amerika Line

    1. German poster collection

    German advertisement poster for the Hamburg-America Line’s transatlantic liners, St. Louis and Milwaukee. On May 13, 1939, the St. Louis set sail from Hamburg, Germany with 937 passengers, almost all of whom were Jews fleeing the Third Reich. The majority of the passengers had applied for US visas, and planned to stay in Cuba until they could enter the United States. However, shortly before the ship set sail, Cuba invalidated the landing permits and transit visas of the Jewish refugee passengers. When the St. Louis arrived in Cuba on May 27, the Cuban government only allowed 28 passengers i...

  5. Society for Trades and Agricultural Labor (ORT) training at Marseilles

    In 1939, Roman Vishniac was commissioned to make a promotional film at a Society for Trades and Agricultural Labor (ORT) vocational training facility near Marseille. The film was never completed, and only outtakes have survived. ORT schools throughout Europe worked to train and certify Jewish refugees in whichever skills were most desired by host countries. When French military mobilization reduced the available agricultural manpower, ORT refugees provided labor, and also eased the immersion of these foreign workers into French society. ORT training activities. Group of men with suitcases w...

  6. Theodore Mattern family papers

    The collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other related documents, documenting the immigration of the Mattern (originally Matfus) family from Vienna, Austria in 1938-1939. Includes correspondence to Theodore Mattern, living in the United States, from his parents, Izak (Josef) and Olga, his grandmother, Leontine Loewy, and his sister, Kitty, during the various stages of their emigration from Europe, including the period that Mattern's parents spent in Shanghai prior to their immigration to the United States. Also includes photographs of the family during this period, earlier f...

  7. Debora Korolchuk Brenner papers

    The Debora Korolchuk Brenner papers include photographs taken in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp depicting Debora, her parents, family friends, and school groups, and an autograph book with signatures, notes, drawings, and pressed flowers collected by Debora Korolchuk while living the Föhrenwald DP camp.

  8. Nathan Schwalb collection

    The Nathan Schwalb collection includes correspondence, receipts, reports, and telegrams relating to Nathan Schwalb’s work as a union leader and delegate of the Hechalutz movement during World War II and his efforts to arrange rescue and aid operations. Correspondence and telegrams include letters and messages between Nathan and contacts, partners, and organizations regarding requests for aid, discussions of the ongoing operations, and updates on the war. Included in the correspondence are letters to Abraham Silberschein, representative of the Relief Committee for the War Stricken Jewish Pop...

  9. Ariel S. Cardoso papers

    1. Ariel S. Cardoso collection

    The Ariel S. Cardoso papers include identification papers, military papers, and photographs documenting Cardoso’s postwar emigration to Palestine and his military service in the Jewish Brigade. Identification papers include a displaced persons identification certificate, an Israel Labor Federation membership booklet, an Israeli identification card and passport, a driver’s license, a medical insurance booklet, and Israeli ration cards. Military papers include a copy of Cardoso’s attestation upon joining the Palestine regiment, his service and pay book, and his discharge book. Photographs dep...

  10. Pinchas Paul Hendel family papers

    1. Paul Hendel collection

    The collection includes photographs and correspondence relating to the Hendel family in Hrubieszów, Poland, identification cards, documents and pamphlets relating to immigration and naturalization, and an X-ray of Pinchas Paul from displaced persons camp.

  11. IRO Children's Village in Bad Aibling

    This personal film of the IRO Children's Village Bad Aibling in the American Zone of Germany was filmed by John Powelson, an AFSC worker assigned to the Children’s Village. Military vehicle driving past a sign pointing to “IRO Children's Village Bad Aibling IRO Area 7.” Children hold hands with adult men and women, probably in late winter 1949. 0:31 The woman in the green overcoat could be Wendy Elliott who coordinated kindergarten teachers and activities (this woman appears in several following scenes). Adults and teenagers pose for the camera and speak with one another in front of camp bu...

  12. Olec As told to Anne Marie Davies

    Memoir, typescript, 47 pages with photographs, as dictated by Alex Kozlowski to his niece, Anne Marie Davis. In the memoir, Kozlowski describes his childhood in Lwów, including his life there during the German occupation, his escape with his aunt to Warsaw, liberation, life in post-war Krakow and in displaced persons camps in Austria and Germany, and his immigration to the United States. He also describes his service in the United States Air Force from 1948 to 1968, including tours of duty with counter-intelligence corps in West Germany during the Cold War, and with a unit that rescued down...

  13. Liberation of Ebensee concentration camp: caring for sick survivors; crematorium

    (color) Traun Lake and castle in the town of Ebensee. Local Austrians. Roadside statue of Jesus. Town street scene, men walking, guest-house. CU, baby in carriage. Mountains. Good views of Ebensee concentration camp, electrified barbed wire fence, barracks. Men carry large pots of soup. Survivors walk past camera in striped uniforms, one is quite young. CUs, survivors, some with red triangles, eating. Pan, emaciated inmates, some lying on stretchers. American soldiers with the US Air Force and USAF ambulances in the BG. Soldiers (some African-Americans) help the sick on stretchers into ambu...

  14. Switzer family papers

    The collection documents the pre-war, wartime, and postwar experiences of the Switzer family, originally of Zagreb, Yugoslavia (Croatia) including their flight from Zagreb to Italy in 1941, their trek from Aprica, Italy to the Swiss border in 1943, and their immigration to the United States in 1949. Included are report cards of Arthur Switzer; identification papers including birth, citizenship, and marriage certificates; immigration and naturalization papers; and travel permits used to leave Zagreb for Italy in 1941. Also included is a photograph of Arthur, Frieda, and their son Steven Swit...

  15. US Foreign Service and diplomats; Good Neighbor Policy; recall of ambassador from Germany

    March of Time, Vol. 5, No. 4 (continuation of "The Foreign Service") Ambassadors at work abroad: Joseph P. Kennedy in London; William C. Bullitt in Paris (the "listening post for all of Europe"); George Wadsworth in Jerusalem; Joseph C. Grew in Japan; Nelson T. Johnson in China. The Jerusalem footage shows British soldiers, Jewish colonists, and an Arab man being frisked by a soldier. The narration says that the British government has had to send more soldiers to quell Arab attacks on Jews, most of whom are refugees already fleeing persecution. Title on screen: "No more vital problem faces ...

  16. Abraham and Mina Winiger papers

    The Abraham and Mina Winiger papers consist of identification papers, correspondence, and photographs documenting Abraham and Mina Winiger’s families before the Holocaust in Nadwórna, Poland, their survival, their postwar life in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp, and their efforts to receive restitution for their wartime suffering. The papers include two registration certificates for Abraham and Mina Winiger from the Jewish Agency for Palestine dated 1948; postwar letters from Ajzik Feder, Sara Rosenheck, the United Restitution Organization, and other friends made at Föhrenwald; and ph...

  17. Eva and Jack Lewin family papers

    1. Lewin family collection

    The Eva and Jack Lewin family papers consist of biographical material, family correspondence, emigration and immigration material, and photographic material documenting Eva Lewin’s Kindertransport in 1939, her life in the United Kingdom, and efforts to bring her brother to the United States, along with Jack Lewin’s time hiding in France and immigration to the United States. The collection also includes documents and correspondence regarding claims for property restitution and compensation for the Lifschitz family (Eva's family) as well as documents, correspondence, a photograph, and a Germa...

  18. Emanuel and Louise Suessmann papers

    1. Emanuel and Louise Suessmann family collection

    The Emanuel and Louise Suessmann papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, identification papers, and photographs documenting the Suessmanns, their family members in Leipzig and Maßbach, Charlotte Süssmann’s deportation to Theresienstadt, and Emanuel Suessmann’s service in the Military Intelligence Division in Germany during World War II. Biographical materials include birth certificates, certificates of good conduct, a vaccination certificate, a marriage certificate, a registration of address, photocopies of military certificates, an attestation of valued membership in the Jew...

  19. American soldiers move through Belgium and Germany

    Reel 11: (1945) Eupen, Belgium; Duren, Germany Aachen in ruins. Sign, "Deutsch Pilsener Aus Der Brauerei Decker Aachen." [Fedeli reports moving to Eilendorf, Germany through Aachen, Siegfried Line, and Duren in mid-March 1945 and then to Euskirchen.] Army trucks on the road. VAR shots of another city in ruins, a dead horse lies in the street. More ruins, planes fly overhead. Tanks and trucks, soldiers. More city views. HAS, group of boys with soldiers in the street. Truck, passing ruins, dead animals in a field. Signs, "Vamoose, Master Signal Depot #3 and Bonn, Remagen and Euskirchen; N56, ...

  20. Harry Ehrismann papers

    The Harry Ehrismann papers consist of an unbound scrapbook created by Ehrismann documenting the voyage of the MS St. Louis, its return to Europe, and the selection of passengers to be transferred to the Netherlands. The first folder includes correspondence; notes; a report by C.G. van Dalfsen and Gilles Hendrik van Helden (inspectors of the Municipal Police of Rotterdam) describing the selection of refugees to be welcomed by the Netherlands; a list of those passengers; a registration card for Hannelore Klein; and three name cards worn by passengers Hannelore Klein, Hilde Pander, and Martin ...