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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Morris Gastfreund papers

    The Morris Gastfreund papers consist of a certificate issued by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in the displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany, identifying Moszek Gastfreund (Morris) as a Polish Jew; a photograph of a protest rally in Landsberg am Lech, 1947; a photograph of Abram Gastfreund and co-workers in the Community Office of the Landsberg am Lech displaced persons camp (DC camp), 1948; and a photograph of Abram Gastfreund, his wife, Sally, and his son, Irving, in Landsberg am Lech DP camp in 1948.

  2. Werner and Rosa Sallisohn papers

    The collection documents the wartime experiences of Werner and Rosa Sallisohn, originally of Berlin, Germany, who lived as refugees in Shanghai, China from 1939-1947 before immigrating to the United States. Included are birth certificates, Chinese identification papers, immigration documents, business documents regarding a potential job opportunity in Argentina for Werner, and correspondence. Some of the correspondence is from Werner's half-sister Hildegard, who perished during the Holocaust.

  3. Maurice Laserson collection

    This collection includes personal papers of Maurice Laserson, a social worker involved with the resettlement of Jewish refugees. The papers reflect his work with the Obshchestvo remeslennogo i zemledelʹcheskogo truda sredi evreev (Soviet Union) (ORT) and his connections with the Australian Jewish colleagues. Includes reports, newspaper clippings, writings and publications by J.M. Machover, Walter Lippmann, Rabbi Schenk and his articles from 1937-57, as well as correspondence on the plight of German Jewish refugees, including James McDonald's correspondence about the Jews in Europe,1933-1934.

  4. Sybil Milton collection

    The collection consists of photocopies of archival records dealing with the immigration of Jews to the Philippine Islands or with the treatment of those within the Third Reich the Nazis deemed "non-Aryan." Also includes copies of documents pertaining to the mentally infirm and to the Red Army ambulance corps.

  6. UNRRA Council plans belief of world's needy

    Delegates and the UNRRA meeting in Jersey City, NJ. Herbert Lehman speaks on international understanding.

  7. Safe Haven, Inc. collection

    Safe Haven, Inc. conducted the interviews as part of a project documenting the testimonies of refugees from the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, NY.

  8. Henry Bein photographs

    Contains eight photographs from Feldafing and Fohrenwald.

  9. Benjamin and Genia Kutner photographs

    Contains two photographs taken in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp at a fundraising party for Kibbutz Nocham.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- US Army liberates Germany

    1251 B: Our Armed Forces now fight on German soil, December 17, 1944. GIs installed in foxholes in woods. Wrecked railway station in Hagenau, refugees in FG. US infantry passing over bridge from France to Germany. GI taking off "Adolf Hitler Strasse" sign. CU of inscription in German, "Jews, Democrats, and Bosheviks are the gravediggers of humanity..." Alsatian women (former Nazi prisoners) carry water. Women prisoners getting food. CU of Lt. Morris Goodwin. 1251 I: Sign for Strasburg. Tanks rolling into town. Vehicles on fire. Street sign, "Stadtmitte; Kehl 4 km." Refugees; Red Cross.

  11. British Federation of University Women

    The collection includes minute books and correspondence of the British Federation of University Women (BFUW), the Refugee sub-committee, relating to new applications for assistance, progress of cases, and case files of refugees assisted by the BFUW.

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jews seek help in Paris

    Comite Central d'Assistance aux Refugies Juifs, 5, Rue de la Durance, Paris. Branch of HICEM and American organization HIAS. Shot down along desks as committee's employees assist refugees with legal advice and other issues. Family group seated in chairs waiting their turn. Baby in woman's lap and two young girls. MLS of mostly men standing in line waiting to be seen, then MS and CU. MLS of committee offices ("consistoire Israel...") as people come out and walk past camera. Outside in FG is open gate in BG two men walk toward building, ring bell. Men walking down sidewalk, urban scene.

  14. Buchenwald during and after liberation

    Mostly military scenes, group shots of soldiers, tanks and jeeps driving over bridges. CU, corpses with lime. MS, soldier (back to camera) looking into black doorway, taking picture. CU, dressed corpses, in loose pile on ground, blood on ground. WS, enormous mounds of white substance. Collapsed building, soldiers walking on top. LS tank driving over and into plane wreckage in a field. Tank driving towards camera. CU, four soldiers in tank. Refugees walking along road with oxen and big carts covered. Refugees on country path, bikes laden with belongings.

  17. Volksdeutsch return to Germany from USSR

    Ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsch) return to Germany from the Soviet Union. Long line of horse-drawn carts traveling through heavy snow. The narration states that this is the largest emigration in modern times and that 135,00 ethnic Germans will arrive in Germany from Eastern Europe. Nazi officers greet refugees as they cross a bridge in their carts. These Volkdeutsch are from Volynia in Western Russia. Shot of a banner which reads "Grossdeutschland grüßt Euch [Greater Germany greets you]." Panning shot of many covered wagons with horses in a field. Shots of individual refugees wearing furs. The...

  18. Presentation by Kenneth Rosenbaum Goldsmith

    1. Kurt (Rosenbaum) Goldsmith family collection

  19. Memorial leaf for Patria victims

    One leaf, printed, with text in Hebrew, issued in the name of the "Mishmar Ha Yishuv," commemorating the victims of the sinking of the ship, S.S. Patria, in Haifa harbor, Palestine, on 25 November 1940. The ship was sunk by the explosion of a bomb, planted by members of the Haganah, who hoped to disable the ship so that it would not be able to transport over 1,000 refugees to a British-run internment camp in Mauritius. Instead, the explosion sank the ship, killing 267 passengers and injuring 172. This leaflet, issued as a memorial by the Haganah, in the name of the "Mishmar Ha Yishuv," reme...

  20. Bomb damage in Germany

    Various aerial shots of bombed military installations and marshalling yards. Bomb damage in Wiesbaden concentration camp. Damaged buildings in Wiesbaden. MLS trainer parked on airfield. Aerial shots of bomb damage in marshalling yards near Wiesbaden and destroyed town, bridge. Prison camp showing refugees in square. Bomb damaged train and buildings along track. Aerial shot of bomb damage in Durkheim, including town, marshalling yards. Bomb damage in Worms, Germany. Shots of bombed bridges in Frankfurt (hazy). Aerial shot of refugees in prison camp. Bomb damage in marshalling yards, building...