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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Egon Berg papers

    The Egon Berg papers consist of biographical materials and emigration and immigration papers documenting the marriage of Karl and Rosa Berg, their relocation to Kenya with Egon in 1939, and their immigration to the United States in 1947. Records include a wedding certificate, Rosa Berg’s German identification card and Kenyan certificate of registration, Kenyan customs forms, orders and restrictions to which the Bergs were subject in Kenya, and a letter of recommendation in lieu of passport for the Berg family.

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938 Chaim Weizmann & others

    02:28:16 EXT of The Daniel Sieff Research Institute at Rehovot. INT scenes, Dr. Chaim Weizmann's lab, research, main entrance, name of institute. Dr. Weizmann leaving the Institute by car in company of Brig. Harrison, Commander of the Sarafand Army Base and 2) with Gen. Haining, Commander in Chief of British troops in Palestine. 02:29:54 City walls of Jerusalem, convoy/vehicles at bottom of hill, pedestrians walking on road. Western wall. 02:30:39 Jerusalem street scenes, automobiles and pedestrians. 02:30:58 Dr. Weizmann leaving the Sieff Institute by car with Gen. Haining, Commander in Ch...

  3. The Jolly Boys recordings

    Side A: Kabootar (Khatibi) ["La Paloma" by Sebastian de Iradier (c. 1860)] - Columbia G.P. 107/CO 189. Side B: Yasseman (Fakoor) ["Solamente una vez" by Agustin Lara (1941)] - Columbia G.P. 107/CO 191. An instrumental recording featuring Polish popular jazz band, "The Jolly Boys," exiled to Iran. The performers include Stanislaw Sperber, Sonia Vartanian, Ghanbary, F. Socolow, and Igo Krischer. The Jewish band found unexpected sanctuary in Tehran, where they had been invited to perform at the future Shah’s wedding party (in the summer of 1939), and where they continued to perform as a group ...

  5. The General Jewish Workers' Federation "Bund" in Lithuania, Poland and Russia Ogólnożydowski Związek Robotniczy „Bund” na Litwie, w Polsce i w Rosji (Sygn.334)

    This collection contains records of the activities of the the Central Committee of the Jewish Workers Federation "Bund" in Poland and abroad between 1945-1949. Includes circulars, reports, resolutions and conference papers. minutes of the meetings and plenum of the „Bund”. Also includes a list of Bund members, questionnaires of participants of the jubilee anniversary in 1947, general lists of members paying various types of contributions; documents of local departments from 42 cities, protocols, reports and correspondence of individual branches, there are also membership declarations filled...

  6. Selected records of the town Włoszczowa Akta miasta Włoszczowa (Sygn. 1809) : Wybrane materialy

    Correspondence concerning schooling and out of school education, emigration and re-emigration of refugees, minutes of sessions of the Municipal Government and Municipal Council, budgets and reports, population books of permanent inhabitants of town of Włoszczowa, and the list of people murdered by the Germans in Włoszczowa and Krasocin, 1941-1942. The list includes 105 people.

  7. Hand-colored glass slide

    1. Julien Bryan collection

    Polish refugees leave Warsaw on a horse-drawn wagon loaded with their personal property during the German siege of the capital.

  8. Selected records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Angers Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych w Angers (Sygn.768)

    Selected materials include protocols, speeches and transcripts of meetings I-XI of the National Council of the Republic of Poland in Angers, France in 1940. Part of speeches and presentations is related to the persecution of Polish and Jewish people in occupied Poland. One of the members and a participant in the meetings was Ignacy Schwarzbart, a prominent Polish Zionist.

  9. Mondschein family photograph collection

    The Mondschein family photograph collection contains five photograph albums relating to the Mondschein and Leniower families in Poland prior to the World War II, and their post-war time in the displaced persons camp near Steyr, Austria, 1946-1949.

  10. Anna Prager photographs

    1. Anna Friedman Prager collection

    The collection consists of photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Anna Prager (born Chana Frydman) and her family, originally of Chmielnik, Poland. Included are depictions of Anna as a child in Chmielnik, her maternal aunts and uncles, her father Ick Frydman in the Polish Army in August 1939, her family's escape to Siberia and later Uzbekistan, the Frydman and Sylman families in Kielce, Poland, on February 20, 1946, Anna and her family in in Sweden from 1946 to 1949, and Anna’s maternal grandmother and Aunt Chava.

  11. Lt. Col. George R. Snyder papers

    1. Lt. Col. George R. Snyder collection

    The collection primarily consists of postwar photographs taken between 1945 and 1947 by Lt. Col. George R. Snyder documenting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Landsberg prison, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Subjects include the Camp New Orleans, German and Polish POWs, refugees, landscapes, and destroyed buildings and towns. Also included is his passport and letters from George to his mother Louise Snyder, his son James, and his wife.

  12. Central Historical Commission : Post-War documentation (M.1.S)

    The collection contains 7793 questionnaires. Information for questionnaires were gathered by the The Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone, Munich) from a large number of Holocaust survivors. This data concern the estimated number of Jews before the war in their communities, the number of Jewish victims, destroyed and robbed Jewish property, slave labor, concentration camps, and the like.

  13. Die Moorsoldaten The Soldiers of the Moor

    1. "Music of the Holocaust" web exhibition

    The 5,000 inmates of the Börgermoor concentration camp, mostly political prisoners, labored in the wetlands near the Dutch border, extracting peat (a fossil fuel) from the marshy soil. To add to their ordeal, Nazi guards would force the prisoners to sing cheerful songs during their two-hour march to and from the moor. A group of prisoners retaliated by writing a song that truthfully reflected the workers' situation. Introduced in August 1933, The Soldiers of the Moor, with its catchy melody and evocative lyrics, became an immediate hit among camp inmates. The camp guards also enjoyed the so...

  14. Khotsh Though

    1. "Music of the Holocaust" web exhibition

    The song was written by Zelik Barditshever (1898-1937), an itinerant teacher, poet, and playwright from Belts, Bessarabia (present-day Bălții, Moldava). Collected by the Yiddish writer Leibu Levin, it first appeared in a volume of Barditshever's works published in Czernowitz, Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine) in 1939.

  15. Friedrich and Ruth Frankenthal papers

    The Friedrich and Ruth Frankenthal papers consist of birth, marriage, and American naturalization certificates for Fred and Ruth Frankenthal; a German passport (stamped with a “J”) for Fred and Robert Frankenthal; and a photograph album with photographs and family trees tracing the Frankenthal family and their Frankenthal, Herz, and Ephraim ancestors from Moisling, Braunschweig, and Hamburg back to the beginning of the 19th century and tracing their Leon ancestors from Hagenow back to 17th century rabbi Abraham Abele Gombiner.

  16. Ebensee concentration camp (survivors and soldiers); Generals meeting

    (B-1205) Concentration Camp, Ebensee, Austria, May 8, 1945. MCU, body placed in furnace of crematorium. CU, naked corpse (pan of body from feet to head). MSs, CUs, men unloading cart of corpses, carrying bodies into crematorium on stretchers. Mountain range in BG. Two boys in uniforms sleeping on bench with luggage between them. MS, three men unloading bread from truck into building. LS, EXT, storage, former prisoners and Allied guards milling about, guarding door with guns. Priest talking to soldiers. LS, Vista/landscape. MS, CUs, several naked, starved inmates too weak to walk or move bei...

  17. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Yonne

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn35836
    • English
    • 1921-1947
    • 15,255 digital images, JPEG 5 microfilm reels, 16 mm 1 microfilm reel, 35 mm 2 CD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in. 25 pages of photocopies,

    This collection contains records of the internment and forced labor of Roma in the rural area of the Yonne; the former Saint-Maurice-aux-Riches-Hommes train station, used to intern refugees from the Spanish Civil War and subsequently Roma; the internment in Saint-Denis-lès-Sens of Jews, Roma, and foreigners expelled from coastal "zones interdites"; the internment in Vaudeurs of "subversives" and black-marketeers; the use of the jail in Auxerre as way-station for Jews being sent to Drancy; and the internment in the Caserne Goué military barracks in Auxerre of accused Nazi collaborators after...

  18. Selected records from various archives of Romania concerning Roma

    This collection documents deportations of 25,000 Roma to Transnistria in 1942: contains lists of Roma to be deported; police reports concerning alleged criminal activities; petitions of deportees for repatriation; “Romanianization” of Romas’ property; requests from local officials for clarification of deportation orders; internal correspondence concerning the effect of deportations on the remaining population; decisions regarding Roma refugees from Northern (Hungarian) Transylvania; and other topics such as typhus outbreaks, “vagabondism,” “concubinism,” and mixed marriages.

  19. Prefettura di Napoli, Gabinetto, II versamento Selected records from State Archives in Naples

    Selected records concerning the discrimination and persecution of Jews in the community of Naples, Italy. Including records related to Jewish refugees, discrimination as a result of racial laws, census of Jews (1938-1943), mixed marriages and marriages to foreigners, and personal files of Jews from the Police Headquarters in Naples. Finding aids include two large databases that contain hundreds of names of Italian Jews from the Naples region.

  20. Refugee children

    This story contains the last minute of an 11 minute documentary piece. Children listening to radio (staged), narration in English. Scenes from Julien Bryan's "Siege of Warsaw". Malnourished children, Russian children.