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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Records of the Sociedad Israelita de Paysandú

    Records of the Sociedad Israelita de Paysandú (Israelite Society of Paysandú), Uruguay. Includes correspondence, minutes of sessions; reports and other office documents, 1945-1948.

  2. Private Nazi films; ice sailing; Jews with armbands in Poland (color); Roma camp

    Material from Götz Hirt-Reger. Some parts with title cards in German. Air rifle shooting, women's sport, men's sports, man limps, stadium sports competitions, lunch table. Family, dog, garden, Leipzig. Agriculture, grain harvest in Saxony, hunting. 10:54:41 1943. Ice sailing on the Rangsdorfer See. 11:00:19 German withdrawal in Russia, mud, stuck vehicles, riders. City, bomb damage, Dornier whale. Russia, soldiers hunt pig, tanks. 11:17:17 RAD camp (color). Brief shot, Jews performing hard labor. 11:17:49 Title card: "Warschau ost-Einfahrt" City views, rubble, Jews with armbands (color), ar...

  3. Selected records, Obóz Koncentracyjny w Buchenwaldzie Konzentrationslager Buchenwald (GK 127)

    Orders of the camp commandant, statistics, alphabetical list of refugees, interrogations of prisoners, personal files, list of clerical prisoners, transport lists, Effektenkammer files, lists of deceased prisoners, daily reports of the camp hospital, name lists of prisoners numbers: 43001-51000; 59001-121400; 128401-140068; a fragment of the personal files of Polish prisoners who arrived at the camp in April 1945, card files of prisoners No. 1-1201; Veraenderungsmeldungs (reports on changes in the number of prisoners in the camp).

  4. Registration lists of the Polish citizens and ethnic Poles repatriated from the Soviet Ukraine to Poland (Fond 3229)

    The collection contains case files and registration lists of Polish citizens and ethnic Poles who applied for repatriation to Poland from Soviet Ukraine. Registration lists include the names of the returnees, gender, nationality, date of birth, marital status, place of residence, occupation and description of movable personal property (cattle, agricultural tools and machinery, etc.). The repatriation of Polish citizens and ethnic Poles was carried out under the auspices of the L’viv Regional Office of the Chief Representative of the Government of Soviet Ukraine on Repatriation Issues. This ...

  5. Szymon Burg family papers

    1. Eugenia Josefsberg Burg collection

    Contains 24 photographs, dated circa 1914-1949, and documents relating to the Szymon Burg family of Boryslaw (Galicia), Poland. Documents include typed post-war testimonies, registration documents for Central Committee of Polish Jews, and paperwork prepared for restitution purposes, including affidavits from friends of Szymon and Eugene Burg living in Israel, who confirmed the veracity of their stories.

  6. Association of Jewish Merchants and Craftsmen, Vienna Verband der jüdischen kaufleute und handwerker, Wien (Fond 1191)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    This collection contains various office records of the Association of Jewish Merchants and Craftsmen in Vienna, Austria: correspondence; minutes of board meetings and general meetings of the membership; records pertaining to the association's publication "Die Wirtschaft"; and financial records. Includes also questionnaires about association member’s professions; issues of the Vienna commercial and industrial newspaper and of the Czechoslovakian economic bulletin “Vestnik”; and informational bulletin of the Austrian Chamber of Exports. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  7. Central Office for Austrian Emigrants, Paris Zentrale Vereinigung österreichischer Emigranten, Paris (Fond 542)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    This collection contains various documents about the terms of reference of the Central Office, which functioned as a clearinghouse of information for emigrants. Topics include the activities of Austrian expatriates, events in Austria, and the experience of Austrian prisoners in camps such as Buchenwald and Dachau. Types of documents include press clippings, letters, reports, manuscripts, periodical articles and bulletins of the Central Office. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  8. World Organization against Racial Hatred and Poverty (Vienna) Weltorganisation gegen Rassenhaß und Menschennot (Harandbewegung), Wien (Fond 520)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Contains bylaws, memoranda, minutes, instructions, and appeals of the Weltorganisation gegen Rassenhass und Menschennot (World Organization against Racial Hatred and Poverty); biographical information on the organization's leader, Irene Harand; applications to join the organization; correspondence with subscribers to the newspaper "Gerechtigkeit" (organized by country), lists of subscribers; correspondence on providing aid to the Jewish population of Vienna; letters of invitations to Harand; proposals for publication, orders for journals and books; articles on the situation of Jews; a card ...

  9. I'm An American -- Johannes Steele

    1. "I'm An American" NBC radio broadcasts

    On April 13, 1941 Johannes Steele spoke with Mr. Edward Shaughnessy, Deputy Commissioner of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, about democracy and his hope for a united Europe. Johannes Steele explains why he chose America as his adopted country, as well as the importance of democracy and small town newspapers. The columnist states the American public is the best informed because American journalists have the most rights in the world. Steels discusses his prediction of the war in his book, "The Second World War." He also references how European refugees, who have conf...

  10. Complete Israelite cookbook with consideration of French and Bohemian cuisine, as well as Easter cuisine Cookbook, Vollständiges israelitisches Kochbuch, owned by Clara Gutmann

    Jewish cookbook that belonged to Herbert’s mother, Clara Gutmann. The book was written by Marie Kauders and published in Prague (now Prague, Czech Republic) by Jakob B. Brandeis in 1898. The book is part of a collection documenting the experiences of Herbert Gutmann and the Gutmann family in Germany and their immigration to the United Kingdom and the United States before and during WWII.

  11. Wilhelm Fuchs papers

    The Wilhelm Fuchs papers include a Reisepass (German passport), alien registration card, and part of a United States visa application for Wilhelm Fuchs, who immigrated from Germany with his wife, Katchen, in June 1941, via Havana, Cuba.

  12. Rattner and Breindler families papers

    1. Rattner and Breindler families collection

    The Rattner and Breindler families papers consist of biographical materials and correspondence documenting the families of Beno Rattner and Edith Breindler in Vienna, the couple’s lives and marriage in England, and their parents’ unsuccessful efforts to emigrate. Biographical materials include Beno’s German passport, two of Edith’s British passports, birth and registration records, Beno’s World War II military papers, and certificates documenting the deportation of Beno’s parents. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Beno and Edith in England from their parents in Vienna. The letters ...

  13. Margosis family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Isaac Margosis and his wife Schendel Brotman who fled Brussels, Belgium with their children Anna, Willy, and Michel in 1940. Included are letters to Isaac and Schendel, living as refugees in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, from Anna and Willy in Barcelona, Spain (1944) and Palestine (1944-1948); correspondence and writings regarding Isaac’s journalism career; identification papers including Schendel’s Persian (Iran) passport and refugee IDs from Caldas da Rainha; correspondence related to family history; and restitution paperwork.

  14. UNRRA selected records AG-018-012 : Washington DC Headquarters

    Selected files of the UNRRA Washington DC Headquarters: files on the European Mission, the Displaced Persons Division, the Welfare Division and Branches, history of the UNRRA; files of personnel recruitment, status, regulations, trainings, salary and causalities, decorations and awards, staff visits to Europe, China and Middle East; files on the UNESCO Staffing and Fellowship Programs, the voluntary agencies, economic recovery and educational rehabilitation, finance and administration, clothing and food collection, minutes of meetings of various Committees and UNRRA Council sessions, report...

  15. Quaker relief work in France

    Title card, cut off: “no means clear: problems of immense complexity remain. The wounds go deeper than we often know.” Cars drive around Place Vendome. The Pantheon. “Paris! Spared as few other capitals in Europe. A feast of beauty to the eye, but a cloak that hides the sufferings of France.” Civilians on the streets. Bridges over the Seine. A map of France, highlighting Le Havre, Caen, Montauban, Toulouse, Perpignan, Marseilles, Paris. An incoming train. A sign for Montauban. A bridge over the Tarn River. “Quaker Relief in Montauban is typical of services in many French cities. Undernouris...

  16. Map of Theresienstadt drawn by an inmate while in the camp

    Map given to Max and Johanna Liebmann by Bedrich Borges, whose brother Erik drew the map while interned at Theresienstadt concentration camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia. The artist told his brother that he drew the sketch under the orders of the SS command in the camp. The sketch is marked as an air raid shelter, however, the intended use was as a gas chamber. Erik was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and killed in 1944.

  17. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee

    Calling card for Ruth Phillip found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  18. War Rushes Through the Land Child's depiction of an imagined aerial battle drawn by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Fred Vendig family collection

    Sketch of an imaginary aerial battle done by Fritz Vendig, 12, when he was living as a refugee from Nazi Germany in Maur, Switzerland, with his parents, Ernst and Charlotte, and younger brother Heiner. In the mid-1930s, Ernst's business was taken from him when it was Aryanized, or cleansed of Jews. In November 1938, Ernst was arrested during Kristallnacht. After his release, they prepared to leave. On May 13, 1939, the family, along with Ernst's mother Pauline, sailed for Cuba on the MS St. Louis. Cuban authorities refused entry to nearly all passengers. Appeals were made to the Cuban and U...

  19. Portrait of a pipe smoking man interned at Gurs drawn by another inmate

    1. Fred Vendig family collection

    Pencil portrait of his father Ernst with pipe and beret owned by Fred Vendig. It was done by an unknown inmate when Ernst was imprisoned at Gurs internment camp in France in 1940. A few years after the Nazi dictatorship took power in Germany in 1933, Ernst's business was taken from him when it was Aryanized, or cleansed of Jews. In November 1938, Ernst was arrested during Kristallnacht. On May 13, 1939, Ernst, wife Charlotte, and sons Fritz, 7, and Heiner, 2, and his mother Pauline sailed for Cuba on the MS St. Louis. Cuban authorities refused entry to nearly all passengers. Appeals were ma...

  20. Matchbook cover with a printed appeal to not buy Nazi goods

    American matchbook acquired by Max Beer, who arrived in Canada in 1949 following his birth in a displaced persons camp in Germany. The matchbook was produced by the Jewish War Veterans of the United States as part of a 1933 boycott of German imports and has the slogan “For Humanity’s Sake: Don’t Buy Nazi Goods.” In spring 1941, Max’s father, Leo Beer, escaped from the Krakow ghetto in Poland, and joined the Soviet Army. In March 1942, Max’s mother, Gitla Paris Einzenberg (later Beer), was transported from the Radom ghetto in Poland, to a forced labor camp in Poland, and then deported to ano...