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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Territorial collection on France, Holocaust period (RG-116, France II)

    The collection relates to the situation of the Jews in France during German occupation. The collection pertains number of subjects including: anti-Jewish legislation enacted by the Vichy regime, general situation of the Jews in France, deportations, situation in the internment and concentration camps, religious, cultural and everyday life in the camps, the resistance movement, protests against anti-Jewish persecution, clandestine press, legal press, identification cards including the production of false identification documents as part of the resistance movement.

  2. Selected records from the Sigtuna Foundation in Sweden

    Records from a hospital, set up in Sigtuna, Sweden, in 1945, which cared for about 1200 patients who had been released from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. The collection includes photographs of patients and nurses, administrative and organizational records, including pages from the Statement of Operations, newspaper clippings, including an article in a college magazine about the hospital, as well as materials from Marthe Rydback, who worked as a nurse at the hospital, including a copy of an emblem of the hospital, a visitor book with signatures of the patients, photographs, Christmas...

  3. Georg Guggenheim papers Nachlass Dr. iur. Georg Guggenheim (1897-1987)

    Private papers of Georg Guggenheim (1897-1987), a Jewish lawyer and active member of Jewish Community in Zürich. The collection consists of personal documents: passports, certificates, CV, condolences on the death of Georg Guggenheim, private correspondence, congratulations on birthdays; correspondence and other documents by his wife, Josi Guggenheim (1900 to 2005); official correspondence and documents on the Israelitischen Cultusgemeinde (ICZ), and Georg Guggenheim's presidency, 1917-1953, to become a member of the Central-Comité in the Business Committee, as well as the management of the...

  4. Lista Family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Jerry Lista (born Israel Cymbalista) in displaced persons camps near Munich, Germany; his immigration to the United States in 1951; his marriage to Gyta Szmulewicz (later Judy Lista) in 1958; and Judy’s immigration to the United States. Also included is a document regarding Jerry’s leg amputation after getting shot and left for dead on a death march in 1945. Photographs include pre-war depictions of the Cymbalista and Szmulewicz families, Jerry in a DP camp, and Judy in Israel. Additionally, there is a Dachau DP identification card o...

  5. Transit pass used prewar by a Jewish refugee

    1. Erwin Tepper collection

    Transit pass used by Juda Ber Tepper in prewar Vienna.

  6. Fröhlich and Judas families papers

    1. Harry Froehlich and Isaak Judas families collection

    Collection consists of photographs from the family of Harry Frohlich (born Harald Fröhlich), originally of Vienna, Austria, and his wife, Inge (née Judas) Frohlich, originally of Ihringen, Germany. Includes a certificate from Schaffhausen, Switzerland, recognizing Harald Fröhlich's contributions as an agricultural worker during World War II, a photograph of him repairing typewriters, circa 1940s, and one photograph album of the Fröhlich family, with photographs from both before and after their emigration from Austria, circa 1930s-1940s. Also included are photographs of the Judas family, cir...

  7. John William Fisher papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of John Fisher (formally Hanus Fischer) and his family, originally from Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, and his mother Martha Fischer’s (née Schwarz) family of Pilsen and Cham, Germany. Biographical material of the Fischer and Schwarz families includes identification documents; birth, marriage, and death certificates; report cards; restitution paperwork; employment papers; passport; and Josef Fischer’s naturalization certificate. Correspondence primarily consists of pre-war and wartime letters from Josef and his family in Pilsen and Budapest to...

  8. Ernst Schlochauer papers

    Certificates, correspondence, memoir, typescript texts, clippings, and ephemera, primarily related to the educational career of German emigre Ernst Schlochauer, after his immigration to the United States in 1941. Includes notes, syllabi, clippings, programs, and correspondence from his years a student at Queens College and Princeton University, and later material from when Schlochauer was a faculty members at Queens College. Extracurricular activities are documented in materials related to Jewish organizations he participated in during his student days, and programs and notes from plays he ...

  9. Kahan family papers

    Correspondence, documents, certificates, and related materials, concerning the immigration of the family of Eugene (Jenö) Kahan, originally of Munkacs, Hungary (Mukachevo, Ukraine), and his wife, Gizella, and their daughters, to the United States via Paraguay, after World War II. Documents include identification and marriage documents issued in Hungary following the war, documents issued by the consulate of Paraguay in Czechoslovakia, and correspondence between American agencies, including the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the office of U.S. Senator Theodore Green of Rhode Isl...

  10. Lübschütz and Urman families papers

    The Lübschütz and Urman families papers consist of documents and correspondence of the Lübschütz and Urman families, formerly of Schönebeck, Germany and Vienna, Austria, and later of the United States. Included is a certificate awarding Julius Lübschütz the Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer (Honor Cross); a Kinderausweis (child identity document) issued to Jutta Lübschütz (later Judy Urman); a copy of a document issued by the Japanese Consulate-General permitting Jutta Lübschütz entry to Shanghai; a postwar postcard from the Red Cross informing the Lübschütz family that Ruth Lübschütz Nathan was ...

  11. Jacob Kriegel papers

    The collection documents the efforts of American Jacob Kriegel, originally of Nadworna, Poland, to assist with family and friends in Poland and Israel trying to immigrate to the United States during the Holocaust and afterwards. The bulk of the collection contains affidavits written by Kriegel, wartime financial and related documents including his efforts to help other local businesses encourage their workers to purchase war bonds, and correspondence. There is significant correspondence from Anna and Max Hutt, his only relatives in Europe, along with their daughter Zimmia, who survived the ...

  12. Walter and Edith Schiff papers

    The Walter and Edith Schiff papers include biographical materials, correspondence, a diary, and photographs illustrating the pre-war and wartime experiences of Walter and Edith Schiff, originally of Berlin, Germany. Edith was sent to Camp de Gurs in France where she was assigned to work in an office, and Walter escaped while being transported between camps. The couple was reunited in France and hid in the basement of a Catholic church until liberation. Biographical materials include birth certificates for Ernest Moser, Edith Moser, Julius Schiff, and Walter Schiff, a marriage certificate an...

  13. Friedrich Günser correspondence

    Correspondence sent and received by Friedrich Günser, originally of Vienna, Austria, who was interned by the British as an enemy alien in the early years of World War II, first in Camp Mooragh on the Isle of Man, and then at Camp Tatura in Australia. Includes one postcard from Günser's wife, Lilly (Cölestine), sent from Vienna (August 1940); a letter from Günser to relatives in New York (June 1940); an empty envelope that had contained a letter from Günser's father, Jakob, sent from Vienna (October 1941), and three letters from Günser to his wife Lilly (October 1941, January-February 1943),...

  14. Marsha and Robert Kreuzman papers

    1. Marsha and Robert Kreuzman collection

    The collection consists of documents and photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences of Marsha (née Grünberg) and Robert Kreuzman, both of whom survived the Krakow ghetto and several camps including the Mauthausen concentration camp. Documents include Marsha’s parent’s wedding announcement; certificates and recommendations regarding Marsha’s work as a nurse in Mauthausen and the Bindermichl DP camp, 1945-1947; identification cards, and a copy of a letter sent to Senator Richard Russell on Marsha’s behalf regarding her immigration to the United States. Photographs include pre and post wa...

  15. Sara Szrojt papers

    The Sara Szrojt papers are comprised of documents and photographs collected by Sara during her incarceration in a Soviet forced labor camp and in the years before and after. The documents consist primarily of postcards from Sara’s mother and father written in 1941 shortly before they went into hiding in Lublin. Also among the documents is a marriage certificate for Chana and Jankiel, reissued in 1946. The photographs depict the Szrojt family and friends before and after the war in Lublin and images of a Jewish cooperative of upholsterers and curtain-makers in Wrocław, Poland c. 1950. Some o...

  16. Wiener-Schoen family photographs

    1. Henry and Sally Wiener collection

    The Wiener-Schoen family photograph collection consists of twelve photographs depicting the Wiener family in Chorzów, Poland, before World War II and during their time as refugees; the Schoen family's rescuers; and both families in Nowy Wiśnicz, Poland, during World War II.

  17. Henry and Sally Wiener photographs

    1. Henry and Sally Wiener collection

    The collection consists of four photographs depicting Sally and Henry Wiener in the displaced persons camp Fürth Bei Nürnberg in Fürth, Germany including a wedding photograph of Sally and Henry. One of the photographs shows Henry Wiener in the table tennis team at the camp, and another photograph shows Henry Wiener as a member of the camp's soccer team.

  18. Bernard Lee papers

    1. Bernard Lee collection

    Contains documents and photographs pertaining to Bernard Lee's Holocaust experiences. Includes photographs of his extended family who perished during the Holocaust as well as photographs of Bernard Lee after his liberation from Dachau.

  19. Bernard Lee papers

    1. Bernard Lee collection

    Consists of documents relating to Bernard Lee (formerly Berek (Bernhard) Lieberman) and the Lieberman family of Łódź, Poland. Among the documents are birth certificates of the Lieberman children, photographs of family gatherings, and documents issued by occupation authorities after the liberation of Dachau concentration camp.

  20. Jean Crouzet papers

    1. Gaston Crouzet collection

    The papers consist of a document that lists the names of prisoners in Flossenbürg concentration camp and statistics regarding their death and a document written by Dr. Gaston Crouzet and another doctor regarding the repatriation of French survivors of Flossenbürg concentration camp.