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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. UNRRA selected records AG-018-036 : Latin America-Procurement Offices

    Selected files of the Latin America Procurement Offices: Correspondence of the government officials of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Ecuador; financial reports and budget planning; displaced persons matters and press information.

  2. Archive of the Jewish Community Kreuzlingen Jüdische Gemeinde Kreuzlingen Archiv (1921-2009)

    Records of the Jüdische Gemeinde Kreuzlingen (Jewish Community Kreuzlingen). The collection consists of reports, statutes, circulars, payment receipts, accounting records, various administrative correspondence, and executive correspondence with political authorities, Jewish associations, and Zionist associations; correspondence and other documents on refugee aid, Zionist efforts, welfare commission, Christian-Jewish associations, Jewish cemetery Kreuzlingen-Bernrain, School and Youth Commission, Jewish Women's Association of Kreuzlingen, Jewish communities in Basel, Bern, Genf, Luzern, St, ...

  3. Sylvia Weiss collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the Aszknazy family before the war in Romania; the Weiss family in Hungary; Sylvia Aszknazy immediately after the liberation in German in 1945; Sylvia and her brother Leopold Aszknazy in their hometown in Romania in 1946 and later in the Ulm DP camp in Germany and during their journey to America in March 1948; Frank Weiss during his military service in the US Army; and Mr. Weiss's parents. Also includes a memoir, 29 pages, titled “Selected from Above,” by Sylvia (Cipora) Weiss.

  4. Tersch family papers

    The Tersch family papers contains German issued Jewish passports for Dr. Herman Tersch and his daughter Edith Tersch, dated May 1939, and official notification documents regarding the confirmation of Dr. Hermann Tersch and Edith Tersch’s residency in Vienna, Austria, undated. Also included is an Affidavit of Support dated June 24, 1939, filed by Raymond E. Law in Chicago, Illinois offering support for the Tersch family. The Tersch family papers include German issued Jewish passports for “Dr. Herman Israel Tersch” and “Edith Sara Tersch” dated May 8, 1939 and May 9, 1939. Official notificati...

  5. Nazi propaganda: anti-Polish

    This feature film opens in the German village of Emilienthal in the Polish district of Luzk in March 1939 as Polish authorities close a German school to turn it into a military police post. The teacher Maria Thomas constantly complains to the Polish mayor. Other Germans are angry about higher taxes for ethnic Germans and growing expropriations of land and houses. Maria's husband refuses to sing the Polish anthem and he is beaten up by Polish thugs who are said to thrive for the 'annihilation of...German pigs'. He dies because the police and the hospitals refuse to help Germans at all. Maria...

  6. Postwar devastation; opening of Nuremberg Trial; early Nazi party history, events, leaders

    Part 1 of GERMAN language version [corresponds to NARA reels 1 & 2] "Europa 1945" Panorama of war devastation: buildings and cities laid to waste, rubble, mother climbing out of trap door shelter with naked baby in arms, people in hunger and despair emerge from shelters, children running down steps, clambering for food, poverty, homeless people, begging for food, weeping woman. "Nuremberg 21 November 1945" EXT and INT Nuremberg Palace of Justice. CU, document announcing trial and listing the accused. Seating of International Military Tribunal. Chief US prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson pres...

  7. German advance; officers confer; German wounded; mail and packages at the front

    Reel 2: 00:00:00 German military advance with horse-drawn camouflaged artillery. Men digging holes. Troops advance on horseback. German soldier operates a radio; views of/from the radio tower. The camera pans across the landscape from the radio tower, a large column of smoke is visible in the distance, figures moving across an open field. Panning shots of a small military camp at the edge of a tree line; soldiers dig a trench, operate a radio. CU of a Russian prisoner (Asian features) digging a trench. 00:02.18 Group of men taken prisoner, in civilian clothing, caps. Marched off under guard...

  8. Helen and Willie Abraham photograph collection

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Helen Abraham (born Hencia Wagner) of Dąbrowica Mała, Leżajsk, Poland in the Ainring displaced persons camp and Willie Abraham of Vel'ky Rakovec, Czechoslovakia (present day Velykyi Rakovets, Zakarpat'ska Oblast, Ukraine) in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp. Included are photographs of Helen at Ainring and the munitions factory in Menden, Germany where she worked under a false identity; a letter written to Helen from her brother David Wagner in 1943 while he was in hiding before he was discovered and murdered by the Gestapo; photogr...

  9. Pawlowicz family papers

    The Pawlowicz family papers, circa 1920s-1950s, focus on the postwar experiences of Max and Rose Pohl. The papers include their displaced persons identification documents from Zeilsheim, Germany, two marriage certificates, and family photographs which include images of survivors and family members that did not survive the Holocaust. The collection includes identification documents for both Max and Rose Pohl. These documents include a temporary identification for Ruchla Tosk from Bergen-Belsen, 1945 and a A.E.F. D.P. Registration Record issued to Jewish displaced persons Ruchla Pawlowiec, Au...

  10. Artwork by communist resistance fighter Boris Taslitzky plus catalogue of Vichy exhibition on "Bolshevism"

    The collection consists of reproductions of a series of sketches and other artwork by Communist resistance fighter Boris Taslitzky after he was deported to Buchenwald, and a photo album of a 1942 Paris exhibit on “Bolshevism against Europe.”.

  11. County Jewish Committee in Tarnów Powiatowy Komitet Żydowski w Tarnowie (Sygn. 365)

    This collection contains materials refering to the everyday life of members of the Jewish committee in Tarnów and the functioning of the committee, including correspondence, a list of Jews living in Tarnów in 1949, a list of items in clothing store from 1947, as well as numerous financial documents regarding assistance provided.

  12. Erwin Tepper papers

    1. Erwin Tepper collection

    The Erwin Tepper papers consist of documents, correspondence, photographs, and writings, related to the immigration of Erwin Tepper and his parents to the United States from Austria, as a result of Nazi persecution, in 1939. In particular, the material documents how Erwin Tepper was selected as one of 50 children by American philanthropists Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, who sought to rescue Jewish children from Austria and resettle them in the United States. In addition to photographs of Tepper's family, and of his journey as one of the 50 children, the collection contains documents related to...

  13. Kleinfeld family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Isidor and Regina Kleinfeld and their children Hedda and Liane in Vienna, Austria including Isidor’s arrest after Kristallnacht and his brief imprisonment in the Dachau concentration camp, the family’s emigration from Austria in 1939 to Cuba and to the United States in 1940. Included are biographical material regarding education, employment, and Isidor’s restitution claims against the Hamburg-Amerika Line; immigration paperwork regarding efforts to leave Austria, their stay in Cuba, and the process of receiving visas to immigrate to ...

  14. Hannah Deutch papers

    1. Hannah Kronheim Deutch collection

    The Hannah Deutch papers consist of photographs and personal items relating to Hannah’s family prior to World War II. Hannah escaped Germany via a Kindertransport and eventually became a nurse in London during the war. Contained in the papers are photo albums of Hannah’s youth, vacations, and family portraits. The personal items contain various documents such as Hannah’s marriage certificate, the passenger list for the ship her mother travelled on when she immigrated to Chile in 1939, her great-grandmother’s prayer book from 1884, and a song sheet from her synagogue. Also included are post-...

  15. Stern and Pächter family papers

    The Stern and Pächter family papers include biographical material, correspondence, testimonies, cookbooks, poems, and documents relating to Mina Pächter, Anny Stern, and their family’s experiences in Prague and Theresienstadt. The collection includes a document instructing Mina to report to Theresienstadt, copies of Mina’s biography and the Pächter family tree, letters from Mina to her daughter, Anny, and one of her sister, Red Cross letters from Mina to her son-in-law Georg and from Josef Stern to Fritz Lederer, copies of transcripts of Anny Stern and Elisabeth Laufer’s oral testimony, a c...

  16. Epstein family collection

    The Epstein family collection, circa 1920-1979, includes official documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the family’s experiences during World War II. The majority of the collection relates to Julian Epstein (1889-1943), a Jewish opera singer and jeweler, who was imprisoned in a series of French internment camps and died at the Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp in Poland. The collection includes a series of letters between Julian and his wife Margarete (1898-1988) written between 1938 and 1943. The collection also contains photographs of the Epstein family before and after ...

  17. Joseph Birnberg and Mania Nussenbaum Birnberg papers

    The collection includes documents and photographs relating to the Holocaust-era experiences of Joseph Birnberg, originally of Kołomyja, Poland (Kolomyi︠a︡, Ukraine), including his wartime work in the Ural region of Russia, his postwar work with the American Joint Distribution Committee in Salzburg, Austria, his marriage to Mania Nussenbaum, and their immigration to the United States. Also included are a small amount of documents and photographs related to Mania, originally of Zborów, Poland (Zboriv, Ukraine), in the New Palestine DP camp in Salzburg. Biographical materials include documents...

  18. Miodownik family papers

    1. Miodownik family collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Anne Miodownik and her mother Bina Miodownik, both of whom survived the Holocaust in hiding after escaping the Srodula ghetto in Sosnowiec, Poland. Papers include documents regarding Erich Siudmok and his wife Gertruda Siudmok, Polish citizens who helped Anne and her family; a document certifying that Bina was a victim of fascism; passenger tickets for the SS Ernie Pyle, 1947; copy print of U.N. Our Hope sheet music with a photograph of Anne and Bina on the cover; a translation of testimony given by Bina, and a copy of a speech given...

  19. Herzog family papers

    The Herzog family papers include photographs, correspondence, and a birth certificate documenting the Herczog family from Érsekújvár (now Nové Zámky, Slovakia, formerly in Czechoslovakia and Hungary) and from Nagybörzsöny, Hungary. The collection includes correspondence and postcards written to Tibor (Avigdor) Herczog in the Hungarian forced labor camps in Köszeg and Ripinye (now Repenye, Ukraine) between October 1943 and February 1944, as well as letters from family members in Italy (Fiume and Trieste) and Palestine. The collection also includes pre-war and post-war Herczog and Bacsi famil...

  20. Percy Brand papers

    1. Percy Brand collection

    The collection documents the life and musical career of Percy (Perec) Brand, a violinist originally from Liepāja, Latvia, who was imprisoned in the Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps during the Holocaust. The material primarily relates to his post-war life in the Kibbutz Buchenwald and Zeilsheim displaced persons camps, as well as his musical career in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Included are biographical materials, sheet music, programs, photographs, and audio recordings. The biographical material includes an address book, clippings, a small amount of correspondence, his ...