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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Braunwasser family papers

    1. Inge Braunwasser Steinberger family collection

    The Braunwasser family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and restitution files documenting the Braunwasser family in prewar Vienna, Inge Braunwasser's immigration to the United States as one of the "50 children" rescued by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, her parents' immigration shortly after, and their new life in Alice, Texas. Biographical materials include identification papers; birth, marriage, naturalization, and death certificates; student records; employment records and letters of recommendation; name change records in accordance with Nazi laws about J...

  2. Bernard Frum papers

    The collection, spanning 1939-1992, consists of one memoir and a diary chiefly documenting life in France leading to and including war. The memoir of Renée de Monbrison (September 1939 to August 1944) is a bound copy typed in French. Entries describe time spent in Biarritz, an arrest in Hossegor, plans of fleeing to England, and her attempts to save her aunt, Loulou Warshawsky, from a camp near Tours. The memoir also includes copies of letters, documents, clippings, and post-war writings. Also included in the collection is one memoir typed in English by Colette Cahen d'Anvers Moore, entitle...

  3. Bath towel acquired by Polish Jewish woman after her escape during a forced march from Ravensbrück

    1. Frances and Julian Hirshfeld family collection

    Bath towel used by Franka Rosenblum, 25, that she stole from a Burgermeister's house in Sachsendorf, Germany, in April 1945 after her escape during a death march from Ravensbrueck concentration camp. She also took a blanket, 1993.27.33, a dress, and a blouse. Franka and her family lived in Zawiercie, Poland, which was invaded by Germany in September 1939. She was a forced laborer in a steel mill and involved with the resistance movement. On August 26, 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where she was shaved, given rags to wear, and tattooed with the number 56362. She worked in a ho...

  4. Wool blanket with a black, red, and cream plaid pattern acquired by a Polish Jewish woman after her escape during a forced march from Ravensbrück

    1. Frances and Julian Hirshfeld family collection

    Plaid wool blanket used by Franka Rosenblum, 25, that she stole from a Burgermeister's house in Sachsendorf, Germany, in April 1945 after her escape during a death march from Ravensbrueck concentration camp. She also took a towel, 1993.27.32, a dress, and a blouse. Franka and her family lived in Zawiercie, Poland, which was invaded by Germany in September 1939. She was a forced laborer in a steel mill and involved with the resistance movement. On August 26, 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where she was shaved, given rags to wear, and tattooed with the number 56362. She worked i...

  5. Metal pin made for a former concentration camp inmate with her prisoner number and the camps where she was held

    1. Frances and Julian Hirshfeld family collection

    Commemorative pin made for Franka Rosenblum, 25, by a friend after the war in Germany, around May 1945. The pin is engraved with the names of the concentration and labor camps in which Franka was interned from 1943-1945. Franka and her family were from Zawiercie, Poland, which was invaded by Germany in September 1939. She was a forced laborer in a steel mill and involved with the resistance. On August 26, 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where she was shaved, given rags to wear, and tattooed with the number 56362. She worked in a hospital, then in a Krupp ammunition factory. In ...

  6. Shames family collection

    The collection consists of pre-war photographs of the Shames family in Warsaw, Poland and post-war photographs in Lwów, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine), Siberia, Berlin, Germany, Israel, and the United States. Includes two photographs of the family on a ship during their immigration to the United States. Some of the photographs are copy prints.

  7. Henry Kolber collection

    Consists of photographs and documents related to Henry Kolber's experiences as a refugee in post-war Switzerland and his immigration to the United States on the SS Drottningholm in 1947. Also includes a memory booklet signed by fellow refugees in 1945, a musical score entitled "Bitte um Menschwerdung" and letter dated 1950, both written by Rudolf (Ruedi) Schaerer.

  8. Records of the Sephardic Jewish Community of Uruguay (Comunidad Israelita Sefaradí)

    Registers of birth, marriage and death certificates, photographs of activities, administrative material and correspondence, records relating to various events, registers of social assistance, and minutes of meetings.

  9. Schwarz family papers

    The collection documents the Hungarian Holocaust-era experiences of the extended Schwarz family, including George and Magdolna Schwarz, their daughter Mariette, and Magdolna’s sister Klári Kovács (née Haberfeld) and her husband László Kovács. Included are identification papers, immigration documents, and photographs.

  10. Textbook

    1. Manfred Lobel collection

    Textbook used by 10 year old Manfred Lobel in the Shanghai Jewish Youth Association School (SJYA). In 1940, Manfred fled to Shanghai from Berlin, Germany, with his parents, Gustav and Dora, and 14 year old brother Siegfried due to the Nazi persecution of Jews. Since his parents were born in Romania, exit visas for the United States did not seem to be an option because of the high quotas. In 1940, the family received permits to leave Germany for Shanghai. American troops entered the city on September 3, 1945. The family emigrated to the US in 1949.

  11. Langenscheidt's pocket dictionary Dictionary

    1. Salomon and Berg families collection

    Alfred Berg was a teenage boy living in Vienna with his parents and younger sister Charlotte when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. Alfred was targeted by bullies because of his Jewish heritage and on November 9-10 during the Kristallnacht pogrom, his father was arrested and later released by local police. In May 1939, Charlotte was one of fifty Jewish children from Vienna selected by Americans Gilbert and Eleanor Krauss to be rescued from the Nazis and taken to the United States. Days ...

  12. Dina Pollak Gabos papers

    1. Dina Pollak Gabos collection

    Calendar: issued by Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemet L’Israel) for the Hebrew year 5710 (1949-1950); with images of symbols of the State of Israel; map of the State of Israel and a list of new settlements founded by JNF in Israel. In Italian; Membership ID: issued by The Zionist Organization in the South of Italy to Rifka Pollak, donor’s mother; dated” July 1, 1945 in Hebrew and English; Photographs: depicting a group of Jewish Holocaust survivors posing with the sign “HIAS of America” on their way to Palestine; dated: 1945; Bari, Italy and a makeshift synagogue in Bari, Italy in 1945; I...

  13. Dina Gabos papers

    1. Dina Pollak Gabos collection

    Documents: permit to travel issued to Rifka Pollak and her child by the Ustaša regime in Croatia in July 1941; telegram sent by Golda Myerson (Meir) to the Association of Yugoslav Jews in US in May 1948 asking for funds to bring surviving Jews of Europe to Israel; Photographs: Rifka and Otto Pollak (donor’s parents); studio photograph of Dina dedicated to her aunt Blanka, dated May 6, 1940; portrait of Johana and Isak Albahari (donor’s maternal aunt and her husband) who were murdered in Djakovo camp in Croatia in 1942; copy of painting by Dina Gabos depicting herself and her parents on the ...

  14. Textbook

    1. Manfred Lobel collection

    Textbook used by 10 year old Manfred Lobel in the Shanghai Jewish Youth Association School (SJYA). In 1940, Manfred fled to Shanghai from Berlin, Germany, with his parents, Gustav and Dora, and 14 year old brother Siegfried due to the Nazi persecution of Jews. Since his parents were born in Romania, exit visas for the United States did not seem to be an option because of the high quotas. In 1940, the family received permits to leave Germany for Shanghai. American troops entered the city on September 3, 1945. The family emigrated to the US in 1949.

  15. Jacqueline Mendels Birn papers

    1. Jacqueline Mendels Birn collection

    Four drawings and poems created by Jacqueline Mendels while living in hiding in France; dated 1942-1945.

  16. Jacqueline Mendels Birn papers

    1. Jacqueline Mendels Birn collection

    The collection consists of drawings and writings relating to the experiences of Jacqueline Mendels and her family while living in hiding in France during the Holocaust.

  17. German Police Units Dokumentarmaterial der Polizeiorgane über polnische und sowjetische Bürger, die vor dem Zeiten Weltkrieg in Deutschland lebten oder im Krieg in deutsche Kriegsgefangenschaft gerieten (sowjetische Zusammenstellung)(Fond 1164)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Investigation cases against Soviet, Polish and Ukrainian citizens, registration and employment records of Ukrainian refugees from Poland, questionnaires for residents of Nilvingen (Germany), passports, certificates, questionnaires of Soviet and Polish citizens sent for forced labor camps in Germany, clippings, leaflets with reports of escaped Soviet prisoners of war and civilian workers from concentration camps, prisons, and labor work places; statistics of the death of Soviet prisoners of war in the concentration camp in Gross-Rosen and Stalag 318/VIII F (344) (Łambinowice, Poland), variou...

  18. Palestine Bureau, Salonika, Greece Zionist Palestine Office, Thessaloniki, Greece (Fond 1435)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Various reports, news bulletins, correspondence and appeals of the Palestine Bureau. Includes general reports on the activities of the Thessaloniki Palestine Bureau for 1924-1926; reports to the leadership of the Zionist Federation of Greece on Jewish settlements in Palestine, on the fundraising activities on behalf of Jewish victims of pogroms in Palestine, financial records (register of donated funds, salaries etc.) and extensive correspondence between Palestine Bureau and various Jewish organizations, Jewish communities and private individuals. Also includes questionnaires of Greek Jews ...

  19. Wiener family photographs

    1. Jacob G. Wiener collection

    Consists of 23 pre-war and wartime photographs of members of the family of Rabbi Jacob Wiener [Gerd Zwienicki] in Germany. Included are class photographs of the yeshiva of Rabbi Breuer in Frankfurt in the 1930s.

  20. Jacob Wiener papers

    1. Jacob G. Wiener collection

    Consists of a blank business form and envelope from the business of Josef Swinizki.