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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Chana Scheiner photographs

    Consists of three photographs taken of groups of children and young adults, including Chana Scheiner (now Nusia Klinghoffer), at the Selvino children's home in Italy in 1946. Those pictured were members of a group that originated at the Gordonia training camp in Niemce and who traveled through Czechoslovakia and Austria to Selvino after liberation.

  2. Helena Storch Jacobs collection

    Consists of 26 pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Storch family, originally of Kalisz, Poland. The photographs were taken at the Vilna Jewish Teacher's Seminary, of Yiddish theatre performances, and of the family and friends of Heniek, Genia, and Helena Storch. The collection also includes a memoir, "A Short History of the Life of my Parents," by Helena Storch Jacobs, an identification card from 1926 for Genia Kac, and a CD-ROM containing scanned copies of many other photographs.

  3. Hof displaced persons camp album

    Consists of a CD-ROM of scanned pages from the "Jidiszer D.P. Lager in Hof" book. Book contains photographs with captions of Jews who worked in administrative positions within the camp.

  4. Eric and Fee Goldfarb collection

    Consists of autograph book owned by Felicitas (Erica) Beyth (entries date from 1937-1940), French identity card for foreigners for Felicitas Beyth Goldfarb (1948) and wartime and post-war documents regarding Eric Goldfarb, including a copy of a form giving the "Comite Israelite Pour Les Enfants" custody and power of attorney for Eric Goldfarb. Also includes a photocopy of a "constitution" written at the La Guette children's home, in which the children decided to create a representative democracy.

  5. Selected records from the Milan prefecture

    Contains documents related to the formulation and implementation of anti-Jewish racial laws in and around the area of Milan, Italy.

  6. Judith Peck collection

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs and correspondence which were sent from the extended family of Judith Peck to the United States. Includes photographs of Raisile (Rosa) Aspes, Chaya, Abraham, and Sarah Rajz, and Benek Eichner. Also includes a letter from Pesach Eichner to his uncle describing his unpleasant living conditions in the Kassel displaced persons camp.

  7. "Surviving the Holocaust and New Life in America"

    Consists of a memoir, 9 pages, by Edward Gruzin, entitled "Surviving the Holocaust and New Life in America." In the memoir, Mr. Gruzin describes his memories of his childhood in pre-war Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, his wartime experiences in the Kovno Ghetto and in the Landsberg-Kaufering concentration camp, his post-war experiences regarding liberation, and his emigration to the United States in 1949.

  8. Kwasniewski-Chiger family photograph collection

    The collection consists of 19 photographs relating to the experiences of the Kwasniewski and Chiger families immediately following the Holocaust. Six photographs are images of Marian Kwasniewski Marian Keren, his parents, Helena and Joseph, their rescuers, Janina Mikolajewicz and Gienia, and extended family in Poland. Thirteen photographs are images of Krystyna Chiger [Kristine Keren], her parents, Ignacy and Pepa, and her brother, Pawel, in Poland and Israel.

  9. Jan Szelubski papers

    The papers consist of pre-war, wartime, and post war photographs, documents, and identity cards illustrating the life of Jan Szelubski before the Holocaust in Lida, Lithuania, (now Belarus). During World War II, Szelubski was a company commander of the Armia Ludowa during the Warsaw uprising and received the "Virtuti Militari" medal for his bravery. After the war, he joined the diplomatic service.

  10. Ewa Frenkel Przemyslawska photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs of Ewa Frenkel Przemyslawska's life immediately after World War II in Łódź, Poland, where she worked in a Jewish kindergarten and of members of a Jewish cooperative in Łódź demonstrating on May Day.

  11. "Atlantis" commemorative installation

    Consists of photographs and articles regarding the "Atlantis" exhibition in a former synagogue in Poznań, Poland, and a videocassette of the ceremony dedicating the exhibition on the Polish Day of Judaism in 2004. The installation, designed by Janusz Marciniak, consists of memorial candles floating in the middle of a swimming pool in the shape of a Star of David.

  12. Albert Guenther Hess collection

    Consists of documents and photocopies related to the life and experiences of Albert Guenther Hess and his family, originally of Pirna, Germany. Includes official pre-war documents, post-war articles regarding the Holocaust and Pirna, and a reel of film (ca. 1935) depicting the Hess family. The film includes German intertitles.

  13. Rabbi Dr. Jecheskiel Lewin collection

    Rabbi Dr. Jecheskiel Lewin collection consists of copies of articles, documents, and correspondence written by and about Rabbi Dr. Jecheskiel Lewin, the last chief rabbi of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine). Rabbi Lewin was killed in 1941 after refusing the shelter offered to him by Metropolitan Andrew Szeptycki (Sheptytsky), whom he asked for assistance in protecting the Jews of Lwów. Also contains two rolls of microfilm containing issues of "Nasza Opinia," from 1936-1938. Rabbi Lewin was the last editor of this publication, and wrote many articles dealing with scholarly, sociological, political, a...

  14. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of Dordogne

    Documents on the persecution of Jews in the Dordogne, including Aryanization and postwar restitution of property; internment in camps; forced labor of foreigners, clandestine passage between the Occupied and Free Zones, exclusion from professions. Included are letters of denunciation, antisemitic flyers, statistics about Jewish residents; other documents concern Freemasons, German war crimes, and postwar Jewish emigration to Israel.

  15. Anna Sorotzkin papers.

    The papers consist of 14 photographs of members of Anna Sorotzkin's family who were deported to concentration camps and ghettos and two postcards written by her father, Paul Weisz, to her and her mother, Lilly Weisz, while they were in the ghetto in Budapest, Hungary.

  16. Dana Keren papers

    The papers consist of four American and British military propaganda leaflets aimed at German soldiers and one German propaganda leaflet aimed at American soldiers distributed in Germany between 1944 and 1945.

  17. Fred Joseph Golinveaux, Jr. letter

    The two-page letter was written by Fred Joseph Golinveaux, Jr. and was sent to his parents while he was serving with the United States Army in Heidelberg, Germany, during World War II. In the letter, he describes the experiences of Michael Goldberg, a 15-year-old Polish boy who spent three years in concentration camps in Austria.

  18. Naomi Elath papers

    The papers consist of documents, correspondence, songs, and identification cards relating to Naomi Elath's experiences in the children's homes at LaGuette and La Bourboule, France.

  19. Ascher Family home movies: vacationing in Bad Saarow

    Home movies of the Ascher Family, featuring daily life and vacation outings of this German-Jewish family in the 1930s. The Aschers immigrated to Palestine in 1938 and later to the United States in 1959. The Ascher family outings were mainly in Saarow-Pieskow, near Berlin. They visited a pension owned by Paul and Lotte Zeidler, a Jewish family who went to Shanghai when they left Berlin. Their son, Rolf, is shown in some scenes. The pension was named PAROLO after Paul, Rolf, and Lotte [this name can be seen on a powerboat later]. The Aschers visited in both summer and winter; trips became mor...

  20. Arno Nadel collection

    Consists of material regarding the life, poetry, art, and music of Arno Nadel, a German Jewish poet and musician who perished in 1943. Collection includes books written by and from the collection of Arno Nadel, some inscribed. Also includes postcards depicting his artwork and sheet music written by Arno Nadel.