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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Feuerlicht and Grussgott family papers

    Contains photographs (70), letters, passports, and other documents illustrating the experiences of Abraham Grussgott and Nelly Feuerlicht (donor). Abraham (b. 1924 in Bardekov, Czechoslovakia, present day Slovakia), survived in the woods of Czechoslovakia, running and on false papers; Nelly (b. Berlin Germany) fled with her mother Yetti Friedman [Feuerlicht] and father to Belgium, from where Nelly and Yetti were able to depart for the United States. Collection documents their unsuccessful efforts to get Ignatz [Nelly's father] a visa to enter the United States in 1942. He was deported and p...

  2. KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps. Pictorial report of concentration camps

    A copy of the “KZ: Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern” [KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps] pamphlet published in Germany in 1945. It was published quickly by the American War Information Office to increase awareness of the atrocities that had occurred. It contains post-liberation photographs at Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Nordhausen, and Ohrdruf concentration camps and the site of the Gardelagen massacre.

  3. Borge and Tove Siebern scrapbooks

    Consists of five scrapbooks assembled while Bjorn Siebern, former Danish policeman and member of the resistance, and his wife, sometime between 1964 and 1973. They contain a combination of wartime photographs, documents, and three-dimensional objects documenting all aspects of the German occupation of Denmark. Some documents relate directly to Mr. Siebern's work, including ID cards, false IDs and forgery stamps. He assumed multiple identities during the war. There are also leaflets dropped over Denmark, Nazi propaganda and anti-Nazi cartoons. The photos include photos of German officials, D...

  4. Prayer book

    Megillat Esther, the scroll of Esther, read on the Jewish holiday of Purim carried by Anton Spitzer when he moved to Iasi, Romania, in 1931. Shortly before he was taken away by the Nazis in 1944, Anton hid the scroll in a cellar in the Iasi ghetto. He recovered it when he returned to Iasi after the war in 1945. The family would read from this scroll on Purim in Iasi until they immigrated to Israel in 1950.

  5. Selected papers of Prime Minister Hubert Pierlo in London

    Contains selected records from the papers of Hubert Pierlot, Prime Minister of the government- in-exile in London during the German occupation of Belgium, and one of the most influential representatives of his country. This collection includes records on Belgian Congo and Belgian refugees in Portugal, many of whom were Jews.

  6. Selected police records from the Arad Branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the police of the town of Arad, including records relating to new orders and name lists of the Iron Guard.

  7. Selected records of the sub-district of Pecica from the Arad Branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the sub-district of Pecica, including records relating to various state-owned Jewish goods and goods that were confiscated by the Centrul Naţional de Românizare (CNR).

  8. Selected records from the collection of the Sub-district of Beliu from the Arad branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the sub-district of Beliu, including records related to: confiscation of Jewish properties, Iron Guard, war orphans, prayer houses for various religious groups, deportation of Jews, and Jewish goods confiscated by the state.

  9. Selected records from the collection Police Detachment of Lipova from the Arad branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Police Detachment of Lipova, including records related to the situation of Jews, propaganda, and miscellaneous items.

  10. Selected records from the collection of the Sub-district of Ineu from the Arad branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the sub-district of Ineu, including records related to the confiscation of Jewish goods, lists of deported Jews, an inventory of churches and religious groups that were permitted or prohibited, and name lists of members of Baptist, Adventists, and Unitarian churches.

  11. Selected records from the collection of the police of Ploieşti in the Prahova Branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Police of Ploieşti, including documents related to various religious groups.

  12. Selected records from the collection of the Prefecture of Police of Prahova from the Prahova branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Prefecture police of Prahova, including correspondence and a list of goods taken by the police from the Iron Guard (Garda de Fier).

  13. Selected records from the collections of the Mehedinţi branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains records from Orsova, consisting of records related to requests and changes of citizenship, firing of Jews, expropriation of Jewish properties -- including orders and lists of names.

  14. Selected records from the collection of the Prefectura of Muscel from the Argeş branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains selected records from the Prefectura of Muscel and the sub-district of Campulung-Muscel and includes records relating to confiscation of Jewish properties, deportation of Jews, and indexes of Romanian women married to Jews. As well as records from the Regional Inspectorate of Police Piteşti, including orders and reports, and the personal file of Israel Schif. Also includes records from the Legion of Gendarmes Muscel and includes records relating to: surveillance of religious groups, name lists of gendarmerie informants, surveillance of Iron Guard, name lists of deported Jews, and w...

  15. Selected records from the collections of the Ialomiţa branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Democratic Jewish Committee (CDE) of Calarasi, and includes records relating to support for Jewish citizens and reports of activities of CDE. Includes also records from the sub-district of Slobozia, including records relating to the confiscation of goods of Iron Guard movement, instructions regarding registration of Jews, and forced labor of Jews.

  17. Selected records from collections of the Harghita branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Mayorship of the town Miercurea Ciuc relating to the administration of Jewish goods. Also included in this collection are records from the Mayorship of the town Gheorgheni relating to: the dismantling of Hehalutz, “All for the Fatherland” (Iron Guard), authorizations for meetings of the Jewish community, Christian faith among Jews, prohibiting Jewish commerce, goods from Jewish deportees, war criminals and their goods, real estate remaining from deported Jews. Also includes records from the democratic Jewish Committee (CDE) of the district of Ciuc relating to biogr...

  18. Selected records from collections of the Caraş-Severin branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains records from the sub-district of Bozovici and includes records relating to the confiscation of Baptist prayer houses. Also includes records from the Police commissariat of Anina relating to orders concerning the capture of war criminals and thieves, goods of war criminals, and real estate. Also contains records from the Police commissariat of Orsova relating to orders concerning prohibition of peasants/ farmers to enter Jewish homes, and records from the Police from Baile Herculane of orders concerning German and Hungarian minorities, Hungarian terrorists, German spies, forced labo...

  19. Selected records from the collections of the Maramureş branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Prefecture of the District of Maramureş including orders of the Ministries of Interior and Defense concerning the rights of Jews, as well as the approval from the Ministry of Interior for the activites of a Mizrahi Zionist organization in Sighet. Also contains documents concerning bandits from Viseul de Sus.

  20. Selected records from the National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives (CNSAS)

    Records relating to the surveillance of Iron Guardists, 1945-1959; Protestant churches, 1920-1945; Freemasons; Jewish organizations, 1924-1952; and Zionists.The emigration of Jews to Palestine, 1941-1943; other files on Jewish emigration, 1939-1944, wartime surveillance of ethnic Germans, wartime occupation of Northern Transylvania. Seven files (CNSAS 11-1) documentation of Communist secret police surveillance of people connected to wartime crimes in Vasiliorka-Tulcin and in Mostovi, Berezovka, and Transnistria. Includes lists of officers in the Romanian Army before and after 1944, lists of...