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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Cardboard backed Star of David badge worn by a Jewish Romanian forced laborer

    Yellow cloth Star of David badge worn by Ancsel Feuerwerker (later Arthur Feuer) while serving in a Hungarian forced labor battalion in Szaszregen (Reghin), Romania, from October 1942 to September 1944. Ancsel, his parents, 7 siblings, and many relatives lived in Craciunesti, Romania, an area of northern Transylvania ceded to Hungary, a German ally, in August 1940, as part of the second Vienna Award. In October 1942, Ancsel was conscripted into a labor battalion based in Szaszregen (Reghin), Romania. Ancsel’s battalion put-up tar-covered telephone poles for 8 or 9 months, and was then moved...

  2. Hoffman family collection

    The Hoffman family collection consists of identification documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the Markus Hoffman and Rachela Brande Hoffman, who emigrated from Poland to the Dominican Republic, and their children Leon Hoffman and Berte Hoffman, who were both born in the Dominican Republic. The correspondence, 1939-1941, includes letters from their mothers, Rosa Brande in Czortków, Poland (now Ukraine) and Clara Hoffman in Tłumacz, Poland (now Ukraine), and other extended family members. All family members are presumed to have perished in the Holocaust. Also included are pre...

  3. Noon Gourfain collection

    Identification card: issued to Renate Adler-Rudolphi immediately following the Holocaust, by the “Committee for Ex-Political Prisoners”. Renate, born July 22, 1925, Jewish, was deported from Hamburg, Germany to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the Czech Republic in 1942. From there she was deported in October 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in Poland and then to Oederan slave labor camp, a sub-camp of Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany. She and her mother both survived and she immigrated to the United States in 1952 from Bremerhaven, Germany

  4. Henry Schimmel collection

    The Henry Schimmel collection consists of documents, affidavits, and correspondence related to Henry Schimmel's post-war assistance with the emigration efforts of his relatives who had survived the Holocaust. Mr. Schimmel, who immigrated from Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia in the 1920s, contacted various relief organizations and government officials to intervene and assist with the immigration of his sister, Jolan Rozenbaum, her children Andy, Ella, and Katherine, and his nephew, David Silberstein, all of whom had survived the Holocaust.

  6. Burial Authorizations and Memorial Inscriptions of the United Synagogue's Cemetery at Willesden, UK

    Contains copies of the burial authorizations as well as abstracts of memorial inscriptions which make reference to the loss of a family member in Europe during World War II.

  7. Selected records from the collections of the Prahova branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains correspondence of the members of Jewish communists from Ploiești, relating to war criminals, creation of the People’s Republic of Romania,1948 elections, meetings, and study circles. Also includes records of the National Committee for Romaization (Aryanization) for the Prahova district containing tables of confiscated Jewish real estate, correspondence relating to the expropriation of Jewish properties, registers, instructions on buildings confiscated from Jews, lists of confiscated Jewish real estate in 1943, procès-verbaux of confiscated Jewish real estate property by address.

  8. Oral history interview with Martin Silberman

  9. Jeanette Meyer collection

    Includes a "Deutsches Reiche Reisepass" issued to Jeanette Klugmann (donor) on November 25, 1938, in Nuernberg-Fuerth, Germany. Black and white photograph of bearer affixed on page two; stamped with red "J" on front page; includes visas for France and the United States.

  10. Binem Wrzonski collection

    Contains approximately 33 postwar photographs of young Holocaust survivors, including Elie Wiesel, taken at the Ambloy children's home in France soon after the war. Also includes one disinfectant certificate from Buchenwald, in English and Russian.

  11. David Fränkel collection

    The David Fränkel consists of copies and scans of documents related to Rabbi David Fränkel, who was a rare books dealer specializing in Hebraica in Vienna. The documents relate to Fränkel's work building this collection, which was confiscated under the orders of Adolf Eichmann.

  12. Oral history interview with William Kornbluth and Edith Kornbluth

  14. Valentine and Politzer family papers

    Correspondence and documents pertaining to the extended family of Teodor Valentin and Vilma (Politzer) Valentin. Includes a memoir written by Vilma Valentin titled "Kalište Report," which details the family's experiences from 1942-1945, while in hiding in the partisan-controlled village of Kalište, Slovakia, near Banska Bystrica

  15. Bela Trebitsch collection

    Consists of copies of correspondence and poetry written by Bela Trebitsch, a Hungarian man who converted to Christianity during the war, spent most of the war in a forced labor battalion, and was deported to Bergen-Belsen in January 1945. The correspondence and poetry, written from Bergen-Belsen in 1945, describes his search for his daughter, Valeria, who had also been deported into Germany. Also includes copies of his forced labor diary and of correspondence Bela wrote to his family in Budapest after his liberation from Theresienstadt. In June 1945, while still at Theresienstadt, Bela cont...

  17. Judith Bar Kochba photograph collection

    The Judith Bar Kochba photograph collection consists of photographs of the Kann family in Dordrecht, Netherlands before and during World War II. Some of the photographs were taken while the Kann children (Elise Kann, Otto Kann, Judith Kann, and Jacob Kann) were in hiding.

  18. Brand and Lowinger families papers

    Collection of photographs depicting the Brand family in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, showing Hanna (Agi), her two brothers Richard and Erich, and her parents Etel and Moric Brand; two letters written in April and May 1944 in Ujhely, Hungary by a Viennese woman who took care of Erich Brand in the local hospital; photographs depicting the Löwinger family in the ghetto in Hajdúböszörmény, Jews at forced labor and a family photograph from before the war.

  19. Gadomski family papers

    Contains documents and correspondence related to the family of Mieczyslaw and Wanda Gadomski, including correspondence in 1980s between Gadomski and other former internees at Ebensee.

  20. Noemi Sheinbein photographs

    Contains three photographs. Two photographs depict Maurycy Moniek Kokotek (donor's older brother) in the Bedzin ghetto; dated 1942 and 1943; Maurycy Kokotek was killed by Germans on August 8, 1943 in Bedzin. The third photograph is a group portrait of children and teachers at Jewish boys' School in Bedzin before the war.