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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Jablow family collection

    Consists of documents, passports, identity papers, school papers, restitution papers, and correspondence related to the Holocaust experiences of the Jablow, Jablonowski, Weiner, and Israel families. Contains wartime and post-war correspondence from Leopold and Regina Jablonowski, who immigrated to Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1938 to their son, Reinhold Jablow (previously Jablonowski), who immigrated to the United States in 1936. Includes identity and immigration documentation, including Reisepasses, for Reinhold, his wife, Marianne Weiner Jablow, and her mother, Charlotte Israel Weiner. Also, one ...

  2. Jacek Nowakowski collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the Holocaust in Krakow and to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

  3. Jack (Isaac) Groner collection

    Contains a poem written in Yiddish by Alter Albert Groner on the occasion of his youngest brother Jacques (Isaac) Grober's (donor) fourth birthday on June 2, 1941; written in the Pithiviers camp three weeks after the author was arrested in Paris, and three weeks before we was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Includes a passport issued to Jacques Isaac Groner on March 8, 1946; Jack, his parents and siblings survived in hiding in France.

  4. Jack Amar papers

    Collection of postwar documents, correspondence and identity cards relating to Jacques (Jack) Amar, a Greek Jewish survivor of Auschwitz, relating to his return to Greece after liberation, hospitalization, and military service.

  5. Jack and Beatrice Glotzer papers

    The Jack and Beatrice Glotzer papers consist of biographical materials, a memoir, photographs, and a postcard documenting Jack Glotzer’s family in pre‐war and wartime Rohatyn and Jack and Beatrice Glotzer’s immigration to the United States in 1949. Biographical materials include the meal card Beatrice Glotzer used during her passage to the United States, an International Refugee Organization medical tag issued to her when the ship reached Boston Harbor, and two report cards issued to Edmund Glotzer in 1938 and 1939. Jack Glotzer’s memoir, I Survived the German Holocaust Against All Odds: A ...

  6. Jack and Hedi Justus Grootkerk family collection

    The collection consists of military uniforms, medals, ribbons, and pins, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Jacques (later Jack) and his family in the Netherlands before and during the Holocaust and his escape to Great Britain and military service during the war, as well as the experiences of Hedi Justus Grootkerk and her family in the Netherlands before and during the Holocaust, her escape to France and Switzerland during the war, and in the United States with her husband Jack after the war. Accretion: Artifacts and photographs illustrat...

  7. Jack and Ina Polak collection

    Love letters written by Jack Polak and Ina Soep in the concentration camps Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen.

  8. Jack and Marilyn Pechter collection

    The collection consists of identification canteen notes, identification tags, scrip, clippings, correspondence, documents, a map, propaganda materials, photographic postcards, photographs, and a philatelic collection documenting pre-war Jewish life, anti-Semitism, the Dreyfus Affair, the arrest of Herschel Grynspan, multiple concentration camps, and World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Jack and Sonia Rubin collection

    Consists primarily of 24 photographs. Many have inscriptions in Yiddish, and include many pre-war images of Jack Rubin's family from Bransk, Poland. The donor, Jack Rubin, immigrated to the United States under the sponsorship of his Uncle, Arthur J. Sussel.; Mr. Sussel appears in some photographs while visiting relatives in Bransk before the war. The collection also includes Torah scroll fragments.

  10. Jack and Sonia Rubin papers

    The papers consist of an immunization certificate, certificate of identity, D.P. identification card, two D.P. passes, two passenger tickets to the United States for the United States Lines Company, and two embarkment cards for Sonia Rubin and Zawel Rubinstein [donor's first husband]; six photographs from a proofsheet of scenes from the boat on which Sonia Rubin's brother emigrated to the United States; one photograph of children playing in Bremenhaven, Germany; and six pre-World War II photographs of Jack Rubin and his family.

  11. Jack and Sylvia Heisler papers

    The Jack and Sylvia Heisler papers contain correspondence, forms and other records pertaining to the Holocaust-era restitution claims of Jack Heisler and Sylvia Stern Heisler, filed against the West German government between 1958 and 1970, and related to their internment as forced laborers at Auschwitz, Sömmerda, and other camps. Jack Heisler’s earliest compensation claims in these files date from the late 1958 through 1961, when he filed claims on behalf of himself and his brother Edward, at the office that handled compensation claims for the state of Rheinland-Pfalz in Trier, Germany. He ...

  12. Jack Arnel photograph collection

    Contains photographs of General Eisenhower visiting the Feldafing displaced persons camp.

  13. Jack Belcher photograph collection

    The collection consists of five photographs depicting the liberation of a concentration camp at Nordheim, Germany.

  14. Jack Bornkind photograph collection

    The collection contains two photographs of United States Army soldier Private First Class Jack Bornkind in uniform and one of his grave.

  15. Jack Caminer photographs

    Consists of 40 photographs taken by Jack Caminer [donor], a member of the United States Armed Forces, in the spring of 1945 as his unit traveled through Germany and Austria. Many of the photographs are of the destruction in Nuremberg. Includes one photograph of the donor, described as "Crossing the Rhine; 29 March 1945", taken during the holiday of Pesach. Also includes photographs of Jack Caminer (originally Hans Wolfgang Caminer) as a child in Berlin with various family members. His paternal grandfather, Max Lang, who appears in the photographs, perished of natural causes in Theresienstad...

  16. Jack Cherniss papers

    The collection primarily consists of letters written by Jewish American soldier Jack Cherniss to his wife Shirley while he was serving in the United States Army during World War II. His frequent letters describe his training in the United States and his deployment overseas in December 1944. Significant letters include one from 11 January 1945 describing an altercation with an antisemitic fellow soldier, and his letter from 27 April 1945 contains his account of the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after liberation. Also included are administrative papers regarding his military career an...

  17. Jack Cynamon collection

    Contains five pre-war photographs of the donor and his parents. The donor was hidden with the help of Father Joseph André, and was sent to a children's home in Namur and then to Serville.

  18. Jack Dygola collection

    The collection consists of seven loose photographs of Jack Dygola with other children at the Landsberg displaced person camp in Germany.

  19. Jack Erdfarb collection

    Consists of fourteen photographs related to Jack Erdfarb 's (Jakub Erdfarb) residence in Landsberg displaced persons camp and a suitcase.

  20. Jack Freedman collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Jack and Sara Freedman during and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.