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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  2. Silver fish knife with fish design owned by the Orsten family

    1. Elisabeth Orsten family collection

    A single knife from a silver, fish cutlery set, consisting of four forks and three knives, designed by Art Krupp Berndorf of Austria and owned by the Orsten family. The cutlery is part of a collection relating to the experiences of Elizabeth M. Ornstein (later Orsten) and her family in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust, and the Ornstein family’s immigration to the United States.

  3. Articles and U.S. military records relating to displaced persons in postwar Europe

    1. Albert Hutler collection

    Includes copies of military documents and other materials from various U.S. Army authorities (e.g., 7th U.S. Army, Headquarters USFET, SHAEF) in postwar Europe concerning the management, care, living conditions, and repatriation of displaced persons. Also included are two copies of the report written by Earl G. Harrison to President Truman in 1945 concerning conditions for displaced persons in Europe, together with a condensed version of the same report that appeared in the "National Jewish monthly," November 1945 issue.

  4. Albert Hutler letters relating to displaced persons in the American Zone of occupied Germany

    1. Albert Hutler collection

    Relates to U.S. Army's military government postwar management and care of displaced persons and their repatriation, particularly in the American Zone of occupied Germany.

  5. Charles Martin Roman papers

    The Charles Martin Roman collection consists of photographs, documents, and identity paperwork related to the Holocaust experiences of Carl (Carlo) Roman, now Charles Roman. The photographs depict his pre-war life in Vienna, images of Carl and his mother with a group of Jews on an escape over the Alps to Italy from the Italian-occupied zone of France in September 1943, family photographs, and photographs of the OSE-run Font-Romeu camp and Montintin children's home. Includes Carl's identity paperwork, a falsified document stating that Marianne Roman authorized Carl to leave the OSE children'...

  8. Samuel Schalkowsky papers

    1. Samuel Schalkowsky collection

    Contains three black-and-white photographs, one letter, and two legal documents pertaining to Samuel Schalkowsky's post-World War II experiences as a displaced person following his internment in the Magdeburg Brabag concentration camp. The letter requests that Allied military personnel grant Mr. Schalkowsky any needed assistance in his attempts to locate his sister.

  9. The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) [Newspaper]

    1. Aberbach family collection

  10. Obschatko family papers

    Photographs of the people gathered at the Monument of Remembrance for the Victims of the Shoa, Argentina.