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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Association of Teheran children and their instructors collection

    The collection contains copies of various documents from an exhibition produced for the 50th anniversary reunion of the Association of Teheran Children and Their Instructors in 1993. The exhibition of documents and photographs recounts the history of the rescue of the "Teheran Children" from the Nazis and their relocation in Israel via Teheran, Iran, in 1943. Daṿid Laʾor, an agent of the Jewish Agency for Israel, served as the Director of the Jewish Children's Home in a camp for Polish refugees in Teheran beginning in 1942. He organized instructors to help locate Jewish children in the ref...

  2. Eva Lips speech

    Consists of a mimeographed transcript of a speech given by Eva Lips, a German-Jewish refugee from Cologne, Germany, at Christ Church in New York City on November 14, 1936. In the speech, she describes her impression of Hitler prior to 1933, and the ways in which she and her husband, University of Leipzig anthropologist Dr. Julius Lips, were persecuted after 1933. She also describes the confiscation of their library, the burning of their books, and experiencing constant surveillance. The couple emigrated to the United States through Paris in 1934.

  3. Oral history interview with Harry Alexander

    1. Testimony oral history collection

  4. Hannes family letters and postcards

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Hannes family, originally of Hamburg, Germany. Included are five German Red Cross letters, dated from March 1943 to October 1944 from Luise Eugenie Hannes to her daughters Ruth (later Ruth Hannes Doswald) and Lieselotte (later Lieselotte E. Rosenmeyer), both of whom fled Hamburg to England. Her daughters’ responses are on the reverse of each letter. Also included are seven postcards addressed to Luise’s husband Dr. Berthold Hannes from former patients imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The postcards date from De...

  5. Rita Hofrichter collection

    Contains 17 black-and-white photographs from the Leipheim and Föhrenwald displaced persons camps and one displaced persons index card for Rita Gliksman (Hofrichter).

  6. Postwar retrospective: Germany, war in Europe

    US propaganda/documentary film about World War II. A post-war U.S. narrative of intentions in Germany. Berlin's war ruins, rubble, "Unter den Linden" street sign laying on ground. Allied victory celebrations in Paris and London. Lots of waving, happy crowds, parade. Scenes of soldiers marching. Flashbacks to war scenes show Allied planes bombing enemy cities, parachutists, plane crashes, amphibious landings. 04:46:11, cut to Gens. Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton, and others visit a concentration camp and see German atrocities. Former prisoner (survivor) with scarf describes scenes at camp. Libe...

  7. Military Affairs Affaires militaires

    Record Group F9, Affaires Militaires. Contains list of internees, statistics of deportations, lists of escapees, lists of prisoner-of-war camps (1944-1946), survivor testimonies, military reports, catalog cards of people arrested for resistance activities, correspondence regarding refugees, catalog cards of missing camp inmates, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and displaced persons camps reports, Gendarmerie and police investigations documents, and various documents related to concentration camps and prisons in France, Germany, Poland , Austria and Czechoslovakia. Pa...

  8. Selected records from the State District Archive in Blansko

    Records of the District National Committee of Boskovice, District Court of Boskovice, District Office of Boskovice, Boskovice Municipal National Committee, Municipal Archives of Boskovice and Lomnice, pertaining to laws and regulations against Jews, Jewish residency applications and emigration, the expropriation of Jewish property, and anti-Jewish and anti-Roma measures. Records feature name lists of Jews, passport applications by Jews, residency permit applications by Jewish refugees from Nazi-annexed Austria, work permit applications by Jews, evictions of Jewish tenants, expropriation lis...

  10. Federal Chancellor's Office, Vienna Bundeskanzleramt, Wien (Fond 515)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Reports by Austrian envoys abroad in Prague, Berlin, Cairo, and Stuttgart on various subjects; reports by the Viennese police; letters and reports to Kurt Schuschnigg (chancellor of Austria, 1934-1938); a draft law on Austrian/German border issues; correspondence regarding Austrian refugees; surveys of the German press; illegal German bulletin "Deutscher Nachrichtendienst", 1936-39; and correspondence regarding biographical data for Hitler and his relatives. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  11. Castle-shaped Havdalah spice box (besamim) owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

    1. Sara Kupinski Cohen collection

    Silver alloy, castle-shaped spice box from Poland, carried by Sara Kupinski’s (later Cohen) family as they traveled through the Soviet Union and Japan to China, where her family fled using Japanese and Dutch transit visas supplied by diplomats in Soviet-occupied Kovno, (Kaunas), Lithuania. Later, the box was given to Sara by her mother, Slawa, as a wedding gift in Canada, where the family had settled in 1949. Sara lived outside of Lida, Poland (now Belarus) with her parents, Eliasz and Slawa, brother, Hirsz, and uncle, Samuel. Following Germany and the Soviet Union’s invasion of Poland in S...

  13. Oral history interviews of the Grünfeld/Heimann Family collection

    Oral history interviews with members of the Grünfeld/Heimann family who discuss their escape from Nazi Germany and experiences as refugees in Shanghai, China.

  14. Fanny Ben-Ami collection

    Contains photographs, correspondence, and documents illustrating the experiences of Fanny Eil [donor], and her sisters and parents before and during the second World War in Germany, where Fanny was born; France, where the Eil family fled in 1933; and Switzerland, where Fanny and her sisters were smuggled after her parents were separately arrested and deported in 1943 and 1944.

  15. Adler typewriter with fitted case used by a Jewish family in a displaced persons camp

    Adler typewriter with gray case purchased by Shaya Yurfest from a local German while the family was living in Windsheim displaced persons camp in 1946. The family used it to assist other refugees with their paperwork.

  19. AJDC emigration transport buses leave from Paris

    EXT two buses loaded with Holocaust survivors and luggage, one with “AJDC TRANSPORT” visible on the side. Luggage from the top of one bus being unloaded. Sign on side of bus: “FRANCE TO SO. AMERICA” Men on sidewalk talk through the bus windows, shaking hands with children on-board. Another bus shows an additional sign, “FRANCE TO AUSTRALIA.” Children can be seen through the bus windows. People shake their hands through the window. Street views. Pan right to newsreel jeep with the sign “METRO JOURNAL.” Closer view of the signs on the exterior of the bus: “AJDC TRANSPORT” and “FRANCE TO AUSTR...