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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Jews at UNRRA camp in Austria

    Displaced persons, UNRRA. Signs in Hebrew. At right, sign reading "UNRRA DP camp Admont." Several scenes of Jews marching with picks and shovels. LS, camp, tending crops, hoeing, women washing (various shots). MCU, four men walking on dirt road, UNRRA official? UNRRA officers caring for children. School children, teenagers sitting at desks outside, teacher writes on blackboard: "We hope to go to Palestine" in English and Hebrew. Couple looking at announcement board. CU, man sitting on steps.

  2. Lantzer family photograph collection

    Collection of photographs (15) depicting Yochevet Lantzer (Jochewet Doba Lanzer, b. October 2, 1947) as a child, along with her parents, in the Ulm displaced persons camp in Germany, and one picture of them in Israel (1950). Her parents, Alta Alal Bergrefreund Lanzer (b. December 12, 1923 in Bilgoraj Lubelski, Poland) and Szyjie Lanzer (b. April 15, 1914 in Tomaszow Lubelski, Poland) survived the Holocaust in the USSR. The Lanzer family immigrated to Israel on March 21, 1949.

  3. Babamusta family collection

    Testimonies, photographs, newspaper article, and CD, among other items, documenting the history of the Babamusta family, of Kavaja, Albania, and their role in sheltering and rescuing Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution in Albania in 1943. Includes the essay “Acts of Courage and Heroism” and “The contribution of the Babamusta family in the rescue of 178 Jews in Kavaja, Albania;” photographs, including copy prints of vintage photographs, of the Babamusta family; a print out of an article about Neki Babamusta, from the Albanian newspaper “Sot,” August 2013, along with an English translation ...

  4. Boris Wolosoff collection

    Consists of records relating to the emigration and post-war experiences of Boris Wolosoff, originally from Russia. Mr. Wolosoff emigrated to Germany in the 1923 and to France in 1936. He arrived in the United States in 1941. Also includes a handmade album of photographs and drawings entitled, "Souvenir du Masgellier Vos Petits," dated August 31, 1941, created by chidlren in the Masgelier children's home as a gift to Mr. Wolosoff, who was the director of the OSE home there from 1937-1941.

  5. Zvi and Jutta Bergman papers

    1. Henryk Zvi and Jutta Bergman collection

    The collection of photographs and one calling card depicting the Szmirgeld and Bergman families before World War II, during the war in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and Zionist and religious activities in the ghetto and in a displaced persons camp after liberation as well as during their internment in Cyprus.