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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Elinor Gabriel collection

    The collection consists of 92 slides taken by unknown photographers in Jewish DP camps in Europe and Israel after World War II. Included in the slides are images of Jewish displaced persons preparing or learning various vocations through the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT).

  4. Abraham Malach papers

    The papers consist of 34 photographs of Abraham Malach and his family and friends, as well as school report cards, identification cards, and an immigration certificate for Abraham Malach.

  6. Patti Goldfarb papers

    The papers consist of 13 documents relating to Helena Krystyna Singer, originally of Drohobycz, who worked as a bacteriologist during the war. In 1936, she married Marian Fruchtman and emigrated with him to the Soviet Union in 1941. After Fruchtman's death in 1942, she went to Tehran and married Edmond Herman; the marriage was annulled in 1946. She emigrated to Kenya and worked in a military hospital in Tanzania between 1945-1946 and then emigrated to the United States in 1948. Collection includes pre-war photographs of Helena and her immediate family and documents related to her marital st...

  7. Danciger family photograph collection

    The Danciger family photograph collection consists of five photographs depicting the Danciger family and their experiences immediately following the Holocaust in Salzburg, Austria, and Wallern (Volary), Czechoslovakia.

  8. Selected records of the Departmental Archives of Ariège

    Contains administrative records related to the internment camp in Le Vernet, France. Also contains records related to German war crimes committed in France and records related to Jews seeking refuge in France after 1936.

  10. Ruth Weyl collection

    Consists of photographs of the Weyl family and other German Jewish refugees in Kisumu and Nairobi, Kenya, where they spent the war. Also contains one memoir, 11 pages, entitled "My Memories from Africa," written by Ruth Weyl, documenting her experiences in Africa from 1937-1948, as well as an advertisement card for the Weyl's boarding house in Nairobi, letters of recommendation, and correspondence from their lives in Africa.

  11. Leo Meyer passport

    The British passport permits Leo Meyer to enter Hong Kong and Macau with the Shanghai soccer team in 1947.

  13. Ilse Dahl letter

    The mimeographed copy of a letter was written by Ilse Dahl (former roommate of donor's aunt) in France to Charlotte Hackett (donor's aunt) in England and describes the journey of the ship, "Flandre," to Cuba. It is entitled, "Die Cuba-Reise der 'Flandre,' am 16. Mai 1939."

  14. Gijsbertus Nicholaas Van der Bijl papers

    The Gijsbertus Nicholaas Van der Bijl papers consists of a permission card for bathing, 1944; a displaced persons identification card issued by the Allied Expeditionary Force for "Nich. V.D. Byl." [Gijsbertus Nicholaas Van der Bijl], undated; a photograph of Gijsbertus Van der Bijl at age 24, 1938; and two studio portraits of Van der Bijl as a child, August 2, 1926 and 1932.

  15. Charlotte Ader papers

    The papers consist of a birth certificate for administrative use issued by the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères in France for Abraham Blatt donor's father who was unable to provide proof of his original nationality and an identification card issued by the Fédération Nationale des Centres d'Entr'Aide des Internés et Deportés Politiques in France to Abraham Blatt concerning his internment in Auschwitz.

  16. Thomas Baruch papers

    The papers consist of correspondence from Edward Remey [family friend] and the Westchester Committee for Refugees, Inc. to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Baruch [donor's parents] confirming the deaths of Marianne Ziegler [donor's aunt], Thekla Baruch Ehermann [donor's aunt], and Gerda and Fritz Hammerstein during the Holocaust. The papers also include a postcard from Marianne Ziegler to her brother, Richard Baruch, informing him of her impending deportation from Berlin, Germany, to Poland.

  17. Abram Katmanowies letter to Trygve Lie

    The mass-produced form letter is addressed to "Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations" from Abram Katmanowies, a displaced person in Wasseralfingen, Germany. The letter asks the Secretary General to present before the meeting of the United Nations that said inmate is living "among my enemies - the murderers of my family" 21 months after liberation and to grant him permission to leave the United States occupation zone in Germany for Palestine.

  18. Michael Wertman letter

    The letter was written by 18-year-old Michael Wertman [donor's husband] in Munich, Germany, to his maternal uncle who was living in N.Y. In the letter, Wertman writes about his mother's death during the liquidation of the ghetto in Tarnogród, Poland, on November 11, 1942. He also inquires about other family members and his desire to start a new life.

  19. Berta Fried papers

    The papers consist of a postcard sent by Berta Fried, a Hungarian Jewish deportee, from Auschwitz-Birkenau to a Christian cousin in Budapest, Hungary, dated May 28, 1944; a letter from Berta Fried in a hospital in Danzig, Germany, to her children after her liberation from Stutthof concentration camp dated April 1945; and two envelopes sent to Agata Fried in Mukacevo-Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (Mukacheve, Ukraine), by her mother, Berta Fried, in Danzig.

  20. Gilbert and Beatrice Paul papers

    The papers consist of certificates, identification cards, and correspondence relating to Gilbert and Beatrice Paul and their experience during and after the Holocaust.