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Language of Description: Danish
Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Szajndla Rajs work card

    Consists of one forced labor work card from the Łódź ghetto, on onion skin without backing. The signed card, which is missing a photograph, was issued to Szajndla Rajs, born in 1935, listed as an apprentice milliner. The card is undated. Szajndla (Szaindla, Szaindle) Rajs perished in the Holocaust.

  2. Nazi propaganda slides regarding America

    Consists of eleven published photographic slides produced by the NSDAP, Dienststelle Rosenberg Amt Lehrmittel, depicting Nazi propaganda of American Jewish life. Includes nine slides of politicians (Jewish and non-Jewish) with Jewish constituents (including Franklin Roosevelt, Fiorello LaGuardia, Frank Knox, Felix Frankfurter, and Herbert Lehman), images of New York City, of unemployed Americans, and of a synagogue in the city. Also includes one slide depicting a snowball fight and one of a German barn.

  3. Margot Lichtenstein collection

    Consists of loose photographs, original documents, photograph album pages, and a biography documenting the Holocaust experiences of Margot Schoenherz Freudenberg Lichtenstein, originally of Berlin. Includes identity documentation for Margot Freudenberg and her husband, Hans, loose photographs, and photograph album pages with images of their immigration from Italy to Shanghai via the Suez Canal, Eritrea, India, and Hong Kong, and of life in Shanghai. Also includes a biography of Margot Lichtenstein written by her stepdaughter, Ruth Dunkinson, incorporating Margot's stories about her experien...

  4. Sommer family papers

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war correspondence sent to and from Julius Sommer of Frankfurt, Germany, as well as Sommer's own wartime reflections of his own experiences. Includes letters written to his son Richard in the United States and son Alfred in London, his reflections on the British consular officer, Smallbones, who assisted Jews in Frankfurt in the wake of Kristallnacht, including Sommer, who immigrated to the United States in February 1939. Also includes correspondence between Alfred and Rosemary Sommer in London to Alfred's parents in the United States, 1938-1941, inclu...

  5. Lotte and Ellen Markiewicz correspondence

    Consists of Red Cross messages exchanged between Ellen Markiewicz, in London, and her mother, Lotte Markiewicz, in Berlin, between September 1940 and September 1941. The notes, which are necessarily brief, discuss welfare and were the only means of contact between Lotte and her daughter, who went to England as part of a Kindertransport. Lotte survived the war in hiding. Also includes a typed testimony, 1 page, in German, written by "Willi," a foreman in the factory where Lotte Markiewicz worked during the war, in 1961.

  6. Eleanor Kraus memoir

    Consists of one typed memoir, 166 pages, written by Eleanor Kraus in the 1960s. In the memoir, she describes her experiences, with her husband Gilbert, traveling from Philadelphia to Vienna in 1939 to bring 50 children (later referred to as "the 50 Children") to the United States with the support of the Brith Sholom organization.

  7. Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus collection

    Consists of photographs, copyprints, identity paperwork, publications, and typed proceedings related to the work of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus to bring 50 children (later referred to as "the 50 Children") from Vienna to the United States in 1939. Includes photographs and copies of the trip and arrival of the children, original identity paperwork (including visas and passports) for the children, and publications and typed proceedings related to the 1939 and 1940 Brith Sholom annual conference. Also includes a wartime story handwritten by Ellen Kraus (daughter of Gilbert and Eleanor) about her...

  8. Herman Kutun collection

    Consists of loose photographs and photograph album pages from the collection of Herman Kutun, a member of the Counter-Intelligence Corps and Army Air Corps. The photographs depict Kutun, his fellow soldiers, displaced persons, and local people in Oberammergau, Kitzingen, and Bad Kissingen. Many of the photographs were taken at a displaced persons camp in Garmisch.

  9. Levi and Frank families collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, copy prints and photographs relating to the Levi and Frank families in Germany and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust, including their immigration to the United States, correspondence with and attempts to assist family who remained in Germany, and receipt of restitution.

  10. Sijes Research: Zigeuners [Romani] (Fond 263b, 4a-4c)

    This collection contains research materials collected by Dr. B.A. Sijes and his students at the University of Amsterdam: Thera de Graaf, Annemarie Kloosterman, Annelies Visser, Jos van Loenen and Gertjan van Setten. Materials relate the Nazi persecution of Roma and Sinti. Part of the collection contains interviews with Roma and Sinti. At the end of the 1960s, B.A. Sijes focused his research on Dutch Roma and Sinti, but was not able to work with the material collected through unforeseen circumstances, and asked five of his students to continue his work. As a result of this work, Dr. Sijes pu...

  11. Wagenaar: Proces Demjanjuk (Fond 272)

    This collection contains records of Prof. Dr. Willem Albert Wagenaar who in 1987 received the request to testify as an expert witness within the court process that the state of Israel had started against Ivan Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk was born in 1920 in Ukraine and immigrated as John Demjanjuk in 1952 to the United States. He was recognized by several people as "Ivan the Terrible" in connection with the murder of 850,000 in the gas chanbers of Treblinka. Wagenaar disputed these testimonies in his statement before the court.These records include correspondence wtih other expert witnesses about t...

  12. Correspondence of collaborators (Fond 241)

    The collection includes correspondence of Dutch volunteers who fought with the Germans on several fronts. Correspondence relates primarily to Dutch volunteers of the Nationalsozialisches Kraftfahrkorps (NSKK - National Socialist Motor Corps), with their families in the Netherlands. It also includes correspondence of members of the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (NSB- National Socialist Movement), who emigrated to the German refugee camps after September 1944.

  13. Correspondence of Jewish citizens (Fond 247)

    Correspondence of Jewish families during the German occupation of the Netherlands and their deportation. This collection includes (copies of) letters that relatives and acquaintances wrote to each other, often supplemented with photographs, identification cards, diaries and other personal documents. The emphasis is on the period of the occupation, but some files of correspondence dates from the 1930s through the late 1940s

  14. Joseph Bookowich photographs

    Consists of photographs from the collection of Joseph Michael Bookowich (later Brooks), a member of the 339th Ordinance Depot Company, depicting the capture of Hermann Göring and the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. The photographs taken in Dachau depict prisoners showing various aspects of camp life, while the photographs of Göring depict him posing and talking to his American captors. Also includes mass produced photographs of women mourning the death of children, who appear to have died in a bombing raid, possibly in eastern Europe.

  15. Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society passenger cards of the MS St. Louis

    The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society passenger cards of the S.S. [sic; actually M.S.] St. Louis were prepared to coordinate fundraising in support of individuals and families once the ship returned to Europe after an unsuccessful attempt to land in Cuba in 1939. The cards contain passenger information including names, locations, occupations, and status of immigration applications to the United States, if any. The cards also document the names of relatives in the United States and elsewhere, as well as money on deposit with the National Refugee Service on behalf of individual refugees.

  16. Wofford Lewis collection

    Consists of Wofford Lewis's copy of "Nurnberg" by Charles Alexander (Nurnberg, Germany: Printed by Karl Ulrich & Co., 1946) along with his documents (some pasted inside the book) related to his time at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, in August 1946. Includes his signed gallery ticket (upgraded to "press"), dining room permission, military authorization for the trip, IMT brochure, copies of 1945 regulations regarding treatment of prisoners on trial, and a description of the IMT heraldic design.

  17. Concentration camp uniform dress worn by a Jewish Czech inmate

    Concentration camp uniform dress worn by Leopoldine “Poldi” Langer in Leipzig-Schoenfeld concentration camp from August 4, 1944, until she was on a death march in late April 1945. On March 15, 1939, Germany annexed the region of Czechoslovakia, including Orlau, where Poldi lived with her husband Hans. Hans was arrested in April, escaped after two days, and the couple fled to Prokocim, Poland, near Krakow. That September, Germany invaded Poland. In January 1941, Poldi and Hans were arrested and sent to Prokocim labor camp. In November 1942, they were transferred to Płaszów slave labor camp. ...

  18. Oscar Stein papers

    Collection of manuscript texts of poetry copied from underground periodicals, circa 1938, which had originated in Germany during the period from 1933-1936, along with a typescript memoir by Stein, circa 2015-2016, which describes his family's experiences following the German annexation of Austria and the family's subsequent escape. The underground publications were received and copied by Oscar Stein while he was employed at the Palästina Amt in Vienna. Approximately 80 leaves, containing over 100 poems, from authors such as Bertolt Brecht, Stefan Heym, Oskar Maria Graf, Walter Mehring, Eric...

  19. Ludwig Stern narrative about Theresienstadt

    One mimeographed typescript narrative, 16 pages, by Ludwig Stern, of Giessen, Germany, describing his experiences of being deported and interned at Theresienstadt from 1942-1945, as well as other experiences of persecution as a Jew in Germany prior to that. Written circa 1945. Stern describes various facets of life in Theresienstadt and of his own experiences there, including the conditions of lodging, the division and separation of families, the census of November 1943, visits to the camp by various delegations, including the visit of the Danish Red Cross, poor sanitary conditions, hospita...

  20. Adler and Gumpert family papers

    One file of documents pertaining to the family of the donor's parents and their families, including copies of correspondence from Johanna Adler (donor's grandmother), written from Heilbronn, Germany, to the donor's father, Robert Adler, 1940-1941, after he had immigrated to the United States and shortly before her deportation to Theresienstadt. Also includes restitution paperwork for the donor's mother, Rolande (Meyerfeld) Gumpert, documenting her efforts to obtain compensation for properties belonging to her late husband's family in Heilbronn and her own family in Giessen, 1964-1966, and a...