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

  1. Records of the Jewish Democratic Committee Association of Widows and War Orphans (IOVR)

    Consists of interviews conducted by the Jewish Democratic Committee’s Association of Widows and War Orphans (IOVR) with the Holocaust survivors after the war.

  2. Records of the World Jewish Congress in Romania

    World Jewish Congress census of Holocaust survivors in Romania in 1945; documents on the persecution of Jews under the Antonescu regime, deportations of Jews from Transylvania, forced labor, and other subjects (an inquiry into Adalbert Kallay); a list of administrators of property “Romanianized” from Jews.

  4. Lowenbein family photographs

    Contains three photographs (2 copies and one original) dated 1946, showing Hana Lowenbein (donor) and her mother, Piri Lowenbein. Hana Lowenbein was born in Freiburg, a subcamp of Flossenbürg.

  5. Gold family collection

    Collection of documents relating to Jacob Gold (b. 1908) and Hela Chaja Ost Gold (b. 1914) [donor's parents] who survived the Holocaust in Siberia, USSR. Includes affidavits, citizenship papers, and immigration documents, circa 1949-1956.

  6. Gorodecki and Gutgisser (Drozdowicz) families

    Papers consist of documents and photographs relating to the Gorodecki and Gutgisser (Drozdowicz) families in Warsaw, including a student ID issued to Cypa Gorodecki by the Warsaw University assigning her to sit in uneven numbered benches allotted to Jews c. 1934. In addition there is a note written in the Warsaw ghetto in spring of 1942 by Raja Minc Gutgisser to her mother Anna Minc who was on the "Aryan" side.

  7. Marek family collection

    Consists of copies of scanned letters, documents, photographs, identification paperwork, and travel documentation related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war life of Antonina Milgrom Marek (also known as Tauba), originally of Warsaw, Poland. Includes pre-war correspondence to family in the United States, post-war identity cards documenting her life in a refugee camp in Great Britain and her marriage to Kazimierz Marek.

  8. Martin Mansson negatives

    Contains negatives of photographs taken by a German solder from 1940-1945, depicting his time in the SS-Totenkopf-Standarte Kirkens and later the SS-Inf. Ftg. 9 Thule, including images from Norway and Hungary.

  9. Loew family postcards

    Consists of five postcards written from the Lwow ghetto in 1942 by the Loew family to their daughter, who was living in France.

  10. Concentration camp striped uniform jacket and pants worn by Romanian Jewish female inmate

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn43161
    • English
    • a: Height: 26.500 inches (67.31 cm) | Width: 41.000 inches (104.14 cm) b: Height: 38.000 inches (96.52 cm) | Width: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm)

    Concentration camp uniform jacket and trousers worn by 31 year old Malka Polak-Adler from summer 1944-April 1945. She received the uniform in 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland from a friend and fellow inmate to whom it had been issued. Malka wore the uniform when she was transferred in August 1944 to Bergen-Belsen in Germany. In May 1944, six weeks after Germany occupied Hungary, Malka and her parents, Leib and Gitza, were deported from the Viseu de Sus ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her parents were killed, presumably upon arrival. Malka was transferred in August to Be...

  11. Selected records of the Unitarian Service Committee and the Universalist Service Committee

    Contains selected records of the Unitarian Service Committee and Universalist Service Committee relating to relief efforts and assistance to Jewish and non-Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution before, during and after World War II in a number of countries throughout the world, including France, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, England, Switzerland, and Portugal. The collection includes mainly correspondence, reports, case files, photographs, scrapbooks and memorabilia, posters, and clippings related to the humanitarian work of the Unitarian and Universalist Service Committees, ...

  12. Jehiel Weinberg letter

    Consists of one letter, written by Rabbi Dr. Jehiel Weinberg, undated but circa 1946, to Dr. Marcus Cohen in Basel, Switzerland. In the letter, Rabbi Weinberg, the pre-war principal of the Hildesheimer Seminary in Berlin, writes about the wartime loss of his private library and asks his friend whether the Joint Distribution Committee might be able to assist him in acquiring some Jewish books recovered from Nazi plunder.

  13. Undersecretary of State for Romanization (Aryanization), Colonization, and Inventory

    Contains records from the Undersecretary of State for Romanization(Aryanization), Colonization, and Inventory relating to Aryanization in Romania. These records include: requests of refugees from Transylvania and Bessarabia to be in charge of Aryanization; lists of selling and buying shares whose owners were Jews; transfers of bonds relating to the Astra Romana Society; transfer of shares of various industrial societies; reports relating to various industrial societies; Committee on discovering Jewish goods which had been transferred to another owner to avoid being confiscated; requests and...

  14. Malka Lovy collection

    Consists of six photographs of Jews from Nowy Sad, Yugoslavia, who were later killed in the Holocaust. Includes photographs of Arpad Kraus, Malvina Weisz, Gyurka Frojnd, Ljubica Frojnd, Ethel and Gyurka Frojnd, and a large group photograph of survivors in 1945.

  15. Franz Süss letter

    Consists of one letter sent by Dachau prisoner Franz Süss to a relative named Ludmila Süss in Prague on October 1, 1944. The letter, in German, was written on Dachau stationery. In the letter, Mr. Süss describes life in Dachau and the rations he received.

  16. Hanna Herzig collection

    Contains family photographs of the Herzig and Stock families in Drohobycz, Poland before the war, and in the Foehrenwald DP camp in Germany after the war, including photographs showing Zygmunt Herzig in his official role as legal council. Includes a drawing depicting Zygmunt Herzig's sister, who was murdered in Drohobycz; identification cards of donor's parents from the DP camp; immigration application forms; receipts for donations; and general correspondence, Also includes prayer books from the Foehrenwald DP camp; contemporary photographs showing the house in Drohobycz where the donor's p...

  17. Beruh family correspondence

    The Beruh family correspondence comprises letters written between members of the Beruh family beginning after Gerda and Sonja’s transport to England in 1939 until Gerda and her mother, Nechama were reunited in 1945. The bulk of the letters are written by Gerda to her mother, though many letters include notes from Sonja as well. Three letters to the sisters from their father, Yaakov are also included. A small series of photographs are also included in this collection. Images include Gerda as a teenage girl and two images of groups of children.

  18. Inge Fischer Engel papers

    The Inge Fischer Engel papers consist of biographical materials, a diary and autograph book, photographic materials, and printed materials documenting the Fischer family from Vienna, the two years Inge and her sister spent in England, the family’s emigration to Trinidad, their internment in Trinidad, and their immigration to the United States. The collection also includes photographs documenting Inge’s uncle in Shanghai and the Canidrome where he worked as director, photographs of her husband’s family from Vienna, and student and employment records documenting her brother-inlaw, Otto Engel....

  19. Hannah Starman research collection

    Consists of photocopies of original documents collected from various archives in Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary, Austria, and Italy, pertaining to Jewish life in Slovenia from the mid-19th century to the late 20th century. Incudes copies of birth and death certificates; community membership lists; individual, community and industrial property listings; deportation lists; documents related to the aliyah of Slovenian Jews and the subsequent confiscation of their property; individual files pertaining to expropriation of Jewish properties by the Nazis and later by the Communist regime; documents per...

  20. Sara Sternlicht identification card (Kennkarte)

    Contains an identification card (Deutsches Reich Kennkarte) issued to Sara Sternlicht (donor's mother); marked with large "J" identifying her as Jewish; black and white photograph of bearer affixed; issued November 20, 1939; Vienna, Austria.