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

  1. Irena and Manes Wysoki papers

    Repatriation identification: issued to the Drimmer family from Drohobycz, allowing them to leave the USSR for Poland, as Polish citizens. They arrived in Walbrzych, Poland on January 13, 1946. Collection of photographs: images of the Wysoki family after their escape from German occupied Poland to Magnitogorsk, Soviet Union and after the war in Walbrzych, Poland. Report card: issued to Manes Wysocki in the USSR for the year 1944-1945 and 1945-1946; two letters written by the niece of Perla Wysoki, who survived the Auschwitz death camp, dated 1947

  2. Uri Inbal collection

    The Uri Inbal collection consists of photographs and documents relating to Miriam Beitner Nebel and Ernst Nebel in the Cham DP camp in Germany after the war, as well as reparation documents. Also includes photographs depicting Miriam and Ernst Nebel in the DP camp with their first born son Uri, dated circa 1947.

  3. Janina Ecker collection

    Photographs (24) and identification cards (3) relating to experiences of the donor's extended family in Krakow, Poland, from World War I through occupation of Poland in World War II.

  4. Asher and Sara Laor photograph collection

    Contains eleven photographs of Asher and Sara Laor in the displaced persons camp at Landsberg am Lech, circa 1945.

  5. Genowefa Gasior collection

    Consists of photocopies of notarized translations and a letter attesting to the wartime experiences of Genowefa Dobrzawska Marcjan-Gasior, originally of Boryslawa, Poland. During the war, Mrs. Gasior and her family hid a Jewish man named Naftula Strauser (later Marian Stasinski) and a Jewish woman named Zofia Lawoczkin in their home. The collection includes a copy of a letter written by Mrs. Gasior and translations of the statements of wartime neighbors, Danuta Wesolowska and Janina Ziemianska, both of whom knew that the Gasiors were hiding Jews.

  6. "Shari's Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 52 pages, entitled "Shari's Story" by Charlotte Wiesner Kuna, originally of Michalovce, Czechoslovakia. In the memoir, she describes pre-war family life in Michalovce, the beginning of anti-Jewish restrictions, and the fate of many friends and family members in Michalovce. In 1944, Charlotte (known as Shari or Shandele) and her sister received identity papers with Aryan names and moved around frequently to escape the Gestapo. They were imprisoned by the Gestapo in the spring of 1945, escaped after five weeks, hiding until they were liberated. She reunited with surviv...

  7. Gideon Poraz Posner collection

    The collection consists of pre-war and post-war depictions of the Posner family, including Salomon Posner and his wife Sabina Posner, and their daughter Ester Tusia Posner, both of whom perished during the Holocaust. Also includes photographs of Salomon's son Gideon (b. 1948) and his second wife Janka Raduszycka.

  8. Gusti Shoval photograph collection

    Contains two photographic prints of Sabina Sheindl Klapholc and Chaim Jakub Klapholc in the Chrzanow ghetto, circa 1941.

  9. Jozef Weiler papers

    The Jozef Weiler papers include biographical material, a diary, and photographs relating to Jozef and Helena Weiler’s pre-war and wartime experiences in Poland. The collection includes a repatriation card issued to Jozef, Helena, and their son, Ryszard, for moving from Drohobycz, Poland to Wrocław, Poland, a certificate stating that Jozef arrived from Drohobycz and was sent to Boza Gora (Mszana, Poland), and pre-war photographs of Jozef and Helena taken in Drohobycz, Poland. The collection also includes a diary written by Jozef on the back of 1939 lab reports from a Galicja oil company docu...

  10. John Rothschild memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 4 pages, written by John J. Rothschild, originally of Zurich, Switzerland. In his memoir, Mr. Rothschild, who moved to France in 1934, describes meeting his future wife, Renée, who was originally from Germany. After the German invasion of France, he and Renée were separated and he returned to Switzerland in 1941. His family was deported from France to Auschwitz in July 1942 where they perished. Renée was imprisoned in Rivesaltes and was on a list to be deported east in October 1942 when Mr. Rothschild was able to intervene. Together they escaped back to Switzerland a...

  11. Jacques Ribons collection

    Consists of color copies of the 1940 civil records book from Strezemieszyce Wielkie, Poland, documenting the births and marriages of members of the Rybsztejn family. Also includes post-war documentation of Jakub Rybsztejn (later Jacques Ribons), including his identification card as a displaced person and menus, identity documentation, and a postcard related to his 1947 immigration to the United States on the MS Gripsholm.

  12. "Befriending a Polish Prisoner of the Landsberg Concentration Camp in Germany"

    Consists of one written testimony entitled "Befriending a Polish Prisoner of the Landsberg Concentration Camp in Germany" by Sgt. George C. English, written in July 2010. In the testimony, Sgt. English describes helping a newly liberated prisoner to get new clothes and food in preparation for his return to Poland.

  13. Laurel Terry collection

    Consists of a small book entitled "Mitglieder=Grundbuch" consisting of the handwritten names and membership numbers of members of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (League of German Girls) from an unknown town. Also includes a Russian postcard sent to Lemberg in 1943 depicting a drawing of frontier men discovering a Russian town, and a photograph of a group of young men in uniform standing with Nazi flags in Neuburg an der Donau, Germany.

  14. Association of Immigrants from Germany (and Austria) - Association of Immigrants from Central Europe - "Aliya Hadasha Party", Tel-Aviv (J18)

    Contains records related to Jewish immigrants to Palestine (and later the State of Israel) from various countries in Central Europe, including Germany and Austria, starting from the immediate pre-war period. Includes correspondence and reports on various immigration-related and political issues, speeches by members of the Association, communication with various organizations, and protocols of the “new immigration” management center. Also includes the papers of Dr. Max Kreuzberger featuring correspondence regarding Jewish property restitution, war compensation and matters regarding immigrati...

  15. Emissaries Section (S86)

    Contains records of Israeli delegations in various countries of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, including the records of Zionist organizations abroad such as Youth Aliyah and Keren Hayesod. Features reports on the Jewish situation including Jewish refugee and DP camps after the war, negotiations with immigration agencies, cultural material that was prepared and sent around the world, and various other documentation.

  16. Torah scroll fragment found in the Siedlce ghetto

    Torah fragment found in the street in the Siedlce Ghetto, Poland, in 1942.

  17. Youth Aliyah Department, Continental/European Office, Geneva - Paris, L58

    Contains records of the immediate post-war period of the Youth Aliyah. These records include correspondence regarding orphanages in Italy and France, records from the orphanages “Cambous” and “Rocquefort La Bedoule,” correspondence with the Youth Aliyah offices in Geneva, Marseille, Paris and Jerusalem, personal files, and other material. Also includes correspondence with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc. and the World Zionist Organization. Types of documents include lists of children, questionnaires, and various certificates (health reports, exit and entrance visas, em...

  18. Flora Kahn collection

    Consists of one money order sent on January 6, 1941 transmitting seventy dollars to Flora Kahn, listing her address as Camp de Gurs, France.

  19. Robert Waitz collection

    Consists of articles written by Dr. Georges Hauptmann regarding the work and Holocaust experiences of Professor Robert Waitz. Professor Waitz, a hematologist, was deported to Auschwitz in October 1943, where he worked as a doctor in the prisoner's hospital in Monowitz. He was liberated from Buchenwald in April 1945. Professor Waitz was later president of the International Auschwitz Committee between 1960-1967 and the collection contains speeches he made in that capacity as well as speeches and articles regarding his research on the consequences of deportation and medical experimentation, pa...

  20. Maurice Levitt collection

    Consists of a notebook and handwritten loose notebook pages written by Maurice Levitt, along with photographs taken at displaced persons camp. Levitt, a member of the United States military, worked for the Frankfurt Jewish GI Council, an organization of Jewish soldiers seeking to provide supplies and cultural activities for displaced persons. The handwritten pages document his experiences in 1946 and 1947, while the photographs show aid workers and displaced persons at the Babenhausen and Lindenfels DP camps, among others.