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

  1. Ruth Wertheim papers

    The Ruth Wertheim papers consists of three letters written by Ruth Wertheim following her liberation from the labor camp Marzdorf/Riesengebirge, and addressed to friends and relatives in Detroit, Michigan, 1945-1946. Also included is a newspaper clipping listing the "Nuremberg Laws," 1935.

  2. Photograph of employees in Łódź ghetto

    The photograph depicts a group of employees in the economic administration department in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland. Rachel Waner [donor's mother], seated on right, was a teacher, and in the ghetto she was the principal of a school on 6 Smugowa Street. After the closing of the schools in the fall of 1941, she taught children in the carpet workshop of the ghetto and later worked in the economic administration department along with her husband, Chaim Waner. Inka Waner Honigman [donor], standing to the left of her mother, was a high-school student and later worked in the ghetto's hat workshop.

  3. Saul Bell papers

    The papers consist of correspondence written from the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, to family in the United States, draft versions of letters written by Saul Bell in N.Y. to his family in the Warsaw ghetto, and six photographs taken before World War II of family members, some of whom perished in the Holocaust. Some captions are written in Yiddish on the verso of photographs.

  4. Henry Knepler papers

    The Henry Knepler papers include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and writings documenting Henry Knepler and his relatives, their lives before the war in Vienna, where Hugo Knepler was in the music business, Henry’s travel to England via Kindertransport and subsequent internment as an enemy alien in England and Canada, his mother’s survival in Austria by hiding under a false identity, and Hugo’s escape to Monaco, eventual arrest, and transport to Auschwitz where he did not survive. Some of these materials are photocopies. Biographical materials document the lives of Henr...

  5. Records of the Ministry of Jewish Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania (Fond 1129)

    The collection includes files of the Ministry of Jewish Affairs regarding the development and activities of Jewish communities in Lithuania during the inter-war period. The collection includes mainly correspondence with local and government authorities, local Jewish communities across Lithuania regarding budget, tax collection, salaries of Jewish community officials and their election, Jewish schools, minutes of the meetings of the Jewish councils, annual reports, and budget proposals, documents related to the Jewish emigration from Lithuania to America and the Jewish Folk bank, and newspap...

  6. Council of the Jewish community of Kaunas, Lithuania (Fond 1231)

    The collection consists of records of the Council of the Kaunas Jewish community in Lithuania, reflecting different aspects of the activities of the Jewish communities of Kaunas during the inter-war period and at the beginning of World War II. The collection includes correspondence with local and government authorities, the Ministry of Jewish Affairs, local Jewish communities across Lithuania regarding budget, tax collection, salaries of Jewish community officials, and their election. Also contains records related to Jewish schools; minutes of meetings; annual reports; budget proposals; car...

  7. War crimes investigation and trial records from the Republic of Moldova

    Contains records related to criminal investigations into war crimes and enemy collaboration in Moldova and Transnistria.

  8. Selected records of the Soviet State Extraordinary Commission to Investigate the Crimes Committed by the Nazis and their Collaborators on the territory of the Kalmyk Republic during WWII

    Contains lists of Jews and others who perished on the territory of the Kalmyk Republic during the German occupation of July - December 1942; Commission statements with detailed information about how and where the crimes were committed; and reports about the exhumation of mass graves and the investigation by forensic experts.

  9. Warsaw uprising in 1944

    Part 2. Warsaw uprising of 1944, which began on August 1 and lasted for 63 days. Buildings in Warsaw on fire during the uprising. Fighting in the streets; Polish Home Army soldiers lay communications wire. Children watch a puppet show. More destruction; a nurse hands out buckets of water from big wooden casks. People on the move in the streets amid shooting and fires. 00:17:03 Priests remove sacred objects from a church. 00:17:16 A cameraman filiming a burning building. Men bury a casket. A makeshift graveyard. Men load a rifle and shoot at a target. Several uniformed young boys watch. Peop...

  10. German News Agency Selected records from the collection "Deutsche Nachrichtenbüro" (R 34)

    Contains records related to rejection of the non-Aryan members of the Berlin Sports Club; reports from abroad (Spain, Switzerland, Italy); e.g., Jewish Security Police, Soviet cruelties in the east; documents about school attendance of Jewish Mischlinge; reports about movies, operas, dramas, books, and music; folk sport and sport education; antisemitic comments; reports about Jewish editors and actors.

  11. Atrocities - reburial of slave laborers

    Reel 2: MS German civilians digging up dead slave laborers that were buried in woods. Trees in BG. CU Two German civilians remove a corpse from grave. German civilians look at the dead slaves that were dug up and laid in lines under trees. MS German civilians in Nuremberg, Germany make coffins for the dead slave laborers. MS German load coffins on carts. German civilians walking from Nuremberg to the area where the corpses are. The dead are placed into coffins and German civilians carry them to cemetery. MS Various scenes of German civilians carrying coffins to cemetery in Nuremberg. MS, re...

  12. Miron Ioffe photographs

    Consists of three copyprints of a tombstone and obelisk erected at the place of execution of Jews of the Gusino ghetto in the Smolensk district in Russia. The donor's immediate family, including his father, Shaya Ioffe, and mother, Leah Ioffe, was killed there.

  13. Jakubowicz family portrait

    Contains a photographic portrait of the Jakubowicz family taken circa 1929 in Wielun, Poland. Standing in the back row, from left are: Chaja-Ita; Ester Szykman; Victor; Pola; Juda Idel and Mania. Sitting in the front row from left are: Chana Stawski Jakubowicz, holding Tuwia in her lap; Rachel Holtz Jakubowicz; and Herszl, Awram Zysman and Kalman Jakubowicz.

  14. Henri Levenheck photographs

    Contains photographs from the collection of Henri Levenheck, including a photograph of Paul Levenheck, a Jewish member of the FFI (Forces Francaises de l'Interieur), and photographs of children, including Henri, who spent the war in the care of the OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants). Also includes one copy of a postcard from Ephraim Levenheck to Dora Asher (the donor's parents) on 25 Jun. 1916 when he was imprisoned in Siberia as a Hungarian prisoner of war.

  15. Von Tohathy affidavit

    Contains an affidavit dated Sep. 8, 1943, written by Ludwig Victor von Tohathy. The affidavit indicates that Mr. von Tohathy was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in October 1941 by the Gestapo.

  16. Portrait of Yente Rachel Borowsky

    The black and white portrait depicts Yente Rachel Borowsky, Allen Borowsky's cousin, who perished during the Holocaust in 1942. Inscription in Yiddish on verso reads: "This is our dear brother's daughter Yente Rachel Borowsky. Killed by Hitler in 1942."

  17. Belorussian reburial photographs

    Contains three photographs taken in Chaus, Mogilen County, Belorussia, on July 6, 1958, depicting the reburial of Holocaust victims.

  18. Axelrad family papers

    The Axelrad family papers consist of immigration correspondence and forms and an Oranienburg photo album. The correspondence and forms primarily document Felix Axelrad's liquidation of his business in Vienna in the late 1930s, emigration from Vienna to Istanbul and then to the United States, his attempt to emigrate to Australia, and his efforts to help his friends Heinrich Grünberg (b. 1894 in Vienna) and Klara Török (b. 1907 in Budapest) immigrate to the United States from Istanbul. The photo album documents life in Oranienburg and Vienna and trips to Wannsee, Werbelinsee, and Berlin. It c...

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- World War I scenes; Orient Express; Austrian troops in Berlin; Toscanini in Salzburg

    World War I-era scenes: German soldiers riding horseback. British troops on the battlefield, sheltering from enemy fire, then running across the field. Quick scenes of Kaiser Wilhelm II, in a group of military men, descending a staircase and reviewing a parade of German soldiers. Women, men and children gathered on a balcony for what appears to be a wedding. This is the wedding of Archduke Charles I of Austria to Princess Zita of Parma in October 1911. The last scene shows Franz Joseph I of Austria (Habsburg) in the company of another man on a field. They have evidently been hunting: severa...

  20. 1988 "Saving the Bulgarian Jews" conference documents

    Consists of speeches and articles written on the occasion of the 1988 roundtable conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, entitled "Saving the Bulgarian Jews 1941-1944." Included are speeches by Mrs. Shulamit Shamir, Dr. Stefan Petrov, a report of the conference by the Bulgarian embassy in Washington, and a message of greetings from Todor Zhivkov.