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

  1. Kibel and Pollaczek families collection

    The Kibel and Pollaczek families collection consist of correspondence, identification documents, and immigration documents related to the Kibel family, originally of Vienna, Austria and the Pollaczek family, originally of Berlin, Germany. The correspondence is between Robert and Therese Kibel and their sons, Otto, Fritz, and Walter Kibel, who had escaped Austria in 1938. The correspondence begins in 1938 and ends in 1941 when Robert and Therese Kibel were deported from Vienna to the Opole ghetto. The collection also includes immigration documents related to Fritz Kibel. The collection also ...

  2. Ernest Lowe collection

    The Ernest Lowe collection consists of documents and photographs related to the wartime experiences of Ernest Lowe (born Ernst Loewy/Löwy), who was born in Volenice, Czechoslovakia and raised in Vienna, Austria. Includes pre-war school documentation and report cards, documents related to his 1939 immigration to the United States, and family photographs of Ernest Lowe, his wife Valerie, and the extended Loewy family. Also includes oral history transcripts of interview with Valerie Ernei Lowe, who spent the war in hiding in Slovakia, and with Marianne (Mimi) Lowe Cahn, Ernest's sister, who im...

  3. Oral history interview with James Kennedy

  4. Majer Feliks Gorewicz collection

    Collection of documents and photographs documenting the experiences of Majer Feliks Gorewicz (donor's father) during the Holocaust and after his liberation. Majer Feliks was originally from Kielce, Poland where he owned and operated a bar and restaurant. He was imprisoned in Stalag VIIa in Moosburg and subsequently sent to the Auschwitz, Dachau, and Flossenbürg concentration camps. He was liberated by American troops in April 1945.

  5. Eva Shlamovitz photograph collection

    The Eva Shlamovitz photograph collection consists of 232 photographs from Braunschweig, Germany and one copy print from Nuremberg, Germany documenting the experiences of Eva Shlamovitz, who was a relief worker with the Jewish Hospitality Committee, part of the Council of Voluntary War Work in the British Zone following the Holocaust.

  6. Stanley Squire photograph collection

    Collection of 18 photographs documenting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp taken by Stanley F. Squire (donor's father-in-law) while he was a solder in the U.S. Army.

  7. "Surviving the Holocaust"

    Consists of one memoir, 30 pages, entitled "Surviving the Holocaust" by Dr. Ilse Leeser, originally of Cologne, Germany. In the memoir, she describes her memories of Kristallnacht, the arrest of her father and uncles, and being sent, with her sister, to live with family friends in the Netherlands in 1939. Her parents later joined them and she describes the occupation of the Netherlands and going into hiding with the Verhoevens family in Utrecht. Her sister joined an underground organization while her parents were deported and killed at Sobibor before they could go into hiding. She describes...

  8. Luba Saj-Cholhan collection

    Consists of articles, photocopies, and certificates related to the Holocaust experiences of Luba Saj-Cholhan, who was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 2009. Originally of Ternopol, in the Ukraine, Ms. Saj-Cholhan both hid her friend Mina Berkowitz and helped her escape to Austria under a false identity. Includes the program, her remarks, photographs, and the certificate from the recognition ceremony, as well as newspaper articles reporting on the ceremony and on her story.

  9. Smietanowski family papers

    Contains fifteen photographs, identification documents, and one postcard, documenting the experiences of Jozef and Irena Smietanowski, of Warsaw. Includes German-issued identification card for Irena Smietanowska (1942), two identification cards issued to Jozef in 1939, and one issued to the couple in 1938. Also, one postcard sent to Irena Smietanowska from friends in Rovno, 1940.

  10. Krystyna Siwek-Wilczynska collection

    Four (4) photographs illustrating the experiences of the Diament family before the war and the donor in hiding during the Holocaust in France.

  11. Teresa Ciarkowska Schmitz papers

    Contains five photographs of a family, appear to be pre-war or wartime, including wedding portrait and portraits of child. Also includes one document, handcopied and notarized in 1993, from record book for 1943-1944, documenting a ceremony that took place in the Heart of Jesus Catholic parish in Warsaw in May 1943, perhaps for baptism or confirmation of Teresa Elzbieta Ciarkowska.

  12. Harold Geller collection

    Consists of the original ketubah for the marriage of Aron Gola, originally of Kielce, Poland, and Anna Czerkanska (alternatively Czarlonski), originally of Smargon, Poland, who married at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, Also includes the marriage registration document which was submitted to the Central Jewish Committee of Bergen-Belsen and a copy of a 2009 letter from the International Tracing Service providing information about the Holocaust experiences of the Golas. The ketubah dates the wedding as October 19, 1945, while the registration document lists is as February 19, 1946.

  13. Naum Roshal memoirs

    The Naum Roshal memoirs include a printed and bound copy of Book 1 of Naum Roshal’s memoirs, “My Memories,” covering the years 1926-1945 and describing Roshal’s childhood, the family’s 1941 evacuation from Kapcevičy, Ukraine to Ufa, Bashkir ASSR, and his experiences as a Jewish soldier in the Red Army from 1943-1945. The collection also includes a digital copy of Book 1 of Roshal’s memoirs along with digital copies of Book 2 and Book 3 describing Roshal’s experiences during the periods 1945-1959 and 1959-1999, including his immigration to the United States. The memoirs also include reproduc...

  14. "Stolpersteine"

    Consists of one DVD containing a documentary, approximately 22 minutes, regarding the Stolpersteine in Berlin. The Stolpersteine, which translates to stumbling blocks, are small markers that memorialize those who previously lived at specific addresses. This DVD focuses on the Stolpersteine of Siegfried and Marie Perl, who were deported from Berlin to Theresienstandt in July 1942; Siegfried perished there in September 1943, while Marie was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. It also focuses on the memorial for Selma Heimann, who was deported in September 1942 and killed in Raasiku, Estonia. Mrs. ...

  15. W.H. Kessel letters

    Consists of color photocopies of two letters, dated April 1940 and March 1941, which were sent from Frejda Brojdo, of Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania, to W.H. (William) Kessel of Lousiville, Kentucky. In the letters, the author, who was an aunt of either Mr. or Mrs. Kessel and wrote in Yiddish, thank the Kessels for sending money and ask for help to secure a visa to emigrate to the United States. Also includes copies of four photographs of family in pre-war Lithuania. English translations of the letters are included.

  16. Geneva Office of the Zionist Organization and of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (L22)

    Contains various records from the Geneva Office of the Zionist Organization and of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, including correspondence of the World Zionist Organization offices; the Jewish Agency offices in London; newspaper offices in different countries; the Jewish National Fund and the Keren Hayesod in different countries; and correspondence with Jewish and Zionist organizations and with the League of Nations. Also among the records are correspondence regarding the transfer of funds from various countries; immigration to Israel; the Zionist Congress; reports about the persecution o...

  17. Palestine Office of the Jewish Agency, Trieste (L48)

    Contains records of the Palestine Office of the Jewish Agency, Trieste, and a branch of the Jewish Agency’s Aliyah department. The Palestine Office was involved in distributing Aliyah certificates, financial matters, transferring immigrants’ luggage and property to Israel and documenting information regarding Jewish property from Italy which was stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War. The collection also contains correspondence with other Jewish Agency offices in Italy and various name lists of immigrants, hospitalization records before immigration, correspondence and agreements wi...

  18. Association of Immigrants from Poland, Tel Aviv (J20)

    Contains records of the Association of Immigrants from Poland that was active in Israel, 1942-1961. Includes meeting protocols, various name lists, questionnaires, and newspaper clippings relating to assistance to Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors by giving out loans, finding work, and reuniting families after the war. In addition, the organization created name lists of Holocaust survivors still remaining in Europe, and of those who immigrated to Palestine/Israel.

  19. Avraham Polack collection

    The Avraham Polack papers contain letters relating to the Polack family in Haifa, Israel, and in particular Avraham Polack’s imprisonment with other Irgun and Lehi members in several British detention camps in Africa from 1944-1947. The letters provide detailed descriptions of his daily life within the camps and reflect Polack’s concern for his family. Other letters relate to Avraham’s continuing education while imprisoned as well as notifications and receipts for packages and educational materials that were sent to Avraham Polack during his imprisonment. The papers also contain the corresp...

  20. "All Paths Lead to Rome"

    Consists of one handwritten poem, three pages, entitled "All Paths Lead to Rome" by Yitzchak Yitzchak, which was the pseudonym of Yitzchak Ben Shaul, who wrote this poem in Bari, Italy, in late 1944. The poem was written for the Jewish Brigade troupe of music and entertainment in Italy.