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  1. Underground archives of the Warsaw Ghetto : Ringelblum Archives Konspiracyjne archiwum getta Warszawskiego : Archiwum Ringelbluma

    Contains some 25,000 pages of more than 6,000 documents relating to the lives of the Jewish population living within the borders of occupied Poland from September 1939 to the end of February 1943. The collection contains questionnaires, reports, journals, diaries, memoirs, journal articles, literary works, letters, notices, copies of official correspondence, protocols of the deliberations of ghetto institutions, identity cards, postal notices, advertisements, medical prescriptions, business stationery, wrapping paper used in the ghetto, outlines of scholarly and artistic works, school and u...

  2. Virtual Collection Terezin

    • ehri terezin research guide
    • English

    The aim of the EHRI Terezín Research Guide is to create a comprehensive, innovative and easy to use guide through the dispersed and fragmented Terezín (Theresienstadt) archival material and to empower further research on the history of the ghetto. The Terezín Research Guide illustrates the primary raison d'être of EHRI - to connect collections spread in many archives and in more countries. EHRI research guides demonstrate what a collaborative archival project can achieve and how archivists can redefine their tasks beyond providing physical access and creating finding aids restricted to the ...

  3. Hans Prause

    Hans Prause was an engineer with the German Reichsbahn who was stationed in Warsaw, Radom, Lvov, and Malkinia. He talks about the good relations between the German and Polish railroads, preparing trains before the invasion of the USSR, the situation in Lvov, hostile relations between the Poles and the Jews, and visiting the Warsaw ghetto. He defends the fact that he signed orders by saying that the trains would have gone regardless of anyone's signature. He defends Ganzenmüller regarding transports to Treblinka. FILM ID 3331 -- Camera Rolls #1-4 -- 01:00:07 to 01:33:56 Rolls 1-2 Prause sits...

  4. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Yagur

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Yagur Documents (photocopy): I. Regarding the Teheran Children: 17/11/1942 - Yagur Diary, meeting of the secretariat and the administration of the school regarding accepting the Teheran Children; 15/12//1942 - Diary entry 1376 - Draft of Ada to organize the absorption of the refugee children arriving from Iran; 29/12/1942 - Diary entry 1382 - General meeting in which it was decided to draft Ada; 11/01/1943 - Diary entry 1390 - Meeting regard...

  5. Monique Joseph papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Monique Joseph (born Helga Kaufmann), originally of Cologne, Germany, her parents Caroline and Sallly Kaufmann, as well as her Husband Theophile Joseph and his family. Included are identification papers, false-identity documents, an autograph album, immigration papers, correspondence, memoirs, and photographs. Biographical material related to Monique includes address books, an autograph album, identification papers including a French passport; false-identity documents under the name of Monique Colin; post-war documents regarding her ...

  6. New York

    Location filming of scenes in New York City for SHOAH. FILM ID 3449 -- Camera Rolls NY 39.39A.139-142.161 La Ville -- 01:00:01 to 01:08:51 Car on Brooklyn Bridge going into Manhattan. World Trade Center (WTC) and Woolworth Building on left. Manhattan Municipal Building on right. Car on BB going towards Brooklyn. Financial District straight ahead. Major buildings from left to right Chemical Bank Building (at far left), 120 Wall Street (stepped design). The two tall buildings in BG are First National City Trust Co. and 60 Wall Street (the tallest building in this group). 01:00:41 First, a vie...

  7. Cardboard backed Star of David badge worn by a Jewish Romanian forced laborer

    Yellow cloth Star of David badge worn by Ancsel Feuerwerker (later Arthur Feuer) while serving in a Hungarian forced labor battalion in Szaszregen (Reghin), Romania, from October 1942 to September 1944. Ancsel, his parents, 7 siblings, and many relatives lived in Craciunesti, Romania, an area of northern Transylvania ceded to Hungary, a German ally, in August 1940, as part of the second Vienna Award. In October 1942, Ancsel was conscripted into a labor battalion based in Szaszregen (Reghin), Romania. Ancsel’s battalion put-up tar-covered telephone poles for 8 or 9 months, and was then moved...

  8. Pocket watch with chain traded for food by a concentration camp inmate and recovered postwar

    Gold pocket watch with chain and engraved floral design traded by Ana Waldner for more food in the munitions factory where she was a forced laborer from 1942-1945. It had belonged to her husband, Chaim, and Ana hid it in the lining of her coat before he was deported from Krakow, Poland. After the war, Hannah tracked down the factory manager to ask for the return of the watch. She believes that he returned it due to fear of being found out and tried as a collaborator by the Russians. Ana and her family were imprisoned in the Krakow ghetto following the German invasion of Poland in 1939, then...

  9. Fred Strauss papers

    The Fred Strauss papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Fred Strauss’ attendance at the Israelitische Waisenanstalt school in Frankfurt, his inclusion in a Kindertransport from Frankfurt to Paris in 1939, his life as a child refugee in OSE homes in France, his immigration to the United States as part of an USCOM children’s transport from Lisbon in June 1941, his mother’s death in 1943, his move to New York, and his enlistment in the United States Army. Biographical materials include identification papers, travel papers, and m...

  10. Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation

    La constitution d’une vidéothèque de témoignages, à l’époque où n’existait aucune autre Fondation de mémoire, a fait l’objet d’une décision du Conseil d’Administration prise en 1992, suivie de la constitution d’une commission compétente dont la présidence a incombé à Madame Manette MartinChauffier que son emploi au sein de l’Institut National de l’Audiovisuel et les compétences qu’elle y avait acquises, comme ses liens personnels et familiaux avec le monde de la déportation qualifiait mieux que quiconque pour assumer une telle fonction. La commission comportait quatre historiens de l’Instit...

  11. Black velvet embroidered tefillin bag buried for safekeeping while owner in hiding

    Black velvet pouch used to hold his tefillin, prayer boxes worn by Jewish males during morning prayer services, buried for safekeeping with other religious items by Johanna Baruch Boas while she lived in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, from 1942-1944. It originally belonged to her husband, Bernhard, who died in Berlin, Germany, in 1932. She brought it with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939 with her daughter’s family. Germany occupied Belgium in May 1940 and soon there were frequent deportations of Jews to concentration camps. Johanna had a non-Jewish landlady who hid he...

  12. Susan Warsinger papers

    The Susan Warsinger (Hilsenrath) papers comprise documents and photographs related to Susan Warsinger’s Holocaust experiences as a Jewish child from Bad Kreuznach, Germany who took refuge in France from 1939 until she immigrated to the United States in 1941. Much of the collection pertains to Susan’s life while living in the OSE home Chateau les Morelles in Broût-Vernet, France, which she describes in a diary and through a series of correspondence to her parents and little brother in the United States. Also comprised is correspondence with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and American Frien...

  13. "Autobiographies of Hyman and Molly Lader"

    Consists of one typed manuscript, 65 pages with photographs, entitled "Autobiographies of Hyman and Molly Lader," which was put together by the Laders' children in 2001. The manuscript, based on oral and written testimonies of the Laders, is split into two parts. Hyman Lader (born Chaim Lajdor) describes his childhood and family life in Łódź; the immigration of the rest of his family to the United States; working as a professional musician; his escape to the Soviet Union, where he married; his experiences in the Red Army; and post-war immigration with his family to Israel, Canada, and event...

  14. Leonard and Edith Ehrlich research papers

    The Leonard and Edith Ehrlich research papers consist of correspondence, copied documents, interview transcripts, trial transcripts, notes, typescript texts, and other similar materials compiled during the research and writing of a book to be titled “Choices Under Duress of the Holocaust,” an examination of the leadership of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Congregation of Vienna, or IKG) and the Jewish Council of Theresienstadt, and in particular the roles of Benjamin Murmelstein and Josef Löwenherz, in response to Nazi persecution of the Jewish community following the annexat...

  15. Postwar visionary painting commemorating the first deportation of Jews from Drancy by a Turkish Jewish woman who witnessed the event

    Mystical oil painting created by Louise Abouaf Starr in 2003 to commemorate March 27, 1942, the day she witnessed the first deportation of Jewish prisoners from Drancy via train from Paris. The colorful painting features train cars loaded with prisoners surrounded by symbolic images of angels, animals, and the Torah. On March 27, Louise, age 23, and her mother went to the station looking for her father and brother. They were warned not to go onto the platform, since German soldiers threatened to shoot unauthorized persons. They bought a ticket and snuck onto quay one and hid under a corner ...

  16. Edith Horn family papers

    Correspondence regarding the attempt by the Horn family, originally of Vorst, Germany, to obtain restitution from the German government, primarily for property seized from them during the Holocaust. Correspondence is between representatives of the West German government, and attorneys representing the families of Karl and Irene Horn (and their son Werner), as well as Max and Hilde Horn (and their daughter, Edith), in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Germany, between 1949 and 1981. Also included is family correspondence from a the brother of Irene Horn, Walter Eckstein, in Kibbutz Givat Hayim Ichud...

  17. Apsel-Szulchan family. Collection

    This collection contains the following documents: a Jewish calendar for the year 1942-1943 ; six Polish Zloty bank notes ; a letter regarding the delivery of a uniform to a member of a the Flemish SS ; a photocopy of an Ausweis exempting Moses Pinkas alias Maurice Apsel, his wife Fanni Szulchan, their children Paula and Renée Apsel, and Fanni’s mother Chaja Richter from the anti-Jewish decrees as their names occurred on a list with candidates for the German-Palestinian exchange ; a press clipping regarding the post-war trial of the gang of Lucie Delchambre who had denounced Jews during the ...

  18. Grynfeld and Grynglas families' papers

    The papers consist of a registration form ("Anmeldung") and eight photographs 2 of which are adhered to documents that contain text relating to the experiences of the Grynfeld-Grynglas familes in Łódź, Poland, and the displaced persons camp in Leipheim, Germany.

  19. "My Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 42 pages, entitled "My Story," written in 2005 by Eva Biro Slott, originally of Szentes, Hungary. She describes her childhood in Hungary, the deaths of her parents in 1931, and living with various relatives. In 1944, she was living in Budapest and writes about the German invasion of Hungary. She was sent to forced labor but was soon released, returned to Budapest, and described life in wartime Budapest. After the war ended, she made her way to the American zone of Germany, reconnected with her brother, who had immigrated to the United States previously and was a memb...

  20. Rosendahl and Blasbalg family papers

    Correspondence, telegrams, passports, immigration and naturalization documents, birth certificates, educational records, and other documents, related to the immigration of Ernst and Jenny Rosendahl (Blasbalg) from Germany to France, and then the United States; the immigration of Mrs. Rosendahl's sister, Gerda Miller, first to Palestine and then to Britain and the United States; and attempts to help their father, Fritz Blasbalg, emigrate from Germany, and then from German-occupied Netherlands, which were ultimately unsuccessful. The files concerning Fritz Blasblag primarily contain correspon...