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  1. Translation of George Byfield wartime diary and album ("Oroszfront, 1942/43")

    The collection consists of an English translation of the wartime diary and album created by György Beifeld (later George Byfield), titled “Oroszfront 1942-1943: Munkaszolgálat Oroszországban” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2001.156). George Somorjai, the donor and translator, included his translations, annotations, and additional explanatory texts to each page of the album. Also included are essays on the historical background and context of the album, which describe, among other things, the participation of the Somorjai’s father, Dr. Lajos Somorjai, in the same labor battalion...

  2. Fonds Alice Ferrières (MDXXXIII)

    Diary, correspondence,and testimonies from the archives of Alice Ferrières, who ran a network (“Roseau Ferrières”) in WWII to save children. The collection includes a list of people with whom Alice Ferrières corresponded as well as testimonies of former hidden children. In the summer of 1943, as the situation for Jews in France worsened, the leaders of the Jewish Scout movement decided to close the children’s home in Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, in southwestern France, and disperse the girls living there. Some of the girls were housed in a private girls’ school in Murat, in the département of Can...

  3. Court of the First Instance in Zgierz Sąd Grodzki w Zgierzu (Sygn 2207)

    Selected files of the records so-called “Zg”. Records relate to declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes persons who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: including persons arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring the death of a person, testimonies of witnesses filled out on standard forms, correspondence and sentences of the court. That entry enabled one to subm...

  4. Cederbaum family collection

    Contains a certificate identifying Ryszarda Cederbaum, born in Łódź on June 28, 1922 (donor’s mother), daughter of Maurycy or Moszek Cederbaum and Frymeta Wislicka Cederbaum; issued in Zamość; Dated: April 3, 1941 in Polish; Certificate; identifying Marianna Jasińska, false name of donor’s mother, who was employed by the Warsaw regional labor and social welfare office in Otwock, Poland; dated: February 12, 1945; in Polish; Permit; for the official name change of Bronisław Epsztajn, son of Stefan and Anna, born in Zamość, on March 4, 1923, to: Rałowiecki; this new last name conveys to his ...

  5. Katz family collection

    Contains letters and postcards sent by Josel and Sheine Katz (donor’s paternal grandparents) in Naumiestis, Lithuania, to their sons Eliahu Arie Katz and Louis Katz (donor's father), in the United States. Also includes correspondence from Louis’s siblings, Zlata, Mendel and Enoch, to their brother and his family. The last postcard was written on March 16, 1943, by the youngest sister of Louis Katz, Rivka (or Riva) Katz, who was in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan; Rivka was the only member of the family in Lithuania who survived, and she joined her brother in the United States in 1948.

  6. Kalmar family collection

    Collection of certificates (two with translations) and photographs documenting the experiences of Laszlo Kalmar, his wife Erzsebet Halasz, and their daughter Zsuzsanna (donor) in Hungary during the Holocaust. Includes Laszlo's birth certificate, their marriage certificate, a translation of Zsuzanna's birth certificate, photos from Hungary, and a photo of the family in Australia.

  7. Dotnuva, Lithuania photograph collection

    Contains 30 prewar photographs of friends and family of the Leibowitz and Toker families in Dotnuva, Lithuania. Most are photographic postcards with Hebrew or Yiddish inscriptions on the verso.

  8. Photographic print of a teacher and students

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613473
    • English
    • overall: Height: 10.880 inches (27.635 cm) | Width: 8.880 inches (22.555 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Width: 8.690 inches (22.073 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of a teacher and students in cheder (Jewish elementary school) in Slonim, ca. 1935-38.

  9. Filantropia: Official organ of the Jewish Philanthropic Association Publicacion de la Asociación Filantropica Israelita [starting in 1980] Filantropia: Organo de la Asociación Filantropica Israelita

    Monthly serial of the Asociación Filantropica Israelita, published in Spanish and German in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Previous title: Mitteilungsblatt (Hilfsverein deutschsprechender Juden).

  10. Watercolor

    Watercolor that forms part of a portfolio depicting the Officer's Quarters in Dachau, Germany. The watercolor is titled, "Living room", and depicts a desk, table, and other furniture within the room. The watercolor is initialed "H" and dated January 1946, in the lower right corner of the verso.

  11. Amalia Willinger Gordeski papers

    The collection contains letters written to Amalia (Mali) WIllinger, who immigrated to the United States prior to World War II, from her parents and siblings in Hungary. The letters date from 1940-circa 1950s and are in Hungarian. Also included is a self-published book, "A Century of Love" by Marian Farago. The book describes the history of Marian's parents, Martin Willinger (later Martin Farago) and Edith Schwartz (later Edith Farago) including their experiences during the Holocaust and the Hungarian Revolution in 1956.

  12. Charlotte Herzog collection

    Contains photographs and documents related to Charlotte Herzog (donor's mother), and the efforts of her employers to protect her from deportation by proving she was not Jewish.

  13. Nikolaj Benno Mahler collection

    Collection of photographs, passports, scrip, documents, testimony, certificates, registration card, identity cards, depositions, travel authorization, application for reparations and correspondence relating to and documenting the experiences of Nikolaj Benno Mahler (donor's husband) during the Holocaust.

  14. Mendel and Rachel Zehnwirth papers

    Contains correspondence and documents related to obtaining an immigration visa to the United States for Mendel and Rachel Zehnwirth, dated 1946-1947. Among the documents is a letter signed by the secretary of Va'ad Ha'Hatzala, Rabbi Ya'akov Karlinski; a letter by Rabbi Shmuel Shechter; and letters sent to government officials by relatives of the couple, citizens of the USA, describing the couple's financial situation and their concern for relatives who had survived the Holocaust.

  15. cloth table covering

    One embroidered table cover for end table made by Emma Di Capua Honig (donor's mother)

  16. Portfolio cover

    Portfolio cover for set of four watercolor and ink drawings depicting different rooms within the Officer's Quarters in Dachau, Germany in February 1946. The front and back cover pages are adhered together with a strip of red and white gingham fabric, and a matching piece of fabric ties the cover together on the right. The front cover depicts the outside of the officer's quarters, with a small inset in the lower right corner showing a portion of the building titled "my corner!." The inside of the back cover shows a man and woman in traditional Bavarian dress along with other smaller drawings.

  17. George Silviu family papers

    The George Silviu family papers document George Silviu, a Romanian poet, playwright, translator and lawyer. Records include administrative and professional documents, official letters, Silviu articles and poems published in journals, personal letters, and press clippings. The collection also includes copies of extensive files now held in the Securitate Archives in Bucharest that document how Silviu was banned from publishing under his true name, arrested, and imprisoned. The collection further documents the family’s Romanian citizenship and the career of Silviu’s father, famous architect Ia...

  18. Verordnungsblatt für das Generalgouvernement

    Contains a copy of regulations of the Nazi General Government in the German zone of occupation, Krakow: "Verordnungsblatt für das Generalgouvernement", Nr 51, 20 June 1941. Among the subjects covered include a unification of the zones of occupation; an order given to the [Jewish?] communities of occupied Poland to move to Krakow, and that the city of Krakow will confiscate the property of these communities.

  19. Picture postcard, "Villa Saint-Cristophe"

    Consists of a photographic postcard depicting Villa Saint-Christophe in Canet-Plage (now Canet-en-Roussillon), France. The villa was later the site of a children's home where Jewish children from nearby Rivesaltes were sheltered by Lois Gunden Clemens (1915-2005).

  20. Imre Fleischman Faludi collection

    Contains documents and photographs relating to the donor's father, Imre Fleischmann Faludi, born on August 24, 1920 in Kesckemét, Hungary, the son of Zsigmund Fleischmann and Roza Schwimmer Fleischmann. Imre Fleischmann was conscripted by Hungarian authorities to serve as a train engineer in forced labor battalions. He was later transferred to the Bor concentration camp in Yugoslavia.