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  1. Peter Bela Hess correspondence

    The collection consists of one letter (enclosed in envelope) and one postcard from Dachau concentration camp written by Peter Bela Hess (donor's father) to Frieda Zeilinger (donor's grandmother). The letter is dated December 3, 1938 and the postcard is dated November 18, 1938. All are official camp stationary printed with "Konzentrationslager Dachau 3 K."

  2. Agathe Szarvas collection

    The collection consists of 42 postcards written by members of a labor battalion in Hungary between 1940-1944. A majority of the letters are dated from 1944 and are largely addressed to Dr. Laszlo Vamberi in Letka, Budapest or Tulek, and Dr. Viktor Harmos in Budapest.

  3. Laboschiner family papers

    The papers consist of 2 documents issued by "Ministere des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre" in Paris. The first document, along with a second vintage copy of the original, states that Leo Laboschiner [donor's uncle] was arrested in Nice, France, interned in Drancy transit camp, deported August 28, 1942 "in direction of Auschwitz." The second document, also issued by the above-mentioned organization requesting to convey information regarding Leo Laboschiner, was sent to "Madame Oling" [donor's mother], Mr. Laboschiner's sister in New York from Paris.

  4. Photograph of Polish women being led by German soldiers to execution

    Consists of one photograph of Polish women being led through the woods by German soldiers to be executed.

  5. Dried flowers kept within a memorial book saved by a Hungarian Jewish family while in hiding

    Dried flowers preserved from the funeral for Samu Kornhauser by his widow Malvina. She pressed the flowers in the memorial book, Emlekezesek Konyvet, [Book of Remembrance] between pages 34 and 35. The book is record 1999.282.4. The book was preserved during World War II by Malvina, her daughter Margit Pick, her husband Istvan and son Gyorgy. Malvina, ten year old Gyorgy, and his parents lived in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, from November 1944-January 1945. Hungary, an ally of Nazi Germany, had adopted similar anti-Jewish laws in the 1930s. Istvan, an engineer, lost his job in May 1939 becau...

  6. Ida Friedman Trushin photograph collection

    The collection consists of 49 photographs and a photograph envelope relating mainly to Ida Friedman Trushin and her life and family in Poland before World War II.

  7. Babette and Justin Isner letter

    The Babette and Justin Isner letter was written by a Nuremberg couple in Boulogne and describes their unsuccessful attempt to immigrate to Cuba via the MS St. Louis and their plans to find refuge in France.

  8. Wolf Baumgarten papers

    The Wolf Baumgarten papers consist of biographical materials documenting Baumgarten's Polish repatriation and the lives and deaths of his family members; correspondence between Baumgarten and his family and friends regarding their experiences in Prztytk, the Łódź and Szydłowiec ghettos, and the Soviet Union; scrip from the Łódź ghetto; photographs of Izak Baumgarten in Łódź, a burning synagogue, a Bytom synagogue, and Jewish men in Poland; and a Yizkor book for Przytyk.

  9. Gerry Blumenfeld papers

    The papers consist of 33 photographs and a document relating to the experiences of Idek Blumenfleld [donor] during the Holocaust in Bedzin, Poland; Leipheim, Germany; Barletta, Italy; Tel-Aviv, Israel; and Melbourne, Australia.

  10. Alfred Büchler papers

    The Alfred Büchler papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and police and Buchenwald Kommandantur certificates documenting the Büchler family of Gleiwitz; Heinrich Büchler’s incarceration in Buchenwald; Alfred Büchler’s freedom to emigrate; Alfred, Steffi, and Henry Büchler’s efforts in England to communicate with their parents, Jacques and Käthe Büchler, in Gleiwitz; and Jacques Büchler’s death at Auschwitz.

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  12. Eta Chinkes photograph collection

    The collection consists of four black and white portrait photographs. The photographs depict Wolf Szczekacz; his wife, Bala Sczcekacz; and their daughters, Pola and Dosia Szczekacz.

  13. Harold Gilman photographs

    The Harold Gilman photographs consist of photographs Harold Gilman took at the newly liberated Mauthausen concentration camp and Gusen sub-camp in May 1945. The photographs depict liberated prisoners, former guards, American soldiers, Austrian civilians, and buildings at Gusen and Mauthausen. The photographs show emaciated survivors, corpses, and scenes of summary punishment of former SS guards by their former prisoners and of American soldiers forcing Austrian civilians to dig mass graves for Holocaust victims. Most of the photographs are annotated by Gilman on the verso.

  14. Passport

    The passport ("Reisepass") was issued to Elsa Sara Kraustz on February 13, 1940, in Vienna, Austria. The green passport bears a Nazi seal and a red "J" on page one, designating Kraustz as Jewish. A black and white photograph of Kraustz is attached to page 2.

  15. Richard Kaufman photograph collection

    The collection consists of two black and white photographs. One photograph shows 12-year-old Richard Kaufman sledding in the street in front of his home, dated 1938 and the other photograph shows Richard Kaufman and his older brother, Karl, on a bicycle in front of their home, dated 1938

  16. Moisey Kipervas photograph collection

    The collection consists of two black and white photographs. One photograph shows two men in uniform standing in front of a tractor with other men standing behind and on vehicle; the other photograph shows Moisey Kipervas and his wife, Dora Kipervas, seated with a candle between them and other people behind them.

  17. Mel Lichtig papers

    The Mel Lichtig papers primarily consist of correspondence from Lichtig’s aunt, Hanke Lichtig, to her sister, Pearl Lichtig, in New York. The letters and postcards are addressed from Mielec during the war and Krakow and Stockholm after the war. Hanke’s letters and postcards relay greetings and wishes for good health and are occasionally joined by messages from Maks and Jozefina Lichtig. Some of the correspondence was forwarded to New York via family friends of the Lichtigs in Antwerp named Kartagener. The papers also include a document describing adjustments to Lichtig family property in Mi...

  18. Lottie Sidrer papers

    The papers consist of three photographs taken in the displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech from 1947 to 1948; a news clipping announcing the birth of Eta Sidrer, Lottie’s daughter, on April 23, 1949; a certificate of marriage for Liowa and Lottie Sidere; and documents relating to immigration, relief organizations, and post-war lives of Lottie and Liowa Sidrer from 1947 to 1950.

  19. Ralph Grunewald papers

    The papers consist of certificates, work permits, identification cards, receipts, and correspondence relating to the Spielmann family and their experiences in Theresienstadt (Terezín) concentration camp in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust and immediately following liberation.

  20. Polia Musel papers

    The papers consist of a note written by Masha Musel to her brother, Moshe, on the day that he left the ghetto and a photograph showing a group of women working in a workshop (Ida Karnovsky [donor's sister] is pictured in the first row on the right).