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

  1. Sigfried Neu collection

    Consists of two small "Liliput" dictionaries, English to German and German to English, printed in Leipzig, Germany, carried by Sigfried Neu in the concentration camp.

  2. Morris Troper collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, and clippings concerning the efforts of Morris Troper, European director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, in assisting more than 900 Jewish passengers aboard the MS St. Louis and his success in ultimately securing their safe refuge in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, and France. Also included in the collection are two 16 mm film reels of the Agro-Joint activity in Russia in 1936 that was shot by Morris Troper for the Joint Distribution Committee.

  3. Albert Hutler collection

    These materials concern Albert A. Hutler and his experiences as a soldier in the United States Army during and after World War II. Most materials concern his work with displaced persons after the war. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. JosMarie Vanderspek collection

    Audio and video recordings of JosMarie Vanderspek's presentation about her memories of the German invasion and occupation of the Netherlands from 1940-1945."

  5. Joel Forman collection

    The collection consists of coins, currency, scrip, and stamps from various European countries, ghettos, concentration camps, prisoner of war (POW) camps, and displaced persons (DP) camps before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  6. Löwenstein family collection

    The collection includes a passport issued to Elfriede Löwenstein (donor's mother), stamped with red letter "J"; dated August 19, 1938, and correspondence from Berta Saalberg Löwenstein (b. April 11, 1884) [Elfriede's mother] and Irma (b. August 19, 1912) [her sister] in Flacht and later in Frankfurt am Main. Both women were deported in 1942. Elfriede Löwenstein left Germany on November 24, 1938 for the US. The collection also includes a leather pouch in which Elfriede kept her family's letters and never showed them to her daughter. Diana found them years later.

  7. Heny Hersh collection

    Collection documenting the experiences of Heny Hersh (nee Stern) [1926-2017], her family, her survival in a Romanian ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and ober Hohenelbe concentration camps, and DP camps Admund, Salfenden, Rivoli, and Barletta, eventually immigrating to the United States in 1950 with Artie Hersh [b. 1927 Osoj] who survived Auschwitz, Hausdorf, and Ebensee concentration camps, and was in DP camps Rivoli, Kobenz, and Bagnoli. Collection includes health card, Rivoli letter of reference, Yetta Ginsburg's sponsor application for Artie and Heny, certificate of residence, US immigration ...

  8. Maud Michal Beer collection

    Album: given to Maud on her 12th birthday on April 7, 1941; Documents and Correspondence; including Fritz Stecklmacher’s death certificate from Theresienstadt on May 31, 1943; letters written in the camp by Maud’s boyfriend Hermann Tandler before he was deported in October 1942; four self-made notebooks with drawings and essays by Maud; deportation signs; work ID’s; and many other documents from the time of her imprisonment in Theresienstadt concentration camp: July 4, 1942 until May 8, 1945; Artifacts; clothes hanger; leather bag; spoon; parts of two armbands; leather folders and other ite...

  9. German newspaper articles concerning the treatment of Romanies from 1936 to 1984

    Consists of articles (copies and originals) from various German newspapers concerning Romanies. The articles focus on the plight of German Romanies, making comparisons between their treatment during the time of the Third Reich and their treatment in the 1980s. Also included is information concerning the forensic research conducted by Dr. Joachim Gerchow, executive director of legal medicine at the University of Frankfurt in 1983, and statistics relating to the number of Romanies killed during the Holocaust.

  10. Poland: excerpts from Polnische zigeuner: historische und sittenskizzen

    Consists of a copy of an excerpt from "Polnische zigeuner: historische und sittenkizzen" by Jerzy Ficowski. The excerpt contains information relating to the treatment and persecution of Roma in Poland during World War II and their suffering in concentration camps. Also included is information about medical experiments conducted on Roma children (twins) by Josef Mengele, the imprisonment and murder of Roma in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Roma transport statistics.

  11. George Salton photographs

    The photographs include one photoprint depicting George Salton at age 17 in Lubeck in June 1945; one a copy print depicting Salton’s parents soon after their marriage; two photoprints depicting members of Bricha in Łódź in 1947; one photoprint depicting members of Bricha in Szczecin in 1947, and one photoprint of survivors in front of the Kibbutz DROR in Szczecin in 1947.

  12. Feliks Puterman and Janet Rogowsky collection

    The collection primarily consists of three diaries authored by Feliks Puterman (previously Samuel Puterman), originally of Warsaw, Poland, documenting his experiences with the Polish Army in 1939; life in the Warsaw ghetto, 1940-1942; and life in hiding in Warsaw, 1942-circa 1944. The diaries are handwritten in Polish. Also included is a personal narrative authored by Janet Rogowsky (previously Genia Ajzenberg), a fellow survivor, whom Feliks married after the war, chronicling her Holocaust experience, including descriptions of her father and brother’s deaths in Łódź, her mother’s deportati...

  13. Carel Sternberg identification card

    The"Carte d' Identité" (identification card) was issued to Karel (or Carel) Sternberg donor, a Czech law student, in December 1938. Sternberg was in France when the Germans took over the country, and he worked closely with Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee in Marseille, France.

  14. We will never die

    Recording of the 1943 "We Will Never Die" pageant produced by Kurt Weill. The musical program, recorded at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, involves songs and speeches of tribute, delivered by volunteer actors, actresses, musicians, and composers, in memory of Jews killed by the Nazis. A major part of the production is devoted to honoring the brave Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

  15. Szabo family papers

    The Szabo family papers document the Holocaust experiences of the Szabo family of Vienna, Austria, including Viktor Szabo’s imprisonment in Dachau after Kristallnacht, his death in Zasavica in 1941, his daughter Nelly Szabo Ullman’s account of Kristallnacht, and her immigration to the United States in May 1939. Material related to Nelly Szabo Ullman consists of a handwritten account in German of the German-annexation of Austria (Anschluss) and Kristallnacht, written fall 1939, along with an English translation she produced in 1996. Material related to Viktor Szabo includes 3 letters written...

  16. Hersz Fischel identification card

    The identification card was issued by the Arbeitsamt-Getto to Hersz Fischel (donor's uncle) to authorize his labor exchange in the ghetto in Łódź (Litzmannstadt), Poland.

  17. Joseph C. Solarz papers

    The Joseph C. Solarz papers include narratives, letters, photographs, and news clippings documenting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The narratives include a personal narrative by Solarz and a report by an anonymous author. The letters include a 1945 illustrated note to Solarz by liberated prisoners Tadeusz Warsowicz, Jozef Kachel, and Stefan Dziwlik; a letter from “Alex” to his parents recounting his visit to Buchenwald; and a 1957 letter from former Buchenwald prisoner Feliks Grossman. Photographs depict the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp, and most bear capti...

  18. Rudolf A. Haunschmied collection

    Two cassettes with music and a discussion regarding the concentration camp Gusen I and II. Cassette 1, Side A: Names of musicians: Herbert Strobel (sp?), Bernard Offen (sp?), Kurt Neumayer (sp?). Program is a memorial event, possibly at the Gusen site; narration in English and German. Sound quality is adequate for 40 seconds only and largely inaudible thereafter. Main speaker is a Polish-Jewish survivor of Mauthausen visiting from California; he tells his story at 16:00. Musical interludes: 07:35 "hasidic nigun" (a textless tune) sung by the men. 12:00 cello solo and male voice perform unid...

  19. Abraham Blumowitsch-Atsmon papers

    Contains photographs, legal documents, and booklets pertaining to Dr. Abraham Blumowitsch-Atsmon's family life in Poland and work for the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American occupied zone. Includes pre-war photographs of family life, wartime photographs of partisans in the Brest-Slonim region, photographs of students in classes at the ORT school in Munich, and photographs of Ben-Gurion in Israel in 1948-1949. Also includes documents and identity cards establishing Dr. Blumowitsch as a physician and as an advisor in displaced persons matters.

  20. Michael Botermans poems

    Contains two poems entitled "Yehoshuah" and "Why" written in remembrance of Holocaust victims and survivors.