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  1. Visual History Archive.

    This important collection contains testimonies of Jewish survivors, rescuers, political prisoners, war crimes trial participants, Roma survivors, … etc. about their life before, during and after the Shoah. It is a crucial source for the history of the Holocaust. On average, the interviews are about 2 hours in length. At the time of writing, the geographical keyword “Belgium” was attributed to 2136 testimonies. 433 Belgian towns, cities and places are mentioned. The interviews provide information on all aspects of Jewish life in Belgium – political, religious, social and cultural life, youth...

  2. Autobiographical sketch created in a DP camp of a Ghetto evacuation

    1. George L. Salton collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521281
    • English
    • 1946
    • overall: Height: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) | Width: 19.500 inches (49.53 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Width: 14.375 inches (36.513 cm)

    Drawing depicting the evacuation of a ghetto created by Lucjan Saltzman, later George Salton, at a displaced persons camp in 1946 in Neustadt, Germany. In 1941-42, twenty-three year old Lucjan was transferred from the Rzeszow ghetto in Poland to the concentration camp there. He was later deported to a number of concentration and labor camps, including Płaszów and Wieliczka in Poland, Colmar and Urbis, subcamps of Natzweiler in France, Watenstedt, a subcamp of Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, and Wobbelin, a subcamp of Neuengamme in Germany. After liberation, he spent two years in various displaced ...

  3. Autobiographical sketch created in a DP camp of an execution at a mass grave

    1. George L. Salton collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521282
    • English
    • 1946
    • overall: Height: 20.375 inches (51.753 cm) | Width: 17.250 inches (43.815 cm) pictorial area: Height: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) | Width: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm)

    Small study depicting an execution at a mass open grave created by Lucjan Saltzman, later George Salton, at a displaced persons camp in 1946 in Neustadt, Germany. It was a study for a watercolor painting, 1988.14.3. In 1941-42, twenty-three year old Lucjan was transferred from the Rzeszow ghetto in Poland to the concentration camp there. He was later deported to a number of concentration and labor camps, including Płaszów and Wieliczka in Poland, Colmar and Urbis, subcamps of Natzweiler in France, Watenstedt, a subcamp of Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, and Wobbelin, a subcamp of Neuengamme in Ger...

  4. Watercolor created in a DP camp of an execution at a mass grave

    1. George L. Salton collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn365
    • English
    • 1946
    • overall: Height: 32.500 inches (82.55 cm) | Width: 28.000 inches (71.12 cm) pictorial area: Height: 26.500 inches (67.31 cm) | Width: 22.375 inches (56.833 cm)

    Watercolor painting of an execution at a mass open grave created by Lucjan Saltzman, later George Salton, at a displaced persons camp in 1946 in Neustadt, Germany. In 1941-42, twenty-three year old Lucjan was transferred from the Rzeszow ghetto in Poland to the concentration camp there. He was later deported to a number of concentration and labor camps, including Płaszów and Wieliczka in Poland, Colmar and Urbis, subcamps of Natzweiler in France, Watenstedt, a subcamp of Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, and Wobbelin, a subcamp of Neuengamme in Germany. After liberation, he spent two years in variou...

  5. Mendel and Marta Miller family papers

    Contains photographs, immigration documents, and identification certificates, related to the period when Mendel and Marta Miller lived in the Feldafing displaced persons camp, and their subsequent immigration to the United States. Also included correspondence relating to Marta Miller's restitution claims against the West German government from 1982.

  6. Annette Fry papers

    1. Annette Fry collection

    The Annette Fry papers primarily consist of photographic materials and correspondence documenting Varian Fry’s work for the Emergency Rescue Committee in France, some of the artists and intellectuals he aided, and travels around Europe. Photographic materials include prints, slides, negatives, and contact sheets depicting Eileen and Varian Fry, Andre Breton, Marc Chagall, Hans and Carmen Namuth, and scenes at Villa Airbel and in Marseilles, Italy, Portugal, England, and Spain. A set of annotated photographs include pictures of Varian Fry, his staff, Andre and Jacqueline Breton, Daniel Bened...

  7. Stockholmi követség iratai, 1920-1945

    • Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Stockholm, 1920-1945

    Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Stockholm, the capital city of neutral Sweden contain considerable material concerning Hungarian Jews from 1938 to 1944, from the era of anti-Jewish laws and the Holocaust. Relevant parts of the collection include in large quantities citizenship cases, inheritance-related cases, there are birth and divorce certificates, visa-related documents of Hungarian Jews emigrated to Sweden. In this collection there are records about different cases of pertaining to Hungarian Jews: documents about visa falsification, withdrawal of citizenship, refugees, request for ...

  8. Peter Prosaw scrapbook Jewish D.P./In The UNRRA-Camp Team 1027/Berlin

    Scrapbook entitled “Jewish D.P./In The UNRRA-Camp Team 1027/Berlin” created by Peter Prosaw (born Pinkus Proszowski), a survivor of Auschwitz originally from Łódź, Poland. Peter, who also had training as a graphic designer, ran the orphanage in the Düppel Center displaced persons camp in Berlin-Schlachtensee. The annotated scrapbook includes depictions of staff members, residents, buildings, schools, programs, and cultural activities. Many of the pages incorporate photograph collages as well as original documents. A separated blue cardboard cover with adhesive tape on binding is also included.

  9. Gabrielle S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gabrielle S., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1914. She describes her childhood; the impact of the Nuremberg laws; emigration to the United States in 1938; and returning to Europe as a social worker in 1947 to assist Jewish refugees. Mrs. S. relates her deceased husband's story because she is the last one who knows it. Mr. S. was born in Galicia in 1912. She recounts his being sent away for schooling; attending medical school in Bologna, Italy; his return home; conditions under Russian occupation; the German occupation and being exempted from extermination because...

  10. Red and tan plaid handkerchief owned by a Polish Jewish refugee

    1. Julius Kornman collection

    Brown and red plaid handkerchief owned by Yuda (Ido) Kornmann, a Jewish man from Sokal, Poland, who survived the Holocaust with his wife Hela and young daughter Regina. Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Three weeks later, the Soviet Union invaded from the east. Sokal was in eastern Poland (later Ukraine) and was occupied by the Soviet Union. When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, the town was overrun by German troops on June 23. Most of Ido’s relatives and the Jewish population of Sokal were deported to Belzec killing center in 1942. After the war ended in May ...

  11. Leather wallet with a painted geometric design used by a Polish Jewish refugee

    1. Julius Kornman collection

    Painted brown wallet owned by Yuda (Ido) Kornmann, a Jewish man from Sokal, Poland, who survived the Holocaust with his wife Hela and young daughter Regina. Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Three weeks later, the Soviet Union invaded from the east. Sokal was in eastern Poland (later Ukraine) and was occupied by the Soviet Union. When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, the town was overrun by German troops on June 23. Most of Ido’s relatives and the Jewish population of Sokal were deported to Belzec killing center in 1942. After the war ended in May 1945, Ido, H...

  12. Patterned black leather wallet used by a Polish Jewish refugee

    1. Julius Kornman collection

    Black crocodile skin patterned wallet owned by Yuda (Ido) Kornmann, a Jewish man from Sokal, Poland, who survived the Holocaust with his wife Hela and young daughter Regina. Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Three weeks later, the Soviet Union invaded from the east. Sokal was in eastern Poland (later Ukraine) and was occupied by the Soviet Union. When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, the town was overrun by German troops on June 23. Most of Ido’s relatives and the Jewish population of Sokal were deported to Belzec killing center in 1942. After the war ended in...

  13. Brown cloth pouch with leather belt used by a Polish Jewish refugee

    1. Julius Kornman collection

    Brown cloth pouch with a separate belt owned by Yuda (Ido) Kornmann, a Jewish man from Sokal, Poland, who survived the Holocaust with his wife Hela and young daughter Regina. Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Three weeks later, the Soviet Union invaded from the east. Sokal was in eastern Poland (later Ukraine) and was occupied by the Soviet Union. When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, the town was overrun by German troops on June 23. Most of Ido’s relatives and the Jewish population of Sokal were deported to Belzec killing center in 1942. After the war ended i...

  14. Postwar war crimes trials related to the Holocaust

    Contains materials from trials conducted in the Ukrainian SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic) during and after World War II. The material includes documents from pre-trial investigations by the Ukrainian NKVD (Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del), as well as interrogation protocols, indictments, verdicts and sentences, and post-sentencing histories. For each trial, the case number, the regional office, and principal defendant are listed. The collection also contains investigation and trial records of refugees from East and Central Europe who were arrested and interrogated by the Soviet State ...

  15. William Buckhantz papers

    The William Buckhantz collection is an excellent resource for those studying the experiences of UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) personnel working in displaced persons camps. The collection includes extensive photographs depicting life in the Deggendorf and Ellwangen displaced persons camp. It also includes blank UNRRA forms, including blank AEF Displaced Persons forms and identity cards. Buckhantz also received letters written by displaced persons asking for his assistance; a remarkable document written and illustrated by a survivor cartoonist, Georg Feier, g...

  16. Bermann family papers

    The papers consist of documents and photographs documenting the Bermann family, originally of Olomouc, Czechoslovakia (Olomouc, Czech Republic), before World War II and their experiences emigrating from Olomouc to Cuba in 1941.

  17. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate General in London Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie (Sygn.504)

    Instructions, circulars, correspondence, reports, forms related to emigration policy, organization of transporting emigrants by the shipping companies to Palestine and US, emigration of Polish refugees to Canada and Jamaica, migration of Polish expatriates by Great Britain, migration of the English population, and Jewish minorities in Poland. Includes a letter requesting a return of the Baron Günzburg's book collection to Jewish representatives in Vilnius.

  18. Julius Hirsch family papers

    Manuscript drafts of song and poetry texts, mostly written for Jewish holidays, and used by various members of the family of Julius Hirsch, originally of Hamburg, Germany, circa 1935-1940. Some of the poetry may have been written while Hirsch was interned as an enemy alien in Great Britain in 1940-1941 at the Hutchinson camp on the Isle of Man, but much of it dates from earlier years. Collection also includes a printed sheet with lyrics and music of the "Hutchinson Camp Song," written by internees at the Hutchinson camp, 1940, as well as newspaper clippings from British newspapers, circa ea...

  19. Martin Perlmutter papers

    The Martin Perlmutter papers contain biographical materials and photographs documenting Perlmutter’s time in Italy with his wife, primarily in the Bari displaced persons camp, after World War II before their immigration to the United States. Many of the photographs depict camp demonstrations against British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin and restrictive Palestine immigration policies. Biographical materials include identification papers and travel papers documenting the displaced persons status of Martin and Dora Perlmutter and their immigration to the United States. Documents include immigr...

  20. Rena Berliner papers

    The Rena Berliner papers consist of photographs, programs, and school records documenting Rena Berliner’s time at the Neu Freimann displaced persons camp, musical performances at displaced persons camps, and attendance at the Händel-Konservatorium in Munich. Photographs depict Berliner performing at the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp and a group of ORT UNRRA vocation school students in front of their classroom at Neu Freimann. Programs document Berliner’s performances at displaced persons camps. School records include an identification card, membership card, report card, certificate, and...