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

  1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986

    1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    The Alexander Kulisiewicz collection contains microfilms, correspondence, music scores and notation, personal narratives, artwork, poetry, manuscripts, research notes, photograph, negatives, and various other documents compiled by Aleksander Kulisiewicz from 1945 until the time of his death in 1982. The materials in the collection relate to a variety of Holocaust topics, but mainly music, poetry, art, and theater in the concentration camps during World War II. Kulisiewicz compiled the small archive of music, poetry, literature, photographs, and sound recordings during the years after his li...

  2. Aleksander Kulisiewicz sound recordings - Audycje Polskiego Radia [APR]

    1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    18 sound reels including Polish radio broadcasts of Kulisiewicz and his performances. Reel 1 - APR 1 Polish radio broadcast, "Choral ze piekla dna" [Songs from the depths of hell]. Side A includes various camp songs and fragments of camp songs sung by Aleksander Kulisiewicz (A.K.) such as "Elzunia," "Agonia Staszka," "Kostus moja," "Kolysanka dla synka." An a cappella choir sings "Marsz Pasiakow'' and "List." A.K. and Burski recount experiences surrounding musical activity at the camps. Side B includes a recording of a concert at Auschwitz from 1967. A.K. sings "Birkenau," with accordian ac...

  3. Aleksander Kulisiewicz sound recordings - Cassette Tapes [TK]

    1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    52 cassette tapes including recordings compiled by Aleksander Kulisiewicz consisting of songs, poetry, interviews, lectures, radio broadcasts, and other music programs. Cassette 4, TK 5 Side A includes a duplicate recording of a lecture-demonstration given by Aleksander Kulisiewicz (A.K.) at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, 12 Feb 1974 as re-recorded on 14 May 1974 in Paris. Various Polish camp songs performed by A.K. with guitar accompaniment are followed by a discussion of these songs both in Polish and in French. Side B consists of a concert of Polish camp songs performed in -Tarnowskie-Go...

  4. Aleksander Kulisiewicz sound recordings - Jak umierał mój glos [JUM]

    1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    31 sound reels categorized by Kulisiewicz as "How my voice was dying." Kulisiewicz (A.K.) discusses various biographical information in (monologue) story form. This series is divided into various parts with their own sub-titles and includes recordings of songs and poetry. Reel 1 - JUM 1A Side A is part of "My mother's romance" (Part I) which includes a prologue, family history, and father. Side B is a continuation of Part II, "The Quail and the Lunatic" including Roob, Old songs from A.K.'s childhood, Rubato and Smierdzionka. Reel 2 - JUM 1B Side A is a continuation of "My mother's romance"...

  5. Aleksander Kulisiewicz sound recordings - Nagrania Polskiego Radia [NPR]

    1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    14 sound reels including Polish radio recordings of Kulisiewicz and his performances.

  6. Aleksander Kulisiewicz sound recordings - Nagrania rozne [NR]

    1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    33 sound reels including various recordings that Kulisiewicz compiled after his liberation from Sachsenhausen concentration camp, such as recordings of songs and poetry written in concentration camps, concerts by Kulisiewicz, and interviews with Kulisiewicz and other musicians.

  7. Aleksander Kulisiewicz sound recordings - Nagrania zagraniczne [NZ]

    1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    34 sound reels with including various recordings from abroad that Kulisiewicz compiled after his liberation from Sachsenhausen concentration camp, such as concerts, interviews, or radio programs.

  8. Aleksander Kulisiewicz sound recordings - Poezja obozowa [PO]

    1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    10 sound reels including recordings of concentration camp poetry.

  9. Aleksander Kulisiewicz sound recordings - Taśmoteka Nagran Dokumentalnych [TND]

    1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    52 sound reels including various documentary tape recordings that Kulisiewicz compiled containing songs and poetry written in concentration camps, concerts by Kulisiewicz, interviews with Kulisiewicz and other musicians, and other radio or television programs.

  11. Aleksander Kulisiewicz sound recordings - Wystepy (Polska) [WP]

    1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    8 sound reels with recordings of Kulisiewicz's Polish performances.

  12. Alexander Primavesi papers

    The Alexander Primavesi papers contain German reports written by Alexander Primavesi relating to activities of the Gestapo in Dortmund, Germany between 1933 and 1945. The papers include records relating to the development of the Westphalian state police office in Dortmund, Arnsberg, forced labor, persecution of Jews, religious communities and other minorities in the district of Arnsberg. The Alexander Primavesi papers primarily contain German reports written by Alexander Primavesi concerning Gestapo activity in Dortmund Germany from 1933-1945. The contents of each report are as follows: Fol...

  13. Alfred Fabian papers

    1. Alfred Fabian collection

    The Alfred Fabian papers consist of identification papers and photographs documenting Holocaust survivor Alfred Fabian, the Buchenwald camp, family members who perished in the Holocaust, and Fabian’s immigration to the United States. Identification papers include Fabian’s provisional identification card for civilian internees of Buchenwald and his Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society identification certificate. Photographs depict a pile of corpses at Buchenwald, Weimar citizens on a forced visit to the liberated camp, flags in front of a sign expressing the gratitude of liberated Czechoslovakian Bu...

  14. Alice and John Fink papers

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    The Alice and John Fink papers include biographical materials, photographs, printed materials, and subject files documenting Alice and John, their families in Germany, Alice’s nursing education and work in England, John’s survival in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and the couple’s work at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp after the war. Biographical materials include identification, education, employment, displaced persons, and restitution papers documenting John and Alice Fink as well as their ketubah. John Fink materials include his Bar Mitzvah certificate, school report...

  15. Alice Samson collection

    Consists of original and digital documents and photographs related to the life of Suse Lore Alice Samson (later known as Alice Samson), originally of Edesheim, Germany. Includes Alice's written testimony, copies of documents and photographs, and correspondence regarding her attempts to find out the fates of her family and restitution for lost property. Includes correspondence with the International Tracing Service, the Red Cross, and various attorneys, the latter including both personal compensation claims and the class-action suit against the French national railway, the SNCF.

  16. All Our Yesterdays [Book]

    1. Martin Niemoeller collection

    Book, All Our Yesterdays, read by Pastor Martin Niemoeller, and signed by him, while he was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp from 1941-1945. When the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, Niemoeller was a Lutheran pastor in Berlin-Dahlem. In September 1933, Niemoeller helped found the Pastor's Emergency League to protest Nazi interference in church affairs and attacks on Christians of Jewish origin. In May 1934, he helped found a new protestant church in Germany, the Bekennende Kirche (the Confessing Church) and was barred from preaching by the government. Recognizing that the new govern...

  17. Allied Military Authority currency, German 1 mark, acquired by a female forced laborer

    1. Ruth Kittel Miller family collection

    Allied military currency, 1 mark, acquired by Ruth Kittel while she and her sister, Hannelore, were living with their Jewish mother, Marie (Maria), and Catholic father, Josef, in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust. Military currency or occupation money was produced for use by military personnel in occupied territories. The notes for different currencies: lire, francs, kroner, marks, schillings, and yen, had similar designs for ease of production. On September 19, 1941, 14 year old Ruth picked-up government mandated Judenstern or Star of David badges from the Office of the Jewish Organiza...

  18. Allied Military Authority currency, German ½ mark, acquired by a female forced laborer

    1. Ruth Kittel Miller family collection

    Allied military currency, 1/2 mark, acquired by Ruth Kittel while she and her sister, Hannelore, were living with their Jewish mother, Marie (Maria), and Catholic father, Josef, in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust. Military currency or occupation money was produced for use by military personnel in occupied territories. The notes for different currencies: lire, francs, kroner, marks, schillings, and yen, had similar designs for ease of production. On September 19, 1941, 14 year old Ruth picked-up government mandated Judenstern or Star of David badges from the Office of the Jewish Organi...

  19. Almanacs AZ 1939 (5699-5700) évre

    1. George Pick family collection

    Jewish Hungarian almanac for 1939 edited by the Women's Auxiliary of the National Jewish Girls' Orphanage preserved by Gyorgy Pick and his parents Istvan and Margit during the war in Budapest, Hungary. It includes a calendar with corresponding Hebrew calendar dates, information about major Jewish holidays, essays, and artwork and was sold to provide aid money for those who lost thier jobs. Ten year old Gyorgy and his parents lived in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, from November 1944-January 1945. Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany and adopted similar anti-Jewish laws in the 1930s. Istvan, an...

  20. Aluminum food container lid used by a Hungarian Jewish family on the Kasztner train

    1. Bela Gondos family collection

    Metal food container lid used by Bela, Anna, and Judit Gondos when they were transported from Budapest, Hungary, to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on the Kasztner train in June 1944. The family often hiked at Svabhegy, a hill outside Budapest, and used the container with the now missing base for their picnics. Jews were increasingly persecuted by the Nazi-influenced Hungarian regime. Bela worked on 2 or 3 forced labor battalions until released in 1942 because he was a physician. On March 19, 1944, Germany invaded Hungary and the authorities prepared to deport all the Jews from Hungary to ...