• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518969
• English
• 2006
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of one manuscript, 56 pages, entitled "A Brief History of the Moller Family During the Nazi Era, 1933-1945, and Beyond," written in 2006 by brothers Ruben H. Moller and Levi W. Moller. The manuscript details their childhood in Bochum, Germany, the death of their father August Moller in 1935, their and experiences on Kristallnacht. It also details their Holocaust experiences including their deportation to the Riga ghetto in December 1941, their transfer to Kaiserwald concentration camp in 1943, and subsequent transfers to Dünawerke, a work camp in Panevėžys, Lithuania...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514951
• English
• 1991
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a memoir entitled "Charlotte's Memoirs," written by Charlotte Arpadi Baum in 1991. In the memoir, Charlotte describes her experiences as a child and as an adolescent in Berlin, Germany, as an inhabitant of the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia, in the concentration camps of Rīga-Kaiserwald and Stutthof, on a death march, of liberation in Poland, and her emigration to the United States. Please note: This material is available on microfiche as RG-02.121.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501786
• English
• 1991
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a memoir entitled "Charlotte's Memoirs," written by Charlotte Arpadi Baum in 1991. In the memoir, Charlotte describes her experiences as a child and as an adolescent in Berlin, Germany, as an inhabitant of the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia, in the concentration camps of Rīga-Kaiserwald and Stutthof, on a death march, of liberation in Poland, and her emigration to the United States. Please note: This material is available on microfiche as RG-02.121.

• The Soviet State Extraordinary Commission for Ascertaining and Investigating the Crimes Committed by the German-Fascist Invaders and their Accomplices
• Чрезвычайная республиканская комиссия Латвийской ССР

• Latvijas Nacionālā arhīva Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs
• P-132
• English
• 1944-1946
• 285 files
• Updated 10 years ago

Organization of the Commission’s work, including information about staff, reports, collection of information; lists of victims on Latvian territory, including Abrene district, Aizpute district, and Aizpute city; list of Jews killed in 1941 in Bauska district, Valmiera district, Ventspils district and Ventspils city, Valka district, Daugavpils district and Daugavpils city; list of Jews killed in Livani, Dagda, Jekabpils district, Jelgava district, Liepaja district, Ludza district, Liepaja district, and Liepaja city; lists of Jews killed in 1941 in Riga district and Riga city; list of Jews ki...

1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

• ועדת - ההצלה של הסוכנות היהודית לארץ-ישראל ,ביולטין, נובמבר 1945

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5655401
• English, Hebrew
• Original 23 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, November 1945 Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing: - Excerpt from a report containing a description of the situation of the Jewish refugees in Czechoslovakia; - Information regarding a refugee camp near Modena; - A survey of the Riga Ghetto; - Testimony of David Igra from Lwow who made aliya to Eretz Israel, September 1945, regarding the Bergen-Belsen camp.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503449
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Includes letters exchanged between Carolina Taitz and her sister, Berta Knoch, during the Holocaust along with English translations prepared for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Taitz. The letters discuss conditions of living and forced labor in the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia. Also included is the survival testimony of Carolina Taitz. The testimony describes her escape from the Rīga ghetto and her life in hiding.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504142
• English
• 1991
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a memoir entitled "Charlotte's Memoirs," written by Charlotte Arpadi Baum in 1991. In the memoir, Charlotte describes her experiences as a child and as an adolescent in Berlin, Germany, as an inhabitant of the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia, in the concentration camps of Rīga-Kaiserwald and Stutthof, on a death march, of liberation in Poland, and her emigration to the United States.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL539
• English
• 1948-1971
• c4500 frames
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection of microfilmed documentation deals mainly with the activities of the Committee for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Baltic Countries, in particular with the gathering of evidence for the prosecution of war crimes in the Riga Ghetto region during 1941-1944.The bulk of the material comprises authenticated statements and affidavits from eyewitnesses with covering letters. There is also correspondence which offers an insight into the politics and processes of war crime trials in the immediate post war years.

1. Beryl and Marian Miklin collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn513163
• English
• overall: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Depth: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Blue and gray striped prisoner uniform cap worn by Ber (later Beryl) Miklin in Stutthof concentration camp from the fall of 1944 to early 1945. Ber, his wife, parents, two sisters, and two brothers were forced into the Riga ghetto in Latvia in September 1941 by the German occupying forces. Ber’s mother and wife died, and his youngest brother fled to Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Ber and his elder brother were transported to the Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp in August 1943, and were assigned to forced labor. Ber’s father, sisters, and his sisters’ families were also sent to Kaiserwald, but late...

1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• 3000/9/1/137
• English
• 10 items
• Updated 3 years ago

Correspondence regarding Berman's restitution case as well as an information request on certain German individuals suspected of having participated in the killing of Jews from the Riga ghetto. Moreover, two accounts on Antisemitism in the GDR and the lack of information about Jews at the newly opened Buchenwald Memorial are contained.

1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3687360
• English, Hebrew
• Original 6 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Report regarding the situation of the Jews of Latvia The Riga Ghetto; murder of Jews, November-December 1941; transports of Jews from Germany; escape of Jews from Estonia to the Soviet Union and their rescue.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514508
• English
• overall: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Engraved silver ring made from a spoon for Gerda Gerstl, 12, in March 1943 in the Riga ghetto. Gerda and her friend Hanka Spiegel had rings made for Hanka’s 12th birthday by Issi Lurie, a silversmith who worked with Hanka’s father Karl in the Luftwaffe uniform deposit. Gerda and Hanka traded their rings in fall 1943 when they were separated. Hanka kept Gerda’s ring until her liberation in March 1945, wearing it upside down on her hand and hiding it in her mouth during selections. Gerda and Hanka met at the Viennese school in the ghetto. Hanka and her parents were sent to Riga from Theresien...

1. Fritz Weinschenk collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502339
• English
• 1912-1998
• boxes oversize box 9 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Fritz Weinschenk papers primarily consist of case files documenting his assistance obtaining witness testimony related to war crimes proceedings in Germany. The papers also include Weinschenk’s writing files related to articles he wrote about the war crimes trials, and Gestapo Bremen and Abwehr files, which contain guidelines and regulations related to the Gestapo and government security. The war crimes case files document Weinschenk’s work with the West German government and West German courts and prosecutors in the prosecution of war criminals from the 1960s to the 1990s. German judic...

• Generalkommissar in Riga
• Commissar General in Riga

• Latvijas Nacionālā arhīva Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs
• P-69
• English
• 1941-1945
• 686 files
• Updated 10 years ago

Definition of “Jude” and “Halbjude” in occupied Ostland and related regulations, including about, treatment of Jews. Declaration of Jewish property and movables; special forms for handing over of property;, lists of former Jewish property which now had to be considered as Ostlandseigentum in Riga, Mitau, Libau, Marienburg, Rujien, Lemsal, Walk, Wenden, Wolmar, Abrene, Daugavpils, Ludza, Rezekne; allocation of Jewish property and incomes from it. Information about mixed marriages, including applications from Jewish spouses in mixed marriages to ease conditions for children, for exemption fro...

1. Music study collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn600134
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Gertrude Schneider, originally of Vienna, Austria, was deported with her family to the Riga Ghetto. On this January 26, 1985 recording, she sings several ghetto songs, including: "Moorsoldten" (tune, with variant German lyrics as performed in German ghetto), "Azoy mus zayn" (Latvian camp song, in Yiddish), "Tut tchinat gordon stalin" (Latvian ghetto song, in Russian), and "Ich hab kein Heimatland (fragment, in German).

1. Herman Neudorf collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn531177
• English
• 1912-1949
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Herman Neudorf papers contain the papers of Herman Neudorf, a former concentration camp prisoner and Holocaust survivor. Documents include papers related to his internment at Kaiserwald and Buchenwald including identification cards and personal testimony. Other documents include identification and passes collected while he was a refugee after liberation, and numerous documents pertaining to his emigration to Paris and later Colombia. Also included are various items relating to relatives including death and marriage certificates.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503723
• English
• 1933-1959
• folders oversize folder 5 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Ingeborg Weinberger (née Cohn) and her father Ludwig Cohn of Leipzig, Germany; her husband Hans Weinberger and his parents Margarete and Theodor Weinberger, and relatives in the Landsberger and Coblenzer families. Included are pre-war sports-related documents of Ingeborg, a small amount of wartime and postwar correspondence regarding the Holocaust experiences of the Weinbergers, German passports, a workbook (arbeitsbuch), financial documents of Ludwig Cohn, two photographs of Edgar Landsberger, and a photocopy of a family book (Stammbuch...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn724204
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one handwritten memoir, stapled and bound by a red cover with each entry dated 1985, telling the story of her family, childhood, and adulthood, ending with her family’s arrival at the Riga ghetto in 1941.