• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503536
• English
• 1943
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

"We will never die" script is a photocopy of a script for the play "We Will Never Die," written by Ben Hecht and performed at various locations across the United States in 1943 to raise awareness of atrocities being committed against Jews in German-occupied Europe. Handwritten annotations may be from Kurt Weill, whose name appears on the title page.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1164
• English
• 1942-1949
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

These family papers, including original correspondence, document in part the life of a German Jewish refugee.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1040
• English
• 1939-1945
• 4 folders
• Updated 2 years ago

The copy correspondence in this collection documents in part the experiences of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and her sisters in Bergen Belsen concentration camp and in England, 1945, and the experiences of their parents prior to transportation to certain death close to the Lublin Ghetto, 1942.

1. O.13 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Bulgaria, mainly from the Holocaust period

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5090981
• English, Hebrew
• 1942
• xerox 6 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Articles written by Vasil Kolarov and broadcast on Radio Moscow, 1942 Two protest articles regarding the German anti-Semitic policy and the Bulgarian policy including a placard to fight against these policies.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1226
• English
• 1936
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

Report of conditions in Dachau concentration camp, giving a classification of prisoners in the camp also including mention of cabaret evenings replete with reference to jokes about conditions.German 1 page 

1. Muzeum Okregowe w Konine collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1085
• English
• 1986-1987
• overall: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Depth: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Metal fork, likely recovered from a temporary pit furnace at Chelmno killing center in German-occupied Poland, during an archaeological excavation in 1986 and 1987. Killing operations at Chelmno commenced on December 8, 1941. Prisoners were taken to a camp at a manor house (Schlosslager) in the village to undress and relinquish their valuables. They were then loaded into a gas van where they were killed. The van was then driven 2.5 miles northwest of the village to a camp in the Rzuchowski forest (Waldlager), where the bodies were dumped into mass graves. The large number of corpses created...

1. Muzeum Okregowe w Konine collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1075
• English
• 1986-1987
• overall: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 5.625 inches (14.288 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Metal teaspoon, likely recovered from a temporary pit furnace at Chelmno killing center in German-occupied Poland, during an archaeological excavation in 1986 and 1987. Killing operations at Chelmno commenced on December 8, 1941. Prisoners were taken to a camp at a manor house (Schlosslager) in the village to undress and relinquish their valuables. They were then loaded into a gas van where they were killed. The van was then driven 2.5 miles northwest of the village to a camp in the Rzuchowski forest (Waldlager), where the bodies were dumped into mass graves. The large number of corpses cre...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL867
• English
• 1843-2004
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection comprises four separate deposits of material regarding different members of the same family.The first deposit (867/1) consists of copies of 3 letters written by a woman in a collection centre (Sammlunglager) in Berlin in June 1943. She was subsequently deported to Auschwitz where she almost certainly died. The letters are significant because they offer a rare insight into conditions in such an establishment and document the growing level of despair amongst those who were transported. In the final letter she seems certain of her fate- that theirs will be the last “Polentransp...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL627
• English
• 1870-1971
• 5 folders
• Updated 2 years ago

The papers in this collection document the lives of a Hungarian Jewish family which managed to survive the Holocaust thanks, in large part, to the efforts of the Swedish diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg. Of particular interest is material relating to Nazi persecution at 627/4 and 627/5. There is evidence of a relationship with Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of some 90,000 Jews in Hungary. George Brody was made a manager of one of the properties bought by the Swedish government in Budapest to give protection to Jewish citizens.This collection also contains material on t...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1239
• English
• 1940-1949
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

These reports and memoranda of the Committee for the Care of Children from Camps, document, in part, the challenges encountered by receiving such a large group of refugees with all their attendant problems. Included are some pamphlets and brochures re the CBF activities with children from concentration camps.Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital copy of the 5 reports

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1334
• English
• 1998
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection comprises leaflets, fliers and other ephemera relating to an exhibition of the works of Charlotte Salomon, which took place at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1998.

1. Muzeum Okregowe w Konine collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1095
• English
• 1986-1987
• a: Height: 25.000 inches (63.5 cm) | Width: 61.000 inches (154.94 cm) | Depth: 54.000 inches (137.16 cm) b: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) c: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Concrete fragments recovered from a crematorium foundation at Chelmno killing center in German-occupied Poland, during an archaeological excavation in 1986 and 1987. Killing operations at Chelmno commenced on December 8, 1941. Prisoners were taken to a camp at a manor house (Schlosslager) in the village to undress and relinquish their valuables. They were then loaded into a gas van where they were killed. The van was then driven 2.5 miles northwest of the village to a camp in the Rzuchowski forest (Waldlager), where the bodies were dumped into mass graves. The large number of corpses create...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1300
• English
• 1930-1995
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

This material, part of which relates to an exhibition on the Viennese Jewish community during the Third Reich

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1189
• English
• 1942
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1342
• English
• 1946
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

This copy letter in Yiddish with English translation was addressed to the father of the depositor, and describes the fate of the depositor's mother, who survived the Warsaw ghetto only to be murdered at Majdanek.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1542
• English
• 1990-1999
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection consists of correspondence and printed extracts relating to an aspect of the will of Edith Stein, aka St. Teresa Benedetta of the Cross, the Jewish born academic, convert to Catholicism.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1416
• English
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection comprises a copy set of statutes of the Lodz Jewish Heritage Foundation.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1173
• English
• 1959
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

Most of these copy statements re the activities of former SS officers at Auschwitz by former inmates were collected by the International Auschwitz Komitee. The witnesses submitted their statements to the IAK in response to notices published in Polish and German newspapers, asking for evidence against former SS officers at Auschwitz. Many of the statements make reference to this fact. Many also end with a declaration that the witness is ready to repeat the statement under oath. Most of the statements are 1 or 2 pages long except that of Dr. Eduard Wirth, former doctor at Auschwitz, who descr...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1258
• English
• 1994-1997
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

Correspondence re the history of Jews in Poland with special reference to the blood libels of Tarnobrzeg and the 1946 Kielce pogrom. Also included is a copy translation of the historical files of TarnobrzegThis collection of copy correspondence between Michael Honey, a Polish born Jew, and a number of correspondents, deals with Polish antisemitism with special reference to the blood libels of Tarnobrzeg and the 1946 Kielce pogrom.