• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501660
• English
• 1940-1945
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Contains a copy of a booklet entitled "19 Wasted Months: diary and notes of my internment" by Kurt Lewinski. The booklet, which is a typed English translation of the original German, describes Lewinski's experiences in an internment camp for enemy aliens in England; life on the HMT Dunera ship, which transported him to Australia in 1940; and life in the Hay, New South Wales and in the Tatura internment camps. The text is written in the form of daily diary entries, and includes two epilogues written in 1942 and 1945 which reveal that Mr. Lewinski joined the Australian military.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn723169
• English
• 1880-1968
• 29,342 digital images, TIFF
• Updated 7 months ago

Consists of archive of the Jewish folk culture collected by the Cabinet of the Jewish Culture of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The collection includes Jewish folk songs, proverbs, aphorisms, fairy tales, musical scores and other folk materials collected by the Cabinet of Jewish Culture and its predecessors institutions (e.g. Institute of Jewish Proletarian Culture). Includes also correspondence of Moisey Beregovsky, head of the folklore section and his staff members, with collectors and performers of Jewish folklore, notes from the ethnographic expeditions to collect Jewish folklore un...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501650
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The "Diary of Robert Lichtblau" consists of a typed copy, with English translation, of the memoir of Robert Lichtblau, written in 1945. The text, which is entitled "The Diary of Robert Lichtblau" (though it seems to have been written as a narrative) contains information about the Lichtblau family before the war; the expansion of the family's pipe-making business; life in Vienna after the Anschluss; and their immigration to England.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn506770
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The diary, "Escape from Hitler's clutches," (dated 06 September 1939 - 08 May 1945), describes Theodore Diesenhouse's experiences in Nazi-occupied Poland.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500141
• English
• 1940-1944
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

An English translation of Rosa Mayer-Murr's German language diary, "Meine Campzeit, 1940-1944," 29 pages. Author describes her experiences in Gurs and other concentration camps during the Holocaust.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501371
• English
• 1920-1989
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Consists of a copy of a typed English translation of the diary of Ella Pick, originally of Vienna, which she began in 1920 to document the life of her son, Rudi (Rudolph) Pick, who later edited the diary. In the diary, Ella describes Rudi's health and schooling throughout his childhood, addressing him directly after Rudi managed to escape to England. At the end of the diary, she tells him that his parents are soon to depart and writes of how proud they are their son. Also includes a conclusion in which Rudolph writes of his own wartime history and of finding out of his parents' deportation ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519018
• English
• 1944-1945
• folders 2
• Updated 7 months ago

Consists of a photocopy of the handwritten diary of Jenö Klein, originally of Makó, Hungary, written between March 1, 1944 and July 2, 1945. Mr. Klein was deported from Makó to Strasshof, Austria, and from there to Neumuhl to work in a quarry and a forest, then to Gmund to work in a potato processing factory. Mr. Klein became a "Jupo" (Juden Polizei) of the group and was in charge of the distribution of items. In April, the group was transferred to Theresienstadt (Terezin). Mr. Klein was liberated on May 7th by the Red Army. Also includes a typed translation of the Hungarian diary into G...

• Records of the Regent’s Cabinet Office

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 588
• English
• 1919-1944
• K 588: 4 fasc., 2 vols., 0,57 linear metres
• Updated 9 years ago

In 1920, in order to facilitate the administrative work of the Regent of Hungary, new offices were established called the Cabinet Office, the Military Office and the Economic Office though the last of the three was soon merged into the Cabinet Office. A tiny fraction of their documents survived and many of the other materials of the Office of the Head of State was also destroyed. For the Cabinet Office, practically the only remaining documents are from the years 1945-46 and concern economic matters (K 588). The scope of these economic affairs was rather restricted as it concerned the salary...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn90256
• English
• 1939-1944
• 6,339 digital images, JPEG 5 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 7 months ago

This collection contains materials relating to the Vilna ghetto, its daily life and living conditions in the ghetto, social and cultural work, activities of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) and the Jewish interaction with the German and Lithuanian authorities.The records consists of: maps of the ghetto, 1942, diaries, chronicles and manuscripts on the history of the ghetto by Zelig Kalmanovitch, Herman Kruk, Yitschak Rudashevsky, Szmerke Kaczerginski, personal identification documents such as badges, armbands, identification cards, passes; materials on the ghetto administration and its divisio...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500233
• English
• 1945-1983
• folders 4
• Updated 7 months ago

The Abram Kashtan collection contains various documents relating to Abram Kashtan, a Holocaust survivor who hid in a barn for a year before joining with anti-Nazi partisans. Included in the collection are his diary filled with partisan and camp songs, health documents such as an immunization record and health certificate, and identification documents such as identification cards and a certificate of service. Also included is a newspaper copy of an article detailing the story of Cezary Chorążyczewski, who was awarded Yad Vashem’s Righteous Among the Nations for his family’s role in saving Ab...

1. Ada Abrahamer collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610316
• English
• 1941-1948
• box 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The Ada Abrahamer papers primarily consist of a diary and photographs related to Ada Abrahamer’s wartime experiences in work camps and concentration camps in Poland, as well as her postwar life in displaced persons camps in Austria. Abrahamer kept a diary from September 1939 until March 1946, but the only remaining pages are from Spring 1944 to March 1946. The surviving pages describe her experiences in Oskar Schindler’s airplane parts factory, Plaszów concentration camp, Auschwitz concentration camp, the Lichtewerden bei Freudenthal (Consolidated Flaxspinning Factory) in Sudeten Germany, a...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn561734
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The Aharon Lazer papers contain two handwritten diaries and documents that belonged to Jewish Brigade soldier, Aharon Laser (Lazer). Aharon served in the 1st Palestine Light Anti-Aircraft Battery of the 202 Field Artillery Regiment in Cyprus, Italy, Germany, and other locations in Europe. The first diary, which begins in French and then switches to Hebrew, dated November 14,1944, includes numerous edits and deletions. In an entry dated May 27, 1944, and revised on December 1, 1944, he documents the last months of the war. This diary also includes entries about a battle on the Senio River, e...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514900
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Albert David Hamburger and his parents Abraham and Rosa Hamburger of Gorinchem, Netherlands. Included are four letters written by Betty Bouten-Bergen, who hid David and his sister in Amsterdam; family photographs; copies of documents related to Albert’s release from Theresienstadt; and a Dutch translation of a diary written by Sergei Kaplan, husband of Olga Kaplan, who adopted Albert while he was in Theresienstadt.

1. Rinkinių apskaitos ir apsaugos skyrius

• Album with fragments from Herman Kruk diary, 1941-1943

• Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
• VŽM 4671
• Multiple
• 1941-1943
• Album, 27 pages with fragments of paper pieces
• Updated 3 years ago

Pages from the second copy which remained in Vilnius ghetto library. The diary was dictated by Kruk to his secretary Rokhl Mendelsund-Kowarski. Herman Kruk recorded his own experiences as well as the life and death of the Jewish community of Vilnius in a chronical manner.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn624186
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection includes a journal, on loose pages, transcribed and recorded by Alexander Muller in a displaced persons camp in Kassel, Germany. The entries include statements and testimony from other survivors.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn84513
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Diaries kept by Alfred and Hertha Friedheim, with some loose documents inserted between pages; dated 1939-1941; in French and English. The Friedheims were passengers on board the MS St. Louis in May 1939. When the ship returned to Europe they disembarked in France, and were in the Rieucros concentration camp in Lozere, France before getting American visas. They set sail in May 1941 on board the SS Winnipeg, but were detained in Port of Spain, Trinidad after the ship was commandeered by the Dutch navy. While in Port of Spain, their US visas expired. They were successful in getting their visa...

1. Alfred H. Elbau collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn507332
• English
• folders 3 , 4 microfiche,
• Updated 7 months ago

Includes originals and copies of Holocaust-related pieces written by Alfred Elbau. Among them are a speech transcript titled "Berlin's Jews - past and present," an autobiography by Elbau describing his life in Berlin, Germany, before the Holocaust and his family's emigration to the United States, and a translation of the diary of Erich Frey. The Frey diary describes the life of a Jewish family in Berlin at the beginning of the Holocaust and their experiences of persecution. The bulk dates of the diary are 1939-1942.

1. Robert M.W. Kempner collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn73077
• English
• 1936-1944
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The diary, which begins in April 1936, contains entries in which Rosenberg reflects on contemporary events, including the Soviet-German non-aggression pact, the invasion of Poland, Germany’s relations with other countries prior to the war (Romania, Spain, Afghanistan, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy), the personalities and activities of other Nazi leaders, his antipathy to organized religion and to the Roman Catholic church in particular, accounts of his meetings with Hitler, the latter’s affirmations of Rosenberg’s writings and activities, and his perceptions of the popularity and reception of ...

1. Alison Owings collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn533343
• English
• 1984-2013
• boxes oversize box 12 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The Alison Owings collection consists of correspondence, transcripts, audio recordings, clippings, reviews, and other research and editorial materials created and/or collected by Alison Owings, during the research, writing, and publication of her book "Frauen: Women in the Third Reich" (Rutgers University Press, 1993). Collection includes transcripts of interviews and interview notes; audio recordings; correspondence with interviewees, scholars, and others who were involved with or advised on the research; and correspondence, reviews, and other material related to the publication of the book.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn710532
• English
• 1927-1942
• box oversize folders 1 2
• Updated 7 months ago

The Ammy and Nico Herschel collection consists of correspondence, personal papers, biographical materials, newspapers, speeches, programs, and ephemera relating to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Ammy Herschel (née Weyel/Weijel) and Nice Herschel of the Netherlands. The biographical materials includes the diaries of Nico Herschel written in the Netherlands from July 1, 1933 to September 7, 1942; Nico Herschel’s school diplomas and report cards, 1927-1928; 1931-1937; Nico Herschel’s ID card for hiking organization, 1935; and Ammy Weyel’s Zionist membership card, September 1940. The He...