• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn84771
• English
• 1924-1948
• 12,152 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains journal "Kameraden" (1924-1931), diaries from various cities (kvuzot) in Germany (1923-1937), a diary and minutes of meetings of leadership in Danzig (1925-1928), records on children camps, correspondence with the central leadership and brunches, circulars, reports on activities, youth aliya issues, names lists of members from different branches, names lists for drafting to the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), 1948, publications on Ha Shomer Hatzair history in Yiddish (1946-1948), financial reports.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn44413
• English
• 1941-1946
• 7,405 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains correspondence, letters, diaries, activity reports of the Hashomer Hatzair, Prague-Bratislava office concerning refugee camps, immigration, summer settlements, and a seminar held in Lindenfels (Germany). Records relate to the Hashomer Hatzair movement in various European countries or areas such as Poland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Romania, Transylvania, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Italy, and France.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524025
• English
• 1916-1997
• folders oversize folder 18 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Helen Kulka Fanta collection contains material related to Helen Kulka Fanta, a Jewish secretary from Prague who was deported to Theresienstadt by the German authorities in 1942. She was later imprisoned at Auschwitz, Neuengamme, and Bergen-Belsen before being liberated in 1945. The collection consists primarily of identification forms, references, and other forms of verification documenting Helen Kulka as a refugee and concentration camp survivor. A diary written during her time at Bergen-Belsen is included as well. Other material includes poems collected and written, notes, and music s...

1. Helen Mermelstein and Esther Mermelstein Weiss collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn108949
• English
• 1945-1961
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection includes a journal, documents, and photographs illustrating the experiences of sisters Esther and Helen (b. 1918) Mermelstein, born in Cinadievo, Czechoslovakia (currently Ukraine) and deported to the Munkacs ghetto in April 1944. In June 1944 they were sent to a series of concentration camps including Auschwitz, munitions factory Christianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross Rosen, in Poland, and Bergen-Belsen in Germany where they were liberated. They were then sent to Karlstad, Sweden to recuperate. The journal is a multi-page letter from Helen to brother Heshkel [Alexander] and the...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn507426
• English
• 1943-1945
• folder 1 , 8 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a photocopy of "Translation from Polish of a small diary written by Helen Preiss" which consists of two entries, dated May 8, 1943, and May 19, 1943, in which she describes her deportation from Sosnowiec, Poland; life in "Landschut Camp" (Landeshut concentration camp); and her transfers to Auschwitz and "Peterslager" (Peterswaldau) concentration camps. The collection also contains a "Note written by Helen Preiss in 'Ludwiksdorf' 1945" to her dead mother describing her despair when, after liberation, she discovered that her mother did not survive.

1. Heller family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50245
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of material related to the Holocaust experiences of Rudolph Heller and Ilona Neumann Hellerova and their son, Ota Karel (now Charles Ota) Heller, originally of Kojetice u Prahy, Czechoslovakia. Includes images of family members and of the family company, Firma Gustav Neumann. Includes a handwritten family history written by Gustav Neumann prior to his deportation to Theresienstadt and death at Treblinka. The family history was continued by Ilona, who used the book as a diary of her experiences remaining in Czechoslovakia with Ota and posing as non-Jews. In 1944, Ilona was sent for ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn708257
• English
• 1915-2009
• boxes oversize box oversize folders book enclosure 5 1 11 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Henry Dressler papers consists of biographical material, writings, restitution material, photographs, and correspondence related to the Holocaust experiences of Henry (Heinz) Dressler and his family. Joachim and Martha, along with their children Henry and Susi, survived the war by working in Oskar Schindler’s factory. The collection consists of Henry’s wartime and post-war diary, the family’s work papers for Oskar Schindler, immediate post-war correspondence of Henry and Joachim Dressler to various family members, friends, and associates, and photographs depicting the Dressler family be...

1. Terezín/Theresienstadt
2. Documents
3. Documents from the period of occupation
4. Cultural Department (Freizeitgestaltung)
5. Diaries and albums, magazine (fragment)
6. Diaries and albums of young people and adults

• Židovské muzeum v Praze
• DOCUMENT.JMP.SHOAH/T/2/A/10h/324a/016
• Czech, German, English
• Updated 10 years ago

1. Terezín/Theresienstadt
2. Documents
3. Documents from the period of occupation
4. Cultural Department (Freizeitgestaltung)
5. Diaries and albums, magazine (fragment)
6. Diaries and albums of young people and adults

• Židovské muzeum v Praze
• DOCUMENT.JMP.SHOAH/T/2/A/10h/324a/013
• Czech, German, English
• Updated 10 years ago

1. Terezín/Theresienstadt
2. Documents
3. Documents from the period of occupation
4. Cultural Department (Freizeitgestaltung)
5. Diaries and albums, magazine (fragment)
6. Diaries and albums of young people and adults

• Židovské muzeum v Praze
• DOCUMENT.JMP.SHOAH/T/2/A/10h/324a/014
• Czech, German, English
• 1944
• Updated 10 years ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn41846
• English
• 1939-1946
• 2,454 digital images, PDF 3 DVD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in. 3 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of diaries, eyewitness accounts, testimonies, essays, official and underground publications, documents from the Jewish councils (Judenrats). The materials pertain to Jewish communities, ghettos, labor camps and to Jews living illegally on the "Aryan side." Materials on the Warsaw Ghetto include a manuscript diary and other notes by Emanuel Ringelblum. Essays by other members of the Oneg Shabat group on topics related to conditions in the ghetto, such as: black market, street trade, smuggling, working, performing arts, child beggars, ghetto folklore, sanitary conditio...

1. Mandate Palestine collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn45635
• English
• 1943
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The diary, written from July to November 1943, recounts the experiences of a Jewish Brigade soldier, from deployment in Palestine to battles in Tobruk, Benghazi, and elsewhere in North Africa.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn676447
• English
• folders oversize folders 5 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The Hess family papers consist of original and photocopies of biographical material, emigration and immigration material, newspapers, and a diary relating to Adolf and Jette Hess and their daughters Ilse and Vera Hess’ voyage on the MS St. Louis, their disembarkation and experiences in France, and their eventual emigration to Cuba in 1941 and the United States in 1944. Biographical material includes documents relating to Adolf’s service in World War I including a certificate for his service, passports for Vera and Jette, paperwork for payment of Adolf’s funeral, and copy of Vera’s birth cer...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn44069
• English
• folder oversize folder book enclosure 1 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Hilzenrad family papers consist of a diary written by Adela Hilzenrad, in which she describes the events in Drohobycz, Poland from the German invasion in 1941 until liberation in 1944. The collection also includes pre-war and post-war photographs depicting the Lantner and Hilzenrad families in Drohobycz, Stryj, and the United States including images of Adela Hilzenrad, her son Josaf Hilzenrad, her husband Dr. Mordechai Hilzenrad, her sister Chana Lantner, and her brother Dr. Henry J. Lantner.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519000
• English
• 1936-1960
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of papers related to the Holocaust and immigration experiences of the family of Isac and Lydia Hirschfeld, originally of Liebau, Latvia. Isac Hirscheld passed away before the war, and once the war began, Lydia and her daughters Fanny, Frida, and Marie were interned, first in the Riga ghetto, and later in a forced labor camp. The collection includes a wartime address book, Fanny's diary, kept while in forced labor, and wartime correspondence. In 1944, Fanny volunteered to accompany a cousin on a transfer to Stutthof, where she perished. Lydia, Frida, and Marie survived the war and s...

1. Alfred Hirschfeld family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn42951
• English
• 1894-1970
• boxes oversize folder oversize box 5 4 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Hirschfeld family papers document the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Alfred, Maria, and Hans Hirschfeld of Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). The collection contains biographical materials, correspondence, immigration papers, financial records, restitution claims, and photographs. The papers document Hans Hirschfeld’s pre-war life in Breslau, his experiences immigrating to Cuba and the United States in 1939, and his service in the United States Army during World War II. They also document Alfred and Maria’s wartime experience in Breslau, their difficulties immigratin...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn508120
• English
• 1945-1946
• 14,588 digital images, JPEG 71 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains approximately 7,000 Holocaust survivor testimonies. Testimonies describe the destruction of an entire Jewish community during World War II. From the autumn of 1944 to the summer of 1947, Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna (Central Jewish Historical Commission) developed a questionnaire and trained interviewers to record the testimonies. Survivors came forward from bunkers in the forests, from partisan units, and from newly liberated concentration and labor camps wishing to relate to the Commission's field workers what they or their families had endured during the occupation. In...

1. Holub, Glaser and Ornstein families collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn707226
• English
• 1917-2006
• boxes oversize box oversize folders 5 1 4
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Holub, Glaser, and Ornstein families, all originally of Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic), including Eva Glaser (née Holub), her parents Josef and Marie Holub, and her brother Hanus; Eva’s first husband Arno Erban and their sons Peter and Tomas; Eva’s aunt Erna Popper (later Erna Lichtenstern and Erna Berkowitz) and her husband Richard and son Kurt; Eva’s second husband Herbert Glaser; and her cousin Walter Ornstein. The collection consists of biographical material, immigration paperwork, correspondence, writings including ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn613471
• English
• 1934-1946
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The Ike Diamond papers include his 1934 Polish identification card, a 1946 passport entry indicating Diamond could enter Venezuela, and his 1939-1945 diary describing the outbreak of war, his confinement in the Warsaw ghetto, his escape, hiding on a farm in Otrębusy, and liberation. He appears to have begun his diary while in hiding in May 1943, so the descriptions of fall 1939 through summer 1943 are written as chapters in the past tense while entries beginning September 1, 1943 are written as diary entries in the present tense. The first half of the diary describes hardships during the in...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn605675
• English
• 1939-1949
• folders oversize folders 5 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers consists of five handwritten journals written by Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz (1903-1980) at the Feldafing displaced persons camp, dated May 1945 - August 1949. The papers also include five colorized photographs of portraits of the Hipszer family including Rajzla (Rejzla, née Krzesiwo) and her children Machla Hipszer (1931-1943), Gitla Hipszer (1937-1943), and Mina (Minca/Mincz, 1940-1943). The Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers consists of five handwritten journals written by Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz dated May 1945 - August 1949. The journals, written while Ilona was l...