• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn84788
• English
• 1965
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of 17 enlarged black and white photographs taken by W. Douglas Schellig on the grounds of the former Dachau concentration camp in 1965. The photographs depict the memorials and sculptures on the camp grounds, the museum, and the architecture of the camp.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521426
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of copy negatives and contact sheets of Signal Corps photographs and a photocopy of a booklet on the Buchenwald concentration camp by F. M. S. Miller.

1. Max Wachtel and Herbert Wolf family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn40038
• English
• boxes 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of letters, documents, and photographs relating to Max and Erna Wachtel from Erfurt, Germany; their daughter Ursula Wachtel (donor's mother); and her brother Hans Wachtel, who served in the US Army and wrote letters to his parents while during the war. Also includes a passport and other documents relating to Herbert Wolf (donor's father), from Freiburg, Germany.

1. Wacław Głouszek collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn73142
• English
• folders 8
• Updated 1 year ago

The Wacław Głouszek papers consist of sheet music from Dora-Mittelbau, lyrics to patriotic and religious Polish songs, two diaries describing Głouszek’s camp, transport, and liberation experiences and including partial lists of fellow prisoners, a 1968 letter describing Głouszek’s efforts to save weak and emaciated Jewish prisoners from selection for the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Głouszek’s identification photograph from Auschwitz, four copy prints of Bergen-Belsen after liberation, and one copy print of General Eisenhower visiting Ohrdruf after liberation.

1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn599258
• English
• 1939-1944
• 54 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 121,673 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Orders, reports, correspondence, memoranda, plans, explanatory notes, estimates, blueprints, computations, drafts, diagrams, photographs of installations, bookkeeping records, staff inventories, list of employees, personal files of security guards, index cards of prisoners and workers, death notices, and list of prisoners. The records relate to the complete history of the construction and maintenance of the Auschwitz camps complex. Includes correspondence with the camp commandant’s office, the Silesia Construction Inspectorate and the main office regarding daily operations of camp and crema...

1. Thomas W. Miles collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn515958
• English
• 1933-1945
• box folder 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of a photograph album of a former Waffen-SS youth and contains photographs depicting German military life on campaigns throughout Europe during World War II. Some of the photographs have fallen out of the album and are stored separately. The collection also contains handwritten notes listing English translations of German words and phrases.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn520273
• English
• 1940-1957
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains original correspondence exchanged between Rudolf and Olga Wahle and Trude Wahle Altschul in Prague, and their daughter in Bolovia, dated March-September 1941; a copy of a letter from Francisco Wahle; copies of ITS certificates of incarceration; and copies of photographs of Olga and Rudolf Wahle.

1. Julius Wald and Ernst Breuer families collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn533377
• English
• 1924-1946
• folders 11
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Wald family from Vienna, Austria. Julius Wald, son of Markus and Helene Wald, was one of the 50 children in Vienna rescued by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus in spring 1939. Included are identification documents of Julius and his sister Leonore, photographs of Julius with the other 50 children arriving in New York, and family correspondence. Also included are identification papers and United States Army documents of Ernst Breuer, Leonore Wald’s husband, and photographs from the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. The Wald fami...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn724182
• English
• folders 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The Waldapfel family papers include correspondence, immigration documents, and photographs documenting Irma Waldapfel, her children Valerie, Max, and Karoline, and their Waldapfel and Fischer relatives. Correspondence includes postcards sent from Czechoslovakia to Irma, Valerie, and Karoline during the interwar period and letters Irma and Karoline sent from Vienna to Valeria and Max in New York. Immigration documents consist of a Queen Mary passenger list and handwritten notes documenting Irma’s and Karoline’s itinerary from Vienna to Cherbourg to New York. Photographs depict Irma, Karoline...

1. Waldman family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn619219
• English
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Documents, correspondence, photographs and newspaper clippings that belonged to John Waldman (donor's father) and his parents George and Betsy Waldman, who were interned as American citizens in Vittel internment camp in France.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn702458
• English
• 1930-1941
• boxes oversize folder 2 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Waldmann family, originally of Bad Windsheim, Germany. Included are German passports, family history, immigration documents, restitution paperwork, correspondence, and photographs regarding brothers Leopold, Max, and Sigmund, and their families including their mother Emma Esther Waldmann, and Max’s wife Charlotte and sons Kurt and Otto. Biographical materials include Charlotte Waldmann’s German passport which also included her sons Kurt and Otto; Emma Esther Waldmann’s German identification card and passport, packing inventory, r...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn531867
• English
• 1938-1949
• boxes oversize folders 2 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the experiences of György Wallenfels, his wife Illona, and their children Miklos and Eva of Budapest, Hungary during the Holocaust. Included are identification papers, death certificates, correspondence, genealogy research, and a small amount of photographs that document the György’s conscription into the Hungarian army and his death from typhus in 1945; Illona’s deportation to the Ravensbrück and Buchenwald concentration camps in 1944; and Miklos and Eva’s deportation to the ghetto in Budapest; as well as pre-war family history. Also documented is the experiences o...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn597298
• English
• 1905-1985
• folders 6
• Updated 1 year ago

The Walter and Edith Schiff papers include biographical materials, correspondence, a diary, and photographs illustrating the pre-war and wartime experiences of Walter and Edith Schiff, originally of Berlin, Germany. Edith was sent to Camp de Gurs in France where she was assigned to work in an office, and Walter escaped while being transported between camps. The couple was reunited in France and hid in the basement of a Catholic church until liberation. Biographical materials include birth certificates for Ernest Moser, Edith Moser, Julius Schiff, and Walter Schiff, a marriage certificate an...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501514
• English
• 1877-1998
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Walter and Elizabeth Richards family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, restitution files, and subject files documenting a German Jewish family from Berlin, some family members’ escape to Argentina, the United States, and England, the deaths of Elizabeth Richards’ parents at Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, and postwar efforts to receive restitution for confiscated money and property. Biographical materials include a 1922 German citizenship form for the Lewin family, employment information for Gyuri Olah, Hans Reich, and Walter Richards, emigration forms...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524049
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection consists of 18 photographs relating to the Ellenbogen and Lenzer families in Dorna, Gura Humora, Transnistria and Cyprus DP camp. Also includes four memoirs written by the donors.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn708130
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of 16 photographs documenting scenes at Buchenwald shortly following liberation. The photographs are associated with the military service of Walter Eisenhuth, who served with an Army Engineer Maintenance Company. Includes images of piles of corpses; the burial of victims; survivors in their camp uniforms; scenes at various buildings aroud the camp site; and the hanging of a sign, in English, announcing a memorial observance for the victims of the camp.

1. Walter Fiebelman collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn72894
• English
• 1917-1993
• folders 10
• Updated 1 year ago

The Walter Feibelman papers consist of biographical materials and subject files documenting the Feibelmann family’s life in Berlin, immigration to the United States, and postwar search for their lost relatives. Biographical materials include military records documenting Bernhard Feibelmann’s World War I service, Walter’s student records, his parents’ passports, and tracing documents following Otto and Addi Feibelmann and Emma Klein. Subject files include a photograph of the Theodor Herzl Schule, Hamburg- American Line records about the Feibelmanns’ passage to America, ration tickets for bre...

1. Walter Fried collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503398
• English
• 1942-1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of 13 photographs of the burial ceremony of camp victims near Regensburg, Germany, several documents relating to labor and food conditions at Regensburg, Germany, during World War II, and a report of the atrocities at the Buchenwald camp.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501322
• English
• 1945
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The Walter Furman papers comprised documents and photographs collected by Walter while serving overseas with the United States armed forces. Included in the collection is a five-page mimeograph copy of a report prepared by for Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) by the United States Group Control Council dated 16 April 1945 summarizing the conditions at Buchenwald, and two black-and-white photographs of atrocities at Dachau.

1. Walter H. Rothschild Collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501296
• English
• 1913-1995
• boxes oversize box oversize folders 2 1 4
• Updated 1 year ago

The Walter H. Rothschild papers includes biographical material, correspondence, publications, and photographs relating to Walter’s experience as a United States Intelligence Officer stationed in Germany, as well as material documenting Carl and Alice Rothschild’s immigration to the United States. The collection also includes Nazi government correspondence, political testaments, requests from Nazi prisoners of war, and photographs of Nazi officials and events. Biographical materials include documentation of Walter Rothschild’s service in the military through Army qualifications, appointment ...