• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn37151
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of five photographs from the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Contains mass produced images of bodies.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn34316
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains photographic prints of images taken immediately following liberation of concentration camps, including images of victims as well as mass individual grave sites. The photographs were possibly taken by Armando Mattioli, an American soldier stationed in Europe during the Second World War, dated circa 1945.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514432
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of two copyprints: one of Frieda Ringermacher with friends, and one of Rajzel Rose Ringermacher Fox. Both women perished in the Holocaust, Rajzel with her three-year-old son Welwale in Treblinka in 1942 . They were from Skarżysko, Cze̜stochowa, Poland.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn506451
• English
• 1939-1995
• folders 4 1 flag,
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains biographical sketches, photonegatives, photographs, school report cards, newsletters, identification documents, certificates, clippings, affidavits, a Jewish flag, and various other documents relating to the experiences of Fred Linden (Fritz Isaac Lindenstrauss), his wife Ruth Betty Salomon Linden, and their son, Kurt Joseph Linden, during their time living as German Jewish refugees in Shanghai, China, from April 1939 to August 1947. Several documents relate to the Linden family's business, "Ladies Secondhand Store," where they provided clothing goods and tailoring services to the ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn523801
• English
• folders 6
• Updated 1 year ago

The Lindenbaum and Landau families collection contains photographs of the Lindenbaum and Landau families, circa 1900s-1945. The family photographs were taken in Łódź, Poland; Warsaw, Poland; the Warsaw ghetto; and Belgium. The photographs feature friends and family members and include both victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Photographs of Tobiasz and Curtla Lindenbaum include the couple around the turn of the century; a portrait of Tobiasz, undated; Curtla holding an umbrella at an unknown resort, undated; Curtla, two of her daughters, and a grandson riding in a droshky, undated; Cur...

1. Fred Lindheim family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn86156
• English
• 1923-2012
• folders 7
• Updated 1 year ago

The Lindheim family papers relate to the emigration experiences of the Lindheim family of Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1939 and their efforts to assist other family members to leave Nazi occupied Belgium. The papers include identification documents, affidavits of support, correspondence, memoirs, restitution paperwork, and family photographs. The Lindheim family correspondence consists of letters of recommendation and support for Berthold Lindheim as well as letters relating to travel arrangements. Restitution documents and related correspondence are also housed within this series. The bio...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn35976
• English
• 1945-2008
• folder 1 1 DVD-ROM,
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of twelve photographs taken by Lindley Pugh after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, including photographs of arrested German perpetrators, the aftermath of summary justice, and photographs of convoys of German civilians fleeing the front. Includes one photograph of Lindley Pugh outside his quarters near the Dachau camp and one photograph of soldiers enjoying a Bob Hope show. Also includes one DVD of Mr. Pugh speaking about his experiences to his granddaughters' middle school class.

1. Alfred Linhard family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn561391
• English
• 1938-1939
• folders oversize box 10 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection contains documents, original and copied, as well as photographs, correspondence, and a manuscript memoir documenting the experiences of the Linhard family of Vienna, Austria and their efforts to emigrate following the German takeover in 1938. Includes a manuscript memoir by Alfred Linhard; copied documents related to his parents, Regina and Bernhard Linhard, including birth, marriage and death certificates; and letters Bernhard wrote to American aid organizations appealing for their assistance in helping him and his family to emigrate. Also includes family photographs, a pray...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn36408
• English
• 1910-1940
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of eight photographs of pre-war Jewish life in Linkuva, Lithuania. Includes photographs of homes, the marketplace, the post office, and a horse-drawn wagon.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521713
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of four photographs of the extended family of Beru Vigder, of Burdujeni, Romania. The photographs, all dated in the 1920s, depict his siblings Chaya, Leah, and his nephew, all of whom perished in the Holocaust.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514256
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of four family photographs that include scenes from Łódź, Poland, beside a monument to martyrs of the Warsaw ghetto, a phototgraph of Edith Poliszuk and her brother Mark Zilist in Łódź, Poland, in 1945, a photograph of the community synagogue in Ostrug, Poland,before the war, and a family photogrpah of Tina Davis, Abraham Murik, Edmond Davis, Lisa Murik, and Ann Murik in 1945.

1. Lisbeth Modley Kornreich collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn702396
• English
• 1912-1984
• box book enclosure oversize folder 1 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Lisbeth Modley Kornreich and her parents Augusta and Wilhelm Modley of Vienna, Austria. Included are biographical materials, immigration papers, correspondence, writings, and photographs regarding their pre-war lives in Vienna and emigration from Austria. Also included is a copy of Augusta’s sister Nellie Zehetner’s (née Lipiner) husband Hans Zehetner’s wartime diary. Biographical materials include Lisbeth’s birth certificate and gymnasium and university papers; Augusta’s German passport and a document stating that Augusta added Sara...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514776
• English
• 1949-1950
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of three post-war photographs of Channa Lissek and her sons Leon, Marcel, and Jacques. The boys spent the war in hiding with the help of the OSE. The boys' father, Sam Lissek, perished in Auschwitz; one of the photographs, taken in 1950, shows Channa's second husband.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn563647
• English
• 1945-1956
• folders 10
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Jerry Lista (born Israel Cymbalista) in displaced persons camps near Munich, Germany; his immigration to the United States in 1951; his marriage to Gyta Szmulewicz (later Judy Lista) in 1958; and Judy’s immigration to the United States. Also included is a document regarding Jerry’s leg amputation after getting shot and left for dead on a death march in 1945. Photographs include pre-war depictions of the Cymbalista and Szmulewicz families, Jerry in a DP camp, and Judy in Israel. Additionally, there is a Dachau DP identification card o...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn54245
• English
• 1940
• 131 digital files, PDF and some Excel
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains digital reproductions of lists of deported persons of Judeo-Spanish ancestry who were deported from France. These are provisional lists and include information forms, some with photographs, on individuals, as well as people names found on lists at the Spanish Consulate in Paris, 1940.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519164
• English
• 1920-2003
• boxes 14
• Updated 1 year ago

This collection contains correspondence and photographs related to Russian and Soviet Yiddish writers. Contains information about Russian and Soviet Yiddish artists and cultural activists, articles by and about Beider, drafts and copies of Beider's Der Freylekher Alef-beys ("The Happy Alphabet", an alphabet book for children), publications about Jewish life in Birobidzhan, manuscripts of unpublished books, and translations of operas, poems, plays, and songs into Yiddish.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610022
• English
• 1900-1999
• 511 digital files, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Jewish literary works: poems, memoirs, letters, songs, literary and political notes, written in various ghettos, mainly in the Łódź ghetto (Litzmannstadt), as well as in various concentration camps in Poland and Lithuania. Includes also copies of „Getto szriftn“, a clandestine newspaper published in Łódź ghetto, and some personal photographs. This collection consists of both original work (mostly from the Ghetto Litzmannstadt (Łódź)) and their postwar copies.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn515425
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains one photograph of two young boys, aged approximately nine and four years old. The photograph, taken in Kaunas, Lithuania, was given to the parents of the Shulamith Shafer [donor], Paul and Riva Singal Huz, by the uncle of the boys in the Santa Maria displaced persons camp. The uncle, remembered only as "Leibel," gave the photograph to the Huzes hoping that they could locate the boys in the United States.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn526655
• English
• 1922-1981
• box oversize box 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Litke family papers document the experiences of Chaim Litke and Frida Hoffmann Litke in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and their post-war lives in the Eggenfelden displaced persons camp, Eggenfelden, Germany from 1945-1949. The collection includes papers from Eggenfelden, immigration and naturalization documents, restitution papers, Frida’s testimonies about her time in Auschwitz concentration camp, and photographs. The biographical materials primarily consist of papers documenting Frida and Chaim Litke’s experiences at the Eggenfelden displaced persons camp, 1945-1949. These...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn754574
• English
• 1930-1959
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of the Litman family of Zalishchyky, including their survival in Tovste and Jarosław, Poland with the use of false identification papers. Included are false identification papers identifying Olga Litman and her daughters Halina and Eva as Catholics with the last name Lityński, a work permit for Olga to work at a German military camp in Jarosław, DP identification cards, post-war British military papers of Ignacy Litman, marriage certificates, documents used for restitution, clippings, and photographs. The photographs consist of pre-war and ...