• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn593167
• English
• 1918-1939
• 11,294 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Registers of persons detained for an espionage and suspected of communist activity, a bulletin "Poufny Przegląd Inwigilacyjny" (Confidential Investigation Review), 1921-1934, albums of criminals, photographs of officers of the Polish State Police, a report "Ruch żydowski w Polsce' (Jewish movement in Poland), 1925; and investigative materials related to the murder of the Jungsztajn family (Correspondence, photographs), 1927, 1939.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn714032
• English
• 1917-1933
• 1,859 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Investigation files relating to the pogrom of Jews in Wodzisław in Nov. 1918. Includes also two investigative cases about communist activities.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514005
• English
• 1933-1945
• 10 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains original records and photocopies of the Jewish community in Frankfurt, Germany; name lists of Jewish families; deportation lists; correspondence; synagogue statutes; survivors' testimonies, diaries, and letters; personal papers relating to the Holocaust, to Jewish fate and emigration. Also contains photographs of events, e.g., Kristallnacht, and buildings such as synagogues, schools and other institutions.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn98211
• English
• 1945-1962
• 8,791 digital images, PDF 1 CD,
• Updated 1 year ago

Documentation and indexes of places of execution in the Polish provinces and in the city of Warsaw ("Kroniki bestialstw niemieckich: The Chronicles of German atrocities"), lists of camps on Polish territory, questionnaires of people arrested and testimonies of witnesses of war crimes.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn707321
• English
• 1939-1963
• 625 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of three group of records: 1. Testimonies and Memoirs (RG A): contains texts written by survivors, or interviewers, as well as audio and video recordings of interviews; 2. Personal Collections (RG C): contains approximately one-hundred collections of private archives and personal estates that have been entrusted to the Moreshet Archive over the years. The private archives and estates consist of a wide variety of materials, such as letters, photographs, manuscripts, and works of art; 3. Documents, Letters, and Journals (RG D.1): contains official government documents, personal docum...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn593164
• English
• 1945-1959
• 545 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Correspondence, reports, registers, bulletin, and photographs relating to the repatriation of Polish citizens, repatriation of Polish children, search for missing persons, and a return of files related to victims of crime in Katyń forest.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn597101
• English
• 1923-1939
• 3,776 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Consist of court case files, notes, brochures, proclamations, publications, posters, leaflets related to communist and anti-Polish activities of Jewish population in Krakow District after Polish independence. Jews were accused of participation in the activities of the local communist parties, dissemination of communist magazines and illegal possession of weapons, editing and dissemination of anti-Polish publications and a secret prison newspaper, distribution of communist literature, slogans and banners, participation in the plot of the attack on the state system of Poland, participation in...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn614050
• English
• 1934-1939
• 836 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Police reports, include name lists of police officers, surveys and surveillance journals, arrest warrants, and photographs of detainees from the register of the State Police, 1938-1939.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn631121
• English
• 1920-1983
• 9,354 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Records of the World ORT (formerly World ORT Union), its governing bodies and associate organizations world-wide. The archive include minutes of meetings, reports, correspondence, fund-raising and PR, research and development, administrative and financial records (1920s-1950s). Also included are pamphlets and bulletins from various countries; reports, correspondence, and photos of the Berlin ORT school transferred to Leeds (1939-1943), private papers of former students and teachers of ORT; as well as the Shapiro Collection: consisting of materials collected on ORT's history by the American ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47305
• English
• 1945-1966
• 4,256 digital images, JPEG 5 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Selected materials related to concentration camps Bełżec, Treblinka, Chełmno, Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Płaszòw, and Gross-Rosen; ghettos in Warsaw, Siedlce, and Limanowa; and the labor camps for Jews in Poznań: testimony of witnesses and suspects, photographs, postcards, letters, certificates of death, travel passes, texts of prayers, staff lists, lists of ex-prisoners, documents of Poland’s military mission in London, daily reports of the Leiter des Ordnungsdienstes (Head of Order Service) of the Warsaw ghetto.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn531013
• English
• 1887-1945
• 388,821 digital images, TIFF
• Updated 1 year ago

Correspondence, minutes, reports, statistics, registers, etc. of various government offices (Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education, Police Department, Credit Unions, State Chancery, Tax Office, Banks, etc.) and Jewish organizations, banks and schools (Jewish National Committee, Cultural Autonomy of the Jewish Minority, Jewish communities of Tallinn and of Tartu, Jewish Cooperative Bank, etc.). The collection includes records related to the confiscation of the Jewish property (by the Soviet and German authorities 1940-1945), nationalization of the Tallinn J...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50021
• English
• 1918-1928
• 430,948 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection includes records of the history of Jews and the Jewish communities in the region of L'viv before World War II. Most of the collection contains records of the Council of the Jewish Community, the Board of Trustees of the School District in L'viv, regional schools, the publishing houses and literary magazines. Included are correspondence with local and government authorities, and other documents of the Jewish Community relating to Jewish businesses (the Soap Factory and other), probate court cases, decrees of inheritance, Jewish organizations (e.g. Serce Żydowskie, Agudas Jesch...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544146
• English
• 1906-1957
• 43,362 digital images, TIFF
• Updated 1 year ago

Records of the Jewish Community in Plovdiv, Bulgaria: files on inspections of the Plovdiv district school; correspondence with the Police Directorate and rural municipal governments in the county; mutual and voluntary exodus of Greeks, Turks, Vlachs and Jews, deserters in the Romanian and Turkish army; annual and monthly reports on the status and activities of the administrative office at the Regional Police Department, Plovdiv in 1941-1944; files of the Jewish companies in Plovdiv; commercial cases for bankruptcy; confidential correspondence with the Council of Ministers-sector "Civil and ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501843
• English
• 1941-2002
• boxes oversize boxes 62 2 30,350 digital images, TIFF 106 microfilm reels, 16 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains records of the Federation of Union of Jewish Communities and the O.S.E. Bucharest branch relating to its relief and aid activities for Jews who were deported to Transnistria and those in Greater Romania. Also contains name lists of Jews originally from Transylvania and interned to the USSR, lists of orphaned children and the victims of the Iasi pogrom, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Romania information forms on families in Vaslui, Iasi and Burdeni, registration cards of deportees, newspaper clippings, album and documents containing photographs of Pogrom of Bucharest, registrati...

1. Gene Selig family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn36252
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains an inoculation certificate issued to Gert Selig in Kobe, Japan, and photographic prints of the Selig family in Frankfurt, Germany. Siegfried and Hildegard Selig fled Germany with their ten year old son Gert in 1940, via the Tans-Siberian railway through China and Kobe, Japan, arriving in the United States in late 1940.

1. Kay Nabel collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn36310
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the experiences of the Selinger and Lewinger families, originally of Kraków, Poland, during the Holocaust. Included are two pre-war photographic portraits of Helena and Abraham Selinger; postcards written by Wilhelm Selinger and his daughter Marilya Selinger Rysis in the Kraków ghetto addressed to Alexander Lewinger, Wilhelm’s brother-in-law, in New York, dated 1941; a note written to Krystyna Selinger (now Kay Nabel) from her sister in Kraków that was sent along with a package, dated November 3, 1941; and letters written to Kay in Germany from her husband Edward N...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn523806
• English
• 1927-1948
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers include one identification card and eight photographic prints relating to Selma Wahrhaftig and her experiences in the Saalfelden Displaced Persons Camp.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47249
• English
• 1918-1938
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains photographs depicting members of the Zimnowitz, Cybulski and Abramski families in Stawiski, Poland (north of Łomża), dated 1918-1928. Photographs depict Dina Abramska and Chaim Zvi Zimnowitz, dated c. 1935-36 in Stawiski, Poland, and one photograph of Chaim Brum, son of Alter Brum and Lena (Lecha) Abramsky. Includes postcards addressed to the Fanny Walker family in Kansas City sent from Stawiski, Poland by Alter Brum and Zisl Zimnowitz, in Yiddish and English, dated March 1935 - June 1938.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502258
• English
• folders 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The Selma Engel papers consist of a diary, biographical materials, and photographs. The diary (1943-1944) was written by Selma while hiding on a farm in German occupied Poland. It describes Selma’s arrival at Sobibór, the uprising and her escape with Chaim, the farming couple hiding them (Adam and Stefka Nowak), conditions of the farm, and Chaim and Selma’s health issues and Selma’s pregnancy. The diary also includes handwritten dictionary pages translating German into Polish, messages to Selma from Chaim, and sketches of the Hotel Wijnberg in Zwolle. Biographical materials include repatria...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn90841
• English
• 1945-1949
• folders 11
• Updated 1 year ago

The Selma Wideroff papers consist of correspondence, reports, and photographs documenting Selma Wideroff’s work for the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Germany from 1945‐1946 in the Bergen‐Belsen displaced persons camp and later at the Blankenese children's center on the Warburg Estate near Hamburg. Correspondence and reports include descriptions of Wideroff’s work in Europe, the use of the Warburg estate, activities in the British Zone, displaced communities in cities around Germany, directives for education programs. This series also includes JDC letters of introduction and of recom...