• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516571
• English
• 1893-1961
• folder oversize folder 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers consist of documents and a photograph relating to the Cohen family of Hamburg, Germany, and their escape from Nazi Germany to Montevideo, Uruguay, on the ship "General Artigas."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn508113
• English
• 1933-1978
• folders oversize folder 4 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of typescript and handwritten miscellaneous correspondence and other materials (originals and annotated copies) in German from circa 1933 to 1978. Includes, but is not limited to: postcards, children's story in rhyme with color drawings, notes, receipts, ration cards, letters, regulations, scrapbook with lithography, etc., which relate to Dr. Helmut Cohen and his family who were German Jews. The Cohen family spent World War II in the Jüdisches Krankenhaus (Jewish Hospital) in Berlin where Dr. Cohen was a physician, specializing in internal medicine. Some materials c...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn73335
• English
• 1939-1941
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of letters, dated between August 21, 1939 and March 14, 1940, from family members Paul, Herman, and Clara, to Martha, who had escaped from Czechoslovakia to Palestine with her family. In the letters, the family (likely siblings) inform Martha of their imprisonment, fears, and the increasing German persecution, as well as their inability to escape. Clara, who was Martha's sister, sent her letters from St. Nazaire, France, and while Herman and Paul's letters do not include a location, Herman was likely writing from Prague, while Paul was imprisoned in an unnamed camp. Also includes o...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn30473
• English
• 1931-1944
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Eva Kovacs collecton consists of identity cards, documents, and correspondence for Pal and Pálnéak (Pálné) Justus, originally of Budapest, Hungary, between 1931-1944. Includes correspondence from Pal Justus in Bor, Yugoslavia, while he was performing forced labor, to his family in Budapest.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514998
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers consist of two letters written by Eva Goldschmidt who was living in Chicago, Ill., and searching for information regarding the fate of her mother; one letter was written to James Sweet and the other letter was written to Frau Emil Huber; both letters were sent to James Sweet while he was serving with the United States Army in Europe.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn35210
• English
• 1905-2007
• box oversize folders 1 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The Eva Ostwalt papers contains documents and photographs relating to the personal life of Eva Ostwalt, a Jewish woman who was eventually imprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp during World War II. The photographs mainly consist of her family members, with many of Eva herself from both pre-war and her later years. The documents primarily relate to her time post-World War II, and include hospital notes, travel certificates, and identification materials. Other documents include correspondence, documentation concerning reparations, and other various affidavits and written statements. Al...

1. Fleischmann family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn523656
• English
• 1940-1942
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of three documents relating to the Fleischmann (donor’s) family: 1) a written document, dated 13 March 1942, regarding confiscated property, Prague; 2) a 1940 telegram regarding the release of the donor’s mother from Czechoslovakia; and 3) a letter, dated 30 January 1940, to the donor’s father from William Jowett,in London,.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516151
• English
• folders oversize folder 5 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of documents, a personal narrative, and photographs primarily documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Eva Rindner (née Schultzmann) and her mother Lola Blonder (previously Lola Zipser and Lola Schutzmann), including Eva’s treatment for tuberculosis as a child, her father’s death in 1937, and the family’s emigration from Vienna, Austria to Haifa, Palestine (Haifa, Israel) in 1938. Included are documents related to Lola’s work as a volunteer nurse during World War I, financial documents, and letters. The letters were addressed to Eva from her parents, and were rec...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn28927
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of 13 letters sent by Eva Salier in the Vught concentration camp, to her mother's assistant in Amsterdam.

1. Eva Spitzer Mezey collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn693466
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of photographs and copy prints documenting the Spitzer family from Aba, Hungary, as well as the wedding photo of Holocaust survivors Eva Spitzer and Lawrence Mezey (donor’s parents) who met after WWII while working for UNRRA in Vienna, Austria. Includes postcards and correspondence written by George (Gyuri) Fenyves (Eva Spitzer Mezey’s first husband) who was ordered into a Hungarian forced labor battalion and died on the front outside of Stalingrad; and letters from Jenö Spitzer (Eva’s brother), Dr. Vilmos Spitzer (Eva’s father), and Sandor Fenyves.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514331
• English
• 1933-1969
• 8 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains records related to Protestant theologians in the German state of Württemberg during the Nazi era. Includes materials published after World War II.

1. Evelyn Goldstein Woods family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522526
• English
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of papers pertaining to Evelyn Goldstein and her parents, Herta Loschinski Goldstein and Ernst Goldstein, as well as the following family members and friends: Gertrude Darmann, Herbert Beutler, Heinz and Helga Ross [Rosenthal], Ruth Loschinski, and Hildegard Kniess. Also included in the papers are letters written after World War II to Evelyn Goldstein from Dr. Elisabeth Abegg, a German Quaker who helped to hide Evelyn Goldstein during the war.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn523242
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers consist of documents concerning two ships, the President Warfield and the City of Lowell. Included are documents and other correspondence between Louis Levin, Evelyn Levin's husband, representing the Potomac Shipwrecking Company from October 18, 1946, and the Chinese American Industrial Company, purchasers of the aforementioned ships. The bill of sale for the President Warfield (later known as the Exodus) is also part the collection as is an inventory from the U.S. Maritime Commission delivered to the Potomac Shipwrecking Company. Also included are additional correspondence from ...

1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn566610
• English
• 1923-1941
• 1 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm 956 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Correspondence related to the various activities of the Jewish community (public events, charity, educational and religious matters, membership duties etc.), correspondence with Jewish and Zionist organizations in Yugoslavia and worldwide, Yugoslav government authorities (Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs) and Zagreb City administration (petitions, requests, complaints, applications for the citizenship. residence permits etc.) The entire collection was copied in 2017, replacing a possibly incomplete version received in 1993.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn512803
• English
• 1930-1998
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers consist of a portrait photograph of the Szotland family and a 7-page, typewritten biography which is probably a transcript of an interview conducted on August 16, 1995, with two letters to Minna Wosk, subject of the interview. These letters are from Dr. Thomas Lange, are written on "Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt" letterhead, and are dated September 12, 1997, and January 26, 1998.

1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn611144
• English
• 1933-1938
• 1 microfilm reel (partial), 16 mm 157 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Organization's information bulletins, as well as a May 1933 report of the statistical section of a Zionist organization in Berlin (Zentralausschuss der deutschen Juden für Hilfe und Aufbau), which argues against the claim that Jews were over-represented in institutions of higher learning. Also included are statistics on Jews by province, a monograph "Michel Ezofowicz" by S. Hirschfeld, and a list of books held by the Judeja Law Library in Vienna. There is also correspondence with Jewish student unions in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia on the calling of the First World Jewish Congress i...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501766
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

A letter from John M. Boykin to Blanch Starke, dated April 20, 1945, describing his experiences at Buchenwald concentration camp.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn49902
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Fabian Brunner’s letter is the last letter written before he was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he perished in June 1944. The letter, written while working as a forced laborer at an unidentified agricultural center, refers to his wife Sidonia Brunner being sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. The letter reflects Fabian’s anguish at not knowing the fate of his family. The woman to whom the letter is addressed is unknown but believed to be a Christian woman who was assisting or at least trusted by Brunner. The English translation of the letter was compiled by the donor's ...

1. Fanni Reznicki collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519040
• English
• 1942-1945
• folders 3
• Updated 1 year ago

Correspondence: postcards received by Fanni Reznicki while she was interned as a slave laborer in Ober Altstadt, a sub-camp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp; postcards sent by Regina Wohlgeschaffen (donor's mother?) in Jaworzno, Poland, all dated 1942. Fanni was in slave labor through May 1945, when she was liberated and returned to Sosnowiec, Poland; Poland and Czechoslovakia; in German. Photographs and letters kept in bag made by Fanni in Ober Altstadt.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500365
• English
• folders 4
• Updated 1 year ago

The Fanny Auerbach papers contain primarily correspondence between Fanny, a German Jew who escaped Germany in 1935, and Malchen Banner, a young woman who Fanny helped raise while Fanny worked at an orphanage in Cologne, Germany prior to her emigration. Malchen was subsequently deported to the Warsaw ghetto, where in her correspondence to Fanny, she describes the hardships of her life there before her letters abruptly end. Also included are correspondence with Theresa Wallach, the administrator from the orphanage where Fanny had worked, photographs, a poem from another orphan, and a newspape...