• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn537036
• English
• 1944-1945
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Dr. John D. Singer correspondence consists of letters sent from John D. Singer, M.D., during the period when he served in Europe with the United States Army, Third Army, 773rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, as a surgeon and commanding medical officer, 1944-1945. The letters, addressed to his wife Genise in Illinois, describe various experiences, including the first post-liberation Jewish new year's celebration at a synagogue in Nancy, France, in September 1944; and his experiences visiting and working as a doctor at the newly-liberated camp of Buchenwald in April 1945. Collection also contai...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517784
• English
• 1885-2005
• boxes oversize box book enclosure 3 1 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt papers include biographical material, immigration material, correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating to the life of Leonore and her husband, Ernst Goldschmidt, in Berlin, Germany and Folkestone, England before and during WWII, as well as Leonore’s professional career as an educator. The collection also includes documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the establishment, development, and operations of the Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt Schule, a private Jewish school originally located in Berlin, Germany. Biographical materials include a birt...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn35993
• English
• 1937-1949
• folders 9
• Updated 1 year ago

The Dr. Nathan Salczberger and Kahnt family collection consist of documents concerning Dr. Salczberger, a Jewish doctor in occupied France during World War II, and his claims against his former landlords in Paris, the Lavergne family, who had denounced him and confiscated his property while he was imprisoned by the Germans. The collection also contains digital images of documents and photographs concerning the love affair of the Lavergne's daughter, Georgette, with a German soldier, Erich Kahnt, and their post war life together. Among the materials related to Dr. Salczberger include testimo...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn513277
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The three-page letter was written in Munich, Germany, and sent from Dr. Philip "Pinny" Solomon [donor's father], a physician in the U.S. Army, to his parents, Max and Dora Solomon, who lived in the United States. In the letter Pinny discusses his search for and discovery of his cousin, Jakob Ben-Zion Feinstein, who had been a prisoner in Dachau concentration camp.

1. Salomea Herszenberg Kape family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522963
• English
• folder oversize folder 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers consist of documents, photographs, and identification cards relating to the experiences of the Herschenberg family [donor's family] in Łódź, Poland, during the Holocaust. Also includes identification papers, photographs, and documents pertaining to Anna Toronczyk [donor's maternal aunt] and her work as a midwife in displaced persons camps after World War II, and the Herschenberg family's experiences in the Łódź ghetto and their immigration to the United States.

1. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn520824
• English
• 1944-1946
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains two postcards and three letters, all handwritten, addressed to Adela Litwak (Ksenia Osoba), the donor's maternal aunt, by two people: Fryda Litwak (Zofia Wolinska), who was in a forced labor camp in Germany; and Zosia Tymejko (the donor's name while in hiding), in Busko-Zdroj, Poland.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn735909
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of personal papers pertaining to Dr. theol. Ulrich Kunz (1917-1970). Included is a copy of a letter written in 1940 by Kunz to express the concern of members of his community who had experienced the death of loved ones in state institutions, likely by "euthanasia."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn605607
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Wieslaw M. Piller (donor's grandfather), who was Roman Catholic and interned in Auschwitz from June 1940 through 1944 and then Sachsenhausen from October 1944 to February 1945 Includes materials about his postwar experiences in and around Munich, Germany.

1. Dr. Samuel Schader collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn36246
• English
• 1945-1947
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains five letters referring to Dr. Z. Schader and his outstanding service as a physician in different hospitals in England after the war. Dr. Schader graduated from medical school in Prague, Czechoslavakia in 1938 and became a gynecologist. During the war he served with distinction in the Anders' Polish Army in Russia, the Middle East, and Italy. Dr. Schader was originally from Zdunska Wola in Poland; his entire family was murdered during the Holocaust.

1. O.22- The Mecker Collection: Letters and newspaper clippings from the "Forverts" newspaper published in New York regarding the search for relatives, 1940-1951

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5609129
• English, Hebrew
• Original 1 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Draft of a personal column advertisement sent by the Holocaust survivor Isak Friling from Austria to the New York Forverts editorial board requesting help in locating relatives in the United States

1. Drechsler and Kramer families collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn709086
• English
• 1928-1996
• boxes oversize folders 2 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Correspondence, photographs, and immigration papers documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of the Drechsler family of Trnava (present day Slovakia). The bulk of the collection consists of wartime letters sent to Clara Drechsler (later Clara Kramer) in the United States from her parents Isidor and Anna Drechsler and siblings Andor, Rose, and Bela in Trnava and elsewhere in Europe. Also included is a small amount of immigration paperwork, recipes, and prewar family photographs. Biographical material consists of a small amount of financial records, handwritten recipes, and immigration paper...

1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5223047
• English, Hebrew
• xerox 18 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Michel Dreyfus, born in Montmorency, France, 1922, known as Pierre Durand; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II EIF (French Jewish Scouts) activities from 1942; transfer to La Sixieme (the Sixth) of the EIF activities; responsibility for rescuing children in Limoges; activities using the name Pierre Durand; arrest in Marseilles following a raid on the CAR (Refugees Aid Committee) offices; deportation to Drancy. In the file: - Photograph; - Letters; - Excerpts from a testimony.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn597307
• English
• folders 5
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains documents and photographs related to Wilhelm (William) and Recha Reutlinger, as well as documents and photographs related to Leo Dreyfuss and his family (both the Dreyfuss and Pollak families). includes a Swiss identity card; Zeugnis and other documents about Leo Dreyfuss as a young refugee in Switzerland; correspondence regarding U.S. immigration paperwork including affidavits; a death certificate from Rivesaltes; and academic documents and credentials regarding Wilhelm Reutlinger.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn36764
• English
• 1938-1941
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of correspondence sent to Max Sukman in Chicago, IL, primarily from the Drucker family, his wife Adele's family, in Berlin, Tarnów, Poland, and Ljubljana. Also includes five envelopes. Letters: Ascher Jonas Drucker in Berlin, on June 26, 1938 Israel Drucker in Tarnow, July 14, 1938 Ascher Jonas Drucker in Berlin, on October 24, 1938 Israel Drucker in Tarnow, January 7, 1939 Ascher Jonas Drucker in Berlin, on January 21, 1939 Mina Mandel ? in Tarnow, December 27, 1940 Ester Drucker in Berlin, on June 6, 1941 Postcard: Ruth Drucker in Lubljana, Italy (today Slovenia), September 4, 1941

1. Dvorah Rabinowitz collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517443
• English
• 1939-1942
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers consist of documents relating to the experiences of the escape of the Rabinowitz and Jawerbaum families from Poland, their correspondence with family members in the United States, and a notification about address changes.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn713740
• English
• 1939-1944
• 2,216 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Orders, and reports regarding officers and employees of the Criminal Police in Warsaw, diagrams showing the organizational structure of various divisions of the Police in Warsaw, correspondence in personnel matters, as well as investigations regarding forgery of money.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn715455
• English
• 1932-1950
• folders 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The Eckdish family papers include correspondence and immigration documents relating to Paul Eckdish and his family's experience emigrating from Germany in 1939. Correspondence includes originals and photocopies of letters sent to Paul in the United States, mainly from his brother, Martin, and Martin’s wife Ilse, in Palestine. Immigration documents include clearances, a job referral, and a receipt for passage on the SS Rotterdam. Also included is correspondence and receipts from Paul’s attempts to assist his parents in leaving Europe to go to Shanghai.

1. Ruth Haneman and Edna Eckstein family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47017
• English
• folders oversize folders 4 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of photographs, documents, and correspondence relating to the Haneman family from Berlin, who immigrated to Shanghai in 1939; Ruth Haneman was the donor's biological mother. Among the documents are Japanese visas; registration documentation; passports; and a death announcement for Charlotte Hanemen from the "Shanghai Jewish Chronicle," dated September 10, 1944. The collection also includes material concerning the Echstein (donor's) maternal adoptive family, which immigrated to the United States from Ratno, Poland; includes photographs; letters; and a Ketubah between Yutta Itka Kw...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn671043
• English
• 1918-1942
• 1,303 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Records of the law office of Dr. Edgar Haas, a German Jewish lawyer in Hamburg. Contains only client files.

1. Edgar Rauner collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn546083
• English
• folders 5
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains correspondence from Edgar Rauner (donor's brother) to his parents Neddy and Aron in New York. Edgar, a member of the United States 7th Army was a refugee of Nazi Germany, arrived in the United States before WWII and was drafted into the US Army where he was stationed at Camp Ritchie in Maryland before being sent overseas to Europe during the war. Also included in the collection are photographs taken in Europe, depicting the American Army and many captured German propaganda images.