• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500373
• English
• 1947-1948
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee correspondence contains monthly reports and biographical briefs on the residents of the displaced persons camps near Ulm and Heidenheim, Germany. The administration of these camps were run by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which was set up in 1913 in order to assist Jewish communities overseas. The collection centers around the documentation created by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee as it administered the camps near Ulm and Heidenheim, Germany. The camp names near Ulm were Sedan-Kaserne, Hindenburg-Kaserne...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519384
• English
• 1945-1950
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of a document prepared by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Paris between July 18 and Aug 2, 1939. The document is titled "Ms. St-Louis passengers and their distribution" containing a list of 907 passengers. The collection also consists of reports, memos, correspondence (letters and cables), news releases, minutes of meetings, summaries, and surveys related to assisting survivors; newly liberated displaced persons in camps in Germany (e.g. Landsberg, Bergen-Belsen, Heidelberg, Bremen, etc. ), and in Austria (e.g. Neustadt, Villach, Linz, etc.); movi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503439
• English
• 1942-1944
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a copy of a handwritten manuscript entitled "Amintiri din Lagarele Vapniarca si Grosolova, 16 September 1942 - 4 Aprille 1944," written by Zalman Broder. The manuscript includes information about the experiences of Mr. Broder and his wife while incarcerated in Vapniarca and Grosulovo concentration camps in Romania from September 16, 1942 to April 4, 1944. These camps were designated for Jewish and non-Jewish communists.

1. Anatol and Alexandra Gorko collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn708260
• English
• 1912-1948
• folder oversize folder 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Identification documents, newspaper clipping, and prewar family photographs related to Anatol Gorko and Alexandra Gorko (née Palej), both of whom survived the Holocaust and married after the war in Łódź, Poland. Documents include Łódź ghetto work cards issued to Anatol, Alexandra, and Anatol’s sister Ella Romer, a temporary travel document in lieu of passport issued to Anatol and Alexandra, and a 1945 document stating Alexandra was a prisoner in Bergen-Belsen. Both documents issued to Alexandra list her surname as Gorko, even though she didn’t marry Anatol until 1946. The clipping features ...

• Kazerne Dossin: Mémorial, Musée et Centre de Documentation sur l’Holocauste et les Droits de l’Homme / Kazerne Dossin: Memoriaal, Museum en Documentatiecentrum over Holocaust en Mensenrechten
• KD_00519
• English
• 1942-1943
• 8 digitised images (3 documents)
• Updated 7 months ago

This collection consists of two letters sent by Roza Bronsztajn to her husband Hersch alias Harry Anielewicz while he was detained in an Organisation Todt labour camp, and a postcard sent by Israel Ezryl Anielewicz while detained at the Jawischowitz camp to his wife Lea Maschkivitzan.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn30302
• English
• 1946-1948
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Anna Fruchtman collection consists of a phtogoraph of three women sewing at the World ORT/Union Vocational School, Stuttgart, Germany; a certificate of employment and identification card relating to Hanka Fruchtman's (later Anna Fruchtman) employment at the World ORT/Union Vocational School, Stuttgart, Germany.

1. Anna Gure collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn543315
• English
• 1945-1946
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the post-war experiences of Anna Gure (born Anna Gurvich), originally of Kaunas, Lithuania. Documents include a certificate issued by the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria stating that Anna was a former prisoner at the Stutthof concentration camp and a Swiss Red Cross document regarding the results of a chest x-ray. Photographs include depictions of Anna in her Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) uniform, likely in the Sankt Ottilien displaced persons camp.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502996
• English
• 1938-1990
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of copies of documents issued to Anna Gustavsson by Nazi authorities accusing her of connections with the Jehovah's Witnesses.

• Kazerne Dossin: Mémorial, Musée et Centre de Documentation sur l’Holocauste et les Droits de l’Homme / Kazerne Dossin: Memoriaal, Museum en Documentatiecentrum over Holocaust en Mensenrechten
• KD_00137
• English
• 1930-1939
• 4 digitised images (5 photos)
• Updated 7 months ago

This collection contains: two photos of Anna Poznanski at the beach with her aunt Sura Chana Schwartzberg and maternal cousin Anna Foleider ; a photo of the sisters Frida Birnbaum, Fanny alias Hanna Birnbaum (married Dorn) and Helene Birnbaum (married Hirschorn) at their mother's grave ; a studio portrait of sisters Frida and Helene Birnbaum.

1. Antoni Stefan Koper and Sophie Koper collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn712883
• English
• 1943-1999
• box oversize folder 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the wartime and post-war experiences of Antoni Stefan Koper, an active member of the Polish Resistance during the German occupation of Warsaw, and his wife Sophie Koper, whom he rescued from the Warsaw ghetto and served as a nurse during the Warsaw Uprising. Included are Antoni’s wartime identification cards, post-war documents from the Polish Armoured Division, letters from Sophie written to him while imprisoned in Oflag II D at Gross Born, personal narratives, and photographs. Papers of Sophie include wartime documents bearing her false identity of Zofia Jabłońska...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517750
• English
• 1920-1974
• folders oversize folder 2 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Arbeiter family papers consist of wartime correspondence, a newspaper clipping, and pre-war family photographs relating to the Arbeiter family, originally of Płock, Poland. The later correspondence relates to inquests into the fate of Elek Arbeiter, born in 1919, who escaped to the Soviet Union, but had not been heard from since 1941.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• P.25
• English
• 1941-1975
• 71 files
• Updated 1 decade ago

The Erich Kulka Record Group contains: Personal and family documentation; documentation regarding the trial conducted against Sebesta, an antisemitic Czech writer who libeled Erich Kulka; the struggle to clear the names of the Sonderkommando workers as set forth in the book "People In Auschwitz" by Herman Langbein; trials against Nazi war criminals; documentation regarding Holocaust denial; escape of inmates from Auschwitz-Birkenau; research he conducted and published throughout his life, mainly regarding Jewish fighters in the Svoboda Army in the Soviet Union; Kulka's struggle against anti...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503293
• English
• 1939-1957
• folders 24 , 23 microfiche,
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains letters, essays, and articles relating to the life and career of Armand Eisler. Among the topics covered are Eisler genealogy, post-war Austria, international politics, and the Middle East. Included with the papers is a copy of "The Terror as a System: the Concentration Camp" by Ernst Federn. Included in the correspondence are letters signed by Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, Felix Frankfurter, Virginia Gildersleeve, Harold Stassen, and post-war Austrian presidents Karl Renner and Adolf Schärf.

1. Marianne Trompetter Dazzo collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn8211
• English
• 1945
• overall: Height: 4.620 inches (11.735 cm) | Width: 6.620 inches (16.815 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Portion of a fabric armband originally owned by Maurits Oliveyra and given to his best friend, Maurits Trompetter, in 1945. Handwritten on the armband is "Maurits D'Oliveyra/ 30 September 1894/ Amsterdam (2)/ Atz./ Rustenburgerstr./ 441."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502138
• English
• 1936-1949
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Arnold Hartmann correspondence documents Hartmann’s efforts to help his Breslau cousins flee Germany during the Holocaust and either join their relatives who had already emigrated to Shanghai, Montevideo, or La Paz or immigrate to the United States. Hartmann’s correspondents include his cousins Philipp and Regine Hartmann in Breslau; their older daughter Meta and her husband Bruno Oszlowski who traveled from Breslau to Montevideo; their younger daughter Erna Hartmann who traveled from Breslau to La Paz and married Max Kissinger; cousins Martin and Jette Beil, also in Breslau; cousin Mar...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn513032
• English
• 1932-1949
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection contains primarily photographs of Arthur Gelbart, who was a resident of Częstochowa ghetto and several labor camps, and Rose Grosman, who was kept hidden throughout the war. The photographs show both at several separate displaced persons camps as well as life prior to the war.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn30234
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Arthur Mayers photograph collection consists of nine vintage copy prints of Buchenwald concentration camp at the time of liberation, including images of the gallows, bear pit, crematorium, and camp survivors.

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
• 5595951
• English, Hebrew
• Typewritten 9 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Article by I. Mecker, editor of the Forverts newspaper in New York, on the testimonies of the murder of Jews in Karolovka, Oziran and additional towns in the Wolyn area The article has no date: The testimonies are from two Holocaust survivors from New York, Shimon Shachter, born in Karolovka and Paul Appelbaum, born in Oziran.

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
• 5596103
• English, Hebrew
• Handwritten, original 6 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Article in commemoration of the 35,000 martyrs from Pinsk written by the Holocaust survivor Mania Sheinberg-Frankel from Tel Aviv who was born in Pinsk The article has no date: The article was published in Los Angeles by Eisenberg who was born in Pinsk; the article includes a description of the arrival of Red Army soldiers to Pinsk in 1944 and Sheinberg-Frankel's meeting with a Jewish commander in the Red Army.

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
• 5571568
• English, Hebrew
• Original 1 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Article on the cultural activities of Jewish farmers, Holocaust survivors, in New Jersey The article is without a date and does not include the name of the author