Douglas Smith collection

Identifier: irn159579
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 and 2014 by Douglas Smith.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of unrelated records containing correspondence, documents, photograph albums, and a copy of a book relating to the pre-war, wartime, and postwar Jewish life.

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Photograph album depicting refugee children in post-war Switzerland
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn159556
- English
- oversize box 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of one brown photograph album depicting life in an unknown refugee home for children in Switzerland, circa 1945-1947. The album documents their education and recreational activities, as well as the preparations, ceremony, and departure of members of the group for Palestine. One of the pages includes a small leather badge with Hebrew lettering.
Photograph album of Jews in Chile
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn159584
- English
- 1945-1947
- folder oversize box 1 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of one black photograph album with pasted photos of Jewish residents of the "Hagshara Kidma" in Chile. The album, which is dated 1945-1947, depict residents of the farm doing chores and participating in other aspects of communal life. The album includes a final postcard depicting some of the residents leaving for Palestine by airplane. Also includes a handwritten work schedule for the farm dated November 27, 1946.
Pre-war photographs
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn159634
- English
- 1910-1940
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of pre-war portraits and candid photographs of individuals in Germany and Poland, some with handwritten messages on the verso. The donor believes it is likely the individuals depicted were later interned in the Warsaw ghetto.
"We Jewish Refugees in Italy" "Enquiry Results February 1946"
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn159635
- English
- 1946
- folders 2
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of a copy of a book entitled "We Jewish Refugees in Italy: Enquiry Results, February 1946," published by the Organization of Jewish Refugees in Italy, Central Committee" in 1946, based on a survey of more than 12,000 Jewish refugees in post-war Italy. The text includes information about individual experiences, charts, and survey results.
Moritz Eldodt letters
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn159637
- English
- 1938
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of two letters and two small cards (perhaps inserted into letters) written by Moritz Eldodt of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in May 1938. The letters were written to family in Brooklyn, NY, and in Palestine.
Letters written by a Jewish soldier
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn159656
- English
- 1942-1948
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of approximately ten letters, postcards, and envelopes, written in 1942 and 1946-1948, by a Jewish soldier stationed in Italy, who went to Israel and participated in the War of Independence.
Occupation currency note, 50 zloty, issued by Nazi Germany in Poland
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn530912
- English
- 1941
- overall: Height: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Width: 7.125 inches (18.097 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Polish 50 zloty bank note, dated 1941, with a Litzmannstadt (Łódź) ghetto stamp.

Douglas Smith collection

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Photograph album depicting refugee children in post-war Switzerland

Photograph album of Jews in Chile

Pre-war photographs

"We Jewish Refugees in Italy" "Enquiry Results February 1946"

Moritz Eldodt letters

Letters written by a Jewish soldier

Occupation currency note, 50 zloty, issued by Nazi Germany in Poland