Records relating to the experiences of Danish Jews

Identifier
irn85586
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.184.1
  • RG-44.002
Dates
1 Jan 1888 - 31 Dec 2010
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Danish
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn85586

Extent and Medium

2,138 digital images, TIFF and JPEG

Creator(s)

  • Inge Bucka Mejlhede

Archival History

Dansk Jødisk Museum

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Dansk Jødisk Museum (Danish Jewish Museum). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the digitized collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Jan. 2014, and accretion in 2015.

Scope and Content

Photo albums, scrapbooks and diaries relating to the experiences of Danish Jews during the war, including escape to Sweden and deportation to Theresienstadt, as well as their return home to Denmark; personal papers of Danish Jews, as well as records of the Danish Jewish Community, Danish and Jewish organizations, including: aid organizations, the Jewish Community in Malmö (Sweden), Danish press, and records of the Danmarks national socialistiske arbejder parti or Danish Nazi Party (1888-2008).

System of Arrangement

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in digital images. This collection contains digital files with mixed materials. There is no clear organization of those files. Some files may contain both format of materials: document records and sound records (Interviews). Following files are not digitized: 207B15; 207B16; 207B120; 207B121; 207B122; 275B15; JDK11A12; JDK124A1; JDK149A1; JDK166A1; JDK192A1; JDK207A45; JDK207A146; and JDK246A1. Interviews are cataloged seperately and can be found in the Collections catalog/Oral History with numbers: RG-50.8200001- RG-50.8200145.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Dansk Jødisk Museum

People

  • Drucker family.
  • Inge Bucka Mejlhede
  • Udsholt, Tove.
  • Wallach family.
  • Langebæk, Steen.
  • Nachmann, Henry.
  • Fischer, Ella.
  • Nathansen family.
  • Wallach family.
  • Blasberg, Bengt.
  • Andreasen family.
  • Goldstein, Harald.
  • Mortensen, Paula.
  • Philipson family.
  • Moritz family.
  • Glogauer family.
  • Hannover family.
  • Ruben, Agnes.
  • Madsen, Thora.
  • Tikotsky, Leif.
  • Melnik, Paula.
  • Paludan family.
  • Nathan, Anja.
  • Abrahamsen family.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
  • Deportation--Denmark--History--20th century.
  • Hidden children (Holocaust)--Denmark.
  • Jews--Denmark--History--20th century.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Denmark.
  • Jewish refugees--Denmark.
  • Malmö (Sweden)--Politics and government--20th century.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Denmark.
  • Lund (Sweden)
  • Denmark--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

Copies

  • Dansk-jødisk museum

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Dansk Jødisk Museum

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