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  1. Albert Balassa Schutzpass

    Consists of one Swedish safe conduct pass issued to Mr. Albert Balassa in Budapest on October 22, 1944. The document, in which Mr. Balassa's name is filled in to a form, is signed by Raoul Wallenberg.

  2. Selected records from the Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulate, Turkey (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence (FO 195)

    Contains general correspondence from the British Embassy and Consulate in Turkey relating to asylum for Jews and persecution of Jews, 1944.

  3. Selected records from collections of the Constanţa branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains wartime records of the Prefecture, the Regional Inspectorate of Police, the Police HQ, the Legion of Jandarmerie, and other organizations, and postwar records of the local Jewish Democratic Committee (Comitetul Democratic Evreiesc, CDE), including activity reports, personal files, and other reports (1946-1952).

  4. Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection

    Reports, publications, interviews, obituaries, and photographs pertaining to the careers of Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Documents record the Sharps’ early social work in Meadville, PA, and their humanitarian and rescue work in World War II Prague, Czechoslovakia; Marseille and Pau, France; and Lisbon, Portugal. Materials also document Martha Sharp’s postwar campaign for Congress, activities in Israel, continuing work for the Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia, family and personal life, and work with the Cogan Foundation and other charitable agencies. The collection includes Martha’s unpubli...

  5. Charles Martin Roman papers

    The Charles Martin Roman collection consists of photographs, documents, and identity paperwork related to the Holocaust experiences of Carl (Carlo) Roman, now Charles Roman. The photographs depict his pre-war life in Vienna, images of Carl and his mother with a group of Jews on an escape over the Alps to Italy from the Italian-occupied zone of France in September 1943, family photographs, and photographs of the OSE-run Font-Romeu camp and Montintin children's home. Includes Carl's identity paperwork, a falsified document stating that Marianne Roman authorized Carl to leave the OSE children'...

  6. Chaim Wajner collection

    The Chaim Wajner collection consists of handwritten sheet music, printed programs, handwritten and printed lyrics, documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings regarding Chaim Wajner (later Chaim Weiner) and his role as the choir director of the Landsberg Hazomir choir at the Landsberg displaced persons camp. Includes programs for Hazomir performances and sheet music for the songs they performed.

  7. Ministry of Labor and social Welfare Ministerstwo Pracy i Opieki Społecznej (A.18)

    Contains selected records of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare of the Polish government-in-exile. Collection includes correspondence relating to worldwide care and aid rendered to Polish citizens, mainly refugees (including Jews), evacuation and geographical population of Polish citizens (also including Jews) from 1942 to 1944. The collection also includes general files from 1940 to 1941, 1943, 1944 and 1945. The Minister of Labor and Social Welfare from 1939 to 1944 was Jan Stańczyk, followed by Tomasz Arciszewski (1944-1947).

  8. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, Egypt: General Correspondence (FO 141)

    Contains general correspondence from the British Embassy and Consulates in Egypt relating to illegal Jewish organizations in Palestine, illegal entry into Palestine, 1946, and the formation of a Jewish army.

  9. Weil and Oppenheimer family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Weil and Oppenheimer families from Landau in der Pfalz and Koblenz, Germany. Isidor and Auguste Weil were deported to Gurs internment camp where Isidor died on January 6, 1941; their three sons: Heinz, Louis, and Ernst were able to reach the US with the help of a distant relative and their mother arrived in the US in 1941.

  11. "Hindenburg--Aug 1944--January 1945"

    Consists of one memoir, 69 pages, entitled "Hindenburg--Aug 1944-January 1945" by Halina Den, originally of Radom, Poland. In the memoir, Ms. Den describes being taken from Auschwitz to Hindenburg, a newly opened forced labor camp housing both Jewish and Roma prisoners. She describes an SS officer named Muller and many of the other prisoners whom she names, as well as life at Hindenburg and the interactions between the Jewish and Roma prisoners. She describes being evacuated from Hindenburg by rail in January 1945 and, as the memoir ends, their arrival at Bergen-Belsen. Also includes a draw...

  12. District Court in Lublin (SOL) Sąd Okręgowy w Lublinie (SOL), Sygn. GK 259

    Contains selected files of criminal trials created by the District Court in Lublin during the years 1945-1969. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. "Sierpniówka" was one of the world's first legislation on liability for war crimes comm...

  13. Haim Roet papers

    The Haim Roet papers consist of pre-war, wartime, and postwar photographs of Haim Roet; his family, wearing Star of David badges; his rescuers, Anton and Adelaide Deesker; and his brother Josef’s rescuers, Reinier and Margaret Veerman. Additional photographs depict Prims family weddings (Josef and Mathilda Prims, Maurits and Betty Prims), a 90th birthday celebration, a Jewish school in Amsterdam, and rescuers Max Leons and Arnold Douwes. The papers include a May 1945 postcard from Josef Roet in Dedemsvaart to his parents updating them on his and Haim’s situations as well as a July 1945 post...

  14. Polish Embassy in Vatican Ambasada Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej przy Watykanie (A.44)

    Contains selected records of the Polish Embassy in the Vatican of the Polish Government in Exile relating to persecutions of the Catholic Church in occupied Poland by Germans and Polish relationship with Vatican. Includes lists of Polish citizens in hospitals and concentration camps in Reich, the matters of Jewish minority considering visas, and emigration to Palestine. The Ambassador of the Polish Embassy in the Vatican was Kazimierz Papee (1939-1970).

  15. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulate, Italy and predecessor States: General Correspondence (FO 170)

    Contains general correspondence and reports from the British Embassy and Consulates in Italy relating to the massacres, arrests and deportations Yugoslavs carried out against Italians in the Venezia Giulia region between 1943 and 1945.

  16. Carl Goldstein collection

    Contains documents, photographs, certificates, and other materials concerning the experiences of Dr. Kurt Isidore Goldstein, his wife Irma, and son Carl Max Alexander and their experiences as refugees fleeing Germany through India and eventually to the United States. Includes a certificate of identity in lieu of a passport, issued to the family, signed by the undersecretary to the Government of Madras, India on March 19, 1941, with US immigration visas (under Polish quota) stamped on the reverse and dated March 25, 1941; three certificates of good health issued to the Goldstein family by a ...

  17. Engraved medallion presented to Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, head of the Jewish Council, by bakers in the Łódź ghetto

    Large engraved badge presented to Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, the Älteste der Juden [Elder of the Jews] of the Litzmannstadt (formerly Łódź) ghetto in 1943 by the workers of bakery number 7, in recognition of his management of their bakery. It was acquired in postwar Germany by a United States serviceman. The ghetto was established in early February 1940 by the Germans following their occupation of Poland in September 1939. An Ältestenrat [Council of Elders] was appointed to administer ghetto services. Prewar Łódź was a thriving industrial city and the ghetto became an important manufacturin...

  18. Martha H. Patterson photograph album

    The Martha H. Patterson photograph album consists of a photograph album of the 1936 Summer Olympic games in Berlin, Germany. The album includes pictures taken by a spectator who attended the games and later immigrated to the United States. Images include the opening ceremonies, with spectators giving the Nazi salute to the Olympic flame; African-American athlete Jesse Owens; Glen Morris; general track and field events; a swimming pool; and the entrance to the stadium marked with the Nazi swastika.

  19. Nuremberg IMT

    2009 restoration by Schulberg Productions with English subtitles. The film "Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today" is the official documentary of the International Military Tribunal held in Nuremberg from November 21, 1945 to October 1, 1946. It is set in the Nuremberg courtroom and recreates the case against the Nazi high command using German documents, photographs, and moving pictures. The film was completed by Stuart Schulberg and his editor, Joseph Zigman, in the spring of 1948, and premiered in Stuttgart in November of that year. For political reasons the film was subsequently suppressed by ...

  20. Baruch Wind bronze, metal, and stone sculpture commemorating the experiences of his family and the Jews of Galicia at forced labor

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn40071
    • English
    • a: Height: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Width: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Depth: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) b: Height: 8.625 inches (21.908 cm) | Width: 13.875 inches (35.243 cm) | Depth: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) c: Height: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Depth: 23.375 inches (59.373 cm)

    Contemporary sculpture created by Baruch Wind based upon his experiences and in memory of his family and the many Galician Jews who were persecuted and killed during the Holocaust in Poland. The work is in three sections that join together to form the sculpture. It presents a group of bronze figures pulling a large stone wheel chiseled with concentration camp numbers up a sloped base that resembles a tombstone. As the wheel rolls, it seems to stamp the numbers in the base. The figures represent Jews and the numbers on the wheel are those of actual prisoners that Baruch gathered for his work...