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  1. Carmela Hevion collection

    Collection of photographs of the Wolgroch and Abramowicz families from Warsaw, Poland. The donor's parents immigrated to Palestine: Mordechai Wolgroch 1919, and Miriam Abramowicz in 1924. Miriam's brothers and their families perished in the Holocaust and five of Mordechai's siblings and their families perished as well.

  2. Howard Brodsky collection

    Contains a postcard sent to Frau Julie Brasiak in Poland from Brasvak [illegible] in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp; written on pre-printed camp postcard; dated December 21, 1941; and a letter sent to Marie Mika in Litzmannstadt (Łódź) from Tadeusz Mika, who was imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp; written on pre-printed camp stationery; dated December 16, 1944.

  3. First free vote in Berlin; salvaging remains from the Cap Arcona; mushrooms; furniture donation to needy Germans

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 75 Title: Der Wahltag in Berlin [Voting day in Berlin]. People pass out election literature in the run-up to the first free vote in Germany in 14 years. Election posters and signs (Wahlpropaganda) for the SPD and the SED on buildings, including on the Reich Chancellery. Sign reading: You are Leaving the American Sector. People stand in line to vote and inside a polling place. The vote is observed by Allied military representatives. Voting in a hospital. Shots of the candidates voting. The ballots are counted and the results displayed on a large board. 02:27:52 Title:...

  4. UNRRA donations; World Security Conference; American 1st Army advances into Germany

    Title: 75,000 Tons of Clothing for Liberated Peoples. Clothing donations shipped to Europe under the auspices of UNRRA (? UNRRA label on a bundle of clothing). Warehouse full of donated clothing. Shot of Henry Kaiser, director of the program. Title: San Francisco Plans for United Nations Parley. Shots of the War Memorial buildings, where the World Security Conference will take place. American delegates to the conference hold a meeting in Washington. The delegates are shown at the White House with Roosevelt. CU of Secretary of State Stettinius explains the purpose of the conference: to consi...

  5. Estate of Jack Weston Wood collection

    Contains photographic prints showing post-liberation scenes of the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps, dated circa April 1945. The photographs were potentially taken by Major General Jack W. Wood of the United States Air Force, who was in command of the 20th Bomb Wing of the Eighth Air Force and later executive of the 14th Combat Bomb Wing.

  6. Brodnitz family papers

    Consists of scanned, copied, and transcribed copies of diaries, notebooks, day planners, and miscellaneous papers related to Julius Brodnitz, the president of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens from 1920 to his death in 1936, and Julius's son Friedrich, who was a functionary in the Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden until he immigrated to the United States in 1937. Includes Julius Brodnitz's diaries from 1933-1936; Friedrich Brodnitz's notebooks from 1920 and 1933-1938; and correspondence with Jewish community leaders such as Leo Baeck.

  7. Association for Assistance to the Jewish Students in Poland, Lwów Regional Branch (Fond 499, Opis1)

    This collection consists of students' applications for financial aid. Applications are organized alphabetically by surname of the applicant.

  8. Postwar destruction of German city; US soldiers celebrate

    Pan of desolate grounds and destruction of buildings at an airfield in Stuttgart(?). A small aircraft flies in the sky. Remnants of demolished German airplanes and their skeletons on the ground. Street scenes, a civilian with a briefcase walks towards the camera. Pan of bomb destruction. Camera focuses on "The Churchill Machine Tool CO LTD Manchester England" engraving. Piles of debris on the ground. Extensive damage, ruins. 01:18:52 CU of U.S. Army jeep. An officer with a mustache talks to someone off camera while standing next to the vehicle holding the steering wheel. He and another offi...

  9. "Waves, A Memoir, 1929-1950"

    Consists of one memoir, 82 pages, entitled "Waves, A Memoir, 1929-1950," by Dr. Julius J. Menn, originally of Langfuhr, near Danzig (Gdansk), Poland. Dr. Menn describes his childhood, his family's immigration to Palestine in 1935, their journey back to Poland in 1938 (as his mother did not adjust well to Palestine), first to visit family in Vilna, and then to settle in Warsaw. He recalls Polish antisemitism, the invasion of Poland, and fleeing east, first to Molodechno, and then to Vilna. In 1940, the family was able to travel from Odessa to Tel Aviv, and remained in Palestine during the Ho...

  10. Edit Weinstein Weisz collection

    Consists of copies of photographs, documents, and biographical information regarding the Holocaust experiences of the family of Edit Weisz. Includes information about Ignac Weinstein of Budapest, Hungary; about the family of Herman Weinstein of Szabolcs, Hungary; about Vilmos, Mor, and Jozsef Wiesz, of Szabolcs, Hungary,;and about other relatives who all perished in the Holocaust.

  11. Silver miniature tea set with 5 pieces owned by hidden child

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn36236
    • English
    • 1941
    • a: Height: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) b: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) c: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) d: Height: 0.630 inches (1.6 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) e: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm)

    Miniature teapot, sugar bowl, pitcher, teacup, and tray given to Elzbieta Lusthaus by her maternal grandmother, Sophie Lieberman Schiff, when they were living in Tarnow, Poland, which was occupied by Germany in September 1939. On June 11, 1942, the Germans came to the house searching for Jews to deport to the concentration camps. Four year old Elzbieta hid, but her grandmother was taken by the Germans and shipped to Belzec extermination camp, where she was killed. Elzbieta and her mother, Helena Lusthaus, fled Tarnow and survived the war under false identities as Polish Catholics, sheltered...

  12. Dr. William C. Pursch collection

    Contains three loose album pages containing 39 mounted black-and-white photographs documenting the Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps following liberation. The photographs were taken by Bernard M. Jacox (donor’s cousin).

  13. Sarah Zyberstajn Zepkovicz collection

    Collection of prewar tax certificates paid by Sarah Zepkovicz to the Jewish Community as a member of the Zionist organization Poale Zion. Includes an membership card for "Poalai Zion" (Poale Zion) for Sarah Zepkovicz, and several promissory notes and other related documents from Yehuda Arye Zilberstajn to Mr. Zybershatz in Palestine stating that upon his arrival to Palestine he would work for him for one year. Mr. Ziblerstajn never made it to Palestine and perished in the Holocaust. Statement in Yiddish by Sarah Zyberstajn Zepkovicz "What it meant to be a Halutz (Pioneer)."

  14. Oral history interview with Hana Lowy Weiner

  15. M2121, Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp Inmate Cards, April 1944-April 1945

    Contains three series of original German records identifying inmates of the Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, for the period April 1944 to April 1945. The first group is a name series, and the other two smaller series consist of cards organized by block (barrack) number to which the inmate was assigned, and occupations or trades to which some of the inmates were assigned within the camp. American forces seized the cards when they liberated and occupied the camp in April 1945. These records are unique in form, as the Germans cut the cards t...

  16. Ray Kaner collection

    The collection includes four notebooks and loose pages by written by Rachela Bryk, survivor of Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, immediately after the war. In the diary she recalls events from her past and records incidents and feelings related to her state post liberation, dated July 1945 to spring 1946. Photographs depict Rachela Bryk's family before the war and after the war in a DP camp in Germany, dated 1945-1946.

  17. Elfriede Posner Greifinger collection

    Consists of the German language memoir, written in 1983, of Elfriede Posner Greifinger, originally of Dziedzice, Poland, along with an English translation of the same completed by Mrs. Greifinger's daughter, Edith Millman. In the memoir, Mrs. Greifinger describes the outbreak of war in Warsaw, life in the Warsaw ghetto, the family's escape from the ghetto and life posing as Aryans and in hiding. The memoir, which was never finished, concludes as the family is being blackmailed about their secret. Also includes copies of photographs of Elfriede Greifinger, her sister, Erna Koch, and brother-...

  18. Nachlass Franz Jetzinger

    Dr. Franz Jetzinger (1882-1965) was a social-democratic politician and a member of the provincial state government of Upper Austria from 1932 until 1934. The collection Nachlass Franz Jetzinger was acquired by the State Archives of Upper Austria in 1953. It consists of the documentation which Jetzinger compiled during his research for his book about Adolf Hitler’s youth, including transcripts and copies of documents, duplicate photographs, and the original correspondence between Jetzinger and Hitler’s boyhood friend August Kubizek from the years 1948 and 1949.

  19. Applications of the Jewish residents on the Stanisławów County of Poland (now Ivano-Frankivsk Region of Ukraine) for obtaining passports (Fond 6, Opis 3)

    The collection contains applications for obtaining passports enabling travel abroad for business, medical treatment, or pleasure. Applications were submitted for review and approval to the Stanisławów County Executive Office (Stanisławów powiatowe starostwo) during the years 1918 to 1938. A typical file contains correspondence with foreign embassies and consulates, original passports, correspondence with Polish government officials justifying travel abroad, various copies of the official documents and certificates.

  20. Loewy, Kohorn, and Messinger families papers

    Collection of documents and photographs that regarding the experiences of the Loewy, Kohorn, and Messinger families in Europe before and during the Holocaust; includes pre-war photographs and writings, and post-war documents and correspondence, identification papers, and materials relating to immigration and naturalization.