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1. Frank Meissner papers
2004.692.1 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.692.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1995
Special Collection:
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… personal diaries, an autograph book, and items Frank collected later in life such as photocopies of an article concerning the history of the Jews in Trest…
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 … Nazi policies towards Jews, the group left Czechoslovakia, settling in Denmark. Frank attended the Veterinary and Agricultural College at the…
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 … appearance, I eat and go out into the corridor to look out the window, and discuss serious matters with “father” Pincus. You know what happens when two Jews…
2. Anne Ranasinghe papers
2018.627.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2018.627.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2017
bulk: 1936-2017
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… history of the Jews of Fritzlar, Germany, including the Katz family. Photographs include a pre-war photograph album of Anne, her family, and friends, pre…
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 … was awarded to her in 2015. The following books by Ranasinghe are available in the USHMM library: Against eternity and darkness: poems (PR9199.3.L56 R…
3. Jeanne Daman Scaglione collection
2007.14.1 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2007.14.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-1993
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… proximity to the six German soldiers billeted there. In late November 1941, German authorities decreed that all Jews must be registered, and began banning…
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 …’ Exodus, a radio broadcast of “The Eternal Light,” and two recording of a 1948 interview with Jeanne Daman. System of arrangement The Jeanne Daman Scaglione…
4. Zarembski-Ferst-Kostanski-Wierzbicki families photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2002.232.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1934-circa 1957
… Anders Army but he was rejected for being a Jew. He was drafted into the Red Army and later he was transferred into the Polish Army established by Wanda…
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 … 27, 1945; .4 Photograph; image of Danusia Kostanska; the caption on the back reads: “I give my photo as an eternal memento to my dearest friend – Danka…
5. Irena Bloch papers
2001.300.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2001.300.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1969
… factory. On June 22, 1941 Germany invaded the USSR. On June 28, 1941 the German army entered Żółkiew, where more than 5,000 Jews were living in at the…
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 … June 22, 1941 Germany invaded the USSR. On June 28, 1941 the German army entered Żółkiew, where more than 5,000 Jews were living in at the time, and…
6. Maria Madi diaries
2013.264.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.264.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1967
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… describes the invasion and occupation of Budapest and what she saw and heard of the war. She also writes extensively about the persecution of the Jews…
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 … constant air raids, intense deprivation, and what she knows and sees of the ongoing persecutions against Jews. She also references a young boy and his aunt…
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  • File 4: Diaries March 31, 1944-May 25, 1944, May 25, 1944-July 3, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
7. Szyfra Majranc papers
2005.218.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 36
Document | Accession Number: 2005.218.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1947
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… to leave the apartment and enter a shelter with other Poles. He was arrested, though not as a Jew, but as a Pole, and was taken to a slave labor camp…
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 … of Jews from Sanok, and describes the situation in L’viv. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
8. Morris and Lucy Breitbart papers
1996.A.0391.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0391.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1966
bulk: 1945-1949
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  • Series 1: Documents 1943-1956
    • File 4: Diary 1943-1944
9. Ada Abrahamer papers
2015.442.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.442.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1989
bulk: 1941-1948
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10. Egon Weiss papers
2011.128.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2011.128.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2009
bulk: 1920-1945
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 … further information about this collection https://collections.ushmm.org Translation of a diary kept by Egon Weiss 1940 Like other Jews in the Protectorate…
11. Selected records from the Ghetto Fighters' House (Beit Lohamei Haghetaot)
Document | Accession Number: 2009.91 | RG Number: RG-68.112M
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1950
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
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 …. Transcription of the Dutch translation of the German film, The Eternal Jew. File 12405. Testimony about the Vilnius (Vilna) ghetto. RG-68.112M RG-68.112M Selected…
12. Abraham Sutzkever and Szmerke Kaczergingski Collection (RG-223, Vilna Ghetto, Part 1)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.334 | RG Number: RG-67.042M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1950
bulk: 1939-1944
…Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania--Vilnius--History--20th century--Registers.…
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 …” (The eternal Jew) in the Vilna Ghetto Theater, with a second, slightly enlarged copy. Photograph of Pesker, a Ghetto Policeman, in the role of “Hayehudi…
13. Pick family photograph collection
1999.282.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 65
Document | Accession Number: 1999.282.13
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-1946
… 1941. Modeled after Germany’s Nuremberg Laws they defined Jews in racial terms, excluded Jews from various professions, and severely restricted their…
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 …’s anti-Jewish laws were passed between 1938 and 1941. Modeled after Germany’s Nuremberg Laws they defined Jews in racial terms, excluded Jews from various…
14. Elfriede Toch collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.243.3
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1968
…Jews--Austria--Vienna.…
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 … Jews--Austria--Vienna. Jewish refugees--United States--California. Holocaust survivors--United States--California. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue…
15. Entzogene Vermögenschaften
Document | Accession Number: 2003.63 | RG Number: RG-68.027M
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1953
Alternate Title:
Confiscated property
…Jews--Austria--History.…
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 …troh .J:rred, ·:;ien rr., l!ollr1,,'1Uu.;.::u:J ... e.1j/'.> U)'.et.ern :.'old S.:iul • .-:ien .u., ~:k.:b.·-:~10i;,;.\~u~;t:;o 11 . l • -;, Oi!!ß J;:;~ob…
16. Josef Kohout/Wilhelm Kroepfl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0332 | RG Number: RG-33.002
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1948
… and SA security forces. Nazi ideology called for the racial and cultural purification of the German Reich and German policies persecuting Jews and other…
17. Michael J. Kraus papers
1995.A.1067.1 Book Enclosure Folder 1 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1067.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1994
bulk: 1945-1947
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… lost their son who was Michal’s age. Rudolf was involved with Bricha, the organization which helped Jews from Eastern Europe travel illegally to the West…
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 … Judengasse (a street where many of the poorer Jewish families lived), until December 1942, when all Jews were sent to Hradec Kralove and from there, deported…
18. Mayer and Mané family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.347
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1992
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 …, 1937 My Dear Ones, Now it is already 8 days that we took leave of each other and it seems to me that it's already half an eternity, my dear darling…
19. The World Jewish Congress London Office records (C2)
Document | Accession Number: 2005.63 | RG Number: RG-68.059M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1975
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… 1936 in Geneva. The organization goal is to defend the political, social, and economic rights of Jews throughout the world. Its governing bodies were…
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 …, Syria, Persia, Afghanistan and Libya 1949-1953 6 In the file: - “The Jews in Egypt,” copy of report -“Saudi Arabia is a genuine slave state,” copy of…
20. Hirschfeld family collection
2007.154 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2007.154
Date:
1936-1960
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 … possible. Without any premonition, people go to their places of work— then there is hell on earth. They think that the sun will shine for them eternally, but…