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1. Helen Degen Cohen papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.119.1
Date:
after 1938
…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
2. Miodownik family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.24.1
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1947
undated: 
… Misha then went to Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Frankfurt am Main around January 1947. Bina and Misha married while in the camp, in part to improve…
3. Solomon Manischewitz photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.29
Date:
inclusive: 1948-1949
…The collection consists of photographs taken in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Most of the photographs depict the…
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 …: blue ink “1” inscribed on upper right of image; verso: red ink stamp “Foto Dz…Bas/Zeilsheim”; Zeilsheim, Germany; Solomon Manischewitz’s notes: “Hebrew…
4. Ethel Davidson photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2011.408.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1946
…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
5. Tadek Korn papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.647.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1997
… antisemitism convinced them to flee further west. HIAS settled them at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, and fellow survivor Perec (Percy) Brand taught Tadek…
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 … displaced persons at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp between 1945 and 1948. Additional photographs from the album depict the Korn family in America and…
6. Paul Blank photograph collection
2017.128.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2017.128.1
Date:
creation: 1946
… 5 April 1945 and liberated in May while on a death march. After liberation, he was in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp until he immigrated to the…
7. Mania and Martin Novak papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.269.1
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1984
… Zeilsheim displaced persons camp near Frankfurt-am-Main where she was reunited with Mordcha Novak (later Martin Novak), whom she knew before the war. They…
8. Oral history interview with Lorna G. Adelman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.137 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0137
Date:
interview: 1995 October 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lorna G. Adelman discusses being in Wiesbaden, Germany after the war and assisting refugees in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp.…
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 … in Wiesbaden, Germany at the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons camp where she joined her husband, a dentist in the U.S. Armed Forces, immediately after the…
9. Rosa Freimann and Sigmund Scheichkorn papers
Document | Accession Number: 2008.141.1
… poem written by Rosa in May 1944; and numerous postwar documents issued to Rosa and Sigmund who lived in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany…
10. Rose Silberberg Skier papers
1999.A.0121 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0121
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1999
bulk: 1929-1958
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… found work. After liberation, they found no relatives with whom to stay in Poland, so they returned to Germany to the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp…
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 … found work. After liberation, they found no relatives with whom to stay in Poland, so they returned to Germany to the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp…
11. Ephraim Mayer Robinson photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2002.416.1
Date:
1945-1948
…The collection consists of 237 photographs documenting the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp.…
12. Upright, wardrobe-style trunk used by a Jewish family during their postwar emigration
Object | Accession Number: 2002.416.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1948 October 21-1948 October 30
… their escape. That October, the Rubinzon family was sent to Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany with the assistance of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid…
13. Julian Feingold papers
2002.55 Oversize Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2002.55
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1999
… perished. He left Poland for the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp and immigrated to the United States where he worked as a cartoonist, graphic artist and…
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 … displaced persons camp and of a theatre production at Zeilsheim; clippings about Feingold, his wife, and the Holocaust; and a reproduction of a drawing by…
14. Sam Katz photographs
1999.12.7 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.12.7
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1946
…Sam Katz survived the Holocaust and lived at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp after World War II.…
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 …-2126 Abstract: The collection consists of 11 photographs taken at Zeilsheim displaced persons camp near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Three of the…
15. Mayerson family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.212.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1980
… group. The family made their way to the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons Camp after the war and then waited in France for their opportunity to move overseas…
16. Percy Brand papers
2006.133.4 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 45a
Document | Accession Number: 2006.133.4
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2003
bulk: 1945-1985
… regularly performed for survivors in various displaced persons camps. In January 1946, he went to the Zeilsheim DP camp. In 1947, he became the first musician…
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 … during the Holocaust. The material primarily relates to his post-war life in the Kibbutz Buchenwald and Zeilsheim displaced persons camps, as well as his…
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17. Oral history interview with Joseph Feingold
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.197.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0925
Date:
interview: 2017 April 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
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 … a Socialist. He was warned that he would be deported to a concentration camp the next day so he ran East with Joseph the next day to Lvov. They left…
18. Ephraim Robinson photograph album
Document | Accession Number: 2009.372.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1948
… experiences of Ephraim Robinson and his family as refugees during the Holocaust, as residents of Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany, and as immigrants…
19. Meir Shapiro family photographs
2013.227.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2013.227.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1947
… photographs of Meir's mother Jenta and father Chaim as well as post-war photographs of Meir and his sister Judith in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in…
20. Sieraczek family papers
2015.569. 1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2015.569.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1953
…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
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 …, Henryk Sieraczek, Jerzy (Jerome Sears) Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp) Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. Jewish families--Poland. Holocaust, Jewish (1939…
21. Mira Taube Stillman papers
2002.523.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 32
Document | Accession Number: 2002.523.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… after the war and Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany.…
22. Lorna Adelman photographs and papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.459.1
…Contains photographs and copy print images of Gil and Lorna Adelman in various displaced persons camps, primarily Zeilsheim, Lindenfels, and…
23. Pearl Reiter Fink photograph album
2018.325.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2018.325.1
Date:
inclusive: 1946 January-1946 September
…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
24. Ann Benjamin Goldberg papers
1999.34.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1999.34.3
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1949
…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
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 … her stay and work as a nurse in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II. Additional photographs depict visits to the Föhrenwald…
25. Henry Greenbaum papers
1999.A.0101.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0101.2
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1946
… Dina in the United States, letting her know they had survived, and settled at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp near Frankfurt until she was able to…
26. Oral history interview with Ann Schatz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.57 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0057
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
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 …. She married at the end of 1944. They went to Cordova and to displaced persons camps in Frankfurt, Germany. She emigrated to the United States in 1948…
27. Alexander Shatton collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.197.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1946
…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
28. Rabbi William Z. Dalin family papers
2005.108.2 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2005.108.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1872-1968
bulk: 1938-1948
… where he served as the only Jewish chaplain of the U.S. Air Corps. He assisted Jewish displaced person in Zeilsheim, Landsberg, and other DP camps. He…
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 … United States Army. Photographs depict Rabbi Dalin at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, the rededication of the Wiesbaden Synagogue in 1946, and Rabbi…
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  • Series 1: Rabbi William Z. Dalin papers 1943-1968
    • File 6: Photographs: Wiesbaden and Zeilsheim DP camp 1946-1947
      • Pages: 5, 7
29. Charlene Schiff papers
Document | Accession Number: 1987.A.0028.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2004
bulk: 1945-1951
…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
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 … Indexing terms Person: Schiff, Charlene Perlmutter, 1929-2013. Perlmutter, Simeon, 1900-1941. Corporate: Bensheim (Displaced persons camp) Zeilsheim…
30. Oral history interview with George Vida
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1806 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1806
Date:
interview: 1980 September 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… States Army beginning in 1943 and the work he performed, particularly his work with displaced persons in the Zeilsheim and Bensheim DP camps; the…
31. Oral history interview with Judah Nadich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.17 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0017
Date:
interview: 1995 February 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
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 … first DP camp. 348 00:26:04,650 --> 00:26:08,220 The camp was called Zeilsheim near Höchst, 349 00:26:08,220 --> 00:26:13,490 not too long a ride from…
32. Ludwig Hiss collection
2017.124.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2017.124.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1961
bulk: 1945-1947
…The collection documents the post-war experiences of Ludwig Hiss of Borysław, Poland in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp; other DP camps in Linz…
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 … in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp; other DP camps in Linz, Austria; and the Bellfaire orphanage in Cleveland, Ohio. Documents include a civilian…
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33. Pawlowicz family papers
1999.49 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 1999.49
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 1950
bulk: 1945-1949
… the Jewish Federation. While in Paris he was informed that Rose and her family survived and were located at the displaced persons camp in Zeilsheim…
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 … her family survived and were located at the displaced persons camp in Zeilsheim, Germany. While traveling to find the Tosk family, Max met Isaac Tosk…
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  • Series 2: Photographs Approximate 1920-Approximate 1959
    • File 1: Pawlowicz family photographs Approximate 1920-Approximate 1959
34. Oral history interview with Ruth Meyerowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0186 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0022
Date:
interview: 1998 September 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… living in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp; trying to reunite with her family; immigrating to the United States; getting married and starting a family…
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 … this -- the person who ran this un -- drun -- they were horrible. So -- Q: What -- what do you remember about right around the late 30’s -- er -- like…
35. Oral history interview with Judah Nadich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.44 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0044
Date:
interview: 1990 March 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
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 … Ben-Gurion that same day 711 00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:19,830 to visit his first DP camp at Zeilsheim. 712 00:45:19,830 --> 00:45:25,710 The Zeilsheim camp…
36. Multi-colored acrylic painting of a ghetto street and buildings painted by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.3
Date:
creation: 1980
depiction: 1943 September
Title:
The Lonely Street
… went to Germany and stayed near the Zeilsheim displaced persons (DP) camp in Frankfurt am Main, and were then transferred to nearby Lampertheim. Judith…
37. Mixed media painting of Jewish children behind a ghetto fence, painted by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.4
Date:
creation: 1996
depiction: 1941 September-1943 September
Title:
Behind the Wooden Fence
… went to Germany and stayed near the Zeilsheim displaced persons (DP) camp in Frankfurt am Main, and were then transferred to nearby Lampertheim. Judith…
38. Oral history interview with Paula S. Biren
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.459 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0500
Date:
interview: 2005 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
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 … people left. But in Germany, what happened? The big powers organized DP camps, displaced people camps, in which they put Jews, and Jews were in those camps…
39. Oral history interview with Felicia Brenner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.7 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0007
Date:
interview: 1985 November 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
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 … Salszag, in a hospital for displaced people. She didn't go home (to Poland) because she had heard a warning that the Poles were killing all the Jews who…
40. Oral history interview with Bernard Gola
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.152.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0912
Date:
interview: 2017 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
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 … uncle went to England where he was placed in a detention camp as he was an enemy alien. Kielce was bombed three days after Germany declared war on Poland…
41. Oral history interview with Felicia Brenner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.8 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0008
Date:
interview: 1990 July 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jewish people who were coming back to find family and claim their property; going to Salzheim (Zeilsheim) displaced persons camp; and feeling bitter and…
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 … displaced persons camp. 00:27:42 Felicia never went home because she heard stories about the Polish people killing the Jews who returned looking for…
42. Collage painting of a crying woman created by a Polish Jewish artist after the Holocaust
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.2
Date:
creation: 1997
depiction: 1943 September
Title:
My Mother's Tears
… went to Germany and stayed near the Zeilsheim displaced persons (DP) camp in Frankfurt am Main, and were then transferred to nearby Lampertheim. Judith…
43. Collage painting of a Jewish man’s beard being cut off created by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.1
Date:
creation: 1997
depiction: 1943 September
Title:
Anguish
… went to Germany and stayed near the Zeilsheim displaced persons (DP) camp in Frankfurt am Main, and were then transferred to nearby Lampertheim. Judith…
44. Oral history interview with Rivka Spiegel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1504 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1504
Date:
interview: 2007 May 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… a munitions factory in Salzwedel, where they were liberated in April 1945; her experiences in an orphanage in a displaced persons camp in Zeilsheim…
45. Norman Salsitz papers
2003.425.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 63
Document | Accession Number: 2003.425.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1889-2000
… the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp.…
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 … around Stanisławów and Kraków, Poland; Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz after liberation; and the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp. Languages: Polish, Hebrew…
46. Juanita Carmi papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.207.1
Date:
inclusive: 1948-1992
…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
47. Das Album von Ephraim Robinson : jüdische Überlebende in DP-Lagern im Nachkriegsdeutschland / Jacqueline Giere, Genya Markon.
Publication | Library Call Number: HV640.5.J4 G54 1995
Author/Creator:
Giere, Jacqueline Dewell, 1939-
Published:
Marburg : Jonas Verlag, 1995
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…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
48. A child's perspective, 1940 to 1947 : from living and surviving with the World War II Jewish partisans to liberation and immigration / by Harold Minuskin.
Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.B383 M55 2012
Author/Creator:
Minuskin, Harold, 1938-
Published:
[United States : H. Minuskin], 2012
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…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
49. Zeilsheim : Eine jüdische Stadt in Frankfurt / Jim G. Tobias.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS134.32 .T63 2011
Author/Creator:
Tobias, Jim G.
Published:
Nürnberg : ANTOGO, [2011]
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…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
50. Judah N. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1446) interviewed by Bernard Weinstein,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1446
Author/Creator:
N., Judah, 1912-
Published:
Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1990
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…