COHASCO collection

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.124

Overview

Description: Collection includes post-war refugee tracing forms; propaganda leaflets; the final, 1949, issue of the camp newspaper in Cyprus (where Jews wishing to immigrate to Palestine were detained); letters sent by internees at Camp Du Vernet, France, in 1940; a letter written and signed by David Zvi Pinkas, a signer of the Israel's Declaration of Independence; a 1911 antisemitic broadside published by Theodore Fritsch; a 1947 circular listing the aims of the first Zionist Congress after the Holocaust; a copy of the 1943 "Proclamation of the Children," proclaiming that children in Jerusalem ask the children of the nations to help save the Jews; a souvenir leaflet for the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising; a booklet sent to donors of the Palestine Jewish Institute listing its goals for the coming year; a 1946 leaflet soliciting money to aid Jews wishing to come to Israel; a 1932 Nazi propaganda broadside announcing "Give Hitler Four Years!"; three wartime invoices from Buchenwald; one postwar Dachau visitor's pass; search requests for Holocaust survivors; one 1944 Belgian Jewish registration form.
Date: 1911-1994
Collection Creator: COHASCO, inc

Conditions on Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
Conditions on Use: The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired this collection from Cohasco, Inc. on Mar. 22, 2004.