Records relating to the experiences of Danish Jews

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.184.1 | RG Number: RG-44.002

Overview

Description: Photo albums, scrapbooks and diaries relating to the experiences of Danish Jews during the war, including escape to Sweden and deportation to Theresienstadt, as well as their return home to Denmark; personal papers of Danish Jews, as well as records of the Danish Jewish Community, Danish and Jewish organizations, including: aid organizations, the Jewish Community in Malmö (Sweden), Danish press, and records of the Danmarks national socialistiske arbejder parti or Danish Nazi Party (1888-2008).
Date: inclusive: 1888-2010
Collection Creator: Dansk Jødisk Museum

Physical Details

Language: Danish Yiddish
Genre/Form: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Correspondence. Diaries. Drawings. Photograph albums. Scrapbooks.
Extent: 2,138 digital images : TIFF and JPEG ; 119 GB .
System of Arrangement: The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in digital images. This collection contains digital files with mixed materials. There is no clear organization of those files. Some files may contain both format of materials: document records and sound records (Interviews). Following files are not digitized: 207B15; 207B16; 207B120; 207B121; 207B122; 275B15; JDK11A12; JDK124A1; JDK149A1; JDK166A1; JDK192A1; JDK207A45; JDK207A146; and JDK246A1. Interviews are cataloged seperately and can be found in the Collections catalog/Oral History with numbers: RG-50.820*0001- RG-50.820*0145.

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Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. The Museum will use the standard research application form to track users of the material.
Conditions on Use: Any publication of materials require a written consent from the Danish Jewish Museum.
Copyright Holder: Dansk Jødisk Museum

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Denmark. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees. Jews--Denmark--History--20th century. Jewish refugees--Denmark. Deportation--Denmark--History--20th century. Hidden children (Holocaust)--Denmark. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Denmark.
Geographic Name: Denmark--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. Malmö (Sweden)--Politics and government--20th century. Lund (Sweden)
Personal Name: Abrahamsen family. Andreasen family. Blasberg, Bengt. Drucker family. Fischer, Ella. Glogauer family. Goldstein, Harald. Hannover family. Langebæk, Steen. Madsen, Thora. Melnik, Paula. Moritz family. Mortensen, Paula. Nachmann, Henry. Nathan, Anja. Nathansen family. Paludan family. Philipson family. Ruben, Agnes. Tikotsky, Leif. Udsholt, Tove. Wallach family. Wallach family.
Corporate Name: Danish Nazi Party Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Dansk Jødisk Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Dansk Jødisk Museum (Danish Jewish Museum). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the digitized collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Jan. 2014, and accretion in 2015.

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