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The Leonore Gumpert correspondence consists of letters and postcards dated 1938-1942 to Leonore in America from her mother, Clara Joseph, in Kassel and Darmstadt and from her sister, Inge, in Kassel, Darmstadt, Brussels, Seyre, and Chateau de la Hille. Some correspondence from Germany includes messages from Leonore's aunt Martha and grandmother Josephine. There are also a few letters and postcards ...

Includes two postcards from the Ticho family, informing Albert Steiner of their deportation to Theresienstadt in 1942 with an accompanying letter from Kurt Thomas (born Kurt Ticho) explaining context of postcards.

Based on recently-opened archives, analyzes the phases of annihilation of the Jews in the district of Lublin. The police, the Wehrmacht, and the civil administration cooperated with the SS in this project. Describes shooting of Jews, the establishment of ghettos, economic measures, forced labor, and deportation to Bełżec and Sobibór. Power in the district was in the hands of SS-and-police commander ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die nach dem Reichstagsbrand aufgrund der Notverordnung zum Schutz von Volk und Staat vom 28. Februar 1933 in großer Zahl verhafteten politischen Gegner des NS-Regimes wurden in unabhängig von Polizei- und Justizgefängnissen eingerichtete Konzentrationslager (KZ) ver‧bracht. Eine systematische Organisation und Vereinheitlichung der KZ und ihrer Wachmann‧schaften, der ...

The fonds contains the case file of the former commander of the Concentration center for Jews in Poprad, which was one of the five concentration camps used during the deportation of Jews from Slovakia in 1942. This concentration camp was created in March 1942 few weeks before the beginning of deportation. Another file pertains the former guard of concentration camp in Poprad. Several files concern ...

For most files, a digital scanned image of the actual documents is available for viewing online or downloading as a .pdf file. Use of the latter is limited by the description in “Conditions Governing Reproduction” (See Conditions, above).

The collection documents the post-war experiences of Max and Dorothy Folk, both of whom survived the Holocaust and married in Landsberg am Lech, Germany after the war. The collection primarily consists of biographical and identification papers from Landsberg, documents regarding their respective Holocaust experiences, papers related to their immigration to the United States in 1950, and restitution ...

Eugenia Shrut (1925-2003) was born Gina Tabaczyńska on May 20, 1925 in Kłodawa, Poland to grain merchant Naftali Tabaczyński and his wife Rozalia Szczecińska. Gina had two older brothers, Paweł and Mietek. From 1936 until 1939 Gina lived with her uncle’s family in Warsaw and attended the Mirlasowej gymnasium. In November 1940, the Tabaczyński family fled Kłodawa and was later forced into the Warsaw ...

The Lindenbaum and Landau families collection contains photographs of the Lindenbaum and Landau families, circa 1900s-1945. The family photographs were taken in Łódź, Poland; Warsaw, Poland; the Warsaw ghetto; and Belgium. The photographs feature friends and family members and include both victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Photographs of Tobiasz and Curtla Lindenbaum include the couple around ...

USHMM has copied from this fonds and describes the copies as follows: Opis 1, Einsatzstab Rosenberg Folder 2: Einsatzstab Rosenberg for the occupied eastern territories. Correspondence on transport of books, article translations from the foreign press on Lenin and Stalin, a letter on reworking documents of the German playwright Hans Mühlenstein, lists of permanent employees of Einsatzstab Rosenberg, ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...