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Systematic gathering of photos for the Museum collection as primary museum documents began with the foundation of the Museum in 1947. The collection of photographs has been created by systematic gathering: Gifts, purchase, storage, exchange with other institutions and collectors (such as the EU Commission on War Crimes, individuals, associations of veterans of World War II, military organizations and ...

Eli Ringer, born on 30 May 1943, was the son of Salomon Ringer and Liane Pappenheim. Salomon, born on 8 February 1913, and his parents got their hands on Paraguayan identification papers on 21 October 1942. Liane was born on 18 November 1911. She and Salomon married on 15 April 1935 and had four children. Salomon, Liane and their family were orthodox Jews. Eli’s grandparents, Chaim Ringer born on 19 ...

Ernest Gidaly (1891-1945) and Margaret Kunitzer Gidaly (1900-) lived in the 8th district of Budapest on Vig Street #18. They had a son named Paul (born 3/22/1925) and a daughter named Elly (born 12/1927). Two days after the Nazi occupation of Budapest in March 1944, Ernest, a successful Jewish merchant of textiles, was taken from a streetcar on his way to work and sent to an internment camp in Kistarcsa. ...

The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the district of Pilsen, which included the judicial districts of Pilsen, Rokycany and Blovice. The fonds includes the census sheets from 1869, 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910, the agenda of citizenship, the association cadaster, the register of trades and Judaica: Jewish communities, mainly in Spálené Poříčí, Štěnovice, Radnice, Rokycany, Pilsen, ...

A hidden camera interview with Eduard Kryshak, who accompanied two or three train transports of Jews to Treblinka and was a witness at postwar trials in Düsseldorf and Bielefeld. He claims he did not know that people were killed at Treblinka until after the war. Kryshak's wife is frequently visible doing chores in the kitchen where the interview takes place, or watching Lanzmann and Kryshak as they ...

Hirsch (later Henry) Kolber was the oldest child of Markus and Leona (nee Mandelberg) Kolber. Hirsch was born on June 6, 1923 in Przysietnica (Kracow, Poland) where his father owned a lumber yard and his mother operated a grocery store and inn. His brother Aaron was born in Przysietnica in 1925. Soon after his birth the family moved to Barcice near the Czech border, where his three sisters were born: ...

Kurt Bigler, born Kurt Wolf, a son of Marta [Martha] Wolf (1925-2007) was a German-Swiss pedagogue. In 1928 was adopted by Joseph Bergheimer, merchant, and Emilie, b. Bloch; in 1950 adopted by Berta Bigler, a teacher. 1932-1940 attended to the primary school and later the Jewish school in Mannheim. In 1940 he was deported to the internment camp Gurs; in 1941 to the internment camp Rivesaltes. In October ...

KEOKH records are relevant for the study of anti-Semitic radicalization and the Holocaust in Hungary for two chief reasons: it typically suspected foreigners and its reports on the raid it held tend to list the number of Jews concerned and expelled. In certain cases, so called Ostjuden are mentioned separately in these reports. Second, in 1941, KEOKH initiated and implemented the deportation of Jews ...

Giza Golda Rozenblum-Schtoltzberg (now Wiernik) is the only child of Mordechai Rozenblum-Schtoltzberg and Chaja Tema Bitman. She was born on August 2, 1917 in Jamna, Poland, near Nadworna where her parents owned a grocery store and a summer lodge. Giza graduated from high school in 1935. After the start of World War II, Jamna fell under Soviet occupation, but life did not change much for Giza or her ...

Ernő Vilcsek was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1907 to Israel Samu Vilcsek and Berta Weisz; he had one sister and three brothers. Around 1933, Ernő married Irén Hirsch, born February 27, 1913, in Budapest, Hungary to Karolin Fischer and Jacob Hirsch. The couple had two children: Eva Veronika Kero (née Vilcsek) (b. 1934, Budapest, d. December 2018, Vancouver) and Erika Ester Fleischer (née Vilcsek) (b. ...