Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 189 Collections and/or Records:
Postcard from Dr. Ernst Eylenburg in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, 1944 July 27
Item
Identifier: B333.04.0001.0004.00003
Abstract
Postcard written by Dr. Ernst Eylenburg in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, Czechoslovakia to Karin Steinberg in Vetschau, Germany when he was in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. Preprinted postcard with blanks Ernst filled in so that the message reads, "Theresienstadt, on 27. July 1944, Fraulein Karin Steinberg, I gratefully acknowledge receipt of your package on 2. July 1944, Dr. Ernst Eylenburg." Address side of the postcard has Eylenburg's and Steinberg's addresses and a...
Dates:
1944 July 27
Postcard from Dr. Ernst Eylenburg in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, 1944 September 1
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Identifier: B333.04.0001.0004.00005
Abstract
Postcard written by Dr. Ernst Eylenburg in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, Czechoslovakia to Karin Steinberg in Vetschau, Germany. Preprinted postcard with blanks Dr. Ernst filled in so that the message reads, "Theresienstadt, on 1. 9 1944, Revered Miss Karin, I gratefully acknowledge receipt of your package on August 1944, Ernst Eylenburg." The address side of the postcard has Eylenburg's and Steinberg's addresses and two canceled stamps featuring Adolf Hitler. The postmark is...
Dates:
1944 September 1
Postponement of Eviction, 1942 February 24
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Identifier: B333.02.0001.0002.00006
Abstract
Letter to Marie Loewenstein [Löwenstein on this letter] from Germany.--Generalbauinspektor für die Reichshauptstadt.--Hauptamt Verwaltung und Wirtschaft, the Main Office of Administration and Economics, Berlin, Germany. This letter informs Marie Loewenstein that the family's eviction notices have been temporarily postponed due to an interview with Marie Loewenstein the previous day. Loewenstein successfully proved, using birth and marriage certificates, that she was not Jewish and...
Dates:
1942 February 24
Prints of Portraits, circa 2008
File
Identifier: B398.02.0025.0004
Abstract
Multiple copies of prints of the original drawings in the "Child Survivors of the Holocaust" exhibit.
Dates:
circa 2008
Prints of Portraits at Yad Vashem, circa 2004
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Identifier: B398.02.0025.0003
Abstract
Multiple copies of prints for the four portraits that were donated to the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem: Edith Stern, Arthur Stern, Pessia Kant and Sarah Kopyto-Hollinger. Also a compact disc with digital copies of images.
Dates:
circa 2004
Rabbi Herbert Friedman, 1946
File
Identifier: B111.03.0003.0023
Abstract
In 1946, Rabbi Herbert Friedman worked with the Allied Jewish Council and the United Jewish Appeal in a campaign to father relief funds for displaced Jews in central and eastern Europe. Friedman traveled to the region in July 1946, and found a mass exodus of Jews headed towards the U.S.-controlled portion of Germany to escape the horrible conditions in Poland. He used the stories of distress from his time in Poland in the Allied Jewish Council's campaign for relief funds. (See Lavender Hill...
Dates:
1946
Raoul Wallenberg Day in Denver, 1986
File
Identifier: B165.02.0019.0008
Abstract
File contains a Proclamation signed by Mayor Frederico Pena proclaiming December 7, 1986 as Raoul Wallenberg Day in Denver. File also contains three photographs: 1) Guest Speaker Jacob Wallenberg. and Emil Hecht. 2) Rabbi Mordechai Gerwirtz, Principal, Jacob Wallenberg, and Rabbi Pesach Lerner, Executive Director of Hillel Academy. 3) Jacob Wallenberg speaking to upper classes at Hillel Academy.Jacob Wallenberg was a member of the Raoul Wallenberg family, and Vice Chairment of the Raoul...
Dates:
1986
Ration Reclassification Request, 1945 October 10
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Identifier: B333.05.0001.0005.00001
Abstract
A letter on letterhead from Hilfsstelle für politische Flüchtlinge und rassisch Verfolgte, the Aid Office for Political Refugees and Victims of Racial Persecution in Berlin, Germany. This letter states that Marie Loewenstein as the wife of a full Jew, a star carrier, has only a Jewish household identification card and is requesting she be reclassified for a higher level of ration cards. Marie Loewenstein's birth date and address are included and the letter is stamped with the Aid Office's...
Dates:
1945 October 10
Receipt, 1939 May 21
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Identifier: B333.01.0001.0001.00006
Abstract
Receipt to the amount of 50 Reichmarks filled out for Frau Loewenstein [Marie] in Berlin. This receipt is dated shortly before Heinrich Loewenstein [Henry Lowenstein] emigrated out of Germany and is possibly the receipt for the train ticket.
Dates:
1939 May 21
Recollections of 1936 Trip, between 1990-2018
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Identifier: B266.04.0008.0001
Abstract
Eleanor Winograd took a trip to Europe in 1936 and went to visit family in Poland. All but a few died in the Holocaust. She wrote a 9 page memoir telling about her trip. Also contains a 2018 article "'All Aboard for Europe': American Youth Travel to Europe Between the World Wars." by Katherine Cartwright, a Ph.D candidate at the College of William and Mary.
Dates:
between 1990-2018