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Title: Ed Victor Papers, 1933-1972

Predominant Dates:1939 -- 1946

ID: RG-72/RG-72

Primary Creator: Victor, Ed (1960s -- 1990s)

Extent: 1800.0 Items

Arrangement: The arrangement scheme for the record group was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order. Materials are arranged by subjects, themes and creators.

Subjects: Auschwitz complex of Nazi - German extermination and concentration camps, Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp, Concentration camps, German, Flossenburg, German Concentration camp, German Labor Service, labor in Germany, 1940 -- 1945, Gross Rosen, German concentration camp, Gusen German concentration camp, Hamburg-Neuengamme, German concentration camp, Holocaust, Jewish (1939 -- 1945), Identification documents, German issued, 1933 -- 1945, Jasenovac, Croatian Concentration camp, Jewish ghettos in German-occupied and controlled Europe, Judenrat, Jewish council in ghettos, Lodz ghetto, 1940 -- 1944, Majdanek, German concentration camp, Mauthausen, German Concentration camp, Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen, German Concentration Camp, Postcards, political images, German, prisoner correspondence, 1933 -- 1945, Proofs of incarcerations under German-Nazi and Axis regimes, Ravensbrueck, German concentration camp, Red Cross, International, 1933 -- 1946, Stutthof, German Concentration camp, Synagogues, religious temples

Languages: German, Czech, Polish, Yiddish, Ukrainian, Russian, French, Spanish;Castilian, Portuguese, Slovak, English, Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian, Romanian, Greek,Modern(1453-), Hebrew

Abstract

In October 2011, Mr. Edward Victor, former lawyer and philanthropist, donated to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust his Collection of the Second World War era documents and artifacts. Owing to this generous donation, our Archive acquired highly valuable historic materials. Being multivectorial by content and form, these documents and artifacts mirror various facets of the Holocaust and in a broader sense, they emanate from the war realities.

Mr. Victor’s Papers also include a special collection of postcards and photographs depicting largely bygone synagogues of Europe, Northern Africa and Middle East.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Ed Victor Papers comprises 58 collections, sub-collections. The latters include a great deal of folders and folder-level collections. All in all this record groups contains around 1800 documents.

Collection Historical Note

Mr. Victor started his collection guided primarily by philatelic interest. He collected letters, envelopes, postcards and other documents bearing a postal stamp or institutional stamps of the respective authorities and agencies. At a certain point, he realizes that the fate of the people, reflected in the short narratives, is of eternal historic value and shall not be measured only in a philatelic dimension. The content of various wartime correspondences reveals a historic enormity of victimization, dehumanization and personal tragedies on one side and a cold blood calmness of perpetrators on the other.

Reading correspondences sent from concentration camps, prisons, ghettos and German labor service open up a microcosm of tragic stories. Other groups of documents, such as official correspondences of National Socialist authorities, inquiries submitted by the relatives of incarcerated people, antisemitic and propaganda materials, rationing coupons also broaden our understanding of the Holocaust and about the structure of the Nazi regime. Ed Victor Papers, as a corpus of wartime documents, historicize the Holocaust in the context of the 20^th century History. They shed light on the earlier, lesser known and often under researched pages of the Holocaust Experience, especially when it comes to the fate of individuals. At a certain point, multiple micro-histories become qualitatively intrinsic to the macro-history of the Holocaust.

Biographical Note

Subject/Index Terms

Auschwitz complex of Nazi - German extermination and concentration camps
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
Concentration camps, German
Flossenburg, German Concentration camp
German Labor Service, labor in Germany, 1940 -- 1945
Gross Rosen, German concentration camp
Gusen German concentration camp
Hamburg-Neuengamme, German concentration camp
Holocaust, Jewish (1939 -- 1945)
Identification documents, German issued, 1933 -- 1945
Jasenovac, Croatian Concentration camp
Jewish ghettos in German-occupied and controlled Europe
Judenrat, Jewish council in ghettos
Lodz ghetto, 1940 -- 1944
Majdanek, German concentration camp
Mauthausen, German Concentration camp
Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen, German Concentration Camp
Postcards, political images, German
prisoner correspondence, 1933 -- 1945
Proofs of incarcerations under German-Nazi and Axis regimes
Ravensbrueck, German concentration camp
Red Cross, International, 1933 -- 1946
Stutthof, German Concentration camp
Synagogues, religious temples

Box and Folder Listing

Sub-Collection 20: RG-72.20, Ghetto and camp scrips (receipts) and monetary signs, 1940 -- 1945

This Collection includes so-called receipts issued as monetary signs at Dora Mittelbau concentration camp, Buchenwald concetration camp, Lodz ghetto, at Concentration Camp Cremona in Italy and Transit camp Amersfoort in the Netherlands

Subject/Index Terms:: Concentration camps, monetary receipts; Concentration camps, currency; Dora Mittelbau (Germany: Concentration Camp); Buchenwald (Germany: Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration camps; Lodz ghetto monetary receipts; Lodz (Poland: Ghetto); Cremona (Italy: Internment Camp); Amersfoort (Netherlands: Transit Camp); Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Lodz Ghetto; Office of Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish Council of the Lodz Ghetto; Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Judenrat in the Lodz ghetto; Ghettos, monetary receipts; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Departments of Jewish Councils (Judenraete) in German-occupied and controlled territories; Organization of concentration camps in German-occupied and controlled territories, 1933 -- 1945; Residents of the ghettos, 1939 -- 1945; Prisoners of the concentratin camps, 1939 -- 1945; Hierarchy of the concentration camps, 1933 --1945; Hierarchy of the ghettos, 1939 -- 1945; Ghetto and concentration camp currency, 1939 -- 1945; Concentration camps, cantinas

Creators:: Administration of concentration camps (1933 -- 1945); Jewish administration of the ghettos (1939 -- 1945); Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Lodz ghetto (1940 -- 1944); Office of Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish Council in the Lodz Ghetto, 1939 -- 1944 (1939 -- 1944); Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish council in Lodz (1940--1944); Administration of Transit Camps, 1939 -- 1945 (1939 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-72.20.01, Dora Mittelbau concentration camp, a monetary coupon for 0.01 RM

RG-72.20.01, Dora Mittelbau concentration camp, a monetary coupon for 0.01 RM

Subject/Index Terms:: Concentration camps, monetary receipts; Concentration camps, cantinas; Concentration camps, monetary vouchers; Monetary signs in Nazi concentration camps; Receipt and monetary vouchers in Nazi concentration camps; Dora Mittelbau (Germany: Concentration Camp); Concentration camps, German; Prisoners of German concentration camps, camp monetary signs; The Holocaust in Germany; Documents issued in the German concentration camps, 1939 -- 1945; Food in the concentration camps, 1933 -- 1945; Financial relations in the German concentration camps, 1933 -- 1945; Germany, history; Germany (1933 -- 1945); Documents in German language; Dora Mittelbau labor camp, cantinas

Creators:: German administration of concentration and labor camps (1933 -- 1945); German administration of labor camp Dora - Mittelbau (1939 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-72.20.02, Buchenwald concentration camp, a monetary coupon for 0.50 RM

RG-72.20.02, Buchenwald concentration camp, a monetary coupon for 0.50 RM

Subject/Index Terms:: Concentration camps, monetary receipts; Concentration camps, monetary vouchers; Monetary signs in Nazi concentration camps; Prisoners of German concentration camps, camp monetary signs; Receipt and monetary vouchers in Nazi concentration camps; Monetary coupons in Buchenwald concentration camp; Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp; Buchenwald concentration camp, cantinas; Documents in German language; Germany (1933 -- 1945); Germany, history

Creators:: Administration of concentration camps (1933 -- 1945); Administration of Buchenwald concentration camp (1939 - 1945); Departments of Nazi concentration camps (1933 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-72.20.03, A 10 mark gheto coin issued in the Lodz Ghetto, ca 1942

RG-72.20.03, A 10 mark gheto coin issued in the Lodz Ghetto

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Lodz Ghetto; Office of Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish Council of the Lodz Ghetto; The Role of Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski in the Lodz ghetto, 1940 -- 1944; Departments of the Jewish Council of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; Financial Department of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 -- 1944; Monetary signs and receipts in the ghettos, 1939 -- 1945; Monetary signs and receipts in the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 -- 1944; Organization of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; Hierarchy of the Lodz Ghetto; Financial relations in the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; Jewish Bank of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; Lodz (Poland: Ghetto); Lodz (Poland); Lodz Ghetto, currency, 1940 -- 1944; The Holocaust in Poland; Poland, history; Documents in German language

Creators:: Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Lodz ghetto (1940 -- 1944); Office of Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish Council in the Lodz Ghetto, 1939 -- 1944 (1939 -- 1944); Departments of the Jewish Council (Juedenrat) of the Lodz Ghetto (1940 --1944); Financial Department of the Lodz Ghetto (1940 -- 1944); Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish council in Lodz (1940--1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-72.20.04, A 2 mark coupon, Buchenwald concentration camp

RG-72.20.04, A 2 mark coupon, Buchenwald concentration camp

Subject/Index Terms:: Concentration camps, monetary receipts; Concentration camps, monetary vouchers; Monetary coupons in Buchenwald concentration camp; Financial relations in the German concentration camps, 1933 -- 1945; Concentration camps, cantinas; Buchenwald concentration camp, cantinas; Prisoners of Nazi concentration camps; Prisoners of German concentration camps, camp monetary signs; Buchenwald (Germany: Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration camps; Concentration camps, German; Documents issued in the German concentration camps, 1939 -- 1945; Weimar (Germany); The Holocaust in Germany; Germany, history; Germany (1939--1945); Documents in German language

Creators:: German administration of concentration and labor camps (1933 -- 1945); Administration of Buchenwald concentration camp (1939 - 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-72.20.05, A 3 mark coupon, Buchenwald concentration camp

RG-72.20.05, A 3 mark coupon, Buchenwald concentration camp

Subject/Index Terms:: Concentration camps, monetary receipts; Concentration camps, monetary vouchers; Monetary coupons in Buchenwald concentration camp; Financial relations in the German concentration camps, 1933 -- 1945; Concentration camps, cantinas; Prisoners of Nazi concentration camps; Prisoners of German concentration camps, camp monetary signs; Buchenwald (Germany: Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration camps; Concentration camps, German; Documents issued in the German concentration camps, 1939 -- 1945; Weimar (Germany); The Holocaust in Germany; Germany, history; Germany (1939--1945); Documents in German language

Creators:: German administration of concentration and labor camps (1933 -- 1945); Administration of Buchenwald concentration camp (1939 - 1945); Departments of Nazi concentration camps (1933 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-72.20.06, Buchenwald concentration camp, a monetary coupon in the amount of 0.50 RM

RG-72.20.06, Buchenwald concentration camp, a monetary coupon in the amount of 0.50 RM

Subject/Index Terms:: Concentration camps, monetary receipts; Concentration camps, monetary vouchers; Prisoners of German concentration camps, camp monetary signs; Monetary coupons in Buchenwald concentration camp; Financial relations in the German concentration camps, 1933 -- 1945; Concentration camps, German; Documents issued in the German concentration camps, 1939 -- 1945; Buchenwald concentration camp, cantinas; Buchenwald (Germany: Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration camps; Nazi concentration camps, outside slave labor units; Weimar (Germany); The Holocaust in Germany; Germany, history; Germany (1939--1945); Documents in German language

Creators:: German administration of concentration and labor camps (1933 -- 1945); Administration of Buchenwald concentration camp (1939 - 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-72.20.07, The Lodz Ghetto Quittung (receipts for paper money), note of 50 pfennig, 1 mark, and 20 mark, Jewish bank note, May 1940

The Lodz Ghetto Quittung (receipts for paper money), note of 50 pfennig, 1 mark, and 20 mark, Jewish bank note, May 1940

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Lodz Ghetto; Office of Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish Council of the Lodz Ghetto; Departments of the Jewish Council of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; Financial Department of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 -- 1944; Monetary signs and receipts in the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 -- 1944; Monetary signs and receipts in the ghettos, 1939 -- 1945; Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Judenrat in the Lodz ghetto; The Role of Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski in the Lodz ghetto, 1940 -- 1944; Organization of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; Hierarchy of the Lodz Ghetto; Phenomenon of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; Lodz (Poland: Ghetto); Lodz (Poland); The Holocaust in Poland; Poland, history; Poland (1939 --1945); Documents in German language

Creators:: Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Lodz ghetto (1940 -- 1944); Departments of the Jewish Council (Juedenrat) of the Lodz Ghetto (1940 --1944); Jewish Bank of the Lodz Ghetto (1940 --1944); Office of Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish Council in the Lodz Ghetto, 1939 -- 1944 (1939 -- 1944); Financial Department of the Lodz Ghetto (1940 -- 1944); Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish council in Lodz (1940--1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-72.20.08, The Lodz Ghetto Quittung (receipts for paper money), note of 2 mark, Jewish bank note, May 1940

The Lodz Ghetto Quittung (receipts for paper money), note of 2 mark, Jewish bank note, May 1940

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Lodz Ghetto; Financial Department of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 -- 1944; Departments of the Jewish Council of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; Financial relations in the Lodz ghetto; Jewish Bank of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; Hierarchy of the Lodz Ghetto; Monetary signs and receipts in the ghettos, 1939 -- 1945; Monetary signs and receipts in the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 -- 1944; Organization of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; Lodz Ghetto, currency, 1940 -- 1944; Phenomenon of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; Office of Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish Council of the Lodz Ghetto; The Role of Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski in the Lodz ghetto, 1940 -- 1944; Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Judenrat in the Lodz ghetto; Lodz (Poland: Ghetto); Lodz (Poland); The Holocaust in Poland; Poland, history; Poland (1939 --1945); Documents in German language

Creators:: Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Lodz ghetto (1940 -- 1944); Departments of the Jewish Council (Juedenrat) of the Lodz Ghetto (1940 --1944); Jewish Bank of the Lodz Ghetto (1940 --1944); Office of Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish Council in the Lodz Ghetto, 1939 -- 1944 (1939 -- 1944); Financial Department of the Lodz Ghetto (1940 -- 1944); Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish council in Lodz (1940--1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 9: RG-72.20.09, Cremona internment camp, Italy, camp scrips for Jews, denomination of Lire 0.5; 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50.

Cremona internment camp, Italy, camp scrips for Jews, denomination of Lire 0.5; 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50.

Subject/Index Terms:: Internment camps, Italian, 1938 -- 1945; The Holocaust in Italy, 1939 -- 1945; Cremona (Italy: Internment Camp); Departments of the Cremona internment camp; Financial department of the Cremona internment camp in Italy; Prisoners of the Cremona internment camp in Italy; Jewish internees of the Cremona internment camp in Italy; Scrips and monetary signs of the Cremona internment camp in Italy; Scrips and monetary signs for Jews in the Cremona internment camp in Italy; Internees, Jewish; Financial relations in the Cremona internment camp, Italy; Italy, history; Cremona (Italy); Documents issued in the Cremona internment camp, Italy; Documents in Italian language

Creators:: Administrations of Italian internment and POWs camps, 1938 -- 1945 (1941 -- 1945); Administration of the Cremona internment camp in Italy (1938 -1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 10: RG-72.20.10, The Buchenwald concentration camp scrips (receipts), various denominations

The Buchenwald concentration camp scrips (receipts), various denominations

Subject/Index Terms:: Concentration camps, monetary receipts; Concentration camps, monetary vouchers; Concentration camps, monetary scrips; Monetary coupons in Buchenwald concentration camp; Monetary scrips in the Buchenwald concentration camps; Concentration camps, cantinas; Buchenwald concentration camp, cantinas; Prisoners of Nazi concentration camps; Nazi concentration camps, outside slave labor units; Buchenwald concentration camp, outside slave labor units; Financial relations in the German concentration camps, 1933 -- 1945; Financial relations in the Buchenwald concentration camp; Concentration camps, German; Documents issued in the German concentration camps, 1939 -- 1945; Weimar (Germany); The Holocaust in Germany; Germany, history; Germany (1933 -- 1945); Documents in German language; Food in the concentration camps, 1933 -- 1945; Organization of the Buchenwald concentration camp; Hierarchy of the Buchenwald concentrtion camp

Creators:: Administration of Buchenwald concentration camp (1939 - 1945); German administration of concentration and labor camps (1933 -- 1945); Financial Department of the Buchenwald concentration camp (1939 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 11: RG-72.20.11, A 10 Cent scrip for the canteen of the German Police Transit Camp Amersfoort in the Netherlands, 1944

A 10 Cent scrip for the canteen of the German Police Transit Camp Amersfoort in the Netherlands, 1944

Subject/Index Terms:: Concentration camps, monetary receipts; Concentration camps, monetary scrips; Police transit camps, monetary scrips; Monetary scrips in the Amersfoort police transit camp, the Netherlands; Financial relations in the German concentration camps, 1933 -- 1945; Financial relations in the German police transit camps; Police and transit camps, German; Documents issued in the German police and transit camps; Amersfoort (Netherlands: Transit Camp); Prisoners of the Amersfoort police and transit camps, the Netherlands; Amersfoort (the Netherlands); The Holocaust in the Netherlands; Netherlands (1940 -- 1945); Documents issued in the Amersfoort police and transit camp, the Netherlands; Documents in German language

Creators:: German administration of concentration and labor camps (1933 -- 1945); German administration of police and transit camps, 1939 -- 1945 (1939 -- 1945); Administration of the Amersfoort police transit camp in the Netherlands, 1941 -- 1945 (1941 -- 1945); Financial Department of the Amersfoort police transit camp in the Netherlands (1941 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 12: RG-72.20.12, The Holleischen concentration camp scrips, canteen money

Subject/Index Terms:: Flossenburg (Germany: Concentration Camp); Flossenburg, German Concentration camp; Flossenburg concentration camp, monetary coupons; Concentration camps, monetary receipts; Concentration camps, monetary scrips; Documents in German language; Documents issued in the German concentration camps, 1939 -- 1945; Financial relations in the German concentration camps, 1933 -- 1945; Germany (1939--1945); The Holocaust in Germany

Creators:: Flossenburg concentration camp German authority; German administration of concentration and labor camps (1933 -- 1945)