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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 2: RG-72.02, Correspondence from and to ghettos, 1939 -- 1945

This collection contains correspondence sent from various ghettos in German-occupied Europe, as well as correspondence sent to the ghettos from German-occupied and unoccupied contries

Subject/Index Terms:: correspondence to and from ghettos; Correspondence between Germany and occupied territories; Correspondence between the belligerent countries during the Second World War; Personal correspondence; day-to-day life in ghettos; Judenrat, Jewish council in ghettos; Krakow (Poland: Ghetto); Kosow Lacki (Poland: Ghetto); Stanislawow (Poland: Ghetto); Zloczow (Poland: ghetto); Lodz (Poland: Ghetto); Glusk (Poland: Ghetto); Warsaw (Poland); Warsaw (Poland: ghetto); Sosnowitz (Poland: Ghetto); Vilna (Poland: Ghetto); Przemysl (Poland); Opole (Lublin, Poland: Ghetto); Correspondence between German-occupied and un-occupied territories; Genova (Italy); Correspondence in German language; Correspondence in Polish language; The Holocaust in Poland; Living conditions in ghettos; Poland (1939--1945); Italy (1940 -- 1945); Paris (France); France (1940 -- 1945); Cracow (Poland); Switzerland (1939 -- 1945); Chiety (Italy); Vienna (Austria); Austria (1939--1945); Skalat (Tarnopol, Poland); Skalat (Ternopil, Ukraine); Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Lodz Ghetto; Inquiries sent to Jewish Councils (Judenraete), 1939 -- 1945; Inquiries about relatives and friend sent to the Judenrat of Lodz ghetto; Eastern Galicia (Poland: Region); Eastern Galicia (Ukraine: Region); Nancy (France); Konskie (Poland); Judenrat in Konskie, Poland; Kosow Lacki (Poland); Glusk (Lublin, Poland); Piotrkow (Poland); Comercial operations in German-occupied Poland; Lausanne (Switzerland); Soviet Exile, 1939 -- 1945; Ankashevo (Novosibirsk, USSR); Novosibirsk (USSR: Region); Correspondence in Russian language; Lisbon (Portugal); Portugal (1939 -- 1945); Correspondence between German-occupied territories and neutral countries; Miedliborzyce (Poland: Ghetto); Departments of Jewish Councils (Judenraete) in German-occupied and controlled territories; Sosnowiec (Poland: ghetto); Concentration camps, German; Gelenau (Germany: Concentration Camp); Forced labor in concentration camps; Forced labor in factories; Jewish Order Police in ghettos; Jewish Order Police in Wilno (Wilna, Vilnius) ghetto, 1941 -- 1944; Correspondence in Lithuanian language; Postal stamps of the Lodz Ghetto; Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Judenrat in the Lodz ghetto; Budapest (Hungary); Opole (Lublin, Poland); Jewish Social Self-Help Council in Konska Wola, Poland, 1939 -- 1945; Konska Wola (Poland); St. Gallen (Switzerland)

Creators:: Ghetto inhabitants (1939 -- 1945); Family members and friends of the ghetto inhabitants (1939 -- 1945); Jewish Councils (Judenrate) (1939 -- 1945); Departments of Jewish Councils (Judenrate), Second World War (1939 -- 1945); relief and rehabilitation organizations (1945 -- 1950)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-72.02.01, Postcard from Amalia Lehser in Krakow Ghetto to Fratllie Kreh in Genova, Italy, 28 September 1941

Postcard from Amalia Lehrer to the brothers Kreh in Genova, Italy. The postcard was sent from Krakow Ghetto. Mrs. Lehrer asks for fruit to be sent to her. Written in German.

Subject/Index Terms:: correspondence to and from ghettos; Cracow (Poland: Ghetto); Cracow (Poland); Genova (Italy); Correspondence between German-occupied and un-occupied territories; Poland (1939 --1945); Italy (1940 -- 1945); Amalia Lehser, resident of the Cracow Ghetto; Correspondence in German language

Creators:: Amalia Lehser, resident of the Cracow Ghetto (1941); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-72.02.02, Postcard from L. Rudy in Kosow Lacki ghetto to Chawa Ruda in Paris, 7 September 1942

Postcard from L.Rudd in Kosow to Chawa Ruda in Paris. Written on 7 September 1942. Written in Polish.

Subject/Index Terms:: correspondence to and from ghettos; Kosow Lacki (Poland: Ghetto); Paris (France); Jewish refugees from Poland in France, 1939 --1945; Correspondence between German-occupied and un-occupied territories; day-to-day life in ghettos; The Holocaust in Poland; L. Rudy, resident of the Kosow Lacki ghetto, Poland; Poland (1939 --1945); France (1940 -- 1945); Correspondence in Polish language

Creators:: L. Rudy, resident of the Kosow Lacki ghetto, Poland (1942); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-72.02.03, From L. Rudy to M.A. Rudy in Paris, Kosow Lacki ghetto postcard, 9 August 1942

Postcard from L.Rudy in Kosow to A.Rudy in Paris, written on 9 August 1942. Written in Polish.

Subject/Index Terms:: Correspondence between Germany and occupied territories; correspondence to and from ghettos; Kosow Lacki (Poland: Ghetto); day-to-day life in ghettos; Paris (France); The Holocaust in Poland; Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; Poland (1939 --1945); France (1940 -- 1945)

Creators:: L. Rudy, resident of the Kosow Lacki ghetto, Poland (1942); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-72.02.04, Postcard from Chawa Pejorel in Kosow Lacki ghetto to A. Rudy in Paris, 16 April 1942

Postcard from Ch. Pegiel, Kosow Lacki, to A. Rudy in Paris; written in Polish.

Subject/Index Terms:: Correspondence between Germany and occupied territories; correspondence to and from ghettos; Kosow Lacki (Poland: Ghetto); Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; L. Rudy, resident of the Kosow Lacki ghetto, Poland; day-to-day life in ghettos; Jewish refugees from Poland in France, 1939 --1945; Paris (France); The Holocaust in Poland; Poland (1939 --1945); France (1940 -- 1945)

Creators:: Chawa Pejorel, resident of Kosow Lacki ghetto, 1942 (1942); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-72.02.05, Postcard from Marien Hersig in Krakow to Ms. Austern in La Chaux de Fonds Switzerland, 24 February 1942

Postcard from Mariem Herzig, Krakow, to C.Austern in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland. Written in Polish.

Subject/Index Terms:: Correspondence between occupied and unoccupied territories; correspondence to and from ghettos; Krakow (Poland: Ghetto); Cracow (Poland: Ghetto); Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; Correspondence between German-occupied territories and neutral countries; The Holocaust in Poland; Poland (1939 --1945); Switzerland (1939 -- 1945); La Chaux de Fonds (Switzerland)

Creators:: Marien Hersig, resident of the Cracow ghetto, 1942 (1942); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-72.02.06, Postcard from Berta Morgen in Stanislawow ghetto to Filipo Kowner in Chiety, Italy, 7 September 1942

Postcard from Morgen Bertha, Stanislaw, to Filipo Konner in Chiety, Italy. The author was sick and therefore not able to write, he asks for God's help. He asks Filipo to write more often because it is his only happiness, also he cannot receive packages anymore. He sends greetings and regards. Written in German.

Subject/Index Terms:: Correspondence between occupied and unoccupied territories; correspondence to and from ghettos; Stanislawow (Poland: Ghetto); Stanislaviv (Poland); Stanislaviv (Poland: Ghetto); Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine); Eastern Galicia (Poland: Region); Eastern Galicia (Ukraine: Region); District Galicia, German-occupied administrative division in Poland; Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; Chiety (Italy); Poland (1939 --1945); Italy (1940 -- 1945)

Creators:: Berta Morgen, resident of Stanislawow ghetto, Poland (1942); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-72.02.07, Postcard from J. Nowak in Zloczow ghetto to J. Taborsky in Vienna, 13 October 1942

Postcard from Zloczow Ghetto to I.Taborsky in Vienna. He received a postcard and is happy to hear they are healthy. He received money from the uncle and pictures. He also writes about problems in receiving packages and letters. Written in German.

Subject/Index Terms:: Correspondence between Germany and occupied territories; correspondence to and from ghettos; Zlowczow (Poland: Ghetto); Zolochiv (Poland: Ghetto); Zolochiv (Ukraine); Zloczow (Poland); Eastern Galicia (Poland: Region); Eastern Galicia (Ukraine: Region); District Galicia, German-occupied administrative division in Poland; Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; Correspondence in German language; Jewish Council of Zloczow, 1941 -- 1943; Vienna (Austria); The Holocaust in General Government (German-occupied Poland); The Holocaust in Eastern Galicia; Poland (1939 --1945); Ukraine (1941-1945); Austria (1939--1945)

Creators:: J. Nowak, resident of Zloczow ghetto, Poland, 1942 (1942); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-72.02.08,Postcard from Regina Perlmutter from Slalat, Poland to the Judenrat of Lodz, inquiry, 16 October 1941

From Regina Perlmutter to the Judenrat in Lodz. Mrs. Perlmutter wants to find her relatives and asks the Judenrat for help. Written in German.

Subject/Index Terms:: correspondence to and from ghettos; Lodz (Poland); Lodz (Poland: Ghetto); Judenraete (Jewish councils); Judenrat of Lodz Ghetto; District Galizien (Eastern Galicia), German administrative unit of occupied Poland; Correspondence between Germany-occupied territoreis; Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Lodz Ghetto; Inquiries about relatives and friend sent to the Judenrat of Lodz ghetto; Skalat (Tarnopol, Poland); Skalat (Ukraine); Skalat (Ternopil, Ukraine); Skalat (Poland: Ghetto); Eastern Galicia (Poland: Region); Eastern Galicia (Ukraine: Region); District Galicia, German-occupied administrative division in Poland; Tarnopol (Poland: Province); Ternopil (Ukraine: Province); Poland (1939 --1945); Ukraine (1941-1945); The Holocaust in Poland; Holocaust in Ukraine; Correspondence in German language

Creators:: Regina Pelmuter, resident of the Skalat ghetto in Tarnopol province, Poland (1941); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 9: RG-72.02.09, Inquiry from Otto Tuchmayer in Nancy, France to the Jewish Council of Lodz, 13 October 1941

Postcard from Mr. Tuchmayer in Nancy yo Mr. Rumkowski, Chairman of Jewish Council, in Lodz. Tuchmayer asks Rumkowski for help to find his family because he has not heard of them in a while. Written in German.

Subject/Index Terms:: Correspondence between occupied and unoccupied territories; correspondence to and from ghettos; Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Judenrat in the Lodz ghetto; Judenrat of Lodz Ghetto; Lodz (Poland); Lodz (Poland: Ghetto); Inquiries about family members and relatives, Lodz ghetto; Inquiries about relatives and friend sent to the Judenrat of Lodz ghetto; Nancy (France); Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; The Holocaust in Poland; Poland (1939 --1945); France (1940 -- 1945); Correspondence in German language

Creators:: Otto Tuchmayer, Jewish refugeee to France from Poland, 1941 (1941); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 10: RG-72.02.10, Inquiry for the Jewis Council in Konskie, Poland to the Jewish Council in Lodz, ca 1942

Inquiry for the Jewis Council in Konskie, Poland to the Jewish Council in Lodz

Subject/Index Terms:: Correspondence between Germany and occupied territories; correspondence to and from ghettos; Judenraete--Poland (1939-1945); Judenraete (Jewish councils); Judenrat of Lodz Ghetto; Judenrat in Konskie, Poland; Lodz (Poland: Ghetto); Lodz (Poland); Konskie (Poland); Correspondence between Germany-occupied territoreis; Inquiries about relatives and friend sent to the Judenrat of Lodz ghetto; Konskie (Poland: Ghetto); The Holocaust in Poland; Correspondence between Jewish Councils in Poland, 1939 --1944; Poland (1939 --1945)

Creators:: Judenraet in Konskie Ghetto, Poland (ca 1942)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 11: RG-72.02.11, Postcard from L. Rudy in Kosow-Lacki, Poland to A. Rudy in Paris, 6 June 1942

Postcard from L.Rudy to A. Rudy in Paris, written in Polish.

Subject/Index Terms:: Correspondence between occupied and unoccupied territories; Kosow Lacki (Poland: Ghetto); Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; Kosow Lacki (Poland); Jewish refugees from Poland in France, 1939 --1945; The Holocaust in Poland; Poland (1939 --1945); Paris (France); France (1940 -- 1945); Correspondence in Polish language

Creators:: L. Rudy, resident of the Kosow Lacki ghetto, Poland (1942); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 12: RG-72.02.12, Postcard from Glusk, Poland to Heinz Seelig in Berlin, 12 September 1940

Letter from Glusk, Poland to Heinz Seelig in Berlin. Written in old German handwriting.

Subject/Index Terms:: Poland (1939 --1945); The Holocaust in Poland; Glusk (Lublin, Poland); Correspondence between Germany and occupied territories; Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; Berlin (Germany); Germany (1939--1945); Correspondence in German language

Creators:: Residents of German-occupied Polish towns, 1939 -- 1945 (1939 --1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 13: RG-72.02.13, Postal document prooving shipment of medications from a perfume factory of W. Seeger in Warsaw to the firm of Adam Bald in Piotrkow, Poland, 25 February 1943

Postal document prooving shipment of medications from a perfume factory of W. Seeger in Warsaw to the firm of Adam Bald in Piotrkow, Poland. Amount is 679 Zloty.

Subject/Index Terms:: Warsaw (Poland); Generalgouvernement; Perfume factory of W. Seeger in Warsaw, 1943; Adam Bald Warehouse of pharmalogical commodities, paints and photo-instruments, Piotrkow, 1943; Postal documentation of wartime, Poland, 1939 --1945; Commercial operations in wartime Poland, 1939 -- 1945; Piotrkow (Poland); Business operations in German-occupied Poland, 1939 -- 1945; The Holocaust in Poland; Poland (1939 --1945); Correspondence in German language; Postal forms in German language

Creators:: W. Seeger, the factory of perfumes in Warsaw (February 1943); Adam Bald, the Warehouse of Pharmacological Materials, paints and photographic instruments, 1943 (1943); wartime postal documents, 1939 -- 1945 (1939 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 14: RG-72.02.14, Document from the Uruguayan legislature certifying that Anna Ciechanow manages administrative affairs of the Uruguayan Consulate General in Warsaw, 21 September 1939

Document from the Uruguayan legislature certifying that Anna Ciechanow manages administrative affairs of the Uruguayan Consulate General in Warsaw. Written in French.

Subject/Index Terms:: Poland (1939 --1945); Proof of employment; Embassies and consulates; Ciechanow, Anna; Uruguayan Consulate General; Warsaw (Poland); Anna Ciechanow, employee of the Consulate General of Uruguay in Warsaw, 1939

Creators:: Ambassies and Consulates (1933 -- 1945); Consulate General of Uruguay in Warsaw, 1939 (1939)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 15: RG-72.02.15, Postcard from Warsaw ghetto to Lausanne, Switzerland, written to Alfred Schwonbaum, 7 January 1941

Postcard from Warsaw Ghetto to Lausanne, Switzerland, written in Polish.

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish Council (Judenrat) of Warsaw; Correspondence between occupied and unoccupied territories; Judenraete (Jewish councils); Warsaw ghetto; Warsaw (Poland); Lausanne; Lausanne (Switzerland); day-to-day life in ghettos; day-to-day life in the Warsaw ghetto; Correspondence in Polish language; Poland (1939 --1945); Switzerland (1939 -- 1945); Jewish-Polish refugees in Switzerland

Creators:: Residents of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940 --1943); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 16: RG-72.02.16, Postcard from Amelia Goldfajn in Warsaw ghetto to Ia. I. Goldfajn in Soviet exile, Akashevo, Novosibirsk region, the USSR, 11 February 1941

Postcard from Warsaw ghetto to Soviet exile, Novosibirsk region, Russia, written from Amelia Goldfajn to Ta. T. Goldfajn, 11 February 1941. Written in Polish

Subject/Index Terms:: Ankashevo (Novosibirsk, USSR); Deportation to Soviet Exile, 1939 -- 1941; Warsaw (Poland: ghetto); Correspondence between occupied and unoccupied territories; correspondence to and from ghettos; Warsaw (Poland); Soviet Exile; Novosibirsk (USSR: Region); I. Goldfajn, Soviet Exile, 1939 -- 1945; Correspondence between German-occupied territories and neutral countries; Correspondence to the Soviet Exile, 1939 -- 1945; Poland (1939 --1945); Correspondence in Polish language; The USSR (1941--1945)

Creators:: Amelia Goldfajn, resident of the Warsaw ghetto (1941); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944); Residents of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940 --1943)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 17: RG-72.02.17, Postcard from Abram Zelmans in Warsaw ghetto to Bernardino Szwarzbard in Lisbon, Portugal, 20 April 1942

Postcard from Warsaw ghetto to Lisbon, Portugal, written from Abram Zelmans to Bernardino Szwarzbard. Abram sends greetings and thanks for the package. Written in German.

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish-Polish refugees in Portugal, 1939 -- 1945; Abram Zeelmans, resident of the Warsaw Ghetto; Correspondence between occupied and unoccupied territories; correspondence to and from ghettos; Warsaw (Poland); Warsaw ghetto; Judenraete (Jewish councils); Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; Correspondence in German language; Poland (1939 --1945); Portugal (1939 -- 1945); The Holocaust in Poland

Creators:: Abram Zelmans, resident of the Warsaw Ghetto, 1941 (1941); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944); Residents of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940 --1943)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 18: RG-72.02.18, Postcard from M. Leblang in Modliborzyce ghetto (Krasna) to Klara Leblang in Vienna, 1941

RG-72.02.18, Postcard from M. Leblang in Modliborzyce ghetto (Krasna) to Klara Leblang in Vienna, 1941

Subject/Index Terms:: Correspondence between Jewish Councils in German-occupied and controlled territoreis; correspondence to and from ghettos; Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; Modliborzyce (Poland: Ghetto); Modliborzyce (Poland); Residents of the ghettos, correspondence; Vienna (Austria); day-to-day life in ghettos; The Holocaust in Poland; Poland (1939 --1945); Austria (1939--1945); Correspondence in German language

Creators:: M. Leblang, resident of Modliborzyce ghetto, 1941 (1941); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 19: RG-72.02.19, Envelope from the Labor Department, Metal-working division of the Jewish Council of Lodz Ghetto

RG-72.02.19, Envelope from the Labor Department, Metal-working division of the Jewish Council of Lodz Ghetto

Subject/Index Terms:: Factories and workshops in the Lodz Ghetto; Labor Department of the Jewish Council of the Lodz Ghetto; Labor departments of Jewish Councils (Judenraete); Departments of Jewish Councils (Judenraete) in German-occupied and controlled territories; correspondence to and from ghettos; Lodz (Poland); Lodz (Poland: Ghetto); Judenrat (Jewish council), Lodz ghetto; day-to-day life in the Lodz Ghetto; Official correspondence from the Jewish Council of Lodz, 1940 --1944; Businesses in the Lodz Ghetto; Industrial production in the Lodz Ghetto; The Holocaust in Poland; Poland (1939 --1945)

Creators:: Labor Department of the Jewish Council of Lodz (1940 -- 1944); Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Lodz ghetto (1940 -- 1944); Metalworking division of the Labor Departmetn of the Jewish Council of Lodz (1940 --1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 20: RG-72.02.20, A request for mainting a tellephone line by the Jewish Council of Lodz and trasferring it to a ghetto pharmacy, 3 May 1940

RG-72.02.20, A request for mainting a tellephone line by the Jewish Council of Lodz and trasferring it to a ghetto pharmacy, 3 May 1940

Subject/Index Terms:: Inter-ghetto correspondence, Lodz Ghetto; correspondence to and from ghettos; Lodz (Poland); Lodz (Poland: Ghetto); Judenraete (Jewish councils); Judenrat (Jewish council), Lodz ghetto; Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Judenrat in the Lodz ghetto; Pharmacies in the ghettos, 1940 -- 1945; Pharmacies in Lodz Ghetto, 1940 -- 1944; Departments of Jewish Councils (Judenraete) in German-occupied and controlled territories; Departments of the Jewish Council of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; day-to-day life in the Lodz Ghetto; Official correspondence from the Jewish Council of Lodz, 1940 --1944; Telephones in the ghettos, 1940 -- 1944; Polish Telephone Company in Lodz, 1939 -- 1945; The Holocaust in Poland; Interdepartmental documentation of the Jewish Council of Lodz; Poland (1939 --1945)

Creators:: Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Lodz ghetto (1940 -- 1944); Management of the Lodz telephone lines (1939 --1945); Pharmacies in the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 - 1944 (1940 -- 1940); Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish council in Lodz (1940--1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 21: RG-72.02.21, Postcard from Jacob Israel Frim in Sosnowiec ghetto to Sara Frim in a Jewish female concentration camp Gelenau, Germany, 4 May 1943

Postcard from Jacob Israel Frim in Sosnowitz to Sara Frim in the Jewish Women's Camp Gelenau, Germany, 4 May 1943. He received the postcards but still wants the family to write more often. He asks if everyone is healthy and that they are missing Sara every day. They will send her everything that she needs. Written in German.

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish Council in Sosnowiec Ghetto, Poland, 1943; Female prisoners of the German concentration camps; correspondence to and from ghettos; Judenraete (Jewish councils); Prisoner letters; Gellenau (Germany: Concentration Camp); Correspondence between Jewish Councils in German-occupied and controlled territoreis; Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; day-to-day life in ghettos; Sara Frim, prisoner of the female German concentration camp Gellenau, 1943; Correspondence between ghettos and concentration camps, 1940 -- 1944; The Holocaust in Poland; Poland (1939 --1945); Sosnowiec; Sosnowitz (Upper Silesia, Poland); Germany (1939--1945); Correspondence in German language

Creators:: Jacob Israel Frim, resident of the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Poland, 1943 (1943); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 22: RG-72.02.22, Postcard from Frida Faiman in Sosnowiec ghetto, Poland to Sara Frim in a Jewish female concentration camp Gelenau, Germany, 13 July 1943

Postcard from Frida Faiman in Sosnowiec ghetto, Poland to Sara Frim at the Jewish Women's Camp Gellenau, Germany, 13 July 1943. Frida wants to know if Sara received all the packages and asks Sara to write more. Written in German.

Subject/Index Terms:: correspondence to and from ghettos; Judenraete (Jewish councils); Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; Correspondence between Jewish Councils in German-occupied and controlled territoreis; Correspondence between ghettos and concentration camps, 1939 -- 1944; Sara Frim, prisoner of the female German concentration camp Gellenau, 1943; Gellenau (Germany: Concentration Camp); Concentration camps, German; Sosnowiec (Poland: ghetto); Sosnowiec; Sosnowitz (Upper Silesia, Poland); day-to-day life in ghettos; day-to-day life in Nazi concentration camps; Cenzorship in the concentration camp correspondence; The Holocaust in Poland; Poland (1939 --1945); Germany (1939--1945); Correspondence in German language

Creators:: Frida Faiman, resident of Sosnowiec ghetto, Poland, 1943 (1943); Residents of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940 --1943)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 23: RG-72.02.23, Arrest order issued by the Ghetto Police prosecutor. It reads, Aron Gras is to b arrested immideiately for the theft and violance . The order is given to the Jewish Order Police of the Wilno, Vilnius, Vilna ghetto, 9 July 1942

RG-72.02.23, Arrest order issued by the Prosecutor of the Jewish Order Police of the Wilno ghetto. The order reads, Aron Grac is to be arrested immidieately for theft and violance. The order is given to the Jewish Order Police of the Wilna ghetto.

Subject/Index Terms:: Ghetto Police; Judenraete (Jewish councils); Vilna ghetto; Collaboration of Jewish order police with German police and security forces in the ghettos; Jewish Order Police of the Wilno (Vilnius, Vilna) ghetto; Criminal division of the Jewish Order Police of the Wilno gheto; Arrest orders issued by the Prosecutor Office of the Jewish Order Police of the Wilno Ghetto; Wilno (Lithuania: Ghetto); Vilnius (Lithuania: Ghetto); Vilna (Lithuania: Ghetto); Vilnius (Lithuania); The Holocaust in Lithuania, 1941 -- 1945; Collaboration between the members of Jewish councils and German administration; Collaboration of Jewish Order Police in the ghettos with German administration; Arrests by Jewish police in the ghettos; day-to-day life in ghettos; Lithuania (1941 -- 1945); Documents in German language

Creators:: Ghetto Police; Judischer Ordnungdienst, Jewish Order Police in the Wilno Ghetto, 1941 -- 1944 (1941 -- 1944); Judischer Ordnungsdienst, Jewish order police (circa 1942); Prosecutor of the Jewish Order Police in the Wilno Ghetto, 1942 (1942)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 24: RG-72.02.24, Postcard from Cecilia Wroclawska in Czestochowa ghetto to Alfred Schwarzbaum in Lausanne, Switzerland, 22 November 1941

RG-72.02.24, Postcard from Cecilia Wroclawska in Czestochowa ghetto to Alfred Schwarzbaum in Lausanne, Switzerland, 22 November 1941

Subject/Index Terms:: correspondence to and from ghettos; Judenraete (Jewish councils); Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; Correspondence between German-occupied territories and neutral countries; day-to-day life in ghettos; Cecilia Wroclawska, resident of the Czestochowa ghetto; Residents of the ghettos, correspondence; The Holocaust in Poland; Czestochowa (Poland: ghetto); Tschenstochau (Poland); Tschenstochau (Poland: Ghetto); Lausanne (Switzerland); Poland (1939 --1945); Switzerland (1939 -- 1945); Correspondence in German language; Alfred Schwarzbaum, Jewish-Polish refugeee in Switzerland; Jewish-Polish refugees in Switzerland

Creators:: Cececilia Wrosclawska, resident of Czestochowa Ghetto, 1941 (1941); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 25: RG-72.02.25, Postal stamps from Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto featuring Chaim Mordechaj Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish Council

RG-72.02.25, Postal stamps from Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto featuring Chaim Mordechaj Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish Council

Subject/Index Terms:: correspondence to and from ghettos; Lodz ghetto, postal stamps; Judenrat (Jewish council), Lodz ghetto; day-to-day life in ghettos; Department of Jewish postal service of the Jewish Council in the Lodz ghetto; day-to-day life in the Lodz Ghetto; Organization of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; Hierarchy of the Lodz Ghetto; The Role of Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski in the Lodz ghetto, 1940 -- 1944; Phenomenon of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; The Holocaust in Poland; Poland (1939 --1945)

Creators:: Chairman of Jewish Council Litzmannstadt; Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Lodz ghetto (1940 -- 1944); Postal service in the Lodz Ghetto (1940 --1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 26: RG-72.02.26, Postal stamps from Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto featuring Chaim Mordechaj Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish Council

Postal stamps from Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto featuring Chaim Mordechaj Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish Council

Subject/Index Terms:: Department of Jewish postal service of the Jewish Council in the Lodz ghetto; correspondence to and from ghettos; Lodz (Poland); Lodz (Poland: Ghetto); Lodz ghetto, postal stamps; Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Lodz Ghetto; Organization of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; Hierarchy of the Lodz Ghetto; Phenomenon of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; Phenomenology of Chaim Rumkowski; The Holocaust in Poland; Poland (1939 --1945); History of Lodz Ghetto, 1940 -- 1944

Creators:: Postal service in the Lodz Ghetto (1940 --1944); Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of the Jewish council in Lodz (1940--1944); Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Lodz ghetto (1940 -- 1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 27: RG-72.02.27, Postcard from Terezie Brodawka in Lodz ghetto to Sofie Prosecky in Bohemia, 27 May 1944

Postcard from Terezie Brodawka in Lodz ghetto to Sofie Prosecky in Bohemia. Terezie writes that she is healthy and that she did not receive messages from Prague. She asks about the wellbeing of all the relatives. Written in German, May 1944.

Subject/Index Terms:: Residents of the ghettos, correspondence; Lodz (Poland); Lodz (Poland: Ghetto); correspondence to and from ghettos; Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia, annexed to Germany; Residents of the Lodz ghetto, 1940 -1944; Deportees to the Lodz Ghetto, 1942 -- 1944; Jewish deportees from Bohemia to the Lodz Ghetto, 1942 -- 1944; Correspondence between Jewish Councils in German-occupied and controlled territoreis; Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; Organization of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; Hierarchy of the Lodz Ghetto; Phenomenon of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; The Holocaust in Poland; The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia; Poland (1939 --1945); Czechoslovakia (1939 -- 1945); Correspondence in German language

Creators:: Terezie Brodawka, deportees to the Lodz ghetto from Prague (1942 -- 1944); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944); Residents of the Lodz ghetto, 1940 --1944 (1940 --1944); Deportees from Bohemia to the Lodz ghetto (1942 -- 1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 28: RG-72.02.28, A memo and invoice addressed to the Chairman of the Jewish Council of the Lodz ghetto, 1941

RG-72.02.28, A memo and invoice addressed to the Chairman of the Jewish Council of the Lodz ghetto, 1941

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Lodz Ghetto; Departments of the Jewish Council of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; Lodz (Poland); Lodz (Poland: Ghetto); Business-related correspondence; Organization of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; Industrial production in the Lodz Ghetto; Hierarchy of the Lodz Ghetto; Phenomenon of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; The Role of Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski in the Lodz ghetto, 1940 -- 1944; Commercial operations in wartime Poland, 1939 -- 1945; Commercial operations in the Lodz Ghetto, 1940 --1944; The Holocaust in Poland; Documents in German language; Poland (1939 --1945)

Creators:: German governmental institutions, customs (1939 --1945); German offiical documentation (1939 -1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 29: RG-72.02.29, Postcard from Budapest to Man Wozasek in Lodz Ghetto, 24 February 1942

RG-72.02.29, Postcard from Budapest to Man Wozasek in Lodz ghetto. The sender did not receive any letters since October and he would like to know if the addressee received the money he sent. He is alive, he works every day but does not want to get together with people. Written in German.

Subject/Index Terms:: Lodz (Poland); Lodz (Poland: Ghetto); Correspondence between occupied and unoccupied territories; correspondence to and from ghettos; Judenrat (Jewish council), Lodz ghetto; Budapest (Hungary); Inquiries about relatives and friend sent to the Judenrat of Lodz ghetto; Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; The Holocaust in Poland; Poland (1939 --1945); Hungary (1939--1945); Correspondence in German language

Creators:: Unknown senders (1939 --1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 30: RG-72.02.30, Postcard from Hanns Israel Kaufmann in Opole ghetto near Lublin to Dr. Rudolf Kronegg in Vienna, 30 April 1941

RG-72.02.30, Postcard from Hanns Israel Kaufmann in Opole ghetto near Lublin to Dr. Rudolf Kronegg in Vienna, 30 April 1941

Subject/Index Terms:: correspondence to and from ghettos; Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; Correspondence between Jewish Councils in German-occupied and controlled territoreis; day-to-day life in ghettos; The Holocaust in Poland; Hans Israel Kaufman, resident of the Oplole ghetto near Lublin, Poland, 1941; Opole (Lublin, Poland); Opole (Lublin, Poland: Ghetto); Poland (1939 --1945); Vienna (Austria); Austria (1939--1945)

Creators:: Hans Israel Kaufman, resident of Opole ghetto near Lublin, Poland, 1941 (1941); Residents of the ghettos, Poland (1939 -1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 31: RG-72.02.31, Envelope fragment addressed to the Jewish Self-Help Social Council in Konska Wola, 1942

RG-72.02.31, Envelope fragment addressed to the Jewish Self-Help Social Council in Konska Wola, ca 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: day-to-day life in ghettos; Jewish Social Self-Help Organization in Konska Wola, Poland, 1942; Jewish relief and social aid organizations in Poland, 1939 -- 1945; Correspondence between Jewish Councils in German-occupied and controlled territoreis; correspondence to and from ghettos; Konska Wola (Poland); The Holocaust in Poland; Poland (1939 --1945)

Creators:: Unknown senders (1939 --1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 32: RG-72.02.32, Postcard from Saly Mayer in St. Gallen, Switzerland to Josef Sumpf in Przemysl, Poland, the USSR, 19 November 1940

Postcard from Saly Mayer in St. Gallen, Switzerland to Josef Sumpf in Przemysl, Poland. Mayer is assigned to let Sumpf know that Mr. Charles Schwarz is doing well. He did not receive any letters from him so he wishes to know if he is doing fine. Written in German.

Subject/Index Terms:: Correspondence between relatives and friends in German-occupied Europe; Correspondence between German-occupied territories and neutral countries; Correspondence between occupied and unoccupied territories; Josef Sumpf, resident of Przemysl, Poland, 1940; General-Government (German-occupied Poland, 1939-1945); Eastern Galicia (Poland: Region); Eastern Galicia (Ukraine: Region); Soviet annexation of Eastern Galicia, September 1939; Przemysl (Poland); Returned correspondence, 1939 -- 1945; The Holocaust in Poland; St. Gallen (Switzerland); Poland (1939 -- 1941); Switzerland (1939 -- 1945); Correspondence in German language

Creators:: Saly Mayer, resident of St. Gallen, Switzerland, 1949 (1940)