NORBERT WOLLHEIM PAPERS 1999.A.0031, RG-80.000 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 Tel. (202) 479-9717 e-mail: [email protected]Descriptive summary Title: Norbert Wollheim papers Dates: approximately 1900-1998 Accession number: 1999.A.0031, RG-80.000 Creator: Wollheim, Norbert, 1913-1998 Extent: 31 linear feet (47 boxes, 25 oversize boxes, 9 book enclosures, 5 oversize folders, 1 VHS videocassette, 2 sound cassettes) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Norbert Wollheim papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Wollheim’s prewar family life in Europe, his efforts to receive restitution for his slave labor at I.G. Farben, his immigration to the United States, and his continued work with other Holocaust survivor organizations such as the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors, the Auschwitz/Buna Memorial, the World Federation of Holocaust Survivors, the United Jewish Appeal, and the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. Languages: German, English, Yiddish, Hebrew, French Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please contact the Reference Desk more than seven days prior to visit in order to request access. Reproduction and use: Collection is available for use. Material may be protected by copyright. Please contact reference staff for further information. Preferred citation: (Identification of item), Norbert Wollheim papers, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington, DC
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NORBERT WOLLHEIM PAPERS 1999.A.0031, RG-80.000
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126
Descriptive summary Title: Norbert Wollheim papers Dates: approximately 1900-1998 Accession number: 1999.A.0031, RG-80.000 Creator: Wollheim, Norbert, 1913-1998 Extent: 31 linear feet (47 boxes, 25 oversize boxes, 9 book enclosures, 5 oversize folders, 1 VHS videocassette, 2 sound cassettes) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Norbert Wollheim papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Wollheim’s prewar family life in Europe, his efforts to receive restitution for his slave labor at I.G. Farben, his immigration to the United States, and his continued work with other Holocaust survivor organizations such as the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors, the Auschwitz/Buna Memorial, the World Federation of Holocaust Survivors, the United Jewish Appeal, and the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. Languages: German, English, Yiddish, Hebrew, French
Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please contact the Reference Desk more than seven days prior to visit in order to request access. Reproduction and use: Collection is available for use. Material may be protected by copyright. Please contact reference staff for further information. Preferred citation: (Identification of item), Norbert Wollheim papers, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington, DC
Acquisition information: Charlotte Wollheim, Norbert Wollheim’s widow, donated the Norbert Wollheim papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999. Accruals: Accruals may have been received since this collection was first processed, see archives catalog at collections.ushmm.org for further information. Processing history: Ferenc Katona, 2002, revised by Julie Schweitzer, December 2016, August 2021 Biographical note / Administrative history Norbert Wollheim (1913-1998) was born in Berlin. His father was a German Jewish veteran of World War I, and Wollheim was active in the German Jewish Youth Alliance. Nazi anti-Jewish laws led to his expulsion from law studies at the University of Berlin in April 1933. From 1935 through 1938 he worked as a clerk and scientific worker at the ore firm Rawack and Grünfeld AG in Berlin-Charlottenburg. He married Rosa Mandelbrod in May 1938 and was dismissed from his job for racial reasons in September 1938. Between November 1938 and August 1939, he helped arrange and escort twenty transports of Jewish children to safety in Britain. Wollheim continued to work for the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Union of Jews in Germany). In 1941 he was drafted to perform forced labor, and in February 1943 he and his family were arrested, and taken to the Grosse Hamburger Strasse assembly center. On March 11th they were deported to Auschwitz, where his pregnant wife and 3-year old son, Uriel, were murdered. Norbert Wollheim was tattooed with prison number 107984, and he was one of the 25,000 Jews who were forced to build a synthetic-rubber plant for I.G. Farben in Auschwitz III-Monowitz (Buna). He survived a death march starting January 18, 1945 that led him from Auschwitz to Gleiwitz, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Czechoslovakia again, and finally to the Heinkel satellite camp of Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg near Berlin at the end of the month. The camp was evacuated on April 20th, and Wollheim fled his SS guards on the night of May 2nd. He was liberated by American troops in Schwerin (Mecklenburg) the next day. Wollheim did not want to return to Soviet-controlled Berlin, so he moved to Lübeck and helped to organize a community of 800 Jewish displaced persons. He also visited the nearby British-controlled Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp and organized the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the British Zone with Joseph Rosensaft. Wollheim married Frieda (Friedel) Senta Löwenberg (1921-1977) a German Jewish woman he had met in Bergen-Belsen, and they had two children, Peter (b. 1948) and Ruth-Evelyn (b. 1950). (After Friedel’s passing in 1977, Wollheim married Charlotte Sprung.) In the late 1940s Wollheim appeared as a witness during the Nuremberg trials and at the trial against Nazi sympathizer film director and actor Veit Harlan. In 1951, Norbert Wollheim successfully sued I.G. Farben, arguing that the manufacturer should compensate him for two years’ work. The lawsuit opened the way for a settlement with I.G. Farben that established a fund of $6.43 million to compensate other Jewish laborers. Towards the end of 1950, Wollheim and his family moved to the United States, but they were twice arrested by the immigration authorities, detained on Ellis Island, and threatened with deportation. Finally, in 1952, they were legally admitted to the United States. Wollheim studied accounting at New York University and was granted certification in 1962. He testified in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials in the mid-1960s. He also played a leading role in the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors and the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and was a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He lived with his family in Fresh Meadows, Queens, NY, and had a successful accounting career until his retirement in 1991.
Scope and content of collection The Norbert Wollheim papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Wollheim’s prewar family life in Europe, his efforts to receive restitution for his slave labor at I.G. Farben, his immigration to the United States, and his continued work with other Holocaust survivor organizations such as the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors, the Auschwitz/Buna Memorial, the World Federation of Holocaust Survivors, the United Jewish Appeal, and the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. Series 1, Life in Europe, primarily documents Norbert Wollheim’s life and activities in Europe before his immigration to the United States, including personal and professional correspondence from his years in Lübeck; legal records documenting his efforts to receive restitution for his slave labor at I.G. Farben; subject files about survivor conferences, postwar antisemitism, and emigration to Palestine; publications and clippings documenting Jewish survivor organizations; photographic materials documenting Wollheim’s family before the war and political and commemorative events after the war; and personal documents such as identification papers, calendars, and speeches.
Subseries 1, Lübeck correspondence, includes Norbert Wollheim’s correspondence from his years in Lübeck after the war. The correspondence documents his postwar activities on behalf of survivors, and related travel, as well as his own marriage and the birth of his children. It includes professional, private, and personal correspondence with officials, aid organizations, friends, and relatives. Correspondents include Hermann Simon, Max Plaut, Karl Marx, Kurt Hecht, Rolf May, Hans and Gretl Royce, his sister and brother-in-law (Bellauer), and Julius Dreifuss. Subseries 2, Correspondence and related records regarding I.G. Farben, consists of legal records, correspondence, and clippings related to the slave labor Norbert Wollheim performed for I.G. Farben at Auschwitz during the war and his efforts to receive compensation after the war. Subseries 3, Subject files, includes topics such as survivor conferences, the desecration of Jewish cemeteries, restitution, Philip Auerbach, Erich Lüth, and the passengers on the ship Exodus who were not allowed to reach Palestine. Records include correspondence, clippings, notes, lists, reports, photographs, programs, and speeches. Subseries 4, Publications, includes publications by organizations such as the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the British Zone, Jewish Central Information Office, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, United Jewish Appeal, and the World Jewish Congress about survivor issues during the postwar period. Records include bulletins, newspapers, press releases, poems, and reports. Subseries 5, News clippings, includes topics such as the World Jewish Congress, the status of Jewish Displaced Persons, Palestine, war criminals, and restitution. Subseries 6, Photographs, includes photo albums and loose photographs depicting Wollheim, family members and friends, vacations, family celebrations, and political events in Germany, France, England, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, and Denmark before, during, and after World War II. This series includes postwar photographs of Bergen-Belsen, displaced persons camps, Leo Baeck, Stephen Wise, Nachum Goldmann, and Elie Wiesel.
Subseries 7, Personal documents, consists of identification papers, calendars, speeches, personal publications, and notebooks.
Series 2, Life in America, primarily documents Norbert Wollheim’s life and activities in America following his immigration, including personal correspondence; legal records documenting his efforts to receive restitution for his slave labor at I.G. Farben; correspondence documenting Wollheim’s work with survivor organizations World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors, Auschwitz/Buna Memorial, and World Federation of Holocaust Survivors; subject files about the Holocaust and its memorialization; publications, periodicals, and news clippings; and photographs documenting survivors of Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz-Buna, the United Jewish Appeal, and the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.
Subseries 1 consists of personal correspondence. Subseries 2, I. G. Farben and other restitution claims, consists of correspondence, legal and financial records, and printed material documenting I. G. Farben and other restitution claims. Subseries 3, World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors, consists of correspondence and organizational records regarding the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors. Subseries 4, Auschwitz/Buna Memorial, consists of correspondence, organizational records, and news clippings documenting the Auschwitz/Buna Memorial. Subseries 5, World Federation of Holocaust Survivors, consist of correspondence and organization records documenting the World Federation of Holocaust Survivors. Subseries 6, Subject files, consists of subject files documenting facets of the Holocaust and Holocaust memorialization. Subseries 7, Publications, consists of publications documenting the work of Jewish organizations, Holocaust survivors, and the history of the Holocaust. Subseries 8, News clippings, consists of news clippings in English, German, and Hebrew dated 1960-1997. Subseries 9, Photographs, consists of photographs documenting survivors of Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz-Buna, the United Jewish Appeal, and the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. Subseries 10, Publications, consists of German and Jewish periodicals from 1945-1952.
System of arrangement The Norbert Wollheim papers are arranged as two series and seventeen subseries:
• Series 1: Life in Europe, approximately 1900-1996 (bulk 1945-1954) o Subseries 1: Lübeck correspondence, 1945-1954 o Subseries 2: I.G. Farben, 1945-1958, 1996 o Subseries 3: Subject files, 1945-1954 o Subseries 4: Publications, 1928-1985
o Subseries 5: News clippings, approximately 1940s-1970s o Subseries 6: Photographs, approximately 1900-1955 o Subseries 7: Personal documents, approximately 1945-1989
• Series 2: Life in America, 1945-1998 (bulk 1951-1998) o Subseries 1: Personal correspondence, 1956-1993 o Subseries 2: I. G. Farben and other restitution claims, 1951-1998 o Subseries 3: World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors, 1958-1991 o Subseries 4: Auschwitz/Buna Memorial, 1958-1992 o Subseries 5: World Federation of Holocaust Survivors, 1979-1995 o Subseries 6: Subject files, 1939-1998 o Subseries 7: Publications, 1959-1993 o Subseries 8: News clippings, 1960-1997 o Subseries 9: Photographs, 1960-1981
o Subseries 10: Periodicals, 1945-1952 Indexing terms Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Monowitz (Concentration camp) Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft. Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the British Zone. World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (1981 : Jerusalem) Jews--Germany--Berlin. Slave labor--Concentration camps. Holocaust survivors--Germany. Holocaust survivors--United States. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations. Berlin (Germany) Lübeck (Germany) United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century. Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
Series 1: Life in Europe, Circa 1900-1996 (bulk 1945-1954)
Subseries 1: Lübeck correspondence, 1945-1954
Box/Folder Title
1.1-1.2 Wollheim, Norbert, to his wife and family, 1946-1948
1.3 Wollheim, Friedel to Wollheim, Norbert, 1946-1949
1.4-1.6 Correspondence relating to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Billauer, 1946-1951
1.7 Reports, Circa 1944-1950
1.8-1.9, 58.1
Clippings, 1946-1950
1.10-1.11 Lübeck correspondence, primarily Jewish aid organizations, 1946-1947
1.12 Correspondence, A, 1945-1951
1.13 Correspondence, B, 1946-1951
2.1 Correspondence, C-D, 1946-1951
2.2 Correspondence, E-F, 1950-1951
2.3 Correspondence, G, 1947-1951
2.4 Correspondence, H, 1947-1951
2.5 Correspondence, I-J, 1947-1951
2.6 Correspondence, K, 1947-1951
2.7 Correspondence, L, 1945-1951
2.8 Correspondence, M, 1945-1951
2.9 Correspondence, N-P, 1945-1951
2.10-2.11 Correspondence, R, 1945-1951
3.1-3.3, OS 1
Correspondence, S, 1945-1951 (Photograph and its corresponding negative related to 12/3/1945 letter)
3.4-3.6 Correspondence, Simon, Hermann E., 1945-1951
3.7 Correspondence, T-V, 1945-1951
3.8-3.10 Correspondence, W, 1945-1951
3.11 Correspondence, X-Z, 1946-1951
3.12 Correspondence, miscellaneous, 1946-1950
3.13-3.14 Congratulations on marriage, 1947
4.1-4.8, 59.1
Congratulations on birth of Peter Wollheim, 1948
4.9-4.10 Correspondence, Marx, Karl, editor of Allgemeine Wochenzeitung der Juden in Deutschland, 1948-1950
4.11 Correspondence, A-G, 1948
4.12 Correspondence, H-M, 1948
5.1 Correspondence, N-R, 1947-1948
5.2 Correspondence, S-Z, 1945-1948
5.3 Billauer, Mr. and Mrs. Richard, 1949-1950
5.4 Correspondence, B-H, 1949-
5.5 Correspondence, K-N, 1949-
5.6 Correspondence, P-Z, 1949-
5.7 Correspondence, B-G, 1949-
5.8 Correspondence, H-R, 1949-
5.9 Correspondence, S-Z, 1949-
5.10 Printed materials, 1945-1949, 1972
5.11-5.14 Congratulations on birth of Ruth-Evelyn Wollheim, 1950
5.15 Correspondence, B-C, 1950
6.1 Correspondence, D-E, 1950
6.2 Correspondence, F-G, 1950
6.3 Correspondence, H, 1950
6.4 Correspondence, K, 1950
6.5 Correspondence, L-M, 1950
6.6 Correspondence, O-P, 1950
6.7 Correspondence, R, 1950
6.8 Correspondence, S, 1950
6.9 Correspondence, T-V, 1950
6.10 Correspondence, W-Z, 1950
6.11 Correspondence, A, 1951-1954
6.12 Correspondence, B, 1951-1954
6.13 Correspondence, C, 1951-1954
6.14 Correspondence, D, 1951-1954
6.15 Correspondence, E-F, 1951-1954
6.16-6.17 Correspondence, G, 1951-1954
7.1-7.3 Correspondence, H, 1951-1954
7.4 Correspondence, J, 1951-1954
7.5-7.6 Correspondence, K, 1951-1954
7.7 Correspondence, L, 1951-1954
7.8 Correspondence, M, 1951-1954
7.9 Correspondence, N, 1951-1954
7.10 Correspondence, O, 1951-1954
7.11 Correspondence, p, 1951-1954
7.12 Correspondence, R, 1951-1954
8.1-8.2 Correspondence, S, 1951-1954
8.3 Correspondence, T-U, 1951-1954
8.4 Correspondence, V, 1951-1954
8.5-8.6 Correspondence, W, 1951-1954
8.7 Correspondence, Y-Z, 1951-1954
Subseries 2: I.G. Farben, 1945-1958, 1996
Box/Folder Title
8.8 I.G. Farben: Final brief of the Prosecution: Part IV, Circa 1950
11.3, 62.2 Sitzung des Verbandes der Jüdischen Gemeinden Nordwestdeutschlands, 1951
11.4-11.5, 58.2, 60.3, 61.1
Adenauer interviews, 1949-1950
11.6-11.10, 60.4
Auerbach, Philip, 1947-1950
11.11-11.13, 12.1-12.4, 58.3, 59.3
Auerbach, Philip, downfall, 1951
12.5-12.11, 59.4, 62.3
Belsen, 1946-1951 [Correspondence, telegrams, clippings, notes to lectures, article drafts, name lists, radio commentaries, documents of a Zionist conference in London 1946. - Study about precious metal, etc., confiscated from Jews in 1938; desecration of Jewish cemeteries; claims for reparations; article about Else Lasker-Schüler; meetings of Jewish community leadership on various issues; articles celebrating Rosh Hashanah, about the State of Israel, the assassination of Count Bernadotte, new signs of anti-Semtism; 10th anniversary of Kristallnacht; lists of valuables to be returned to their Jewish owners; lists of Jews living in Lübeck in 1946; charitable organizations’ donation of food; British police actions in Jewish DP camps]
60.6 Central Committee Lubeck, hand illustrated and autographed certificate, 1946
13.1-13.11, 58.4-58.5, 59.5-59.7, 60.5, 62.4-62.6
Friedhofsschändungen, 1947-1949 [Correspondence, clippings, b/w photo prints, “The theft of 150 million cigarettes,” “534 police officers were members of NSDAP,” “Bergen-Belsen, center of black market,” amnesty for Krupp and Weiszäcker, anonymous letter threatening Norbert Wollheim and other Jewish individuals]
14.1 List of incidents of Jewish Cemetery desecrations in the British Zone of Occupation., 1947-1948 [Copy of a 26-item list written on 3 Jan 1948 in Lübeck]
14.2 Open the Gates of Palestine!, 1945 (Report of the proceedings of the Congress of Jewish Prisoners in Bergen-Belsen) [Brochure’s cover page is bi-lingual, text of the booklet is in Hebrew]
14.3, 61.2 Deutschland Politik; Israel; WJC, 1945-1951 [Auerbach documents; NSDAP affiliation of police officers]
14.4-14.7, 59.8
Exodus, 1947-1948 [Jews of the boat Exodus turned away from Haifa by the British arrived in Germany’s Lübeck region, and they were kept in the Emden DP refugee camp. Black and white photo prints made by professional photographers are in folder 4]
14.8 Publications of Ludendorff Movement, 1951 [Various subjects, e.g. the new film of Nazi actor Veit Harlan, an open letter to John McCloy, etc. Correspondence, clippings]
14.9-14.10 Erich Lüth, 1951 [Erich Lüth, “Leiter der staatlichen Pressestelle, Hamburg,” his writings against Veit Harlan, a law suit against the producers of the 1951 film – “Unsterbliche Geliebte” directed by Harlan. Lüth initiated a boycott against Harlan’s films; Correspondence, bulletins, clippings]
14.11, 59.9 Lüth - Aktion, 1951 [Erich Lüth initiated a movement titled “Frieden mit Israel.” Correspondence, bulletins, clippings]
15.2 Chaim Weizmann Memorial Service, 1952 [Program of a 10 Dec 1952 New York event]
15.3-15.7, 59.11, 62.7
World Jewish Congress, Montreux, 1948-1948 [Bulletins, correspondence, draft resolutions, working papers. Includes No. 6/1948 of French language periodical “Quand meme!” with Norbert Wollheim’s article in it, “Un second front pour Israel,” clippings, mimeographed speeches, lectures, minutes of sessions, participants’ and members’ name and address lists
15.8 World Jewish Congress, Geneva, 1951 [Statements, activity report. Includes material relating to the Jan 1949 meeting.
15.9-15.10, 62.8
Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland, 1951 [Central Council of Jews in Germany. – Compensation and restitution issues. – Correspondence – e.g. with Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg -, clippings]
Subseries 4: Publications, 1928-1985
Box/Folder Title
15.11 Academy of Poltical Science, Kurt R. Grossman, Political-social and economic Development of Eastern Germany during 1950, 1952
15.12 Allgemeine Wochenzeitung der Juden in Deuschland - Die Arbeitstagung jüdischer Juristen im Bundesgebiet und Berlin, 1951
16.1 Allgemeine Wochenzeitung der Juden in Deuschland - Die Haager Vertragswerke, 1952
16.2 Les Cahiers de L'Alliance Israelite Universelle, 1953-1953
16.3 Amerika zwischen Krieg und Frieden, 1952
16.4-16.5 AJR Information, 1946-1985 (Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain)
16.6-16.9 Beweisdokumente für die Spruchgerichte in der Britischen Zone, 1947 (Documentary evidence for the sentencing court in the British Zone)
16.10 Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the British Zone, monthly bulletins, 1946-1947
16.11 Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the British Zone, report, 1945-1947
16.12 Contemporary Jewish Record, Sholome Michael Gelber, Roads to a new Horizon, 1942
16.13 Dritte Reich, Das: Eine Studie über Nachwirkungen des Nationalsozialismus, 1946
16.14 Gemeindeblatt, 1928
16.15 Gemeinschaftsarbeit der jüdischen Jugend, 1933-1937
17.1 Zur Geschichte des Lagers Auschwitz-Monowitz (Buna), Circa 1946
17.2 Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit in Hamburg, 1952
17.3-17.4 Gross-Breesen pamphlets, 1945-1947
17.5 House of Commons Official Report, Debate on Palestine, 1946
17.6-17.9 Institute of Jewish Affairs - World Jewish Congress, 1951-1953
17.10 Jewish Affairs, Vol 1, No. 12, 1946
17.11 Jewish Palestine fights back, The Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1946
17.12 JCIO (Jewish Central Information Office) - Nehlans Interview, 1945-1945
17.13 JCIO (Jewish Central Information Office) - Statistical Details of the Deportation and Present number of Jews in Italy,
17.14 JCIO (Jewish Central Information Office) – Jewish Survivors Report, No 5, Paula Littauer, My experiences […] in Berlin and Brussels, 1939-1944,1946
Material zu Wiedergutmachungsfrage, 1951 (Compensation - correspondence, clippings, minutes)
21.9 Newspaper clippings regarding Auerbach and Ohrenstein, 1952
Subseries 6: Photographs, Circa 1900-1955
Box/Folder Title
BE 1 Photo Album, Circa 1926-1938 [green]. [Family, friends, excursions, vacations]
BE 2 Photo Album, 1934 [red, white and blue]. [Boat trip, Scandinavian scenes, flags, cities, summer camp for children]
21.10 Photograph, Circa 1920 [Unknown group of people celebrating wedding or anniversary circa 1920s]
48.1 Photo Album, Circa 1927-1933 [blue and beige]. [Family and friends; vacations, trips]
BE 3 Photo Album, Circa 1929-1938 [suede]. [Family vacations. Scandinavia – Denmark, Sweden – boat trip, animals]
49.1 Photo Album, Circa 1930s [small brown leather]. [German scenery]
BE 4 Photograph Album. "Reise mit Kindern", 1934-1938 [Trip with children, family vacations]
50.1 Photograph Album. "Horseved", 1935 [Regarding trip to Sweden]
21.11 Prewar and wartime photos, Circa 1930-1942 [4 b/w photos. N.D. and 1930-1942]
BE 5 Gunnarpsnehemet (sic), 1939 [Dedicated. Gift from children remembering a Malmö trip]
BE 6 Photo Album, Circa 1940-1949 [blue plaid]. [Some of the photos look postwar]
21.12 DP Photos, Circa 1945 [Photographs of a visit by Leo Baeck, probably to a British controlled DP camp, escorted by Norbert Wollheim]
21.13, 51.1, OS 2
Photo Album, Circa 1945-1946 [teal]. [Friends, British soldiers, etc]
52.1 Photo Album, Circa 1945-1950 [brown]. [Holocaust memorial in the Lübeck cemetery; on some of the photos Stephen Wise, Nachum Goldmann]
21.14, 53.1 Photo Album, Circa 1945-1955 [beige with red binding] [Holocaust memorials in Lübeck and Braunschweig; conferences in Montreux, Brussels, etc]
22.1, 66.1 USA, 1945-1948
22.2 Bergen-Belsen, After 1945 [Post war]
22.3 Berlin, After 1945 [Post-war] [Banquet shots]
22.4 Hamburg, After 1945 [Post war] [Arrival of Leo Baeck at a railway station]
22.5 Baeck, Leo, Circa 1945, 1949
22.6 Lübeck, [Post war, including Wollheim’s sister and brother-in-law]
22.7 USA, After 1949 [One of the group photos shows the young Elie Wiesel]
22.8 Wedding of Norbert and Friedl Wollheim, 1950 [Photos and cards]
22.9 Miscellaneous, After 1945 [Post war]
22.10-22.11, 54.1
Photo Album, Circa 1900-1945 [embossed mahogany]
55.1 Stavangerfjord, 1939 [Stavngerfjord and U.S]
56.1 Photo Album, Circa 1945-1955 [yellow-beige with red binding]. [Paris, London]
31.1 Private correspondence, 1981 [Includes color photographs]
31.2 Private correspondence, 1982
31.3 Private correspondence, 1983
31.4 Private correspondence, 1984
31.5 Correspondence, 1991
31.6 Private correspondence, 1992 [Includes correspondence with Yissakhar Ben-Yaakov, long time friend, father of renown photographer Shlomo Ben-Yaakov]
31.7, 65.7 Correspondence, 1993
Subseries 2: I.G. Farben and other restitution claims, 1951-1998
Box/Folder Title
31.8-31.12, 65.8-65.10
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1956-1958 [Includes clippings, publications, legal documents, 1956 business report of liquidation of I.G. Farben]
32.8-32.9 Fritz Bauer Institute. Correspondence, “I.G. Auschwitz”, 1998 (Survivors Name List)
32.10-32.14, 67.8-67.9
Auschwitz Prozess, 1964-1966 [Correspondence, clippings – e.g. Sybille Bedford’s essay in The Saturday Evening Post, 22 Oct 1966, trial documents, bulletins]
33.1-33.2, 64.9, 65.11
Auschwitz Trial, 1965 [Correspondence, clippings]
33.3, 64.10 Claims Conference, 1962-1991 [Clippings and correspondence]
39.7, 64.13 World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations, 1973-1975 (3 issues, In Hebrew)
Subseries 4: Auschwitz-Buna Memorial, 1958-1992
Box/Folder Title
39.8-39.9 Memorial Auschwitz-Buna: Denkmal Buna, 1958-1960
40.1 Memorial Auschwitz-Buna: Memorial Fund. Abroad Correspondence, 1958-1960
40.2-40.3, 68.9
Memorial Auschwitz-Buna: Memorial Fund-Finance & Legal documents, 1959-1960
40.4 Memorial Auschwitz-Buna, 1960 (Auschwitz Memorial Dinner)
40.5 Memorial Auschwitz-Buna: Memorial Fund (Correspondence - USA), 1960-1962
40.6 Memorial Auschwitz-Buna: Memorial Scholarship Fund, 1960, 1975
40.7-40.8, 67.13, 68.10
Memorial Auschwitz-Buna: Newsclippings, 1960
40.9 Memorial Auschwitz-Buna: Tydor-Kaufman, 1960
40.10 Auschwitz Pavilion, 1965-1968
40.11-41.12, 68.11, 69.1
Memorial Auschwitz-Buna: Correspondence with Lourdes College, 1982-1984
40.13 Memorial Auschwitz-Buna: Correspondence and Brochures, Bergen, 1992
Subseries 5: World Federation of Holocaust Survivors, 1979-1995
Box/Folder Title
40.14-40.15, 41.1-41.2
World Gathering, 1979-1981 [Registration statistics, budget, publicity, clippings]
41.3 World Gathering - Budget Israel-Rogow, 1980
41.4 World Gathering - Insurance, 1980
41.5-41.8 World Gathering Correspondence, 1980-1981
41.9-41.10 World Gathering, 1980-1981 [Acknowledgements]
41.11-41.12
World Gathering, 1981 [Donation correspondence and publicity]
42.1 World Gathering Accounting, 1981
42.2-42.3 World Gathering, 1981 [Donation correspondence, logistical arrangements, 1 photo]
42.4 American Gathering, 1991-1992
42.5 American Gathering - Reunion, 1995
42.6 World Gathering, 1980-1982 [Plenary logistical correspondence from Samuel Mozes; World Gathering Brochures]
42.7 World Gathering - Incorporation, 1981
Subseries 6: Subject files, 1939-1998
Box/Folder Title
42.8 Kinderauswanderung, After 1981
VHS Video (VHS) recording: Memory of the Camps Host Judy Woodruff, 1985 [documentary footage] - Hedy Kantner Berliner in Bergen-Belsen Hospital from April to August - was filmed in 1945. A PBS broadcast of 7 May 1985. Housed separately in the video recording collection
42.9 International Forum for Jewish Holocaust Survivors, 1963-1992 [Correspondence]
43.11 Jewish Historical Institute in Poland, Circa 1991 [Mission statement of the Institute]
43.12 Berlin, Nov 1992 [Regarding trip to Vienna-Mauthausen, Munich-Dachau, Berlin, Weimar-Buchenwald, Amsterdam, Brussels-Breendonck, Paris-Drancy, Normandy for US Holocaust Memorial Council],
43.13 Jerusalem, May 1993, 1992-1993
43.14 May 1993, Berlin, 1992-1993
43.15 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1992-1993
44.1, 70.4 Subcommittee on Human Resources, 1993
44.2 Die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland, 1996-1998 [Program by Richard Chaim Schneider]
44.3 Belsen Documents, 1946-1994 [Received from Henry Friedlander who found them in the AJJDC Archives]
44.13 American Federation; Leo Baeck Institute, 1986 [Correspondence, speech draft, brochures, clippings]
44.14 American Federation of Jews from Central Europe, Incirca, 1972-1973 (AFJCE) [Minutes and newsletter]
44.15 American Jewish Congress: Foreign Affairs Department, 1971 [Brussels World Conference on Soviet Jewry]
44.16 American Jewish Congress: Waldheim Press Release, 1976
45.1 American Jewish Congress: Boycott Report, 1977 (3 issues)
45.2 American Joint, 1988-1989 [Transcript of AJJDC’s Oral History interview with Norbert Wollheim]
45.3 Anti-Defamation League Bulletin, 1976-1985 (3 issues)
45.4 Babylon: Beiträge zur jüdischen Gegenwart, [Index to publications and order form]
45.5 Bergen-Belsen Survivors Association of Montreal: Liberation Banquet, 1975 [program]
45.6 Botschaft des Zentralrats der Juden in Deutschland, 1977-1979
45.7 Bulletin des Comité International des Camps, 1971
45.8 Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations: Middle East Memo, 1976
45.9 Congress [sic] Monthly, 1984-1985 (2 issues)
45.10 Cramer, Ernst, Gedenkrede zum 50. Jahrestag der Deportation von Juden aus Augsburg und dem Regierungsbezirk Schwaben und Neuburg am 1. April 1992 in der Synagoge zu Augsburg, 1992
45.11 Dachauer Hefte, Circa 1987
45.12 Dam, Boehm, Hendrik George van, Judentum in Deutschland nach 1945. Sonderdruck vom Judentum: Schicksal, Wesen und Gegenwart. Hrsg. von Franz Böhm und Walter Dirks, 1965
45.13 Drittes Program Hörfunk Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Köln, 1970 [Annotated]
45.14 Emory University, Cohen Chair of Judaic Studies, 1977 [Studies by Jacob Neusner and David R. Blumenthal]
45.15 Essays, 1976 [Bartov, A Government which turned sour; Ahronot, Food for thought; Garmet, Code word]
45.16 Federation of Jewish Underground Fighters against Nazism, 1971
45.17 Gedenkbuch proof, 1986 [Notes Wollheim’s status as “ungeklärt”]
45.18 Ghetto Fighters' House: Newsletter, 1978
45.19 [Gill, Anton]: Journey back from hell: an oral history: conversation with concentration camp survivors. New York: Morrow, pp. 292-300, 1988
45.20 Häftlingszeichnungen aus dem Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen, 1993
45.21 Herzl Institute Bulletin: A Day of Infamy. Part I, 1975
45.22 “I.G. Farben.” Der Wollheim Prozess: Zwangsarbeit für I.G. Farben in Auschwitz by Wolfgang Benz, N.D.,
45.23 Indiana University Jewish Studies Program – The 1992 Paul Lecture., 1993 (Frank Stern, Jews in the minds of Germans in the postwar period.)
45.24 International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. Second Generation Conference Schedule, 1984
45.25 Irgun Olej Merkas Europa. Wochenzeitung des Irgun Olej Merkas Europa, 1966
45.26 Jewish Frontier, 1975
45.27 Jewish Historical Monuments in Dubrovnik,
45.28 Jewish Monthly, 1984 (2 issues)
45.29 Jewish Restitution Successor Organization - Report of the Operations, Circa 1947-1972
45.30 Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Edwin Eytan, Auschwitz: a grim reminder of past horror, 1978
45.31 The Jews in Germany, Circa 1933-1943, 1984-1989
45.32 Jüdische Gemeinde. Nachrichtenblatt der Jüdischen Gemeinde von Gross-Berlin und des Verbandes der Jüdischen Gemeinden in der DDR, 1970
45.33 Jüdischer Presse Dienst-Informationen des Zentralrats der Juden in Deutschland, 1968-1973 (2 issues)
46.1 Justiz im Zwielicht, Circa 1963
46.2-46.5 Josef Katz, Deported to Riga. Only few came back. A factual report. Translated from the German by Hilda Reach,
46.6 Keeping Posted. Survivors, 1985 (Vol XXX, no 5)
46.7 Lamm, Hans, Von Juden in München. – Sonderdruck aus - -. Kurt Grossmann, Zeugnisse menschlicher Tapferkeit im Dritten Reich, 1959
46.8 Leo Baeck Institute, 1975-1983 [Two program bulletins]
69.3 Martyrdom and Resistance, 1984-1985 (3 issues)
46.11 National Jewish Monthly, 1968
46.12 NSPA [National Society of Public Accountants] Washington Reporter, 1985
46.13 Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 1992
46.14 Reconstructionist: A Jewish bi-weekly, 1966
46.15 Reichmann, Eva G., Deutschland -- Aus der Emigration gesehen, 1970
46.16 Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual, 1984 (Vol. 1. Henry Friedlander, The Judiciary and Nazi Crimes in Postwar Germany.)
46.17 Society of Survivors of the Riga Ghetto, Incirca, 1980 (35th Anniversary Dinner)
46.18 Technische Universität Berlin. Das Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, 1992
46.19 Waitz, Robert. Le buste de Robert Waitz, 1975
47.1 Wie zu Zeiten Hitlers. Das schmähliche Zusammenwirken von Araben und SS-Leuten zum Zweck einer “Endlösung” im Nahen Osten,
47.2 Wollheim, Norbert, Belsen’s Place in the Process of “Death and Rebirth” of the Jewish People,
47.3 Working draft for a pictorial exhibition: Rebirth After Liberation – The Bergen-Belsen D.P. Camp, 1945-1950, 1965
47.4 World Zionist Organization. Judy Carr, We who remember -- what future, 1976
47.5 Yeshiva University, Holocaust Studies, 1979-1980 [Re: Erich Goldhagen residency]
47.6 YM-YWHA Henry Orbach Memorial, 1975 [Young Men’s, Young Women’s Hebrew Association].
Subseries 8: News clippings, 1960-1997
Box/Folder Title
47.7-47.8, 69.5, 70.5-70.7
English clippings, Circa 1960-1969
47.9, 64.14, 69.6, 70.8
German clippings, Circa 1960-1969
47.10, 64.15
Hebrew clippings, 1967-1975
47.11-47.12, 69.7-69.12, 70.9-70.12, 71.1-71.6
English clippings, Circa 1970-1979
47.13-47.14, 71.7, 72.1, 73.1-73.2
German clippings, Circa 1970-1979
47.15 Clippings [received] from [Serge] Klarsfeld - Nazi Hunting, 1973-1980
47.16, 71.8, 72.2
English clippings, Circa 1980-1989
71.9 English clippings, Circa 1990-1999
47.17, 71.10
German clippings, Circa 1990-1999
71.11 An interview with Peter Wollheim, 1997 ("Volunteer saves lives by listening," The Idaho Statesman, 21 Dec 1977)
Subseries 9: Photographs, 1960-1981
Box/Folder Title
47.18 Loose photos, Circa 1960-1963
47.19, 72.3 Auschwitz-Buna concentration camp survivors honor United Jewish Appeal. New York City dinner under the auspices of the Auschwitz Memorial Dinner Committee, 1960
47.20, 72.4-72.7
Belsen reunion photographs, 1962-1963
47.21, OS 3 Bergen-Belsen slides, 1970 (slides in cold storage)
68.12-68.14
Survivor banquets, 1961-1963
67.14 Certificate, World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, 1981
Subseries 10: Periodicals, 1945-1952
Box/Folder Title
72.8-72.15 Jewish Weekly [Yiddish language publication] Published by the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the British Zone, 1945-1949 [48 issues; bulk 1948] {Nrs. 1, 5 Dec 1947 – 2, 12 Dec 1947; Nrs. 1 (5), 9 Jan 1948; Nrs. 4, (7), 23 Jan 1948 – 15, (18), 16 Apr 1948; Nrs. 16, (19), 23 Apr 1948 – 32,, (35), 20 Aug 1948, (2 copies); Nr. 34, (37), 2 Sep 1948; Nrs. 36, (39), 3 Oct 1948 – 1, (50) 7 Jan 1949 [12 Nov and 19 Nov issues marked by mistake as Nr. 39, (42)] Nr. 6, (77) [195?] [Missing issues: 3, 6, 33, 35, 51-76]
47.22 Jüdisches Gemeindeblatt für die Nord-Rheinprovinz und Westfalen, 1946
47.23, 73.3 Jüdisches Gemeindeblatt für die britische Zone, 1946-1947 (2 issues)
47.24 Jüdische Rundschau, 1946-1947 {Year 1, Nrs 4-5, “Schawuot 5706” = [June 1946]; Year 1, Nr 6, “Tamus [sic] 5706” = June 1946; Year 1, Nrs 7-8, “Elul 5706-Tischri 5707” = Aug-Sep 1946; Year 1, Nr 9, “Cheschwan 5707” = Oct 1946, Year 1, Nrs 10-11, “Kislew-Tewet 5707” = Nov-Dec 1946 [-1947]; Year 1, Nrs 12-13, “Schewat-Adar 5707” = [Jan-Feb 1947]; Year 2, Nrs 14-15, “Siwan-Tammus 5707” = [May-June 1947]; Year 2, Nrs 16-17, “Tischri-Cheschwan 5707” = [Sep-Oct 1947]}
60.7 Neue Zeitung, Die. Eine amerikanische Zeitung für die deutsche Bevölkerung, 1946
71.12 Das Parlament, 1952
47.25 Der Spiegel, 1947 (2 issues, and the title page or the last 1947 issue) [Full page article about Norbert Wollheim on p.14 of 6 Sep 1947 issue]