Finding Aid for the Richard Ehrlich Photographs of the Holocaust Museum, 2007

Processed by Lilace Hatayama, 2012; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
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Descriptive Summary

Title: Richard Ehrlich Photographs of the Holocaust Museum
Date (inclusive): 2007
Collection number: 1820
Creator: Ehrlich, Richard.
Extent: 55 items
Abstract: Richard Ehrlich is a California-based urological surgeon and photographer. In 2007 he toured and photographed the Holocaust archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS) based in Bad Arolsen, Germany. This collection consists of 55 color photographic prints of the archive and its contents.
Language: Finding aid is written in English.
Language of the Material: Materials are in English.
Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.

Administrative Information

Restrictions on Access

Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.

Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Richard Ehrlich Photographs of the Holocaust Museum (Collection 1820). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 6840485 

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects

Ehrlich, Richard --Archives.

Genres and Forms of Material

photographs


Box 1, item 1

Captions 2008 March 20

Physical Description: Typescript list of captions for the photographs in the collection.
General Physical Description note: Typescript list of captions for the photographs in the collection.
Box 1, item 2

Plate HA1 -- Introduction 2008 March 20

General note

Exhibit title: International Tracing Service, Holocaust Archives, Bad Arolsen, Germany, Richard Ehrlich.
Box 1, Item 3

Plate HA2 -- The International Tracing Service Headquarters 2007

Physical Description: Photograph of entrance to the ITS.
Box 1, Item 4

Plate HA3 -- Wannsee Invitation Follow-Up 2007

Physical Description: Photograph of typescript letter from Reinhard Heydrich inviting Martin Luther to rescheduled meeting at Wannsee.
Box 1, Item 5

Plate HA4 -- Wannsee Conference Invitation, folder 1 of 2 2007

Physical Description: Photograph of annotated typescript letter from Reinhard Heydrich inviting Martin Luther to Wannsee to discuss the "solution to the Jewish question in Europe." Shown besides a typescript English translation of the letter.
Box 1, Item 6

Plate HA5 -- Wannsee Conference Invitation, folder 2 of 2 2007

Physical Description: Photograph of typescript letter from Reinhard Heydrich inviting Martin Luther to Wannsee to discuss the "solution to the Jewish question in Europe." Shown besides a typescript English translation of the letter.
Box 1, Item 7

Plate HA6 -- Map of Concentration Camps evacuation routes 2007

Box 1, Item 8

Plate HA7 -- Central Name Index, folder 1 of 2 2007

Box 1, Item 9

Plate HA8 -- Central Name Index, folder 2 of 2 2007

Box 1, Item 10

Plate HA9 -- Original documents of prisoners, folder 1 of 3 2007

Box 1, Item 11

Plate HA10 --Original documents of prisoners, folder 2 of 3 2007

Box 1, Item 12

Plate HA11 -- The Processing Unit, folder 1 of 3 2007

Physical Description: Photograph of ITS's backlog of inquiries.
Box 1, Item 13

Plate HA12 -- Incarceration Camp Documents Unit 2007

Physical Description: Photograph of shelving units containing camp documents.
Box 1, Item 14

Plate HA13 -- The Processing Unit, folder 2 of 3 2007

Physical Description: Photograph of ITS's backlog of inquiries.
Box 1, Item 15

Plate HA14 -- The Processing Unit, folder 3 of 3 2007

Physical Description: Photograph of ITS's backlog of inquiries.
Box 1, Item 16

Plate HA15 -- Russian Section documents in French 2007

Box 1, Item 17

Plate HA16 -- Original documents of prisoners, folder 3 of 3 2007

Box 1, Item 18

Plate HA17 -- Buchenwald documentation 2007

Box 1, Item 19

Plate HA18 -- Ravensbruck documents — A Woman’s and Children’s Camp 2007

Box 1, Item 20

Plate HA19 -- Auschwitz documents 2007

Box 1, Item 21

Plate HA20 -- Gross-Rosen documents 2007

Box 1, Item 22

Plate HA21 -- Original handwritten documents of prisoners

Box 1, Item 23

Plate HA22 -- Original handwritten documents of prisoners, folder 1 of 2

Box 1, Item 24

Plate HA23 -- Original handwritten documents of prisoners, folder 2 of 2

Box 1, Item 25

Plate HA24 -- Russian Section documents

Box 1, Item 26

Plate HA25 -- Gestapo Records

Box 1, Item 27

Plate HA26 -- Gestapo Records, Buchenwald

Box 1, Item 28

Plate HA27 -- Russian Section documents

Box 1, Item 29

Plate HA28 -- Lithuanian Section documents

Box 1, Item 30

Plate HA29 -- Records of Theresienstadt

Box 1, Item 31

Plate HA30 -- Dachau Entry Books

Box 1, Item 32

Plate HA31 -- Dachau Records

Box 1, Item 33

Plate HA32 -- Photos and Personal Possessions, folder 1 of 2

Box 1, Item 34

Plate HA33 -- Photos and Personal Possessions, folder 2 of 2

Box 1, Item 35

Plate HA34 -- The Children Tracing Archive Unit

Physical Description: Photograph of storage boxes with files pertaining to 250,000 children below age 18, who were separated from their parents during World War II.
Box 1, Item 36

Plate HA35 -- Gestapo Transit Order

Box 1, Item 37

Plate HA36 -- Buchenwald Death Book

Box 1, Item 38

Plate HA37 -- Louse Control

Physical Description: Photograph of handwritten record.
Box 1, Item 39

Plate HA38 -- Records of lice removed from prisoners to control typhus

Box 1, Item 40

Plate HA39 -- Mauthausen

Scope and Contents Note

These pages list the deaths of 48 prisoners. They were shot one by one, every two minutes, from 11:20 AM to 12:55 PM on April 20, 1942, on the personal order of Heinrich Himmler, in celebration of Hitler’s fifty-third birthday.
Box 1, Item 41

Plate HA40 -- Schindler’s List, folder 1 of 4

Box 1, Item 42

Plate HA41 -- Schindler’s List, folder 2 of 4

Box 1, Item 43

Plate HA42 -- Schindler’s List, folder 3 of 4

Box 1, Item 44

Plate HA43 -- Schindler’s List, folder 4 of 4

Box 1, Item 45

Plate HA44 -- Westerbork Transit Camp- Anne Frank Document

Scope and Content Note

This photo shows a section of a transport document prepared at the Westerbork transit camp in northeastern Netherlands. The name Annelies M. Frank, from Merwedeplein 37, Amsterdam, appears toward the middle of the list.
Box 1, Item 46

Plate HA45 -- Anne Frank

Note

This card documents the deportation and death of Anne Frank. It is a copy of the original, held by the Dutch Red Cross, and is part of the ITS Holland Wartime Index of 150,000 names.
Box 1, Item 47

Plate HA46 -- Buchenwald Prisoner Logs

Box 1, Item 48

Plate HA47 -- Postwar displaced persons

Physical Description: Photograph of shelving units with files.
Box 1, Item 49

Plate HA48 -- Dachau Intake Chart

Box 1, Item 50

Plate HA49 -- Map of Poland documenting Nazi crimes

Box 1, Item 51

Plate HA50 -- Occupation Zones

Physical Description: Photograph of original map, probably used by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) or other predecessor organizations to ITS, illustrates the division of Germany into four occupation zones following World War II.
Box 1, Item 52

Plate HA51 -- Bavarian map documenting deaths—Dachau and environs

Physical Description: Photograph of map indicating mass and single graves of unknown concentration camp prisoners who died in Bavaria.
Box 1, Item 53

Plate HA52 -- The German Reich Under Hitler

Physical Description: Photograph of map displayed in the main building of ITS.
Box 1, Item 54

Plate HA53 -- Reinhard Heydrich

Physical Description: Photograph of book pictured displayed at the exhibit in Wannsee.
Box 1, Item 55

Plate HA54 -- The Yellow Badge

Note

Cloth yellow Star of David photographed at the Anne Frank Zentrum, Berlin.