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
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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
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.
