Asociația Maramureș Heritage

06/09/2026

Red Army war artist Zinovy Tolkachev created drawings after arriving at Auschwitz following liberation. When he ran out of paper, he sketched on letterhead found in the commandant’s office.

Red Army war artist Zinovy Tolkachev created drawings after arriving at Auschwitz following liberation. When he ran out of paper, he sketched on letterhead found in the commandant’s office.

A collection from Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem, part of the more than 500 original objects that help portray the reality of Auschwitz.

05/09/2026

Aracy Carvalho was responsible for the visa section in the Brazilian Consulate in Hamburg, Germany, where she worked as a secretary in 1938. In that capacity she helped Jews to obtain visas to Brazil, as well as assisting them to overcome financial difficulties before leaving Germany for Brazil.

In 1982, Yad Vashem recognized Aracy Carvalho de Guimarães Rosa, as Righteous Among the Nations.

Aracy Carvalho was responsible for the visa section in the Brazilian Consulate in Hamburg, Germany, where she worked as a secretary in 1938. In that capacity she helped Jews to obtain visas to Brazil, as well as assisting them to overcome financial difficulties before leaving Germany for Brazil. During the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, Aracy Carvalho sheltered Margarethe Bertel-Levy and her husband in her home. She then helped her and other Jews with all the arrangements for a safe departure from Germany, which included provisions for taking along on board the ship many belongings, including furniture. Aracy Carvalho married the Brazilian consul and writer João Guimarães Rosa in 1940 and they worked together in the Brazilian Hamburg consulate till the disruption of diplomatic relations between Brazil and Germany in mid-1942. Gunther Heilborn, one of the rescued Jews, named his Brazilian born daughter Aracy in her honor.

In 1982, Yad Vashem recognized Aracy Carvalho de Guimarães Rosa, as Righteous Among the Nations.

05/09/2026

Happy 101st birthday to Kurt Marx, Holocaust survivor!

We wish a very happy 101st birthday to Kurt Marx, Holocaust survivor and friend of the USC Shoah Foundation.

Kurt was born on August 31, 1925, in Cologne, Germany. At 14, shortly after Kristallnacht, he was sent to England via the Kindertransport, which saved his life. After he turned 18, Kurt was conscripted into National Service, serving until the war’s end in 1945.

After the war, Kurt pursued a career in the diamond industry, married, and started a family. He remained dedicated to speaking about the Holocaust and prejudice in schools. In 2024, Kurt recorded an interactive biography with the USC Shoah Foundation and The Willesden Project, which is available on IWitness.

Happy Birthday, Kurt!

Converse with Kurt via his interactive biography on IWitness: https://iwitness.usc.edu/dit/kurtmarx

04/09/2026

The Ballad of Mauthausen, a love poem of the Holocaust written by Iakovos Kambanellis and featured in the National Library of Israel digital exhibit for this year's European Days of Jewish Culture.

04/09/2026

On 3 September 1944, Anne Frank and the other people from the Annex were transported by train from the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands to Auschwitz-Birkenau in occupied Poland. With 1,011 other Jews, they were packed tightly in closed goods carriages. Two and a half days later, they arrived in the night.

On 3 September 1944, Anne Frank and the other people from the Annex were transported by train from the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands to Auschwitz-Birkenau in occupied Poland. With 1,011 other Jews, they were packed tightly in closed goods carriages. Two and a half days later, they arrived in the night.⁠

Anne Frank had been aware of the existence of Westerbork. She had learned about the war and the persecution of the Jews from the helpers and from radio.

On, 9 October 1942, Anne Frank wrote in her diary: ‘Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews.' She added: ‘If it's this bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed. Perhaps that's the quickest way to die.’

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03/09/2026

A gifted young violinist, Henry Meyer was scheduled to perform in his hometown of Dresden on Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938.

Instead, he was arrested while trying to protect his grandmother.
Henry was later deported to Auschwitz, where he endured imprisonment and was forced to perform in the camp orchestra. As the war ended, he escaped during a death march and was liberated in 1945.

03/09/2026

The Great Synagogue of Iași in Iași, Romania 🇷🇴 🕍

02/09/2026

Romanioții/Ρωμανιῶτες-Rōmaniōtes/רומניוטים-Romanyotim sunt o comunitate evreiască cu trăsături culturale distinctive, care a trăit pe teritoriul de azi al Greciei, precum și în zonele învecinate, timp de peste două milenii. Limba lor se numește ievanică, romaniotă sau iudeo-greacă, considerat un dialect al limbii antice grecești.

02/09/2026

Over 15,000 Jews, mostly children, the elderly and infirm were sent to their death in Kulmhof.

Litzmannstadt, occupied Poland, deported women and children with their belongings, 1942.

The "Gehsperre" was the deportation action that took place in the ghetto between 05-12/09/1942.

Over 15,000 Jews, mostly children, the elderly and infirm were sent to their death in Kulmhof.

01/09/2026

1 September 1939 | Germany invaded Poland, which began World War II. The German army also used the territory of Slovakia, whose forces also participated in the unannounced attack.

288 days later, the first Polish men became prisoners of a new concentration camp created in the occupied Polish territories annexed into the Third Reich: Auschwitz.