Contact us about this collection. Title: Ed Victor Papers, Primary Creator: Victor, Ed s -- s. 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. In October , Mr. 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.
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. On the watercolor, ther is Ballarat Synagogue, Australia.
This watercolor was part of the illuminated address presented by the Victorian Jewish Community to Benjamin Benjamin, Mayor of Melbourne in honor of his knighthood in A postcard depicting the synagogue in Geelong, Australia. First sirvice took place in The synagogue was dedicated in December This postcard is a print from the illustrated address presented by the Victorian Jewish Community to Sir Benjamin Benjamin, Lord Mayor of Melbourne in honor of his knighthood in The synagogue was dedicated in September This postcard is a watercolor from an illustrated address presented by the Victorian Jewish Community to Sir Bejamin Benjamin, Lord Mayor of Melbourne in honor of his knighthood in The synagogue was dedicated in March This poscard is a watercolor print from the illustrated address presented by the Victorian Jewish Community to Sir Benjamin Benjamin, Lord Mayor of Melbourne in honor of his knighthood in This collection coprises the following sub-collections of correspondence from and to Nazi concentration camps:.
