United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47617
• English
• 1922-2012
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of pre-war photographs of Pál and Margit Weinberger, and their children, Tamàs (Tomi) and Judith, as well as members of their extended family. Also includes a play entitled "Delibab-Utca" by Judith Weinberger in which she fictionalized her experiences as an orphan in post-war Budapest and as an adult, reflecting on her life and experiences. Weinberger survived in hiding in Budapest and was the only survivor of her family.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47632
• English
• 1947-1950
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of documents related to Josef and Bela Grojsmitz Klajnburd from the displaced persons camps of Regensburg, Lager Lechfeld, Giebelstadt, and Vilseck, which they collected in preparation for immigration. The documents date between 1947 and 1950.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47636
• English
• 1938-1961
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of passports, documents, and correspondence related to Ludwig and Hedwig Klein, originally of Frankfurt, Germany. Ludwig and his wife Hedwig were able to emigrate to the United States after Ludwig, who was arrested on Kristallnacht, was released from Buchenwald. Includes documents related attempts to bring his brother, Josef, to the United States from France; as well as documents pertaining to Josef's life in France as a refugee from Germany, his interment in various camps as an enemy alien, and his eventual deportation to Auschwitz via Drancy, including postwar correspondence and ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47641
• English
• overall: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Matchbook issued for use on the east coast of the United States between 1930-1960. It is printed with an advertisement that declares that the establishment is for Gentiles only.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47642
• English
• overall: Height: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Matchbook issued for use on the east coast of the United States between 1930-1960. It is printed with an advertisement that declares that the establishment is for Gentiles only.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn4767
• English
• overall: Height: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Width: 7.120 inches (18.085 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

The binoculars were assembled from loose parts found in a section of Buchenwald where prisoners rebuilt binoculars. William E. Lifson entered the camp a few weeks after liberation and was instructed in the assembly of the binoculars by liberated prisoners. Assembled by William Lifson, May 1945, Buchenwald concentration camp.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn4774
• English
• 1943
• overall: | Diameter: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn4775
• English
• 1943
• overall: | Diameter: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47817
• English
• 1935-1998
• 9,246 digital images, JPEG 12 microfilm reels, 35 mm 10 CD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in.
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains an incomplete set of the serial titled: Boletin Informativo de la Delegacion de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas (D.A.I.A), published by D.A.I.A., in Buenos Aires, 1935- . One folder also contains newspaper clippings and articles from various Latin American newspapers concerning the 1992 terrorist bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47819
• English
• 1933-1970
• 29,626 digital images, PDF 5 DVD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in..
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains membership card index of the Asociación Filantrópica Israelita (AFI), with approximately 20,000 names of Jewish refugees, mostly from Nazi Germany (including Nazi annexed Austria), who emigrated to Argentina between the years 1933 to 1939. Also includes the names and biographical data of a few Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, and other countries in Europe. The card index was periodically updated through the 1970s.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47845
• English
• 1940-1945
• 8,369 digital images, PNG 4 microfilm reels, 16 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains approximately 922 survivor testimonies of Holocaust survivors collected by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Bucharest, Romania immediately after WWII, in April or early May 1945, and original files of the Zespół Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna (Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe; Jewish Social Mutual Assistance), related to the Jewish communities in Poland: Bobowa, Bychawa, Busko, Cyców, Dąbrowa Tarnowska, Ropczyce, Rudnik, and Uniejów.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47846
• English
• 1945-1947
• 8,316 digital images, TIFF 4 microfilm reels, 16 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains rare posters, flyers, communications, and reports originating from various DP camps, mostly in Austria. Examples include reports from the DP camp Bergen-Belsen, 1946; flyers and reports from the Hashomer Hatzair Austria, 1947; election materials for DP camp leadership, Austria; writings and illustrations created by children survivors from Łódź on their way to Palestine.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47853
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

German Wehrmacht helmet acquired by Don Stanton, a soldier in the United States Army.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47870
• English
• 1942
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a notarized document from the Library of the Academy of Romania attesting that Dan Mihailovici and Gers Meirovici were in forced labor in the village of Fierbinti when, in 1942, they were arrested for distributing Communist propaganda. They were sentenced to death and executed in March 1942. Also includes a copy of the final letter sent by Dan Michailovici to his family.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47871
• English
• 1940-2001
• boxes 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of wartime and post-war photographs, documents, correspondence, and letters relating to Rabbi Samuel Freilich and his wife, Ella (Wieder) Freilich. The photographs depict Rabbi Freilich and his family in Prague and Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia after the war. Included in the documents and correspondence are identity paperwork; paperwork to establish Rabbi Freilich’s professional credentials; a handwritten notebook of testimony related to Holocaust experiences, written in 1945; emigration paperwork; restitution claims; correspondence with attorneys; and medical papers, which assisted...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47886
• English
• 1945-2002
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of photographs, correspondence, and documents from the collection of Elsie Deeks, originally of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Ms. Deeks worked with the St. John's Ambulance Brigade of Canada as part of the 29th British General Hospital and was stationed at the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp between May and July 1945. Includes handwritten letters about life in the hospital, personal photographs, documents related to her wartime service and copyprints of official photographs taken upon the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47888
• English
• 1944-1950
• 39,309 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains reports, name lists, minutes of sessions, domestic and foreign correspondence, e.g. with the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) and World Jewish Congress, personal files of the staff and others, records relating to pogroms of Jewish people in Kielce and other places, religious matters, graveyards, and exhumations, newspaper clippings, and documentation of various commissions of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP): the Centralna Komisja Międzypartyjna, Centralna Komisja Mieszana, Komisja Mieszkaniowa, Centralna Frakcja Polskiej Partii Robotniczej (PPR), Polska Zjed...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47892
• English
• 1944-1950
• 10,278 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains financial records of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP), as well as correspondence and files related to Jewish property in Poland and other countries, war crime trials (Rudolf Höss), personal files and the files of several dozen regional offices. Includes correspondence of the Wojewódzki Komitet Żydowski we Wrocławiu relating to Jews–German citizens who stayed in Poland after the war, as well correspondence relating to aid rendered to Poles who helped Jews during the war, denouncements of people who collaborated with Germans during the occupation, requests for interventio...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47905
• English
• overall: Height: 163.976 inches (416.499 cm) | Width: 50.000 inches (127 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Very large red Nazi swastika banner taken by 19 year old Paul Mercer, a US soldier, at the end of the four day battle to capture Kassel, Germany, on April 4, 1945. Paul and his unit, the 318th Machine Gun Squad, 80th Infantry Division, Third Army, faced stiff opposition at Kassel, which had a still operating Tiger Tank factory. At 12:30am, April 4, General Major Erxleben surrendered with about 400 troops. He wanted to present the garrison banner to the American commander but it could not be found. Paul had slipped behind the troops and removed the flag without anyone's noticing. The banner ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47906
• English
• 1945
• overall: Height: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Width: 12.750 inches (32.385 cm) | Depth: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Plastic protractor brought home by a soldier who was serving with the US military during WWII. It has a wooden handle and a Reichsadler, an eagle holding swastika in its claws.