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  1. Red checked dress with smocking made for a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport

    Red checked dress with smocking made for Esther Rosenfeld by her maternal aunt Friederika Lemberger in Aachen, Germany. Esther, age 2, was sent on a June 1939 Kindertransport [Children's Transport] from Germany to Great Britain. Her older sisters, Bertl, Edith, and Ruth, had gone in March. See 2012.451 for two pairs of boots also brought on her journey. Esther was placed with Dorothy and Harry Harrison and their son Alan in Norwich. Hitler's assumption of power in 1933 resulted in increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish populace in Germany. Esther's extended family got affidavits of su...

  2. Stars and stripes dress worn by a German Jewish woman for a DP camp theatrical performance

    1. Margret Hantman collection

    Stars and stripes costume worn by Margret Simon Hantman in a musical revue at Deggendorf displaced persons (DP) camp. The costume was designed by a Viennese couple, most likely Paul and Erna Sucher, and was made in a sewing group. In order to stay busy and bring some normalcy to their lives after the war, Margret and her friends formed a theater group and staged productions at the camp. Prior to the war, Margret and her family lived in Berlin, Germany, where her father owned a grocery store. In 1935, his store was taken by the authorities after the Nuremberg Laws were passed and he was forc...

  3. Enameled metal soup plate used by a Jewish Polish man in a displaced persons camp

    1. Charles and Malka Bilfeld family Collection

    Enameled bowl used by Szapse (Charles) Bilfeld while living in Displaced Persons (DP) camps near Ulm, Germany, with his family between 1946 and 1949. Szapse, his wife Malka, their son Mozes, and their Bilfeld and Fuchs relatives were living in Majdan / Majdan Królewski (also known as Kolbuszowa), Poland, when German forces invaded on September 12, 1939. Majdan remained under German control when the Soviet Union annexed eastern Poland in mid-September. By the beginning of 1940, Jews in Majdan were only allowed to leave the village if they did so as part of a forced labor battalion. In July, ...

  4. Enameled metal drinking cup used by a Jewish infant in a displaced persons camp

    1. Charles and Malka Bilfeld family Collection

    Enameled mug used by Chana (Anna) Bilfeld, as an infant living in Displaced Persons (DP) camps near Ulm, Germany, with her family between 1948 and 1949. Chana was born in 1948, to Szapse and Malka Fuchs Bilfeld. Chana's parents, her brother Mozes, and her Bilfeld and Fuchs relatives were living in Maidan / Majdan Królewski (also known as Kolbuszowa), Poland, when German forces invaded on September 12, 1939. Majdan remained under German control when the Soviet Union annexed eastern Poland in mid-September. By the beginning of 1940, Jews in Majdan were only allowed to leave the village if the...

  5. The Prayer Service for the Entire Year Inscribed Ashkenazic Siddur used by a Jewish Polish man in a displaced persons camp

    1. Charles and Malka Bilfeld family Collection

    Hebrew prayer book used by Szapse (Charles) Bilfeld while living in Displaced Persons (DP) camps near Ulm, Germany, with his family between 1946 and 1949. Szapse, his wife Malka, their son Mozes, and their Bilfeld and Fuchs relatives were living in Majdan / Majdan Królewski (also known as Kolbuszowa), Poland, when German forces invaded on September 12, 1939. Majdan remained under German control when the Soviet Union annexed eastern Poland in mid-September. By the beginning of 1940, Jews in Majdan were only allowed to leave the village if they did so as part of a forced labor battalion. In J...

  6. Inscribed Siddur carried through hiding and slave labor by a Jewish Polish survivor

    1. Charles and Malka Bilfeld family Collection

    Hebrew prayer book carried by Szapse (Charles) Bilfeld while living in hiding and then as a forced laborer in the Soviet Union, with his family from 1940 to 1945. Szapse, his wife Malka, their son Mozes, and their Bilfeld and Fuchs relatives were living in Majdan / Majdan Królewski (also known as Kolbuszowa), Poland, when German forces invaded on September 12, 1939. Majdan remained under German control when the Soviet Union annexed eastern Poland in mid-September. By the beginning of 1940, Jews in Majdan were only allowed to leave the village if they did so as part of a forced labor battali...

  7. Prayer Book - Prayers for Israel, German translation Prayer book owned by a Jewish Austrian musician and concentration camp inmate

    1. Morgenstern and Merkur families collection

    A 1913 compilation prayer book (Seder Tefillat Yisrael) owned by Herschel Herman Merkur in Vienna, Austria, before the Holocaust and brought with Adolf (later William), one of his 7 children, when he immigrated to Australia postwar. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. New legislation was created that quickly restricted Jewish life. Two of Herman’s older children, Lise and Isak, emigrated. In November, following the Kristallnacht pogrom, Herman’s son Bernhard was arrested and imprisoned in Germany, and later emigrated. In fall 1939, Herman and his family were moved into the ghetto an...

  8. Our Destruction in Pictures Hurbanenu bi-temunot Unsere Verwüstungen in Bildern Photobook

    1. Moses Silberberg collection

    Book of photographs, Our Destruction in Pictures, acquired by Moses Silberberg, a survivor of four German concentration camps, while living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp after the war. The photographs were collected, annotated, and published by the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the British Zone in Bergen-Belsen DP camp in December 1946. The images show scenes of atrocities committed against Jews during the Holocaust, including mass murder, humiliations, such as cutting the hair of religious Jews, forced labor, hangings, and deportations from Germany and Poland, with m...

  9. Back from Hell : 22 collected sketches by Berl Friedler Book of sketches printed postwar and acquired by a former Polish Jewish prisoner miṭ a for-ṿorṭ un ṭeḳsṭ fun Pol Ṭrepman.

    1. Jakob Lewkowicz collection

    A copy of “Tsurik fun Gehenem: 22 tseykhenungen fun Berl Friedler” [Back from Hell : 22 collected sketches by Berl Friedler,] published in 1947 and owned by Jakob Lewkowicz, who spent who spent several years as a concentration camp prisoner. The bound book contains a series of 21 color-printed, chronological sketches drawn and published by Holocaust survivor Berl Fridler. The sketches are preceded by a Yiddish-language forward written by Paul Trepman. Before the Holocaust, Jakob lived with his parents in Będzin, Poland. The German army entered their town on September 4, 1939, three days af...

  10. KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps. Pictorial report of concentration camps acquired postwar by a former Polish Jewish prisoner

    1. Jakob Lewkowicz collection

    A copy of the “KZ: Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern” [KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps,] owned by Jakob Lewkowicz, who spent several years as a concentration camp prisoner. It was published soon after the war by the American War Information Office to increase awareness of the atrocities that had occurred. It contains post-liberation photographs at Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Nordhausen, and Ohrdruf concentration camps and the site of the Gardelagen massacre. Jakob’s name and those of others, likely his relatives, are inscribed within. Before the Holocaust, Jakob live...

  11. Wedding dress shipped to the United States by a German Jewish woman murdered at Riga

    1. Lubran family collection

    Cream silk wedding dress, worn by Alice Lubranitsky Plocki, a German Jewish woman, and shipped to the United States prior to her deportation and murder at the Riga ghetto in 1941. Alice married Robert Plocki in the early 1930s. The couple lived in Berlin where Robert manufactured women’s dresses. Robert’s brother, who lived in New York, sent an affidavit for the couple to immigrate to the United States. Thinking she would soon be able to immigrate, Alice had her dress shipped ahead. However, in the aftermath of Kristallnacht, Robert was arrested, imprisoned in Sachsenhausen, given prisoner ...

  12. Brown leather satchel used by a Polish Jewish prisoner

    1. Chana Pergerycht Wandersman collection

    Leather satchel used by Chana Pergerycht Wandersman to hold correspondence she received from family and friends during the time she was held at Parschnitz labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, from December 1941 to May 1945. She also used the bag similarly while living at Feldafing displaced persons (DP) camp in Germany. Before the Holocaust, Chana lived with her parents, Abram Mordka and Sheindl, and her five siblings in Będzin, Poland. The German army entered their town on September 4, 1939, three days after the German invasion of Poland. In December 1941, 15-year-old Chana was d...

  13. Theresienstadt armband worn by a Jewish inmate

    1. Ellen Fass Zilka family collection

    Theresienstadt armband worn by Marie Goerlich who was imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia from March 18, 1943, to May 9, 1945. The armband is stamped with a medical symbol and text for the local government of Theresienstadt ghetto. Marie later gave the armband to her great niece, Ellen Ruth Fass, who was sent from Berlin to England on a Kindertransport in July 1939. Marie was Jewish but married a Christian man and celebrated Christian holidays. After the Nuremberg Laws were passed in Germany in 1935, Marie was defined as Jewish because she had fo...

  14. Unused Star of David badge owned by a German Jewish woman

    1. Ellen Fass Zilka family collection

    Uncut Star of David badge printed with Jude for Jew, likely owned by Marie Goerlich, who was deported from Caputh,Germany, to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp on March 18, 1943. On September 9, 1941, German Jews were required to wear these badges to humiliate and separate them from the general public. Marie later gave the badge to her great niece, Ellen Ruth Fass, who was sent from Berlin to England on a Kindertransport in July 1939. Marie was Jewish but married a Christian man and celebrated Christian holidays. After the Nuremberg Laws were passed in Germany in 1935, Marie was defined as J...

  15. Gans family papers

    1. Manfred and Anita Lamm Gans family collection

    The collection relates to the Gans family, originally of Borken, Germany. It includes photographs of pre-war life, including a photograph album depicting a day in the life of the three Gans boys. The majority of the collection consists of correspondence, mainly from Anita Lamm in the United States to Manfred Gans, then a member of the British military. Also includes documentation and correspondence related to the wartime experiences of Moritz and Else Gans, who were deported to Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen, and liberated from Theresienstadt. Includes Moritz’s diary, into which he made short...

  16. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner

    1. Jakob Lewkowicz collection

    Striped concentration camp uniform pants issued to 21-year-old Jakob Lewkowicz in spring 1944, while imprisoned at Blechhammer concentration camp, in German-occupied Poland. Before the Holocaust, Jakob lived with his parents, Judka and Adele Poremba Lewkowicz, in Będzin, Poland. The German army entered their town on September 4, 1939, three days after the invasion of Poland. At the beginning of 1940, Jakob started working for the city administration. Jakob was sent to St. Annaberg (Góra Świętej Anny), Poland, at the end of 1942, where he was registered as a forced laborer. In early 1943...

  17. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner

    1. Jakob Lewkowicz collection

    Striped concentration camp uniform jacket issued to 21-year-old Jakob Lewkowicz in spring 1944, while imprisoned at Blechhammer concentration camp, in German-occupied Poland. Before the Holocaust, Jakob lived with his parents, Judka and Adele Poremba Lewkowicz, in Będzin, Poland. The German army entered their town on September 4, 1939, three days after the invasion of Poland. At the beginning of 1940, Jakob started working for the city administration. Jakob was sent to St. Annaberg (Góra Świętej Anny), Poland, at the end of 1942, where he was registered as a forced laborer. In early 194...

  18. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner

    1. Jakob Lewkowicz collection

    Striped concentration camp uniform cap issued to 21-year-old Jakob Lewkowicz in spring 1944, while imprisoned at Blechhammer concentration camp, in German-occupied Poland. Before the Holocaust, Jakob lived with his parents, Judka and Adele Poremba Lewkowicz, in Będzin, Poland. The German army entered their town on September 4, 1939, three days after the invasion of Poland. At the beginning of 1940, Jakob started working for the city administration. Jakob was sent to St. Annaberg (Góra Świętej Anny), Poland, at the end of 1942, where he was registered as a forced laborer. In early 1943, ...

  19. Jean Pictet - Red Cross

    A leading member of the International Council of the Red Cross, Jean Pictet was responsible for the preparatory work which led to the conclusion of the four Geneva Conventions in 1949. FILM ID 3444 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:08 to 01:27:25 Roll 1 Jean Pictet sits in his office in the International Committee of the Red Cross (Comité International de la Croix-Rouge). Pictet began working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1937 when he was twenty-five years old. He started as a legal secretary and worked closely with the President of the ICRC, Max Huber. In 1946, Pic...

  20. Watercolor of a POW camp owned by German Jewish US soldier

    1. Rudolph Daniel Sichel collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn542959
    • English
    • 1945
    • overall: Height: 12.125 inches (30.798 cm) | Width: 14.875 inches (37.783 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm)

    Watercolor owned by Rudolph Sichel, a Jewish refugee from Frankfurt, Germany, who served in the US Army from 1943 to June 1946. In May 1936, unable to return to Germany from England because of anti-Jewish regulations, Sichel went to the US. His parents Ernst and Frieda joined him in 1940. In April 1943, Sichel enlisted in the Army and was sent to Camp Ritchie for military intelligence training. In July 1944, Sichel, Chief Interrogator, Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team 13, landed on Utah Beach in France, attached to the 104th Infantry, the Timberwolf Division. As the unit advanced thro...