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  1. Pendant design drawn by a young man who did not survive the Holocaust

    1. Magda Lapedus collection

    Design drawing, perhaps for a brooch, made by Janos Mezei, 17, a student in Budapest, Hungary, in 1939. Hungary adopted anti-Jewish laws similar to those of their close ally, Nazi Germany. By 1940, all able bodied Jewish males were required to perform forced labor. Janos was sent to Kaschau labor camp in Hungarian occupied Slovakia in 1943. After Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, Janos was forced marched to Gunskirchen concentration camp, a Mauthausen subcamp in Austria. He was liberated by US troops on May 5, 1945. He was hospitalized, but passed away on September 2, 1945. The drawin...

  2. Intricate design drawing by a young man who did not survive the Holocaust

    1. Magda Lapedus collection

    Design drawing, perhaps for a brooch, made by Janos Mezei, 17, a student in Budapest, Hungary, in 1939. Hungary adopted anti-Jewish laws similar to those of their close ally, Nazi Germany. By 1940, all able bodied Jewish males were required to perform forced labor. Janos was sent to Kaschau labor camp in Hungarian occupied Slovakia in 1943. After Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, Janos was forced marched to Gunskirchen concentration camp, a Mauthausen subcamp in Austria. He was liberated by US troops on May 5, 1945. He was hospitalized, but passed away on September 2, 1945. The drawin...

  3. Design drawing by a young man who did not survive the Holocaust

    1. Magda Lapedus collection

    Design drawing, perhaps for a brooch, made by Janos Mezei, 17, a student in Budapest, Hungary, in 1939. Hungary adopted anti-Jewish laws similar to those of their close ally, Nazi Germany. By 1940, all able bodied Jewish males were required to perform forced labor. Janos was sent to Kaschau labor camp in Hungarian occupied Slovakia in 1943. After Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, Janos was forced marched to Gunskirchen concentration camp, a Mauthausen subcamp in Austria. He was liberated by US troops on May 5, 1945. He was hospitalized, but passed away on September 2, 1945. The drawin...

  4. Navy blue pinstriped jacket and pants worn by the groom at his wedding to another survivor in a DP camp

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn516093
    • English
    • a: Height: 33.000 inches (83.82 cm) | Width: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) b: Height: 40.250 inches (102.235 cm) | Width: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm)

    Blue pin-striped suit worn by Welek (William) Luksenburg, 24, for his wedding to Hinde (Helen) Chilewicz, 21, on March 2, 1947, in the displaced persons camp in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Germany. The couple met in 1944 as prisoners in Gleiwitz concentration camp. In 1941, Welek, his parents, and brother Szlomo were in the Jewish ghetto in Dabrow Gornicza in German occupied Poland. In 1942, his parents Rozalia and Simcha were deported and killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Welek got Szlomo released from a labor camp hospital and escaped a prison camp to care for him. When Welek was arrested, Szlom...

  5. Christopher R. Browning papers

    The Christopher R. Browning papers consist of Browning’s expert reports, correspondence, court records, photocopies of historical evidentiary materials, indexes, preparatory and background materials for trial, printed materials, and witness testimony gathered or created during preparations for court proceedings against alleged war criminals Radislav Grujicic and Serge Kisluk in Canada, Andre Sawoniuk and Semion Serafinowicz in England, and Heinrich Wagner in Australia. All five cases relied on evidence from eyewitness accounts. Browning’s role in the proceedings was not to provide evidence ...

  6. Alphabetical Files, A-Z

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Alphabetical Files

    Box H1. Folder 1. Aden, 1947-1948 Box H1. Folder 2. Aden, 1958-1968 Box H1. Folder 3. Aden, Aden Chronicle, Messa, Bentob, 1960-1967 Box H1. Folder 4. Aden, disturbances, 1947-1948 Box H1. Folder 5. Aden, Jewish Emergency Committee, 1947-1949 Box H1. Folder 6. Aden, Kubowitzki, Aryeh L., mission, 1949 Box H1. Folder 7. Aden, Messa, Bentob, 1965, 1967 Box H1. Folder 8. Aden, Organization Department, 1947-1950 Box H1. Folder 9. Aden, Organization Department, 1951-1952 Box H1. Folder 10. Aden, Organization Department, 1953-1959 Box H1. Folder 11. Aden, Political Department, 1956, 1958-1962 Box...

  7. Record Center.

    Ce fonds comprend des documents émanant de diverses organisations juives de Belgique. On y trouvera également des dossiers relatifs à la bibliographie des professeurs de l’IEJ, comme les listes des publications de ces professeurs. Anna Kempinska a par ailleurs rassemblé de la documentation concernant des associations juives en France, dont les mouvements de jeunesse juifs comme le Bne Akiva, le Dror, l’Hashomer Hatzair, les Éclaireurs Israélites de France et l’Ihud Habonim. Ces dossiers comprennent des pamphlets, des publications des organisations, des affiches, de la correspondance et des ...

  8. War Crimes and Retribution

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Institute of Jewish Affairs

    Contains mostly country-by-country files pertaining to individual war crime and retribution cases. This subseries contains background materials and related information as well, including files on searches for Holocaust witnesses and witness testimony, together with war crimes trial correspondence. Of particular interest are the files on war crimes and atrocities in individual communities in Poland, as well as the section on the Nuremberg trial proceedings and cases. Box C149. Folder 17. Legal definitions and cases cited, "A" - "B.", undated Box C149. Folder 18. Legal definitions and cases c...

  9. Benjamin Murmelstein - Theresienstadt Judenaelteste

    Benjamin Murmelstein, a rabbi and intellectual, worked closely with Adolf Eichmann in Vienna and became the last head of the Jewish Council in Theresienstadt. He defends his behavior against the many who have criticized him since the war and provides important details about the functioning of Eichmann's Central Office for Jewish Emigration. The sound on these tapes is problematic. Claude Lanzmann's questions are sometimes inaudible (they often do not appear in the transcripts). The audio sometimes outlasts the video image. The first few tapes show Murmelstein and Lanzmann outside on a balco...