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  1. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin acquired by Polish Jewish survivor

    1. Edgar Gaerber collection

    Łódź Ghetto 10 mark coin token acquired by Edgar Gaerber, possibly when his family moved to Łódź in 1945. Ed, age 10, and his parents Dr. Bernard and Fanka Gaerber fled Lvov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine] during the invasion by Germany in September 1939. The Soviet Union invaded from the east and the invaders divided the country; L'vov was in Soviet territory. In June 1941, Germany retook the region. The German occupation was brutal. Thousands of Jews were murdered in pogroms by local Ukrainians. In late 1941, Ed and his family had to relocate to the ghetto. In March 1942, the Germans began mass ...

  2. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin acquired by Polish Jewish survivor

    1. Edgar Gaerber collection

    Łódź Ghetto 5 mark coin token acquired by Edgar Gaerber, possibly when his family moved to Łódź in 1945. Ed, age 10, and his parents Dr. Bernard and Fanka Gaerber fled Lvov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine] during the invasion by Germany in September 1939. The Soviet Union invaded from the east and the invaders divided the country; L'vov was in Soviet territory. In June 1941, Germany retook the region. The German occupation was brutal. Thousands of Jews were murdered in pogroms by local Ukrainians. In late 1941, Ed and his family had to relocate to the ghetto. In March 1942, the Germans began mass d...

  3. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin acquired by Polish Jewish survivor

    1. Edgar Gaerber collection

    Łódź Ghetto 5 mark coin token acquired by Edgar Gaerber, possibly when his family moved to Łódź in 1945. Ed, age 10, and his parents Dr. Bernard and Fanka Gaerber fled Lvov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine] during the invasion by Germany in September 1939. The Soviet Union invaded from the east and the invaders divided the country; L'vov was in Soviet territory. In June 1941, Germany retook the region. The German occupation was brutal. Thousands of Jews were murdered in pogroms by local Ukrainians. In late 1941, Ed and his family had to relocate to the ghetto. In March 1942, the Germans began mass d...

  4. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin acquired by Polish Jewish survivor

    1. Edgar Gaerber collection

    Łódź Ghetto 5 mark coin token acquired by Edgar Gaerber, possibly when his family moved to Łódź in 1945. Ed, age 10, and his parents Dr. Bernard and Fanka Gaerber fled Lvov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine] during the invasion by Germany in September 1939. The Soviet Union invaded from the east and the invaders divided the country; L'vov was in Soviet territory. In June 1941, Germany retook the region. The German occupation was brutal. Thousands of Jews were murdered in pogroms by local Ukrainians. In late 1941, Ed and his family had to relocate to the ghetto. In March 1942, the Germans began mass d...

  5. Calendar with cover of a Jew leading a Bolshevik monkey

    1. Edgar Gaerber collection

    Antisemitic calendar with a caricature of a Jewish man holding the chain of a monkey that represents the Soviet Union owned by Edgar Gaerber. Ed, age 10, and his parents Dr. Bernard and Fanka Gaerber fled Lvov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine] during the invasion by Germany in September 1939. The Soviet Union invaded from the east and the invaders divided the country; L'vov was in Soviet territory. In June 1941, Germany retook the region. The German occupation was brutal. Thousands of Jews were murdered in pogroms by local Ukrainians. In late 1941, Ed and his family had to relocate to the ghetto. In...

  6. Folding knife made from a screwdriver in a concentration camp by an inmate

    1. George and Shari Fine collection

    Pocketknife created by Getzel Fingerhut (George Fine), age 22, during his imprisonment in Kaufering X concentration camp, known as Dachau 10, where he worked repairing locomotives. The handle is repurposed from a screwdriver and the blade is handmade. He hid the knife under his pants, tied with string above his calf. In August 1941, George and his family were interned in the ghetto in Siauliai, Lithuania, by the Germans, after they occupied the area. George worked in a series of forced labor camps until July 1944, when the remaining Jews in the ghetto were deported to Stutthof concentration...

  7. Caliper used by a prisoner in a forced labor camp

    1. George and Shari Fine collection

    Caliper used by 17 year old Sari Marmor (Shari Fine) when she worked as forced labor in an underground Luftwaffe factory and supply depot in the Black Forest near Stuttgart, Germany. She was a team foreman and worked on a lathe making screws. The caliper was the only thing she took with her on the death march ordered to evacuate the camp. Sari and her family were deported by the Germans from Bistrita, Romania, to Auschwitz-Birkenau in April 1944. She and her 2 sisters, Ester and Chaya, were selected for forced labor; her parents, Salomon and Ita, and her brother, Shmaye, were selected for t...

  8. Handmade stationery folder brought with a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Anna Leist collection

    Handcrafted stationery portfolio given to Anna Zajac, 13, by her elder brother, Felix, in October 1938, after he was notified that he was being deported from Berlin, Germany, to Poland. Felix made the folder when he was 13 at summer camp circa 1935. Their father, Wolf, was deported in 1935. The nine siblings and their mother, Dora, were expected to join him. But Dora was ill with tuberculosis and, except for the two eldest, Felix and Samuel, the children were placed in the Ahawah orphanage in 1936. Dora died on January 5, 1938. Samuel then left for Poland. After Felix was deported, he and S...

  9. Certificate for a French Médaille Militaire awarded to German Jewish resistance fighter

    1. Henri Engel collection

    Certificate for the French Military Medal awarded posthumously to 18 year old Henri Engel, a German Jew living in France, who died while fighting with the French resistance during World War II. The medal was awarded in 1960, to honor Henri’s death while fighting for France. His sister Margot accepted it on his behalf in 1961. In September, 1939, Henri and his mother, Lucie, were in Lyon, France, when Germany invaded Poland, prompting France and Great Britain to declare war against Germany. They were from Berlin, but were not allowed to leave and reunite with Henri’s sister, Margot, and thei...

  10. Joseph interpreting the Pharoh's Dreams Lovis Corinth etching of a man in a loincloth and shackles addressing the Pharaoh and his consort

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41816
    • English
    • 1894
    • overall: Height: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) | Width: 23.375 inches (59.373 cm) pictorial area: Height: 13.875 inches (35.243 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm)

    Drypoint etching created by Lovis Corinth in 1894 depicting Joseph as shackled slave in a loin cloth, standing before Pharaoh. He is gesturing as he explains: The dream of Pharaoh is one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. Genesis 41: 25-33. Corinth created the print for his first graphic series, Tragicomedies, plate five of nine etchings, one of only 20 that he printed. The series theme involved the use of unusual details to add a farcical element to great events, such as the almost caricatured figure of Joseph, usually depicted as handsome. Corinth was studying anatomy at...

  11. David Glick's trip to WWI battle sites in France in the late 1920s

    EXT, VS of unidentified town in France, in the vicinity of Verdun, France. Horses and carts pass by, townspeople move about the streets. Three Americans (David Glick, his wife, and an unidentified woman) standing in front of a monument and memorial to the fallen in World War I. The monument is in a town square, children are visible playing in the BG. It is difficult to make out the inscription on the monument due to the poorly shot footage, but the year inscribed on one of the stone pillars is "1918". Camera pans this pillar from top to bottom, a wreath lies at the foot of the monument. Ano...

  12. World War I Iron Cross medal that belonged to a Jewish veteran and concentration camp inmate

    1. Margot Hamburger family collection

    Medal awarded to Salli Joseph for his service in the German Army during World War I, 1914-1918. Salli and his family lived in Berlin, Germany, and he began searching for ways to get his family out of the country after the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933. They tried to get visas for the United States, since his wife's sister had lived there for some time. However, Salli and his wife, Martha, were placed on the very restrictive Polish quota system by the US because they were born in West Prussia. In 1939, they sent their 19 year old son, Bernard, to England and in 1940, their 1...

  13. Blue, white and red bar ribbon that belonged to a Jewish German WWI veteran and concentration camp inmate

    1. Margot Hamburger family collection

    Ribbon bar which belonged to Salli Joseph probably awarded for his service in the German Army during World War I, 1914-1918. Salli and his family lived in Berlin, Germany, and he began searching for ways to get his family out of the country after the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933. They tried to get visas for the United States, since his wife's sister had lived there for some time. However, Salli and his wife, Martha, were placed on the very restrictive Polish quota system by the US because they were born in West Prussia. In 1939, they sent their 19 year old son, Bernard, to...

  14. Larry Gladstone papers

    1. Larry Gladstone family collection

    This collection largely consists of correspondence between members of the Glattstein family and members of the Blaugrund family, who had immigrated to Mexico and then to the United States prior to the war. The wartime correspondence includes postcards from Julius and Edith Glattstein to Ladislav prior to their deportation to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944, and post-war correspondence from Ladislav and Edith Glattstein immediately post-war to their relatives discussing their wartime experiences. The collection also includes immigration documents related to the Blaugrunds and the surviving m...

  15. Ruth Miller papers

    1. Ruth Kittel Miller family collection

    The Ruth Miller papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting the Kittel family from Berlin, Josef Kittel’s Catholic ancestry, wartime persecutions, and the Kittels’ immigration to the United States. Biographical materials include birth, marriage, and death certificates; school records; military papers; medical records; identification papers; ration coupons; employment records; immigration and travel papers; certificates of naturalization and social security cards for Josef, Marie, and Ruth Kittel. This series also includes Ruth’s r...

  16. Woman Interned in Gurs Watercolor of a gaunt, sickly woman in Gurs created by a German inmate

    1. Gert Wollheim collection

    Watercolor portrait of an emaciated and ill woman with reddened eyes in front of a barbed wire fence drawn by Gert Wollheim while a prisoner in Gurs internment camp in late 1940. The French established Gurs, the largest internment camp in France, in April 1939 to hold political refugees. In early 1940, about 4000 German Jewish refugees were interned as enemy aliens. Wolheim, who fled Nazi Germany for Paris in 1933, was arrested by the French in spring 1940 as an enemy alien. France surrendered to Germany in June 1940. Northern France was controlled by the Germans and southern France, where ...

  17. Barracks Interior Pencil drawing of people crowded inside a barrack in Gurs created by a German inmate

    1. Gert Wollheim collection

    Pencil drawing of several figures living in a cramped Gurs barrack drawn by Gert Wollheim while a prisoner in Gurs internment camp in late 1940. It shows raggedy clothing hanging from the rafters, with people and beds inches apart, portraying the lack of privacy and squalor. The French established Gurs, the largest internment camp in France, in April 1939 to hold political refugees. In early 1940, about 4000 German Jewish refugees were interned as enemy aliens. Wolheim, who fled Nazi Germany for Paris in 1933, was arrested by the French in spring 1940 as an enemy alien. France surrendered t...

  18. Woman Behind Barbed Wire Portrait of an old woman walking behind barbed wire drawn in Gurs by a German inmate

    1. Gert Wollheim collection

    Pencil drawing of a stooped woman walking in mud behind a barbed wire fence drawn by Gert Wollheim while a prisoner in Gurs internment camp in late 1940. Wollheim, who fled Nazi Germany for Paris, was arrested by the French in spring 1940 as an enemy alien. France was invaded by Germany in May 1940 and surrendered in June. Northern France was controlled by the Germans and a collaborationist French government was set up in Vichy. Wollheim's work was in the Nazi Degenerate Art exhibit and he was active in leftist, radical politics. Gurs at first interned political prisoners, and then Jews. Wo...

  19. Landscape of Barracks Birds-eye view of the overcrowded Gurs barracks drawn by a German inmate

    1. Gert Wollheim collection

    Pencil drawing of seemingly endless rows of densely packed Gurs barracks drawn by Gert Wollheim while a prisoner in Gurs internment camp in late 1940. There were tall structures, such as a water tower, that could provide this overhead view. The French established Gurs, the largest internment camp in France, in April 1939 to hold political refugees. In early 1940, about 4000 German Jewish refugees were interned as enemy aliens. Wolheim, who fled Nazi Germany for Paris in 1933, was arrested by the French in spring 1940 as an enemy alien. France surrendered to Germany in June 1940. Northern Fr...

  20. US Army 4th Armored Division shoulder sleeve patch worn by medic, 20th Corps

    1. John J. Truty collection

    US Army 4 Armored Division shoulder sleeve patch worn by John J. Truty, a medic and Surgical Technician in the 20th Corps (Ghost Corps), Third Army, from April 1941-September 1945. John, 24, landed in Normandy around June 24, 1944, twenty days after D-Day. He cared for troops from many divisions behind the front lines as they fought across France and into Germany, then Austria. On April 11th, 1945, units of the Third Army liberated Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. John and his captain visited the camp a few days later to witness the horrific conditions. He took photograph...