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  1. Painting of a building complex given to an UNRRA official

    1. Rachel Greene Rottersman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn183410
    • English
    • overall: Height: 19.250 inches (48.895 cm) | Width: 27.125 inches (68.898 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) pictorial area: Height: 15.250 inches (38.735 cm) | Width: 23.250 inches (59.055 cm)

    Painting of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Aglasterhausen Children’s Center, in Unterschwarzach (now Schwarzach), Germany, painted by Henryk Michniak and given to Rachel Greene Rottersman, director of the Children’s Center. Henryk (or Henry) Michniak arrived at Aglasterhausen in November 1945, at age 16. While at Aglasterhausen, Henryk became known for his artwork, including cartoon characters painted on the walls of the nursery. The children’s center opened in October 1945, and employed UNRRA personnel, skilled staff from the displaced persons (DP) popu...

  2. Watercolor painting of a children’s home given to an UNRRA official

    1. Rachel Greene Rottersman collection

    Watercolor painting by Richard Kiwit (or Kivit) and gifted to Rachel Greene Rottersman, director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Aglasterhausen Children’s Center, in Unterschwarzach, Germany. The painting depicts the third floor balconies of the living quarters for Rachel and Joseph Rottersman and Dr. Dagmar Kiwit. These buildings also housed the infant nursery, a gym, and a chapel. Richard Kiwit was a well-known Estonian illustrator who moved to Germany in 1944. His daughter, Dagmar Elisabeth Kiwit (later Moder), was a pediatrician, and following the ...

  3. Watercolor painting of farm fields given to an UNRRA official

    1. Rachel Greene Rottersman collection

    Watercolor painting of farm fields in the German countryside, painted by artist Richard Kiwit (or Kivit) and gifted to Rachel Greene Rottersman, director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Aglasterhausen Children’s Center, in Unterschwarzach, Germany. Richard Kiwit was a well-known Estonian illustrator who moved to Germany in 1944. His daughter, Dagmar Elisabeth Kiwit (later Moder), was a pediatrician, and following the war worked as a Medical Officer at Aglasterhausen Children’s Center. The children’s center opened in October 1945, and employed UNRRA per...

  4. Painting of a large estate given to an UNRRA official

    1. Rachel Greene Rottersman collection

    Watercolor painting of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Aglasterhausen Children’s Center, in Unterschwarzach (now Schwarzach), Germany, painted by artist Richard Kiwit (or Kivit) and gifted to Rachel Greene Rottersman, director of Aglasterhausen. Richard Kiwit was a well-known Estonian illustrator who moved to Germany in 1944. His daughter, Dagmar Elisabeth Kiwit (later Moder), was a pediatrician, and following the war worked as a Medical Officer at Aglasterhausen Children’s Center. The children’s center opened in October 1945, and employed UNRRA personnel...

  5. Kessler family papers

    1. Kessler family collection

    The collection documents the pre-war, wartime, and post-war lives of Alice and Jakob Kessler and their son Hans (later John) of Austria, including the management of the Hotel-Pension Rauhenstein-Helenschlössl in Baden, their emigration from Austria in 1938 to England and their immigration to the United States in 1940. The collection also includes materials regarding Alice’s parents Else and Max Neuhut, Alice’s second husband Berthold Feld, and Hans’s future wife Eva Bondy. The collection consists of biographical material, immigration papers, correspondence, restitution paperwork, writings a...

  6. Lindenbaum and Landau families collection

    The Lindenbaum and Landau families collection contains photographs of the Lindenbaum and Landau families, circa 1900s-1945. The family photographs were taken in Łódź, Poland; Warsaw, Poland; the Warsaw ghetto; and Belgium. The photographs feature friends and family members and include both victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Photographs of Tobiasz and Curtla Lindenbaum include the couple around the turn of the century; a portrait of Tobiasz, undated; Curtla holding an umbrella at an unknown resort, undated; Curtla, two of her daughters, and a grandson riding in a droshky, undated; Cur...

  7. Ring with a red heart and inmate numbers made from a spoon in a concentration camp

    Silver-colored finger ring made from a spoon by Leib Krycberg in Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where he was an inmate from 1942-45. It is engraved with the initials and prisoner numbers, of Leib and Miriam Litman, another prisoner with whom he had fallen in love. He made a duplicate ring for Miriam. In January 1945, both Leib and Miriam were deported from Auschwitz to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. After Mauthausen was liberated on May 5, 1945, Leib lived for three years in Arnstdorf displaced persons (DP) camp in Germany. During that time, he traveled to Italy to visit...

  8. Set of six lobby cards for the film “None Shall Escape” (1944)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn692922
    • English
    • .1: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .2: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .3: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .4: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .5: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .6: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)

    Set of six lobby cards for the film, “None Shall Escape,” released by Columbia Pictures in 1944. Lobby cards are promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. “None Shall Escape” was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Story. The film jumps between a fictionalized post-World War II war crimes trial of a Nazi officer from Poland, and the events leading up to and during the war. The man is embittered after Germany’s defeat in World War I, becomes a follower of Adolf Hitler, rise...

  9. Set of seven lobby cards for the film “Four Sons" (1940)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn692958
    • English
    • .1: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .2: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .3: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .4: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .5: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .6: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .7: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)

    Set of lobby cards for the American feature film “Four Sons,” released by 20th Century-Fox in June 1940. Lobby cards are promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. The film was a remake of a 1928 film by the same name, set in Bavaria before and during World War I. The 1940 remake was set during the late 1930s in the Czechoslovakian region along the German border known as the Sudetenland. It focuses on a mother and her four sons, who have divided political loyalties. One son enlists in th...

  10. Magda Lapedus papers

    1. Magda Lapedus collection

    The papers consist of photographs of Magda Lapedus' family members before World War II as well as photographs of the grave of her brother, Janos Mezei, in Linz, Austria, and an identification card issued to Berta Mezei (donor's mother) at the Bindermichl displaced person (DP) camp in Linz, Austria, in 1946.

  11. Metz and Oberlaender families papers

    1. Metz and Oberlaender families collection

    The Metz and Oberlaender families papers consist of documents, correspondence, photographs, biographical materials, and immigration materials related to the Metz family, originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany and to the Oberlaender family, originally of Fürth and Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Gabrielle Metz and Hardy Oberlaender met in Frankfurt, were married in Chicago, and were eventually joined by many of their family members in the United States. The papers of both families are especially valuable to researchers because both sides of the correspondence are represented: the first family ...

  12. Granite stone from a concentration camp owned by a former Polish Catholic inmate

    1. Julian Noga collection

    Granite stone from Flossenbürg concentration camp owned by Julian Noga, a Polish Catholic camp inmate from August 1942 to April 1945. The stone was meaningful to him because he learned his trade as a stone carver while a camp prisoner. Julian, a Polish Catholic from Skrzynka, found a Polish Army rifle two months after Germany occupied Poland in September 1939. It was illegal to keep weapons, and Julian was reported. In December, he was sent to Austria as a forced laborer for the Greinegger farm near Michaelnbach. Julian, 18, and the farmer’s daughter, Frieda, 17, fell in love. Under German ...

  13. Building stone from a concentration camp owned by a former Polish Catholic inmate

    1. Julian Noga collection

    Gray building stone from Mauthausen concentration camp owned by Julian Noga, a Polish Catholic who was a forced laborer in Wels, a town near the camp, from October 1941-spring 1942. The stone was meaningful to him because he learned his trade as a stone carver while a camp prisoner. Julian, a Polish Catholic from Skrzynka, found a Polish Army rifle two months after Germany occupied Poland in September 1939. It was illegal to keep weapons, and Julian was reported. In December, he was sent to Austria as a forced laborer for the Greinegger farm near Michaelnbach. Julian, 18, and the farmer’s d...

  14. Plastic doll with handmade clothes received by girl in DP camp

    1. Paul and Sally Comins Edelsberg family and Kurt Clark collection

    Small plastic doll with blonde hair and handmade clothes received by Zelda Kamieniecki as a child in Neu Ulm displaced persons camp in Germany in 1947. Zelda was an infant in August 1941 when German troops occupied her birthplace, Rovno, Poland (Rivne (Rivnensʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine). Zelda and her mother Chana Bebczuk Wachs were relocated to a labor camp. Chana worked digging ditches in the nearby forest. In 1943, the Gestapo came to the camp with orders to transport 5000 people, including Zelda and Chana, to a different camp. Everyone was loaded into wagons and taken toward the woods where t...

  15. Pair of child's brown leather ankle boots received by girl in DP camp

    1. Paul and Sally Comins Edelsberg family and Kurt Clark collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn85148
    • English
    • a: Height: 8.375 inches (21.273 cm) | Depth: 5.125 inches (13.017 cm) b: Height: 8.375 inches (21.273 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Depth: 5.125 inches (13.017 cm)

    Brown leather ankle boots received by Zelda Kamieniecki as a child in Neu Ulm displaced persons camp in Germany in 1947. Zelda was an infant in August 1941 when German troops occupied her birthplace, Rovno, Poland (Rivne (Rivnensʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine). Zelda and her mother Chana Bebczuk Wachs were relocated to a labor camp. Chana worked digging ditches in the nearby forest. In 1943, the Gestapo came to the camp with orders to transport 5000 people, including Zelda and Chana, to a different camp. Everyone was loaded into wagons and taken toward the woods where the ditches had been dug. Chana ...

  16. Maurice Rossel - Red Cross

    As a representative of the Swiss Red Cross in 1944, Maurice Rossel was asked to inspect Theresienstadt. He admits that he gave Theresienstadt a clean bill of health and would probably do so again today. He was also given a tour of Auschwitz, which he did not realize was a death camp. Lanzmann's questioning points to the degree to which Rossel and others were manipulated by the Nazis and to what extent they were willing to be fooled because of their own politics and prejudices. This interview is the basis of Lanzmann's 1999 documentary "A Visitor from the Living" [Un vivant qui passe]. FILM ...

  17. Yehuda Lerner - Sobibor

    One of the leaders of the revolt in Sobibor, Lerner talks about his knack for escaping from camps - he escaped from eight camps before arriving at Sobibor. He relates the Sobibor revolt in great detail, including his role in killing two Germans. Lanzmann found this interview so compelling that he used none of it in Shoah but instead made a separate film about Lerner, called "Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 P.M." The interview took place over four hours in Mr. Lerner's apartment in Jerusalem. FILM ID 3334 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:07 to 01:33:27 01:00:46 Lerner, seated in front of a window ...

  18. Oil portrait of her grandmother by a Jewish teenager in hiding

    1. Ava Kadishson Schieber collection

    Oil painting of her paternal grandmother, Hermina Hirschel, painted by Ava Hegedish in 1941, when she lived in hiding from spring 1941 to October 1944 near Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia.) Ava also did a oil portrait of her, 2007.521.4. In April 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis partners partitioned Yugoslavia. Belgrade was under German control. Ava's father Leo decided the family's best chance of survival was to separate and go into hiding. He returned to Novy Sad; her mother and her sister Susanna remained in Belgrade. Susanna's Greek Orthodox husband had Serbian relatives with a farm nea...

  19. Drawing of her grandmother in profile created by Jewish teenage girl in hiding

    1. Ava Kadishson Schieber collection

    Pencil drawing of her paternal grandmother, Hermina Hirschel, drawn by Ava Hegedish at the farm where she lived in hiding from spring 1941 to October 1944 near Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia.) Ava also did an oil painting of her, 2007.521.4. In April 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis partners partitioned Yugoslavia. Belgrade was under German control. Ava's father Leo decided the family's best chance of survival was to separate and go into hiding. He returned to Novy Sad; her mother and her sister Susanna remained in Belgrade. Susanna's Greek Orthodox husband had Serbian relatives with a far...

  20. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee in the British army

    1. Manfred and Anita Lamm Gans family collection

    Scrip, valued at 20 kronen, distributed in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp, acquired by Manfred Gans, a German Jewish refugee who served as a Marine Commando for the British Army from May 1944 to May 1945. The scrip was issued in the camp his parents had been deported to in 1943 and he placed this note into his Soldier’s Book. In 1938, to escape Nazi-controlled Germany, Manfred immigrated to England. After Great Britain declared war against Germany on September 3, 1939, he was classified as an enemy alien, arrested, and sent to an internment camp on the Isle of Man. Manfred later...