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  1. Pametni Medaile Ceskoslovenska Armada V Zahranici (Czechoslovak Army Abroad) awarded to a Czech Jewish soldier

    1. Frank Meissner collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn44079
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • a: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Width: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)

    Commemorative medal for the Czechoslovak Army Abroad 1939-1945 with ribbon and pin awarded to Franz Meissner for his service from 1944-1945 with the Czech Air Force for the government in exile based in Great Britain. The medal was awarded to those Czechoslovaks who were outside their country at the time of the German invasion, or subsequently escaped abroad, and joined Allied forces or all-Czechoslovak units. Franz arrived in England in September 1944. He was told that if he wanted refuge and a Czech passport, he had to volunteer for the Czech government in exile army. He served in the Roya...

  2. WWI Hungarian War Supporter copper watch fob acquired by a Jewish army veteran

    1. Peter Veres family collection

    World War I Hungarian War Supporter copper watch ornament originally owned by Bela Krausz, issued for contributions to military aid for the year 1915/16. Bela, an Orthodox Jew and WWI veteran, was arrested in Budapest on May 31, 1944, following the occupation of Hungary by Nazi Germany on March 19. He was deported in July to an unknown concentration camp where he was killed. In November, his wife Lenke went into hiding with their daughter Kati and her children, and her son-in-law’s family. The city was liberated by Soviet forces in January 1945. Lenke brought the watch fob with her when she...

  3. Red leather sewing box recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish woman

    1. Maud Michal Beer family collection

    Red leather sewing box made for Käthe Stecklmacher by her father Max Steiner and preserved by her daughter Maud. Max and his brother Josef operated a custom leather goods business started by their father. Käthe gave the box to non-Jewish neighbors for safekeeping before her July 1942 deportation from Prostejov, Czechoslovakia, to Ghetto Theresienstadt. She recovered the box when she returned to Prostejov in May 1945. On July 2, 1942, Käthe, her husband Fritz, her two daughters, Maud, 13, and Karmela, 8, her parents Max and Steffi Steiner, and her uncle and cousin, Josef and Gustav Steiner, ...

  4. Portfolio of drawings of Edinburgh by a Jewish veteran, 2nd Polish Corps

    1. Edward Herzbaum Hartry collection

    Portfolio of 28 drawings of buildings and scenes of Edinburgh, Scotland, created by Edward Herzbaum in 1947 when he studied architecture at Polish University College, London, following service as a soldier in the 2nd Polish Corps from 1942-1945. When Edward was 19, he left Łódź, Poland, shortly after Nazi Germany occupied the country in September 1939 for Soviet controlled Lvov. In June 1940, Edward was exiled to a gulag by Soviet security police. Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. Edward was released in an amnesty of Polish prisoners. He joined the Polish Army of the East, know...

  5. Portfolio of 11 drawings of Roman buildings by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps

    1. Edward Herzbaum Hartry collection

    Portfolio of 11 architectural studies of buildings in Rome created by Edward Herzbaum in 1946 when he studied architecture at the University of Rome, following service as a soldier in the 2nd Polish Corps from 1942-1945. When Edward was 19, he left Łódź, Poland, shortly after Nazi Germany occupied the country in September 1939 for Soviet controlled Lvov. In June 1940, Edward was exiled to a gulag by Soviet security police. Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. Edward was released in an amnesty of Polish prisoners. He joined the Polish Army of the East, known as Anders Army. In Augu...

  6. Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers

    The Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers include biographical material and photographs relating to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Wiera Baksztanska, Stanisław Sierpinski, and their families in Poland and Russia. The collection includes false identity papers and documents Wiera obtained while living in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding as well as correspondence and writings relating to Stanisław’s work as a physician in the Polish underground. Biographical material includes a false identity card (Kennkarte) for Wiera under the name of Zofia Weronika Wojtuńska, certificates statin...

  7. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 (funfzig) kronen note, from Jewish Hungarian inmates

    1. Katalina Litvak family collection

    Theresienstadt scrip valued at 50 kronen received by the family of Katalin Miselbach when they were imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp from November 1944-May 1945. In March 1944, Germany invaded Hungary. Magda Miselbach, pregnant at the time, and her parents Adele and Shmuel Lederman were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Karcag. Magda's husband Imre had been in a Hungarian labor battalion since 1939. Katalin was born in the ghetto on May 2. That summer, the family was transported to the Szolnok ghetto and then deported to Strasshof concentration camp near Vienna, Austria. In Nov...

  8. Drawing of a sleeping seminude woman sleeping on her side by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn110
    • English
    • 1940
    • overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 4.625 inches (11.747 cm) | Width: 8.625 inches (21.908 cm)

    Sketch of a sleeping, seminude woman at Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment center for Jewish re...

  9. Drawing of a sleeping seminude woman by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn109
    • English
    • 1940
    • overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm)

    Sketch of a sleeping, topless woman at Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment center for Jewish ref...

  10. Friendship ring engraved GG made from silver spoons in the Riga ghetto

    Engraved silver ring made from a spoon for Gerda Gerstl, 12, in March 1943 in the Riga ghetto. Gerda and her friend Hanka Spiegel had rings made for Hanka’s 12th birthday by Issi Lurie, a silversmith who worked with Hanka’s father Karl in the Luftwaffe uniform deposit. Gerda and Hanka traded their rings in fall 1943 when they were separated. Hanka kept Gerda’s ring until her liberation in March 1945, wearing it upside down on her hand and hiding it in her mouth during selections. Gerda and Hanka met at the Viennese school in the ghetto. Hanka and her parents were sent to Riga from Theresien...

  11. Brown leather trifold wallet used by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps

    Leather trifold wallet with three pockets used by Dr. Edmund Lusthaus to store documents and photographs while serving as a medical officer in the 2nd Polish Corps, British Army. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Lusthaus was drafted into the Polish Army. Seventeen days later, the Soviet army invaded from the east. Lusthaus was captured and taken to a camp for Polish prisoners of war in Novosibirsk, Siberia, where he served as a physician. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the Soviet government released Polish POWs to join the fighting. Lusthaus joined the volun...

  12. Single tefillin with covers and pouch owned by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn555437
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Width: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) b: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) c: Height: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm)

    Single tefillin with covers and a navy blue velvet storage pouch owned by Norbert Müller (later Norman Miller) a 15 year old German Jewish refugee who came to London, England in September 1939. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn on the arm and the head by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger sister, Suse, and grandmother, Clara Jüngster, was ransacked by local men with axes. In late August 1939, Norber...

  13. Albert Dov Sigal watercolor painting of men seated in a tent in a detention camp created during his imprisonment

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn3279
    • English
    • 1948
    • overall: Height: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) | Width: 14.250 inches (36.195 cm) pictorial area: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm)

    Watercolor by Albert Dov Sigal made in 1948 while he was imprisoned with his wife, Rozi, and son, Daniel, in a British detention camp in Cyprus waiting for permission to enter Palestine. The painting shows a group of men sitting inside a tent with the wire fence of the detention camp in the background. Palestine was ruled by the British under a United Nations mandate and the postwar immigration policy was very restrictive. Ships attempting to bring unauthorized refugees to the country were stopped and the passengers were interned. In 1939, Sigal was arrested by the fascist, antisemitic Roma...

  14. Albert Dov Sigal multicolored lithograph of a young woman, holding an infant, with her family on a golden road, based upon his experience as a refugee

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn3280
    • English
    • 1948
    • overall: Height: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm)

    Artist's proof print for a lithograph based on a drawing created by Albert Dov Sigal based upon the experiences of his family as newly arrived emigrants to Palestine on February 22, 1948. It depicts the artist and his family as they arrive in their new home. It is an image of a man carrying bags being followed by two woman: one holds an infant, the other carries a sack, as they walk along a seaside road with a small village in the background. See 1990.242.4 and 1992.113.14 for other versions of this scene. Palestine was ruled by the British under a United Nations mandate and the postwar imm...

  15. Albert Dov Sigal etching of 2 men at the detention camp fence created from a drawing done during his imprisonment

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn3281
    • English
    • 1948
    • overall: Height: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) | Width: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) pictorial area: Height: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Width: 5.380 inches (13.665 cm)

    Artist's proof for an etching based on a drawing created by Albert Dov Sigal in 1948 while he was imprisoned with his wife, Rozi, and young son, Daniel, in a British detention camp in Cyprus waiting for permission to enter Palestine. The print depicts 2 men conversing next to a seated woman with a woman and infant standing in the background near the barbed wire fence. Palestine was ruled by the British under a United Nations mandate and the postwar immigration policy was very restrictive. Ships attempting to bring unauthorized refugees to the country were stopped and the passengers were int...

  16. Albert Dov Sigal monochrome sepia etching of a young woman, holding an infant, with her family near the seaside based upon his experience as a refugee

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn3282
    • English
    • 1948
    • overall: Height: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm)

    Artist's proof for an etching based on a drawing created by Albert Dov Sigal based upon the experiences of his family as newly arrived emigrants to Palestine on February 22, 1948. It depicts the artist and his family as they arrive in their new home. It is an image of a man carrying bags being followed by two woman: one holds an infant, the other carries a sack, as they walk along a seaside road with a small village in the background. See 1990.242.2 and 1992.113.14 for other versions of this scene. Palestine was ruled by the British under a United Nations mandate and the postwar immigration...

  17. Albert Dov Sigal monochrome sepia etching of men near a metal hut in a detention camp created from a drawing done during his imprisonment

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn3283
    • English
    • 1948
    • overall: Height: 13.125 inches (33.338 cm) | Width: 14.375 inches (36.513 cm) pictorial area: Height: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)

    Artist's proof of an etching based on a drawing created by Albert Dov Sigal in 1948 while he was imprisoned with his wife, Rozi, and young son, Daniel, in a British detention camp in Cyprus waiting for permission to enter Palestine. The print depicts men gathered near metal Nissen hut, possibly a bathing facility, with plants and other structures nearby. Palestine was ruled by the British under a United Nations mandate and the postwar immigration policy was very restrictive. Ships attempting to bring unauthorized refugees to the country were stopped and the passengers were interned. In 1939...

  18. Albert Dov Sigal monochrome sepia etching of people in a detention camp tent created from a drawing done during his imprisonment

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn3284
    • English
    • 1948
    • overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) pictorial area: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)

    Artist's proof of an etching based on a drawing created by Albert Dov Sigal in 1948 while he was imprisoned with his wife, Rozi, and young son, Daniel, in a British detention camp in Cyprus waiting for permission to enter Palestine. based upon the experiences of his family as newly arrived emigrants to Palestine on February 22, 1948. It depicts the artist and his family as they arrive in their new home. It is an image The print shows a group of people seated inside a tent. Palestine was ruled by the British under a United Nations mandate and the postwar immigration policy was very restricti...

  19. Albert Dov Sigal watercolor sketch of a boy in tallit and tefillin receiving religious instruction with a rough pencil sketch on the reverse

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    Watercolor sketch created by Albert Dov Sigal from 1948-1958 when he lived in Israel. The painting shows a youth in tallit (prayer shawl) and tefillin (leather boxes containing Torah verses] holding a book and being instructed by an older man. It is a preparatory sketch for a later large oil painting of a Bar Mitzvah. There is a rough pencil sketch of a woman in her bath on the reverse which later became an enamel, Bathsheba. In 1939, Sigal was arrested by the fascist, antisemitic Romanian government and assigned to a forced labor battalion that repaired and built roads and railways. He sta...

  20. Albert Dov Sigal watercolor painting of a circular brown plate with a scene of a bride and groom standing in front of a rabbi under a red fringed chuppah

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    Watercolor sketch created by Albert Dov Sigal from 1948-1958 when he lived in Israel. The work depicts a dark brown plate with a small rectangular scene of a woman in a white dress and veil with a man in a top hat beneath an red fringed wedding canopy with a Star of David on top held by 2 boys in yarmulkes; a rabbi reads from a paper while guests watch. It was created as a preparatory sketch for a woodcut that would be decorated with silver and enamel. It is a version of the scene portrayed in 1992.113.2. In 1939, Sigal was arrested by the fascist, antisemitic Romanian government and assign...