Search

Advanced query tips

There are several ways to be more specific in your search query:

"Phrase"
Search an exact match of your query, e.g. "Member lists"
+Phrase
Given word has to be in the result, e.g. +Gestapo
-Phrase
Exclude given word from search, e.g. -Gestapo

Use the following syntax to restrict the search to specific fields:

field:"phrase"
For instance, you can find all descriptions that have the phrase "Auschwitz Birkenau" in their titles by searching for title:"Auschwitz Birkenau".

The following fields are currently available:

  • identifier
  • title
  • creator
  • person
  • place
  • subject
  • address
Displaying items 6,901 to 6,920 of 10,320
Search result ordering

  1. Set of three scene stills for the film “The Last Chance” (1945)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn692968
    • English
    • .1: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .2: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .3: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)

    Set of three scene stills for the film, “The Last Chance,” released in the United States in February 1945. Scene stills are photographs taken on or off the set of a motion picture and are then used as marketing and advertising tools. The film was originally released in Switzerland under the German title, “Die Letzte Chance,” in May 1945, and won the Grand Prize and the International Peace Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946. The film is set in German-occupied Italy in 1943, and focuses on three Allied soldiers who escape a prisoner-of-war camp and join a group of 14 refugees making a ...

  2. Robert Kaldeck papers

    The collection consists of documents and correspondence regarding the experiences of Dr. Robert Kaldeck, including his emigration from Vienna, Austria in September 1938 with the intention of going to Mexico, where he had been granted asylum; his denial of entry into the United States and Mexico; his stay in Havana, Cuba, where he was given refuge after meeting with Cuban leader, Fulgencio Batista in February 1939; and his immigration to the United States in September 1939. The collection also documents his medical career in Austria and the United States, his efforts to rescue his parents Mo...

  3. Schwarzhaupt family collection

    Consists of correspondence regarding the Holocaust experiences of the family of Albert and Hella Reinhold Schwarzhaupt. Consists of pre-war postcards, the 1921 marriage certificate of Albert and Hella, and the birth certificate of their fourth child, Ruth Schwarzhaupt. In 1935, Albert and Hella managed to secure passage to the United States for their two oldest children, Rosi and Hanni. In February 1939, the two youngest children, Max and Ruth, sponsored by a Swiss Jewish Relief Agency, entered Switzerland, where they remained during the war, joining their siblings in the United States afte...

  4. Ilse and Horst Abraham papers

    1. Ilse and Horst (Harry) Abraham collection

    The Ilse and Horst Abraham papers include biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting Ilse Abraham from Rastenburg, Germany, Horst (Harry) Abraham from Leipzig, Germany, their families, their immigration to Ecuador in the late 1930s, their daughter, Ruth, and their immigration to the United States in 1948. Biographical materials include Ilse Abraham’s personal narrative about her years in Germany and South America and immigration to the United States in 1948, and a passport, birth certificate, family tree, and three mourning books documenting Ilse’s family in Germany...

  5. Американский еврейский объединенный комитет по распределению фондов (Джойнт). Европейское исполнительное бюро

    • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, European Executive Bureau
    • Amerikanskii evreiskii ob"edinennyi komitet po raspredeleniiu fondov (Dzhoint). Evropeiskoe ispolnitel'noe biuro

    For the most part, the collection reflects the activities of the JDC European Executive Bureau in Paris during the period 1933-40. The collection includes the JDC charter (1931); accounts of JDC activities (1932-38); minutes of sessions of the presidium of the JDC executive committee in New York (1929-33, and 1938), of the JDC managing committee in New York (1937-38), and the JDC presidium and executive committee (1938); reports by members of its managing committee and board of directors (1938-39); minutes of the meeting of subsections of the European Executive Bureau in Paris (April 1935)....

  6. Ewa Frenkel Przemyslawska photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs of Ewa Frenkel Przemyslawska's life immediately after World War II in Łódź, Poland, where she worked in a Jewish kindergarten and of members of a Jewish cooperative in Łódź demonstrating on May Day.

  7. Colored pencil drawing of barracks at Gurs internment camp made by an inmate

    1. Johanna Hirsch Liebmann collection

    Colored pencil and ink drawing made for 16 year old Johanna Hirsch by E. Ettlinger, another prisoner in Camp de Gurs, France, where she was interned from 1940-1941. It depicts the Red Cross building and two barracks at the camp. See 2004.233.4 and 5 for other drawing by Ettlinger. For Hanne, one of the worst things about the camp was that there was nothing for the inmates to do. Many crafted items to fight the tedium, and also to possibly earn a few pennies or barter with the items. Hanne and her mother Ella were deported from Karlsruhe, Germany, to Gurs in October 1940. In September 1941, ...

  8. Watercolor scene of barracks and snowy mountains at Gurs internment camp made by an inmate

    1. Johanna Hirsch Liebmann collection

    Watercolor made for 16 year old Johanna Hirsch by another prisoner, E. Ettlinger, in Camp de Gurs, France, where she was interned from 1940-1941. It depicts barracks with laundry and trash outside and barbed wire fence poles receding towards distant snowcovered mountains. See 2004.233.4 and 5 for other drawing by Ettlinger. For Hanne, one of the worst things about the camp was that there was nothing for the inmates to do. Many crafted items to fight the tedium, and also to possibly earn a few pennies or barter with the items. Hanne and her mother Ella were deported from Karlsruhe, Germany, ...

  9. Small straw purse made in Gurs internment camp for a German Jewish prisoner

    1. Johanna Hirsch Liebmann collection

    Small woven straw purse owned by Johanna Hirsch Liebmann made by her mother Ella wile imprisoned in Gurs internment camp in France. It was given to one fo Ella's sisters, Helene Goldstein or Rose Traub, when were also interned in Camp de Gurs. Hanne, 16, also was an inmate of Gurs from 1940-1941. For Hanne, one of the worst things about the camp was that there was nothing for the inmates to do. Many crafted items to fight the tedium, and also to possibly earn a few pennies or barter with the items. Hanne and her mother Ella were deported from Karlsruhe, Germany, to Gurs in October 1940. In ...

  10. Epitaph and drawing of tombstones of friends buried at Gurs internment camp made by an inmate

    1. Johanna Hirsch Liebmann collection

    Colored pencil and ink drawing made for 16 year old Johanna Hirsch by another prisoner, E. Ettlinger, in Camp de Gurs, France, where she was interned from 1940-1941. It depicts the tombstones of three friends who died at the camp, Rosa Adler, Herbert Mecklenberg, and Peter Meier. See 2004.233.4 and 5 for other drawing by Ettlinger. For Hanne, one of the worst things about the camp was that there was nothing for the inmates to do. Many crafted items to fight the tedium, and also to possibly earn a few pennies or barter with the items. Hanne and her mother Ella were deported from Karlsruhe, G...

  11. Schiller family photographs

    1. Shlomo Schiller family collection

    The photographs depict the Schiller family's life in Warez, Poland, before World War II, their escape from Nazi Germany to Russia in 1939, their return to Poland in 1946, and their eventual immigration to Israel.

  12. Issachar Ilan papers

    1. Meir Baum and Issachar Ilan collection

    The papers consist of 18 documents relating to the experiences of Issachar Ilan's family who lived in Switzerland as refugees during World War II.

  13. Gold engraved pocket watch owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Pocket watch that belonged to Heinrich Schawbacher. As part of his preparation to leave Frankfurt, Germany, following the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, the watch and his and his wife's weddings rings were sent to Christian friends in Amsterdam for safekeeping. Jewish refugees were not allowed to take valuable property or currency with them when they left the country. The watch was later sent by registered mail to England after the emigration of the Schawbacher's and their daughter, Nelly Rossmann, and her son, Michael, in 1939.

  14. Engraved gold wedding band that belonged to a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Wedding band that belonged to Heinrich and Anna Schwabacher. As part of their preparation to leave Germany following the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, the ring was sent to friends in Amsterdam for safekeeping. Jewish refugees were not allowed to take valuable property with them when they left the country. This ring and its companion ring, 2005.546.5, were sent later by registered mail to England after the emigration of the Schwabacher's and their daughter, Nelly Rossmann and her son, Michael, to that country.

  15. Engraved gold wedding band that belonged to a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Wedding band that belonged to Heinrich and Anna Schwabacher. As part of their preparation to leave Germany following the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, the ring was sent to friends in Amsterdam for safekeeping. Jewish refugees were not allowed to take valuable property with them when they left the country. This ring and its companion ring, 2005.546.5, were sent later by registered mail to England after the emigration of the Schwabacher's and their daughter, Nelly Rossmann and her son, Michael, to that country.

  16. Schulhof family papers

    1. Schulhof family collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Joseph, Charlotte, and Peter Schulhof of Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) as refugees in Shanghai and Tientsin (Tianjin), China from 1940-1948. Included are biographical materials such as identification papers, employment documentation, marriage papers, and family genealogy research; wartime correspondence with relatives in the United States and Europe, many of whom would perish at Auschwitz; immigration papers documenting the family’s emigration from Czechoslovakia to China in 1940 and their immigration to the United States in 19...

  17. Green striped wool knit cardigan made from a US Army blanket by a Jewish refugee in a DP camp

    1. Olga Waldman Wisen and Mark Wisen collection

    Green wool cardigan made by Olga Waldman while she was living in the Neu Friemann displaced persons camp near Munich, Germany, from 1945-1949. She knitted the sweater from the wool yarn of an unraveled US Army blanket. Olga and her eleven year old son, Mark, were visiting her parents in Srerszeniowce, Poland, when it was occupied by Soviet forces in September 1939. In March 1941, Germany broke the Nazi-Soviet Pact and invaded the town, deporting many Jewish inhabitants to the Tluste ghetto (Tovste, Ukraine). Olga procured false identities and she and her son escaped from the ghetto to Podha...

  18. Collection day for the German book Book drive poster for postwar US Army Assistance Program activities for German youth

    1. Margit Meissner collection

    Broadside acquired by Margit Morawetz Gyorgy announcing a book collection drive for a youth program in Germany after World War II. It was held under the auspices of the U.S. Army Assistance Program to German Youth Activities. Established in 1946, the Program oversaw the re-education of former Hitler Youth. Margit worked as a youth activities specialist for the program. Margit's mother, Lilly, had sent her to study in Paris in 1938 because the expansion of German rule posed a threat to their life in Prague. Lilly joined Margit there a year later, but because she was an Austrian citizen, was ...

  19. Blue crocheted change purse made in Gurs internment camp for a German Jewish prisoner

    1. Johanna Hirsch Liebmann collection

    Small crocheted blue wool coin purse made for 16 year old Johanna Hirsch by an unknown woman in Camp de Gurs, France, where she was interned from 1940-1941. Hanne and her mother Ella were deported from Karlsruhe, Germany, to Gurs in October 1940. In September 1941, Hanne was rescued from the camp by OSE (Oeuvre Secours aux Enfants/ Aid to Children) which placed her in a children's home in Le Chambon. When the Germans started rounding up Jews in the countryside, OSE found Hanne hiding places on two farms. In 1943, Hanne obtained false identity papers and escaped over the Alps to Switzerland....

  20. Straw purse with crocheted trim acquired in Gurs internment camp by a German Jewish prisoner

    1. Johanna Hirsch Liebmann collection

    Small woven straw bag with a crocheted strip made for 16 year old Johanna Hirsch by an unknown woman in Camp de Gurs, France, where she was interned from 1940-1941. Hanne and her mother Ella were deported from Karlsruhe, Germany, to Gurs in October 1940. In September 1941, Hanne was rescued from the camp by OSE (Oeuvre Secours aux Enfants/ Aid to Children) which placed her in a children's home in Le Chambon. When the Germans started rounding up Jews in the countryside, OSE moved Hanne to hiding places on two farms. In 1943, Hanne obtained false identity papers and escaped over the Alps to S...